Jeff Kaplan: Mei's body shape controversy and new browsing features

Welcome everybody to another developer update.
I’m Jeff from the Overwatch team.
Really excited about today’s developer update because
we’re gonna talk about a feature that we mentioned at BlizzCon
and we’re finally introducing to you guys.
And that feature is
the "Scum Browser".
. It’s a really cool feature where
people can mark other players
for being a terrible member of the Overwatch community
and then other people can find that player’s BattleTag
in a public list and then
then harass them until they improve their behaviour.
And there’s all sorts of sorting and filtering options
to help you find exactly what kind of player you’re looking for.
We have a really cool filter option that lets you filter directly
directly for things like “Bastion mains”
or we’ve added a type-in box where you can type in exactly what you’re looking for.
. You might just say
“person who keeps putting their spray over mine”
or “players who hit the ball off the spawn room table”.
So, that’s just one of the small social features
we’re gonna keep making ones like that to really encourage people to, you know
hopefully make lifelong enemies playing Overwatch
and turn on each other
because we think it really enhances the experience.
Now one area where we might not see eye to eye on with the player base
is Mei’s Lunar New Year skins.
Uhm so I know some players were really upset
about her ass shape
Uhm, the truth is we believe
Mei can be a big, beautiful character
but still fit in to Overwatch in a really positive way
. So we plan to grow Mei’s ass
ass in a really healthy, sort of slow growth sort of way
so that by the end of June
it will be large enough to balance six Roadhogs on top of it.
. And of course, there will be some new emotes for when other heroes
interact with Mei’s ass.
For example, Tracer can’t resist the urge
to press her face against it, and wait until you see
Winston with Primal Rage what he can do. It’s pretty amazing.
Year of the Rooster event was fantastic
People have responded so positively to Capture the Rooster.
You guys really seem to enjoy
standing around for up to five minutes defending your flag.
Uhm, and there was this feeling of excitement,
wondering, you know, will this game
end in a tie
tie or maybe a draw?
So that was a lot of fun for you guys.
And we are adding nine additional Capture the Rooster maps
for the super low price of 25.99.
So you should sort of prepare yourself for that.
Sort of out of time right now but
but if you ever have a topic you want us to cover please let us know about it.
Thanks for your dedication and support, and we’ll see you in the next one.
We have an absolutely fantastic music group here at Blizzard
but anything they can do Jeff can do better, so..
[Breathing Intensifies]
Two to the one from the one to the three,
, what’s up this is Jeff from the Overwatch team
Making changes you wouldn’t believe
. Gonna take you out with a long range beam.

Jeff Kaplan: Mei's body shape controversy and new browsing features

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