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reaper can be played as a frontline brawler to enable your tank to overwhelm the enemy tank or to peel an enemy winston reaper's flank gameplay loop is tp out of line of sight of the enemy backline behind cover or on the high ground from near your side of the map, shoot them, wraith out usually don't go on the scenic route as reaper on a long flank because like you've noticed you're doing nothing while the fight has already been happening for a while. it's only really good in a situation where you have the time before the fight starts (e.g. a fight is over and you can go wherever)
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Reaper, along with Moira, has one of the best "oh poo poo" buttons with his wraith form. At low ranks and when you don't know where health packs are, it's most practical to use this for retreating to your healers and breaking line of sight, which means that your engagements should be relatively close to the main group. A good starter Reaper strat is to generally stick with the group on approach, and when a fight is breaking out, break LOS and teleport across a lane to the backfield or a flank, then waste engaged healers. When you get the enemy's attention, pop wraith form and find the best way back your pack, then rinse and repeat. By staying close to the pack, you also give yourself opportunities to pick off flankers against your own team or help deal with an aggressive dive from an enemy tank. f#a# fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Nov 5, 2022 |
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oh yah also be really comfortable as reaper getting really uncomfortably close to people. so many reapers play too far from the target theyre trying to kill b/c they're uncomfortable even though they're literally a shotgun character. a more advanced technique to evasively get close is to hold forward while ad-strafing. you can also hold forward on just one of the strafe directions and don't hold forward on the other for more evasion.
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Nov 5, 2022 18:21
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Who's excited to grind for 4 weeks before getting the new hero? WOO!
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https://twitter.com/adashtra/status/1588708404843122689 https://twitter.com/OverwatchNaeri/status/1588794592820105216
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Nov 5, 2022 20:47
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Jack Trades posted:Who's excited to grind for 4 weeks before getting the new hero? WOO! Why do we need to? Does he only come if you beat the current pass?
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Cowslips Warren posted:Why do we need to? Does he only come if you beat the current pass? New heroes are gated behind 55 tiers on the free battle pass. If you spend $10 to unlock the premium battle pass, you get immediate access to them.
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Nov 5, 2022 21:45
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I can't wait to see the reactions when your average joe realizes that you can't play the hot new hero without grinding for a month or paying for Bobby Koticks cocaine bucket.
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Nov 5, 2022 21:53
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Game bad so what
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I'vr been playing Pharah quite well (in my opinion) in Overwatch 1 but that was a couple of years ago. I've tried to pick her up again and it is not going too poorly but not really clicking either. Would people have any advice for her? Advanced and specific tips appreciated, too. I know my troubles are mostly from not being familiar with any new maps or hero changes. Teams shrinking to 5 is not ideal either, since that means more attention to me. I don't really know anything about new heroes, starting from Sigma and onward so feel free to offer tips on them too. Especially Echo seems to delete me at will, no matter what I try.
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The Overwatch Team posted:"We're trying to move away from hard counters." The Overwatch Team posted:"Actually tho, gently caress fliers."
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do people not know what a hard counter is
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having a single ability in your kit that helps with an otherwise tragic matchup (which seems safe to assume would be true for the new tank given he shoots projectiles or attacks in melee) does not make a character a hard counter
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Does easily negating another character's main strength count as being a hard counter or are we running on some kind of bizarro definitions here?
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Being able to instantly play the new hero is what usually had me reinstalling the game after I got bored with it/ after it tilted me too hard I uninstalled, so if it's going to take me 55 levels to grind any new hero that's a reason to reinstall gone out the window, I imagine that'll happen to a lot of people. I guess hopefully once every season is over and a new one starts everyone is just given last season's hero if they haven't played, so when you come back in a year or so you have a few new characters to try.
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It's not like it instantly kills Pharah or Echo, whom are in themselves even harder counters to many characters. Tanks except maybe Dva all have trouble with flyers so I see no issue with adding an option for a tank player to swap to if they need to deal with it themselves because their genji, junk, and mercy won't swap
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novaSphere posted:It's not like it instantly kills Pharah or Echo, whom are in themselves even harder counters to many characters. Tanks except maybe Dva all have trouble with flyers so I see no issue with adding an option for a tank player to swap to if they need to deal with it themselves because their genji, junk, and mercy won't swap right, and even then it doesn't like Solve the issue, it just makes it not tragically awful. if new guy had a passive that reduced damage taken by airborne characters by 90% or a pulsing aura that grounded all flyers that'd be one thing, this is an ability which temporarily grounds someone for almost certainly way less time than the ability's cooldown, and the ability will regularly be used to slow other characters for the purposes of peeling, confirming kills, etc.
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I mean we don't know anything about the ability cooldown, how long it lasts, what its radius is, whether it's a skillshot or not, so I think it is maybe perhaps possibly slightly early to declare it a hard counter imo
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I did open queue for a couple matches and I don't understand why you wouldn't pick at least two tanks, why even pick that mode if you're just playing regular roles lmao.
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teagone posted:I did open queue for a couple matches and I don't understand why you wouldn't pick at least two tanks, why even pick that mode if you're just playing regular roles lmao. because you don’t care?
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leftist heap posted:because you don’t care? Well that's a lame excuse. If you're just gonna end up playing 1 tank, 2 dps, 2 support, why not just do role queue? Do silly poo poo in open queue. 4 tanks is a lot of fun.
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teagone posted:Well that's a lame excuse. If you're just gonna end up playing 1 tank, 2 dps, 2 support, why not just do role queue? Do silly poo poo in open queue. 4 tanks is a lot of fun. Unless you party queue then your players will play whatever they feel like playing in the moment, regardless of what the rest of their team wants. That's probably why they're in open queue. If 5 players who prefer not to play tank get grouped together then there's very little to enforce roles in... the non role queue
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teagone posted:I did open queue for a couple matches and I don't understand why you wouldn't pick at least two tanks, why even pick that mode if you're just playing regular roles lmao. I used it for instant DPS queue when I was doing weekly challenges and didn't like the arcade modes.
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Quotey posted:I used it for instant DPS queue when I was doing weekly challenges and didn't like the arcade modes. That makes sense.
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Jack Trades posted:I can't wait to see the reactions when your average joe realizes that you can't play the hot new hero without grinding for a month or paying for Bobby Koticks cocaine bucket. It took me about a week and a half of playing to get to 55 on the paid BP, and I've never played Overwatch before this game  I just do my dailies, and try to complete the weeklies if I can. It's mainly just playing though. The event contributed to a good amount of exp, but I still haven't even completed that. (gently caress Dr Junkenstein's missions, and Bride on anything higher than normal.)
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Valiantman posted:I'vr been playing Pharah quite well (in my opinion) in Overwatch 1 but that was a couple of years ago. I've tried to pick her up again and it is not going too poorly but not really clicking either. I'm playing pharah a lot lately too. I feel like pharah shoots too slow because you need to get 2 direct hits on a target but they can get 5-6 shots off in the time it takes you to fire those 2 shots. I also think her health is strangely low for how exposed and far away from the healers she is. i'm bad, i dont have any tips. echo deletes me all the time too.
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I wish overwatch was a $60-to-access boxed product every 2 years instead of an $60 subscription-optional product every 2 years where dumbshits buy loads of highly ignorable skins and pay for development
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yeah. luckily for me i already have Zorro Mccree
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"hey soldier be careful peeking the widow, she's good" *peeks the widow, dies" "hey symmetra don't peek the widow, you can't really do much about her" *peeks the widow, dies* "hey soldier make sure you --" *peeks the widow, dies. so does the symmetra* "loving NEED SHIELDS"
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teagone posted:New heroes are gated behind 55 tiers on the free battle pass. If you spend $10 to unlock the premium battle pass, you get immediate access to them. Okay wait so I hit 55 so I get Kiriko, but I need to get to 110 to get the new robot?
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Futaba Anzu posted:Working on Reaper To echo what others have said, here’s the best I can give to help with Reaper, although it’s OW1: https://youtu.be/ZHE8og5MWqE
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mmm i wouldnt mind Da Grind if completing a battle pass before the ends allowed you to bank points/numbers for the next one, like I've finish mine without even trying that much for me and while I'm still doing some stuff, I'm getting something called "player titles" the hell are those?
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Cowslips Warren posted:Okay wait so I hit 55 so I get Kiriko, but I need to get to 110 to get the new robot? There is going to be a new battle pass that replaces the current one on Dec 9th.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Okay wait so I hit 55 so I get Kiriko, but I need to get to 110 to get the new robot? There's a new battle pass every 9 weeks or so. I think there will be a new hero every other battle pass after the Ramattra one.
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Ah okay well that makes sense. Apex season lasts a lot longer.
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I'm at level like... 38 in the BP cause all I have time for is a few matches maybe 5 times a week. Sadly I will probably pony up for the new one to get the new hero cause it's real dicey whether I will grind enough to get them.
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Valiantman posted:I'vr been playing Pharah quite well (in my opinion) in Overwatch 1 but that was a couple of years ago. I've tried to pick her up again and it is not going too poorly but not really clicking either. Don't listen to what anyone says about this character. Hit scan weapons and characters are your natural prey, not the other way around. You have an extra axis of movement to gently caress with their aim. You are afraid of high spread weapons and rapid fire weapons. Echo is very scary. Sombra and Tracer are various degrees of scary. D.Va is scary. Widow and Cassidy are not scary. Ashe is not scary, but Bob is. Unlike the other snipers, Ana can calibrate her shots as she shoots, and only needs a few hits on you. Remember that you are difficult to heal if you don't have a dedicated Mercy, like a lucky little twerp. Zenyatta discord orbs are bad, bad news. Edit The main thing with the new characters is that Kiriko makes a good partner, since she has an easier time healing you, and her ult is good enough you might actually consider descending into it.
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Veryslightlymad posted:Don't listen to what anyone says about this character. Hit scan weapons and characters are your natural prey, not the other way around. You have an extra axis of movement to gently caress with their aim. You are afraid of high spread weapons and rapid fire weapons. Echo is very scary. Sombra and Tracer are various degrees of scary. D.Va is scary. Thanks! Especially for the Kiriko tip. I did notice her heals being (somewhat? fully?) guided. Extra speed and reload speed does sound super useful. And yeah, hitscan heroes are usually who I dive for, not hide from. Well, I do but you know, only until I'm close enough. Widow especially cannot run whereas Pharah always has multiple covered routes to her. Soldier too, though he is fast to get away. Ana, you need to be close-up to get her since she indeed has easy time sniping you. Was that way in OW1 already. It seems like focusing on any tanks down without having Zenyatta around is counter-productive now. The consequence of the balance being planned around having only a single tank, I guess?
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Kabuki Shipoopi posted:It took me about a week and a half of playing to get to 55 on the paid BP, and I've never played Overwatch before this game Good for you. I'm sure Bobby Kotick appreciates the refill on his cocaine bucket.
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