Who does better cinematics - Blizzard or Riot? 🤔
I made it to Plat 5 as support and Gold 3 as DPS in OW2 and I feel like that's roughly where I belong for now. I found this graph from the internet estimating the ranking distribution and it seems like I'm roughly at the "average" rank as Gold/Plat player. Looking forward to climbing to Diamond at some point!
I had to rewatch the OW2 announcement cinematic "Sub Zero" since I'm now playing the game again. I still consider it the best cinematic trailer ever made of any game. If you think there is something better, you can try to change my mind! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKXS_YA9s7E
Overwatch 2 PvP will be 5v5 with only one Tank per team
Players vs player combat will undergo a big change for the upcoming Overwatch 2, as Blizzard revealed during today's livestream that PvP will change to 5v5 for the new game. The reduction from 6v6 PvP as it currently stands in Overwatch will also bring about changes in team composition, which will be limited to one tank, two DPS, and two support."We feel like this is the next step in the way that Overwatch ought to be played," game director Aaron Keller said. "If you think about it, there is a lot going on in an Overwatch map. It is incredibly fast paced. We have always tried to make our combat easy to read and very understandable, and even with all of the work that we've put into that, sometimes it's just hard to track what 11 other players are doing on the battlefield. Removing two of those simplifies everything, and it allows players to understand everything that's happening around them, and to be able to make better choices."Predictably, the reduction in team size has influenced Blizzard's approach to new map design, but there's an even greater impact on the role of tanks, which will be locked to one per team. "Tanks can be problematic," Keller said. "A DPS hero is simple—they're shooting. But a tank has abilities that can be noisy, or when stacked with other tanks can cause problems for other teams to try to overcome and counter."By going to five players on a team and limiting them to one tank, he continued, there's a better chance of individual players being able to carry teams, because each player "has the opportunity to have a larger individual impact on their own team."
www.pcgamer.comCongratz to NAVI for winning IEM Rio 2024! 😎 🎉
Unfortunately it's not looking too good for Shroud's new game Spectre Divide. Looks like the studio is letting go 13 employees only a few weeks after the game launched. Unfortunately making a new hit game remains to be difficult :/ https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/shrouds-spectre-divide-dev-team-hit-with-layoffs-weeks-after-launch-2911312/
IGN is reporting that a new Battlefield game is in the works by EA, and it will finally be returning to a modern setting. I'm pretty excited! https://www.ign.com/articles/exclusive-first-battlefield-concept-art-revealed-vince-zampella
GZ to Blinky for winning the GeoGuessr World Cup 2024! It was an absolutely insane grand finale. Script writers were definitely working overtime. WP to the silver medalist MK as well. https://liquipedia.net/geoguessr/Blinky
Looks like PlayStation 5 Pro has been finally revealed! Unfortunately console gaming seems to be getting quite expensive though. PS5 Pro prices are: $699.99 USD £699.99 GBP €799.99 EUR Fortunately I remain mainly a PC gamer 😎 https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/10/welcome-playstation-5-pro-the-most-visually-impressive-way-to-play-games-on-playstation/
The War Within has surpassed my expectations by a lot! It finally made WoW feel like WoW once again. I guess I'm mostly impressed about the story and focus in the old and beloved characters, but all the new zones and quests are nice too. Good job Blizzard!
Most recent
Bioware 😏
Pretty cool that Blizzard made an audion description version of that though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCDN6EIEKOk