It's not that it's bad or good, it's that Blizzard, for some fricking loop de loop reasoning; is just taking a game that was perfectly fine on it's own, giving it a sequel it didn't need, basically kill off Overwatch 1 entirely, requires a phone number, and will record EVERY in-game mic conversation.
The reasoning can be argued that they're trying everything to get people to forget about their legal troubles, but honestly it's anyone's fricking guess as to why.
And we still have no idea about certain things like WHEN the PVE will launch, or if you'll have to pay for it or not to unlock it.
Back in 2016 this was a game that shined out to everyone and actually went neck and neck to beat TF2. It was so successful it got TF2 team off their lazy asses for ONCE to add a (shitty) comp mode to compete with Overwatch's.
>It was so successful it got TF2 team off their lazy asses for ONCE to add a (shitty) comp mode to compete with Overwatch's.
don't remind me it was the worst update tf2 ever had and they thankfully reverted 90% of the changes over the next month
they lost all intensity, it works with sombra because her OW1 didn't really convey any expression, while her OW2 portrait shows she's smug
it's another case of "realism" over style
Every single one is a downgrade. Even ones where there’s barely any change like Winston are somehow worse.
Worst might be Junkrat. I will make a point that Junkrat’s 3D model never really did match his 2D art. But they’ve certainly tried to make him younger and “hotter”.
As an extra reminder for how stupid these redesigns are, OW2 is set like 6 hours after OW1.
They're getting rid of the concepts of Villains all together outside of the few needed to drive whatever flimsy "plot" needed for their gay events that only last a week. Also I'm here to say Hammond is a reddit-tier hero design. Fans can make better heroes then Blizzard at this point.
Discount Gator-with-a-jetpack (prototype Hammond) which in of itself is a discount of Drogoz from Paladins.
Double discounts, that homie belongs in a dollar store
I'm pretty sure you can find supermodels with the same face structure >"haha! but you got tricked! her real face is actually the body and the shoulders are her eyes!"
even worse, despite saying "finally, a new monster champion" she has a human face
This character is the epitome of trying to have your cake and eat it too, released a "monster" character when they know damn well literally every skin and promotional art is gonna focus on her supermodel face with the shitty girlboss sidecut with a thin justification for why she has to look like a fricking dommy mommy
>Ugly
Only troony homosexuals hate actual beauty in their characters.
Some grotesque designs sprinkled in is fine, but always wanting uglyness is a mental illness currently exclusive to the west. Probably the only good thing about Riot being controlled by China is they have to make attractive women, vs obese hags.
>TF1
Soulful chunky HL1 models, actually look like soldiers. Practicality is the focus. >TF2
Bright childish colors, Pixar faces and movement style, LE SANDVICH reddit sensibilities. Attracting female and child demographics is the focus.
If this happened today everyone would call the new ones goofy, gay, overly animated, etc. it's only "hurrhurr SOUL" because you were 10 when you first saw them and they've grown on you. Someone who doesn't care about TF would obviously call them hokey
unless you live in a authortarian state or a country with the mentally inept and disturbed are shut away from society then yes public transport is shit.
As someone that has to take a short bus ride every fricking day to work, i fricking WISH I had on sight parking, the bus is fricking awful, full of smelly subhumans and often times extremely late. Frick public transit.
You can pick the defaults from OW1 too, but anyways >Mercy
downgrade >Zarya
depends, her chin isn't as pronounced in-game, ponytail is better but jaw is worse >Moira
improved >McCree
downgrade >Brig
frick you, gimme white korra back >Sombra
improved >Hanzo
even >Winston
even >Hammond
improvement on his suit, but mech is a downgrade, should have been a monkey like we all thought anyways
Winston looks more human for no reason. Anyways I'm one of the people that finds even OW1 art shit. Give me back Frankenstein reaper and Project titan's design you hackfrauds in Blizzdrone.
Zarya is supposed to be an ugly dyke bodybuilder. Slapping a weird rat tail on the same shaved side haircut manages to just make her look even more moronic. She looks like some piece of trailer trash
jesus christ and I didn't think overwatch could get any worse
sombra's the only one that's not offensive to look at and it's hard to frick up a monkey I guess but they managed to frick up a hamster so who knows
it's not just the design changes that are bad like moiras moronic eyebrows and sombras stovetop head, they are just drawn HORRIBLY. it looks like some fan art done by an intern.
Original beta was fun. It was the decasualization forced team role esports etc shit that made the game bad. That and 5000 balance patches and shields being added for so many characters. Someone has the webm I know it.
>This why i'm glad A.I is taking over art. Because even when they become professional and work for a billion dollar company they put out shit.
Exactly. Frick "artists".
It's a collective consciousness shift. Machine learning and AI are gaining our intelligence and mastery in many areas. I used to be able to capture beauty in my art. In recent years all that comes out is horror and garbage.
I don't play overwatch because i am not gay but there is this very neat comicbook/manga style that is completely lost on the second one.
I especially dislike what they did with the animal characters where the monkey character clearly lost a lot of the attributes of a monkey and the hamster looks like a minions knock off.
>before she got hit with the beaner hamme
The fact that the whole diversity score thing was revealed really makes it hard to not look at EVERY design and wonder if a change happened solely because of race or lack of points. Mei being thinner (waist wise) in her concept arts and even stickers but now OW ultimately avoiding showing that and pushing the fantasy of her being fat/chubby heavily comes off like a change made because the score board for her was too low and they fattened her up to pass later on. Similar to how chars like Soldier wasn't a homosexual but when the diversity tool was later introduced, he needed the extra points for being just a normal white dude, so they stamped the gay on him for those points.
>before she got hit with the beaner hamme
The fact that the whole diversity score thing was revealed really makes it hard to not look at EVERY design and wonder if a change happened solely because of race or lack of points. Mei being thinner (waist wise) in her concept arts and even stickers but now OW ultimately avoiding showing that and pushing the fantasy of her being fat/chubby heavily comes off like a change made because the score board for her was too low and they fattened her up to pass later on. Similar to how chars like Soldier wasn't a homosexual but when the diversity tool was later introduced, he needed the extra points for being just a normal white dude, so they stamped the gay on him for those points.
>game is about people all around the world >"WHY ARE THERE WOMEN AND NON-WHITES AND NON-AMERICANS IN THIS GAME?!?!?!?!?!? I'M SO TRIGGERED AND ANGRY!!!!!"
funny you say that since the majority of the character concepts had them as chinese or japanese but got switched out to be black, arab or hispanic instead. So much for diversity.
also here's how you know Blizzard was lazy: >project titan's assassin became two seperate heroes, genji and hanzo because they couldn't come up with more characters to fill the roster
Who is that blue haired girl up top
Who are the two black people next to S76 and Brigette
Who's that guy next to winston
I think the last time I played overwatch was when ana was released and everyone realized she was op as frick
I don't think I've seen less interesting roster in a game, these portraits don't tell me anything about them.
They're all new heroes you moron. They were on a "release a new hero every 4 months" schedule with anas release and obviously continued that after you stopped playing
ok so d.va ain't gone but look what they done to her, mei too! they missed a good opportunity to make the junker queen a native australian too, with how much diversity they huff you think they would've...i'm gonna lament overwatch, glad i brought the lego before it went to shit hahahah
>Roadhog has a perfectly clean and fitted mohawk instead of a loose ponytail
This game's been shit for years already but jesus christ looking at this is beyond soulless.
Why is the artstyle so inconsistent it makes some of them look like fanart. Some look drawn from scratch (take Ashe and Soljourn) then you have Brig and Lucio which look like someone just traced over their in game model.
Looking at the Hammond one being straight from a victory animation, I think that’s exactly what has happened.
New characters like Soljourn get fresh art. Some others got drawn art for comparison reasons. But they rushed the rest of the art out for release by just tracing over in game models.
D.Va, Rein, Sigma, Ashe, Sym, and Zen are the survivors here
Of course, this is just the head shot. I’m sure they’ve done something moronic neck down like fricking up Rein’s armour or giving Zen a hoody
I can't believe this but every single one of these is, in fact, a direct downgrade to the previous designs. This is an absolute feat on Blizzard's part. I kekked at Doomfist becoming a feminine twink
It's really weird, they took away Mercy and Hog's ponytails and gave them to Rein, Sojourn, Zarya, Mei, Dva, and Kiriko instead.
They did the blonde+goggles thing 3 times with Junkrat, Torb, and Hammond.
They're also going hard on the half-shaved head thing with both old and new characters.
Just look at how similar Zarya and Brig look now.
It's very obvious they let the original art team go.
something's off. its like they used different artists for the portraits. brigg is prob the worse and looks like they just took a screenshot of her in game model and cropped the picture
Yeah they rushed the game and it shows, the previous plan was a new foundation for Overwatch to build on for years to come and they were taking their time to make it, then something shifted internally and the new plan became "wring as much money from the playerbase as possible at the expense of the IP and company reputation", so rushing "2" to get battle passes started as soon as possible was the next obvious step.
You can tell this from the fact 2 has literally fricking nothing going for it apart from the huge new terrible predatory monetization system, that's all the promo material and devs talk about, it's baffling really.
What stands out to me most of all is how they clearly felt the need to change almost every character just a little bit to remind you that this is totally a new game. >uhhh put a hat on bastion >tell junkrat to wash his face a little bit >soldier, grow a beard >part mei's hair just a little >put some dumb shit on widow and doomfist's faces >age brigitte up 10 years >give lucio, baptiste, rein and zarya slightly different haircuts >make torb look like an even more obvious tf2 engi ripoff >put goggles on several characters at random >anyone else just throw some cybernetics on there or do a very mild palette swap >and make absolutely sure NONE of this is meaningfully transformative, people might forget who the talking gorilla is if we mix it up too much >phew, okay, now they're all different, we've justified the 2
sure thing. Power armor operator reinhardt who was meant to be in the same vein as 76 in being a soldier instead of some knightly order larp they made him.
as a "face" character for a franchise? nah, wouldn't have worked out
her release design was much better for that than the concept design
as a design period? yeah, absolutely superior
but context is important in design application too
We all like a bit of coom but that top middle is just ridiculous, even though I like that there was a time not even a decade ago when it could be a serious contender in a giant game company like Blizzard, really shows how quickly things went to shit
She was never a fatty. One of the sprites in the game showed her without the suit and that she is actually thin. It was just Twitter and Tumblr who sperged to no end about it.
Coat was just VERY thick due to her whole cryogenic weaponry. Same like Pyro from TF2 in terms of wearing flame moronant suit. All protective against weapon usage.
>It was just Twitter and Tumblr who sperged to no end about it.
that and her incredibly round, fat looking face
i know asians have moon faces but it didn't translate well into the model, her facial structure coupled with the giant coat and big thighs just made her look fat
Didn't we have some Blender artists do nice touch up works on the D.va, Widowmaker, and Mercy model? They practically remade the hairs and their faces. D.va's face is especially noticeable. There's stuff like pic related out there and let's not forget the custom Splatoon girl models floating around.
She was never a fatty. One of the sprites in the game showed her without the suit and that she is actually thin. It was just Twitter and Tumblr who sperged to no end about it.
Mei wasn't even a fatty until like 6 months after release when they caved to tumblr users.
What the frick happened to the previous artist? Replaced with a diversity hire? The new shit looks atrocious, some even look like a straight 3D model rip.
Myra looks like two separate people(like brother and sister lol)
Hanzo's new eyes are so puffy
of course the gerbil's even fatter >making junkrat less black because connotations despite it obviously being explosive soot/gunpowder
lmao
junkrat less black because connotations
Oh my frick. Of course there was the pink armpit hair tumblrina who has to justify her wage and b***hed about it and called it blackface LMFAO
Would be a complete downgrade compared to release sigma
Sigma is unironically the best concept writing wise for a hero, a literal schizo obsessed with unlocking the secrets of the universe dabbling with science no human should
It's even worse, there's a fricking statue of not!Senator Armstrong, on the Dorado map, with him originally being a corrupt Mexican corporate-politician who basically ran the country from both above, below and inbetween; with aspects of the Mayan Underworld / Cizin in the design as he used decay-based nanomachines to dissolve people alive to make them disappear to in turn energise himself (which was supposed to be Sombra's plotline, a huge aspect of Talon's plot before they fricking dropped the entire lore like a ten ton brick, especially after the ARG shitshow - then just made Talon into generic baddies but-omnics/Null-sector-now-because-whoops-we-accidentally-made-them-all-nonwhite-and-thats-not-kosher and then just canonically shipped Sombra with McCree and called it a day because Cowboys and Mexicans amirite guise).
Suffice to say, Sojourn was more important. Because we NEED a black canadian migrant disabled girlboss lesbian... NOW GOD FR*KN DAMNIT!!!
Sojourn's story is boring but her design is sexy and augmented limbs are cool so she gets a pass in my book
As another anon said elsewhere in the thread, black character with white hair is usually a good design. It just works
>just canonically shipped Sombra with McCree and called it a day because Cowboys and Mexicans amirite guise
manifest destiny. I still find it funny how REPRESENTATION is demanded just because it wasn't some of the fan favorites that were colorflagged.
>then just canonically shipped Sombra with McCree and called it a day
Wait really? I'm shocked they did anything with Mcree after they attempted to scrub him clean of any reference to the employee. Actually, what even is the lore for OW now? I never really bothered with it because it seemed incredibly milquetoast.
>You make a cool edgy OC >The boss comes in >"Can you make the character that doesn't show any skin, at all, black?" >"And also gay?"
I remember when I would have killed to work at Blizzard.
Damn shame.
The diversity space method or whatever stat tracking for "diversity" they use for characters makes me cringe so hard I'm not entirely sure that I'm not dead. It would make me incredibly happy if Blizzard went out business
>the most diverse character is the white man >least diverse is the black man >takes time to confirm Zarya is straight to destroy the Mei shippers
This image still makes me smirk
"mexican" >most overtly Black phenotype ever
You can tell his race wasn't even meant to be revealed because all the heroes who come from a specific ethnicity are basically a stereotype. Why would Sombra sound so stereotypical if Reaper was supposedly mexican since day 1?
Reaper was always meant to be American with Mexican heritage because he always had darker skin and his name was gabriel reyes you morons. Also he was literally never gay, he has lines referencing his wife in ow2 and you see his family in the comic.
>Never shows his skin
He had his "human" form as a skin literally since day one of overwatch. People here are literally posting about things they've never played.
yes your meme is very cute and very funny but that is still a black man
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Mutt's law
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damn it took you a while to find another picture of this handsome black man
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Mutt's law
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Reaper was supposed to be white and in fact, a redhead. Nobody cares about you being a beaner.
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Mexicans cant compete with true africans but darkest mexican easily beat 50% of what counts as murrican black. That aside facial features look more mexican than black.
"mexican" >most overtly Black phenotype ever
You can tell his race wasn't even meant to be revealed because all the heroes who come from a specific ethnicity are basically a stereotype. Why would Sombra sound so stereotypical if Reaper was supposedly mexican since day 1?
So far this "sequel" looks like a massive downgrade >f2p because we don't have confidence in our product anymore >worse character designs >reduction of players per match >battlepass trash
>maybe a "sequel" that is a glorified 1.1 patch >you retain nothing from the original Overwatch. If you were a good goy paypig, frick you paypig again >battlepass in current year >make characters ugly because its current year >not nearly enough new content to justify it being a sequel >we need your phone number because >we need to record your voice and transcribe it into our files because >need to unlock characters now because
It's like they are going for a record in terrible decisions
Ah man, I'd have preferred this over Sojourn, atleast it's Canadian, as stereotypical as it is. Instead it's like they're working backwards trying to say she's Canadian
That would be early Lucio. They say he’s Brazilian but he was blatantly a Canadian they changed at the last minute because they had no South American characters. He didn’t even have any Brazilian Portuguese lines until like two years later.
Meanwhile, they made Pharah half-Canadian at some point while retconning her dead mom backstory.
>Meanwhile, they made Pharah half-Canadian at some point while retconning her dead mom backstory.
It was because people wouldn't stop b***hing about her indian skins and because her eating with a guy in canada was haram because of lesbian headcanon.
also something I noticed; Reaper seems to be based off Brandon Heat from Gungrave. Even duel wields two overly stylized guns just like him. The slouching posture gives a pretty big hint too.
while I think some of the designs are objectively worse, I think the real problem is the art style of these new 2d renders. I can't really explain it well but it's kind of like they are trying too hard to make it look like the 3d models instead of just drawing it based on concept art or the artist putting their own take on the design (like how Junkrat's 2d art doesn't match up 1:1 with his 3d model). Of course the 2d art from the first game wasn't SOUL OVERLOAD either but at least they didn't look like they are from some very obscure shit WEG
Can't they just move on to other things? Overwatch was a solid use of leftovers from Project Titan. It's embarrassing how hard they're trying to make it an IP and failing at every step.
>trying to make it an IP and failing at every step.
overwatch brought in an insane amount of money, and ow2 being a f2p will just siphon every single penny from chinese and huehues
I don't see why you pretend this game will tank when it will bank
I won't say it was GOOD but they managed to trick people, including myself, into thinking they woudln't pull a blizzard and ruin the game's semi-ok start.
Surprising no one who actually thought about it for more than 10 minutes they pulled a blizzard and shit it up beyond repair in the first 6 months and then it kind of coasted from there.
I won't say it was GOOD but they managed to trick people, including myself, into thinking they woudln't pull a blizzard and ruin the game's semi-ok start.
Surprising no one who actually thought about it for more than 10 minutes they pulled a blizzard and shit it up beyond repair in the first 6 months and then it kind of coasted from there.
Most people I know bought it and forgot about it after 6 months. Overwatch had very strong sales the first couple of months and then it fell off hard because Blizzard completely mismanaged their whole long-term plan support scheme (if there even was any). They also completely fricked Heroes of the Storm the same way.
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>"they JUST managed to make a couple of billions out of it, but it fell off man"
yeah, so?
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>make a couple of billions out of it
Did they really make billions?
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>yeah, so?
So in the age of 10+-year live service games, that's pretty shitty, don't you think? Even fricking Destiny is in a better situation. And that IP started off even worse than Overwatch.
That's impressive. But also a bit sad that people seem to be okay with shitty leftovers. And it showed Blizzard that they don't even have to try anymore, which is what we're seeing now with the shit they're releasing.
>when it will bank >made millions
OW was a normo-centric playerbase with only streamers keeping it alive, the esport scene they tried kickstarting died within months and the hype for the game died when new content got added at a snail pace, didn't help that for being a hero shooter they didn't keep to the theme of heroes and villains, more importantly they fumbled or completely shit up any attempts at story.
Call of Duty brings in several millions. Do you really think it's because it's a well liked and successful franchise? no,it has corporate investment. Why else do you think they're pandering to chinks so hard for 2?
>when it will bank >made millions
OW was a normo-centric playerbase with only streamers keeping it alive, the esport scene they tried kickstarting died within months and the hype for the game died when new content got added at a snail pace, didn't help that for being a hero shooter they didn't keep to the theme of heroes and villains, more importantly they fumbled or completely shit up any attempts at story.
New Junkrat does not convey his explosiphilia nearly as effectively as the fricking soot covered and hair-on-fire old one. Other than that, none of the new ones are particularly offensive.
And if they went that way you'd criticize them not having an original idea or going for the easy reference instead of the cool robot centaur.
Concept art is always better than the finished product, because concepts are the cheapest part of game making. So you can get really creative.
Some of these concepts are baller >you will never pilot a walking spitfire or Smough with a shoulder cannon
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So moronic it ends up being based
This was a perfect view into the worldview of leftists, white men are literally worthless according to their diversity checker. Crazy shit that people just accept
What is dva if not exactly that
If anything hammond as a concept is redundant if you wanted every hero concept to be entirely unique, but "small pilot in big mech suit" is such an awesome archetype you can never have too many
Any good gay sfm porn for OW? I know there's a ton of female porn but is there some for gay dudes with hot males from OW? I'm gay btw if you didn't know
the only people who say anything about it that i notice are the people who say it's an improvement. everyone thinks the majority sucks, but moria seemed to be the one the most people said was maybe an improvement.
moira's one of the worst ones though, and I again ask what parallel universe you come from since her mask thing is a lot shittier, her metal eyebrows are moronic, and her face is all fricked up
though pretty much everyone's face is fricked up
i feel retroactively bad for ever sort of liking the game, and that's saying something since I haven't played it 2016 and haven't thought about it in like 5 years
i completely agree with you, i'm saying i think too many OTHER PEOPLE see her as an improvement for my comfort. i'm not even saying most people think she's an improvement. i sure as hell don't
>Mercy
Halo isn't pronounced anymore >Zarya
They drew a man and called it a girl. Jaw too shizzled, neck to thick. Original was a dyke but you could still see it as a girl >Moria
She used to actually look evil, like she's working for WEF or something. Now she's just boring >McCree
Can't see robot arm, lost personality >Bridget
Original already had barely anything and they still managed to remove the small armor nob things. >Sombra
Lost contrast, phenotype is completely different. Covered eye makes her look more masonic, so I guess that's a plus for a villain. >Hanzo
Lost all hair dynamic, lost contrast. Just boring. >Junkrat
From dangerous lunatic to complete homosexual. Biggest downgrade by far. >Winston
Just lost contrast and the silhouette isn't as pronounced. >Hamster
Same as Winston.
Doomfist is a based character.
Lucio and Bap are both bland happy healers so they suck, but Lucio sucks less because he was there first and isn’t AS bland.
Sojourn is the only black woman on the roster and has thighs that can crush heads, so she can stay.
Luc looks like he's from a different game. The scottish guy is called McCloud and has a claymore, which is amusingly generic. They just straight up added the woman from Hong Kong Hustle. It's interesting how they just mashed a bunch together for various things
It's amusing how many cartoony perspective "mistakes" there are in Tsang's art and how they look infinitely better than the traced technically perfect 3D models in OW2
Is there a lore explanation on why do we have to push payloads here and there? Tf2 had a good idea with red and blu mercs fricking each other up but ow is about le good guys vs le bad guys yet you can see stuff like soldier 76 killing ana to capture some fricking ruins in egypt
depends on the map but they're pretty dumb
from standard bomb fare to transporting doom fist's glove, the fact heroes can play both sides makes it lame and inconsequential though.
whoa, i sure hope tracer stops that tracer from pushing doom fist's glove into the museum!
>soldier 76 was some kinda knock-off Captain America super soldier program >absolutely 0 elaboration on why Germany had an entire division of 8ft tall 7ft wide living tanks
You've got to be kidding me.
What a straight downgrade in every single way.
Moira is better
She looks like David Bowie pullinga Phantom of the Opera.
So yeah. You're right.
>Loses the side hair
She was the one of these that actually made me the most angry.
Sombra is better honestly.
Junkrat is the biggest LOL. They whitewashed a character.
Junkrat was always white. A skin for him would've allowed him to be an abbo. There's concept art for the different skins.
They whitewashed, as in they washed (bathed) a white man?
He was always white he was just covered in soot.
Which one am I meant to be pretending is good and which one am I meant to be pretending to get angry about?
old good new bad
please ignore people shit on the old
its suddenly good now
they're both bad, new is just even worse
The designs weren't great or anything but they managed to somehow make them even worse.
They all look like a bunch of play dough characters now.
It's not that it's bad or good, it's that Blizzard, for some fricking loop de loop reasoning; is just taking a game that was perfectly fine on it's own, giving it a sequel it didn't need, basically kill off Overwatch 1 entirely, requires a phone number, and will record EVERY in-game mic conversation.
The reasoning can be argued that they're trying everything to get people to forget about their legal troubles, but honestly it's anyone's fricking guess as to why.
And we still have no idea about certain things like WHEN the PVE will launch, or if you'll have to pay for it or not to unlock it.
Back in 2016 this was a game that shined out to everyone and actually went neck and neck to beat TF2. It was so successful it got TF2 team off their lazy asses for ONCE to add a (shitty) comp mode to compete with Overwatch's.
>It was so successful it got TF2 team off their lazy asses for ONCE to add a (shitty) comp mode to compete with Overwatch's.
don't remind me it was the worst update tf2 ever had and they thankfully reverted 90% of the changes over the next month
I didn't say it was a good update. Just that it lit the fire to get them to do ANYTHING with TF2 beyond hats.
sombra is better
goggles are an improvement for hammond but his expression is worse and the white tufts on head/ears are awful
they lost all intensity, it works with sombra because her OW1 didn't really convey any expression, while her OW2 portrait shows she's smug
it's another case of "realism" over style
SOVLLESS VS SOVLLESSER
probably the most soul vs soulless thing I've ever seen
>implying Overwatch 1 had any soul
frick off moron
Soulless vs Soullest
Wrecking Ball should have been a Capybara who gets mad when people think he's a hamster. Why is there a human sized hamster?
capybaras weren't popular back then like they are now
>soulless vs even more soulless like lmao how can you sink this low
the cast of overwatch but drawn by a genderqueer this time
Ugh..... Zarya...... Muscle.......
I'm mad we lost the comic hair
Artist?
Irene Koh, that's official comic art
Wait isn't that the one who did the Legend of Korra comics and added black people and shit?
actually looks like an attractive girl here
It's because her hand is covering up her mighty Teutonic jawline.
Holy frick what a downgrade.
This
is so much better.
I don’t understand what I’m looking at as someone who’s never played overwatch. What’s supposed to be the good one?
White background = original artwork of the characters from Overwatch 1
Dark background = redesigns for Overwatch 2
The redesigns look way better.
Okay troony
Every single one is a downgrade. Even ones where there’s barely any change like Winston are somehow worse.
Worst might be Junkrat. I will make a point that Junkrat’s 3D model never really did match his 2D art. But they’ve certainly tried to make him younger and “hotter”.
As an extra reminder for how stupid these redesigns are, OW2 is set like 6 hours after OW1.
Its the league treatment, can't have "ugly" characters.
I'm sure they'll add a skin that removes Roadhogs mask too and he'll be handsome under it
They all look less hostile to some degree as well. No mean feelings all around, eh?
They're getting rid of the concepts of Villains all together outside of the few needed to drive whatever flimsy "plot" needed for their gay events that only last a week. Also I'm here to say Hammond is a reddit-tier hero design. Fans can make better heroes then Blizzard at this point.
>Fans can make better heroes then Blizzard at this point.
pic unrelated
>he'd take le heckin wholesome overweight rat over an Australian hammerhead shark in a mech frame
Back to blizzard forums with you.
You can put all the >le heckin and le -orino in front of anything you want, that design is still fricking shit.
This looks moron, Ganker really can't into character design
We don't need more animal characters tbh. It's such an ass novelty for this game
Well that's basically Paladins no?
Discount Gator-with-a-jetpack (prototype Hammond) which in of itself is a discount of Drogoz from Paladins.
Double discounts, that homie belongs in a dollar store
Look, I'm not saying that Overwatch has masterpiece character design but le Mecha rocket shark thing has to be a weird 5 year old's concept right?
most of overwatch's art design feels like it was made by people nostalgic of the early 2000s.
>people hate this
He looks like a saturday morning cartoon character, which was exactly Overwatch's aesthetic. Why's he a problem?
I thought Overwatch's aesthetic was play-doh porn
That came later.
I will now buy your game
>Its the league treatment, can't have "ugly" characters
they're pandering to gay chinks, sad, shit sucks
yeah, the chinese bugs they're pandering the game towards don't like aggression
everything needs to be pretty and sanitary
>Its the league treatment, can't have "ugly" characters.
I'd say belveth is pretty ugly and she's new
I'm pretty sure you can find supermodels with the same face structure
>"haha! but you got tricked! her real face is actually the body and the shoulders are her eyes!"
even worse, despite saying "finally, a new monster champion" she has a human face
This character is the epitome of trying to have your cake and eat it too, released a "monster" character when they know damn well literally every skin and promotional art is gonna focus on her supermodel face with the shitty girlboss sidecut with a thin justification for why she has to look like a fricking dommy mommy
>can't have "ugly" characters.
They're all ugly though, the word you're looking for may be "offensive" or something.
>Ugly
Only troony homosexuals hate actual beauty in their characters.
Some grotesque designs sprinkled in is fine, but always wanting uglyness is a mental illness currently exclusive to the west. Probably the only good thing about Riot being controlled by China is they have to make attractive women, vs obese hags.
why does Junkrat have an earing now. He's going to be gay now isn't he.
He has painted nails and hangs around a fat frick all day, he's always been gay
Now I'm not even sure if I want the porn. That's a damn shame.
Mercy will always be perfect though.
Looks like an icon for some shitty mobile game for most of them.
>made junkrat less ugly
unforgivable. looking like an inbred waluigi that just crawled out of a dumpster is integral to his character design
A rare Soul vs Soul
Top = SOVL
Bottom = SOVL
Sovl vs Soulless. Yeah, that's right. I said it.
why does the top right guy have a pizza on his shirt?
That's his class symbol. He's Heavy Weapons Guy so that's supposed to be minigun barrels.
It’s actually a high tech food storage unit for if he gets hungry in the field. Big man has to eat.
Shit and irrelevant vs unsurpassable GIGASOVL
top: soulless quake models kys
bottom: UNDILUATED LUDOKINO
I must admit your sovl is pretty good friend but it is nothing compared to mine
Top: Soul
Bottom: Gankeralve wiener suckers
It was a huge mistake to go with the neo art deco shit and not make the game look futuristic and quake styled instead.
>hating on TF2 60s retro futurism
Ganker is dead
dumbdumb quakey
The game would be utterly fricking dead if they did that you braindead Quakie
Unfiltered, pure, raw SOVL
sovl vs eternal gigachad sovl
tf2 designs were pure genius
tf2 was so fricking good
>TF1
Soulful chunky HL1 models, actually look like soldiers. Practicality is the focus.
>TF2
Bright childish colors, Pixar faces and movement style, LE SANDVICH reddit sensibilities. Attracting female and child demographics is the focus.
If this happened today everyone would call the new ones goofy, gay, overly animated, etc. it's only "hurrhurr SOUL" because you were 10 when you first saw them and they've grown on you. Someone who doesn't care about TF would obviously call them hokey
Yeah lol it's most apparent with stuff like Monkey Island
Sovl v soul
I'm still mad at the forced diversity with making the demoman a Black person at the last instance.
SOVL vs SOVL
god games were good back then, Valve never missed a hit before Dota 2
that junkrat is a crime they literally pretty boy'd him up
It's so over
>numtot image
Go back to r/frickcars
Frick cars though
Get away from me, Tyrone.
no one wants to ride a fricking bus or a train you smelly frick
>He has bad public transport
unless you live in a authortarian state or a country with the mentally inept and disturbed are shut away from society then yes public transport is shit.
Is right supposed to be bad? I would love to live like that. I go to my office two days per month.
As someone that has to take a short bus ride every fricking day to work, i fricking WISH I had on sight parking, the bus is fricking awful, full of smelly subhumans and often times extremely late. Frick public transit.
On site parking*
You can pick the defaults from OW1 too, but anyways
>Mercy
downgrade
>Zarya
depends, her chin isn't as pronounced in-game, ponytail is better but jaw is worse
>Moira
improved
>McCree
downgrade
>Brig
frick you, gimme white korra back
>Sombra
improved
>Hanzo
even
>Winston
even
>Hammond
improvement on his suit, but mech is a downgrade, should have been a monkey like we all thought anyways
forgot
>Junkrat
improvement, I like seeing one of the few young white male characters (2) not look like a schizo mutt
>I don't want the character who is a schizo mutt to look like a schizo mutt
>lets take the one chaotic non-boring character
>and smooth out all the edges that mad him neat
gaygggggoooootttt
Tell me you're a homosexual without telling me you're a homosexual
piece of shit, they'd call you a c**t here and mean it
>lets strip the best character of his best attributes
give me dirty schizo bomb rat pls
He's not mccree anymore, bigot
Winston looks more human for no reason. Anyways I'm one of the people that finds even OW1 art shit. Give me back Frankenstein reaper and Project titan's design you hackfrauds in Blizzdrone.
holy SHIT, the edge
I dont care if its illegal, Im going to steal this design
the game was cancelled anyways and copyright for a concept sketch with no artist to leave a signature means it's up for grabs anyways.
who is reader?
Zarya is supposed to be an ugly dyke bodybuilder. Slapping a weird rat tail on the same shaved side haircut manages to just make her look even more moronic. She looks like some piece of trailer trash
jesus christ and I didn't think overwatch could get any worse
sombra's the only one that's not offensive to look at and it's hard to frick up a monkey I guess but they managed to frick up a hamster so who knows
those who never bought the game has to unlock every hero unless they pay a $40 bundle pack
Brig looks so bland now.
I'm surprised they didnt scrap Mccree entirely.
it's not just the design changes that are bad like moiras moronic eyebrows and sombras stovetop head, they are just drawn HORRIBLY. it looks like some fan art done by an intern.
Those can't be real right?
>soul/soulless
Looks like they sloppily traced the models for the OW2 drawings.
What the frick, why? You might as well just have AI generated portraits; this is fricking horrible.
i never noticed how much soul the original ones had until now
Original beta was fun. It was the decasualization forced team role esports etc shit that made the game bad. That and 5000 balance patches and shields being added for so many characters. Someone has the webm I know it.
This why i'm glad A.I is taking over art. Because even when they become professional and work for a billion dollar company they put out shit.
GOOD MORNING SIR
>completely fails to do anything other than sitting upright and looking at camera
It couldn't even do that a few months ago, what makes you think it'll stop there? lol
>This why i'm glad A.I is taking over art. Because even when they become professional and work for a billion dollar company they put out shit.
Exactly. Frick "artists".
I need those promps and settings so fricking bad.
Same
Why did you AI generate a fatass?
It's a collective consciousness shift. Machine learning and AI are gaining our intelligence and mastery in many areas. I used to be able to capture beauty in my art. In recent years all that comes out is horror and garbage.
>Anon... I
>it’s going to be a long trip
She's in!
Let me guess the new artwork was done by Koreans? Am I right?
At least the sexists are out of blizzard. . Right gusy?? It was worth it.
Junkrat looks totally different.
WHAT THE FRICK DID THEY DO TO BRIGITTE
>We want the Xenoblade Chronicles 2/3 audience
The new female portraits look like they were pulled from a weg
.picrel
I don't play overwatch because i am not gay but there is this very neat comicbook/manga style that is completely lost on the second one.
I especially dislike what they did with the animal characters where the monkey character clearly lost a lot of the attributes of a monkey and the hamster looks like a minions knock off.
this isn't that suprising when you realize Mercy was originally going to be Saint fricking Floyd had some other art designer not come in.
Black guy/girl + white hair is always alright in my book.
That spot is taken by Sojourn right now however
The characters are all a-little-worse looking across the board..
Zarya won and she won BIGLY
blm boulevard and especially junkrat are so fricking lame here
>Junkrat
What have they done to my son?
>Sombra was meant to be a kunoichi before she got hit with the beaner hammer
She could’ve been perfect..
I think part of that became Kiriko
3D version looks like absolute ass. No wonder they scrapped it.
3D is by a fan.
It was scrapped because that design is a nightmare for 3D modelers.
Why though? isnt the point of 3d that you do it once and then have it instead of redrawing it every frame in 2d
>before she got hit with the beaner hamme
The fact that the whole diversity score thing was revealed really makes it hard to not look at EVERY design and wonder if a change happened solely because of race or lack of points. Mei being thinner (waist wise) in her concept arts and even stickers but now OW ultimately avoiding showing that and pushing the fantasy of her being fat/chubby heavily comes off like a change made because the score board for her was too low and they fattened her up to pass later on. Similar to how chars like Soldier wasn't a homosexual but when the diversity tool was later introduced, he needed the extra points for being just a normal white dude, so they stamped the gay on him for those points.
>game is about people all around the world
>"WHY ARE THERE WOMEN AND NON-WHITES AND NON-AMERICANS IN THIS GAME?!?!?!?!?!? I'M SO TRIGGERED AND ANGRY!!!!!"
funny you say that since the majority of the character concepts had them as chinese or japanese but got switched out to be black, arab or hispanic instead. So much for diversity.
Now this is some weak-ass bait.
said the homosexual ignoring all of the concept art posts showing that the roster was majority white and asian with maybe a token black.
That jacket is honestly shit. Also considering how obnoxious Kirko turned out to be I think it was for the best we got sombra.
Besides who can say no to some hot latina ass?
Biggest argument in favour of the soul meme
Also Brigitte without sideburns is a SACRILEGE.
Does anyone even care for OW2?
no because blizzard is seemingly more obsessed with moderating their community than working on the game
>another idea for Sombra was to have her be a sentient virus that used a hologram to appear physical
>go to shady porn site
>suddenly sombra appears in your room and starts taunting your wiener
what could have been...
also here's how you know Blizzard was lazy:
>project titan's assassin became two seperate heroes, genji and hanzo because they couldn't come up with more characters to fill the roster
also the assassin lorewise was basically going to be part of an international group of assassins who were essentially not-Tenno.
Full roaster
Seeing this image reminds me that so many of these characters actually exist.
Who the frick asked for Bapiste?
Many SJWs were asking for a black male medic after seeing Mercy's concept as a Black person
monkey's paw. People wanted actual villain characters, we got Nigtiste and Nig Hammer.
You also got pale German lunatic, so stop crying.
>german
Dutch you absolute geopolitically inept mutt.
Holy shit Roadhog and Soldier 76's redesigned masks look like garbage
D.Va's portrait is kinda hot.
>the best looking one is of course the worst korean
Remind me why I shouldn't be cheering on Rocketman again?
Still, Brigitte without large sideburns is fricking awful
Who is that blue haired girl up top
Who are the two black people next to S76 and Brigette
Who's that guy next to winston
I think the last time I played overwatch was when ana was released and everyone realized she was op as frick
I don't think I've seen less interesting roster in a game, these portraits don't tell me anything about them.
They're all new heroes you moron. They were on a "release a new hero every 4 months" schedule with anas release and obviously continued that after you stopped playing
>Why don't their character portraits also have detailed biographies on them
>Who is that blue haired girl up top
Junker Queen, the lady on the intercom talking trash on the Junkertown map. She's yet another Mad Max Australian.
ok so d.va ain't gone but look what they done to her, mei too! they missed a good opportunity to make the junker queen a native australian too, with how much diversity they huff you think they would've...i'm gonna lament overwatch, glad i brought the lego before it went to shit hahahah
>ash looks fine
phew
the mercy one looks like one of those ai generated portraits
being gay took a hard toll on SOldier 76
Somehow they managed to make the Black healer look even worse than before.
I think Dva, reinhardt, widowmaker, and ash look good
everyone else looks like shit
genji looks the same just not naked anymore
Symmetra looks good. She's actually attractive now.
>Top: Japanese MMORPG style
>Bottom: Korean MMORPG style
I cant believe out of all the changes, they somehoe made dva look sexier
I thought they said they were gonna retire some characters? Did they pussy out?
bad style apart, everyone looks like they eagerly came to a photoshoot, dressed and groomed neatly
>Roadhog has a perfectly clean and fitted mohawk instead of a loose ponytail
This game's been shit for years already but jesus christ looking at this is beyond soulless.
why is there two winstons
You mean 6
Why is the artstyle so inconsistent it makes some of them look like fanart. Some look drawn from scratch (take Ashe and Soljourn) then you have Brig and Lucio which look like someone just traced over their in game model.
which ones are ashe and soljourn
>ashe
second row from the top, third on the left
>soljourn
third row from the top, fourth from the left
that is pretty different yea
Looking at the Hammond one being straight from a victory animation, I think that’s exactly what has happened.
New characters like Soljourn get fresh art. Some others got drawn art for comparison reasons. But they rushed the rest of the art out for release by just tracing over in game models.
>Dva is hotter
>Mei is cuter
maybe they're not that bad after all
>>Dva is hotter
They turned my husbando into a lesbian.
At least they didnt slim him
Kiriko looks straight out of a 13 year old deviantArtist's OC sheet, what the frick are those proportions and perspective she looks malformed
>the chink and nip have the biggest eyes out of everyone
Sigma and Symmetra at least look better
man baptiste name was the most forgettable fricking character in overwatch hands down
D.Va, Rein, Sigma, Ashe, Sym, and Zen are the survivors here
Of course, this is just the head shot. I’m sure they’ve done something moronic neck down like fricking up Rein’s armour or giving Zen a hoody
I want to get fricked by Roadhog
Back off he's mine.
>S T I L L haven't gotten speedo roadhog skin despite being a spray since year 1
I hate Blizzard so much
He's still one of the least clothed heroes fortunately.
Thank god I can just equip his OW1 default in OW2. Hiding his suckable breasts should be a capital crime
It still annoys me that I can't actually see or look at Roadhog when I pick him.
Ive gotten kinda used to new Roadhog, but overall its still a downgrade.
Meant for
I can't believe this but every single one of these is, in fact, a direct downgrade to the previous designs. This is an absolute feat on Blizzard's part. I kekked at Doomfist becoming a feminine twink
It's really weird, they took away Mercy and Hog's ponytails and gave them to Rein, Sojourn, Zarya, Mei, Dva, and Kiriko instead.
They did the blonde+goggles thing 3 times with Junkrat, Torb, and Hammond.
They're also going hard on the half-shaved head thing with both old and new characters.
Just look at how similar Zarya and Brig look now.
It's very obvious they let the original art team go.
Mei looking perf as usual
thats what IM saying, MY wife is looking great
>roaster
GOOD MORNING SIR
cursed
Where is Echo?
Sorry Blizzard is a small indie company and since Echo is a "new" (3 year old) hero, she doesn't get a new model and art
>Echo will be the only character with a Tsang portrait and everyone else will have the awful new portraits
God I fricking hate it
yeah same. Maybe they'll give her a skin with better face
the reason why i use the mech skins that have no face
something's off. its like they used different artists for the portraits. brigg is prob the worse and looks like they just took a screenshot of her in game model and cropped the picture
Yeah they rushed the game and it shows, the previous plan was a new foundation for Overwatch to build on for years to come and they were taking their time to make it, then something shifted internally and the new plan became "wring as much money from the playerbase as possible at the expense of the IP and company reputation", so rushing "2" to get battle passes started as soon as possible was the next obvious step.
You can tell this from the fact 2 has literally fricking nothing going for it apart from the huge new terrible predatory monetization system, that's all the promo material and devs talk about, it's baffling really.
Reinhardt's smile and optimism: gone
The new "art" looks AI-generated
What stands out to me most of all is how they clearly felt the need to change almost every character just a little bit to remind you that this is totally a new game.
>uhhh put a hat on bastion
>tell junkrat to wash his face a little bit
>soldier, grow a beard
>part mei's hair just a little
>put some dumb shit on widow and doomfist's faces
>age brigitte up 10 years
>give lucio, baptiste, rein and zarya slightly different haircuts
>make torb look like an even more obvious tf2 engi ripoff
>put goggles on several characters at random
>anyone else just throw some cybernetics on there or do a very mild palette swap
>and make absolutely sure NONE of this is meaningfully transformative, people might forget who the talking gorilla is if we mix it up too much
>phew, okay, now they're all different, we've justified the 2
>Nooooooo they look like their actual models now
You're all fricking moronic.
>Tracer was going to be Amelia Earhart or a punk chic
Got more concepts? These are cool.
sure thing. Power armor operator reinhardt who was meant to be in the same vein as 76 in being a soldier instead of some knightly order larp they made him.
>No space marine tank (with a gun)
I settled with Zarya and Bastion but damn.
WOW that Tracer looks 100% better and more interesting.
as a "face" character for a franchise? nah, wouldn't have worked out
her release design was much better for that than the concept design
as a design period? yeah, absolutely superior
but context is important in design application too
>top mid
frick you blizzard
I'm surprised that was even allowed as concept art
We all like a bit of coom but that top middle is just ridiculous, even though I like that there was a time not even a decade ago when it could be a serious contender in a giant game company like Blizzard, really shows how quickly things went to shit
Aviator gear is always cool looking
not-Miku as Tracer was also considered alongside just making Tracer a guy.
>Male tracer with vacuum sealed pants
We lost bros...
When's mama hong
Its over. What the frick is that
>mei was originally not meant to not be a fatty
Please understand if we don't have fat women in the game, that's grounds to be brought before the hague for war crimes against women.
holy frick that face
imagine her aiming her freeze gun at you while forcing you to service her
She would drop ice cubes down the front of your pants and ask you if you want her to take them out
What a massive downgrade we ended up with.
Mei wasn't even a fatty until like 6 months after release when they caved to tumblr users.
She was never a fatty. One of the sprites in the game showed her without the suit and that she is actually thin. It was just Twitter and Tumblr who sperged to no end about it.
Coat was just VERY thick due to her whole cryogenic weaponry. Same like Pyro from TF2 in terms of wearing flame moronant suit. All protective against weapon usage.
>It was just Twitter and Tumblr who sperged to no end about it.
that and her incredibly round, fat looking face
i know asians have moon faces but it didn't translate well into the model, her facial structure coupled with the giant coat and big thighs just made her look fat
It would be nice if we had some Blender artists make models of their concept arts for SFM/Blender porn...
SFM porn guys can't actually design or model a character to save their lives, that's why they all use models from existing games
Didn't we have some Blender artists do nice touch up works on the D.va, Widowmaker, and Mercy model? They practically remade the hairs and their faces. D.va's face is especially noticeable. There's stuff like pic related out there and let's not forget the custom Splatoon girl models floating around.
>looks exactly like Tracer
>Gankerirgins scream and rant about not having two characters who look exactly the same
Kiriko and Tracer look identical, so do Widowmaker and Ashe so it's not like Blizzard appreciates variety in design
They do?
She never was.
These are correct. A real shame too.
plump Mei is good though
What the frick happened to the previous artist? Replaced with a diversity hire? The new shit looks atrocious, some even look like a straight 3D model rip.
Soul fricking deleted. Junkrat is completely gutted-
Zarya just turned into a DUDE...
Myra looks like two separate people(like brother and sister lol)
Hanzo's new eyes are so puffy
of course the gerbil's even fatter
>making junkrat less black because connotations despite it obviously being explosive soot/gunpowder
lmao
junkrat less black because connotations
Oh my frick. Of course there was the pink armpit hair tumblrina who has to justify her wage and b***hed about it and called it blackface LMFAO
>gravity guy was originally meant to be an actual fricking terrorist
Blizzard got literally neutered after the diversity hire tide came in.
How would that be better?
Him being a schizo is far more unique and his release trailer was kino.
Would be a complete downgrade compared to release sigma
Sigma is unironically the best concept writing wise for a hero, a literal schizo obsessed with unlocking the secrets of the universe dabbling with science no human should
I wish Brigitte was my gf
ashe looks like the only one thats improved in that line up, like the only one out of that whole roster
here's more concept art.
from deviant art i hope
That big EOD homie is pretty cool, wonder if he got recycled into anyone or was dropped entirely
he became junkrat. The missile on his shoulder is featured in Junkrat's initial design.
augh I need a medic bag
man, you telling me I could play mgs2 while being on overwatch
that and more had Blizzard not cucked themselves so hard.
It's even worse, there's a fricking statue of not!Senator Armstrong, on the Dorado map, with him originally being a corrupt Mexican corporate-politician who basically ran the country from both above, below and inbetween; with aspects of the Mayan Underworld / Cizin in the design as he used decay-based nanomachines to dissolve people alive to make them disappear to in turn energise himself (which was supposed to be Sombra's plotline, a huge aspect of Talon's plot before they fricking dropped the entire lore like a ten ton brick, especially after the ARG shitshow - then just made Talon into generic baddies but-omnics/Null-sector-now-because-whoops-we-accidentally-made-them-all-nonwhite-and-thats-not-kosher and then just canonically shipped Sombra with McCree and called it a day because Cowboys and Mexicans amirite guise).
Suffice to say, Sojourn was more important. Because we NEED a black canadian migrant disabled girlboss lesbian... NOW GOD FR*KN DAMNIT!!!
Sojourn's story is boring but her design is sexy and augmented limbs are cool so she gets a pass in my book
As another anon said elsewhere in the thread, black character with white hair is usually a good design. It just works
>just canonically shipped Sombra with McCree and called it a day because Cowboys and Mexicans amirite guise
manifest destiny. I still find it funny how REPRESENTATION is demanded just because it wasn't some of the fan favorites that were colorflagged.
>then just canonically shipped Sombra with McCree and called it a day
Wait really? I'm shocked they did anything with Mcree after they attempted to scrub him clean of any reference to the employee. Actually, what even is the lore for OW now? I never really bothered with it because it seemed incredibly milquetoast.
There is no lore, every new piece of story contradicts everything else written so far
Blackwatch skinline felt like metal gear solid a lot, I loved to use McCree skin because of the edgy design and the laser.
damn, that guy is looking great
imagine sci-fi military game (shooter or rts) with designs like this
DOOOOOOOOOOOZER - John Wick Payday
DONACDUM
Its funny to me that Blizzard made Reaper a nig when even before that reveal most of the blizzdrones were defaulting to him being white.
>You make a cool edgy OC
>The boss comes in
>"Can you make the character that doesn't show any skin, at all, black?"
>"And also gay?"
I remember when I would have killed to work at Blizzard.
Damn shame.
The diversity space method or whatever stat tracking for "diversity" they use for characters makes me cringe so hard I'm not entirely sure that I'm not dead. It would make me incredibly happy if Blizzard went out business
So moronic it ends up being based
>europeans, heteros, men, and whites are not diverse by default
Man the clown world is going to get me one of these days
>the most diverse character is the white man
>least diverse is the black man
>takes time to confirm Zarya is straight to destroy the Mei shippers
This image still makes me smirk
Who'd have imagined 20 years ago that what hole you put what dick in would determine your fundamental value as a person in the anglo world.
It honestly took me a minute to realize torb is one eyed and one armed. I figured they were just treating short as a 4/5 worthy disability.
Reaper was always meant to be American with Mexican heritage because he always had darker skin and his name was gabriel reyes you morons. Also he was literally never gay, he has lines referencing his wife in ow2 and you see his family in the comic.
>Never shows his skin
He had his "human" form as a skin literally since day one of overwatch. People here are literally posting about things they've never played.
seething mutt post.
Show 100 people this image and 100 of them will tell you that homie's black.
Mutt's law
Still black. He's way too dark to be a Mexican.
Mutt's law
yes your meme is very cute and very funny but that is still a black man
Mutt's law
damn it took you a while to find another picture of this handsome black man
Mutt's law
Reaper was supposed to be white and in fact, a redhead. Nobody cares about you being a beaner.
Mexicans cant compete with true africans but darkest mexican easily beat 50% of what counts as murrican black. That aside facial features look more mexican than black.
With all the new Reaper lore, S76 deserves much better.
Frick you and your facts, I'll believe and say whatever I want.
>always
>project titan art posted literally within five minutes of the thread shows him as sickly pale
We know Reaper is black because his ult is holding his gun sideways and shooting everywhere
He's a Hispanic though
"mexican"
>most overtly Black phenotype ever
You can tell his race wasn't even meant to be revealed because all the heroes who come from a specific ethnicity are basically a stereotype. Why would Sombra sound so stereotypical if Reaper was supposedly mexican since day 1?
So far this "sequel" looks like a massive downgrade
>f2p because we don't have confidence in our product anymore
>worse character designs
>reduction of players per match
>battlepass trash
posting the concept again just to cause seething.
i love it
Frick yes
>Nerf Doomfist and JQ right before release.
It's like no one who works in their offices wants anything to do with fun.
Doomfist players don't deserve fun or human rights
>maybe a "sequel" that is a glorified 1.1 patch
>you retain nothing from the original Overwatch. If you were a good goy paypig, frick you paypig again
>battlepass in current year
>make characters ugly because its current year
>not nearly enough new content to justify it being a sequel
>we need your phone number because
>we need to record your voice and transcribe it into our files because
>need to unlock characters now because
It's like they are going for a record in terrible decisions
Some portraits look straight out of summertime saga
we were going to get a canadian hockey player as a hero. But I'm guessing too many white males were a no-no.
Ah man, I'd have preferred this over Sojourn, atleast it's Canadian, as stereotypical as it is. Instead it's like they're working backwards trying to say she's Canadian
That was Lucio's original concept. He wasn't going to be white.
That would be early Lucio. They say he’s Brazilian but he was blatantly a Canadian they changed at the last minute because they had no South American characters. He didn’t even have any Brazilian Portuguese lines until like two years later.
Meanwhile, they made Pharah half-Canadian at some point while retconning her dead mom backstory.
>Meanwhile, they made Pharah half-Canadian at some point while retconning her dead mom backstory.
It was because people wouldn't stop b***hing about her indian skins and because her eating with a guy in canada was haram because of lesbian headcanon.
Reaper was basically going to be a Sci-fi Diablo enemy made into a hero and soldier 76 was an actual soldier.
also something I noticed; Reaper seems to be based off Brandon Heat from Gungrave. Even duel wields two overly stylized guns just like him. The slouching posture gives a pretty big hint too.
Who is the main target audience for the Overwatch series?
Streamers, and the Chinese.
Every time I end up playing this game I end up only playing as Mercy.
>stylised interesting drawings
>shitty near-renders with new (worse) designs except mcree
>tfw mama hong never
I'm still mad
They couldn't balance for manslaughter.
It's weird how they're clinging to the steaming pile of hot garbage that is Overwatch so hard.
They've hilariously mismanaged the IP to death.
while I think some of the designs are objectively worse, I think the real problem is the art style of these new 2d renders. I can't really explain it well but it's kind of like they are trying too hard to make it look like the 3d models instead of just drawing it based on concept art or the artist putting their own take on the design (like how Junkrat's 2d art doesn't match up 1:1 with his 3d model). Of course the 2d art from the first game wasn't SOUL OVERLOAD either but at least they didn't look like they are from some very obscure shit WEG
Matches the softer look OW2 seems to be going for but I liked the style of the portraits in OW1 had that hard shading and shadows, thicker outlines.
Can't they just move on to other things? Overwatch was a solid use of leftovers from Project Titan. It's embarrassing how hard they're trying to make it an IP and failing at every step.
>trying to make it an IP and failing at every step.
overwatch brought in an insane amount of money, and ow2 being a f2p will just siphon every single penny from chinese and huehues
I don't see why you pretend this game will tank when it will bank
>overwatch brought in an insane amount of money,
Did it, though?
>Did it, though?
anon, the game made 1 billion the first year
Wow. No wonder they refuse to let it go, then.
I won't say it was GOOD but they managed to trick people, including myself, into thinking they woudln't pull a blizzard and ruin the game's semi-ok start.
Surprising no one who actually thought about it for more than 10 minutes they pulled a blizzard and shit it up beyond repair in the first 6 months and then it kind of coasted from there.
see:
Most people I know bought it and forgot about it after 6 months. Overwatch had very strong sales the first couple of months and then it fell off hard because Blizzard completely mismanaged their whole long-term plan support scheme (if there even was any). They also completely fricked Heroes of the Storm the same way.
>"they JUST managed to make a couple of billions out of it, but it fell off man"
yeah, so?
>make a couple of billions out of it
Did they really make billions?
>yeah, so?
So in the age of 10+-year live service games, that's pretty shitty, don't you think? Even fricking Destiny is in a better situation. And that IP started off even worse than Overwatch.
That's impressive. But also a bit sad that people seem to be okay with shitty leftovers. And it showed Blizzard that they don't even have to try anymore, which is what we're seeing now with the shit they're releasing.
>But also a bit sad
Anon they are a company trying to make money
Unfortunately, it did
Are you Black folk serious?
Call of Duty brings in several millions. Do you really think it's because it's a well liked and successful franchise? no,it has corporate investment. Why else do you think they're pandering to chinks so hard for 2?
Are you talking about how much money it made, how well liked it is or how successful it is?
successful is determined by how liked it is. Tlou2 called, it made money too, since you like being a disingenuous homosexual.
>Tlou2 called, it made money too,
>when it will bank
>made millions
OW was a normo-centric playerbase with only streamers keeping it alive, the esport scene they tried kickstarting died within months and the hype for the game died when new content got added at a snail pace, didn't help that for being a hero shooter they didn't keep to the theme of heroes and villains, more importantly they fumbled or completely shit up any attempts at story.
>overwatch brought in an insane amount of money
DJ Khaled dancing at the OWL.mp4
This is still probably the goofiest thing I remember about the league
Is Samwise still at Blizzard?
blizzard needs to die asap
>another ai art thread
pharah was going to be not-Eggman.
impressive, they figured out how to remove soul from a soulless game
New Junkrat does not convey his explosiphilia nearly as effectively as the fricking soot covered and hair-on-fire old one. Other than that, none of the new ones are particularly offensive.
How's Overwatch these days? I've played it a bit around release and that was about it. Never touched it again, tho.
it somehow got worse every other month since release
abyssmal
Oh well... Shame.
If you played it back in 2016 you're not going to have more fun with it now.
Scrapped design. All I know is that he'd pester Winston about Gorilla Warfare tactics and ask Widowmaker to sit on his face
>one of the proposed concepts is a reference to Ramba Ral and the Gouf custom
>we get a boring female robot
And if they went that way you'd criticize them not having an original idea or going for the easy reference instead of the cool robot centaur.
Concept art is always better than the finished product, because concepts are the cheapest part of game making. So you can get really creative.
>generic gundam ripoff
>get unique horseguard bot instead
thank god
>get a Bastion skin but with a female voice actor
Blizzdrones have always, always settled for less and this is why we're at this point.
>>get a Bastion skin
But we didn't get design 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7.
Some of these concepts are baller
>you will never pilot a walking spitfire or Smough with a shoulder cannon
This was a perfect view into the worldview of leftists, white men are literally worthless according to their diversity checker. Crazy shit that people just accept
what the frick is that new junkrat...looks like a kpop bastard.
What am I supposed to be mad about?
If they had gone with D.va's original concept of being a 14 year old kid in a mech suit, Hammond as a concept would be redundant.
What is dva if not exactly that
If anything hammond as a concept is redundant if you wanted every hero concept to be entirely unique, but "small pilot in big mech suit" is such an awesome archetype you can never have too many
phew good thing we got a 16yo in a mech suit
Is mccree wearing a blackface?
No but Junkrat lost his
I don't get it, are they supposed to look "3D" now? These companies really are looking for any reason to justify spending money on bullshit.
>cross play
>cross fricking saves and progression finally
>too late and they fricked up things like play count in lobbies and how the game is set up
>tweaked their designs a little
>'hmm yes, this will warrant making a '''''''sequel'''''''
Any good gay sfm porn for OW? I know there's a ton of female porn but is there some for gay dudes with hot males from OW? I'm gay btw if you didn't know
Tons
tons tons tons
oh so many
Post links to them?
No :/
Post it you maggot
i will miss Moira's bratty smirk
and geez Hanzo and Junkrat look sad
everyone seems to like moria's new design and i don't understand why, nice to see another person who hates what they did to her.
>everyone seems to like moria's new design and i don't understand why
what parallel universe are you living in
the only people who say anything about it that i notice are the people who say it's an improvement. everyone thinks the majority sucks, but moria seemed to be the one the most people said was maybe an improvement.
moira's one of the worst ones though, and I again ask what parallel universe you come from since her mask thing is a lot shittier, her metal eyebrows are moronic, and her face is all fricked up
though pretty much everyone's face is fricked up
i feel retroactively bad for ever sort of liking the game, and that's saying something since I haven't played it 2016 and haven't thought about it in like 5 years
i completely agree with you, i'm saying i think too many OTHER PEOPLE see her as an improvement for my comfort. i'm not even saying most people think she's an improvement. i sure as hell don't
old ones look way better. The silhouettes are a lot more recognizable.
>STILL no plot advancement
what is blizzard even doing?
plot?
don't you have phones?
How on earth do you manage to remove the soul from something that already barely had soul
I wouldn't have thought it possible but Blizzard found a way
>Mercy
Halo isn't pronounced anymore
>Zarya
They drew a man and called it a girl. Jaw too shizzled, neck to thick. Original was a dyke but you could still see it as a girl
>Moria
She used to actually look evil, like she's working for WEF or something. Now she's just boring
>McCree
Can't see robot arm, lost personality
>Bridget
Original already had barely anything and they still managed to remove the small armor nob things.
>Sombra
Lost contrast, phenotype is completely different. Covered eye makes her look more masonic, so I guess that's a plus for a villain.
>Hanzo
Lost all hair dynamic, lost contrast. Just boring.
>Junkrat
From dangerous lunatic to complete homosexual. Biggest downgrade by far.
>Winston
Just lost contrast and the silhouette isn't as pronounced.
>Hamster
Same as Winston.
Imagine playing a game with those kind of characters LMAO
Does anyone even know IF any cosmetics will transfer to OW2 after they shut down 1?
It's the same game with a 2 slapped on and that's it but since they changed some of the character models I'm not even sure
what the frick does this even mean? ow2 is just a patch to 1. your shit gets transfered to 2 period
there is just way too many black characters in this game, its ridiculous really. I hope this shit is dead on arrival.
Doomfist is a based character.
Lucio and Bap are both bland happy healers so they suck, but Lucio sucks less because he was there first and isn’t AS bland.
Sojourn is the only black woman on the roster and has thighs that can crush heads, so she can stay.
>reaper just gets more armor
Edgelordchads, we did it.
trannie game made for trannies.
Im not the target audience for this piece of shit game so I'll pass.
>LITERALLY just Superman with a pink ponytail
Why is Brigitte so smug now? Is it because she never stopped being broken even after loads of rebalancing?
the new art all have that smug look to them. expect the hamster with his Soi face
literally soulless
The artwork never looked liked the in game models to begin with
As a wrecking ball player i like this new hammond icon
>Since Overwatch 1 released, 4 of the new heroes were male, while 10 were female
What did Blizzard meant with this?
Female characters get more new players, sell more skins, get more social media engagement, fan art etc
don't care, still playing ow2 for a bit until I get bored
Holy shit that hamster looks like obese humans from WALL-E
Junkrat could be the poster child of SOUL vs SOULESS
Bridget, the Hamster, Hanzo, and the Hacker are the only ones that got an upgrade. Everyone else got hit with the ugly stick.
>ywn play watcher, mccloud, firestarter, etc
FRICK
Luc looks like he's from a different game. The scottish guy is called McCloud and has a claymore, which is amusingly generic. They just straight up added the woman from Hong Kong Hustle. It's interesting how they just mashed a bunch together for various things
>winston could've had an unreal tournament-esque flak shotgun
>instead he they gave him some shitty short range taser gun
>Troy
>flail/charge/shield
I guess Brig was an old concept that they just swapped the model from a guy to a pretty girl for
we could of had mama hong???
I wonder what Mama Hong's moves would've been
She slaps you with a knockback and her ultimate is she throws a giant wok and you get sucked into it
>cool robots and shit
>heres your new human boring looking character, fun right?
>not a single human-hating robot is playable
This universe is so lame, man
>psyblade
>Brit
>It's D.Va, but you have two different flavors of mech to call down
Honestly, that would be killer.
Also Recluse would have help with OW's main goal, SFM porn.
Hell, replace Hanzo with Huntress on that angle, as well.
why is Lucio such a bawd?
did they REDEEM their art from somewhere?
It's amusing how many cartoony perspective "mistakes" there are in Tsang's art and how they look infinitely better than the traced technically perfect 3D models in OW2
I just realized everyone in their OW1 except Brigette, Moira and Hammond are pissed off. Even mercy. what's got them so upset?
>new thing bad
OK BOOMER
>new
>repaint same shit by furries&troon artists
blizz drones on that high quality copium
>be me
>junkrat otp
>see this
...
WHAT THE FRICK
WTF DID THEY DO TO JUNKY
I don't understand why they redesigned so many characters
who is the artist i need to flame them on twitter
Is Overwatch 2 in the future? Did they actually remake / change their faces. What a weird and pointless change
>blizz used the most bland and generic designs to please the marketing guys
Are the artbooks available scanned anywhere?
Bros... why are they charging me $70 for OW2?
Does it not include the campaign? I don't see it in the bundle
It's just a pre-order incentive. You get battle pass tiers and exclusive skins and such. Just wait till the 5th to play it for free
Did they whitewash junkrat? How is that allowed
He was always white, moron. He was an Australian covered in ash from his own explosions.
It wasn't ash, he just wanted more centrelink payments
Is there a lore explanation on why do we have to push payloads here and there? Tf2 had a good idea with red and blu mercs fricking each other up but ow is about le good guys vs le bad guys yet you can see stuff like soldier 76 killing ana to capture some fricking ruins in egypt
According to devs, the gameplay is not canon. There's no reason at all.
depends on the map but they're pretty dumb
from standard bomb fare to transporting doom fist's glove, the fact heroes can play both sides makes it lame and inconsequential though.
whoa, i sure hope tracer stops that tracer from pushing doom fist's glove into the museum!
and as another guy said, the gameplay isn't considered canon to actual Overwatch
>junkrat is no longer a balding freak
it's over
>they covered up Hanzo
Definitely not playing now.
I want to suck Hanzo’s milk filled pecs.
same, my friend, same
Need to be bigger and sloshier.
I don't think anyone's done mega milkers art of Hanzo.
That's what Roadhog is for.
RTZero does more for the game than blizzard ever will
Hot. I want Talon to experiment on him and give him huge leaky manbreasts.
I've no interest or attachment to Overwatch but jesus christ. I think the third guy is the most egregious.
Junkrat looks terrible. The rest are fine, Mcree is great
>tfw no character who's a big snake that constricts enemies to death
So they finally gave zarya a dick.
Yeah, mine.
>they replaced Tsang with the Wildstar guy
bamboozling vs getting bamboozled
Map of where Overwatch characters are from.
Road hog is a maori though
>supposed to be a kiwi
>don't even bother with attempting an accent
k
>soldier 76 was some kinda knock-off Captain America super soldier program
>absolutely 0 elaboration on why Germany had an entire division of 8ft tall 7ft wide living tanks
Chads bred and evolved in the future.
WTF junkrat is white now. Based
at least my boy lucio looks good.
I hope he still has his old outfits, love looking at this slim fit chocolate boy's body.
All the old skins stay. You aren't losing any cosmetics.
Shits kind gross even by gay standards.
Shit taste.
I don't get it? They all look better except maybe Hanzo.
i hate baragays with a passion
Thats ok, I hate trannies so we're even.
>i hate men who are manly
This is why America fails.