Microwaves Mom posted:

Okay I looked at Junkrat he does have a robot arm.

So Torb Junkrat

but how is symmetra robotic in any way? She wears like a visor and has an autism gun.

Kerrrrrrr posted:

yeah but i find it very funny that the first thing i noticed from the Dragons short is that master sneaky assassin hanzo has light up shoes like what i wore in 2nd grade

Brosnan posted:

I hope this thread sucks less!

Donnerberg posted:

Are we there yet?

Lastgirl posted:

Shy posted:

Battleborn went on sale today sooooo

Vermain posted:

http://steamcharts.com/cmp/394230,428690

Lastgirl posted:

what kind of sick notes will u scribble down friend

Minrad posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4klx9i/feel_like_this_needs_to_be_said_before_release/

Follow That Fish! posted:

Idk if someone already pointed this out, but ever noticed how Torbjörn's recolored skins are named a bit differently? They are how the colors are spelled in Swedish.

This game has way too many cool little details.

1stGear posted:

Eonwe posted:

hey guys, is anyone else going to be playing this in a few hours?

Lastgirl posted:

dont be #350, gently caress that

I went outside increasing the risk of dying because I was hungry and I drove to get some food and came back and I was real careful and paying attention to the road and buckled my seatbelt. If some rear end in a top hat was gonna t-bone me in the face and paralyze me if I wasn't killed... I already had a plan *puts on driving gloves and puts toothpick in mouth while tugging on my tiger sukajan jacket*

Troutz posted:

Talking to a friend right now whose friend died from complications due to sickle cell anemia. Guess what? he was looking forward to Overwatch. Add one more to the count fellas

Lastgirl posted:

omg, I was eating the food on the way back! I was being insanely reckless and tripling my chances of dying before Overwatch was launched!!1

DrPlump posted:

Blizzard I am dying! Please turn the servers on so I play one quick match before I d

slev posted:

battleborn servers working perfectly

Smoke_Max posted:

What the gently caress, this is happening to me as well.

ZenVulgarity posted:

Why are there two threads

ZenVulgarity posted:

This sounds like a trick

hhhat posted:

Junk rat question: so he did his ultimate and I snuck up behind him and shot him in the back of the head. His bomb was way far away, however it was like he blew up a little too and i died. Death cam showed it was me killing myself. Does junk rat blow up when he's killed when channeling? Is it a bug or a feature?

Game fun hating work

Crain posted:

With Symetra? . She really just has that shield, so she needs an actual healer to help out.

Zenyatta is great fun but I think they shouldn't have applied the 3 second LOS restriction to his healing orb. It makes sense for the damage orb but his healing is way too low. Which sucks because he's by far my favorite character design wise.

Kerrrrrrr posted:

i can confirm that most of my friends were 6-stacking last night and they're pretty bad

hhhat posted:

Welp

I admit to being owned

LordVonEarlDuke posted:

At work, having a blast playing some overwatch



Might stream a few matches later

LordVonEarlDuke posted:

i have a pro setup as you can see

foutre posted:

drat, that's a lot more than I've been using (and I definitely suck at tracking). I'm used to playing with a pretty high sensitivity on other games and am having trouble adjusting to lower settings. Do you have any tips for getting used to that low of a sensitivity? It feels like that'd take up the entire mouse pad practically. Do you use your shoulder more, or is it still mostly wrist movement?

FPSs are hard.

Countblanc posted:

i mentioned a while back that "short range" in this game is actually pretty generous, but I wanted to see exactly what that translated to. so i did some testing, and here's my results:





this is just about on the edge of what the game defines as short range; Mei's gun does 150 damage on a headshot within close range, and the bots have 200 health and each little box represents 25. it's sort of hard to visualize in first person so in the image below i stepped back and left a marker in the third screenshot to hopefully demonstrate a bit more clearly. it's pretty danged far!!

Kerrrrrrr posted:

he's an enormous grandpa, you can see him in his comic that i can't link to cause i'm at work~

net cafe scandal posted:

Widows really good.

Lastgirl posted:

Bastion because nobody can handle Reinhardht

Zorodius posted:

It's so frustrating that the pubbies suck so much, unlike me, a finely tuned gaming machine. They never support my charges; frequently the entire team is out of position while I'm the only one being smart.

they ruin the team composition by e.g. picking Widowmaker before me, thus forcing me to play the third sniper in our squad. Plus they push enemies to flank me, and throw off my aim with the sheer gravity of their badness, and somehow they even pooped in my pants.

Matchmaking what the hell, Blizzard? Anyone else have this problem?

Szcwczuk posted:

https://gfycat.com/LazyPaltryHarvestmen

Pomp posted:

I don't understand Overwatch.

That may seem hypocritical coming from someone who plays Battleborn every now and then, but I understand that. It has varied characters, it's colourful, and it's serving a retro niche that I desire. I'll be the first to admit it's only above average, though. I'm not going to buy bedsheets with it on and it's not going to replace my gaming mainstays. It's a bit of fun to fit in between other things.

The fervour surrounding Battleborn, though? I mentioned that Blizzard hire people for their sociological expertise, and it shows. The whole company is based around tapdancing on the edge of a person's will, and laughing about it.

Frankly, Overwatch is average.

I played it. I gave it a shot. The thing is? It's not a bad game. It's just incredibly mediocre. I just found the characters, level design, and gameplay to be a bit boring compared to TF2. And I found the UI to be a big, cluttered mess (but when could Blizzard ever design a user interface, anyway?).

And there's the fervour. The fervour though seems to be focused on two points: a.) I like waifu porn, so Overwatch is a good game, and b.) 'nah, that brainwashing stuff has no effect on me.' The latter being combined with a religious, zealous, firey fervour to defend Overwatch on every site. And whenever people say that it's just mediocre, there's always a brigade to make sure that they burn in fire for it. Which really proves the point.

Blizzard is good at making average games, but then they tap into the straight, male, extraverted subconscious and create a shallow, addictive thing that's designed to pretty much brainwash them. And then they tie a very average game into that.

Social engineering has been around for aeons, but only psych students really knew of it. I remember back around the time of Wrath of the Lich King, I pointed it out about WoW and its skinnerbox model. I remember some commenter over on another PC gaming site laughing and saying "My college doesn't do computer engineering, perhaps I should try and sign up for this 'social engineering' thing instead, eh?"

Of course, by this point you can just pop 'social engineering' into Google and learn all about it. Different times, I suppose. I don't like being vilified for being knowledgeable, but social engineering and brainwashing is exactly what Blizzard uses to turn an average game into a ritualistic, sun-worshipping cult.

I don't like Overwatch. Not because it's a mediocre game (and it's really no skin off my nose whether it exists or not, because I like people having things that make them happy), but because it reminds me of how easily swayed and brainwashed people are without ever realising it. You can enjoy something without becoming a brainwashed herd.

Sadly, Blizzard games and brainwashed herds are synonymous. Because that's what Blizzard wants. Ignorance is an incredible thing. I guess it just scares me, I think. After all this evidence of Blizzard manipulating people, it still works.

I remember a mother let her kids die because of her addiction to WoW. I remember reading about that. That was a very real thing, but most WoW players would threaten to kill you violently for even suggesting that that was anything more than a delusion.

I guess this is why I can't get behind a Blizzard game. It always feels like joining a cult. I don't want to join a cult, okay?

I have enough troubles in my life without joining cults on top of it.

Stacks posted:

What's the point of that voting thing at the end of a match? Does leveling up just give you loot boxes?

Zombie Samurai posted:

It does 25 damage, so it's a real good way to finish off injured enemies if your aim is kinda garbage.