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Slime posted:The PTR is a loving awful, awful, AWFUL goddamn way of testing balance because it jams good players up against bad players and the good players use a new tool a little and the bad players die and scream NERF. At least with actual matchmaking it at least tries to match people of relatively equal skill. I like how the devs complained on the forums that not enough people played on PTR. They do such a bad job with it. I always have issues logging in or playing with friends or not being able to find a game mode that I want.
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FAUXTON posted:Wouldn't high-damage tanks seriously disrupt the dive macro? doomfist already did that well at least he did it in regions where people aren't terrified of change, so basically not in na/eu
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Aug 27, 2017 15:20
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Is anyone else having problems saving highlights on PS4? I keep pressing the button mapped to the save highlight button during POTG, and I even get the message saying that it has been saved, but then my highlights menu is completely empty (or full of other clips the game saved on its own).
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Aug 27, 2017 15:51
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Slime posted:The PTR is a loving awful, awful, AWFUL goddamn way of testing balance because it jams good players up against bad players and the good players use a new tool a little and the bad players die and scream NERF. At least with actual matchmaking it at least tries to match people of relatively equal skill. I don't think the PTR is about balance testing so much as it is free bug testing.
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Aug 27, 2017 17:09
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they've said as much themselvesMontalvo posted:Is anyone else having problems saving highlights on PS4? I keep pressing the button mapped to the save highlight button during POTG, and I even get the message saying that it has been saved, but then my highlights menu is completely empty (or full of other clips the game saved on its own). idk anything about that but you could just hit the share button instead since it's way better than their highlight system anyway
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Aug 27, 2017 17:15
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Slime posted:The PTR is a loving awful, awful, AWFUL goddamn way of testing balance because it jams good players up against bad players and the good players use a new tool a little and the bad players die and scream NERF. At least with actual matchmaking it at least tries to match people of relatively equal skill. The PTR has relaxed matchmaking because there is generally significantly less traffic on the PTR than there is on live. That's also why there are less available playlists. The PTR is better than no community testing, which is the alternative.
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Aug 27, 2017 17:42
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Father Wendigo posted:I don't think the PTR is about balance testing so much as it is free bug testing. Like Manatee Cannon said, this is Blizzard's official stance on the PTR. Nonetheless it's still important to bear in mind that Twitch clips of streamers dunking on their fans isn't going to give you a very good picture of how significant changes shake out but honestly even firsthand experience on the PTR isn't going to give you a very clear picture either because the PTR attracts a fraction of the main playerbase, and of those who do use it many of them treat it as little more than an extended arcade mode.
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Aug 27, 2017 19:04
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So I came back to this game because I have a group of friends I can do comp with and for some reason I can't bind PTT to my mouse 4 like I used to. Anyone know a fix?
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Aug 27, 2017 19:15
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is SOP for event endings for it to end late or early on monday? need to plan those last minute skin purchases
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Aug 28, 2017 00:58
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Snazzy Frocks posted:is SOP for event endings for it to end late or early on monday? need to plan those last minute skin purchases It can last for a while into the afternoon PST but I'd still probably buy anything you want this evening just to be on the safe side.
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Aug 28, 2017 01:08
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I think it ends either tomorrow or early tuesday tbh I bought my skins early this time because the lower dup chances means it's really unlikely that I'll end up regretting it
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Aug 28, 2017 01:09
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It's likely that the end will sync with the season finish tomorrow, but it's always hard to say for sure.
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Aug 28, 2017 01:30
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well i've tapped out my blue items and all i get is still 15 overcoins for them now. i thought they were increasing the amount that dupes give
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Aug 28, 2017 06:24
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i think they said they increased the frequency of coin drops to compensate for less duplicates, not that they increased the amount of coins dupes give
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Aug 28, 2017 14:00
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kumba posted:i think they said they increased the frequency of coin drops to compensate for less duplicates, not that they increased the amount of coins dupes give For every arcade box and level up this event I've seen my coin balance increase by 110. It's all RNG, anyway. Speaking of poo poo, it's time to pinch off those last two placement matches for Comp today.
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Aug 28, 2017 17:04
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kumba posted:i think they said they increased the frequency of coin drops to compensate for less duplicates, not that they increased the amount of coins dupes give They didn't get their math right when tuning that coin drop rate, because currency accrues way, way slower than it did before. Racking up 3000 over the course of the event just wasn't reasonably doable this time.
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Aug 28, 2017 17:22
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Supercar Gautier posted:They didn't get their math right when tuning that coin drop rate, because currency accrues way, way slower than it did before. Racking up 3000 over the course of the event just wasn't reasonably doable this time.
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Aug 28, 2017 18:46
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IIRC Kaplan explicitly said you were supposed to accrue currency at the same or greater rate than before. Whether or not you think it makes sense, it's what they said they would do.
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Aug 28, 2017 18:49
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I've gotten way fewer duplicates lately but I've still gotten a number of them, and it doesn't seem like it always goes out of its way to prevent you from rolling dupes even when there's plenty of stuff in a similar category that I haven't gotten yet, but I've definitely had zero boxes where it's like 3-4 duplicates all at once.
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Aug 28, 2017 19:01
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i have never gotten a dupe since the lootbox patch up until the point I got my last blue item in the pool
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Aug 28, 2017 19:13
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Is there a meta for Lucioball or something? I've been playing it to get my arcade wins today and everyone keeps saying I'm bad. I didn't know there was a super strategic way to play crazy soccer.
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Aug 28, 2017 19:37
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There are some things that help. Like: Never let a shot go unchallenged -- always always make sure someone is counterbooping at the same time. Don't time your boops wrong. It is possible. Don't play keeper pingpong unless you have a guy that is going for the slam dunk down there. Shoot for the corners instead. Don't play the ball across the field in your own half Know when to come out as keeper Cover your keeper when he goes to the side to clear Wall ride back and forth so you are playing offense and defense Don't clear it on the ground. You look up like 85 degrees to get a chip shot. Beyond that it's just knowing the angles so you are standing in the right place and booping in the right direction.
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Aug 28, 2017 20:04
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I haven't seen any duplicates since the change, but boxes with grays and blues feel even worse to get than before. At least before when you'd get a dupe of one you got a consolation prize of a few gold, now you just get nothing. Since everything that can come out of them is so cheap to buy outright it just feels like a wasted box most of the time that doesn't even help me towards buying what I want like they used to. Don't get me wrong, I still think this way is better but they need to turn coin drops up by a bit because getting unlucky and not getting the skin you want in a box means the grind to 3k coins is even more of a random slog than it was before. I managed to scrape enough together to buy Sombra's skin, at least. It's the only event one I got besides Widowmaker's (who I don't play), but thanks game for giving me both of tracer's old summer skins and one of lucio's I guess. 
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Aug 28, 2017 20:26
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Snazzy Frocks posted:i have never gotten a dupe since the lootbox patch up until the point I got my last blue item in the pool I'm only level 450-something so I'm not out of blues yet, but yeah I haven't gotten a single duplicate at all since the change
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Aug 28, 2017 20:56
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Some toxic rear end in a top hat posted:"disruptive gameplay". In quickplay. What. Jeff Kaplan posted:We checked the IP address of the account you posted from and found a suspended account. 
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Aug 28, 2017 23:11
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"That was my brother!"
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Aug 28, 2017 23:28
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Okay, credit where it's due, that's the sort of Jeff Kaplan post I'd like to see more of.
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Aug 28, 2017 23:32
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It's full of specific information that actually means what he's suggesting it means, so yeah, that'd be nice.
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Theres this dude on my team, low plat, who has 176 hours on Junkrat this season alone. Good god.
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Santheb posted:Theres this dude on my team, low plat, who has 176 hours on Junkrat this season alone. Let people have their fun and don't judge unless they're being a toxic asshat.
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Santheb posted:Theres this dude on my team, low plat, who has 176 hours on Junkrat this season alone. Junkrat is good
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:It's full of specific information that actually means what he's suggesting it means, so yeah, that'd be nice. On the other hand, the fact that this guy was allowed to rack up over 2000 separate reports and a year of silences before someone pulled the trigger on him makes it abundantly clear that Blizzard's griefer/thrower handling policies are in drastic need of an overhaul.
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Aug 28, 2017 23:44
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2 conc mines will make junkrat legit way better in the near future
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Kai Tave posted:On the other hand, the fact that this guy was allowed to rack up over 2000 separate reports and a year of silences before someone pulled the trigger on him makes it abundantly clear that Blizzard's griefer/thrower handling policies are in drastic need of an overhaul. I was thinking the same. It's funny to see the whole rap sheet get put on blast in front of everyone, but at the same time, how was this dude still playing until now with that rap sheet?!
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Because they didn't start punishing people effectively until recently when they did the aforementioned report system overhaul.
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turtlecrunch posted:Because they didn't start punishing people effectively until recently when they did the aforementioned report system overhaul. "Effectively" is a bit of a stretch since the guy only got a week ban, and only on his main account
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Aug 29, 2017 00:26
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I didn't know DuckandCover posted on the Overwatch forums too.
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Aug 29, 2017 05:11
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If people are interested, I recently did an interview with Darin De Paul (VA of Reinhardt) about how life was treating him, 12 months post-Overwatch release. Spoiler: pretty awesome.  http://www.doyouevengamebro.net/darin-de-paul-drops-hammer-12-months-reinhardt/
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a cock shaped fruit posted:If people are interested, I recently did an interview with Darin De Paul (VA of Reinhardt) about how life was treating him, 12 months post-Overwatch release. Anything about how he handles what must be a stupendous amount of abdominal straining to produce the Reinhardt voice?
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FAUXTON posted:Anything about how he handles what must be a stupendous amount of abdominal straining to produce the Reinhardt voice? It's pretty bonkers because he isn't a huge dude, but he sounds massive when Reinhardt'ing. Edit: Randomly paused the video in the article and got full exposure to the 'Reinhardt Face'  Double edit: in fact, in a 23 seconds video this is a selection of this expressions:          ...and finally:  He really is my favourite human. a cock shaped fruit fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Aug 29, 2017 |
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