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Overwatch Beta Thread: Cheers Love, The Beta's Here!

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PC Overwatch: Help a Battle.net n00b out?

1) Is there an in-game interface? Shortcut?

2) Anyone tried using this with Steam Overlay? Just curious how it works with this.
 
Bastion is my guy
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Have won every game with him so for
Just sit on my ass and spray people down as they run around like headless chickens... lolz :p
 
I'm enjoying Mercy but I swear people on my team are wearing horse blinders. No one looks around so I tend to spend games running around things trying to stop Tracer/Genji from killing me while my team just faces forward.

Then the times I don't play her the moment the game doesn't go our way the healer switches to something else.

I've played a lot of Mercy in the past 2-3 hours and this was basically every game. Everyone screaming and spamming for heals. But no one can be fucked to protect the healer. God this game with random pubbies is unbearable at times.
 
I don't know the name of the map but there's one payload map that's incredibly hard to get an offense on. We fought a team with a Bastion and Widowmaker on rooftops gunning us down while a Mei and Symmetria pinned us at the entrance. It didn't go well.
 
I don't know the name of the map but there's one payload map that's incredibly hard to get an offense on. We fought a team with a Bastion and Widowmaker on rooftops gunning us down while a Mei and Symmetria pinned us at the entrance. It didn't go well.

Sounds like Dorado. Just gotta learn the flanks. There's a tunnel on the left that comes up behind the rooftops, and you can go around the far right to come up the other side of the roof.
 
also anyone calling turrets op is a newb tbh


so many counters

While that's true, it sounds incredibly condescending to phrase it that way :P It can take a bit for people to adjust. Remember that Bastion is a human player and coming from behind works well, peek shots, etc. He has to react to you. The Torb turrets will autolock, but dont' do a ton of damage, you can definitely peek those to death with basically any character.

Ultimately both are best countered by either bankable attacks or by just having your team push in. A bastion can't shred an entire team before he dies if they're actually shooting at him, he's quite squishy and large.
 
Hmm I'm facing a dilemma settings-wise. I have pushed my monitor to 74hz and should I play on Medium/High at 74fps or High/Ultra at 60fps with 60hz locked? I mean the answer is obvious but I wish we had an nVidia settings report comparison for the beta :/

I'm running a 7970 overclocked with a 3570k @ 4.2ghz.
 
Hmm I'm facing a dilemma settings-wise. I have pushed my monitor to 74hz and should I play on Medium/High at 74fps or High/Ultra at 60fps with 60hz locked? I mean the answer is obvious but I wish we had an nVidia settings report comparison for the beta :/

I'm running a 7970 overclocked with a 3570k @ 4.2ghz.

I'd play Ultra @ 60 fps
 
People will learn, just gotta give them time.

I was able to skybomb three people with D.Va's self destruct for a POTG, had to take advantage of the new people while I could, lmao
 
Played for a few hours, just against easy bots so I could try out every hero and get used to aiming. They're all so damn fun and feel extremely good to control. A lot of characters do way more damage then I thought they would for not being attackers, like Torbjorn's and Mei's weapons tear shit up. Same goes with Zenyatta, god damn.

Will probably try hard bots to see what they're like for a bit and then head into actual multiplayer.
 
Bastion is like the perfect "camping" character lol. If you find the right corner you can put in a lot of work with minimum effort. I played 4 games in a row with barely touching my keyboard lol.
 
also anyone calling turrets op is a newb tbh


so many counters

I am pretty great at the game and a well placed Bastion can be the star that brings the team up.

Chances are half your team is going to run at him, and with the ability to precision turret on some points in the map, it's not hard to blame people that arent super into the game
 
I looked back a few pages and didn't see as many people complaining about lag as I would have expected. Am I the only one with a normally great connection averaging around 150 - 200 ping?
 
Got a code for the PC beta and I'm trying to play. When I hit the bit PLAY button in the launcher, it claims the game is running, and I get an Overwatch process in Task Manager, but nothing comes on screen.

I played the closed beta just fine.

Any ideas?
 
I looked back a few pages and didn't see as many people complaining about lag as I would have expected. Am I the only one with a normally great connection averaging around 150 - 200 ping?

There was only one big disconnect for a lobby I was in. Other than that, no lag issues.
 
PS4 version, 4 matches. I love this game, it looks great and fun levels are through the roof.
 
As far as hardware goes, I have a i3 4170 and a gtx 960 and I'm playing on Ultra default with 60 fps. Keep in mind my card is slightly overclocked thanks to the MSI gaming app.
 
Two disconnects so far.... I mean I know its a beta and nothing really matters

That just means I am having fun and I dont like it WHEN MY FUN IS INTERRUPTED
 
Wow, this is such a fun game. I'm not even a big shooter person, but I just put 3 hours in. Excellent game, and I'm loving how teams can switch characters to change strategy at points. It's really impressed me so far.
 
I had so much fun playing as Mei. I hope I get better with her. I felt like I was helping out a lot. I put up barricades to get our Payload moving. It was awesome.
 
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