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Manatee Cannon posted:but you die as her and can't practice that either Dying as a hero is practice. Also it completely eliminates people bitching about team comp and sometimes hilarious poo poo happens like a Gibraltar game I just had where we ended up with 4 Zaryas, a D.Va and a Mercy.
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NmareBfly posted:Dying as a hero is practice. Also it completely eliminates people bitching about team comp and sometimes hilarious poo poo happens like a Gibraltar game I just had where we ended up with 4 Zaryas, a D.Va and a Mercy. but you can do that in a regular game and actually get real practice by playing it for a while instead of randomly, occasionally, if the game lets you? who cares if pubbies complain about you. it's not good practice to play as something for one life like once or twice an hour
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Manatee Cannon posted:but you can do that in a regular game and actually get real practice by playing it for a while instead of randomly, occasionally, if the game lets you? who cares if pubbies complain about you. it's not good practice to play as something for one life like once or twice an hour In some ways it helps you identify the heroes that you even WANT to properly practice for a longer time. When I'm doing premade groups, I have a tendency to kind of forget about 2/3 of the heroes cast, even if the group is not majorly tryhard.
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Manatee Cannon posted:but you can do that in a regular game and actually get real practice by playing it for a while instead of randomly, occasionally, if the game lets you? who cares if pubbies complain about you. it's not good practice to play as something for one life like once or twice an hour Chances are the other people are terrible at their respective heroes so you tend to accomplish more even on heroes you are garbage with. When I'm playing a normal game and just dying and dying as Tracer it's not fun at all. With random heroes it just changes to a new hero if I'm terrible and die so there's no getting frustrated. I have definitely become a lot better with heroes I wouldn't normally play while playing the random brawl. It also made me realize that I really like playing as Zarya once I got the hang of it.
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The idea is that in the mystery hero brawl, most of the other players are also on heroes they are sub-par on most of the time, so it won't be quite as tough as trying to learn new heroes while fighting against career Genji's or Widowmakers in Quick Play. In theory, anyway
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I like the random brawl because it results in matchups you normally don't see and it's hilarious to watch someone who only plays Mcree try to figure out Symetra. I get to play things I normally wouldn't against people who won't immediately faceroll me because they're playing characters they're less comfortable with too. Although the way ults work, the team that lucks into something won't die a lot as usually has a huge advantage. It's often frustrating but it makes for an interesting change of pace from normal matches.
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Baby Babbeh posted:I like the random brawl because it results in matchups you normally don't see and it's hilarious to watch someone who only plays Mcree try to figure out Symetra. I get to play things I normally wouldn't against people who won't immediately faceroll me because they're playing characters they're less comfortable with too. Although the way ults work, the team that lucks into something won't die a lot as usually has a huge advantage. They should probably make the ult charge (or at least a part of it) carry over to the next hero.
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Jun 11, 2016 08:36
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:With my experience in pubs, it's a little less than 50% "hero picks" and a little more than 50% "STAND ON THE OBJECTIVE YOU SHITS". Hanzo is a legit pub pick when Hanzo uses his sonic arrow in chokepoints and contests the objective in overtime with his wallrun!!
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Hmm i remember a while back i wanted more rocket dmg from Pharah on direct hits. After successfully ambushing snipers and direct hitting them twice, and them not dying. I stand by that. Its ridiculous to shoot them point blank and have them still get away. She should be easy to snipe and have a more punishing presence with her rockets. Also my theory remains reinforced every day!
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Jastiger posted:Hmm i remember a while back i wanted more rocket dmg from Pharah on direct hits. After successfully ambushing snipers and direct hitting them twice, and them not dying. I stand by that. Its ridiculous to shoot them point blank and have them still get away. She should be easy to snipe and have a more punishing presence with her rockets. Pharah rocket direct hit does 120 damage though.
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If you directly hit them with 2 rockets they are dead. 120 x 2 = pretty much half the cast. If i've got the drop on a 200 health class I'll use the first rocket to bounce them into my second rather than trying for two direct hits.
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Then I'm getting drat close and the hit detection has me missing but on their model. I'll swoop in from above hit them directly twice and they'll ninja away or some such. Its SO frustrating because they are obviously outflanked, yet can still turn and two shot me with Widow.
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Jun 11, 2016 09:08
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I love Pharah shock combos: https://gfycat.com/SlipperyForthrightIbis
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Cicero posted:I love Pharah shock combos: https://gfycat.com/SlipperyForthrightIbis Haha, the last direct hit on the dying Junkrat was cool  Could the Junkrat have theoretically saved himself in the air with a really fast mine jump?
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Jun 11, 2016 09:18
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Mystery Heroes brawl is also fun because it introduces a weird new strategy. Really useful heroes tend to play more conservatively because they don't want to lose them. And X for 1 trades can be completely worth it if you remove their Mercy, Widow, sometimes Bastion, etc. Kill off their medics and snipers and there's a very good chance they're not coming back.
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Jun 11, 2016 09:22
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Bolivar posted:Haha, the last direct hit on the dying Junkrat was cool If he had conc mine up and air strafed into the wall right about where it would land possibly, however the extra rocket actually builds more ulty for the Phara overall ontop of being style points.
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Jun 11, 2016 09:38
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Lant posted:If he had conc mine up and air strafed into the wall right about where it would land possibly, however the extra rocket actually builds more ulty for the Phara overall ontop of being style points.
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Why does the game keep causing my video card to overheat?
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Golem II posted:Why does the game keep causing my video card to overheat? Because your PC has lovely cooling?
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Is playing with goons as unfun as a quick scan of several pages of this thread implies it is, because I was going to try this game tomorrow and am maybe reconsidering
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Digirat posted:Is playing with goons as unfun as a quick scan of several pages of this thread implies it is, because I was going to try this game tomorrow and am maybe reconsidering This is the bad thread.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Mystery Heroes brawl is also fun because it introduces a weird new strategy. Really useful heroes tend to play more conservatively because they don't want to lose them. And X for 1 trades can be completely worth it if you remove their Mercy, Widow, sometimes Bastion, etc. Kill off their medics and snipers and there's a very good chance they're not coming back. Dying to kill the enemy Mercy is a good trade in other modes too.
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Digirat posted:Is playing with goons as unfun as a quick scan of several pages of this thread implies it is, because I was going to try this game tomorrow and am maybe reconsidering I'm badass
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Digirat posted:Is playing with goons as unfun as a quick scan of several pages of this thread implies it is, because I was going to try this game tomorrow and am maybe reconsidering I've only run into a few grumps and they weren't nearly as toxic as the worst I've run into in solo queue. Or as bad as the last bunch of pages in this thread have been (in fact, most discord goons seem to only post in thread very occasionally). Goons are like pubbies, the vast majority of them are actually pretty okay and the horror stories are more of an issue of selection bias. Except unlike pubbies, everyone's already agreed to team up by the nature of the premade group so you don't need a chat icebreaker like you do in solo queue. Basically, assume goons are as bad as pubbies but odds are so are you so just be cool to people.
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Andrast posted:Because your PC has lovely cooling? Nope. It only happens with Overwatch.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:Dying to kill the enemy Mercy is a good trade in other modes too. Yeah but now instead of "can I do it?" it becomes "maybe I can do it" The reward is so much higher that it's worth tolerating dumber risks.
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Golem II posted:Nope. It only happens with Overwatch. If your GPU overheats, it means you PC has lovely cooling. If it had good cooling it wouldn't overheat even if you ran it at 100% for hours.
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Cicero posted:Oh, you don't build ult from damage that you do knocking people off the map? Huh. you do actually
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Really enjoying Zenyatta lately. He is not good as the sole healer of the team but those discords orbs do short work of enemy team if your team is competent. Got many hate messages from Winston players.
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keyframe posted:Got many hate messages from Winston players. "Hi there"
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Cicero posted:Oh, you don't build ult from damage that you do knocking people off the map? Huh. If you do I've never noticed it.
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apostateCourier posted:Super glad I don't go by an identifiably female tag. yeah as a male I've never been talked down to or insulted in online games before, it's a wonderful, friendly world and yes you do get gender specific insults as a male, though a lot more are directed at orientation and inadequacy I guess
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Yay I got a decent 5 man kill as Mei without using my ulti. (hanzo died afterwards) https://gfycat.com/AgileHideousAmurratsnake
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Getting bored of every match being shoot the Rein shield
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Andrast posted:If your GPU overheats, it means you PC has lovely cooling. I'm afraid this is true
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RBX posted:Getting bored of every match being shoot the Rein shield Many things own Rein's shield. Symmetra's M2, Winston's lightning gun, Junkrat's traps, everything about Pharah, etc. E: I just got the goddess skin for Symmetra and have enjoyed my last two POTGs just being me placing turrets while the killfeed scrolls by "Eliminated X"
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RBX posted:Getting bored of every match being shoot the Rein shield Until they nerf mad dog McGee just throw a flash bang over his shield and shoot him to death.
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I want two settings in custom matches: 1) Make heroes constantly take damage when touching the ground. 2) Disable Widowmaker's zoom in ability. Then I could set up a 6v6 Widow fight with 0 cooldowns where the ground is lava, forcing everyone to constantly hook around like Spider-man with an assault rifle.
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Akumos posted:yeah as a male I've never been talked down to or insulted in online games before, it's a wonderful, friendly world Glad to see this thread and is still on track.
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