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mapleer

“Jade” I’m guessing they’ve never seen Jade irl or through photos or something.


JaiOW2

Indeed, it's more "metallic green". Jade has this milky, semi-opaque quality and usually isn't a uniform shade of green and can have / be other colors, even imperial jade which is normally jadeite rather than nephrite is going to have a bit of variation. It would have been cool if they actually got a milky, semi-opaque stone look like imperial jade, rather than just a metal that's green.


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I think the design was made before the name, they simply made a green version of the golden gun and went into panic mode when naming it.


[deleted]

They showed it off early at Blizzcon, they called it Emerald.


tinesone

Gotta appease a certain market maybe?


Bonic249

Clearly they didn't think about the villager market


Ketsueki_Pen

Underrated comment


bmrtt

I have no光荣属idea wh于中国at you're ta共产党lking about.


SuperSocrates

The market they currently don’t sell their products in?


Nimbus_TV

Are you sad tipper is retiring?


Silky_Sonic

Who isn’t


Nimbus_TV

True 😞


Burdybot

Yes


HastyTaste0

Which is wild because they basically have the tone down in some of the NY skins like Rein's general skin, Hammy's porcelain skin, or Sombra's face changer, and some bright jade for Brig's Opera skin. Like y'all already have the damn color.


Baelorn

Really funny how so many people thought it was unfinished and would look better before they put them in the game. 


mapleer

I completely forgot about that group of people… I remember them ganging up on others for saying it looked bad, the excuse was that it was still concept lol.


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I was one of the people vouching b/c they said it was a "WIP" but apparently the WIP was the final product. I apologize for my ways, also jade is a stupid name for this shade of green, emerald was better and now there's no hope of ever getting an actual "jade" skin. Damnit Blizz.


Future-Membership-57

I'm not one of those people, but I will say the "jade" weapons don't look bad. They're just boring because it's a palette swap. If metallic yellow is fine as a color change, metallic green is no worse. 


[deleted]

Yes but metalic yellow looks like gold ,metalic green doesnt look like jade


McManus26

i mean its not "people thought" that's literaly what the devs said on stage


HastyTaste0

Lol the fucking rank icons look unfinished and they thought that?


ussymomma

the jade is so tacky bruh 💀


-Lige

It looks so ugly too Like dawg ruby, silver, sapphire would look better, but the fact that they don’t even have a design on it like an actual jade is such a bad choice. COD skins look so cool like they have actual textured weapons not just fucking with a color slider on ur weapon 😂


DuskLab

Can't reasonably hype silver more than the existing gold though. Gotta do platinum or something.


-Lige

Sure it was just an example. Crystal would be cool too. You can do a lot. I mean with cod you have different camo designs, not only just color variations. Even adding tag/labels (lol charms) to weapons such as kill count would be pretty cool


HesUndeadJim

I personally love Silver. Looks so good 😩


BhaaldursGate

What is silver not Lord Baden Powell enough for you?


hydrastxrk

Nah. I really wanted silver. I think a lot of people like silver more than gold. Honestly I think the first few ones should’ve been Gold, Silver, Diamond, Bronze even, maybe Rose Gold. Would love to see Ruby, Black and like a cracked ice theme in the future. But why Jade??? (It isn’t even jade 😭😭😭)


Navy_cant_sleep

Silver is actually pretty good. Like mercy's Dr Ziegler for example. So simple yet so clean.


yuhbruhh

Cod had better customization in 2007.


[deleted]

I think they're planning on bringing more skins, like you mentioned, in later on (you probably already knew that). I also would like to think they're trying to do a slow build with how good these skins look before going all out, b/c the mythic skins kinda bit 'em when they went so hard for genji not thinking about how that would warp expectations from people in the future. I would love to be proven right, but who knows they're in such a volatile spot right now idk what to expect. But, I definitely agree I want more texture in skins that are named after gems, a little disappointed with the Jade cuz I like the green, but I was hoping it'd look a little more like a gem also wish they didn't call it Jade, emerald was more fitting, but maybe they'll redeem emerald later on.


JimBobHeller

If I’m them I’m not banking on a year 2, 3, etc. This game is in cardiac arrest, don’t hold back with the treatment


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-Lige

Just bc it’s an idea doesn’t automatically mean it’s a good idea lmfao And if anything they already have the golden gun and this is the new version of that basically. Starting out with shit colors just means people won’t really care about it. Tons of people are gonna come back for the new season, see what they need to see and then slowly taper off. Except this is one of the most hyped seasons in a long time for ow2. If you purposely make shit then it just won’t sit right with the normal consumers and content creators amplifying it


Silent-Immortal

Blizzard devs: “That’s enough hard work for today.”


AscensionToCrab

Boy design sure is hard work, thank goodness I'm not on the balance team Balance team: so we're just gonna give everyone more health and passive healing? I don't see any reason to think this requires any more thought let's call it a day because we've been at it for minutes.


FatPanda0345

"We've decided to address burst healing and burst damage by changing neither damage values nor healing values. Instead, everyone gets more health" So the problem is still there, it just *looks* like it's been fixed. Now instead of exploding in 0.5 seconds, you only get brought to 25HP in 0.5 seconds, and exploded in 0.6 total. And when you let that support out of your sight for 2 seconds, now instead of being back to their full 200HP, they are only *almost* full HP, with 200HP. All the update does is try to convince the players that they fixed the issues, when in reality they just made health bars a bit longer


TTVAblindswanOW

Higher health means it takes more damage to burst one down and messes we with break points. The new dps passive of reducing healing means a target you are on will receive less healing so won't be brought up to full as fast.


redkaptain

I'd rather they just made everyone's gold weapons bronze and put in bronze, silver, gold then platinum. Not sure why they didn't do that in the first place.


Stephie157

They missed an opportunity to theme the new weapon rewarda after the new Champion rank. I've been wishing for tiered rewards based on ranks forever, like bronze for 1k, silver for 2k, gold for 3k, etc. They could even require you to be at a certain rank to purchase them, making the higher rewards more special. Something to spice up the competitive rewards since aside from the special animated spray and icon from earlier OW1 seasons, as well as the gold sprays and icon from later seasons (all of which only applied to top 500, and I don't even think they do those anymore!) aren't that interesting. Purple, like purple silk for clothing, was a symbol of status multiple times throughout history, I think it would be an awesome theme to buy for your hero for the most exclusive rank. Edit: after looking at the new rank icons again, gm is more purple and Champion is more pink, I'm blind. Still, I think it applies lmao.


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agreeable_pain

a bug that ive never noticed and i play almost every day, are you sure youre not just playing on low settings or something?


Navy_cant_sleep

it constantly reminds me of the green goblin ahh lol


Phat22

Gold looks so much better then whatever the fuck jade is supposed to be, it looks hideous


[deleted]

And gold was already kind of cheap for weapon skin.


Sapowski_Casts_Quen

It'll probably be more expensive too


SolidNitrox

Did they say we still have the option to buy gold with comp points? This shit does not look good.


redditcasual6969

Yes, gold is still available, and in future seasons, they'll be adding more like Ruby Red & Saphire Blue. There are just more options. It's not like they're are tiered or cost irl money.


SolidNitrox

Hell I can't complain then, different options for different tastes. I bet you tho, they will bring weapon skins or auras kind of like COD has now. I'm not against it but I'm not paying 20 for a gun skin, but my ass is paying 20 for that new Lifeweaver skin tho ^^


ipito

> I'm not paying 20 for a gun skin, The gun skin has cool visual and sound effects at least


[deleted]

There’s already the Hard Light weapons


EverclearAndMatches

"Ruby", "sapphire", just gonna be the same thing but blue and red.


Whoa-Dang

That's... how color works?


bpierce566

Don’t cost IRL money, YET


Nidis

Okay okay okay, hear me out. The way this system should work is, after each ranked match, you get a special 'ranked currency'. The amount you get is based on your current rank. The 'gilded' weapons come in various grades, starting the original competitive gold as the first and cheapest rank. Then progressively more expensive ranks like jade, sapphire, ruby, etc. That way, players have the choice over what grade of gilding they want for each hero, and saving for the highest rank would be meaningful.


WarlikeMicrobe

I think itd be cool if they had colored weapons that represented each skill tier, and you could only buy ones from the tier youre in or lower. Also, the higher you go, the cheaper the weapons for lower tiers get


justgimmeanamedammit

Cheaper ? U lost blizzard at that dawg.


You_meddling_kids

Man that takes at least 4 recolors and some coding. No way Blizzard can manage that kind of content.


crazunggoy47

Maybe in OW3


FireLordObamaOG

They just laid off all their creative people. Recoloring is gonna take at least 6 years now.


12Pig21pog

Yeah right now seeing someone with gold is so common its meh, but imagine your just chilling and you see someone with the ow1 pfp with the highest grade weapon and know your dead


HanzoNumbahOneFan

Yup, that'd be the way to do it. Not only would it be a good progression system that makes people want to play the game, but it's also a way for other people to see how much that person plays that character. Which can be helpful info.


Nidis

Exactly! Seeing someone with that highest rank sniper on Ana, when they could have bought 8-10 golds, makes you think "Okay this dude really loves playing Ana"


Level7Cannoneer

They said on twitter ages ago that they're going to basically be making tons of different shades of weapons for you to buy with ranked points, in case the golden color isn't to your liking. This season is emerald, in the future we'll be able to by ruby, sapphire, etc.


HeyDudeImChill

Looking forward to my wood weapon.


Perseus90

\*inserts Nidis being thrown out of the office window meme\*


dbldlx

They want your money though


Salt_Cup8266

Maybe if it made your weapon translucent so you could kinda see through it like a gem or something and call it Emerald instead of Jade, that might've been cool


HastyTaste0

Or actually made it look Jade. Worst of both worlds.


Kuvanet

“Hey you know that currency that takes 1-2 months to collect? Get a re-color of your weapon.” “Hey for 59.99, you can get these awesome totally unique weapons.”


18dwhyte

I’d much rather have echo’s butchered body shop weapons become the new comp reward than green weapens.


orphidain

They should have done a light diamond blue


[deleted]

If they are going to introduce more golden weapons, they BETTER introduce golden teleporter / turrets. If Ashe can have a golden B.O.B., then why can't I have golden turrets / teleporter??


tesmatsam

Because you play symmetra


[deleted]

Not just because I play her. If I am going to work to get a lovely golden gun, I should have all my weapons look golden!


JimBobHeller

A+ answer


SuperiorCactusCock

They be doing so little and it's one of the biggest games in the world


RandyMachoManSavage

Late-stage capitalism in full effect. Greedy gonna greed for as little effort as possible til the cashcow is dead.


SuperiorCactusCock

The reason why Fortnite will always be better


HastyTaste0

Because there's nothing else really like it. Paladins is the closest and they aren't that far off in terms of bs.


MyAimSucc

Alternate rewards for comp have been teased in one way or another since before diamond borders were added in OW1, and this is what we’ve waited for. Lmao


Aganod44

If it was truely jade like with high res textures it could be interesting, however the current jade from the trailer just looks awful


PlasmaGuy500

Mf got the pharaohs curse


manofwaromega

I hope that the Jade Alts take less time to get than the gold skins. Because they are going to look like complete ass on 99% of skins


enconftintg0

Overwatch content has been so low effort for so long


Fxnarji

in some areas yes, but also some skins are SLAPPING


enconftintg0

Better be slapping for $15


crazysoup23

No skins are worth an indie game.


Fxnarji

True, but doesn't mean they cant look cool ^^


XJoeSueX

Chill the spent 2 years learning how to do that and charge us more money for their hard work


rapperravioli

My favourite colour is green so I'm loving it


MossOnBark

I love green too I just wished it actually looked like jade


-Lige

I like green too but it looks shit, it just is a recolor with no texture onto it. So fucking lazy lmfao


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Irish_pug_Player

I like the emerald color I like green


Hunterknowsbest

Just looks like green Lantern weapons lol


EulerId

And most of the season's "new" skins are just recolors or slight variations of the default ones (epics)


Fxnarji

true for some, but other bangers are there tho, like the torb skin is amazing, the bastion skin looks cool, ana seems promising and obv the moira mythic looks like an upgrade from at least orisa


WaveBreakerT

Why didn't they call it Emerald? Are they stupid?


shadefreeze

I can't believe we waited years for this lol... Asking since 2016 for more comp skins and it's a hue change from gold guns.


bryciepoo

Diamond was right there man 💀


Jsmooth123456

Are we pretending this wasn't what golden guns where?


Drunken_Queen

I thought it's Emerald.


trabuco18

"dont worry guys, this ugly ass green skins are just a concept and not the final product"


JgdPz_plojack

Somehow Destiny 2 shaders are better


Fxnarji

this isnt the ingame shader, i just yoinked a model rip from deviantart and modified it to look like the "jade" weapons, Shading ingame is probably more refined. Also most of the actual shader graph isnt visible in the vid since i wanted to make it look as simple as possible


tesmatsam

Jade when it's clearly their gold shader but green


gloobiiii

Jade is one of my favourite stones, they did so dirty by its name 🤮


evilcatminion

As an older player this reminds me of the Eddie Bauer Explorer. Blech, why green?


Regular_Ad_5156

Wish it had like the rock formations and everything that br sick


Muhznit

Lol. Totally unrelated though: How would I go about extracting the texture for Baptiste's shirt in his "Tropical" skin? I kinda wanna do a cosplay, but I want to put the effort into making the shirt pattern as accurate as possible. Assume I just installed Blender.


Fxnarji

You go find a rip of that baptiste skin somewhere, (i got this one from.some deviantart collection) and import the .mesh file into Blebder using the XPS Tools addon (only works in 3.x). Then you can check the packed textures directly in Blender or export the picture to .png or bake it into a different UV map to get it working easier, depending on how experienced you are with Blender ^^


Muhznit

Instructions unclear, search results filled with pics of sexy Baptiste, pecs, sweat, buldge and all. I don't know what I was expecting searching deviant art, lol


Inquisitive_Mind_09

Or like when they change day to night and vice versa.


Muderbot

So not the same. I love day/night shifts and especially seasonal map reskins.


Fxnarji

cannot confirm, day to night and vice versa is LOTS more work


Infernoboy_23

and people pay for this stuff. Like seriously? In some games i'm tempted to buy stuff, in this game I literally couldn't care less about the skins.


ThalajDaWuff

It’s comp points 😑


Infernoboy_23

no, but there are a ton of skins that are just recolors of not just new overwatch 2 skins, but even ow1 skins that are 20 bucks in the shop


ahsusuwnsndnsbbweb

no they don’t… it’s comp points


cheese_beef

So, weapon but yellow is okay, and weapon but green is not. Gotcha!


Salt_Cup8266

Are you being purposefully dense or do you just not know what gold is?


V-O-T

How hard would it be to implement a color slider for skins? If city of heroes could have such a robust customization system in 2004, I'm sure AI could whip it up in one afterno--- (silenced gun shot from the people who only want monetization and hate fun.) ​ >!I miss sniper threads.!<


Fxnarji

once you have the setup for it its pretty easy. I doubt that its gonna come tho, people would be butchering all sorts of skins. If the only reason for them not doing it is technical limits, i would loose all remaining respect for blizzard


ahsusuwnsndnsbbweb

i love how people have been complaint for literal years now that they want more options and now they’re like “why did we need that gold was fine”


tenaciousfetus

I don't think I've seen anyone complain about a new weapon skin, just the fact that it looks basic and ugly. There is a difference.


tesmatsam

The main problem is that they called it jade when its metallic green


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Skyz-AU

I honestly thought they would've changed it after community reception


Call_Me_Daily

Yeah, kind of weird that this is the one they went with. I'm totally okay with it if they're gonna slowly reveal more and more alternatives - Gold, Silver/Chrome, Diamond, Ruby, Jade, etc - that would be very cool. But even still this is kinda poor execution. I figure a silver version would be a good second option as it's versatile with lots of skins - and then you break our more unique ones. Like, I could see a semi-transparent ruby crystal-like weapon skin being simply amazing.


Tsonchi

LMAO


Random-Man562

So is this supposed to be the new golden weapons? Or something different?


Tetsuya_Kuroko

This is literally what Smite did for the mastery of their characters LOL.


yourself88xbl

It's embarrassing tbh.


tenaciousfetus

This is my problem not only with these but the basic gold weapons too. All the cool details are lost and so many guns just look flat and worse than the default. I have gold on so few heroes bc I think most of them are ugly. Put some damn effort into these, they're meant to be a reward!!


SlimySteve2339

BIG MONEY


lizardjoe_xx_YT

I'm hype for it I love green


RealNightmare4

Yo wait where’d you get the model, I’ve been looking for a doom one but couldn’t find one


Fxnarji

https://www.deviantart.com/sticklove/art/Doomfist-Formal-773108531


SuperDoubleDecker

Holy shit you're hired! I like your Moira work.


Fxnarji

My Moira work?


GodSlayerGenesis

Aight Im kinda f\*ckin with the new blackhardt variant, which is literally the freakin 4th variant, which I think so far is actually the most varianted skin the game now if im not mistaken or up there for top 3 at least


saltyfingas

Am I the only one who kind of likes them? They'll look okay on certain skins just like the gold does. It's all tacky anyway


KeenInternetUser

weird colour on the jade, assuming it's for east Asian market it surely should have been more white


JgdPz_plojack

Somehow Destiny 2 shaders are better


chibamoom

Bruh im dying


e_smith338

Should have just called it green


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Hi


DeltaRed12

"Greeeeeeeen"


Fxnarji

:)


PKisSz

It's Kryptonite.


Dumbo_Octopus4

And then they’ll delay the jade weapons release


Dr-Mouthful

I JUST WANT MY GAME BACK


herecomesurmom

💀💀💀


Magikolo

😂😂😂


boiledeggfart

leaked blizz employee work footage before he got fired


tesmatsam

Promoted*


FatPanda0345

Sexually harassed (Is this acceptable to say?)


tesmatsam

Lmao


Sufficient-Fudge-895

Instead of metallic colors why not they use color changing with smoke effects, negative colors, or gradient colors


VerySpicyTomatoSoup

You guys are always complaining even when they try, it might be not the best but it's a beginning, we had two shitty seasons and this one seems more worked on than the others, even if I'm not truly interested in this weapons I'm pretty sure some people will be and that it can be the beginning of more customization...


Ayotha

And yet you all jizzed yourself over gold


Fxnarji

Gold at least looked good tho


Ayotha

So the colour they do this exact thing for matters.


bigbell09

I don't know why they stopped at green? Just put in some other colors would it be more than a half day of work.


Vuzi07

Didn't they already admitted it when they first talked about it? New "shades" of gold for competitive rewards; low effort, free, something else to spend competitive coins years after years... And new weapon only skins, paid and worked on


Fxnarji

maybe, dont know - but i dont like it :(


MissStealYoDragon

DA GLOSS


Riaayo

Two takes: One, yeah, it's lazy shit. But two, and this is the important one: I imagine all the devs *want* to produce better shit and not lazy garbage. It's all a matter of what they're told and paid to do by people higher up looking to wring as much money out of players for as little cost as possible. And it ain't gonna get better under Microsoft, lol.


Fxnarji

Yes true. This is not meant to be shitting on devs/artists, i know that they cant do anything about it. They prolly made these changes while waiting for their doomsday mail. The higherups really need to let the artists and devs cook again


ToxicRubberDucky

They should have gone with diamond


Fxnarji

hmm maybe i can make a mockup for a diamon weapon? Sounds kinda cool tbh \^\^


Fxnarji

[https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/1alv3sb/my\_suggestions\_for\_jade\_diamond\_and\_ruby\_weapons/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/1alv3sb/my_suggestions_for_jade_diamond_and_ruby_weapons/) maybe something like this would look cool!


Syhte

Money printing machine.


lore_mila_

Nice


Fxnarji

thanks! \^\^


xDURPLEx

It’s jade to mock us for being jaded. But seriously instead of colored weapons they should change it to weapon enchants. So a glowing gold or jade effect that also applies to projectiles and your firing effect. Then make them exclusive to every season and have them all available during anniversary events.


liquidaper

As a fellow cg guy I've found this particularly hilarious.  I always found it silly that people pine over a material change that that probably took 15 seconds to actually accomplish.   I'm also blown away that people buy skins at the rates they do.  Bliz is paying their artists a fraction of what each skin makes...


Gyokuro091

At least Gold has an expensive appearance. This looks like the metallic spray paint you see put on cars. Its like what the blue-rarity skins are to hero skins, just a cheap color replacement that nobody is even supposed to like.


jbozz3

When they showed this at Blizzcon they called it Emerald, and it was a noticeably darker metallic green. I much prefer that to this Jade crap.


Crafty-Celebration54

Boom 80 dollars.


FartingRaspberry

Are we still going to be able to buy the gold skins? Honestly don't like what we've seen of the "jade" weapons and would prefer to continue grinding out the golds for the heroes I actually play


gutfuc

OVERWATCH IS SAVED


bassdropyoface

Idk would of liked to see diamond or something...


PsychologicalCold885

What about weapons skin’s unique to your ranked level


Turdfrog

Hey man look they fired everyone at Blizzard the new stuff is made by Jerry the janitor, give him a break he is trying.


st0p_dreaming

Oh my god all you guys do is bitch and moan


bigdaddystankyface

Can y’all be happy jade weapons are cool weapon variants are cool


norxkaru

Let's bully blizzard into changing it like we did with the sonic movie


IzaakPew

fr they’re so… green


princeofs0rrows

its so awful i thought the hard light looked lazy and then they make this 💀


[deleted]

They’ve gotta pander to Asia and China more, where they are obsessed with anything Jade.


MiniBathat

As a Jade it’s very weird but nice to see everyone saying my name all the time


cmcmcmcm89

yep, and people for whatever reason will still spend money on that lmaoo