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calcio posted:Okay, a contextual ping may work with a hot key and hopefully will help avoid some toxicity. But there are still idiots that refuse to swap to counter or are getting countered hard which I need an idiot ping for.. My favorites are the ones that swap with a couple minutes left after spending the whole match eating dirt. in my ideal world pinging the hero they should switch to would contextually play a passive aggressive comment about their performance and a suggestion to switch
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Herstory Begins Now posted:in my ideal world pinging the hero they should switch to would contextually play a passive aggressive comment about their performance and a suggestion to switch Let me have same team hero bans. Sorry, there’s a pharah and echo on their team. No you can’t play junkrat and sym.
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Wow, this is dumb. I had 20 old Anniversary loot boxes, got 2 more from the Remix event by playing. Had to open the 20 old ones first for dupes (I already have all skins from up until today) before I could open the most recent ones, one of which gave me white Genji.
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Apr 5, 2022 21:40
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they should have had white palette swaps for the week challenge(es).
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mcbexx posted:Wow, this is dumb. I had 20 old Anniversary loot boxes, got 2 more from the Remix event by playing. Had to open the 20 old ones first for dupes (I already have all skins from up until today) before I could open the most recent ones, one of which gave me white Genji. They changed this about a year ago. It is to be first in last out. Now it’s reversed. I have over 1000 unopened and would have more if each event I didn’t have to open all to get to the new ones. They really need to do a currency reset for OW2. Have a new currency in OW2 and allow the old one to purchase gold weapons, any (with some limitations) old skin, trade in for new currency possibly at a rate of like 10 to 1 or something.
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Huh, wonder why they released that early. https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1514269445975289857?s=20&t=oZp6PtcP-oSZ8kI7-lwCKQ
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A while ago they talked about how they wanted to remove CC from DPS, as they should be, and I was getting hopeful about it but lol, get hosed apparently because the first OW2 character is a DPS with CC.
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Jack Trades posted:A while ago they talked about how they wanted to remove CC from DPS, as they should be, and I was getting hopeful about it but lol, get hosed apparently because the first OW2 character is a DPS with CC. I think they were mostly saying hard CC like Stun and Bash
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Herstory Begins Now posted:they added a second soldier76?
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calcio posted:Canadian soldier with a rail gun… You fire an automatic assault rifle that then fires charged up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp9WyoI5bLk&t=129s ? e: Okay soldier 76 with a big aoe slow as her cooldown  e2: Even in the promo footage she is ~DPS positioning~ lol 
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Herstory Begins Now posted:you fire an automatic assault rifle that then fires charged up and the ultimate is the powered up version of the gun... but instead of healing AoE she gets hurty AoE that COMPLETELY different.
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Actually looks pretty good as a soldier rework imo, not a fan of the cc and I can't fathom why they keep insisting on adding even more cc to the game, but leaning into mobility is good and getting rid of heal can is good too---lord knows OW has 200% too much healing already. I just don't get why they're keeping the old soldier76 in the game.Jack Trades posted:A while ago they talked about how they wanted to remove CC from DPS, as they should be, and I was getting hopeful about it but lol, get hosed apparently because the first OW2 character is a DPS with CC. the promo footage shows a mei+sojourn dps combo which I'm sure will be very fun to play against Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Apr 16, 2022 |
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really any CC in the game should be a skillshot like Ana's sleep dart. People complain about that way less than other CC because you actually have to aim to employ it
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Pattonesque posted:really any CC in the game should be a skillshot like Ana's sleep dart. People complain about that way less than other CC because you actually have to aim to employ it Tanks should have non-skillshot CC because that would allow them to be actual tanks instead of just fat dps, as a bunch of them are right now.
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Jack Trades posted:Tanks should have non-skillshot CC because that would allow them to be actual tanks instead of just fat dps, as a bunch of them are right now. I'd reckon that's mostly on the 6v6 model. If it wasn't a main tank / off tank model it would be an absolute grindfest of dual shields with a CC each immovable object v unstoppable force. I reckon we'll see a lot more interesting things balance wise in 5v5.
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Pattonesque posted:really any CC in the game should be a skillshot like Ana's sleep dart. People complain about that way less than other CC because you actually have to aim to employ it I'm going to be mad if they keep the increased cooldown for sleep dart that they were testing
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Sakara123 posted:I'd reckon that's mostly on the 6v6 model. If it wasn't a main tank / off tank model it would be an absolute grindfest of dual shields with a CC each immovable object v unstoppable force. I reckon we'll see a lot more interesting things balance wise in 5v5. Still maintain that reducing the team sizes even more is a massive mistake, if anything should be increasing them to a larger size, 12v12 should be the smallest any casual mode for an FPS should ever go
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Multiple tanks and tanks being as strong as they were was what lead to a lot of the problems with OW1- Damage constantly increased because tanks were too unkillable until the game turned into rocket tag between most non-tank characters, which lead to GOATs because tanks were the only characters who could stick to the field long enough for support healing to do work making them exponentially more powerful then any DPS, which then lead to Bunker once role queue was a thing because those were the tanks that could actually share their durability with the rest of the team. Like, what OW1 needed was a 30% damage nerf and a 50% overall health reduction on health above the standard 200/250 as well as all barriers, but they balanced the game the other way in fear of making the tank role feel less special so they instead made it super-stressful because tank became the only role that actually mattered in the grand scheme of things- having bad DPS or Supports could make a game hard, but having bad tanks made games straight up unwinnable without a major skill gap between teams since without tanks the rest of the team just exploded on contact. I'm not saying I have terribly high hopes for OW2- besides being a ABK game which is at this point basically a non-starter, I've got no faith the team has learned how to balance their game in the last six years, but taking a long, hard look at the tank role is at least a sign that they recognize the problem. Taking a swing at hard CC is another, though I think that's less of a role problem and more of a distribution problem- it was honestly much less of an issue in launch OW before they added a whole bunch more characters into the game with hard CC, especially on non-Ultimate buttons, making it far harder to have a six-stack that could all have hard CC buttons then it is now. I guess if they're keeping role counts, tying CC to roles limits how much you can have on the team, but a better solution would be to stop slapping it into almost every new kit- of the heroes added since launch, only Moira, Ashe, and Baptiste lack access to hard CC. Whereas less then half the launch roster had it in any form, and only Cassidy, Roadhog, and Mei had it without Ult charge.
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I think the O1 has great balance and dynamic play right now. The double shield thing isn't a huge problem. Tanks have an outsized influence on matches, but they don't make massive stalemates anymore. The only real balance problem I can think of is bap. People are grumpy about the lack of content, which i guess is understandable, but the game is good. I personally don't play games for a new hero every quarter. Mobas are ridiculous and redundant.
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drrockso20 posted:Still maintain that reducing the team sizes even more is a massive mistake, if anything should be increasing them to a larger size, 12v12 should be the smallest any casual mode for an FPS should ever go In a traditional FPS sure, but in a hero fps I'd have to disagree. having up to 24 abilities going off at once would not only be a nightmare gameplay wise, not to mention the visual clutter. It's already very difficult to tell what's happening in corridors when multiple people ult, let alone trying to look past larger character models as a smaller one.
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headcase posted:I think the O1 has great balance and dynamic play right now. The double shield thing isn't a huge problem. Tanks have an outsized influence on matches, but they don't make massive stalemates anymore. The only real balance problem I can think of is bap. I haven’t played in a while but the lack of content was never an issue with me. It stopped being fun because there was too much cc, too much healing, and too much shields. For me I enjoy these types of games when they are fast and have a lot of movement options. If I wanted to play a slow, plodding game I’d play any number of the tactical shooters out there.
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calcio posted:Let me have same team hero bans. Sorry, there’s a pharah and echo on their team. No you can’t play junkrat and sym. I can get to them with Junkrat trust me 
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Overwatch has sucked for a long time because instead of making more maps they kept making characters and focusing on pleasing the people that were more concerned with which characters are loving than those playing the game. Literally we could have had like twenty more payload or push style maps but instead we got more characters. For games that make you do the same thing over and over and over again, the winning formula is to copy other games. New maps and skins make money and keep people playing. There’s still only one actual fortnite character, and the games that have a million characters force you to pick before the game starts and lock you into it the whole game. Overwatch never picked a side
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Big disagree on the tank issue. Damage got absolutely massively buffed to deal with healing being overtuned. This has resulted in the game being massively unbalanced after the introduction of role queue and now playing a tank is "I'm invincible, I'm invincible, oh ana's reloading I'm dead in half a second"
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dogstile posted:Big disagree on the tank issue. Damage got absolutely massively buffed to deal with healing being overtuned. This has resulted in the game being massively unbalanced after the introduction of role queue and now playing a tank is "I'm invincible, I'm invincible, oh ana's reloading I'm dead in half a second" I agree, tanks are way too strong, however, 5v5 is too small a team size. If I wanted to sweat out wins in an fps at that level, I’d play CS. Overwatch is supposed to be a fun relaxing game with fun characters. Dragging the game closer and closer to mostly esports is a bad idea, they need fun multiplayer modes.
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as far as I can tell, 5v5 is basically giving DPS characters what they want and making life miserable for tanks and supports, which is the standard trajectory of OW development.
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I'm more worried having only one tank just puts all the onus on one player instead of making a duo of tanks less critical I'm trying to reserve my judgment until it's playable though
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Jack Trades posted:And yet, nobody wants to play Tanks. Because being a tank means you are literally entirely reliant on your team to do anything. At least when I pick support I can just murder any dumbass who wants to dive me.
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Countblanc posted:5v5 means fewer ults which immediately makes it more appealing but less people to aim them at that aren't you!!
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they named the overwatch sequel overwatch poo
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dogstile posted:Because being a tank means you are literally entirely reliant on your team to do anything. Sounds to me like Tanks aren't strong enough.
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I'm curious about what they're going to do with Roadhog and Hammond. Offtank just being the dude that wanted to skip DPS queues sort of works when the second Tank is there to pick up the slack but in 5v5 3 DPS 2 Healers sounds like a nightmare.
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leftist heap posted:I haven't really played in ages but 5v5 sounds extremely unappealing. And now imagine two of the slots are Widow and Hanzo, and they are both terrible.
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