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snootlestheangel · 4 months

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3 and 5 (i also still play overwatch ksjshsj) for your ask game please! <3

I did already answer number 3 on this other ask here 😊

As for Overwatch hot takes? Buckle up cause these are something else

*couple things to keep in mind about myself: I never got the Pink Mercy skin and I am sad cause I play a fuck ton of Mercy, my brother is a Junkrat connoisseur and I am afraid, I'm a console player*

For those that don't know Pink Mercy is a skin that was available for purchase back in May of 2018, and all the proceeds went to Breast Cancer Research Foundation. It's a Pink Ribbon themed skin and has cool special effects and was all for charity. There's a lot of divide in the Overwatch community on whether or not the skin should be brought back. A lot say it shouldn't because it should stay special, but the other half are saying "why are you gatekeeping a skin that's literally for charity? It's pixels for charity, why can't we bring it back?" Odds are it will never come back, as at some point the BCRF had said they weren't going to do it, so there's no point in arguing about it.

Overwatch 2's monetization honestly isn't that bad. There I said it. I think it had its moments where even I was like "this is ridiculous" but it's not terrible. It's gotten better, they're adding more frequent events, they're allowing stuff to be purchased in the Hero Gallery after a certain time frame. They've gotten better about when they release a "bundle" in the shop, that if there are multiple skins, they have a "Mega-Bundle" and then each skin is available individually. There's more ways to earn old Credits, which can be used to purchase skins and shit in the Hero Gallery, even for new heroes!!, and there's still ways to keep buying the BattlePass cheap.

I just honestly don't think it's the worst, I think people overreacted with the change, and there are worse things in the world.

Junkrat is actually one of the most well-balanced heroes in the game. If played like the average player, where they just spam his grenades in a spot and hope for the best/occasionally throw a mine/leave a trap just anywhere, Junkrat can be easily avoided and countered against. When played by someone who is Junkrat himself (ie my brother), they're still really good but Junkrat cannot solo carry an entire team. He's still incredibly reliant on his teammates to help him. *side note: the most terrifying thing to witness is your team's Junk to suddenly fly into the air and solo kill a Pharah and prevents a Mercy from rezzing. That shit haunts me*

Pink Mercy should not be brought back.

Unless she's only available to purchase with a second Pink skin for a different hero.

In the shop for Overwatch 2, there's bundles and ways to get things by themselves. I'm thinking Pink Mercy would only be available in a Mega Bundle type deal, where you get that skin, maybe like 2 other legendary skins, some sprays, couple player icons, couple name cards, a player title, and a couple weapon charms. Then there's a smaller bundle that is just the new stuff. Pink Mercy released with a couple of sprays as well, so I'm thinking all of this is only available in the Mega Bundle.

There should be like another "Pink" charity event that gives at least one other hero a "Pink" skin. The new skin is available on its own or with a couple other rewards. Pink Mercy can only be attained by purchasing the big bundle that includes the new Pink skin and other rewards like sprays and other cosmetics.

As for which hero I think should get a Pink skin, I'm still undecided. My favorite choices are Baptiste or Lucio (both would rock a Pink skin and Bap is a fellow Combat Medic so it works out in terms of the theme) but honestly any of the other Support heroes are the best options.

Supports deserved the recent nerfs. As a Support main, I can say they were too strong. Part of the issue is there was a power creep where everyone else's damage got buffed, so healing got buffed to compensate. But then that initial damage buff got nerfed, and the Supports were never touched during that. Thus, their numbers stayed high, their healing was strong, and the impact they had during fights stayed the best.

#some scalding Overwatch takes #If you see a “Snootles” gamertag while playing odds are it's me :D #feel free to say hi! I'll say hi back and be pretty chill #And I apologize in advance if I shoot while you're trying to be nice #I panic #Overwatch #Overwatch 2 #Certified Snootles moment #Snootles's askbox #Snootles answers

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thessalian · 5 years

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Thess vs Grandmastery

While I haven’t played Overwatch in quite some time, I have been keeping up with the basic situation as regards it, specifically the Mercy nerfs - because, you know, Mercy main. Given some of the recent bits and pieces in other games, I think I’ve finally figured out the core issue as regards the constant insistence that Mercy should be nerfed to hell because she’s a “low-skill character” etc. Basically, people seem to have forgotten that Overwatch ... is a game. And games are supposed to be fun.

Between competitive rankings and the OWL, both Blizzard itself and the ‘git gud’ crowd effectively decided that Overwatch was going to be all about the competitive and that everything should centre around high skill (or rather, good aim) characters. I guess what I don’t understand about the ‘git gud’ crowd is ... why don’t they follow their own advice in that regard? You can’t hit an ulting Mercy? You can’t hit a Mercy mid-rez without her being frozen to the spot? Don’t demand that she be nerfed; ‘git gud’ - as in, good enough to hit your target. Ironically, the people who are saying, “Mercy players have it too easy and need to git gud so the nerfs are fine!” are the ones who are effectively saying, “I don’t want to get better at noticing and shooting Mercy on the battlefield so make it easier for me!”

Those people who insist that she’s still viable because she does the most healing? Yeah, that only matters if she survives long enough, and given that almost no team protects their healers properly, Mercy players are at a distinct disadvantage from the start. A healer who can stay on the field long enough to continue healing instead of being punted back to respawn point because someone shot them down again ... they’re going to do more healing per match than someone who has had to run back from spawn eight times in a single match without even seeing the objective because the other team put a flanker in position right by your spawn point and no one on your team noticed or gave a shit. So yeah, someone like Baptiste or Brigitte or Ana ... or hell, just about any other healer stands a better chance of hitting gold healing in a match just because they might actually survive to reach the objective in the first place.

And, y’know, this isn’t fun. Trying to play the straight-up healer whose mobility, heal numbers and ability set in general has been crippled ... it’s not fun. Games are supposed to be fun, and not just for grandmasters. But that’s who Blizzard is catering for right now - grandmasters and the OWL. That means the ‘git gud’ crowd. There has got to be a better way to deal with this, because all some of us really want to do is play a few quick play matches to unwind and we can’t do that when everything has been balanced for a high skill cap match with no middle ground for the people who just bought the game to have a good time. But I guess until someone figures out a better way, I’m still avoiding Overwatch.

(Also, good job on Baptiste, but could we actually have a WOC instead of a Widowmaker clone who you’re trying to sell us as an albino despite the brown eyebrows and the fucking suntan?)

I guess the point I’m trying to make is this: it’s not just Overwatch. There are way too many people who insist that there should be no recourse in video games for people who just want to play video games for fun. Those who don’t have the time or the physical / mental health or just the inclination to ‘git gud’ to a grandmaster sort of level are called ‘filthy casuals’ and made to feel unwelcome because they haven’t devoted their entire lives to video games. That’s a kind of privilege I don’t entirely understand, because I ... don’t have the time or physical / mental health to ‘git gud’ in that way. Either I’m working or I’m stressing about not having a job. I have RSI issues, chronic migraine, depression, anxiety, you name it. None of these is conducive to grandmaster level gameplay. But I like video games. I like the stories and the art and the progression. I can still feel like I achieved something, even if it’s not nightmare mode. But that’s not enough for these people, and it’s not fair. We’re not all grandmasters, and there’s no reason we should have to be, and these gatekeeping assholes are just ... mean.

I know they want to feel special by being the only people who can beat X game, or not have the special taken away from them by a Mercy with a clutch rez, or whatever? But their fun is not the only thing that matters and honest to gods, someone needs to tell them that.

#Thess plays video games

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