Overwatch

NickTheBiz said:
It's a shame how much Overwatch has taken off compared to Heroes. I think Overwatch is flashier, more accessible but HOTS is still the better game. Shame really.
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Personally I find HoTS clunky and boring. I'd rather get my MOBA fix from LoL or Smite.
 
Jano said:
It's also a totally different type of game? Why compare the two.
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Because they're both made by Blizzard who've never really had a turkey. Hearthstone is what 2 years old now and probably the second highest watched game on Twitch. Overwatch seems to have gone straight in at number 3 and HOTS is still struggling despite 2 major finals this weekend. (Which were both excellent watches).

Odd how they've struggled to drum up as much interest as in their recent projects.
 
To add some balance, I love HotS. It's the MOBA I get along with the most and Blizzard have done a top job with their take of that genre.

Just like they have with Overwatch, I currently don't have much use for launching Steam these days. Just need B.net for HotS and Overwatch :D
 
It's not odd really. The MOBA genre was already saturated. Blizzard were late to the party and missed the boat (all the cliches). LoL and Dota2, and all the middle feeders like HON and Smite, theres just no room for HotS to thrive.

Overwatch is a relatively new style, sure - its similar to TF2 in some regards, but being a Blizzard brand helps give it that extra bit of polish and hype. It's a nice bit of variety to a very stale genre. CoD #21353 and Battlefield #64642, nobody wants these games anymore. Overwatch probably took in a lot of these players.

Hearthstone, again jumped into a relatively new market. There was M:TG for sure, but it's not really a casual game. Blizzard tapped into a large market by making HS so friendly to play. You don't need to know 10000 different cards or abilities, it's quite straight forward. The mobile play launched HS into orbit though.
 
There isn't really game like Overwatch other than close relations with TF2. To be, it's a new genre called Objective based FPS - OBF / since it's not really a moba with a grind and creeps.
 
valkia said:
Strange, never had a crash on Overwatch hmm
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Like I mentioned before, I hammered overwatch for the weekend of the Beta and didn't have a single crash. Someone on here mentioned their game starting crashes after an update to the client and that same weekend I got one crash to desktop and then this weekend a full crash of the PC.

Been playing Dota 2 for months without a single PC crash and like I say, Witcher 3 expansion on Sunday without a problem.
 
I have the most bizzare bug. Unfortunately it makes the game near unplayable for me, which sucks because I am enjoying it.

It can happen whenever, to be honest it's probably more like once every two matches on average. It can be at the end of the match, at the beginning or anything in between. I can't predict what triggers it, but imagine that your screen is made up of a grid of squares. Now when the glitch occurs, from the corner of the screen the screen will begin to 'grow' black. It spreads in a clearly blocky manner, until it moves to fill the entire screen.

However, the UI and kill cams are unaffected, and I am clearly still in the game. Player outlines are still there (as long as there is line of sight).

Even more bizarrely, if the blackness begins to grow (it happens within about a second or two) and I have the reactions for it, I can look away from the 'centre' of the blackness and get it off screen, and I will have survived the glitch and can continue to play. Otherwise if I want to stay in the game and not get a quitting penalty, I have to stumble around in darkness.

Updated all my drivers, need to try running all my gear at stock speed. But others have reported this bug too :(
 
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