Overwatch

Quote from Taylor

10 minutes ago, Taylor said: For all the talk of competitive points the system seems relatively stingy. If 60 represents the top 6% of players then having 65 as the "get this or you wasted months getting annoyed by competitive mode" target seems really steep. 22 of these guns exist and they are the main reason the rank and file are playing.

CP carry over between seasons though. 200 CP at 60 is a fair chunk already and 120 CP at 56 is not bad either. You also get CP from wins (and soon ties).

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1 hour ago, Bastion said: Here are my main issues

• Limitation on grouping with friends, sucked in cs:go so it'll likely suck here.

The problem is that some people are using the ranking system as an exploit so they rank up faster, since if you have 5 dudes with level 70's and 1 dude level 40 it will bring down the average ranking of the team, matching you with lower tier people, and you pretty much guarantee a win this way.

@Taylor right now a level 65 represents 6% of the players, not 60.

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1 hour ago, (HP) said:

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Nice nice nice !!! Ô_ô

I see you've taken a leaf out of D3/Warcraft for this

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Map looks cool

Like a few maps, it's hard to figure out what the hell the defender team's motivation is here. "We can't let them... bury this old dead guy, I guess!"

The map does look gorgeous though, and I can see this maybe being an implicit Bastion buff as he can hide among all those scrapped bastions.

PS I hope it has a Wolfenstein easter egg

According to this youtube video, Overwatch's netcode on PC has been updated to give every server a 63hz tick rate, and optimized other factors to reduce the average delay between player action and other player reaction to sub 50ms, better than basically any other online game.

What is the typical tick rate these days for multiplayer FPS'es? I haven't checked since halflife.

Nonetheless, a tickrate higher than my refresh rate is awesome

Quote from AlexM

29 minutes ago, AlexM said: What is the typical tick rate these days for multiplayer FPS'es? I haven't checked since halflife.

Nonetheless, a tickrate higher than my refresh rate is awesome

overwatch on public is 20 and competitive is 60, nvm, it was 20 lol D:

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1 hour ago, 2d-chris said: overwatch on public is 20 and competitive is 60, nvm, it was 20 lol D:

It's now 63 even on quick play and vs AI. Also, the player update ticks dynamically lower to match your fps and internet speeds, so it's not actually updating faster than your refresh rate. Most people get "just" 60. Sorry AlexM

The weird thing, imo, is that the 63 tickrate is 20KBps of upload bandwidth. That seems trivial for any modern internet connection, so why is it still something so avoided? This OW update makes it sound like a no-brainer, at least for games that don't have 64 player servers and shit like that.

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7 hours ago, PogoP said: I see you've taken a leaf out of D3/Warcraft for this

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Map looks cool

This needs to be a Reinhardt Legendary Skin!!!! CRUSADER ONLINE MOFO.

Map looks really cool

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1 hour ago, Jetsetlemming said: It's now 63 even on quick play and vs AI. Also, the player update ticks dynamically lower to match your fps and internet speeds, so it's not actually updating faster than your refresh rate. Most people get "just" 60. Sorry AlexM

The weird thing, imo, is that the 63 tickrate is 20KBps of upload bandwidth. That seems trivial for any modern internet connection, so why is it still something so avoided? This OW update makes it sound like a no-brainer, at least for games that don't have 64 player servers and shit like that.

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Maybe because of the confidence boost of the tickrate news, maybe because a christmas in august miracle, but I'm apparently good at McCree suddenly??? I just played and won three rounds in a row, getting gold in kills each time, when before I couldn't shoot worth shit. I've also discovered the delight of shutting down arrogant tracers and genjis by baiting their dodges/reflects, stunning them, and FtHammering them. With all my other main heroes they're always my worst enemy! Now I WAS THEIRS! :o

I am, however, ironically bad at shooting Pharahs, because I got so used to leading them to account for the travel time of non-hitscan weapons.

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10 hours ago, (HP) said:

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This new map is stunning! Can't wait to play on it when its released!

New map looks great.

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8 hours ago, Jetsetlemming said: It's now 63 even on quick play and vs AI. Also, the player update ticks dynamically lower to match your fps and internet speeds, so it's not actually updating faster than your refresh rate. Most people get "just" 60. Sorry AlexM

The weird thing, imo, is that the 63 tickrate is 20KBps of upload bandwidth. That seems trivial for any modern internet connection, so why is it still something so avoided? This OW update makes it sound like a no-brainer, at least for games that don't have 64 player servers and shit like that.

20kb/s * number of active connections + infrastructure/ddos support etc etc. It all adds up, it's in no way trivial to be going from 10-20kbs when you're talking on this scale.

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Everytime you guys post your work I get blown away.

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7 hours ago, Vaya said: 20kb/s * number of active connections + infrastructure/ddos support etc etc. It all adds up, it's in no way trivial to be going from 10-20kbs when you're talking on this scale.

It's a twelve player game, 240KBps is still trivial, even on a home connection, let alone a server. The increased processing time of processing all those updates might be more significant, which is why it's a PC only thing, at least for the time being, but it seems to have gone over perfectly fine. Client side, making 3x the updates to send to the server doesn't seem to have impacted performance in the slightest.

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3 minutes ago, Jetsetlemming said: It's a twelve player game, 240KBps is still trivial, even on a home connection, let alone a server. The increased processing time of processing all those updates might be more significant, which is why it's a PC only thing, at least for the time being, but it seems to have gone over perfectly fine. Client side, making 3x the updates to send to the server doesn't seem to have impacted performance in the slightest.

more than 12 people play at once dude. you're thinking of 1 match- there's no stats for the number of co-current matches blizzard are hosting.