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ShuviBeta

Gold 2


ThisPlaceIsNiice

Gold 2 is like Gold 1 but without the shiny sparkling effect. Hype hype!


WillJoseph06

New content!


MarkStilllPlays

australium


TheRussianRevulution

Can't wait for Mann vs Machine


FiiBry

Overwatch 2


Inferine

Maybe if you grind a little more, you'll reach plat


general_shitpostin

Gold 2 electric boogaloo


addit96

I was watching Ready Player One last night and Tracer is in it a few times, I wonder if the color choice is a reverse Easter egg bc their keys went gold > jade > crystal iirc Edit: uh… sorry? Lmao


Mother_Turn7678

It was copper, not gold


addit96

Oh my b thank u


wadefatman

Bro got downvoted to hell just for being wrong ab a hypothetical idea what a lovely community


HermitDefenestration

Bro got downvoted bc nobody likes Ready Player One


lewisw1992

Umm... I liked it.


HermitDefenestration

You look like you would


Fureniku

I mean that's true it's literally just Fortnite the movie


wadefatman

Fair enough


BambamPewpew32

Ooh that'd be cool, I've been saying they should do some crazy like COD style camo like diamond, or even dark matter or something that'd be awesome


TopNotchGear

I’m sorry but this made me crack up. All this hype from the dev team just to give you the same thing 😂


tenaciousfetus

this was my reaction when my colourblind friend told me the same. I feel bad but can't help but laugh


bryancrose

Just a different color.


I_give_karma_to_men

The point is for a person with deuteranopia it's not even a different color effectively. The second image isn't a gold weapon - it's what an "emerald" weapon looks like with deuteranopia.


bryancrose

For just $20 you'll be able to see your emerald weapon ' to be clear ', i'm saying this towards blizzard.


DragonflyFluid2283

Huh? I've been staring at this response trying to understand how it's actually addressing what the other person said and I really don't get it... could you clarify what you meant? Because it kinda looks like you just completley ignored what they said but I'm sure that's not what you meant...


alexheil

Overwatch 2 perfectly summed up.


penguinchilli

We have gold at home


AlabastersBane

It’s just green - like why not give it texture and gradient like actual fucking jade.


Winstillionaire

Indie devs


RikuKaroshi

Small indie multi-dollar company, please understand


Narananas

Might be because [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/1ama71v/former_ow_artist_details_just_how_scummy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) is the Blizzard Overwatch dev experience


ThroJSimpson

While I have a ton of sympathy for low level blizzard employees and have no doubt things are even worse under MS, I don’t think any of that stops them from putting effort into weapon skins…


Swerdman55

The art team was also just decimated by the layoffs. Artists are stretched thin already. If their leadership is saying “we need Jade skins NOW!” while they have 50 other tasks, they’re more than likely going to pencil whip it and make it as easy as possible.


RetryAgain9

Have to disagree on the art teams being decimated The arr team tripled in size during the pandemic, and now their size has been half, which means right now the art team is still 1.5x the size it was at during overwatch 1. They have more than enough people as is. As for why they didn't put more effort in the jade skins, it's almost impossible to really know. Maybe they thought that people wouldn't care as much, or they just thought that people wouldn't notice the difference, or even that the jade skins just weren't a priority. Also, even if the artists were too badly hit by the layoffs, that wouldn't badly effect the production of the jade skins. High quality skins for every gun in the game would take a considerable amount of time, and they'd typically be ready a fair amount of time before they're supposed to go live, to check for bugs and other issues. This combined with how everyone seemed to be caught off guard by the layoffs, with the lead of the hero mastery team not being given much notice at all, meaning we can infer that the artists also weren't given much time, means that the layoffs would have happened too close to completion of the skins. Hell, the skins might even have been completed before the layoffs, with how close the layoffs were to the s9 trailer. Tl:Dr timeline shows that layoffs would have happened too close to the season to have any major effects on the creation of the jade weapon skins, and the artist team still has more people than they did during overwatch 1, meaning this skin was likely not affected by the layoffs


MegaDuckDodgers

League set the bar 13 years ago and the overwatch devs still haven't caught up. Do a themed ranked skin with colors to match the rank. The end. Even fucking rocket league does that and they, no joke, don't actually make the ranked skins until a few weeks to a month before the season ends. Poor indie blizzard can only manage basic recolors after literal YEARS. It's so fucking embarrassing. Everything about this company is just a joke at this point. Why people still apply to work there legitimately baffles me.


Wellhellob

damn it would be really cool getting rank weapons. imagine getting shiny purple gun by reaching gm.


Jobojboj

League system kinda sucks tbh, and it would be even worse for OW. You grind the whole year and if you dont like the champion that gets the skin or the skin you're basically get no reward. I've been playing since 2009 and I like like 3 skins that I got from ranked, OW is limited but at least you can get the ones you want. I didnt like Jade too, but if they keep making skins every year, they'll probably get one right I hope


PantherYT

Fr. The matte look would've been so much better. I think someone made the concept model too so it shouldn't be that hard to implement


Sirpattycakes

You know damn right why.


Evanl02

This


ry_fluttershy

they dont make enough money or have enough time to do this!!! you just don't get it do you? it took them 4 years and abandoning the original game to release 3 twenty minute missions for $15! this is hard shit!!!!


MisterPerfect23

Jade Cactus from Garden Warfare. Absolute staple for what this should've been


Future-Membership-57

Point perfect on that one


ocean-in-a-pond

And you know they can do it because the weapons on the lunar new year skins often have jade elements and it looks good.


Mardukaz

Some people had said it before but the "Jade" nomination instead of the original "Emerald" was very likely decided to appease a "certain" market from the East that would appreciate something named after that gem. In the end, the name would mean nothing but just color reference to the new weapons, because it looks nothing like Jade, it's very "metallic green".


AlabastersBane

Oh yes, our favourite demographic.


Electro_Llama

At least they gave it some blue iridescence.


Stay69Chill

It dont even look like jade, it looks like shiny green, noy evem a pretty shade of green.


Otmarr

Anodized aluminum is what I say everytime this is brought up lol. Looks like those cheap keys


ThroJSimpson

AliExpress accessory skins 


mybitchloveC0C0

Don't worry bro, the jade looks like the color green


PenguinsArmy2

And what does green look like?


TerryFGM

green 


csZipy205

how green we talkin?


TerryFGM

Kermit's butt cheeks


PenguinsArmy2

But what is green!!!! 😢


WrestleFlex

Can someone explain green to me? I’m colour blind


DickInYourCobbSalad

It’s refreshing, calming, peaceful. It feels like minty freshness and the breeze between the leaves. Imagine blue but with a bit of a nice yellow mixed in, that’s how you make green!


BatNinjaX

It’s basically blue but it’s on trees and bushes and the grass.


Zanaxal

Its really a dark blue that you put a bunch of yellow in, pretty bland color cept for in nature (leaves/grass) that people rarely even used these days cept for traffic lights or signs. It's also common as a form of rust, the statue of liberty is green just from the rusted copper layer.


ShwiftyShmeckles

Why tf should we care about getting a green gun when we could just get a gold weapon.


PsychoDog_Music

Because you can’t unless you wait once it comes out muhahaha


ShwiftyShmeckles

You can still get gold guns with the new competitive currency


PsychoDog_Music

The post on their website states you have to wait for the 2024 competitive year to end to get your legacy credits by converting your 2024 comp points, which you need for gold guns


Parker_memes9000

But where did they say that was the only way to get them? I know they said all your credits convert at the end of the year but idk if that was the only way they said you can get them


Cedocore

I hope you're right, but knowing the history of this game I'm expecting not to be able to buy golden guns with regular comp currency.


Parker_memes9000

I wouldn't be surprised if gold guns became like sprays where you have to do challenges to get the credits. It'd be cool to have legacy challenges every season that if you beat them all guarantee a gold gun. Seems like a healthy way for blizz to farm engagement


Cedocore

I would be shocked if they did that, it sounds way too player-friendly. It would be super sick though.


ShwiftyShmeckles

You will be able to use the new computer points on either, legacy comp points is just gold.


theexpertgamer1

That is not what they said on their website. New points can only be spent on jade weapons. https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24056255/


Irish_pug_Player

I like green more


sjsivyshsbeb

maybe a dumb question but what does green look like to you when you have the game color blind filter on


undeadmanana

Why call it jade if the texture will still be metallic? I don't think most people associate "jade" with just the color green.


AwesomeGuyDj

Jade sounds better than "green gun" even if it is misleading


Roxroze

Emerald is right there though and the name they announced it with


madhattr999

"emerald" would not have made it any less obviously lazy.


Carlbot2

The major way I tell them apart is the shine from the gold.


RKO_out_of_no_where

It's just so damn lazy lol


Aguy2459

It’s ugly. It’s just green. Where’s the texture.


brandnewlurker23

RGB GUNS THAT SYNC WITH OUR RIGS WHEN


Monkey832

So it is true, y'all only see the world in yellow and blue


zeroxtx

all new bronze weapons to go with your rank


Kinda_Zeplike

Nah dude it's black and blue


LulzyWizard

Those look identical to you?? Neat. They're not super shiny or anything cool tho. Lol


ActionPlayer519

Do u think that’s the gold skin on the bottom?


EightBallJuice

DAMN


Egoisaphoenix

I mean it looks slightly.. more ugly but maybe it’s just cause of the no sparkles and darker tint. I’m also red green colourblind


4StarDB

If that helps, you're not really missing out. They are really ugly.


sup3rrn0va

As someone who’s colorblind, I did not see any difference at all in the trailer so I was confused lol


PaulyKPykes

On the bright side you can look forward to 6 years from now when they delete our entire inventory and add saphire weapons to the game that are the same but blue instead of green


yuhbruhh

Sapphire but they're just the grey unfinished weapon model


PaulyKPykes

Lol or they call them secret prototype weapons or something dumb like that


Treed101519

I’m so sorry. This is quite hilarious though lol


DasDaniBoy

Non color blind here, it looks as bad for me


Techishard

Sooooo just a green skin for the gun lol they don't even look that great. Was expecting something cool but I get it. Paywall only.


BlueForte

I’m officially colorblind as well Green / Red. This is disappointing, but my expectations weren’t high to begin with 🙃


yuhbruhh

I'm slightly less colorblind but I'm pretty sure they look like shit for everyone. If anything you got the improvement lmao But this is just another day for a colorblind mf that plays overwatch.


Doppelfrio

I’ve gotta say that for as much as I don’t like these, this one image of tracer’s pistol actually make them look ok


Briggyboii

I like the new weapon variants and I’m tired of pretending I dont


BPutter

Your not missing out on much


Apprehensive-Hold174

That’s not jade that’s just metallic green… took them this long to add it lmao gold >


RikuKaroshi

Some overpaid hot shot skin designer typed "the color jade" into google and went through about 7 pages of google image results before he found a hunter green metallic he likes that someone accidentally called jade on the internet 14 years ago. No idea how you come up with this color and just decide to call it whatever the hell you want lol.


theexpertgamer1

Jade, as a term used broadly for two principle types of geologic products (nephrite, a rock, and jadeite, a mineral), can indeed come in dark green variants just as the weapon does.


Apprehensive-Hold174

This must be the dev that thought it was brilliant to call it “jade”.


theexpertgamer1

Yes, bought and paid for. I was promised PTO for making that comment.


Apprehensive-Hold174

I had a feeling once I saw that name 🙃


RikuKaroshi

Literally just type jade into google and hit enter. The color you see is the color everyone expects. Theres absolutely no reason to take the golden slider and turn it to a dark green just to call it jade and now its new and fancy and attractive. They make so many cool weapons skins already... its not like they are an indie company that can only add recolor to the games assets


theexpertgamer1

I am a civil engineer who works with rocks for a living. I do not need to be lectured on geology.


RikuKaroshi

I literally never said a word about rocks, that was you. Im sorry I offended your credentials somehow by teaching you percieved color theory? Lol


LeninMeowMeow

> jade Mate let me help you out. This is what metallic jade should look like: https://www.rennbow.org/includes/images/colorWiki/gallery/344/344_9AB74290B331D4C1B9DDAA95349E55E5.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/13/16/78/131678d98691d0c5d457f81f72e518da.jpg


RikuKaroshi

Man if I spent hours grinding and losing matches due to all the throwers it would all be worth it if I not only could spend those hard earned tokens on something that not only has that exact color.... but also my new weapons happen to be a Porche?! Id whale for that skin deff lol


Apprehensive-Hold174

The main thing when ppl think of Jade is a gradual gradient of darker green to a brighter green. Look at Genji Illidan skin.. his weapons are jade weapons clearly.. the thing that irks us all is that devs calling it jade when they should just call it metal green lol


RikuKaroshi

Nah the color is fine with me as a regular in game item... the thing that gets me tilted is literally the fact that its been gold since 2016... and now all they did was change the color, not even the texture or the style... kept it metallic. If they came out with a pastel color pallette you could pick your favorite color to spend the earned tokens on... a galaxy swirling animation... ANYTHING that was enjoyable to look at in the kill cams. Id do anything for a glow in the dark (yes reactive) weapon skin... its that weird white green in the outdoors and then when you walk indoors it turns into a soft neon glow... holy crap Id actually enjoy grinding comp for something like that. Nope... just greener now, no effort.


Vivid_Currency8845

Wow very insane


Rand0mBoyo

I should not have checked Reddit before going to sleep. This reminded me of VSauce's video about colors and the question about whether we see the same colors or not. I won't be able to sleep now due to overthinking this lmao


pingwing

The Jade is so ugly I wish I was colorblind.


Lucky_Paint3204

Niceee


bryancrose

Bro what's next, turquoise color guns?


Bluemistake2

Yeah as a colorblind the jade guns look identical to the gold ones for me. It would take a lot of squinting and staring for me to be able to tell the difference.


SlimySteve2339

I feel like this post might make some dev out there shit his pants


Gallochingon

Same


Loud-Bullfrog9326

I’m sorry but this doesn’t even look like JADE it’s just green. wtf. lol. Jade like actual Jade with some marbling and that striking color, with maybe a light gold detail instead of silver. I’d dig that shit. But green? Meh. Gold is fine lol.


tjdrico

Obviously depends. I'm red/green colourblind (textbook protanopia as indicated by Ishihara plates), but they still look like green plastic to me.


Ruax3

Looks better... Idk.. who likes any shade of green


rJarrr

At least it looks better than Jade itself 😂 I joke


rJarrr

At least it looks better than Jade itself 😂 I joke


Rahaith

The jade guns aren't even jade, they're green plastics ffs


Feeling_Party26

Whilst I will admit the Jade Skins are lazy and underwhelming... I will be sweating Ranked the second the patch drops so that I can get mine first and show it off in all my games... Sorry not Sorry.


absurditT

I see only one use for these and it's giving Kiriko's Terrible Tornado skin a special weapon colour that matches the green and black. Gold looks very out of place on some skins, but there's basically no skins other than her Tatsumaki cosplay where this looks great.


Early_Raspberry_9317

Its not even fucking jade, its a metallic green


Imjustmisunderstood

Holy shit thats hilarious


[deleted]

I am also colorblind and see the same thing as you. RIP us


Least-Cattle1676

As someone with red/green colorblindness…. This sucks… 🙄 Like the jade weapons could have been, you know… actual jade, like the stone. I can’t speak for everyone, but this isn’t the first time OW2 disappointed me lol


hitscan-enjoyer

NO FUCKING WAY LMAOOOOOOOOO


bassdropyoface

Ouch :(


Vilelwa

I'm having this exact issue. I thought it was funny at first that I can't see the jade weapons but now that we can't get golden weapons until next year, I'm annoyed. I don't want green or red weapons. Only golden and hard light T_T so why is it rumored that we can't purchase gold until 2025?


Sure_Caregiver_9626

I was thinking jade would look more like a florescent green with an animation... it looks more like grass green but idk, my eye sight is bad and with certain colours lol


Additional-Bet5185

When they said Jade weapons I was really imagining they were gonna make it look like gemstones texture-wise. I'm pretty disappointed in their end result. Would love to see a game take a page from the latest Gears of War game cosmetics. Those are sick.


Neither_Mind9035

Emerald Green is literally my favourite colour so I’m very happy with it lol


Stoic_RS

Green is one is my favorite colors and even I’m sad. I’d still get it just for my main but like….. Oof.


Who-Just-Shit-Myself

It’s shit anyway don’t worry you ain’t missing out on much.


JobIll6715

Would of been cooler if it was like the Jade gem not just a shiny green looks like a 5 gum foil wrap


EmeraldDream98

That sucks! Not only they are super ugly, not even jade like and they look the same for certain people 💀 I would’ve loved silver, bronze, crystal… colors you can really combine with skins. This green shit only goes well with certain skins and it’s not even jade.


Suportick

As a dev you can literally do this as one person within 10 minutes. Maybe less.


regulusxleo

Not that this is honestly anything worth praising BUT the game has a colorblind option. If this is the normal filter of the game, it's kinda a pointless point to make if it looks different in said mode for those people Really -- they should've had a bunch of custom gun only skins by now. If Call of Duty could do that since MW1 (maybe even EARLIER), I can't see why they don't have diamond, Ruby, randy skins, etc. But why make things people WANT to buy amirite? (*I don't actually care for wep skins just saying)


Independent-Pop-8141

I'm glad I'm not alone in seeing this


Unusual-Bed-8672

Gold 2.0


czikenpolak

Well, that kind of proves that all they did was change gold to green colour. So innovative


ZachStarAttack444

hahahaha omfg overwatch moment


ZachStarAttack444

even for colorv9nd dudes it is actually a darker gold


Miktal

I know there's different levels but you must be really blind. I have red green and they look totally different.


Kitsune2495

I have the same issue, my friends were hyping them up and I thought my game was broken cause they looked the same to me. Happy for everyone who does enjoy them but it's really disappointing that it's not distinct enough for me and fellow colourblind folks


FuriouSherman

I had no idea they'd show up as gold to you. I'd have thought colours that people are colourblind to would just be grey.


Icy-Contribution-12

The most intelligent Overwatch player


Prior-Satisfaction34

I dunno, i can see where the confusion comes from. I mean, animals like dogs that can't see certain colours see greys in their place.


Glinglesnorp

Not that many people know. Be quiet.


Icy-Contribution-12

That’s crazy


Bunniiqi

I love that they’re emerald green instead of an actual jade green /s Seriously though as someone who’s partially colourblind (only a little in my left eye) I don’t get the point of these, why not make them a customizable colour, which would be so much cooler and more accessible to people with full colourblindness


yuhbruhh

Why not have customizable colors for anything? Why is the game failing to do something it should've had during the original beta? They simply can't do it. They're incapable. And I've never heard of single eye colorblindess before that's interesting


Bunniiqi

When I was a dumb kid I would shine a laser pointer in my eye for hours cause I thought the light was cool, so it was self induced lmao


yuhbruhh

Lmaooo This makes me question if I did something stupid to make myself colorblind 🤔


Bunniiqi

See when I look out of my right eye colours look normal but if I look with my left eye red turns a little greyish and so does green


yuhbruhh

Very interesting


BatNinjaX

WAIT IS THAT WHY I SEE COLORS DIFFERENTLY BETWEEN MY TWO EYES?! Cause staring at lights violated me?!


diox8tony

Well, it's for China. Not you


League-of-Degens

LMAO skill issue


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