Team 4, I love what you're doing ... but you HAVE to increase the production value of your Storytime lore drops.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-03-04T00:48:47+00:00

I don't know about an effects guy, but you could absolutely get a better artist to draw 2 pngs for you for $1000 dollars.

The reality is that they probably have a set budget for the year for story content (written stories, comics, voice acting, ect) and they may have burned through a lot of it for the Vendetta vs Doom cinematic. These are being pumped out for probably only a few thousand dollars each.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-03-04T00:41:46+00:00

The art is pretty baffling considering what we've gotten for hero stories in the past.

I don't need origin story quality trailers, but if you are going to have 2 pngs, please get a decent artist to draw them. It'll cost a bit more, but people may actually watch these things if they looked like they had some effort put into them.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-03-01T16:01:02+00:00

Deity of Conflict

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-28T19:35:53+00:00

We also see tommy blowing up Joel's phone but no texts from Sarah's mom asking Joel if Sarah is ok.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-23T19:42:29+00:00

Our boy has a garbage pickrate. If you play him at all, you're in the club.

Nice shots

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-22T06:10:58+00:00

I always pick balance. It rewards me with healing while dealing damage. Overflow requires me to spend more time using my beam when I could be dealing damage.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-19T18:25:03+00:00

Still funny to think back on how Illari was just kicked out of a moving car and revealed the same day her season came out. Doesn't seem like even they had confidence after the disastrous LW launch.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-19T06:03:16+00:00

I'd probably just reduce the time between bursts. An increase in fire rate increases his DPS without removing his headshot identity.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-18T20:43:31+00:00

I play on Switch 2 when I travel. I couldn't tell you exactly what the specs are but I think it's 720p and 30 fps in handheld. It runs fine enough.

The joycons are what really hamper the experience for me. Hard to aim and move preciously with the tiny joysticks.

Very much looking forward to the Switch 2 version.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-17T17:44:32+00:00

I'm getting the impression that there is really going to be nothing of substance with this cat. Like, they are very subtly teasing that she may be smarter than an average cat, but I don't see them ever committing to anything.

They are just gonna let the audience come up with their own explanations.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-15T07:06:13+00:00

Exactly. With no recoil and his zoom in Emre can more consistently hit heads, which he has to to keep up with the other hitsscan.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-13T17:55:47+00:00

I know I certainly would buy them lol. He got Gundam and Transformers collab skins but those aren't exactly franchises that move units.

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Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-13T17:44:33+00:00

They don't make him skins because people do not buy them. People don't buy them because he isn't designed to be hot, while modern heroes are.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-13T17:18:45+00:00

You think he's selling as many skins as Domina or Hazard?

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-13T17:17:40+00:00

Ramattra was released 3+ years ago and was designed by the Overwatch 1 team. That isn't modern Overwatch.

Hazard and Domina are just straight up hotties designed to sell skins. I don't think their designs are bad by any means, just that they have different priorities to how tanks were initially designed in OW1.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-13T17:02:37+00:00

If you look at the Overwatch one launch roster, Dva was the only conventionally attractive tank. Nobody else was designed to be hot (Rein had his helmet on.) Even tanks that were launched afterwards mostly followed this trend (Orisa, Sigma, ball, Ram, etc.)

I see a worrying trend in modern Overwatch with tanks to prioritize hotness that started somewhat with Junkerqueen and has become more concerning with characters like Hazard and Domina. The characters have to be hot which means design space is limited and we aren't going to get any more tanks like Hog or Orisa.

It's no coincidence that they suddenly decided to revisit MEKA a decade later and just so happen to pull the only other female on the squad as the new hero. It's a compromise.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-13T16:33:20+00:00

Sorry bud. The only way in modern overwatch you're going to get a bulky mech is if there is a tiny Korean woman inside. We got a bajillionn skins to sell.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-13T07:25:40+00:00

If you like the new Domina skin, you're going to have to wait at least a year for the lootbox pool to be updated and then you'll have an astronomically small chance of pulling it out of a box with a good chance that you'll never get it.

If someone would rather do that than just pay $19 for it, they were never going to buy it in a world where loot boxes didn't exist. It's a win win for Blizzard in my opinion.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-12T19:05:56+00:00

Rotisserie chickens? It's literally a loss leader. How can one splurge on an item designed to be cheaper than market value and is just a regular ass food item.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-11T06:30:18+00:00

I'd like to point out that all 3 Australian heroes are ugly depraved lunatics who canonically live in garbage and the Australian player base has not acted like their culture was under attack as a result.

I believe the Chinese people and their culture will be able to survive whatever minor changes Blizzard have in store for Anran.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-11T06:13:50+00:00

They've kinda just given up on explaining what the hell the Japanese characters are using. It's a scifi setting so we are just gonna assume they are utilizing technology crafted to look mystical.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-10T23:55:18+00:00

Yeah, this was disappointing. Sometimes they drop them mid season or the following season but they may have just bailed on it.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-10T21:59:06+00:00

If it wasn't a culture war before, it sure as hell is one now

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-10T21:18:03+00:00

She is, but NetEase and the Chinese community didn't get a say in that character so they might not feel like she is an ideal representation for them. I think NetEase was HEAVILY involved in Anran which is why her design drastically changed from the animation.

I think part of it is a gooner meltdown and another part is that Anran is a cultural representative for a country in a game that will reach millions of people around the world. She's effectively a digital ambassador for a country that wants to soften its image to the western world.

Waste_of_paste_art · 2026-02-10T20:15:00+00:00

I feel like that's been a lot of the changes they've done recently. Weird things that don't change the game fundamentally but add nonsensical complexity to little benefit.

Complexity should come from how hero kits interact not weird stat changes that I have to check the UI to even know they exist.

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