What We Love And Hate About Overwatch’s Chinese New Year Update

22 responses to “What We Love And Hate About Overwatch’s Chinese New Year Update”

1. 

   arnna

   January 28, 2017 at 5:37 pm

   I understand none words in article.

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   stormo

   January 28, 2017 at 5:50 pm

   Wait, D.Va got nerfed? I’ve been melting face with her since the update and assumed she’d been buffed. What was the nerf?

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   1. 

      the_stills

      January 28, 2017 at 7:11 pm

      She does less damage per pellet, but fires more of them now per shot (she still suffered a net loss in damage per shot). The health and armor values of her mech were effectively swapped (i.e. she had 400 armor and 200 health before, she now has 200 armor and 400 health).

      The armor and health changes is the big one, her HP being mostly health now means the mech goes down a lot quicker than it did before.

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         agentofevil

         January 28, 2017 at 8:19 pm

         A bloody hell of a lot faster. You really need to pick your fights now. Can’t just rush in.
         But with the increas in bullet per second, you can pick of the squishies a lot faster at close range

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            jacka

            January 29, 2017 at 5:19 pm

            You do have to practically park your mech on top of them though to make sure every one of those 2 hit point bullets connects.

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      rosscoso

      January 30, 2017 at 1:09 pm

      They nerfed Dva especially on the 3v3 map, where they decided that having her leave the mecha was just to much!

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   felicitous_blue

   January 28, 2017 at 9:16 pm

   I actually quite enjoyed the capture the flag variant, as a change. Wouldn’t want it to become a permanent thing, but it changes things up just enough while remaining true to the general teamwork ethos. (Unlike elimination, which just screams of pandering to Dudebro KDR-whores)

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4. 

   ashyuri

   January 28, 2017 at 10:33 pm

   I love Mercy’s new dress. I’d kill to be able to pull it off. Dva nerf feels too far in the right direction, but it’s probably not meant for me. Loot system remains bs. New emote/voice system is great, please extend to sprays and skins.

   Bad: Zeny skin. ugh, so gross. He looks like a play boy. I’ll pass

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   1. 

      spruppet

      January 29, 2017 at 6:46 am

      It does work for sprays. You can equip four and use the spray menu with y on PC. Can only have one active at a time unfortunately ….

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   bergle

   January 29, 2017 at 12:51 am

   I love Capture the flag, more game modes is exactly what overwatch needs! And more damn characters already

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      spruppet

      January 29, 2017 at 6:51 am

      Imagine balancing with 16 other character, as well as different team combinations, modes, map types and skill ratings. All with a complaint-happy community. It’s fair enough it takes them a while.

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         bergle

         January 30, 2017 at 1:01 pm

         I don’t disagree with the thought required to implement a new character and maintain balance but that doesn’t affect how much I want to play or see new characters!

         I imagine Paragon have a whole bank of characters prepped and ready to come out already, regardless a new playable hero every three weeks is bloody impressive.

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            spruppet

            January 30, 2017 at 1:39 pm

            Haha.. fair enough. Personally crossing fingers for another non-healer support

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   jacka

   January 29, 2017 at 5:24 pm

   I think with a bit of tweaking, Capture The Flag could easily sit alongside the payload and point capture maps in the regular cycle.
   It does need its own maps and some changes to the way it functions to better take into account the quirks of the game, but it’s conceptually very solid. I think part of the problem people are having is that it’s far more reliant on decent team work than the other variants as you effectively have to split them team in half to account for both attack and defence and communicate reasonable well between the two.

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7. 

   mannym

   January 29, 2017 at 11:51 pm

   Too often does CTF end in a draw… Which is a real drag when you’re working toward getting three wins in for the bonus loot box.

   Winning is much more satisfying though, and it’s feels rightly intense when you’re 2-1 up with only a minute to go and your opposition just goes all out on the rush to bring the flag home to draw it up.

   So, it definitely provides some different quotable moments to the regular modes, but again, too often does it end in a stalemate, which ultimately turns me off it.

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   1. 

      razgrizace

      January 30, 2017 at 2:01 pm

      Now that we’ve been able to play it, it is fun. It just needs to be fleshed out now. I’m not sure Lijang Tower is the best map for it. There needs to be more open flag locations so they cant just be turtled by Symm/Bastion/Torb. An actual dedicated CTF map would be nice to see how it plays.

      I like how it brings a lot of the non-meta characters into the game. Junkrat/Sombra are really good, as is Winston. It makes it fresh.

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8. 

   chedruid

   January 30, 2017 at 12:46 am

   Make Dva great again

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      bergle

      January 30, 2017 at 1:03 pm

      I have survived longer since the buff/nerf (berf?) and actually enjoy playing DVA now.

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9. 

   gz

   January 30, 2017 at 11:55 am

   Loot Boxes suck for a game I paid full price for, in-game currency is also way too random (ties into the loot box problem).

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      rosscoso

      January 30, 2017 at 12:58 pm

      Methinks if they increased the boon of currency for rolling a duplicate skin would that help?

      Do you get more currency now for rolling a legendary skin twice – as opposed to a spray twice? (I hope so)

      I guess there is a fine balance here where they don’t want the majority of people to own the skins because they would feel devalued… They need the skins to feel like they are worth attaining/worth spending real money on :S

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         gz

         January 30, 2017 at 1:03 pm

         Increasing the coins you get from dupes from 20% to 25-30% of the cost to buy (including event prices) would be a big improvement. It also doesn’t help that each time these events happen the lootbox pool suddenly increases by 100+ for the duration of the event.

         Ideally, it would be nice if each game played gave you 5-10 coins.

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            rosscoso

            January 30, 2017 at 1:19 pm

            True, but i guess we should be grateful there is even a away to earn free boxes…

            I know the game was 60$, but i play LOL and I’m sure I’ve spent hundreds of dollars (over 5 years) on RP to get skins.

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