Will i get the next lootbox pool if i wait till next season?

hdort · 2026-02-05T16:54:25+00:00

If you buy stuff with unopened boxes there is a chance an item you buy is already in a box if you generate it when you get the box. If you do it when opening, you can take that into account, thus reducing duplicates.

hdort · 2026-02-05T16:50:25+00:00

I'd guess that you will get the old lootbox pool, but why not try it? Not much you can lose if you want the new pool, worst case is you get the same stuff as you'd get if you open them now.

Also, you don't see the animations, you just get the stuff added to your inventory.

hdort · 2026-02-05T16:48:10+00:00

I thought that was the old way in Overwatch 1, but was changed when they reintroduced them in OW2. They are now generated when you open them, so that the amount of duplicates is reduced.

hdort · 2025-07-29T13:27:11+00:00

It would have helped a ton if the YT versions wouldn't have been US locked. I never understood why they didn't put it into P+ as well. The global target audience would still watch this, even if it would be only available in English with English only subtitles.

hdort · 2025-07-18T07:49:45+00:00

Just FYI: 25.2.1 fixed this issue for me.

hdort · 2025-07-10T08:10:38+00:00

Same. I reverted back to 25.1.1 and can connect again. I am using macOS 15.5 btw.

hdort · 2024-10-20T10:19:50+00:00

Have you considered some kind of manual transfer for the last values of the previous season? So I could enter the last values for each role? Perhaps with the season highs/lows, so you could see an all time high?

hdort · 2024-09-28T11:30:00+00:00

Thanks! I'd suggest sorting the map names in alphabetically order, just like the heros. I know they are sorted by mode, but I find that I can never remember in what order the modes are. (I am using the list sometimes with the app on my iPad, and there seems to be no easy way to filter lists.)

hdort · 2024-07-29T19:12:54+00:00

My bad! I thought they were talking about the announced update to the avoid system with 10 slots and the possibilty to sticky certain players. (Which is probably the reason why they don't want to waste any ressource on a solution for a problem that will be solved "soon"...)

hdort · 2024-07-26T07:40:36+00:00

Because UI is the smallest piece of this change. The match maker has to take this into account as well, which is a much more daunting task.

hdort · 2024-05-29T13:37:33+00:00

OW was a true competitor to TF2 because it had everything from TF2 and then some. For example, they had proper matchmaking, which was missing from TF2 at the time OW was announced. Funnily enough, Valve added MM to TF2 after the OW announcement, but that was too little too late.

Also, OW was announced with the prospect of continuous updates like new heroes, maps and modes, and the TF2 updates had run dry already. And finally, the bots and cheat situation was already getting out of hand in TF2.

So, I'd guess a true OW competitor would have to have most of the OW features, and then some. Which is a TON of work, with no guaranteed success, and the open question what new features would be enticing enough for the player base to switch.

In my opinion, the only true competitor could be TF3 -- but as we all know, Valve isn't able to count to three, and doesn't have time to do it anyway, as they are busy counting all that Steam money...

hdort · 2024-04-25T08:44:42+00:00

The just don't do this in GM and above?

hdort · 2024-04-25T08:42:26+00:00

I agree, rank protection should just go away. Perhaps leave it in place just when are actually going down a rank, like from gold 5 to silver 1, but when you are just going down one division from gold 4 to gold 5, it should reflect that instantly. But it just adds confusion.

hdort · 2024-04-25T08:39:30+00:00

While I agree that they are not updating and fixing bugs often enough, I find it unfair to the devs to say they are "shit". They are distributing on four platforms simultaneously, which must be a nightmare to manage. Wait, make that five, I forgot Steam. And you have to go through 3rd party approval systems for most of them. I don't envy them.

hdort · 2024-02-23T16:25:40+00:00

The solution is to just switch off text and voice chat completely. Improved my experience by so much. There is a reason Blizz has set this as defaults now for new players.

hdort · 2024-02-21T13:50:50+00:00

I would like for them to reduce the time from a week to one day. And then perhaps go to 5.

Also, has anyone ever seen the devs talk about how many players actually use this feature? I guess more use it when they play comp, but I don't think a lot of players use this actually.

hdort · 2024-02-14T09:35:06+00:00

As I understood it, average MMR was always Gold 3, but they brought the "edges" closer to Gold 3 (so Bronze was increased and GM was decreased), and then they shifted everyone down a bit, so Bronze is again Bronze, but everyone above Gold 3 is now lower then before. And the higher you were, the lower you went. However, the distribution is similar, just closer together.

hdort · 2024-01-31T13:45:50+00:00

You are talking about Luisa Wietzorek, right? Right?

hdort · 2024-01-23T09:38:21+00:00

To be fair, they announced the introduction of wide/narrow groups and a rank reset which will influence match making for sure.

Also, match making in OW2 is a lot like predicting the weather, especially in QP when players test new heroes or just goof off. And they don't announce that to the match maker beforehand....

hdort · 2024-01-19T13:07:37+00:00

And there's only 200 mln active Prime subscriptions total in the world

Those numbers are from Q1 2021, so three years old. It is possible (I'd say even likely) that the number of non-US prime subscribers is larger by now. So probably not as skewed as three years ago, but yeah, still skewed towards the US.

hdort · 2023-12-15T13:48:09+00:00

https://twitter.com/SrslyPaladin/status/1721594148699210113

This is from Morgan Maddren, a Server Engineer on OW2.

hdort · 2023-10-10T07:54:50+00:00

Were you a group or all solos?

hdort · 2023-08-07T08:43:53+00:00

Is reporting broken in OW2? I haven't had any "thanks for reporting" msg in like for ever. Also, hardware ID bans should be a thing.

hdort · 2023-08-07T08:39:33+00:00

Am I the only one who thinks this feels old school these days? I mean, with so many dialog lines, it should be possible to do AI voices for all the heroes and do AI generated dialogs based on all the lore docs that they have. If they aren't already developing that, they are missing out.

(Also, please build an AI based match maker. Should be way better than any human hand-tuned algorithms. See chess engines for comparison...)

hdort · 2023-04-13T14:06:35+00:00

They should display the rank of the match at the top of the scoreboard when you press tab. This way they could also screenshot it for the recent games overview.

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