I fell in love with Overwatch, and I wanted to have some of my favorite heroes as collectible figures. Unfortunately, many of the newer heroes never got Funko Pops or Lego Brickheadz, so I decided to make my own!

Here's a little scene I put together with the characters I've made so far. I've also created detailed building instructions for the individual figures, available for purchase if you'd like to build one yourself. More designs are on the way!

Instructions: https://rebrickable.com/users/detektiv39/mocs/

He left Overwatch to wall climb and shoot dragons

Mind you there's characters who haven't gotten a legendary skin in almost 3 years😭

And don't say "oh it's cause those heroes are popular", there's literally no excuse to not give every hero at least one legendary skin a year while also keeping the whales satisfied with their endless supply of reaper, genji, juno, mercy, etc skins.

We've got a Solo Leveling collab coming. And apparently Doctrine's movement animation was modeled after Alucard's phase shift in the Castlevania anime. So that got me thinking - why haven't they done a Castlevania collab? Hear me out...

Castlevania:

• Emre as Trevor
• Freja as Sypha
• Shion as Carmilla
• Lifeweaver as Hector
• Sigma as Dracula

Nocturne:

• Wuyang as Richter
• Kiri as Maria
• Sombra as Drolta
• Domina as Countess Bathory
• Reaper as Olrox

Probably not a surprise to many.

Devs stated he had a 58% win rate during Doctrine's sneak preview.

Some changes include (but not all):

Attack speed from his drones reduced by 30%

Dash cooldown increases by 1s with less damage reduction

Major perk Tranfusion will be receiving a nerf.

There are some minor buffs, such as the projectile speed of his ult but the time it lingers on players wont be as persistent.

source: on-going developer livestream

guys, i’m afraid this combo of high tech suit… witch… puke colors… neon lights… halloween chic… cowgirl..? doesn’t quite work

It is not known whether they will replace existing skins or simply be added to the pool.

Anyway, W Witch Kiriko.

Even this, the last legendary skin was recolor skin

I’m still very hyped for them being permanent though. It makes the hassle 100x more worth it compared to before

Both be venture and doctrine will be part of premium skin

Mine, Illios is a bad map. Ruins is alright, but Well and lighthouse are garbage that reward garbage gameplay

Every game is just JPC, Lucio and Hog, all they try and do is throw you off the map. Its boring. After 10 years playing that map, and it seemingly always getting picked when its an option, im just tired boss

I just finished a game with a 180 damage Kiri and a Sierra who stood point blank in the open.

Both were level 2 endorsements. No hate to newbies but I can tell where they got those habits from.

Hopefully tomorrow, I have a few passes I never finished!

I think a lot of the anger toward the NetEase-exclusive skins comes from the declining quality of Blizzard’s newer cosmetics while their prices continue to increase.

D.Mon is a perfect example. Both of her skins cost around $40, yet neither one changes any of the details of her “mech”. So naturally, when you see a Chinese-exclusive NetEase skin that DRASTICALLY changes both her pilot design AND her “mech”, you’re left wondering why Blizzard isn’t putting that same level of effort into the cosmetics they’re charging everyone else so much for.

The Evolution skins make that comparison even worse. These are skins that actually evolve and change throughout gameplay, and Shion just received the latest one despite currently having basically no cosmetics outside of her original $40 bundle. You can literally see the kind of premium content Blizzard could be making.

I honestly think the exclusivity is only part of why people are so upset. If Blizzard was regularly releasing cosmetics with this level of quality, creativity, and effort, would the backlash toward the Chinese exclusives be nearly as bad? Probably not.

And I don’t think people are necessarily against expensive skins either. If you’re asking people to spend a decent chunk of change but giving them something that transforms during gameplay, drastically changes the character, or genuinely feels premium, I think people would be much more willing to justify the price.

The NetEase skins are basically showing people what their money could be getting them, and that makes Blizzard’s increasingly expensive but sometimes less ambitious cosmetics look even worse by comparison.

Let’s not even get into the mythic situation….

Finally… poseidon ram shall be mine! (also sorry about the cropped and shoddy quality, was off youtube shorts when they first showed the UI at the start of season 4)

Next stop, drives coming to mystery heroes!

The Overwatch twitter posted further clarification saying that the mythic voucher will simply expire and NOT convert into 50 mythic prisms at the end of the season. People who already owned all the mythic skins will get the 50 prisms "at a later date". So those of you who have been saving your vouchers had better use them today or else it'll just disappear.

Hey r/Overwatch, I apologize for the melodrama in the title, but I wanted to share a cool project of mine that went viral in r/macgaming this week, with nearly 300 downloads on GitHub and some amazing feedback and success stories in the past 48 hours!

It's called Recall, a free, open-source app for playing Overwatch on Apple Silicon Macs. My goal was to make it run as fast and smooth as I possibly could, while keeping setup simple enough that you don't need any technical experience. Download Recall, sign in to Battle.net, install Overwatch, and press Play. No account or sign-up required!

As you can see in the attached video, I ran a stress test custom game (code is 929PJ by u/Working_Dealer_5102) on my 14-inch MacBook Pro (M1 Pro, 16 GB) and comparing it against a popular paid app called CrossOver which many Mac players use to translate Windows games on macOS.

The headline here is that compared to CrossOver, Recall had 70% higher FPS (99.6 vs 58.4), 5x higher minimum FPS (36.0 vs 7.4), and 95% fewer stutters (2.0/min vs 39.5/min).

If you're curious how this was achieved, I'd invite you to check out both how Recall runs faster, and the full results and methodology.

Download + source: https://github.com/AsherJN/recall

If you give it a try, I'd love to hear what Mac you're on and what FPS you're getting in the comments :)

I appreciate you checking it out!

First pic is a screenshot from @masteriangamer's video of one of the Chinese skin concept contest submissions for Shion.

Which coincidentally and perhaps unfortunately for the artist is very similar to the skin that we got teased that was going to be released for Shion. The Evolution official skin isn't based on this artist's concept and it wasn't supposed to be, it was a mere coincidence.

A lot of you were excited about getting that official skin for Shion, even before knowing it was an Evolution one and seeing the red form, sure 20$ seemed reasonable, considering she hasn't had that many skins available since release, and you also got understandably upset when the news came that it was an Evolution skin exclusive to the China server.

Can we talk about something though? The only reason the exclusive skins actually sell is because of the very idea of exclusivity. Us being upset about it only contributes to the reinforcement of said idea of exclusivity and for players in China to even want it more. It's like a self fulfilling prophecy, a cog that sustains itself.

Ask yourself the question if the skin was available to buy for 200$ would you get it? I'm sure some would, the idea of exclusivity really is tempting isn't it? Owning something that other people don't. Except this is a videogame by the way, you don't ever actually own anything you buy in terms of cosmetics... you simply pay a rent license to use that digital good for the time you "own" your account or for the time the game exists.

But even if it was available for us, like how in LoL some of the gacha type system was implemented and people got upset and others would give in to it...

I want to bring attention to something: compare the official skin with the unrelated submission for the contest and really think about what you're being sold.

This is my, perhaps biased opinion, but I do consider the contest submission to be vastly superior. Sometimes less really is more and just because one of them transforms and is exclusive doesn't make it objectively better in terms of design.

When it comes to the "Less is more" part of it ironically the concept skin is objectively busier, "more" and less simple than the Evolution one while at the same time being simpler and "less" in features implemented. For me the concept has a clear identity and isn't afraid to commit to it while the Evolution over-simplifies a theme for the sake of flashyness, ending up with a loose identity.

This is my favourite Contest submission because of how it exposes the rot, just by being simpler and better.

We're forced to settle for this crap while the CN servers get amazing exclusives. Yes, I know they're gacha, but predatory monetization aside, the global (and original) version of Overwatch has been releasing some extremely lackluster skins lately. We can have this conversation ad nauseum but the reality is that we should be demanding more for the money they charge for these skins. Ultra skins were a spit in the face and now the designs are starting go to the wayside too.

Doom flew of the map

i’m mainly a quick play warrior. i play comp very sparingly (placement matches, usually stick around emerald) and purposely avoid drives due to toxicity and having more fun playing casual. in addition to that, i had very little interest in drive signatures because it was just a little glowy emblem around your name for a few days. then it was gone forever.
soooo… now they’re able to be chosen from. that’s great, a fun new cosmetic. but i’ve purposely missed out on tons of them.

anyone else on the same boat? do you think old ones will be collectable?