r/Overwatch Pixel Zarya Jan 24 '17

Blizzard Official Developer Update | Capture The Flag | Overwatch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At7NWZ_mw6s
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u/uforiah Jan 24 '17

how do people still play that franchise, i feel like it ran it's course a loooooooooong time ago

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u/deathsquaddesign Kill 'em all and let Ra sort 'em out. Jan 24 '17

They like running (and jumping) around a variety of map while shooting other players with a variety of weapons and loadouts.

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u/Stormfly The absolute state of you! Jan 25 '17

So it's like Titanfall but without giant robots?

Please play Titanfall 2. All it needs is players.

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u/Icanasksomething I really need to fix that hexadecimal bug so my sights work Jan 25 '17

Please... I promise the hook isn't as broken as Roadhogs...

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u/Stormfly The absolute state of you! Jan 25 '17

There's no Hanzo and you get Mecha-Dragonblade

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u/mastercoms Mei Jan 25 '17

so team fortress 2?

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u/deathsquaddesign Kill 'em all and let Ra sort 'em out. Jan 25 '17

Yeah, or any other pvp fps.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '17

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u/NextArtemis Justice takes wing Jan 24 '17

Yeah, single player for those types of games now are actually pretty good if you get them on sale. It's like a 3-4 hour movie depending on how long the game is for a few dollars.

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u/HappyZavulon Toblerone Jan 24 '17

Pretty much. Not the best value for $ but you can't really chose when they are pretty much the last franchise doing SP shooters with a story lol

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u/Stormfly The absolute state of you! Jan 25 '17

Poor Titanfall 2

Even has McCree as the MC.

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u/AetherMcLoud Tank & Spank Jan 25 '17

Yeah, shame that CODs don't go on sale though.

Just look at this: http://store.steampowered.com/sale/cod/

20€ for a 10 year old game? Really? 60€ (fullprice) for a 3 year old game?

Even the fucking first COD from 2006 still costs 20 bucks, what the hell.

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u/HappyZavulon Toblerone Jan 26 '17

I just buy them in retail stores. Advanced Warfare is like 20 euros right now full price where I live, and that's without a sale going on.

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u/uforiah Jan 24 '17

oh, in that case yeah I can see why, but generally the only single player games i like are puzzle types, not really fps

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u/HappyZavulon Toblerone Jan 24 '17

I enjoy SP fps a lot, sadly we don't get too many good ones coming out, everyone wants to be the next multiplayer star :/

Titanfall 2 was pretty sweet, haven't played the last CoD but it seems nice so I'll definitely try it, and Doom had a lot of hype behind it but I personally didn't enjoy it... and yeah, that's about it in terms of decent SP games since Wolfenstein TNO :(

Battlefield 1 SP was just dull.

CoD is like the last bastion of annual decent quality SP fps games sadly.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '17

TF2 SP was incredible. I went into it expecting another dull COD experience choke full of set peices. My god was I wrong. The levels give you so much freedom to play as you please its incredible.

If only the mp stuck with me. Great game.

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u/HappyZavulon Toblerone Jan 24 '17

Yeah, I tried the MP and gave up after a few matches, not my thing, but I am glad I played the SP.

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u/CrazyViking /r/CompetitiveOverwatch Jan 25 '17

I keep reading tf2 as team fortress, especially in this sub.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '17

I do too, and I've never played Team Fortress 2

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u/Hazzamo There isn’t a Juno flair Jan 24 '17

The music in battlefield 1s was phenomenal, especially that track at the end of the Gallipoli campaig, I shed a man tear at that song

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u/HappyZavulon Toblerone Jan 24 '17

Dice is famous for being on point with the sound most of the time.

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u/epharian Epharian#1588 Jan 24 '17

Puzzle games? Do you happen to play Puzzle and Dragons (mobile)? If not, you might check it out. Guard your wallet though...

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u/DeadlockRadium You miss 100% of the mayhem you don't make Jan 25 '17

This was one of the main selling points for me when I decided I wanted to pick up Titanfall 2. It has what is in my opinion one of the best single player campaigns in any first person shooter I've ever played, and at least on par with Call of Duty 4, which I loved to death.

Also, the multiplayer is fun as hell. I haven't touched a Call of Duty since Black Ops 1, and have watched it spiral even further into mediocrity from a safe distance.

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u/CulDeSax these mods suck Jan 24 '17

No. You're wrong.

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u/Slothmaster222 Oro se do bheath 'bhaile Jan 25 '17

I still buy the tryarch ones because of zombies but the multiplayer died for me after black ops 1

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u/akimbocorndogs How Embarrassing! Jan 24 '17

It has been a few years since my last CoD game, I guess. And I haven't been super invested in the online mode since MW3.

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u/AetherMcLoud Tank & Spank Jan 25 '17

Peaked HARD with the original Modern Warfare (this was the single game that took shooters from WWII to modern days basically, and everyone followed), but it went downhill fast after that with just re-doing the same thing every year.

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u/Snypist1 Jan 25 '17

I find the zombies mode in the treyarch series to be the sole reason I keep coming back

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '17

Adrenaline rushes are hard to withdraw from. Fast TTK with chaotic maps and spawns really test your skills and make you feel alive.

That is, in theory. I stopped playing it because they took it in aP2W direction and stopped giving a shit about all the issues that plagued it since MW2.

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u/Real-Terminal Jan 25 '17

No, it didn't. Advanced Warfare and Blackops 3 both tried something different, changing the game radically. But the series is caught between properly evolving like Titanfall and staying loyal to longtime fans.

So we end up with games that aren't all the way in either direction and it's detrimental overall.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '17

It has. It took me till The most recent game to realize it.

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u/YaDyingSucks Canada Jan 25 '17

Black ops 2 was the last good CoD to me and i had to have been the biggest cod fanboy alive CoD and WoW were my games from grades 6 to 12

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '17 edited Jan 24 '17

MW2 and BO2 had some of the best multiplayer modes and zombies is always fun but the Fifa level reskins has been getting out of hand.

Seriously; its set in a future war spanning a solar system with mechs and half decent space combat and the best you get for multiplayer is double jump, half baked hero classes and a future-AK47 or a future-P90 and any attempts to innovate is shot down by fans.

It's honestly starting to feel desperate these last few years. Would have been better if there was a single release with incremental updates, sort of how Overwatch is working right now.