His boosts are passive. You don't need to press any buttons unless you want enhanced healing/speed boost. Just be around people. If they are in a certain radius and can see you, they get the benefit. The number on your screen is the number of teammates being affected by you.
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His boosts are passive. You don't need to press any buttons unless you want enhanced healing/speed boost. Just be around people. If they are in a certain radius and can see you, they get the benefit. The number on your screen is the number of teammates being affected by you.
Snkfanatic
Banned
its both. the E boosts the healing or speed, depending on the aura. keep pressing that E
Opposite for me. I didn't get any skins in the beta, but I've gotten like 3 so far.
Based on what?
I don't think that's true at all. I got a legendary skin my 2nd loot box. Not paid. I feel like it's the same honestly.
Random will be random. I got one skin in beta and like five so far in retail.
I hate you.
Nor really.
But srsly ;(
Lol
Vault Dweller 111
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Played him once. Liked him, but didn't do great.Given the recent character in discussion...lol
You're looking at it as nerfing when in reality you need to look at it as fairness.
When you have a character that can one shot pretty much the whole cast through headshots like a sniper, then you don't also give them the advantage that anywhere in the general area can be considered a headshot. If the advantage of a headshot is an instant kill, then the counter to that should be taking skill to aim a small projectile with drop at the head, not just in a giant circle above, to the sides and under the head
DJ Lushious
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The last few games I played last night I, on a whim, started playing Zarya. And Holy ShamWow do I love her! The tactical use of her barriers, their cooldowns, and managing pulse cannon damage is a kind of crazy I love! Though it seems like it takes forever for her Ultimate to become available.
However, any ZaryaGAFfers have any words of wisdom with her?
However, any ZaryaGAFfers have any words of wisdom with her?
jediyoshi
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Opposite here. Got to level 10 with a single skin period. Night and day from the beta.
The ones I got in the beta and now have been equally shitty for the most part. Just the luck of the draw.
Visualante2
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So you can't upgrade turrets that don't belong to your Torbjorn? That's annoying.
DragonOfWisdom
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Is it just me or does Mercy's heal seem a bit slower? I think she could use a slight buff to it because I feel like Lucio simply outclasses her, but her ult is still great.
Hanzo also can't zoom in. Has a huge windup on his shots. Is not the most mobile of heroes. He's far from OP.
Lol, no TF babysitting
I don't see why you think people that are complaining about hit boxes think hes op. We don't, we think hes bullshit with aiming.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
That tutorial really is misleading for anyone going into the game fresh expecting every character to play like Soldier 76. It doesn't bother to tell you how each character has a drastically different play style from one another and how classes effect your health and damage. This and Battleborn are not doing a good job at teaching new players how to play these new genres. Blizzard should have gone the extra mile and made a tutorial for each character.
Visualante2
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I saw someone who got 3 legendaries in 1 crate just now. 2 skins and 1 box of cash. Paid of course.
A Serious Man
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My experience? Hence the word "seems"? Opened 11 boxes so far and have never gotten more than one blue per box, whereas in the beta I pretty much never got fewer than two colored items.
Why? This is another false dichotomy, the systems are designed by the publishers they arent an elaborate unchangeable set of gears of levers, nothing about having a fair cosmetic system necessitates cash only skins or lower drop rates. Monetisation systems like this, which are fairly transparently not in the consumers favour, have become an unfortunately expected norm. To the point where people accept them and worse, consider a fairer system unrealistic or "wishful thinking". Despite the fact that some of the biggest multiplayer games out there at the moment have such systems in place, e.g. DOTA 2. Which is entirely F2P for a start. It's ok to like a game, I'm a big fan of Overwatch, and still have problems with elements of it (in this case dodgy microtransactions in a P2P game).
I figured this out yesterday while playing, but during the entire beta I thought you had to shoot your teammates to get the effect. I feel so stupid. He's much more fun to play now.
Vault Dweller 111
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It almost seems like it's random.
Level 15 here, one skin, shitloads of sprays. A far cry from my beta level 20 with 3 legendary Akins and several epic ones
11 boxes is nowhere near enough to draw any conclusions at all about the drop rates.
No I don't. I primarily play Nintendo titles.
Last one I bought was I think wolfenstein tno for $20 which I don't think had them but I dropped the game anyway. I bought RoS for PS4 because it was $20 but I haven't even started it so I don't know if it has microtransactions or not since I only played about 2 hours of vanilla D3.
TheCanisDirus
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Yeah, Hanzo players done need a scope because this is his mechanic... spam dat arrow... get that hit-box bonus! lol not saying he needs a nerf... not at all... but his arrows should have smaller hit-boxes indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AO7e3L-aFE
Mr Fahrenheit
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I know I shouldn't be surprised at hyperbole on gaf, but I can't help it. It's not some giant ass field around them like you guys think, it's maybe a couple inches (that's the built in one, anything else is the "favor the shooter" system combined with a bad connection) and it's because Hanzo is miles harder to aim with than Widowmaker, a character he's arguably already weaker than.
The PotG always suck. Why is it almost always uninteresting kill streaks? Oh my last game last night me(D.Va) and a Mercy were holding it fucking down on the last defense point of a payload match. Before that moment we were certainly gonna lose but this guy just kept me alive for the entire last 10 or so minutes with overtime included, letting me wreck everyone and stopping the payload. Then some Reaper gets PotG because he gets a 6 kill streak during his ultimate. Fuck that. Me and that Mercy were the MVPs.
Interfectum
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People calling for nerfs and hitbox changes on day two... I love it. Ya'll pros already.
...that is a nerf
Vault Dweller 111
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That would be a nerf though...
Admiral Snackbar
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Thanks for the rounds, XHitoshuraX and friends! Good times. Sorry for all the Lucio/Torbjorn swapping, they're my preferred right now. Hope I didn't drag us down too much!
It's what I'm playing on and it's a goddamn blast.
It's what I'm playing on and it's a goddamn blast.
The Lamonster
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I don't need any more statues but I collect art books.
Was able to nab the Overwatch art book on ebay last night for $40 shipped
Was able to nab the Overwatch art book on ebay last night for $40 shipped
You can see your own Skins a bunch of time, both in game and in menus/victory screens ?
Don't put words in my mouth. I loved the beta but this was the entire reason I didn't preorder.
I just don't like supporting these types of monetizations. Especially when the loot crate system in the beta slowed down abysmally once your level started to increase.
I've literally been hit in the chest for 200 damage, that's not hyperbole, thats a one shot even on his screen
They adjusted it cause they lowered the price for all to $48.99. Im still waiting on mine....
Newsflash! Random rates are random.
I stayed awake till midnight last night to play some and was terrified it would be delayed so much I wouldn't get to try anything. Thankfully it was only like a 13 min delay. Squeezed a few games in before sleep. Can't wait to get home and play more.
Bastion play beats out my 3-4 kill streak with a lovely Zarya gravball. Standard.
I stayed awake till midnight last night to play some and was terrified it would be delayed so much I wouldn't get to try anything. Thankfully it was only like a 13 min delay. Squeezed a few games in before sleep. Can't wait to get home and play more.
Bastion play beats out my 3-4 kill streak with a lovely Zarya gravball. Standard.
Didn't play the beta and I have read/watched very little so everything will be new to me. I will say that 21 heroes seems pretty overwhelming. Any suggestions on a good way to try everyone out to figure out who I like? Or are there some characters I should totally avoid as a newbie?
Are you playing on PC???
Add me <3
BraXzy#2765
Interfectum
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You'd be happier with no microtransactions and paid DLC for maps/heroes?
finalflame
Banned
Because killstreaks can be easily identified algorithmically, as to where subjective cool shit cannot.
i dunno that's just super minor to me
i don't generally care about cosmetics in third person games either though
Maps yes, heroes no. However it is entirely possible to be entirely free.
Felix Lighter
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I haven't touched the game so I can't speak on the whether there is something that should be tweaked or not but it is funny to see people say that the aren't calling for a nerf, they just want Blizzard to make a character less effective.
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