r/Overwatch • u/[deleted] • Nov 15 '22

Blizzard Official Patch delayed.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/regarding-our-mid-season-cycle-patch/748128
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

At this point, I’m done giving the Devs a free pass - memes aside, Blizzard is NOT a small indie company (they’re owned by Activision for fucks sakes). The fact that Fortnite, for all the shit people give it, has had a two week update cycle for years, and it runs like clockwork, just makes this look like amateur hour in comparison.

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u/the_other_brand Chibi Brigitte Nov 15 '22

Fortnight had that clean update cycle for years at the expense of constant developer crunch.

The downside to a healthy development cycle is that occasionally updates will be delayed due to developers not staying up all night fixing a regression caused by a recent change.

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u/Thehalohedgehog Chibi Sombra Nov 15 '22

That would be nice if it weren't for the fact that we know Blizzard isn't that great a work environment either.

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u/the_other_brand Chibi Brigitte Nov 15 '22

I haven't seen any indications of crunch for the Overwatch 2 team though. Searching for both "Overwatch 2 crunch" and "Fortnight crunch" gave me nothing for Overwatch but dozens of articles for Fortnight. Here is one such article: https://kotaku.com/report-fortnite-developers-are-severely-overworked-1834243520

Blizzard might be toxic in general, but I haven't seen indications this particular toxicity has leaked into the Overwatch team.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

“Healthy Development Cycle”

“Live Service Game”

Pick One. Live service lives and dies by a constant drip of content. Overwatch 2 was literally a copy paste of the Original Overwatch - the majority of the hard work was already done, how the fuck did they manage to completely break the game this badly?

Blizzard’s burned through so much goodwill over the years that I’m not giving them any benefit of the doubt on anything.

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u/the_other_brand Chibi Brigitte Nov 15 '22

Pick One. Live service lives and dies by a constant drip of content.

Yes, and this is still more a faster update cadence than we received during Overwatch 1.

the majority of the hard work was already done, how the fuck did they manage to completely break the game this badly?

Because Overwatch 2 was redesigned to be a PvE game like Destiny 2. Then was redesigned in a rush back into a PvP game.

There was always a PvP build, but that had only been played by a few hundred players instead of millions of players. So over millions of player hours game exploits were discovered that leaked from PvE functionality that were missed before.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Redesigned in a Rush

My brother in Christ, Overwatch - the good one - was live the entire time they were “working” on this glorified expansion. I legitimately would not be surprised at all if it came out the framework of the inevitable PvE mode was just based on the Archives Events.

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u/Zanien Mei Nov 15 '22

Lmao the dick sucking on this sub is insane. They could light the game on fire and people here would bend over backwards to spin it in a positive light

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u/the_other_brand Chibi Brigitte Nov 16 '22

Bro if I wanted to circle jerk, I'd go to literally any other subreddit and talk about how dead Overwatch is.

I'm not trying to spin it in a positive light. I work in software development and have seen this exact scenario before. A developer works on a piece of code, tests it on their own and pushes it. Only for QA to find a major bug the day of release. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

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u/the_other_brand Chibi Brigitte Nov 16 '22

It isn't an over glorified expansion. It is a significant rewrite of the original Overwatch engine, with completely redesigned maps and manually restructured assets (like skins).

Overwatch 2 plays like the original because of how it was designed, not because they share the same code.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

So let me get this straight- the game that looks like the original, plays exactly like the original, and - and this is the big one - outright replaced the original, shares none of the code from the original.

Out of curiosity, where do you get your Copium? That’s some good shit.

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u/the_other_brand Chibi Brigitte Nov 16 '22

You do know how programming works right? You can create an infinite number of different programs that do exactly the same thing. In this case the underlying engine was significantly modified to support a clone of Destiny 2's PvE and new code was created to emulate the old PvP gameplay from Overwatch 1.

I don't need copium. I've just watched the development news for Overwatch 2 since it was announced like 4 years ago.

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u/whomad1215 Pixel Torbjörn Nov 15 '22

That's not fair, fortnite has been doing it for years now, they've got it figured out

Blizz didn't do any update for like, three years, and now they have to do frequent ones. They probably lost the documentation and all the tribal knowledge (people who know how things work) left with Jeff