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Main Paineframe posted:I wouldn't really say it required skill to execute, at least in the FPS sense. There's zero aim required and basically no positioning - it's just a totally free melee attack if you press another button right afterward. That's not exactly hard, it just means you have to practice it a bit to build up muscle memory (or just use a macro). It's not like ultimates would be meaningfully more skillful if you had to press two buttons to use them. You aren't wrong, but as a person who's played fighting games on a casual level and couldn't animation cancel to save his life, attack canceling with Genji made me feel like a cool dude.
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Aug 18, 2016 14:29
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redweird posted:My first golden weapon will be Hanjo for maximum tilt You'll no longer be a hipster if his changes make it through PTR. He is really, really good when he can actually move and no longer has to account for arrow arc.
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Aug 18, 2016 14:40
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Teikanmi posted:Get gold Symmetra gun because no one loving has one We're both good with Symmetra and Lucio, so either of those would be a compromise. But I know it'll be Junkrat vs Zarya instead.
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Aug 18, 2016 14:41
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Internet Kraken posted:Part of me wonders is if the lore and characters were actually well written, would people on the internet still be absolutely crazy about drawing all these characters doing stupid poo poo? Its like they gave barely enough for people to latch onto these characters which somehow makes people like them more since they can fill in the blanks themselves. All anyone cares about is the fan content. All those shorts and comics Blizzard releases seem to basically be ignored because they suck. The shorts are amazing because of the quality. Like, the best cinematic videogame shorts in the business The comics.. not so great
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Aug 18, 2016 15:07
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keyframe posted:Lack of comp mode in live servers really emphasized how much quickplay sucks rear end. I think I will just play comp on ptr till season 2. Seriously, playing last night was absolutely miserable. I'm gonna force myself to stay on the live servers until the summer event ends but then it'll be nothing but PTR for me. QP during the comp season was at least the silly do-whatever gimmick mode. Now it's split between people still treating it that way and people going tryhard as gently caress, and it's just bad.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:17
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Playing QP last night, that's all I have played, I noticed way more gimmicky bullshit then when Comp was running. It's just like everyone who was playing Comp decided "well, I played serious for the last month time to gently caress around."
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Aug 18, 2016 15:32
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Today's game for quickplay: If you're in a group, inquire as to which of the opposing team wants to be Wesley. Usually it's whoever's cool. Sometimes you designate a person Wesley. Wesley doesn't get hurt. Wesley just gets perpetually stunned, frozen, ice walled, or trapped. Just not killed. Constantly attempt to protect Wesley. Wave at him when he or she shoots you. Still manage to win, even with Wesley. Congratulate him on being protected. We got some amazing reactions out of that one.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:41
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Last night I ran into one of two types of comps: gimmick (all reapers, 1 zen, but it was only one match), or the "camp like a motherfucker" comp: Bastion, Rein, Torb, Sym, D.Va, maybe a second Torb or D.Va. Put Genji in there for attack. Hell, one team went dual Bast/dual Rein at the end stretch of Route 66 because we had the cheek to push them that far back. It was completely and utterly unfun; we weren't playing our best games to be honest, but we kept getting curbstomped the whole night. I think I went something like 3-9 in the end.  Please come back, comp. I thought I wouldn't like having the playerbase divided, but if it keeps nights like these "optional" I'm all for it.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:50
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I try actively to not allow poo poo talking to get to me but drat I had to mute all chat last night. I have never had so many lovely people talking poo poo in any of my matches. People would beat us and still talk poo poo. I miss competitive.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:50
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This is why you turn off chat and the auto joining of choice channels.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:54
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Qp to me seems to be the place to just grind xp and be offensive Symmetra and its pretty great so far.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:55
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I played my placement matches + 1 game of competitive all season and QP the rest of the time and QP was exactly like comp except for the special rules of course. If there are suddenly a heavy influx of gimmicks and other boring poo poo it's because people from comp are flooding back to QP and loving around more
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Aug 18, 2016 16:15
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Verranicus posted:Also I epected to see way more golden guns floating around at this point but they're still pretty rare it seems, are people really that bad? I peaked at rank 56 but only won about 45 games so it's gonna be at least another season before I have enough for gold
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Aug 18, 2016 16:17
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xposting from the tryhard thread Does anyone have any tips on PS4 controller sensitivity? I've been using different setups for different heroes - Winston, Genji (though I never play him), Lucio, and D.Va all get relatively high sens for better mobility and quick turns. Everybody else is closer to the default, but i've probably bumped them up by 10 or 15 notches. Trying to balance having quick mobility for dealing with flanks/corners, especially a backline tracer, with not ruining my aim. Did my placement matches yesterday for funsies and ended up at 64, so I'm not hopeless. But was thinking of making a real go at it for season 2.
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Aug 18, 2016 16:18
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Zzulu posted:I played my placement matches + 1 game of competitive all season and QP the rest of the time and QP was exactly like comp except for the special rules of course. If there are suddenly a heavy influx of gimmicks and other boring poo poo it's because people from comp are flooding back to QP and loving around more I split my time between comp and qp all season and the games in the two modes could not have been more different.
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Aug 18, 2016 16:33
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At least fourth of my matches in QP had chances of lol random comps like 6 torbs or comps designed to be grindy and unfun like the time we had to grind through 2 bastions, torb ,lucio, rein, and junkrat (a couple of pharahs destroy this quite nicely)
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Aug 18, 2016 16:51
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Bastion short in a few minutes right
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Aug 18, 2016 16:55
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Tiler Kiwi posted:followup overwatch hot take - the lore is poo poo and makes no sense in the context of the gameplay D.Va has a pre-game line where she breaks kayfabe and says "After this match is over..." to Reinhardt. This is the smoking gun confirming that in-universe, they're characters in a narrative-driven sport ala wrestling, as opposed to being on genuine missions.
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Aug 18, 2016 16:59
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https://www.twitch.tv/blizzardatgamescom where the short will be I think
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Aug 18, 2016 17:03
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Supercar Gautier posted:D.Va has a pre-game line where she breaks kayfabe and says "After this match is over..." to Reinhardt. This is the smoking gun confirming that in-universe, they're characters in a narrative-driven sport ala wrestling, as opposed to being on genuine missions. Blizzard's commentary that gamers are so desensitised to violence that she views killing people in a warzone as a sport that makes her score go up. Video Games Cause Violence.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axPSTHRYpZw Link to stream going on right now. New legendary Reinhardt skin, the same armor in the new map.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:12
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Aug 18, 2016 17:14
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That is a really really good skin.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:15
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Tomorrows Ace posted:Blizzard's commentary that gamers are so desensitised to violence that she views killing people in a warzone as a sport that makes her score go up. Video Games Cause Violence. I will not have any of this sad fanfiction hooey implying that D.Va is anything other than happy and healthy and mentally well.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:15
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Tomorrows Ace posted:Blizzard's commentary that gamers are so desensitised to violence that she views killing people in a warzone as a sport that makes her score go up. Video Games Cause Violence. The fact that she's streaming combat operations live over the Internet from her meka is the darkest thing I've read so far. Those people she's shooting in the face, the things she's watching her teammates doing (eg: Mei)? This game has really genuinely dark undertones.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:20
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The reason why try-hards are try-hardering in QP is because the last competition placement took your QP stats into account: imagine if you had started off at rank 65, you would've automatically earned 300 gold-points without having to compete with entire teams of other try-hards all season. I'm excited sandbagging/twinking/smurf accounts won't be a thing next season, 55-60 was exceptionally hard when the rank 40 mcree is secretly pro-mlg.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:20
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Fuuuuck that short was great
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Aug 18, 2016 17:22
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drat it, I bought Blackhardt like a week ago
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Aug 18, 2016 17:24
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Papercut posted:drat it, I bought Blackhardt like a week ago you'll be okay, it's probably only available bundled with a WoW expansion pre-order or something
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Aug 18, 2016 17:25
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Macaluso posted:Fuuuuck that short was great Turns out removing dialogue makes Blizzard products pretty loving great.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:32
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youtube link for birdie goodness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to8yh83jlXg
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Aug 18, 2016 17:34
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Aug 18, 2016 17:38
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Donnerberg posted:Turns out removing dialogue makes Blizzard products pretty loving great.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:43
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It never ceases to amaze me how outstanding Blizzard Entertainment is at everything except writing. Someone go force Metzen into early retirement.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:44
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Boogle posted:The fact that she's streaming combat operations live over the Internet from her meka is the darkest thing I've read so far. Those people she's shooting in the face, the things she's watching her teammates doing (eg: Mei)? This game has really genuinely dark undertones. Well remember she was usually shooting robots so it was OK. Right?
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Aug 18, 2016 17:47
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Thor-Stryker posted:The reason why try-hards are try-hardering in QP is because the last competition placement took your QP stats into account: imagine if you had started off at rank 65, you would've automatically earned 300 gold-points without having to compete with entire teams of other try-hards all season. Pretty sure this is just a myth
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Aug 18, 2016 17:57
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QP MMR and your Initial Comp placement MMR are not even remotely linked.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:59
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Skippy McPants posted:It never ceases to amaze me how outstanding Blizzard Entertainment is at everything except writing. Someone go force Metzen into early retirement. Yeah man it really peeves me how the writing in this Pixar FPS game just isn't up to snuff. Someone hit me up with the good video game writing ASAP, tia
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My initial season one comp placement matches had me killing people who were nowhere remotely near my skill level for my first two or three games, and then they slowly started to get a little bit more appropriate against me. I don't think QP MMR had anything to do with initial placement. When I queued in the PTR comp, though, it instantly placed me in my first comp match with three other people besides myself sporting the top 500 icon, and there were two others on the team that had already placed as masters. I think your previous season's competitive MMR determines your placement match starting point for the next season.
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