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Scrub-Niggurath posted:Yes, I think she's obviously a play on the femme fatale character, and maybe she was more over the top in the design process but got toned down for release for whatever reason Like I could maybe buy this coming from a different developer but this is Blizzard and they've written the corrupted sniper wearing a skintight suit before. Also none of Widowmaker's character interactions are funny. She's taken 100% seriously and its awful. At least the other characters make fun of Reaper. I think its really easy to excuse a lot of bad writing as saying "its just parody lol" but Blizzard seem to genuinely think this stuff is appealing which is why they keep putting it in their games. VVV The dad thing is almost entirely a fan creation though. Soldier 76 is unironically a character Metzen has been trying to make a story about for over 15 loving years. He thinks he's cool.
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The fact that Reaper is so straight is what makes him good in Overwatch. If it was some shovelware console title with 8 other leather/carbon fiber-clad edgelords it wouldn't be as funny. Just like 76 is a generic mary sue from every 80's action movie but is the funny dad in the current case. I also like Widow's butt. I mean I like it in the sense that it's a nice butt, but the weird hip angle also makes her look like a spider and it's a nice detail.
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Manatee Cannon posted:it almost always is for any game It's very doubtful that overwatch... a game from a legendary PC game maker is more represented on ps4. The British retail numbers show 18 percent of retail sales on PC which is a high proportion when most will get it via the launcher.
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Internet Kraken posted:Like I could maybe buy this coming from a different developer but this is Blizzard and they've written the corrupted sniper wearing a skintight suit before. Also none of Widowmaker's character interactions are funny. She's taken 100% seriously and its awful. At least the other characters make fun of Reaper. If you want my honest take I think that when designing her the sexiness part was originally played up more but along the way it got toned down to the lame and boring character we have now.
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gnome7 posted:The res definitely does not give cooldowns back! I have died a lot after getting rezzed as Zarya to find my personal shield is still 4 seconds away from cooldown again. I know Mercies mean well, but when they ressurect me in the middle of the enemy team, with two turrets facing me and with all my cooldowns off...I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.
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Internet Kraken posted:I think its really easy to excuse a lot of bad writing as saying "its just parody lol" but Blizzard seem to genuinely think this stuff is appealing which is why they keep putting it in their games. They keep putting them in their games cause people like the things that Blizzard "genuinely thinks is appealing" V  V As someone who bitches about Thrall all the time I imagine the fans of the games that don't like these things are in the minority.
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The games have fun game play with groan inducing characters and stories. The game play gets the players not metzen Jesus orcs
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If you need proof that Reaper is hilarious just stand around and spam his "hello" voice command for a bit
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resistentialism posted:Don't do it if reinhardt is meleeing you, anyways. His wallops have sideways knock and you won't be able to re-accelerate as quickly if you're in the air, which makes you noticeably slower in trying to get away from him. Ahhpple posted:You can't control your movement when you're in the air so it makes you easier to hit Thanks. I think I'll try to train myself to lay off the spacebar.
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Countblanc posted:This is sort of the natural end result of Payload as the primary format. When you can't push up too far because then the cart won't move you need to cluster up. Mobility is a lot less important when fights happen in narrow corridors around a slow moving objective. I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing but it's definitely an expected one for the format. I think it's a bad thing as it makes the counter to a tank Widowmaker basically, resulting in a dumb stale meta. At least offense doesn't have it nearly as bad as defensive characters in the meta. I guess what I am saying is nerf Reinhardt.
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FaustianQ posted:I think it's a bad thing as it makes the counter to a tank Widowmaker basically, resulting in a dumb stale meta. At least offense doesn't have it nearly as bad as defensive characters in the meta. I guess what I am saying is nerf Reinhardt. Buff Bastion 
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gnome7 posted:The res definitely does not give cooldowns back! I have died a lot after getting rezzed as Zarya to find my personal shield is still 4 seconds away from cooldown again. True. I meant that cooldowns keep ticking down while you're dead, so if you spend a few seconds dead and a few seconds invincible many strong cooldowns have time to reset.
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Goon in-house starting soon: https://www.twitch.tv/whatspeakyou could use a few more though! Check thread for discord info: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3778249
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Three-medaling for eliminations, objective eliminations, and time-on-objective can be a good thing. Not so much when you played Mercy, though 
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reaper is a joke the fact there exist people who take him seriously is why he's a funny joke
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Oneiros posted:Three-medaling for eliminations, objective eliminations, and time-on-objective can be a good thing. Not so much when you played Mercy, though Try four-medaling next time? There's one for healing too 
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Bolivar posted:Try four-medaling next time? There's one for healing too I think I was out-healed by a masochistic Bastion 
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I mean, they literally put a "peanut butter monkey" character in the game. Is the joke supposed to be how excruciatingly un-funny that is?
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Did somebody say peanut butter??
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We're mere weeks away from people being reported for not picking one of the characters deemed viable by a top MMR Twitch streamer. will the overwatch community rot as much as the League of Legends one did or not? only time and insane twitch chat memes will tell
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Are you guys really discussing the demeanor of characters for a game which hardly has a storyline
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Zorodius posted:I mean, they literally put a "peanut butter monkey" character in the game. Is the joke supposed to be how excruciatingly un-funny that is? winston is a scientist and a monkey of refined taste, please do not slander his good name
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What hero do I pick if my aim is poo poo and I have no sense of direction.
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soscannonballs posted:What hero do I pick if my aim is poo poo and I have no sense of direction. junkrat
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soscannonballs posted:What hero do I pick if my aim is poo poo and I have no sense of direction. Lucio, Mei, Mercy.
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We need more Junkrat and Roadhog content. http://webm.land/media/iQJK.webm They need a whole series.
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soscannonballs posted:What hero do I pick if my aim is poo poo and I have no sense of direction. most of them
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Theta Zero posted:Lucio, Mei, Mercy. symmetra and winston as well
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Manatee Cannon posted:symmetra and winston as well I disagree with Symmetra. You need to be pretty good with predicting people coming through chokes and aiming/leading the shots as appropriate, and knowing where to be for that to happen. Winston, yes. But certainly Junkrat most of all. Conc jump in the air to figure out where you need to be, liberally throw bear traps everywhere and lob grenades like a madman.
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soscannonballs posted:What hero do I pick if my aim is poo poo and I have no sense of direction. 
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I play Junkrat and Torbjorn exclusively, attack or defense, payload or KOTH, -especially- if my team bitches about it.
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Junkrat is good if you can hit poo poo, otherwise just swap to bastion and shoot the wall in the drop ship for 10 minutes.
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I don't understand how anyone can play Junkrat if they can't aim. I think I get maybe like 1 or 2 blindfire kills every match.
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ItBurns posted:Junkrat is good if you can hit poo poo, otherwise just swap to bastion and shoot the wall in the drop ship for 10 minutes. you don't need to hit poo poo as junkrat you need to tape m1 and shoot sticky mine in their faces
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Xaris posted:I disagree with Symmetra. You need to be pretty good with predicting people coming through chokes and aiming/leading the shots as appropriate, and knowing where to be for that to happen. symmetra has a lock on gun
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Does Genji's reflect work on Reinhardt's melee attack? I don't think so, but sometimes it really feels like it does.
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With junkrat you shoot where you think enemies may be going. Every shot is a percentage. And you miss 100% of shots you don't take. So never stop shooting.
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Broken Cog posted:Does Genji's reflect work on Reinhardt's melee attack? I don't think so, but sometimes it really feels like it does. You will block the damage but it won't be reflected back.
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Lucio's the best character for absolute noobies because he's useful just being a warm body, and frees up other people from having to pick healer. Pretty survivable too for being self-healing, mobile, and tiny. If I'm pretty sure everyone in my group is better than me, that's who I always pick.
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Hexas posted:You will block the damage but it won't be reflected back.
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