{"id":2448,"date":"2017-10-29T15:48:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T15:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2017-10-29T15:48:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T15:48:49","slug":"overwatchview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2017\/10\/overwatchview\/","title":{"rendered":"OverwatchView"},"content":{"rendered":"

Specifically, the team behind Overwatch wanted to address a criticism they have received from users over the last few months: It can be challenging to follow what’s going on when watching Overwatch eSports. They’ve taken the following steps that will hopefully make things a little better.<\/em><\/p>\n

Viewing improvements<\/a>. Let me get this straight: Overwatch players themselves are having a hard time to decipher what is going on between 25<\/strong> very different heroes that rotate on 4<\/strong> different roles while using several<\/strong> abilities in blazing fast action.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a huge amount of data to process while watching a game. People watching sports are chilling. They can process data but it needs to be simpler, a lot simpler than 25 very different players doing a billion different things in a very fast-paced fashion. Nobody got time for that, even regular Overwatch players don\u2019t apparently.<\/p>\n

Overwatch\u2019s esport watching issue is a game design issue. The game needs to have a mode where things are a lot slower or simpler.<\/p>\n

After being all the rage around 2000, the arena shooter is back. But there\u2019s a problem: people watch people play now, and it\u2019s a big deal.<\/em><\/p>\n

I watched Overwatch\u2019s 16 \u201cheroes\u201d and you have to appreciate Blizzard\u2019s surgery at work, how things are readable in a chaos of green, blue bullets, force shields, particles and so forth. It\u2019s amazing how good they are at manipulating color palette.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is also super fast. It\u2019s pretty much unwatchable for 90% of people if not more.<\/em><\/p>\n

I wrote that<\/a> two years ago and I guess I wasn\u2019t wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Specifically, the team behind Overwatch wanted to address a criticism they have received from users over the last few months: It can be challenging to follow what’s going on when watching Overwatch eSports. They’ve taken the following steps that will hopefully make things a little better. Viewing improvements. Let me get this straight: Overwatch players […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}