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kaleedity
Feb 27, 2016



it really doesn't feel like the ana heal debuff hurts roadhog much in practice. It hurts someone getting mercy healed or luciamped on the front a lot more, and the healing from it is better than making roadhog sit out of LoS for more of his hook cooldown.

Now zen's pretty bad, and getting slept on hooking someone is Actually Very Awful, but at least ana/mccree/zen are all hook one-shots.

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Zoness
Jul 24, 2011

Talk to the hand.
Grimey Drawer
whats everyones favorite reaper skin

i like the red one

also if a low mobility healer becomes popular man it's gonna be even better to play reaper

Perestroika
Apr 8, 2010

Zoness posted:

:what:

junkrat is mostly ok it's just he is somewhat situational (favors narrow, low chokes) and matches up very poorly against pharah

obviously junkrat shouldn't go out of his way to fight pharah but he does take up a damage dealer spot on the team

Yeah, I gave him a whirl recently on comp on defense, and it actually worked out surprisingly well. He can make trouble for Reinhardt-led pushes by lobbing grenades around the shield, or just by wearing it down decently quickly with direct hits. Just spamming grenades into a chokepoint can also hold up a flanking attack for a few precious seconds, allowing your team to get into a better position. Last but not least, almost nobody ever really seems to expect the trap. Put it down near the front just behind a corner, watch some poor soldier or something stumble right into it during a push, and basically receive a free kill :laugh:

Count Bleck
Apr 5, 2010

DISPEL MAGIC!

Zoness posted:

whats everyones favorite reaper skin

i like the red one

also if a low mobility healer becomes popular man it's gonna be even better to play reaper

I like the white one specifically because of the dumb bloodstains on his gauntlets.

Rufio
Feb 6, 2003

I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect!
Why even have suboptimal heroes at all? Let's cut this game down to only 1 dude and make it all TDM. Need our FPS games pure.

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



Zoness posted:

whats everyones favorite reaper skin

i like the red one

also if a low mobility healer becomes popular man it's gonna be even better to play reaper

I wear the green one because no one loving wears that one and I feel really cool and unique.

Nehru the Damaja
May 20, 2005

Count Bleck posted:

I like the white one specifically because of the dumb bloodstains on his gauntlets.

He also has a skull pattern on the back of his coat, making Wight the most skulls-per-inch of any Reaper outfit.

Zabkable
Jul 20, 2004

eternally frustrated
Desert is the best, I feel like a camouflage trench coat is maybe 15% more edgy than most other trench coats.

Veks
May 12, 2012

OOOOOOH MYYY GOOOOOOOOOOOOD
Ana's comic is up at comic.playoverwatch.com!

Gimnbo
Feb 13, 2012

e m b r a c e
t r a n q u i l i t y



Kerrrrrrr posted:

i think the mccree buff was a bit much though.

I can murder people with McCree on PTR. As someone who's really quite bad at this game, that means that McCree is probably a bit too overbuffed right now. I wonder how his damage falloff compares to 76's.

Gimnbo fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Jul 14, 2016

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house

Gimnbo posted:

I can murder people with McCree on PTR. As someone who's really quite bad at this game, that means that McCree is probably a bit too overbuffed right now. I wonder how his damage falloff compares to 76's.

Don't talk yourself down! It's not like he's Hanzo and has broken hitboxes, you actually have to hit to be good with him.

RBX
Jan 2, 2011

Junkrat has great area denial and I'm never unhappy to see one on the team.

Me really depends in the player but I find when I play mercy and dmg boost her alot she gets poo poo done.

Kerrzhe
Nov 5, 2008

RBX posted:

Junkrat has great area denial and I'm never unhappy to see one on the team.

i'm unhappy to see him cause that means i have to play someone else. :mad:

RBX
Jan 2, 2011

I'm of the mind two is better than one friend. Join him and mute the haters. As a bonus you two will make the enemy rein miserable.

Kerrzhe
Nov 5, 2008

RBX posted:

I'm of the mind two is better than one friend. Join him and mute the haters. As a bonus you two will make the enemy rein miserable.

1 hero limit in competitive though :negative:

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
I love Junkrat, especially when I'm Zarya.

Why yes, I am going to murder your entire team and it's your fault.

Manatee Cannon
Aug 26, 2010



Zoness posted:

whats everyones favorite reaper skin

i like the red one

also if a low mobility healer becomes popular man it's gonna be even better to play reaper

el blanco is by far the best one imo

Nehru the Damaja
May 20, 2005

Manatee Cannon posted:

el blanco is by far the best one imo

If you like broken skins that clip with themselves and broken seams so you can look inside the model

Soothing Vapors
Mar 26, 2006

Associate Justice Lena "Kegels" Dunham: An uncool thought to have: 'is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he's Asian.
i use black mariachi over white mariachi because i seem to get focused more in white mariachi

neonbregna
Aug 20, 2007
After a couple of weeks it seems like the comp ranking has settled out. I feel like now the other team is actually outplaying my team instead of my team having 1 or 2 pant shitters that just drag us down atleast when you solo queue. Has blizzard said anything about adjusting ultimates? In 40+ play because now it feels like chaining ultimates is the only way to compete and it is not cool and not good.

Edit : also if mercy had a way to do a quick burst fire of her pistol and still heal at the same time that would make her cool and good on the same tier as Lucio. Just give it an appropriate cool down.

neonbregna fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jul 14, 2016

Manatee Cannon
Aug 26, 2010



Nehru the Damaja posted:

If you like broken skins that clip with themselves and broken seams so you can look inside the model

the only thing broken here is people that don't like el blanco

Lucy Heartfilia
May 31, 2012


neonbregna posted:

After a couple of weeks it seems like the comp ranking has settled out. I feel like now the other team is actually outplaying my team instead of my team having 1 or 2 pant shitters that just drag us down atleast when you solo queue. Has blizzard said anything about adjusting ultimates? In 40+ play because now it feels like chaining ultimates is the only way to compete and it is not cool and not good.

Edit : also if mercy had a way to do a quick burst fire of her pistol and still heal at the same time that would make her cool and good on the same tier as Lucio. Just give it an appropriate cool down.

Yeah. I'm rank 37 +/- 1 for some time now and mostly people are roughly as lovely as me at aiming and doing strategies.

Adun
Apr 15, 2001

Publicola
Fun Shoe
This is the first time I've played video games consistently online since CS 1.6 and I'm really surprised by how much pride I've taken in going from 48 -> 52 in competitive

Thor-Stryker
Nov 11, 2005
30 mins into a AvD map and the server "Closed due to an unexpected error."



Thanks Obamlizzard.

strong bird
May 12, 2009

It was unexpected

Mister Fister
May 17, 2008

D&D: HASBARA SQUAD
KILL-GORE


I love the smell of dead Palestinians in the morning.
You know, one time we had Gaza bombed for 26 days
(and counting!)
Seems like i'm downloading a new PTR version right now

Orange Crush Rush
May 7, 2009

You don't need thumbs for revenge

Manatee Cannon posted:

the only thing broken here is people that don't like el blanco

Honestly if you are gonna buy a Reaper skin you might as well go all the way and get Plague Doctor or Nevermore.

You gotta embrace that edge man. Be molded by it.

neonbregna
Aug 20, 2007

Adun posted:

This is the first time I've played video games consistently online since CS 1.6 and I'm really surprised by how much pride I've taken in going from 48 -> 52 in competitive

Sorry but you autism is worsening seek medical help and stay safe.

verbal enema
May 23, 2009

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Count Bleck posted:

I like the white one specifically because of the dumb bloodstains on his gauntlets.

Also the back of his coat is his face embossed on it

Bolow
Feb 27, 2007

Mister Fister posted:

Seems like i'm downloading a new PTR version right now

http://masteroverwatch.com/news/39-ptr-mini-patch-july-14-2016

Preliminary changes. Ana buffs already :getin:

Mister Fister
May 17, 2008

D&D: HASBARA SQUAD
KILL-GORE


I love the smell of dead Palestinians in the morning.
You know, one time we had Gaza bombed for 26 days
(and counting!)

Someone mentioned Zenyatta's discord is down to 30%, this blows

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


I'm gonna miss those bushes

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused

How dare they nerf my Symmetra strat of hiding turrets in the bushes :mad:

strong bird
May 12, 2009

Simply cannot believe they removed the bush. This is insane. And before you petulant retard's post in this thread about bush I will just mention that the bush in Mario is the same as the cloud, so why the gently caress does Blizzard have to remove bush

Cervix-A-Lot
Sep 29, 2006
Cheeeeesy
Jesus, I'm rank 51 and was just in a game with a rank 28. How does that happen?

Proposition Joe
Oct 8, 2010

He was a good man
Bring back the bush Blizzard.

Manatee Cannon
Aug 26, 2010



Easy Mac posted:

Jesus, I'm rank 51 and was just in a game with a rank 28. How does that happen?

it's based on average team rating is how. he was probably part of a group with at least 1 higher level player and it averaged out

neonbregna
Aug 20, 2007

strong bird posted:

Simply cannot believe they removed the bush. This is insane. And before you petulant retard's post in this thread about bush I will just mention that the bush in Mario is the same as the cloud, so why the gently caress does Blizzard have to remove bush

Maybe bli$$ard has been infiltrated by sandi Gardner who is a known foe of the bush

vulturesrow
Sep 25, 2011

Always gotta pay it forward.
So I played 3 placement matches last night on PS4 and it actually wasnt that bad..ok the first game was pretty bad. I can't remember the comp well but it wasnt good and we had a pants on head retarded Zarya who didnt shield a single a person other than herself and a 76 that apparently couldn't hit anything
We lost pretty handily on Numbani.

2nd match was not so good because I ended up with the same Zarya but the rest of the team was pretty solid. We split a point each and lost on the tiebreaker round. I actually snuck us the win on our escort round (think it was hollywood map) because the other team was doing a fair job of stalling us at the very end of the map. Then they got greedy and started pushing forward as time was running out. I was flanking with Lucio and snuck in front of the payload without being seen and speed boost + amp it up got us in just under the wire. I was pretty proud of that one.

Last match was Kings road and we had a good comp. I was lucio again. We went to sudden death and we got defense. Held them off fairly handily. I had 11k+ healing done but no votes on my card again! :argh:

Overall, I actually did feel like the quality of play was better than quick play. People actually tried to hunt me down as Lucio (sometimes excessively so in my opinion) which was new for me as typically in quick play I seem to usually be more a target of opportunity. Also Tjorbon felt much less strong against teams that actually understood how to take turrets down and my team couldn't keep flankers off me to boot. It was nice playing with a godly Reinhardt who always seemed to know when to go ham and when to shield. I had multiple turret kills (with Lucio!) thanks to him and our flankers actually did a good job in that game keeping pressure off me so I could help Reinhardt push the payload ahead.

Maybe I'll change my mind once I get placed but overall I think I enjoyed those games a lot more and felt better losing when we were clearly outplayed rather than having to two deal with 2 people slam picking Hanzo and being very bad with him.

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Kai Tave
Jul 2, 2012
Fallen Rib

Mister Fister posted:

Someone mentioned Zenyatta's discord is down to 30%, this blows

I kind of feel like with Zenyatta now being more durable along with other QoL tweaks and the boost to McCree's performance at range that this maybe isn't the worst thing in the world. Orb of Discord has always been a really, really strong ability bound to an underperforming character, if that character is suddenly no longer underperforming and can hold his own as a damage contributor among other things then yeah, maybe a 50% boost is excessive. I would argue that even knocked down to 30%, Discord is better for a coordinated team than something like Mercy's damage boost because it's effectively boosting everybody's damage versus the designated target, plus Zen can continue to shoot and hand out harmony orbs at the same time.

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