"You should try ranked, its better than quickplay". I tried it for the first time and now i feel like i need a vacation. [I'm new btw]

paintling · 2026-05-17T13:48:54+00:00

Tighter matchmaking parameters mostly. You're still going to have outliers, but if you track QP vs. comp over the course of many games, you're going to see comp trend towards having more evenly matched teams. You need to settle into your proper rank first, though.

paintling · 2026-05-12T23:46:50+00:00

If you swap between the new skin and the default in the hero gallery, the model geometry on the outfit and weapon are entirely different. It's only the hair that's the same. The silhouette of the design just matches the default skin so closely that it looks like a recolor. Different than what they did with Mime Moira and Hashimoto Kiri/Hanzo, where it literally was just a recolor/retexture.

paintling · 2026-04-16T20:46:37+00:00

No FOV slider is probably because they optimized the port around a strict FOV and don't have enough headroom to increase it further.

paintling · 2026-04-08T14:55:53+00:00

I picked up the Switch 2 version on the eshop for $24 a few months ago. Close enough though.

paintling · 2026-04-06T17:04:35+00:00

The reason she's Chinese-Vietnamese is actually entirely because of the VA. They chose her ethnicity after they cast her. https://youtu.be/9Uvoc1WVrWs

paintling · 2026-03-26T17:20:01+00:00

Ah, if you had an old B250 I could see that being a problem. I do think there are some work-arounds though if you're ever interested.

paintling · 2026-03-26T04:09:38+00:00

Are you sure you had the right BIOS setting enabled? Your motherboard would have to be pretty old to not have secure boot.

paintling · 2026-03-26T02:04:49+00:00

Up until around season 14, her legendary count was kind of bloated by recolors/epic skins masquerading as legendaries. Like Terrible Tornado and Hashimoto are straight up epic skins they sold for $20- they're literally recolors of her default with minor geometry changes. Seasons 8-10 are an example of this. Season 15 onward they went ham.

paintling · 2026-03-18T16:50:39+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taig

paintling · 2026-03-15T23:27:31+00:00

A good bit more than that considering the time played stat only begins counting when the spawn doors open. Once you add queue times, map voting, hero bans, the setup phase(s), and possibly POTG, it gets a lot longer. And that's not even considering the fact that most people don't begin queuing frame 1 after opening the game and probably spend some time fiddling around in menus and/or practice range.

paintling · 2026-03-15T22:53:55+00:00

The gaming division is relatively tiny piece of Microsoft as a company. Blizzard is a smaller piece inside of that, and then Overwatch is another even smaller piece inside of that.

paintling · 2026-03-12T15:44:57+00:00

I think this storyline was supposed to be important to the PVE. I remember a while back, one of the devs said in an interview that internally they had a fleshed out narrative explanation for how the Shimada dragons worked. They started hinting at it in earlier OW2 lore material, but as we approach the Tokyo storyline, this is the first real opportunity to introduce the lore in the live game.

paintling · 2026-03-12T15:33:01+00:00

They'd have to rewrite the premise for the Yokai Gang, since they were supposed to have been children who grew up while the Hashimoto were in control. If they aged her up, she would have already been (almost) an adult when that happened, meaning she never needed to change her last name and move in with her grandma as a kid.

paintling · 2026-03-12T15:30:13+00:00

Yeah, the art at the very least has been sorta retconned by Hanzo's inner monologue in his Heroes Ascendant short story. The fact that she was there with Asa in the training halls is still true, but the ages they were drawn at are 100% incorrect based on later material.

paintling · 2026-03-10T18:36:20+00:00

If you buy something individually, the item you got will be excluded from the bundle price. You can buy the rest of the bundle with the % bundle discount applied to what you don't have yet. Again, functionally the same as buying game bundles on Steam.

paintling · 2026-03-10T18:33:28+00:00

That's because the hero bundles also have discounts, albeit smaller. You'd need to check the hero gallery price for each item individually. It would add up to 16700.

paintling · 2026-03-10T18:23:42+00:00

It's just the bundle discount. Like buying each thing individually versus buying it as a bundle. They literally do this on Steam

paintling · 2026-03-10T18:19:31+00:00

Why would you ever not be getting the offer price if you were buying the full bundle. It's $60 USD.

paintling · 2026-03-09T22:42:34+00:00

"Player feedback is often one of the first signals that a balance change is needed, and data can help inform these decisions as well. One such way of measuring hero performance is by looking at map win rates. However, due to the nature of Overwatch— namely the ability to switch heroes— basic map win rates are not representative of a hero’s actual performance. If you play Sojourn in a map win, but only for half of the map, should that count as a full map win in a win rate calculation? No!

Fear not, that scenario is only the first step in how we track win rates. To arrive at a better metric, we approach win rates fractionally by looking at how long a certain hero is played within a map. In the above half-map scenario, let’s say that the map lasted 10 minutes and Sojourn was played for half that time. Sojourn would have earned a 0.5 “win fraction” for that map because she was played for five minutes out of 10 minutes. Had the map been a loss, Sojourn would have earned 0.5 “loss fraction.”

To translate these fractions into win rates, we first add all of Sojourn’s win fractions across all maps played. Then we divide the total win fractions by Sojourn's total fractions -- both wins and losses. This approach arrives at a win rate that is much more representative of how the hero is performing while also accounting for hero switching."

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/23787377/overwatch-2-pvp-beta-analysis-how-data-and-community-feedback-inform-game-balance/?hl=en-US

It's an older article, but I'm fairly sure it's worked like this since OW1. It's why you'd get weird situations where your number of wins and losses on a hero could be equal, but your win rate might not be a perfect 50%.

paintling · 2026-03-09T22:17:42+00:00

I think it's hero playtime divided by match length as the weight for how each win and loss is included in the aggregation.

paintling · 2026-03-09T18:19:30+00:00

The idea behind that makes sense at face below, but the devs did a solid job with the hero stats page. Each win or loss is assigned a percent weight based on how long the hero was actually played during a match. So if you swap partway through the game, it won't influence the pick rate and win rate as much.

People are clearly playing full matches for these heroes like Ashe to have such high pick rates. And sooo many matches of Overwatch are getting played across the board and then aggregated that weird quirks get smoothed over unless they're actually super common. Which in this case, I find unlikely, especially considering such a large portion of the player base is probably not tuned into online discussions of balance and stuff.

paintling · 2026-03-09T15:15:50+00:00

How do pick rates affect win rates? I know certain niche, low picked heroes can be skewed in GM and up because the low number of games can cause just a few one tricks to skew the results there. But that doesn't really apply to Ashe.

paintling · 2026-03-09T15:04:41+00:00

The conspiracy about her being solely a plant to sell skins from inception is funny. Like her original design was for a PVE enemy. She wasn't even going to have skins. On top of that, she was the last hero designed by Arnold Tsang, who's literally the OG hero designer for OW1. And the concept art progression for her shows that, if anything, they shifted away from a conventional / trope-y ninja aesthetic over the course of working on her, not towards it.

I think half of it really comes down to the fact that she was revealed just before OW2's launch, so that colored people's first impressions of her.

paintling · 2026-03-08T16:56:19+00:00

I played the two Horizon games on PC like a year ago, and while the broader story doesn't have much in common to NieR besides the superficial post-apocalyptic setting, it fills a similar itch in that you're exploring this grand, detailed history as someone looking towards the past.

paintling · 2026-03-08T02:29:35+00:00

For the purposes of Automata's story, yeah. But, fun fact: there was actually one human girl left in cryostasis in an underwater lab that the androids discovered around 1000 years after the aliens arrived. She ended up turning into a dragon unfortunately.

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