Episode 349
Why I'm not Interested in Overwatch 2
This week, I talk about Diablo 2 and 4, Division updates, XDefiant, BF 2042, Overwath 2 news, Dying Light 2 update and more! I also talk about why I don't care to play Overwatch 2. Will I play it again? Only time will tell.
Show Notes:
(01:21) Division Updates
(03:49) Talking about XDefiant
(07:11) BF 2042 update
(09:43) Diablo 2 season update and Diablo 4 news
(11:55) Fallout as a 2D side scroller?
(13:46) Dying Light 2 combat update
(14:36) Overwatch 2 bans 5k a week
(16:01) OWL doesn't make sense
(17:36) Lifeweaver getting a rework already
(19:24) Why I'm not playing OW2 too much
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And welcome to a new episode of Digital Coffee, The Gaming Brew,
Speaker:where I bring you the best news from the PC gaming industry. And
Speaker:I'm your host. Brett Day three. Please subscribe to the podcast
Speaker:and all your favorite podcasting apps to your five star review.
Speaker:It does help with the rankings, but this week I'm going to be
Speaker:talking about Diablo X Defiant. I actually have. The funny part
Speaker:is, is that I didn't know I was invited to the beta months or
Speaker:years ago, so I've been able to get back in, but we're going to
Speaker:talk about that a little bit. Also, the new gaming system from
Speaker:Battlefield 2042, Diablo two, Season four, an interesting
Speaker:Fallout remake which looks like a side scroller overwatch two
Speaker:news. And then kind of why I haven't really been playing
Speaker:overwatch two or haven't had any interest in playing overwatch
Speaker:two in quite a while, or at least a month. It's a while in
Speaker:game years anyways. So let's get on with the show.
Speaker:All right. In a happy Friday to everybody, but let's get on with
Speaker:it in the revision had huge announcements last month
Speaker:actually yesterday. Oh, last month. Yesterday. It had it was
Speaker:I guess apparently it was Division day. And there is a few
Speaker:things. One, Division two is going back to New York with a
Speaker:bunch of new seasons, a new take on a game mode and looks like
Speaker:eventually towards the latter seasons of the year, they're
Speaker:going to actually have a story DLC to it. So they're actually
Speaker:bringing back Division two in a way, because the Avatar game
Speaker:isn't really coming out any time soon and there is no word of
Speaker:actual Division three coming out. But also the other thing was the
Speaker:Division Heartland, which is a free to play PPV, EVP. So the P,
Speaker:E and PvP,
Speaker:those acronyms are always weird, but yes, it does have survival
Speaker:mechanics to it. It is basically going to look like a big dark
Speaker:zone and it's free to play because we're getting in the
Speaker:free to play models now, which is battle passes all the time
Speaker:because those are always fun. You know, you're going have to
Speaker:pick and choose which games you play the most to actually spend
Speaker:your money because you're not going to spend it all on
Speaker:everything. You can either spend it on Fortnite Overwatch two
Speaker:Call of Duty, but that's still premium paid game, which is
Speaker:always weird to me. You also have Halo, you have Battlefield
Speaker:2042, you have any other game that might come out in the first
Speaker:person shooter genre, You're going to have a battle pass
Speaker:because this is where it's going to be. Also survival games like
Speaker:the division. So it should be interesting how well this is out.
Speaker:I didn't sign up for the beta, not really quite sure if I'm
Speaker:actually going to get or not, but I did sign up and this time
Speaker:I will be looking out for the emails before I did because I
Speaker:think I got the GI Bill decided not to tell me. But yeah, it
Speaker:does look interesting to see how well this is going to do, what
Speaker:exploits players come up with and how well the dark zone is
Speaker:going to be for this type of things. It does look like just a
Speaker:dying giant dark zone. There is going to be you go into the dark
Speaker:zone, it just you are in the dark zone. So we'll see what
Speaker:looks like to be like, I guess, a prequel in a way. Not really
Speaker:quite sure, But you were in a small town America called Silver
Speaker:Creek, so it should be interesting to see where this
Speaker:goes, how well this plays out. And we actually will be in a
Speaker:good
Speaker:movie. On to another free to play came from Ubisoft.
Speaker:Apparently they're just going to shift to free to play now, but
Speaker:it's going to be extra fine. And this is getting a lot of good
Speaker:feedback, which is the one that actually got the beat of the
Speaker:closed beta for a year or two ago and didn't know I actually
Speaker:did. But they do have another closed beta coming out. There's
Speaker:been a lot of chatter from YouTube and a lot of the gamers
Speaker:have been playing it and some are enjoying it. It does feel
Speaker:like the old Call of Duty playstyle with a lot of jumping
Speaker:and running and sliding and everything else that goes with
Speaker:it all Do these playstyles it does bring different franchises
Speaker:or different apps into one. So you do have a division, you do
Speaker:have watch Dogs Far cry and it looks like you're going to have
Speaker:like Splinter Cell in there as well. But to me it could be good.
Speaker:It could be, it could be great, it could be terrible. It is
Speaker:Ubisoft. They seem to want to shoot for the stars and then
Speaker:kind of land back down pretty hard, looking at, you know, the
Speaker:latest Ghost Recon game, which actually get better. But moving
Speaker:on, it does look very interesting and they are still
Speaker:going to bring the Phantoms from the Ghost Recon franchise. So
Speaker:you're just basically going to have almost everybody from the
Speaker:the Ubisoft franchises except for Assassin's Creed, which
Speaker:actually would have been kind of waiting to see just people
Speaker:running around with swords and trying to kill you over Bullets
Speaker:were probably not going to happen, but all of them have
Speaker:their unique type of abilities. I think the splinter cell one
Speaker:allows you to find people around the area and maybe the Ghost
Speaker:Recon looks like you can actually like stealth in. I'm
Speaker:not quite sure about those, but they do have various different
Speaker:types of maps, theories, supposedly all varied and
Speaker:actually quite good. Maybe, maybe not. And they do have
Speaker:familiar game modes Domination Occupy, which is basically
Speaker:called these Hardpoint where you go around trying to capture and
Speaker:then hold a point. So this should be interesting to see
Speaker:when it actually launches, when it if it will be popular for the
Speaker:long term because it is always popular in the first month or
Speaker:two and then eventually it dies down and we'll see where the
Speaker:actual audience is for this one. Could it be good? Maybe. Well,
Speaker:to find out, to be honest with you. But those are two new free
Speaker:to play games from Ubisoft's. Apparently their premium by the
Speaker:game takes a very long time to create. I'm looking at you
Speaker:skulls and bones. And there's another game. It's almost like
Speaker:Duke Nukem Forever territory. I forget the name of it beyond
Speaker:younger than Evil. Is that the one? I think that's the one. But
Speaker:they're premium games. It just seems to be taking quite a bit.
Speaker:And this seems to be like their hold over for when their premium
Speaker:games actually do launch. And we'll see if this actually hits
Speaker:if these are actually good or did they just not do a great job
Speaker:once it comes out?
Speaker:All right. Moving on to Battlefield 2042 now, apparently
Speaker:it's now in a great state. No, here's the funny thing I said
Speaker:when it first launched that give it a year and it will be a good
Speaker:game to play. And guess what? Now everybody is going, it's a
Speaker:good game. You should play it on. Like I told you guys, this is
Speaker:Dice's M.O. Every time they do something like this or the great
Speaker:new game, it's always terrible in the beginning. And then
Speaker:eventually gets better. This is it's happened time and time
Speaker:again, and apparently we don't learn from history. It happened
Speaker:with Battlefield three. It got better happened with especially
Speaker:with Battlefield four. Man, that got that was not good at the
Speaker:beginning. You got disconnected like crazy. It was just not fun
Speaker:in the beginning. And then a year or two later, it got good.
Speaker:Look at Battlefield 2042. It was terrible in the beginning and
Speaker:now it's great memories. Like it's a war game now. And I'm
Speaker:like, And I told you so because apparently nobody tries to
Speaker:listen to those that have already played the games the
Speaker:past and understand that it's just terrible in the beginning.
Speaker:This is Dice's demo. This is what they do all the time. They
Speaker:make a game. It's not great in the beginning. And then towards
Speaker:the end of his lifecycle, it's great at the end, but there is a
Speaker:new gaming system that's going to undergo major changes in the
Speaker:next update. And this is called the unit uniform Soldier aiming.
Speaker:And I guess it's supposed to help with the consistency
Speaker:between non zoom and zoom for the weapons. And as long as the
Speaker:individual zoom sensitivity is 0.1 or
Speaker:0.211.00 or 1.25 is not change from default. So it is going to
Speaker:be switched on by default, but you can switch it off if you
Speaker:want to. Now so be interesting to do a video on if it's good
Speaker:with it on or if it's not good with it off. This is supposed to
Speaker:help with aiming and make it better, but that's a subjective
Speaker:term and really you're just going to have to get in the
Speaker:hands of gamers and see if it's actually any good or not. But
Speaker:this is going to be the update. Make sure that you have to go
Speaker:into the settings onto on foot and then that's it. Then move
Speaker:the mouse and keyboard settings if you're using a mouse and
Speaker:keyboard and then the uniform soldier gaming will be switched
Speaker:on, you can toggle it off if you want to. All right. Moving on to
Speaker:the Diablo franchise and specifically Diablo two is going
Speaker:to have resurrected season four coming out in May. So just be on
Speaker:the lookout for that. Also, looks like they're going to be
Speaker:doing a another round of testing for Diablo four, I think, in May
Speaker:before it comes out. Probably just to check on the league's
Speaker:updates. They did a ton of new updates. Change the way the
Speaker:Barbarian plays in some ways, change the way the Necromancer
Speaker:plays. Also the dungeons where you don't have to backtrack as
Speaker:much. That was the most annoying thing playing the game. It was
Speaker:like, Oh, I finished it.
Speaker:Now where do I where I have to go back to the door that I
Speaker:already came from? This is very annoying and backtracking too
Speaker:much. So hopefully they fixed that issue. But it was one of
Speaker:those things where I was a little annoyed about. I didn't
Speaker:really like it too much, but I'm glad that they said that they
Speaker:fixed a lot of things from players input and that's a good
Speaker:thing. Hopefully the Apple four is going to be good now. It's
Speaker:going to be more of a live service and I put those in
Speaker:quotation marks because I feel like every time the developer
Speaker:and publisher say a live service, they're basically saying it's
Speaker:not good. In the beginning and then we'll update it along to
Speaker:make it better. And I'm pretty sure the end game console is not
Speaker:going to be great in the beginning, so you can't rush
Speaker:through it. But why rush through it if you know it's just not
Speaker:going to be great in the beginning. Eventually those end
Speaker:game contents do or in-game things to do and when you do get
Speaker:better over time, but it usually the initial release, it's never
Speaker:that great because they haven't figured out what they really
Speaker:want to do with it. It's a weird thing to do, but you do have a
Speaker:second chance to get that wolf pack thing for Diablo four if
Speaker:you want to. You have to get to level 20 on one character and
Speaker:then you actually get it. So if you still want to be able to get
Speaker:that pack, you can. The one last chance before launch is because
Speaker:it will launch in the beginning of June, which is not too far
Speaker:around the corner since we are in the end of April right now.
Speaker:But be on the lookout for that.
Speaker:All right. Moving on to a very interesting file remade in a 2D
Speaker:side scroller coming soon. And it looks very interesting in a
Speaker:way, because it does look like a side scroller. It does have the
Speaker:fallout vibe, I guess, is the best way of saying it. And you
Speaker:have you bought monsters and it's very, very Well, I was
Speaker:going to say it's very interesting and just the gory
Speaker:ness and just the way they're remaking an old game into
Speaker:something new, which looks really fun, to be honest with
Speaker:you. Just blowing up ghouls, blowing up all the baddies in a
Speaker:fallout type of thing. In the original fallout form, it would
Speaker:be kind of cool to see like a remake of the original two for
Speaker:the first two fallout. So to see kind of like what it would be
Speaker:like in modern times having like the people that made Wasteland
Speaker:redo the first two fallouts because they're now the same or
Speaker:under the same company as Microsoft. Both the publisher
Speaker:and developers are both under the Microsoft umbrella. So you
Speaker:could actually see that and or maybe even like give Obsidian
Speaker:and have them redo the first fallout one and two in the
Speaker:Unreal five engine and actually have them do that in the first
Speaker:person mode. That would be interesting as well. Or just do
Speaker:it like how the wasteland developers of the it was in
Speaker:exile. That's that's what it is. Have them redo it as well. But
Speaker:it should be interesting to see what that is all about. And if
Speaker:it's going to be fun. I mean, it looks very fun. Just looking at
Speaker:the video, you get different types of weapons. People are
Speaker:jumping in on you and you have to go kill them. So it does look
Speaker:very fun.
Speaker:And another new update to Dying Light two, so other than two has
Speaker:been released, is released today on Friday, but down like two.
Speaker:Yes, the two different zombie games did have an update to its
Speaker:combat system to make it feel more punchy, more I guess if you
Speaker:hit between different weapons, you can decapitate heads or if
Speaker:you actually hit with a blunt object, you can really hurt
Speaker:somebody in the torso area. So I played a little bit yesterday.
Speaker:Does feel better on it. I actually, having completed the
Speaker:game quite yet because it's a very large game, but it does
Speaker:feel better now since that orange is coming out. When we
Speaker:start playing that game and basically trying to review that
Speaker:at the same time. But it does feel better when you're playing
Speaker:the game.
Speaker:All right, moving on to Overwatch two news first,
Speaker:Overwatch two has permanently banned up to 5000 cheaters per
Speaker:week. Apparently I was part of that ban because somebody got
Speaker:into my account, which basically I did go change just about every
Speaker:password I have. And then if there's two factor
Speaker:authentication, use Dashlane to do that as well. Very cumbersome,
Speaker:very tiresome and a lot of time wasted. I just didn't really
Speaker:want to do it. But if you want to cheat on Overwatch two, this
Speaker:is how you do it. Now my problem is that a lot of times it's just
Speaker:the hackers getting into your account and then cheating on
Speaker:your account and having your own account banned. That's worrisome
Speaker:because it happened to me and it's awful. And then I had to go
Speaker:through the whole process being like, it's like they won't even
Speaker:tell you what you did wrong or how you violated the rules. You
Speaker:have to go in and be like, What? Like, that was my initial
Speaker:response. What recent thing? I haven't played in two weeks. I
Speaker:was three or now it's been more like a month. But
Speaker:those are the things. Don't you understand that some cheaters do
Speaker:have their own account or make their own account and just cheat?
Speaker:But a lot of times it's just an unsuspecting person that just
Speaker:know that their card has been compromised and then they have
Speaker:to go through the process of getting it fixed. Moving on to
Speaker:the Overwatch League, if you actually still watch the
Speaker:Overwatch League, it will still remain solely broadcasted on
Speaker:YouTube because of this. Even if the exclusive deal has been
Speaker:concluded, they will not branch out and do anything else, which
Speaker:I don't really understand why they just don't do it on. All
Speaker:them seem like a better way of actually like reaching out to
Speaker:other things, not just doing it on one YouTube as you do. But
Speaker:still, if your exclusive deal is done, then don't just put it on
Speaker:one platform, put it on platforms. You can't put it on
Speaker:Facebook, put it on
Speaker:YouTube, put it on Twitch, and if you want to kick, put it on
Speaker:that one. I mean, branch out, do more things. Just don't put it
Speaker:on one. But
Speaker:here we are. Yes, here we are. Just hoping that overwatch the
Speaker:Overwatch League actually is remains profitable. There's been
Speaker:a lot of turmoil in that one and it just hasn't been as great as
Speaker:it used to be. But there has been less teams now because of
Speaker:just the financial part about it and just really, really it's
Speaker:just been unfortunate a lot of times. So here we are looking at
Speaker:this going wire. Are you still on just one platform too long,
Speaker:All of them. There is a reason why if you don't have an
Speaker:exclusive deal, why it's better just to do on all of them. But
Speaker:what's your what's your league die? I mean, it doesn't seem
Speaker:like you care. All right. Moving on to life. Weaver. Yes. The new
Speaker:hero character that was launched on season four is getting a
Speaker:rework after two weeks of being launched. There is a main issue
Speaker:that I've seen from YouTubers. In the main issue is the
Speaker:switching from his healing to his weapon is more like a mercy
Speaker:things. You have to switch back and forth and instead what
Speaker:they're going to be doing is having his healing and then his
Speaker:old fire will be his weapon. Also, the parting gift will be
Speaker:gone completely. There will be no more parting gift. It's gone.
Speaker:So that's one less ability, which to me is fine.
Speaker:Now, the Tree of Life has had its health upped from 1000 to
Speaker:1200 and healing per pulses, up from 75 to 50 as well for its
Speaker:ammo healing blossom. So when you're healing, it's going to be
Speaker:almost going to be up to 20 from 12 and slow chart. So during
Speaker:charge now kicks in one second after fully charged also the
Speaker:thorn follow your fire so it's going to be your old fire will
Speaker:be the spread will be tighten so you can actually do that also
Speaker:your little speed buff or like your little escape will be just
Speaker:a double tap of the spacebar in general, but parting gift will
Speaker:be removed. So you will not be able to actually eliminate life.
Speaker:We were and get a small help for enemies or firm allies as
Speaker:removed, which is fine. I it didn't really seem like it was a
Speaker:great thing anyways. And
Speaker:we'll see. We'll see.
Speaker:And to my main thing of why I really haven't been playing
Speaker:overwatch two very much. And I mean the simple reason is that
Speaker:my cow got hacked. They blame me for it. They said they did a
Speaker:thorough investigation and then they had to do another thorough
Speaker:investigation. Found out that I was telling the truth, that I
Speaker:didn't actually cheat, even though they didn't tell me what
Speaker:I did wrong. And it was just this whole thing of like, like,
Speaker:why did I have to go figure it out? Why couldn't you guys
Speaker:figure out you do have your systems in place? And it was
Speaker:very weird and it just kind of like gave me a just a sour taste
Speaker:in my mouth. So I haven't really been playing it. I probably
Speaker:should play it because it's one of my main games I did play, but
Speaker:I just don't have the heart for it. Plus, new games are coming
Speaker:out. They're going to just released today. Also, you're
Speaker:going to have the new Star Wars game coming out next week. So
Speaker:there's been other games to actually play instead of that
Speaker:one. I just haven't been too keen on playing specifically
Speaker:that one for right now. Will I go back and play it? Probably.
Speaker:But for right now
Speaker:it just doesn't seem like I really want to play this. I'm
Speaker:like, Oh, I should really play this game because it is the same
Speaker:old, same old. I mean, I'm glad that they finally got rid of the
Speaker:map pools because that got old after a while, but also just
Speaker:it's a game that's been out since 2016. There really hasn't
Speaker:been too much of a change. Overwatch two changed it a
Speaker:little bit, but there hasn't been enough significant. It's
Speaker:almost like overwatch two should have been overwatch 1.5 to be
Speaker:honest with you, because there wasn't too much of a changes And
Speaker:then they, they keep on changing the heroes because again, going
Speaker:from 662, five, five was a terrible choice. I will keep on
Speaker:saying it was a terrible choice because they had everything they
Speaker:needed from heroes to actually work and then they switched to
Speaker:it and they didn't really figure out what how they work best with
Speaker:it. Five, five And you get these really overpowered characters
Speaker:because of that, they could have actually just made the changes
Speaker:that they did with five, five and six. Six brought down a lot
Speaker:of the barriers from different tanks and just had really a
Speaker:select few of tanks have shields and everybody else has different
Speaker:abilities for that one. That worked out quite well. But
Speaker:unfortunately they went with the six, the 5 to 5 and I don't
Speaker:think it worked out very well. I think it has a lot of a lot of
Speaker:different issues and looks like the streamers aren't having as
Speaker:much fun. Regardless if it was 636455. So what you did was you
Speaker:made this sparkly new thing that didn't really matter and it was
Speaker:like, Well, it's better. I'm like, Is it really bad that
Speaker:better? Is it? It feels like the synergy with 66 was better. It's
Speaker:just the barriers were just annoying. That was really about
Speaker:it. And you could have Victor reworked a lot of the things for
Speaker:Overwatch two to still have 66 but rework it to actually be
Speaker:more manageable in that way. And then you wouldn't have to remake
Speaker:all these characters
Speaker:and just have this terrible
Speaker:issue. I mean, it's just been awful in general. You still
Speaker:could have had some DPS heroes have CC abilities, not all of
Speaker:them, but some of them have them. You get switched around
Speaker:everything. Doom Face would still be a DPS and then you'll
Speaker:just have new tanks coming in eventually. But no, they wanted
Speaker:to do it this way. And it's not only better to be honest with
Speaker:you objectively, for the long run, it wasn't really the
Speaker:greatest call. But what do I know? I just play games for a
Speaker:living. It just deal with what developers make good or terrible
Speaker:choices. And I still think that was a terrible choice,
Speaker:regardless of how much praise it got in the beginning. I'm like,
Speaker:It's still not going to be great guys still doing me same old
Speaker:overwatch just with one last tank. That's really about it.
Speaker:So do you agree with me on that or do you feel like, yeah, five,
Speaker:five is the best ever? It's not that bad. Just talk about let me
Speaker:know in the comments below. But as always,
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