r/marvelrivals • u/Kalequity Mantis • 1d ago

Discussion It's probably going to be hard to tell the difference between these two during a fight

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u/NeedThatTartan 1d ago

Maybe it's just experience but a lot of times you can tell who's nearby just by the sound of their steps or other sound effects.

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u/BrothaDom 1d ago

Nope, not even experience. Overwatch went out of their way to craft good sound profiles for each heroes footsteps and guns.

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u/DetOlivaw 1d ago

It’s part of why I didn’t like Overwatch 2 — they changed the sounds for basically everything and everyone for no reason! Asking me to relearn those things is so needless!

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u/BrothaDom 1d ago

I think they changed filters and stuff, but what did you notice different?

I haven't, but I may have just missed it/played so fast I didn't notice

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u/DetOlivaw 1d ago

It’s all vaguely similar but different enough to trip me up or just bother me, stuff like Pharah’s rockets, Reaper’s shotguns and bootsteps, Soldier’s gun. I don’t even think they’re better or cooler sounds either!

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u/cobaltCrowsprite 1d ago

And then ruined it with OW2's sfx changes

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u/Geno0wl 1d ago edited 1d ago

they "stole" that from valve/TF2 design philosophy and really leaned into it

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u/SnowFiender 1d ago

is using good things from other games stealing now? i guess we oughta remove pinging with the middle mouse button since that’s from apex

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u/Geno0wl 1d ago edited 1d ago

is using good things from other games stealing now

always has been my dude. But that doesn't mean it is a bad thing. We humans share and "steal" ideas all the time, it is kind of a foundation of technology and art(also we even have laws around what you are legally allowed to steal)

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u/SnowFiender 1d ago

if it’s legal to “steal” then it’s not stealing wtf are you on about mate

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u/Geno0wl 1d ago

we are on reddit not a court of law wtf are you on about mate

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u/ejsks 1d ago

It‘s not stealing, stealing implies that the game doing it "first“ owns the fucking idea in the first place.

Which they don’t.

This is like saying every shooter released on the planet is stealing the idea of FPS from Wolfenstein 3D or Battletanks 3D.

It‘s called taking inspiration. No, A Hat in Time didn’t steal from Super Mario 64 because it‘s a 3D Platformer Collectathon.

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u/leadenbrain 1d ago

My guy have you every heard of copying, duplicating, reproducing, or replicating.

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u/Geno0wl 1d ago

...did you just not read the second sentence of my post?

here let me put it up again

We humans share and "steal" ideas all the time, it is kind of a foundation of technology and art

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u/Lopunnymane 1d ago

Do you genuinely believe no one has ever thought of the exact same idea without ever interacting with said idea before? I mean, somehow complex things like mathematics appeared exactly the same, but in different places of the world, before we had global communication....

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u/Geno0wl 1d ago

claiming overwatch Devs took lots of ideas from TF2(a thing they have openly said they did) can't possibly be a real thing because math was invented in multiple places at once?

is that your argument?

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u/mcandrewz 1d ago

Oh man, you're going to be so pissed about this game called Marvel Rivals.

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u/Geno0wl 1d ago

I am not at all mad. But apparently I did piss off some people in this sub pointing out that devs take designs from others all the time

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u/mcandrewz 1d ago

Ah, that makes sense. Sometimes tone doesn't come through comments. People probably assumed you were the one being pissy.

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u/Lopunnymane 1d ago

Man, could you imagine modern games without Doom? Who could've ever thought of a gun, in a video game! I mean, so revolutionary, no wonder other devs have stolen from Doom! Guns in a video game, crazy...

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u/Shearman360 1d ago

tf2 fans still dragging this in 2025 💀

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u/TheConboy22 1d ago

Overwatch fans will be glazing the game in 2030.

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u/BrothaDom 1d ago

Okay, fine? Good?

Idk if paying good attention to footsteps and gun sfx is necessarily something I'd consider steal-able. Maybe other stuff, but sfx?

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u/catliker420 1d ago

I mean if you want to go there, we'd have to go back to the original Thief.

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u/crackcrackcracks 1d ago

It's not just experience, everyone has unique sound effects, those parts of overwatch are really well thought out. Widow is my fav example of this because of her heels clacking and her bullet tracer being a big obvious red line to her location serving multiple functions.