What do we WANT in Overwatch 2!? Presenting our ideas to Mr. Blizzard - Plat Chat Ep. 74

[@austin4932]

The power-point bit might be the funniest segment in the history of Plat Chat. (Especially Jonny’s pitch.)

[@bankairocks93]

It's honestly top tier.

[@MasterKrazyK]

100% agree!!!! I was laughing so hard, that I started crying.

[@austin4932]

@@MasterKrazyK I definitely cried when Jonny’s slide said “The End.” and then he froze in sadness for so long that Bren thought he crashed lmaoooo

[@intelligentblue]

I love how matt wasn't picking up on the style of Sideshow's Slideshow being like a kid/teenager style of speaking

[@sindri1447]

My throat hurts from laughter and my cheeks burn from all the tears running down my face. Haven't laughed that much in years.

[@saultalamantes7736]

Jonathan “Reinforce” “The Hat Man” Larsson

[@ryansemple3830]

Sideshows presentation was actually marvelous that's the hardest I've laughed in a while, his deadpan delivery is something else

[@trevor8945]

It's a tragedy there was no reaction to Johnny taking off his hat

[@duckdudette]

Sideshow was robbed of his "scientific community" player of the week award for his fact about freezing hot water!

[@Orktosqt]

i thought it's common knowledge. Since temprature is how fast molecules moving inside an object, and faster they move easier they transfer energy. so, hot water a lot of energy faster they give it away. Also, rag on the floor in bathroom and floor same room temprature, but floor feels colder, because bigger contact surface with your feet, and since feet are warm, they will give energy to floor faster than to rag.

[@sindri1447]

@@Orktosqt There is that but also how hot water vaporizes and therefor reducing it's mass in comparison to the cold water whenever the temperature gets lowered.

[@SpagheddiO]

@@sindri1447 surely the difference in mass isn’t big enough to compensate the higher temperature though, especially considering how the vaporisation of water will decrease dramatically as soon as the hot water is put anywhere cold

[@pigonionsalad]

y’all in this comment thread deserve the award for scientific community

[@mmtasty1889]

"Rail-gun" and "slow moving projectile" should not go together in the same sentence

[@nickniehaus1763]

Yeahhhhhhhh

[@ScorchHellfire]

For real, though. I want a rail-gun sniper in Overwatch. I miss that gun in Quake 3.

[@JamesElliott92]

@@ScorchHellfire what if syms turrets could reveal enemies like sonic arrow instead of doing damage and her right click was a rail gun that could shoot through walls

[@ScorchHellfire]

@@bluestitchgaming3390 Yeah. We'll see. Sojourn has a rail gun but it seems to work differently than the ones in other shooters. Rapid fire like Soldier but has the powerful shot as a secondary thing and they always showed her doing it from close range. Doesn't seem like she's going to be a sniper with it.

[@violet4794]

Aged well

[@Rikimaru_tm]

This has to be the funniest Plat Chat episode ever. Thank you, Mr. Blizzard.

[@minz_]

That was definitely in the top 5 funniest episodes of Plat Chat, I haven't laughed that hard in a while.

[@cheesepuffs62]

Excuse me FBI I just witnessed a murder of a man's spirit

[@anmimc]

Reinforce is so freaking funny. I’m glad he got to showcase it with his PowerPoint this episode.

[@daniellien6704]

I’m so sad for poor Jonny 😭 he didn’t deserve this abuse :(

[@weasyll_]

My god when • A ranked experience like no • Other Came onto the screen I DIED LAUGHING

[@ssmanwithaplan]

Bren's presentation is giving me middle school powerpoint presentation flashbacks

[@jacobstanley7185]

I was SO sure josh"s story about pushing the car was gonna be an ad for t mobile to announce a new sponsorship

[@DanielEdwards42]

'Thankfully, the deaf couple had access to T-Mobul so could call for real help!'

[@michaeld.henryiii6703]

Laughed more than I have in a while during Johnny’s presentation. Love the content y’all.

[@umamason5311]

Matt really raked Johnny over the coals, I know his pitch was garbage but damn.

[@levifink]

Remember when everyone wanted Terry Crews to voice Doomfist? That woulda been cool. I miss those times of Overwatch

[@TheCharliehuddy]

I REALLY love the idea of having tournaments for ALL players. Schedule 4 hour slots (or whatever time frame is adequate) where you enter with your team of 6 (or solo like Bren said). Lets make it brackets of 16 teams, so if you make it to the finals you would play 4 different teams (best of 3 single series - single knockout?). Perhaps charge 20 bucks per team or something as an entry fee so that it discourages leavers, I know I would feel like I want to stay in if I had to pay an entry fee, even if its less than 5 bucks per person. The money for each team would support OW admins to monitor the tournament. In terms of ranking, if your team has an average SR of 2561 then you would be put into the "Plat" tournament that way you wouldn't get blown out by Masters players if you're a Silver or whatever. To prevent smurfs, your rank would be determined by averaging your past 3 competitive seasons, this way you wouldn't get a level 25 smurf in the Gold tournament. If you win your bracket then you would get a spray or something that says "Plat Tournament Champion" or something similar. I have a group of friends that I play with all the time and I know we would love to enter a tournament and really try to work together to win. I think it would force a lot of average players into understanding the meta and how the game is supposed to be played when there is "something" on the line.

[@TheCharliehuddy]

@@Benjiizus I have never played APEX but I really like that idea too. Kind of like "betting" SR haha. There has to be some level of accountability or people will quit.

[@mylescoles]

Matt: CAn wE tAlK aBoUt OvErWaTcH Me: Bold of you to assume i came here for overwatch

[@duckdudette]

Sideshow's présentation was godlike! He somehow satirised the segment before the segment had happened. Also, I want that character to appear more often 😂

[@rudania]

"you wanna feel like a panzer tank" All germans are laughing their ass of now.

[@brendanarp8736]

Tbh thought he said panda at first... was like, ?? Panda tank hero confirmed?!

[@ScorchHellfire]

By they way, Sideshow, they've basically already covered how Reaper turned bad. He was jealous about Jack being put in charge of Overwatch even though it was him in charge of the original strike team. Also being messed up by Moira's experiments on him to give him his wraith powers.

[@matt-impulse]

God my worst nightmare would be to present something to Mr. X

[@prolifikshadow]

Experimental Change - Lucio WallBoost. Lucio's healing increases if he isn't touching the ground.

[@dwoodward931]

the slideshows content was gold

[@stormblade5583]

Did they ever talk about the NEXT Tournament? I feel like they said they were going to and then it never happened.

[@iainbc]

Someone should petition to bring in Mr. Avast of Envy to replace Mr. Blizzard. please.

[@aniketgupta3354]

I think Jonny felt bad about the reaction to his presentation. Feels bad man

[@NickIsBlasted]

They are just making Orisa less about the shield, same reason for the changes to Sigma.

[@leto.o5759]

I dont think the sigma change was about that. Sigma change was more about just nerfing his skill cap.

[@VineethR7]

Experimental changes: Reverse guardian angel for mercy. Instead of jumping to your teammate the teammate gets pulled to you like a road hog hook

[@mattxzilla3938]

Somebody tell Bren that I want to hear all of his ideas without him getting interrupted or shut down immediately

[@dogs-game-too]

Bren's description of a railgun like primary fire is something I've wanted for an ult for a while; imagine a new tank that charges his ult in his chest then unleashes one super powerful beam or projectile. It'd be like a D.Va bomb or junk tire, but launched like a chest missile. It'd be easy enough to block/eat/dodge the attack, but if someone successfully landed it, it would devastate anyone hit.

[@nolanwinbun4044]

If I had a dollar for every time Mr x interrupted if be able to hire a host that doesn't constantly interrupt

[@joeymcmanus3333]

putting the comics in the game client is actually a pretty great idea

[@eckroattheeckroat4246]

Having a viewer in the game to read the comics or view the shorts while waiting for games to start is actually a fantastic idea. I've never read any of the comics, but I'm sure I would if such a feature were introduced.

[@CrazyFiredemon]

The Mr Blizzard segment was the funniest segment on Platchat yet, and there were a lot of funny ones

[@LunarNights_]

Honestly, I would like to see more passives and putting more characters into specific roles. For example, if they took away 25 hp on genji and brought his damage back up to 30 to make him even more of a “glass cannon”/burst hero.

[@dylanlim424]

I feel like nanoblade would be kinda broken tho because you can charge blade so much faster plus nano has damage reduction

[@dirtyjesus9293]

Currently watching on my phone because I have no power because of the same snow storm, except i'm up in Dallas. Crazy how the south falls apart from a little snow.

[@reallymadrhino4872]

Hey Reinforce is you need a friend who doesn’t bully you for your ideas just lmk

[@DarthMald]

Johnny had the best pitch. Matt just didn't get it.

[@cycl10ps]

For flash ops, I would HIGHLY recommend visiting SVB's pugs where he got a bunch of t500 streamers to play games with changes. 1Interesting change they tried was in 2cp, hybrid and payload, if you cap a point then all ults reset fo attack and defense.

[@Kronman590]

God it hurt me so hard how each presentation's humor completely went over Matts head lmao I get he was trying to play the hardcore exec but man the presentation irony was so good

[@joshbrazee9456]

The PowerPoint presentation bit was amazing.

[@MovieTrialers]

The reduced damage on reaper shots should make him do a bit less to tanks up close whilst the narrower spread makes him able to participate at mid-range. I see this as a great change and a win for tank mains and reaper players.

[@gaasts]

Bren's idea about doing a specific, difficult combo between 2 heroes to apply a debuff that must then be taken advantage of to get value is actually pretty good/interesting but he explained it really badly and no one really gave it a chance

[@leetebbens8858]

I listen to podcasts 24/7 at work, I literally got in trouble for not doing enough because im doubled over in laughter at Sideshow's pitch.

[@4029ki-ey]

The start of the presentation section had me in tears

[@robnagle4421]

The slideshow presentations were comedic genius

[@GodinSpace]

Josh role played as the average 8 year old that didn't go to fortnite and still plays OW

[@dinkuspaul1732]

I actually enjoy playing orisa and it’s because when you play her you feel like you have a large impact on the game where you can make the other tanks play into you how you want. This buff only helps the semi aggro orisa play style and allows you to take more angles to properly control the flow of the game in your favor. I’m a high masters and gm orisa/Zarya two trick for reference.

[@parahaxeus1267]

Matt needs to smoke some weed or something man is just so on edge and yelling at people all the time

[@squeegie]

Efi Oladele: Super genius girl who built Orisa. Also Efi Oladele: Puts Orisa's CPU in the head exposed to headshots, instead of inside of the body.

[@madeofwax92]

Btw, the Mpemba effect is one of those things that has not really been replicated in experiments. It's simply the idea that, under very specific sets of conditions, hot water may freeze faster than cold water. In general, that is not the case at all. Enthalpy is a state function (what matters is where you are at, not how you got there) and the only way you freeze water is by decreasing enthalpy.

[@ScorchHellfire]

1:26:07 Except that he already did. They showed him punching through a prison wall in his origin story without the Doomfist because he has prosthetic arms that make him super strong.

[@nayman2801]

This was the best episode yet, and I think I have watched them all. Good on ya

[@dogs-game-too]

I've always said Orisa's ultimate should give either CC or damage resistance to her team instead of damage boosting. It'd be amazing and make her unique, because right now bongo is basically just a worse valkyrie.

[@marozid1]

Great Episode! Probably the best so far! Thanks Mr. Blizzard

[@AzaMinis]

I was waiting for Bren to hop in with a T Mobile sponsorship of Josh’s car story

[@Toadsomniac]

As a person from the north east of England, the chuckle brother reference was great.

[@RoomateNSNL]

Power point slides were amazing!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@ScorchHellfire]

43:02 Incorrect. Remember that Experimental card where they tried to turn the off-tanks into main tanks by adding new mechanics to them?

[@alexJG_Shorts]

47:11 What Bren is describing here is Symmetra's right click. He wants Sym's right click on Hanzo.

[@ryansemple3830]

Mr. Blizzard would never listen to us common folk

[@stevemckillop]

Easily one of the funniest things I've watched in a long time. Jonny and Brens slideshows were fantastic. Also approve of the smex potw!!

[@Dr.Kiwi934]

20:26 I agree with Bren here. If fortify can stop and charging rein, bopping lucio/dva, or wrecking ball knockback, getting slapped in the head by a tracer and dying in like 3 clips isn't exactly living up to the name. It makes her feel more able to survive and stronger just from popping it.

[@willjoy1997]

Brens tournament system is actually already in rocket league. However teams are 3 and only 5 minutes so you never really get leavers.

[@codyj8763]

half of these episodes are of matt trying to be funny and overstepping everytime, you can always see josh and bren playing along at first the the joy slowly fade away as he just keeps going.

[@anmimc]

This might be the best episode yet, honestly.

[@xyesterday]

This is probably my favorite PlatChat Overwatch episode of all time if I’m being honest

[@ChiChiSmash]

I would also like to know Sombra's motivations

[@datman879]

47:45 He literally just described symmetra’s secondary fire lmao

[@Rekcha]

The most important thing I got from this video was learning Bren's name is spelled "Brennon" and not "Brennan"

[@CristopherCutas]

To be fair, the idea on which the hats suggestion was built upon is good. Having minor changes to skins and not the overall would be good, I think team fortress did it and it made some notable players recognizable. Maybe not hats, but maybe insignia on rein's shield or anywhere on the character's signature features. also I wonder if hats would mess with our perception on the hitbox because that would be annoying.

[@juan5501]

the presentations were like that scene in step brothers. "Investors....? POSSIBLY YOU"

[@zephyrod7307]

28:09 excuse me that meta is wonderful Also for the experimental card: I’m for the increased ult charge rate, but then also double everyone’s HP pool. Make it more about basic abilities and give ppl a higher ttk

[@gauldurson8529]

A slideshow by Sideshow made some good points honestly lol

[@marvinafonso7713]

Why people hate Orisa but love Heavy? Heavy is just Orisa whithout a deploiable shield, and i don't think people would like Orisa if they remove that shield.

[@calem6470]

Probably because Heavy is like a mix of Bastion and Orisa. A walking Bastion I guess you could say, which is way funner than Orisa standing still and shielding off cooldown the whole game

[@Dylamn]

This is the most fun I've seen on platchat outside the timmy tourney

[@mariomp4754]

My stomach hurt from laughing during the presentations, this was amazing

[@chrisherd8018]

Make zen like a disc priest, 5hps on orb and damage translates to heal on orbed target, then his ult can apply healing orb on all targets. Making ult also very mechanically skill based

[@sgt.yarpyarp144]

I’d love to see presentations to blizzard every other month, seriously though I would love if the shorts or comics were actually accessible in the client

[@bogdanbotezan7162]

Sideshows laugh when Bren says 8 is amazing😂😂

[@StuddMuffinn_YT]

Im very much a fan of the Orisa buff. Cause as is her fortify only works against bad players or while looking away from enemies. Meaning that its alot like a rien hard shielding after taking a bunch of damage. With the buff it means she can actually push past her shield (making her exposed to ana bio nades and making a Zarya off tank a good choice) in order to take space. Orisa in the Live patch is just a mini bastion turret that doesnt do much. She sits there shielding people and spamming damage into shields. IMO the buff would make a lot more comps viable (like Orisa Zarya, Orisa Hog, Orisa Rien Rush, etc.) instead of the 3-4 that we see. (RIen Zarya Rush, Orisa Sigma Bunker, Winston DVA Dive).

[@JanNiediek]

to the suggestion reinforce made to moira healing and damaging at the same time. Since for the most part you would have to be near the enemies to deal damage, idea would be, that she poops out the heal to the back

[@tymunster]

"If there was 1 balance change you could do" Hang on lemme get my fucking LIST Echo: -Primary fire spread increased 20% -Focusing Beam maximum damage reduced from 200DPS to 180DPS -Sticky bombs no longer explode when missing a player -Cancelling glide gives another burst of speed Sigma -projected barrier is REMOVED -base HP increased from 300-350 -base shield HP increased from 100-150 -increase impact damage of hyperspheres from 30-35 Reinhardt -increase shield HP from 1600-1750 -increase barrier recharge rate from 200hps to 250 hips -steadfast resistance increased from 30%-40% -Firestrike damage reduced from 100 to 95 Roadhog -Increases weapon spread 5% -hook damage reduced from 30 to 5 -take a breather does the AoE thing again Soldier -make him good please

[@ScorchHellfire]

If I was going to do something in Experimental, I would bring back Hanzo's Scatter Arrow and Make Genji only melee again.

[@eringlasrud6484]

Overwatch NEEDS an in-game tournament system like the Clashes in LoL! Many players, myself included, would enjoy that way more than playing ranked, because at the very least you'd end up in more games with teammates who actually care about trying to win; even if the matches were more challenging, they'd still be more fun for people who like to tryhard. And it would provide an environment that was more conducive to playing in a 6-stack, which is pretty fun and arguably one of the best ways to play Overwatch, but is basically disincentivized by the current ranked system. Hoping to see that come to the game someday.

[@houktg]

man Matt is a good dude, but the whole "constantly interrupt the presentations to say something less funny than the presentation itself" bit got old REAL fast

[@xAznkid465]

he actually killed an otherwise hilarious and amazing episode

[@wernerruch6218]

Reinforce for President! Best presentation I have ever seen.

[@williamjesse8475]

sideshow killed his presentation. kudos, comics in client, brilliant make it happen mr overwatch

[@sindri1447]

As a former Winston main that now shreds Winston like paper with Tracer(with a guilty conscience); I really like the Winston buff. More of that please.

[@williamniedrich2177]

Can yall try to read visuals aloud more? Found this show end of last season, and i love hearing the analysis, humor, behind-the-scenes stories, hot takes, and trying to keep the show monetized :D But I had a hard time fitting the sometimes hours-long episodes in my schedule as a new dad (my son Jax is 6 months old). Just last week I found you guys available as a podcast on Spotify and I was thrilled (I listen to you at work), but at times like this discussing the Exp. Card Changes, I wish you would read aloud the content, because at times content is just shown on screen (works great for youtube) but on the podcast i cant see content yall are referring to. Sincerely, an Overwatch Fan

[@hellkrasher1]

Great episode!

[@fluffyda13east]

If I was to do an experimental mode, I would add movement speeds for each character. A robotic ninja should not move at the same speed as dwarf or a fat guy with fishing hook and a canteen.

[@sphenodon2016]

super vs Jeff might be the greatest showdown the world has ever seen

[@nicholasrousseau7599]

For the changes, if I was on the panel I'd make every splash damage ability do slightly more damage but have way less splash area.

[@mohithkumar3024]

I am actively coming back to this pod just to watch the presentations so I don't shoot my brains out at work

[@umamason5311]

Josh has the best presentation, hands down.

[@5614Noah5614]

When you realize that Brens hanzo change was just hanzo with symmetryas gun

[@KingOfNebbishes]

I simply don't understand why I'm playing a different game than everyone else. I play Hammond, I routinely eat every single cooldown an enemy can throw at me, they swap to counters as quick as they can, they focus me like crazy, and then guys in much higher ranks complain that Hammond just runs rampant, no one switches, no one can focus him, like, they do that stuff in low ranked QP, what exactly are these high levels doing?