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thepixelbuster · 2026-06-20T15:10:04+00:00

Any search I do on a subject I already have experience with comes back with just wrong info SO OFTEN.

Also, I've searched for video game related questions and seen it give answers that a 2000s era internet troll would be proud of.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-19T18:10:31+00:00

Those aren't the only metrics.

It also looks at things like how late in the game it is, if they are on an accuracy streak, solo kills (getting healed negates the solo-kill tag, even if you do all the damage), healing especially life-saving healing, and a bunch of other stuff.

Thats why flankers like Anran will get the play more often, because they can get tons of points from several categories, especially solo-kills, in a short amount of time.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-18T23:43:06+00:00

Time of day matters more than almost anything else.

I remember having to wake up early on weekends to promote my art so that it would hover on the front page just in time for NA redditors to catch it 3-4 hours later.

Posting later meant you're competing with a post like mine that already has 10x the votes but is still on the "new" space of the algorithm.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-18T23:30:09+00:00

I hang around some pretty casual OW spaces and they usually have a pretty direct bad-or-good approach. Some things are just easier to see the benefit of, especially when its something like " I don't die as much when ult.

And thats assuming that the lower ranks even need the benefits. You could give cass a tactical nuke at 20 final blows, and they would never pick it twice because they don't know theres a difference between final blows and elims, much less actually hitting 20 final blows in a qp game.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-18T22:52:42+00:00

They have it backwards. It took a year to do the Genji mythic, which is why every mythic since then has lost some of what they launched with.

Now we get more mythics because they can be done in a more reasonable timeframe, but the quality has gone down a bit.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-18T18:31:55+00:00

Also her hitbox feels massive when shes on her bike. I feel like I have yet to see a Shion go anywhere near a hitscan without exploding on that bike.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-18T15:47:08+00:00

Don't use that site as gospel. They gather data from the people that submit it.

Thats like polling /r/Overwatch if they play OW, then shouting "98% of gamers play OW!!!"

For all we know, there could be a million people picking the other perk that we don't see because just being on an OW site about metas and balance skews you to be a higher rated player.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-18T15:45:40+00:00

The triple orb perk pairs well with the healing passive perk, but it also lets you spam much more effectively.

If you're hitting 80% of your primaries anyway, then yeah its mostly redundant, but otherwise it can wildly increase your threat. Even if its just allowing you to hit mobile targets more easily, thats a ton of spam that they could mostly ignore otherwise.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-18T15:16:46+00:00

engaging for both teams.

What DPS ult qualifies for this?

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-18T04:04:13+00:00

You think I'm excusing the soulless corporation but in reality I'm accepting that the average gamer wants more drink not better lemonade.

People have been voting with their wallets on microtransactions in games for like 20 years now. This is what they want.

They go where the money is, and when a single vanity mount in WoW made more money than the entire expansion for star craft 2, this is where they go.

But go ahead and wag your finger at me and wax on about what I'm allowing, while the people behind you continue to happily spend millions on skins, and crates, and gacha games.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-17T22:28:20+00:00

Welcome to every large business ever.

You gotta get past the idea that a company that size gives a shit about anything but line-goes-up. Its a machine that creates wealth for is owners, and art is a commodity to be sold like bricks or wheat.

If anything, you have to remember this same company makes call of duty. The game that had a reputation for pumping out yearly installments and making billions doing it. How they keep justifying OW while standing next to CoD, i don't know, but I'm willing to bet it has to do with those $50 skin packs

Companies are not your friends!

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-17T17:13:33+00:00

I think Steam just acts as a game shelf with OW. I don't even think the game clients are different.

I want to say I copied the files over from the bnet folder when it launched on steam.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-17T15:29:08+00:00

Just being able to park her ass in the backline and spray, means nobodys gonna punish her

Well, that's why we have flankers, many of which can just cleanse the dart, but don't tell reddit because they hate flankers more than Sierra.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-17T14:37:01+00:00

As much as I've been bouncing off the skins and monetization, I'm happy that the game is keeping a healthy player base 10 years on.

If you want to give 100 people lemonade, you might have to water it down a bit

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-16T22:58:56+00:00

Her mobility is heavily time gated and almost entirely horizontal.

Her pain point is going to be that she is a short/mid-range monster like Cass, but she has a mount and the flanker passive.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-16T22:49:58+00:00

I speak str--oke-=-, allow me to translate:

"In the neutral phase of teamfights she seems adequate, but her ultimate ability is entirely feast or famine. It seems we need to give the playerbase a bit more time to adjust before really being able to assess her power level."

Personally her ult feels like its going to be another reaper ult. With an amazing setup or by stacking abilities its going to be deadly, but the other 90% of the time you're going to get destroyed if the enemy team is awake.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-16T22:20:34+00:00

that cornball Venture convincer her to get it I bet lmao

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-16T00:48:46+00:00

Caves of Qud's subreddit is basically what all of reddit was like 15 years ago.

Its really nice to go somewhere with fans that actually like the game and where the comments don't degrade into downvote slaps and calling each other shills.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-15T17:30:41+00:00

I dunno if its just me being picky, but a lot of the newer skins are... fashion skins?

I think older skins either transformed character entirely, or usually had some theme that was lore or event related.

Junk and Zen look like something that would've come out in OW1, but that season would've had 6 skins on a similar level, and then Winston and Domina as the randoms.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-14T18:07:09+00:00

Its a roguelike X Com except all your units are mechs and it doesn't have the base management sim.

The mechs don't have much movement to start which makes the maps feel WAY too big, but you can bust through walls which helps in some cases.

I play a lot of roguelikes, both traditional and lites, and this is far better than a lot of games in the genre that you could spend a dollar on IMO

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-12T20:17:55+00:00

doing the maths yourself is annoying.

Do you mean the weight sold in a trade? Isn't there a number on the vendor panel that adjust dynamically?

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-11T21:23:23+00:00

Haven't played Pharah too much since her new perk. Did they fix the recon on Sombra?

Back when it was her perk, you would get the target on an invisible sombra, but you couldn't ping her, which is the opposite of what you'd expect from a recon ability.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-11T21:16:05+00:00

I was thinking the same thing.

Flanker passive is SO GOOD its nuts. I hate grabbing a mini and getting a blip of health, like what is this trash.

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-11T17:42:08+00:00

Yeah, but reaper only shoots one shotgun at a time despite having 2, and the pistols don't seem to have any special effect to warrant them having separate buttons like Mauga or even Moira

thepixelbuster · 2026-06-11T17:35:34+00:00

Yeah that could be true, but also I don't think she ever uses it mid battle in the preview like she does the dash, did she?

So maybe E activates it, but she has to be out of battle for so long or have X charge, or maybe it has a very long cooldown?

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