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[RedlineRonin]

What's up with the hate for Tracer's cap? It's a standard military hat called side cap.



They changed it a few months ago because they didn't want people to stop playing before events come out so that they could get more boxes.

They changed it in November.
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20752015856

A change for leveling for all promotions, not just 300. Standard XP for level up used to be 22k, now it's been reduced to 20k to compensate for this change. The popular theory is this change was implemented to prevent people for event camping at level x00 for easy event boxes.

Soooo, effectively to stop people from doing exactly what i was doing.

Thanks for nothing ever, Jeff

 

[Locuza]

I thought his hair color was green.

His natural hair color is very likely black as seen in the Underwatch Genji spray as a little child:

The Genji skin "Sparrow" also shows him with black hair, Sparrow was Genjis codename/nickname from the past.
https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/002/465/479/large/renaud-galand-003.jpg?1462061167

Genji probably just dyed his hair green.

 

[NeoRaider]

default Widowmaker skin still the best

Hi

 

[Stallion Dan]

so lorewise, how does Widow get her blue skin color later?

Held breath while sniping for too long.

 

[Paltheos]

Soooo, effectively to stop people from doing exactly what i was doing.

Thanks for nothing ever, Jeff

It's not all bad. Blizzard gave us arcade mode around the same time with '3 boxes for 9 wins' weekly, and these aren't really that tough to farm.

 

[Pilgrimzero]

Widow was in Blackwatch?

 

[Toni]

Toxic Tracer

If you're gona use a pic of the Goddess of Pop, might as well represent her perfection to the fullest.

Spoiler

#legsandeverything

 

[papertoonz]

so lorewise, how does Widow get her blue skin color later?

her body temperature was lowered and the blue skin was a result of that

 

[RedlineRonin]

It's not all bad. Blizzard gave us arcade mode around the same time with '3 boxes for 9 wins' weekly, and these aren't really that tough to farm.

Yeah, I was being sarcastic. I actually stopped playing right at Halloween event until a month or two ago, so i probably missed some updates

What's this about the three boxes per week? you get nine wins in a week in arcade and you get a guaranteed three boxes?

 

[Mozendo]

Widow was in Blackwatch?

Nope, this is her Talon skin before the blue skin color side effect kicked in.

What's this about the three boxes per week? you get nine wins in a week in arcade and you get a guaranteed three boxes?

Yup. Queue times are bad though since everyone is doing QP and Comp from my experience

 

[luulubuu]

 

[Vital Tundra]

Yeah, I was being sarcastic. I actually stopped playing right at Halloween event until a month or two ago, so i probably missed some updates

What's this about the three boxes per week? you get nine wins in a week in arcade and you get a guaranteed three boxes?

Yup plus 1 for whatever event is happening

 

[hydruxo]

What's up with the hate for Tracer's cap? It's a standard military hat called side cap.



They changed it a few months ago because they didn't want people to stop playing before events come out so that they could get more boxes.

I just think it looks goofy with that particular outfit.

 

[Triforce141]

What's this about the three boxes per week? you get nine wins in a week in arcade and you get a guaranteed three boxes?

Yep, every 3 wins = 1 box

Spoiler

It's not really much faster than playing Quick Play for the same amount of boxes imo

 

[Nirolak]

I thought his hair color was green.

His hair is black. It's just dyed:

 

[Locuza]

Soooo, effectively to stop people from doing exactly what i was doing.

Thanks for nothing ever, Jeff

In my point of view Blizzard changed it for the better by a lot.

It felt unnatural how quickly the first 20 levels went and the rest was painfully slow in comparison.
Now It's always even and people don't need to force themselves to stop playing or grinding the hell out of the game till the border of promotion.

And as mentioned you can easily farm 3 lootboxes per week through the arcade now.

 

[Tovarisc]

Yep, every 3 wins = 1 box

Spoiler

It's not really much faster than playing Quick Play for the same amount of boxes imo

You level up 3 times in ~2 hours?

 

[Marvel]

I'm like lvl 18 with 600. Spent a lot?

Not too much really, just been unlucky with coins not dropping from the lootboxes tbh.

 

[chronic_archaic]

No Soldier 76 skin

 

[Nirolak]

No Soldier 76 skin

That one already exists with the Origins edition.

 

[El Sabroso]

No Soldier 76 skin

commander Morrison didn't went to that battle, also, should be not much different from Origins look anyways isn't?

 

[Rebel Leader]

That one already exists with the Origins edition.

But it's not cool

 

[Paltheos]

Yep, every 3 wins = 1 box

Spoiler

It's not really much faster than playing Quick Play for the same amount of boxes imo

The arcade boxes go by fast. I don't know about 2 hours, especially if your hidden MMR is high, but it's faster than *just* QP since you're earning XP in arcade mode too.

 

[RedlineRonin]

Yup. Queue times are bad though since everyone is doing QP and Comp from my experience

Yup plus 1 for whatever event is happening

Yep, every 3 wins = 1 box

Spoiler

It's not really much faster than playing Quick Play for the same amount of boxes imo

Cool, good info, thanks.

In my point of view Blizzard changed it for the better by a lot.

It felt unnatural how quickly the first 20 levels went and the rest was painfully slow in comparison.
Now It's always even and people don't need to force themselves to stop playing or grinding the hell out of the game till the border of promotion.

And as mentioned you can easily farm 3 lootboxes per week through the arcade now.

Yeah, i'm sure they had good reasons to do it. I just wanted my easy loot boxes for the events =)

And I don't have anything against Jeff at all, I was totally kidding. I love the game and even getting the loot boxes for the first 20 levels then, wasn't stopping me from spending $40 every event on boxes.

 

[Maximo]

1200 saved up im ready if I don't get the skins I want.

 

[Samaritan]

Wow, his hair really WAS amazing!

 

[Nuno Pinto]

1200 saved up im ready if I don't get the skins I want.

Event skins are 3000 (legendary) and 750 (epic).

 

[sca2511]

Hi

nah, still default

 

[RedlineRonin]

1200 saved up im ready if I don't get the skins I want.

Yeah i'm at 2200, which just made me think, how many of these are gonna be 3K skins? The genji for sure, and then a couple of the blackwater ones look a little bit different i guess, but almost all those overwatch ones look like re skins more than anything, so i'd hope those would be cheaper....

 

[Ken]

More boobs from the Shimada bros. 👍

Bad!

 

[Shahadan]

I have 17k coins and once again will not be spending any of that , lol

 

[Beth Cyra]

Yeah i'm at 2200, which just made me think, how many of these are gonna be 3K skins? The genji for sure, and then a couple of the blackwater ones look a little bit different i guess, but almost all those overwatch ones look like re skins more than anything, so i'd hope those would be cheaper....

Zero chance that Mercy and Tobs aren't 3 K.

Maybe Rein and Tracer but who knows. Genji and Widow are both also for sure 3k.

 

[Trickster]

You level up 3 times in ~2 hours?

It's definitely faster. But Arcade modes are super boring

 

[Big Nikus]

I always just wait until the end of the event to buy boxes anyway. Good thing i didnt play arcade this week yet.

Boxes are gonna reset in a few hours so you're just missing out.

 

[Hispanic! At the Disco]

You and me both. I drop 40 bucks every time one of these rolls around. Hell I think I dropped 80 on Halloween.

I'll probably be dropping 80 now that my wife plays. $40/$40

 

[Rebel Leader]

 

[Nuno Pinto]

Zero chance that Mercy and Tobs aren't 3 K.

Maybe Rein and Tracer but who knows. Genji and Widow are both also for sure 3k.

Yeah, off all of those only Rein has a chance of being an epic skin imo.

 

[Rabbit Clock]

Just stopped in to hate on Tracer. Is she even popular enough to warrant a skin every event? Sure she's the poster child but I rarely see anyone playing her.

McCree looks nice though. Maybe I'll buy that skin even though I'm horrible at him

Spoiler

(and the game)

 

[Maximo]

Event skins are 3000 (legendary) and 750 (epic).

Derp my bad meant 12000.

 

[RedlineRonin]

Zero chance that Mercy and Tobs aren't 3 K.

Maybe Rein and Tracer but who knows. Genji and Widow are both also for sure 3k.

Damn. This one is gonna be expensive

 

[Orochinagis]

I say I want that mercy skin but I never got a Mercy skin since always , I had to buy the Rooster event skin

 

[Data West]

tanktop torb looks better than the other one

 

[Gnome Scat]

Who cares about hanzo?

I do, god damn it.

 

[Maximo]

I do, god damn it.

Dude already has the best skin in the game.

 

[Data West]

Dude already has the best skin in the game.

that hasnt stopped reinhardt

 

[Trickster]

Just stopped in to hate on Tracer. Is she even popular enough to warrant a skin every event? Sure she's the poster child but I rarely see anyone playing her.

McCree looks nice though. Maybe I'll buy that skin even though I'm horrible at him

Spoiler

(and the game)

No idea what game you're playing then. I see her constantly. The only thing about her is that right now she's not really part of the core heroes of the meta from what I can tell, so often times she's not a good fit. But people still pick her very often

 

[Maximo]

that hasnt stopped reinhardt

Hahahaha yeah..true true everytime I think the last one was the best skin ever..they make a new one.

 

[Rabbit Clock]

No idea what game you're playing then. I see her constantly. The only thing about her is that right now she's not really part of the core heroes of the meta from what I can tell, so often times she's not a good fit. But people still pick her very often

In comp? I don't play comp ever. I only ever see her when people are trying to get to the point quickly before we lose..

 

[Beth Cyra]

Just stopped in to hate on Tracer. Is she even popular enough to warrant a skin every event? Sure she's the poster child but I rarely see anyone playing her.

McCree looks nice though. Maybe I'll buy that skin even though I'm horrible at him

Spoiler

(and the game)

Tracer is super popular.

Got to remember she isn't only the face of Overwatch, she is a female lead character in a genre dominated by males and on top of that a Gay icon being a Lesbian lead who doesn't fall into the tropes of big boobed bimbo.

She just takes a very skilled player to maximize her and many have a hard time doing it so she doesn't have as high a pick rate as other DPS like Soldier or Pharah.

 

[Big Nikus]

The video in french reminded me that the actor for Torb was also Marcus Fenix in Gears of War.
And if I remember correctly, McCree's voice actor was also Shepard in Mass Effect. I like his voice, but I switched the game to english pretty quickly. Having a game like this without the diversity of accents ruins it. It's a good dub though, Junk is on point (and Widowmaker has the same actress in french and english, obviously ! Different lines though).