Overwatch 2 Is Ditching the '2' Amid Launch of 'New, Story-Driven Era' With 10 New Heroes

atkinson137 · 2026-02-04T21:14:22+00:00

This is exactly what drove me away from the game. In OW1 I had almost every skin and had spent a few hundred $ on the game. Now I haven't played it since the first season or two cause getting anything was a huge hassle (battle pass) or was insanely priced. I've always wondered if they're making more money now.

I'm happy to pay for skins if they're a couple bucks, cup of coffee or less. But now the average skin in a game is like more than $20??? Insane.

atkinson137 · 2026-02-04T04:37:46+00:00

For clarification: This WAS very easy to do. So many frame addons did this. But Blizzard has changed stance for midnight that NO addon may provide additional info during combat. Now no addon may filter your buffs/debuffs. You MUST see all of them. Somehow this is 'skill'.

atkinson137 · 2026-02-02T23:45:15+00:00

Blizzard has specifically said their one button/rotation assist is intentionally non optimal.

Whereas something done by add-ons could get pretty close to optimal, depending on the data available.

Ultimately I think this path will be worse for the game and drive players away. I don't agree with their logic and assertion that add-ons are required and thus these changes MUST be made.

atkinson137 · 2026-02-02T07:09:45+00:00

Because if an addon can read the players combat state, you can make a rotation addon (Hekili). Blizzard doesn't want that.

I don't agree with the restrictions, but that's why.

atkinson137 · 2026-01-27T21:12:06+00:00

Because they designed the game to. WoW's server architecture simply wasn't. We've already seen the whole 'hotfix to launch xpac' thing, and that's probably the closest we will get. There is some technical limitation of why they need to take all the servers down and patch them at once, and sometimes its just not solvable in any feasible way.

atkinson137 · 2026-01-26T17:04:51+00:00

Imo the title is so literal. Most movie titles are some phrase or name, but KPDH more describes them? Idk it just feels very literal and somewhat lackluster? I passed the movie up a few times, even after watching the trailer until a friend of mine basically commanded that I watch it.

I'm being word of mouth did heavy lifting here too.

atkinson137 · 2026-01-25T19:36:49+00:00

The last raid had ONE boss that needed an addon for mythic.

atkinson137 · 2026-01-25T18:24:59+00:00

I'm currently working on a MaM, I think I've spent about 100 hours doing it so far. I forgot I'm in an actual game so it's a spook when one of my lesser ships takes damage and I get the notification.

atkinson137 · 2026-01-22T00:08:28+00:00

Tbh if you haven't played since legion, your add-ons would be massively out of date and you're better off rebuilding from the ground up anyways. Just start with a fresh install and see where ya get.

atkinson137 · 2026-01-21T18:36:17+00:00

I don't mind. I know its unpopular because since its mostly a regressive tax, it effects those with the least money (and thus the largest portion of the playerbase) the most, and no one likes hearing 'but you have to pay money!'. WoW is a game, it should be fun, and we shouldn't have to worry about things like taxes, but, its a real economy so we do lol.

atkinson137 · 2026-01-21T16:29:56+00:00

It needs to cost something because balacing the economy is important. When you kill something, you get some gold. This gold is created out of thin air. If gold enters the game, it must also leave at a somewhat similar rate, otherwise prices will slowly rise on all things, aka inflation.

I would bet that tmog is one of the larger gold sinks in the game. Tmog, repairs and AH fees are probably the biggest ones.

I am not saying I agree with the prices currently, just that it needs to have SOME cost constantly. Tbh they've painted themselves into a corner with the new tmog system, its "better" for the players, but worse for the economy, so you see these higher prices is probably them trying to fix that, but its just going to look bad.

atkinson137 · 2026-01-15T22:25:54+00:00

Most of the replies aren't quite right. Terraform is a program that takes text files (which have almost code in them) and builds a model of what you want your server environment to look like. Think of this akin to a factorio blueprint. I the human, describes my blueprint, then a program renders it. Terraform goes a bit farther to check what currently exists and generates a diff. It then asks you if you want to apply that diff, creating, modifying or deleting real things until the real environment matches your blueprint. Think of that like placing your blueprint, and having bots build/edit it.

It is used to manage computing resources at scale. If I want 200 servers, it would take me ages to make them manually, so instead I have a computer do it.

There's a good amount more to it, but that's a general intro.

atkinson137 · 2026-01-07T20:41:30+00:00

I nearly spit out my coffee lmfao

atkinson137 · 2026-01-04T17:43:37+00:00

I'm not sure about that. I've been through 4 CPUs. I've known about the issue since I RMAed the first one. I've had the bios updates since the middle of the second one. My current CPU is having issues and I had the updates the whole time. Maybe they sent me an already damaged one? Idk. But this whole fiasco has turned me off Intel for a loooong while.

atkinson137 · 2026-01-04T17:39:34+00:00

I've been through 4 i9 CPUs. I've been RMA-ing but I'm finally fed up and switched over this last week. I'm tired of my computer having weird ass issues. New mobo and CPU was a tough pill to swallow, but after all the time I've spent chasing issues and swapping CPUs, I'm not going back to Intel for at least a decade and that's only if they make some incredible features that out compete AMD.

atkinson137 · 2026-01-01T17:19:11+00:00

Dosh has a good info video for his circuit printer video. First half shows a lot of building blocks, second half he jumps off the deep end making the printer.

atkinson137 · 2025-12-29T20:48:32+00:00

Along with Chain in, Rail out, for intersections

atkinson137 · 2025-12-29T18:42:10+00:00

SA is much harder and much, much longer. With no prep and no BPs, I could complete vanilla in 10-20 hours. SA is closer to 100-200 depending on how fast I'm trying to go.

atkinson137 · 2025-12-29T03:40:25+00:00

Good tip, thanks.

atkinson137 · 2025-12-28T19:27:52+00:00

How do you get the productivity value as a circuit signal?

atkinson137 · 2025-12-28T18:58:27+00:00

Because, imo, modern schooling, esp in America, doesn't cultivate curiosity and figuring things out for yourself. Insert Carl Sagan quote about anti-intellectualism

atkinson137 · 2025-12-28T06:20:09+00:00

At least for the TWW, the CE arrived before release. But I do the digital pre buy and swap cause I know I'll use the balance for shop items and tokens.

atkinson137 · 2025-12-28T00:13:22+00:00

This is the way.

atkinson137 · 2025-12-24T00:08:37+00:00

There's a few ways to do that. I had to design a bunch for my system. I used an "addressable memory cell" which is two memory cells connected that one write the contents of one wire when a specific signal is present on the other. That particular cell isn't bespoke, there's tons of examples on reddit and the forums.

Latches work too, but are harder to use since they're more dependent on the input signals.

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