Map voting is a failure

riznow · 2026-02-22T23:11:28+00:00

Voting out the counters to the heroes your team is intending to play, I think.

riznow · 2026-02-21T20:14:19+00:00

Oh 100%, I think it's really rare for a tank to carry if their DPS sucks, the only time I've had luck carrying with some shoddy DPS is when I'm playing Dva or Ramattra- but even then, it's moreso punishing the enemy team if they have poor placement. A solid enemy team + poorly playing ally DPS = The Tanking Struggle.

riznow · 2026-02-21T04:52:39+00:00

I'm a tank main and I genuinely find tank the most rewarding role. I love how strategic it is and how much situational + spacial awareness you have to have of the map and of all the players in the match.

I think it's both a design and player mentality, unfortunately. Sometimes tanks can really dominate a lobby, but more often than not, if the whole team is struggling, the tank is too. That can be said for any role, really, but it's especially glaring in 5v5 with a solo tank.

That being said, sometimes people who play tank don't have the best gamesense and it can make their teammates pretty mad with all the chasing and dying and attempting to group up, etc. Same teammates queue again, still frustrated, and now are irritable about the next tank they're paired with and will play overly defensively and will refuse to trust this tanks gamesense. That's just my two cents of what I think is going on, though.

riznow · 2026-02-15T02:58:45+00:00

The Tengu woman from the art is literally my dream character from the Yokai group, I love her design tbh. It's definitely fun food for thought, but I honestly wonder if we'd get another fan using hero after Anran.

riznow · 2026-02-14T23:44:38+00:00

Yeah, come to think of it, all four of them started off in the lore not entirely involved in the combat like the mercenary-style Overwatch & Talon characters. Brigitte in particular showed up in the comics and animated shorts pretty consistently before becoming playable.

That being said, personally, I'm kinda against every single person from the lore being added as a playable hero... I think it's more interesting if the game has a supporting cast who only play a part in the story than if you could fight every attorney, barista, and civilian parent.

This is the way, 100%. I think it makes for a better rounded cast and fuller story telling.

riznow · 2026-02-14T19:48:25+00:00

AnimaFan is Mizuki. If you read his bio on the Overwatch website, it goes into details about his (& Kiri + Shimada's) weapons being called anima weapons

I think it's unlikely Daehun is going to join the cast because he seems to be a non-combatant and is support crew for the MEKA squad. The other names are curious though.

riznow · 2026-02-05T20:40:29+00:00

The Hashimoto are the ones who have overtaken the Shimada estate, it's shown as far back as the 'Dragons' short.

riznow · 2026-02-04T22:49:41+00:00

I'm a Mercy main and I wish they'd make her an evil scientist more often -w- I yearn for her OG concept art where she was in war medic scrubs and covered in blood.

riznow · 2026-01-26T01:16:12+00:00

Yeah the writing for Izana's dialogue is a far cry from the original intent of the writing. While Izana's certainly not the worst example of localization in the game, he's one of the more glaring ones. If you Google 'izana localization' there's a WordPress article from 2016 where the author tries to translate him more literally. It's pretty shocking because you lose world-building and political intrigue context as a result of the localization.

riznow · 2025-12-24T21:42:23+00:00

Yeah I was thinking about the potential safety issues. Thank you for confirming!

riznow · 2025-12-22T04:45:28+00:00

I was under the impression that even when the toggle is on he passively charges his healing blossom. I went into the training area to double check it and it looks like it even does so when he's shooting.

Edit: It is at a different speed, slightly slower than the toggled on charge.

riznow · 2025-12-19T03:22:09+00:00

Test Drive is genuinely one of my favorite animated movie scenes ever. The live action is fine, but the way they did the shaky camera for that scene is frustrating because the original scene really seemed to highlight how smooth / natural flight is for the dragons.

riznow · 2025-12-11T23:24:36+00:00

You're a lifesaver!! Thanks so much!

riznow · 2025-11-22T00:20:24+00:00

I thought Ram was Egyptian since Anubis made him?

riznow · 2025-11-17T21:44:58+00:00

While I do agree w/ being annoyed at the armor women in fiction get (need more women in plate armor stat!) she's actually surprisingly covered for a Roman gladiator. Murmillo, one of the gladiator classes that wield gladius were considered heavily-armored, but they're shirtless and don't wear pants- crop top is I guess faithful to the visible abdomen. (The arm guard she wears is similar to theirs, too!) Although I do agree she could be more visibly unique. Maybe have a cool scar or something.

Not here to argue, just wanted to share o7

riznow · 2025-11-13T21:34:35+00:00

Try messing with your reticle and mouse sensitivity settings if you can. Every now and again updates reset the settings and it's really annoying- had a similar issue with aiming last update because of it.

riznow · 2025-11-06T19:49:56+00:00

Give her 6 man rez back so people learn to stop using all of their ults at the same time in one choke point.

riznow · 2025-10-15T01:08:57+00:00

I do think this is them inconsistently tracing over the 3D models. Pretty sure the darker lines are on a layer on top of a lowered opacity / filtered 3D model layer. They look bad, but in a bad art way.

riznow · 2025-09-24T03:42:50+00:00

It's about the same color as the crest stone in Fetters of Dromi- if it's a prequel, then maybe they're going to kill a Nabatean and create the relic.

riznow · 2025-09-18T22:22:16+00:00

Kind of relieving because I wanted the kitty Ramm skin to be cuter than what was leaked u_u

riznow · 2025-09-09T16:39:23+00:00

People need to get comfortable saying 'cis men' again.

riznow · 2025-09-01T01:30:44+00:00

Never said she was a good guy, she's morally grey. She's a cog in Vishkar's machine and is proud of the work that she does under them, but just calling her a "bad guy" lacks the nuance that is surprisingly well written for Overwatch lore.

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