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Soothing Vapors posted:2+ widowmakers is how I know the next 5 minutes of my life are going to suck I posted the same earlier, I hate 2 windowmakers and you're pretty much guaranteed to lose. Also getting lots of teams with 2-3 genji who can't play genji for poo poo. Kinda wish Blizz would have locked Widowmaker, Genji and Hanzo behind a "you must reach level 15" unlock or something. I'm generally against level-up unlocks in competitive shooters but god drat, those classes are obviously the hardest to play well and yet seem to attract the most unskilled players more often than not. Blizz went and designed plenty of classes like Bastion, Mei, even Junkrat to an extent, plenty of others, which are for people who can't aim.
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So I actually lucked out and got the best Tracer skin right away Also got Pharah's Jackal skin, which is objectively second best to the Gundam.
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May 24, 2016 16:12
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Daric posted:Mei is hilarious. She has just enough health to be super annoying and I love putting up a wall to block an exit so everyone has to funnel out of the other right into my team. if you can also get a wall between roadhog with his hook out and your teammate, you can save them from being pulled in all the way
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May 24, 2016 16:13
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gigawhite posted:On that note, I could never tell yesterday if I was far enough away from d.va's mech explosion thing to not get taken out. Pretty massive range on that one. The warning sign turns from red to orange when you're outside of the kill range.
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May 24, 2016 16:13
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Feels like they hosed up roadhog's hook. Having a lot more instances of hooking people just for them to get caught on scenery instead of getting dragged to me. Or getting dragged to me at weird angles. Almost never happened in OB but it has consistently happened every game I've hog'd in so far.
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May 24, 2016 16:13
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Edmond Dantes posted:If you're playing Mei start timing your walls so you let one person slip through before blocking the path; it's always hilarious seeing someone try to backpedal only to hit The Wall and die horribly when your team opens on them. Yeah I've been trying to do that when I get the opportunity. I'm playing on PS4 so if you press R1 to prep the wall and press R1 again it'll change the direction. I also enjoy cutting off half a point so my team can load up in it and start claiming it before they can stop us. 2 Mei's fighting each other over a point is amazing to watch. Just giant wall after giant wall.
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May 24, 2016 16:14
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mcbexx posted:When a round "clicks", this is the most fun I have had in a game in a long, long time. I don't have a problem with losing if the other team is just plain better that yours. But when you lose because your whole team is out pimping their k/d ratio or standing just a bit outside the point without contesting it with the timer ticking down? I am become salt, hater of games. /edit: Daric posted:Yeah I've been trying to do that when I get the opportunity. I'm playing on PS4 so if you press R1 to prep the wall and press R1 again it'll change the direction. Not only that, you can use Mei's wall to climb stuff. Flip its direction and aim down while running, you can get on high-ish ledges (like the opening to the side of Hanamura's point A entry when defending) and icicle people in the back of their stupid heads. You won't get Genji-level mobility, but it'll get you places most people don't expect to see a Mei coming from. /edit2: vvvvv I like you Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at 16:17 on May 24, 2016 |
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May 24, 2016 16:14
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Mei is actually useful for non-trolling purposes as you can use her walls to boost people over inaccessible gaps, like the one in Hanamura, which means you can get your entire team, Reinhardt included, over that gap and attack from the wrong angle.
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May 24, 2016 16:14
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Zaphod42 posted:
That's me... Im enjoying ruining everyones experience to play my lovely rear end ninja game.
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May 24, 2016 16:15
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You know... In the closed beta I got like 5-6 gold cards as we all voted and did not mind voting for the other team.
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May 24, 2016 16:16
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I like Genji, but I'm not the best at him. I'm competent enough to know how to combo and how to flank and which targets to prioritize, but I still have a lot of improvement. Honestly I think you should be forced to get to level 20 in Play vs AI before you're allowed onto live servers to inflict your misery on others.
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May 24, 2016 16:16
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Failboattootoot posted:Feels like they hosed up roadhog's hook. Having a lot more instances of hooking people just for them to get caught on scenery instead of getting dragged to me. Or getting dragged to me at weird angles. Almost never happened in OB but it has consistently happened every game I've hog'd in so far. I've been hooked through walls a few times now so I think it's working too well
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I love the game, but I really cannot understand why the game allows multiple instances of the same heroes to be used on a team. It is only seems to reduce the variety you see, and there are plenty enough characters of each type that it should not be an issue. It also leads to dumb team comps like the 5 tolberones and 1 hanzo my friends and I saw yesterday on Anubis. yes you can switch to genji to hard counter the turrets, however there is a choke point the attackers must pass through that means its a shooting gallery when there are 5 turrets, 5 dwarfs, and a sniper hitting you. especially when you cannot get everyone to switch characters, it means you mostly just get stomped on and its dumb af. Siege uses first come first serve character selection and it works just fine.
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May 24, 2016 16:17
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Eonwe posted:good morning Me too. Play with me if you want to lose every game while one of your teammates wanders aimlessly around the map and then dies
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May 24, 2016 16:17
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WoodrowSkillson posted:I love the game, but I really cannot understand why the game allows multiple instances of the same heroes to be used on a team. It is only seems to reduce the variety you see, and there are plenty enough characters of each type that it should not be an issue. Because 5 roadhog/winston/whatever + 1 lucio comps are fun and dumb. And just like any massed thing you just mass them right back and it all works out Jeeze everyone takes this game so seriously
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May 24, 2016 16:21
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Zarya is tied with Roadhog as my favourite tank. I go for the Tobelstein all the time and I get it because Zarya always gets what she wants.
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May 24, 2016 16:22
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Thoughtless posted:I've been hooked through walls a few times now so I think it's working too well Hook is hitscan so he probably clicked on you right before you rounded the corner.
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May 24, 2016 16:22
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I love playing as Mercy, I will play as her until someone else picks her in a pubbie match so in other words I will play as her forever. I've always loved dedicated healer characters and she's a fun one. I feel like if I refuse to stray too far from capture points then pubbies will sometimes just end up staying in the general vicinity of the capture points for the healing, so you can sort of control the flow of pubbie games if you get a group that isn't too allergic to capture points. I think onscreen healing notifications need to be a different color, the white blends in too well so I don't notice it immediately. Maybe a flashing technicolor notification or something. Other than that I'm pretty fond of the ui, and I love that you're allowed to turn around and look at other teammates' health bars/keep an eye out for ambushes without losing track of the person you're healing. I know it's not been released for long but is there a good Mercy guide by someone who was in beta or something? I feel like I have a good handle on her but I really wanna get better. Any tips you guys have would be fine too, such as common mistakes you see people making as Mercy. Thanks friends!
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May 24, 2016 16:22
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Overwatch uses a "favour the shooter" system, which means that if someone shoots you, you are shot, regardless of how it appears on your screen.
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May 24, 2016 16:23
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i like zarya because if I hear a massive damage ult coming at least two of us will survive and I will have 100% power for a little while
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May 24, 2016 16:24
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Because 5 roadhog/winston/whatever + 1 lucio comps are fun and dumb. And just like any massed thing you just mass them right back and it all works out except if your team does not mass in return its just a boring slog for the side that is getting stomped
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May 24, 2016 16:24
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Ddraig posted:Overwatch uses a "favour the shooter" system, which means that if someone shoots you, you are shot, regardless of how it appears on your screen. Unless you do the special thing that stops the shot from hitting you on your screen
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May 24, 2016 16:25
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Ddraig posted:So I actually lucked out and got the best Tracer skin right away Since we're talking about annoyances with character design anyways, the goth skins for Tracer and Zarya feel 'meh' compared to the legendary skins other heroes get.
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May 24, 2016 16:26
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WoodrowSkillson posted:except if your team does not mass in return its just a boring slog for the side that is getting stomped But if they are massing and you are not then that means they are also coordinating and your side is not, and teamwork is forever OP
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May 24, 2016 16:27
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net cafe scandal posted:Hook is hitscan so he probably clicked on you right before you rounded the corner. Almost certainly a combination of Hook (hitscan but will animate to hit you wherever you run) and the fact that Overwatch has a tick-rate of 20 while many games use a tick-rate of 60. The tick-rate issue results in a ton of 'On his screen he saw X, but I saw Y'!
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May 24, 2016 16:28
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I really like playing Lucio because my typical strategy of following my team around and missing every shot I take is still very helpful
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May 24, 2016 16:30
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Atoramos posted:Since we're talking about annoyances with character design anyways, the goth skins for Tracer and Zarya feel 'meh' compared to the legendary skins other heroes get. Tracer gets Goth, Zarya gets Rivethead. There's a difference 
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May 24, 2016 16:30
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don't worry you guys were the good team i was with last night  but i also have like 35+ other friends who were also playing overwatch and i'm pretty sure at least some of them are bad
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May 24, 2016 16:31
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Running as a stack of six last night involved getting utterly stomped by far better players over and over because no MMR has built up but was still fun will stack again
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May 24, 2016 16:31
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WoodrowSkillson posted:except if your team does not mass in return its just a boring slog for the side that is getting stomped The cool thing is that the slog can only go up to something like 10 minutes But those 10 minutes can feel like forever O_O
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I played an AI match to test graphics stuff and its cute that the bots say gg at the end of the match.
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May 24, 2016 16:37
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the coolest part of overwatch is all the people who don't like it are making posts across the internet like they're enlightened scholars shaking their heads in disbelief at the grubby masses of kowtowing Blizzardslave sheeple. I havent seen this many people being smug about not liking a video game since mainline Call of Duty
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May 24, 2016 16:38
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net cafe scandal posted:I played an AI match to test graphics stuff and its cute that the bots say gg at the end of the match. Yeah I haven't seen that since Quake 3 and its real nice. Kinda threw me off at first.
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May 24, 2016 16:39
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net cafe scandal posted:I played an AI match to test graphics stuff and its cute that the bots say gg at the end of the match. i like that some of them even put passive aggressive emotes like "gg :\ "
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May 24, 2016 16:40
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whalestory posted:The cool thing is that the slog can only go up to something like 10 minutes And yet, when you're making that final push and failing they can go by so fast.
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May 24, 2016 16:41
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DreamShipWrecked posted:But if they are massing and you are not then that means they are also coordinating and your side is not, and teamwork is forever OP agreed, however that's still not a good reason to allow multiple instances of a character in a game with 21 of them. the most fun games are when its all different characters so there are the most variables at play
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May 24, 2016 16:41
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Welp. I golded healing with 76 compared to our Mercy. Granted I started as Lucio but I quickly dropped him because our team comp had nobody to loving heal (i.e. flankers, snipers, people on a thousand year vision quest to find kills)
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May 24, 2016 16:42
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WoodrowSkillson posted:agreed, however that's still not a good reason to allow multiple instances of a character in a game with 21 of them. In an organized group, stacking 5-6 of someone can be hilarious and good. I just don't want to see this when I solo queue: 
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May 24, 2016 16:47
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LordVonEarlDuke posted:the coolest part of overwatch is all the people who don't like it are making posts across the internet like they're enlightened scholars shaking their heads in disbelief at the grubby masses of kowtowing Blizzardslave sheeple. I havent seen this many people being smug about not liking a video game since mainline Call of Duty I dont think thats the coolest part about Overwatch :P
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WoodrowSkillson posted:agreed, however that's still not a good reason to allow multiple instances of a character in a game with 21 of them. They shouldnt restrict characters since double heroes can make for really interesting team comps and gimmick teams are fun and seem to be effective in public matches at least
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