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100 degrees Calcium
Jan 23, 2011



YoshiOfYellow posted:

Due to balance issues, the following heroes have been removed from the game:

Hanzo
Genji
Widowmaker

:getin:

I'm willing to sacrifice Genji and the possibility of countering Bastion just to lose all these sniper players.

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Jan 23, 2011



Arivia posted:

Actually, they're giving away free copies of wow with the movie next month. :nyoron:

The cost is you have to watch the movie.

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Jan 23, 2011



I haven't seen this much whinging about Blizzard writing since the D3 launch.

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Jan 23, 2011



Wangsbig posted:

i look at this competitive team-based shooter and think, yes, but what about the tragic backstory of hero archetype 'sniper'? I want to feel a deep connection to what in other games would be a gun i choose from a drop-down menu. i want to feel their struggles as my own and carry the weight of reaper's choices as i open a loot crate and dress him up like a mariachi

This game promised me heroes, not classes, and by god I intend to collect. :colbert:

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Jan 23, 2011



If you don't like tropey-as-gently caress cartoon writing, I don't know what to tell you here in A Blizzard Subforum.

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Jan 23, 2011



kaleedity posted:

hey I want it to be at least power rangers tier, not USA dubbed power rangers tier

Harsh, but fair.

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Jan 23, 2011



Atoramos posted:

what else am I gonna do for the next three and a half hours?

Masturbating to some Overwatch SFMs should get you through a couple minutes, at least.

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Jan 23, 2011



Knifegrab posted:

Maybe they shouldn't have been criminals :colbert:

Pull up, thread! Pull up!

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Jan 23, 2011



is this game good

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Jan 23, 2011



jopo posted:

battleborn fans

who?

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Jan 23, 2011



Adregan posted:

Nope!! You need to go back to the Doom thread. No one wants to read your long winded posts about nothing. :frogout:

I like zaphod's posts :unsmith:

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Jan 23, 2011



Lastgirl posted:

nice meltdown y'all

same time tomorrow?

oh this party has just gotten started :getin:

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Jan 23, 2011



I wish I could watch Twitch streams at work so I could view the rage in real time.

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Jan 23, 2011



Ciaphas posted:

Fwaah, just finished an excellent game of DOOM

Now to go make some food while the Gordian Knot of Overwatch Connections unravels itself :)

Wait are you playing DOOM multiplayer?

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Jan 23, 2011



Ciaphas posted:

Lol, no, just late to the party on single player. Fun fuckin' game, wish I hadn't dismissed it at first from how DOOM 3 flopped for me.

No one can be blamed for thinking DOOM would suck. That game is a goddamn miracle. :thumbsup:

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Jan 23, 2011



Helloooooo! Is anybody out there?

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Jan 23, 2011



cavernous echo posted:

Helloooooo! Is anybody out there?

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Jan 23, 2011



Thank you for bringing my friends back to me, Blizzard.

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Jan 23, 2011



I'm bored of this game. When is Legion coming out?

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Jan 23, 2011



This game is good. It wasn't just a dream. It's real.

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Jan 23, 2011



I've been trying to get better as Genji so I can counter Bastion and get some assassination in, but I just can't seem to wrap my head around how he plays. I slink around and plink people with my ninja stars. When I'm ready to take on Bastion or when someone is shooting me at medium range, I hit e and charge. After my e wears off, they kill me while I desperately try to eke out a little more damage.

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Jan 23, 2011



Thanks for the Genji tips, everyone. There's some obvious components of his skillset I was overlooking, so I'm hopeful I'll do much better tonight.

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Jan 23, 2011



Oh poo poo, I'm a moron. Since she's classified as a Tank, I thought D.Va was supposed to be all marching down the front lines like a Reinhardt or something, but she's actually a harasser!

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Jan 23, 2011



Thisuck posted:

TIL you can set up Lucio's crossfader so it works sorta like a sprint, where you hold down the button to go fast and release it to switch to the healing track.

Holy poo poo this is really good to know!

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Jan 23, 2011



I played with one Lucio that made liberal use of the "gather up" emote and was pretty impressed with the results.

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Jan 23, 2011



Axel Serenity posted:

The worst thing about Mei is the blank, emotionless stare she gives you as you become trapped in her icy prison.

Blizzard gets major props for taking a game where frenetic mobility is the central draw and making a character who patiently drains you of hope before lobotomizing you with an ice pick a viable and fun options.

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Jan 23, 2011



Losing to good teams in Overwatch is kind of nice because there's so much to learn about playing well in this game.

I gotta complain though. Today I got a gold medal for one objective kill when playing on the Attacking team in Numbani. As Lucio. What the absolute gently caress, everyone else?

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Jan 23, 2011



Fat_Cow posted:

So you can't leave Quick Matches without penalty? That's dumb, if it was Ranked I would understand but this is top tier dumb

I think the punishment should be more severe.

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Jan 23, 2011



bagrada posted:

I join a game and start thoughtfully musing about who to play this time. I click someone, think about it, check the team build (weird, everyone has a pick already, usually at least 2 hold out until the timer runs out). So I switch to another char, then decide to wait a bit before committing as I see people change again... then I notice the kill spam in the top right and realize it dumped me into an in progress game again. So I hit go and walk out the door just in time to see the enemy finish delivering the payload. DEFEAT and a tiny chunk of xp. Good times.

At least they're changing heroes. :downs:

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Jan 23, 2011



Microwaves Mom posted:

I think they should allow you to leave as long as they keep throwing you into games already in progress. Especially when your team is 30 seconds from losing.

Yes, this would be a suitable penalty.

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Jan 23, 2011



I'd buy lootboxes if you could selectively turn items into currency like Hearthstone cards.

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Jan 23, 2011



Can you cancel Reaper's ult with ghostwalk?

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Jan 23, 2011



If you're even aware the payload exists, you have a better handle on this game than the people I'm getting matched up with.

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Jan 23, 2011



Jesus. The game has been out for 3 days and some of y'all are already trying to sort the goods from the bads.

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Jan 23, 2011



TheTatteredKing posted:

That's something a bad would say

:ohdear:

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Jan 23, 2011



Zorodius posted:

Nah, not all media is so cynically produced, and not every character is a stereotype. It's the difference between, "this would make a cool character" and, "I bet those idiots will eat this poo poo up."

For example, Tomb Raider 1996 versus Tomb Raider 2013. They're both trying to sell copies, sure, but the former's approach is "huge tits = sales, right dipshits?" whereas the latter says, "if we make a solid, relatable character, people will connect to her story"

A more reasonable comparison would be the characters in Team Fortress 2. If only Genji and Zarya had the depth, creativity, and relatability of idiot soldier, douchey baseball bat guy, and piss-throwing aussie.

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Jan 23, 2011



Thoughtless posted:

I had to check up on it and turns out Torbjörn is from my home city in Sweden.

Welp, guess I can't play anyone else now. Time to embrace the dwarfness.

Hooked by Blizzard's cynical pandering.

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Jan 23, 2011



BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

We're talking about racism here friend, the thread for talking about game balance is here

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3777487

Oh poo poo, I missed this!

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Jan 23, 2011



Section Z posted:

I do find this kind of amusing because while I like the characters and it's nice they are trying to do worldbuilding? Really the "Two teams of assholes" would fit better for two sides fighting to the death to escort a robotic film director, than Wiston's whole "Please come back and save world guys" pitch to an assortment of tragic heroes mixed in with the psychotic assholes.

I mean, video games, so I'm perfectly fine with the excuse plot having little to no bearing on the objective shootmans gameplay. But it is amusing to think about that intro while Winston punches a 19 year old girl to death to prevent the space rocket he invented from being launched.

Haha that's a drat good point, and I wonder now if it's the real heart of the discussion. Blizzard has purposefully infused the game with a bunch of personality and built up a (kind of lovely) mythos behind the characters and settings that the game is built on. But then, after all that poo poo about heroes and family and how spiders don't have emotions, the characters grab their guns and go to work just like they do in TF2.

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Jan 23, 2011



fadam posted:

On top of being the most aids character in the game, Junkrat looks dumb and boring.

I know we're not supposed to wish each other death or harm, but surely in this case a tire fire would be considered a suitable penalty, yes?

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