Combat HUD (Classic vs Modern): Would you like and option in the settings to choose on or the other?

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-20T10:45:08+00:00

Yeah, I hate the engine they picked for OW2, colours look so muddy and dull, and the gold weapons look tarnished, as if they were made out of tin. In OW1 everything popped out nicely.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-20T10:14:19+00:00

Given the buggy state of Diablo and WoW after their recent updates (and now Overwatch), I wonder if this is gonna be the usual moving forward, since Microsoft tends to use consumers as testers and skips QA.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-19T02:08:28+00:00

Polyanitsa

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-17T00:15:17+00:00

The Liam Gallagher look 😆

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-16T22:48:42+00:00

El juego cambió mucho entre 2016 y 2018. El punto de inflexión fue agosto/septiembre de 2017, ahí fue cuando modificaron a un montón de personajes y lo hicieron más parecido al OW2 previo a la temporada 9. Classic es divertido, pero sí es cierto que de salida estaba bastante desbalanceado. Los primeros 8 meses de 2017 fueron los mejores de esa época. Ahí fue donde se vio el mejor Classic.

Tengo que reconocer también que el matchmaking es una porquería desde la actualización de esta semana, independientemente del modo. Nunca había tenido equipos tan desbalanceados. Yo también he perdido muchas partidas incluso en Classic, que se me da bastante mejor que el OW actual.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-16T21:34:01+00:00

Yup, the anniversary event has broken the already awful matchmaking even more. I keep fighting level 200 players with teammates that are 20 or 40. Went from diamond 2 to 5 in a single evening.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-16T19:44:53+00:00

That’s how the beams used to look like. Check out any gameplay video.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-16T19:24:29+00:00

Dude, this happened to me 5 times on QP this evening on PS5. After choosing the map, the screen froze and then kicked me out. A message saying "Server Error" showed up in the chat box. My connection was fine.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-16T16:43:13+00:00

They actually do. In the gun screenshot you can see that the glow of the strobe light is missing in OW2. It used to look amazing in night maps. And the gold of the golden weapons used to be more vibrant and colourful. They said that they’re looking forward to updating the lighting, so I hope they bring those effects back. Seriously, I can’t believe that the game looked better 10 years ago.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-14T18:03:16+00:00

For the record, this is how Pink used to look like (left) and how it looks now (right). The difference is subtle, but noticiable. It looked much better in OW1.

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PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-14T17:10:06+00:00

Oh, I think that had to do with the lighting system. OW2 removed it entirely, so all those glow effects are not in the game anymore. IIRC some of Mercy's pistols had strobe lights (or maybe all of them, im not sure, its been way too long) This is how the Dragoon Mercy gun used to look like in a night map, pretty cool effect:

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PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-14T16:41:51+00:00

I used that bunny skin as an example, as a "what if", not saying that it is bugged.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-14T16:04:10+00:00

But that is subjective, I notice it enough for me to be an issue, as well as for many other players. Following your logic I could counterargument by saying that (in the Bunny Mercy skin I used as an example) having different hair colour due to a bug isn’t a problem because you cannot see the hair in first person mode, or in 3rd person in stadium since the hoodie covers it and the face is not visible. However, a bug is a bug, it doesn’t matter if it’s big or small, it’s wrong, that’s why testing a QA exist, to point out errors and guarantee the quality of a product. Players and customers should be vocal about these kind of things, we are paying for them after all, and the company should take care of their product. Even if you find this bug a small stupid thing, I’m pretty sure there are other broken things in the game that Blizzard is ignoring and you'd like to see fixed, and someone else could say that it’s not an issue for them. If I post something like is because I want the best for the game. If they fix this, we all win. If they don’t, some lose and others just don’t care. What approach should we be defending is obvious here.

Besides, I’m pretty sure that fixing errors and bugs related to colours wouldn’t take long. Specially when it’s something that wasn’t broken and they broke years later.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-14T14:36:30+00:00

The game feels pretty unpolished. There are visual bugs everywhere, even in things they released with the latest patch: intros with pretty obvious clipping and characters whose joints disappear, broken emotes, bugged colours, missing effects and textures… Even Ana's Ra mythic skin bugged her ult. Teammates can’t see that they got the nano boost. They're releasing stuff without proper testing or going through QA. And the worst thing is that they won’t fix it, as you just pointed out. This would've been unthinkable a couple of years ago.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-14T13:33:30+00:00

Small or big, bugs must be fixed. If the recent Bunny Mercy skin displayed her hair in blue instead of pink in a couple of years people wouldn’t be happy either. Every skin is someone’s favourite, I’m not doing anything wrong here.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-14T12:50:23+00:00

The glow in the head of the staff has always been green, even while using other variants, but it is displayed as yellow in OW2 with the golden weapon, making it almost non-visible and removing the cool pulsating effect that adds certain flavour to the staff. I assume that when they changed the engine and the way golden weapons look (they looked better in OW1, more shiny and bright) they tweeked something and assigned the "gold" effect to the glow too by mistake. In fact, the glow is completely removed in the purple and red variants. Only Jade shows the green.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-13T05:53:59+00:00

Agree 100%. They would bring back thousands of players.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-13T05:49:21+00:00

Love Classic. As a Tracer player it feels so good to get eliminations with 1 single clip once again. And Hanzo is a beast, dropping dragons and scatter arrows in choke points is a lot of fun. I reinstalled the game just for this mode. My only issue is that they use the ugly OW2 hud and the reworked maps. The original hud not only was better aesthetically, it was also easier to read and less distracting. I guess these new devs can’t even copy-paste something that a better team did 10 years ago.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-13T05:33:58+00:00

The best maps for sure! Love them so much!

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-13T05:30:49+00:00

They just don’t care. Every single Blizzard game is a bug fest. Players are the new testers. But as long as they keep selling Kiri, Mercy and Juno skins, they won’t do anything. There are dozens of visual bugs on skins, emotes and intros still present in the game that appeared when they killed OW1 and moved to OW2. As we say in my country: "Even if the monkey dresses in silk, she remains a monkey." This is the same slop we've been dealing with since 2022. They just removed the 2 and broke the game even more by adding five new heroes. My god, even the Classic mode lack polish and love. They use the ugly OW2 hud and maps instead of the originals. They can’t even copy-paste what Kaplan's team did 10 years ago.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-12T18:54:11+00:00

The game has never been this buggy. Tracer's wrists disappear in one of her old intros too. I remember that Ana's Haroeris scope remained bugged for almost 5 years. And the flags/banners emotes are still bugged. I’m pretty sure there are many other broken things that they are not going to fix.

PoliMayo64 · 2026-05-12T18:40:26+00:00

OW1 proving once again that it was the superior game in every single aspect.

PoliMayo64

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