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Suspicious Cook posted:Yelling is a personality now? exquisite tea posted:As one of the eight people who have played Battleborn, I'll just have to defer to your expertise on this one. It's pretty telling when people just go "Well, a lot more people play Overwatch, so I guess that means it's better in every regard." Edit: I've played a lot of both games. Overwatch has a ton more polish and much smoother gameplay, but I think Battleborn knocks it out of the park on character writing and dialogue. The games are so different gameplay wise that it's not really any point comparing them though. Broken Cog fucked around with this message at 17:04 on May 31, 2016 |
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Zaphod42 posted:This game rules but PUG matches are slowly driving me insane, I'm just going to have to start playing with goons more. Sometimes gold medals ate worthwhile indicators of someone doing their job. One horrible route 66 game I was in I had a gold medal heal as reaper with 600 health healed. We had a mercy the entire game. Yeah it was as horrible a loss as you think it was.
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Broken Cog posted:I dunno, when her voice lines include "In Russia game plays you" something went wrong somewhere. loving memes, but anyways, back to the virtues of Gearbox character design
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May 31, 2016 17:04
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Battleborn has cool characters, but everything else about it is bad. Bad gameplay, bad shooting, bad color, bad ui. 
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Overwatch is better than Battleborn in every regard
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May 31, 2016 17:05
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gearbox writing is loving great hahaha butt stallion am i right
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May 31, 2016 17:06
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Battleborn writing is trash because Borderlands writing is trash hope this helps
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May 31, 2016 17:10
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Mr.Citrus posted:Sometimes gold medals ate worthwhile indicators of someone doing their job. One horrible route 66 game I was in I had a gold medal heal as reaper with 600 health healed. We had a mercy the entire game. Yeah it was as horrible a loss as you think it was. It's baffling how bad some mercy's are at their jobs. I've had games where I've stood behind a mercy, slamming on the "need healing" quick chat and then literally gone over voice chat and said "MERCY PLEASE HEAL ME" and instead she continues to heal Reinhardt or something.
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Fellatio del Toro posted:loving memes, but anyways, back to the virtues of Gearbox character design lol
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Vermain posted:Unless you have your entire team right behind you, do not leap headfirst into the enemy team and expect to come out alive. Winston's greatest strength is that he can get into the vulnerable backline and deal consistent, unavoidable AoE damage while dancing in and around his bubble in order to prevent himself from getting mulched. You should be looking for vulnerable targets (1-2 relatively fragile players who aren't stacked with the rest of their team) and jumping in on them with the intention of either killing them or forcing them away from their frontline. You're actually pretty good at killing Mercy , given your mobility and unavoidable damage, so prioritizing her when you can is important. Never overstay your welcome and leap out as soon as you can when everyone starts turning on you, especially if your Barrier Projector's run its course. I had a Winston breakthrough when I started leaping more laterally across battles and less behind enemy lines. Edit: also soldier 76 is the best for pug play because you're pretty much your own little package. He's also almost never useless due to the healing zone and generalist weapons. Xguard86 fucked around with this message at 17:21 on May 31, 2016 |
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Zzulu posted:People say that because they play that character the most and, usually, are the best with that character. My "main" in this case would be Tracer, a character I can destroy a lot of people with and usually be a big boon for my team with, but that doesn't mean I only play tracer
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Goonmeat, you're phenomenal. We went up against you last night and you wrecked is with at least 3 different characters.
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May 31, 2016 17:28
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Overwatch's characters are instantly recognizable, readable, and appealing to the point of being almost instantly popular to a staggering degree. I think they're doing pretty ok wrt art and design
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Kashuno posted:Battleborn writing is trash because Borderlands writing is trash hope this helps
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May 31, 2016 17:40
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shut down gearbox
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May 31, 2016 17:43
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what maps are currently considered the worst in terms of "being on Attack/Escort while Defense gets ridiculous chokepoints or hideyholes" I still kind of wish the first point of Hanamura let you go into it without needing to pass that gate. Symmetra can turn the house to the right into a kill chamber.
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Pretty hosed up that Gearbox didn't make Gears of War.
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Just sayin, you don't see battleborn porn at the top of the porn search results
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the truly well flashed out characters of overwatch, a game with 0 story, 0 context for the action, and 0 character development. its fun as hell but praising its characters is really funny
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MinibarMatchman posted:what maps are currently considered the worst in terms of "being on Attack/Escort while Defense gets ridiculous chokepoints or hideyholes" I still kind of wish the first point of Hanamura let you go into it without needing to pass that gate. Symmetra can turn the house to the right into a kill chamber. There's an entrance to the right, on the second level? Edit: just checked and there isn't. That's kind of bullshit. Spanish Manlove fucked around with this message at 17:54 on May 31, 2016 |
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Kashuno posted:Just sayin, you don't see battleborn porn at the top of the porn search results this is only a plus for that game
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Late to reaper chat, wouldn't mind if he did reduced damage with his ult to people above/below him. Dropping down with ult basically murders anyone with 200 by the time he touches ground.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:the truly well flashed out characters of overwatch, a game with 0 story, 0 context for the action, and 0 character development. I'm not touching Blizzard's writing with a ten foot pole, just saying the art direction is rock solid here
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MinibarMatchman posted:what maps are currently considered the worst in terms of "being on Attack/Escort while Defense gets ridiculous chokepoints or hideyholes" I still kind of wish the first point of Hanamura let you go into it without needing to pass that gate. Symmetra can turn the house to the right into a kill chamber. Get a wall-climber/flyer through the window on the left. I saw someone do it with a well-placed Junkrat mine.
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i love battleborn
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T.G. Xarbala posted:Overwatch's characters are instantly recognizable, readable, and appealing to the point of being almost instantly popular to a staggering degree. Except tracer and robotless d.va who have confusingly similar silhouettes.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:Except tracer and robotless d.va who have confusingly similar silhouettes. Actually yeah that is true
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MinibarMatchman posted:what maps are currently considered the worst in terms of "being on Attack/Escort while Defense gets ridiculous chokepoints or hideyholes" I still kind of wish the first point of Hanamura let you go into it without needing to pass that gate. Symmetra can turn the house to the right into a kill chamber. I don't know if this is a generally agreed upon position, but I think the second point of Anubis is the hardest control point to attack in the game.
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T.G. Xarbala posted:Actually yeah that is true But since Tracer is always rocketing around like a lunatic and saying chipper limey dialogue I don't think I've confused one with the other. I think the absolutely best design choice in the game is that character comments can be interrupted by death. I'm not tired yet of hearing "Heroes never-AAAAAAggghh" and "It's High-Blarrrgghh" and the like.
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Pakled posted:I don't know if this is a generally agreed upon position, but I think the second point of Anubis is the hardest control point to attack in the game. The first point feels so much worse to me.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:the truly well flashed out characters of overwatch, a game with 0 story, 0 context for the action, and 0 character development. None of those things need to be more than zero for the characters to be extremely good. They have personalities.
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Dick Trauma posted:But since Tracer is always rocketing around like a lunatic and saying chipper limey dialogue I don't think I've confused one with the other. I think I may have flashbanged an out-of-mech dva once thinking she was a tracer but it's honestly not a real problem
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Pakled posted:I don't know if this is a generally agreed upon position, but I think the second point of Anubis is the hardest control point to attack in the game. In solo queue with pubs it's practically impossible to crack that one if the defending team has bastions and torbs and effective snipers.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:the truly well flashed out characters of overwatch, a game with 0 story, 0 context for the action, and 0 character development. They're easily identifiable, their general gameplay pattern is pretty recognizable by their design, and they're pretty clear to the opponent. Idk what more you need for good characters in this game
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The Shortest Path posted:None of those things need to be more than zero for the characters to be extremely good. They have personalities. which are nothing more than a collection of traits like "boisterous german" and "chipper brit" and "crazy aussie"
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Yeah I hadn't seen so many internet memes for a videogame since the Orange Box.
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Pakled posted:I don't know if this is a generally agreed upon position, but I think the second point of Anubis is the hardest control point to attack in the game. The only successful group strategy I've ever found to break into Anubis B with a competent team defending it is two Reinhardts and a Bastion setting up on the bridge and mowing down enough people to move in. It's a terribly designed map overall and is probably my least favorite of the current rotation.
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Imagined posted:In solo queue with pubs it's practically impossible to crack that one if the defending team has bastions and torbs and effective snipers. to be fair you could say that about most of them. on the payload Route 66 map there were 5 bastions on the other team and nobody else switched to Pharah, Junkrat, or Reinhardt so we got hosed halfway. actually with all the nooks in that one, doing Mei walls would have been good too.
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Kashuno posted:They're easily identifiable, their general gameplay pattern is pretty recognizable by their design, and they're pretty clear to the opponent. Idk what more you need for good characters in this game they are fine for what they are, which is set dressing for a fun fps game, but pretending this is anything more is silly
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Drakes posted:Late to reaper chat, wouldn't mind if he did reduced damage with his ult to people above/below him. Dropping down with ult basically murders anyone with 200 by the time he touches ground. Yeah, for all the people complaining about how fast Mei's ult pops, at least you can get out of the way. If you're not playing a tank and Reaper drops from a ledge you're basically dead. My only issues with the game so far are the "almost-one-hit-kills". Roadhog's hook/shotty, McCree's Flash/Fan, and Widow (to a lesser degree since she needs headshots) make it really unfun to pay against them. I don't mind a character being squishy, but considering the baseline health is 200 having characters who have can dish out that damage without you being able to do jack poo poo about it raises my salt levels. I've been hearing people comment about finding it odd that people are still dying to D.VAs and Hanzo's ults since it's kinda trivial to get out of their way and they're right, for all their damage they're super telegraphed (or Pharah and McCree who can usually get murdered when trying to pop one) so Reaper's ult kinda stands out in that regard as kinda cheap.
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