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They can nerf shield bash but Brig is still gonna be a better than Mccree at stuff because she can stay alive and provides healing.
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Flashbang's stun effect lasts for .4 seconds while shield bash's lasts for a full second
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Nov 19, 2018 18:52
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You could also point to the fact that McCree's stun has a casting delay which means you can play around it pretty effectively. But more fundamentally McCree is a DPS hero whose sole contribution is fragging enemy players. Even if his flashbang makes him hard to kill you can just go after one of his teammates instead, which is a much worse plan when the hero in question has a powerful burst healing ability that negates almost any dive attempt.
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Nov 19, 2018 18:53
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He also has basically no synergy with any of the tanks or compositions.
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Nov 19, 2018 19:26
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berenzen posted:He also has basically no synergy with any of the tanks or compositions. He's just so vulnerable. I like playing him but every time I pick him I usually end up thinking that my team would just be better off if I were Brig. And I'm usually right there. Staying alive is so much more important than getting picks and Brig has Mccree beat by miles in that category.
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Nov 19, 2018 19:57
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Dev (art team) dropping by Fran's stream in 20 minutes http://www.twitch.tv/fran
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Nov 20, 2018 00:40
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turtlecrunch posted:Dev (art team) dropping by Fran's stream in 20 minutes http://www.twitch.tv/fran Who ended up being a very nice bronze Mercy player. Gave very good bronze tips while streaming with Fran.
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Nov 20, 2018 02:04
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Mcree is like the worst hero in the game. Also his flashbang is way worse than shield bash in almost every way lol.
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Nov 20, 2018 18:25
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Hey guys I know you're all annoyed about the annoying persistence of awful people in your games, but I think this latest change to the game where we take away the screen that show you sad numbers will make you feel better.
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Nov 20, 2018 18:28
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I'd like to match against someone who hasn't played the game 4k hours for once.
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Nov 24, 2018 05:50
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KillerQueen posted:I'd like to match against someone who hasn't played the game 4k hours for once. if you are new this is HIGHLY unlikely if you are grouped up with a friend.
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Nov 24, 2018 11:31
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Quick reminder: Get your 2 hours of watching Overwatch on Twitch done for the 3 Ashe sprays if you're an OCD collector of stuff. Any Overwatch streamer with drops enabled (shows below the stream title) qualifies. It's not featured prominently in the launcher, the event expires tomorrow (ending with the free trial phase).
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Nov 25, 2018 12:31
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Big boss Pine teaches us the true counter to gravdragon was in our hearts all along https://clips.twitch.tv/LovelyObedientGarlicImGlitch
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Nov 26, 2018 17:08
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What has happened to the matching algorithm? Every game I play I am losing every time, Yesterday I had 5 Golds in a game we lost - I was moira and got objective kills gold with 1 kill and eliminations gold for 45 kills, This is the usual state of affairs, we lose terribly and in some cases we lose big time, We had an anubis defence where they took the first point in about 20 seconds and the second point before i could respawn. It has been like this for me since about 3 months ago, I don't do comp but my normal play level is like gold (gold 3 according to oversumo) but I seem to be with completely stupid teams that are either not on comms or some squeaky teenager screaming abuse when his tracer gets killed behind enemy lines because the healer couldnt get to him. I cannot play comp with my friends anymore as they are all > 1000 points above me but season 10 (last season I tried) I gave up after 3 placement matches when we had 3 losses due to leavers in every single game.
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Nov 27, 2018 09:24
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Your issue is you're not playing comp
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Nov 27, 2018 10:36
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Comp will give you better matched games overall. Also, don't trust stats, they lie.
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Nov 27, 2018 10:42
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Comp has tighter matchmaking. Also, comp will give you teammates that are more likely to stay to what they play best rather than matching you with someone who has decided to just gently caress around.
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Nov 27, 2018 12:34
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Switching to comp isn't some magic fix. At my rank the only difference between QP and comp is how angry people get
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Nov 27, 2018 13:58
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If you want to have fun just play arcade. QP is a very clever psychological metagame to devise strategies to have two healers on your comp at the same time
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Nov 27, 2018 14:39
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Deathmatch is a good way to both 1) relax the "working together" part of your brain and 2) practice mechanics
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Nov 27, 2018 16:17
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TheresaJayne posted:What has happened to the matching algorithm? Most people that play comp and quickplay do not play quickplay to "win" they play it to practice or warm up. So if your hidden MMR puts a "gold level" support main on your team and they're warming up on mccree then you're kinda hosed. Also teams are not "fair" in quick play, the MMRs that they put on each team is quite wide.
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Nov 27, 2018 16:23
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I like how Blizzard tries to make the matchmaking as fair as possible by agonizing over who is the perfect player on queue to add to your match after somebody leaves, having a team minus one player for a couple of minutes until it finds the adequate replacement who will be then unceremoniously dumped straight into the team defeat screen for a perfectly balanced gaming experience for all concerned.
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Nov 28, 2018 19:02
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Max Awfuls posted:I like how Blizzard tries to make the matchmaking as fair as possible by agonizing over who is the perfect player on queue to add to your match after somebody leaves, having a team minus one player for a couple of minutes until it finds the adequate replacement who will be then unceremoniously dumped straight into the team defeat screen for a perfectly balanced gaming experience for all concerned. I had several games the other day where we just never got a sixth player again for the rest of the match after one left
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Nov 28, 2018 19:08
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I love being that that sixth player on Mystery Heroes, with six minutes to go, and winning 
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Nov 28, 2018 19:30
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I hate getting backfill on first game of the day I also hate the quit wave where 1 person quits which makes more people quit or people getting pulled into backfill and then leaving because they don't want to be in backfill
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Nov 28, 2018 19:34
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the funniest thing is when everyone notices someone leaving and rejoining like four times and start saying "welcome back"
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Nov 28, 2018 20:24
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grieving for Gandalf posted:the funniest thing is when everyone notices someone leaving and rejoining like four times and start saying "welcome back" The only reason I use avoid player is if this happens
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Nov 28, 2018 22:12
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Max Awfuls posted:I like how Blizzard tries to make the matchmaking as fair as possible by agonizing over who is the perfect player on queue to add to your match after somebody leaves, having a team minus one player for a couple of minutes until it finds the adequate replacement who will be then unceremoniously dumped straight into the team defeat screen for a perfectly balanced gaming experience for all concerned. lol their matchmaking isn't even trying to be fair since blizzard tries so hard to keep your w/l at 50%, which leads to most games being insanely unbalanced in one direction or the other
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Nov 28, 2018 22:23
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Manatee Cannon posted:lol their matchmaking isn't even trying to be fair since blizzard tries so hard to keep your w/l at 50%, which leads to most games being insanely unbalanced in one direction or the other A very slight but an important distinction here - it tries to make each team have a 50% probability of winning. But thats in comp, not quickplay.
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Nov 28, 2018 22:28
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Manatee Cannon posted:lol their matchmaking isn't even trying to be fair since blizzard tries so hard to keep your w/l at 50%, which leads to most games being insanely unbalanced in one direction or the other didn't this get outright disproven?
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Nov 28, 2018 22:41
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People say that about the matchmaking of literally every game because it explains why they lose despite them being #1 Gamer.
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Nov 28, 2018 22:54
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The matchmaker's lowest allowable predicted win chance for the underdog team in a comp game is 40%, though a long time ago it used to be lower. This doesn't mean the matchmaker is good at its job.
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Nov 28, 2018 22:56
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Manatee Cannon posted:lol their matchmaking isn't even trying to be fair since blizzard tries so hard to keep your w/l at 50%, which leads to most games being insanely unbalanced in one direction or the other I'm pretty sure this is outright made up; a very-close-to-50% win rate for almost everyone is like literally the exact thing you would expect to happen. You're basically saying that the Law of Averages is a result of malfeasance, which, I dunno man, that's a pretty hot take right there. In fact if a meaningful number of people were able to maintain winrates significantly above 50% that would be a sign that the matchmaker was hosed up. I mean, sure, the matchmaker is sort of crap, of course, but it's because of other things, not because Blizzard decided to make it terrible on purpose
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Nov 29, 2018 00:21
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If the game doesn't reinforce the "I'm the best" mentality, people won't get invested. And if people don't get invested, they won't play the game, and if they don't play the game, they won't buy loot boxes.
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Nov 29, 2018 00:36
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Well its been 3 months and LFG is now a wasteland. n0ice.
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Nov 30, 2018 07:42
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Willie Tomg posted:Well its been 3 months and LFG is now a wasteland. n0ice. Dunno about you - I had a grest time with a LFG six stack yesterday and it filled pretty fast.
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Nov 30, 2018 12:41
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I find the LFG groups will fill pretty fast, but that people will most likely bail if you don't win the first game as a group... which seems kind of silly to me, surely the more you played with your team, the better you'd get?
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Nov 30, 2018 14:12
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The LFG pool in gold on PS4 is an absolute dead wasteland.
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Nov 30, 2018 16:34
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Christabel posted:I find the LFG groups will fill pretty fast, but that people will most likely bail if you don't win the first game as a group... which seems kind of silly to me, surely the more you played with your team, the better you'd get? It's a "carry me" mentality. I've had wins when I'm pre-grouped with a couple of mates and people in the same match will want to stay with us. The first sign of a loss they're ghosts.
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One thing I tried last night was making a high-endorsement LFG (level 3 or higher) for team deathmatch, and it worked out pretty well! I made an effort to be friendly and got some very chill casual games, and people didn't immediately leave after a loss so that was nice 
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