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Ehud posted:Does anyone else feel like you get put on defense way more often than offense in QP? I wish I had 2 minute wait times. Usually I wait 5 minutes in queue and wind up backfilling for a game which is almost over.
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Is it a legitimate strat to have a mercy that just permanently stays underground on the last point of king's landing? I think so.
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resistentialism posted:Is it a legitimate strat to have a mercy that just permanently stays underground on the last point of king's landing? I think so. But thats where all the wildfire is...
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How is the PS4 version of Overwatch? I don't have a PC that will run it right now but I'm reluctant to buy in to the PS4 version if it's going to get left behind on patches/miss out on features like Diablo 3.
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BGrifter posted:How is the PS4 version of Overwatch? I don't have a PC that will run it right now but I'm reluctant to buy in to the PS4 version if it's going to get left behind on patches/miss out on features like Diablo 3. the console versions get updated frequently. not as much as pc tho since updates cost money and go through the cert process of sony/ms, but they are kept up to date it isn't missing any features. you can even get the nexus challenge skins by linking your accounts
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Manatee Cannon posted:the console versions get updated frequently. not as much as pc tho since updates cost money and go through the cert process of sony/ms, but they are kept up to date Ok thanks. I don't mind waiting a couple weeks for a patch or anything, it just bugged me how they were adding so much new content to the PC version of Diablo 3 like ladder seasons and ladder-only uniques while the console version got nothing. The Nexus challenge skins are exactly why I'm considering grabbing it. Loving Heroes and playing the Overwatch characters there makes me want to pick up OW.
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So is there a consensus on whether the Lucio changes actually ended up buffing him? As a Lucio player I find the small radius just encourages me to stay closer to my team, which has its own benefits. Radius bein visible helps too. Also I can solo some 200 health people so that's cool
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Truecon420 posted:So is there a consensus on whether the Lucio changes actually ended up buffing him? As a Lucio player I find the small radius just encourages me to stay closer to my team, which has its own benefits. Radius bein visible helps too. I don't think there's a "consensus" but from what I've seen and experienced people see it at worst a tradeoff and at best a buff. Lucio has a much more prominent effect on the battlefield.
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May 7, 2017 03:22
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Yeah, that sounds right. Gettin headshots is easier. With the wallriding buff and eveything I feel that they increased his skill ceiling
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May 7, 2017 03:26
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I really like Hanzo. I pick him in every match in competitive. I am a gold medal king!
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KyloWinter posted:I really like Hanzo. I pick him in every match in competitive. I am a gold medal king! You forget Hanzo is even on either team except when the clock eventually gives him his ult, which reminds me of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpkecYVRt_E
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May 7, 2017 04:42
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I actually do instalock Hanzo every game. Eat poo poo anyone who tells me to switch.
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May 7, 2017 04:52
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Truecon420 posted:So is there a consensus on whether the Lucio changes actually ended up buffing him? As a Lucio player I find the small radius just encourages me to stay closer to my team, which has its own benefits. Radius bein visible helps too.
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Just had an interesting bug, figured I'd share here in case anyone else runs into it. I was playing a custom game a few days ago, and my ping started skyrocketing randomly. Normally I get like 38-41 or so, but it was shooting way off into the stratosphere to like 300 - 1200 when it got bad. I assumed it was the powerline adapter I'd bought (pro tip: don't buy TP-Link, they're loving garbage), as it was starting to drop internet connection altogether. Un/replugging it fixed it when it dropped the connection, but it always started acting up again later so I just got a different brand adapter off of amazon. That came today and works fine for everything...except overwatch, which continued to have gigantic ping spikes regardless. As far as I know I hadn't installed anything that would interfere or updated any drivers or whatever that would mess with this, so I was kind of confused. After googling for a bit it turns out the "solution" is to start overwatch.exe from the install directory directly rather than through battle.net, which completely fixed the problem and brought me to my usual ping. I have no idea why it works, but it's such a weird solution I figured I'd share. I think you have to enter your username/password every time if you start the .exe directly, but keepass' autofill worked on the login screen after I cloned an entry to my battle.net info so that's not an issue for me at least.
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KyloWinter posted:I actually do instalock Hanzo every game. Eat poo poo anyone who tells me to switch. Having fun playing this team based game?
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KyloWinter posted:I actually do instalock Hanzo every game. Eat poo poo anyone who tells me to switch. I never tell people to switch. There's no bad hero picks, just bad players. And if you're a bad player I'll politely ask you to leave.
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May 7, 2017 09:13
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Theta Zero posted:I never tell people to switch. There's no bad hero picks, just bad players. And if you're a bad player I'll politely ask you to leave.  Hail Satan
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May 7, 2017 09:21
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Mustached Demon posted:
Now that's a bad player I'd want on my team.
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Mr Beens posted:Having fun playing this team based game? Ya it's really fun
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Playing Hanzo and shooting arrows just generally towards the enemy team until you headshot a support randomly is really really fun. Basically when you play Hanzo in competitive the game actually becomes interesting, I almost fist pump when I manage to shoot an enemy Pharah on air. Bullshit Scatter Arrow kills are also hilarious. Like yeah I could switch to something more consistent like Soldier 76 but goddamn that hero is boring as hell.
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May 7, 2017 13:46
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frajaq posted:Playing Hanzo and shooting arrows just generally towards the enemy team until you headshot a support randomly is really really fun. This man gets it. I got 30% accuracy in comp tho. Pharah is hard to hit I'm getting better at it though. Also people who pick soldier are scum failsons. barkbell fucked around with this message at 15:50 on May 7, 2017 |
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Does anyone else just become a Hanzo savant like 1 out of every 30 games they pick him? It's really weird
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Good Lord Fisher! posted:Does anyone else just become a Hanzo savant like 1 out of every 30 games they pick him? It's really weird I go through streaks where one character just absolutely clicks for me and I become a goddamn monster and trash at something I play normally.
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Good Lord Fisher! posted:Does anyone else just become a Hanzo savant like 1 out of every 30 games they pick him? It's really weird Yeah but only in mystery heroes where no one is countering me. I got him the other day and got like 18 kills with my one life on Volskaya attack.
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May 7, 2017 17:45
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Good Lord Fisher! posted:Does anyone else just become a Hanzo savant like 1 out of every 30 games they pick him? It's really weird It's probably because you lost the last 29 games and your MMR gave up and placed you with trainer bots.
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Thor-Stryker posted:It's probably because you lost the last 29 games and your MMR gave up and placed you with trainer bots. Rude!!! I mean going from "reasonable contributor" to "hard carry"
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When that happens I try to give credit where it's due and thank the other team for standing in front of my arrows.
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I haven't played OW in a couple of months but when I started up again a couple of days ago I was suddenly able to play McCree, even though I had about 10 minutes total playtime as him prior to my return. I also have moments of clarity as Mei and become a headshot-locking icicle-spewing murder machine. Nothing quite like clearing an area, looking around, voicing "Yay!" and building a lil celebratory snowman. 
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in a game that is ultimately about killing the other team in order to achieve objectives, a lot of people seem to have a lot of anger at the characters designed purely for killing the enemy team and nothing else
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May 7, 2017 19:50
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That is because those characters generally are very bad at capturing/holding objectives which is how you actually win. It was the same deal in TF2. You had loads and loads of snipers standing around and feeling like king poo poo when they got a kill and pubstar spies trying the same ol' stairstab over and over again. It only works if you're defending and the attacking team is braindead enough not to have a couple of actual offensive classes capable of dealing damage and a medic keeping them alive. Most of the time snipers are a waste of a player slot unless it's the one sniper in a million who actually consistently gets picks all the time and that is rare enough that I don't want to play lottery with that.
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Laputanmachine posted:That is because those characters generally are very bad at capturing/holding objectives which is how you actually win. Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. It really has been the same issue since TF2. At heart it's a team based objective game. Ana is a good example of a "sniper" who can work and support a team if they're not getting picks, and who sticks with the team
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Enallyniv posted:I haven't played OW in a couple of months but when I started up again a couple of days ago I was suddenly able to play McCree, even though I had about 10 minutes total playtime as him prior to my return. New mouse?
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The snipers are actually better on attack because your team can move in and capitalise on a free pick to take the point. On defence the attackers can just back out and group up again in 20 seconds. On defence you'd rather have a more consistent class.
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Yeah, on defense you'd rather want a soldier/McCree as your hitscan over widowmaker because they're a lot harder to dive and get as a free pick.
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Laputanmachine posted:That is because those characters generally are very bad at capturing/holding objectives which is how you actually win. most of the time every person on a team is bad and a waste of a slot not playing their character well y'all just gotta learn to love snipers
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Up Circle posted:in a game that is ultimately about killing the other team in order to achieve objectives, a lot of people seem to have a lot of anger at the characters designed purely for killing the enemy team and nothing else If your team loses a fight, let's say that three or four of your team dies, and then your Hanzo scores a quick couple of headshots, he's scoring kills but they aren't really helping you much in a lot of cases. There are maps where that calculus can wind up benefiting you, like if you're on the attack on the first part of a map like King's Row where you have spawn advantage, but there are ways a character can get plenty of kills and still not contribute much just like there are ways to get gold medals in damage all the time without that number translating into anything useful.
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Up Circle posted:most of the time every person on a team is bad and a waste of a slot not playing their character well A bad sniper is worse for the team than a bad soldier or pretty much anything else.
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I love snipers, Zenyatta is my favourite character
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May 7, 2017 21:25
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Gloryhold It! posted:A bad sniper is worse for the team than a bad soldier or pretty much anything else. A mediocre sniper is still worse than a bad pretty much anything else.
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OxySnake posted:A mediocre sniper is still worse than a bad pretty much anything else. I'd always rather have a mediocre hanzo over a mediocre widow. Just on the off chance the hanzo might get some kills with his ult.
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