Same thing with me. Try as I might, I'm just fucking terrible with the offense characters. Support + Defense are where my skills lie.
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Overwatch |OT| My Onlywatch Has Ended
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Same thing with me. Try as I might, I'm just fucking terrible with the offense characters. Support + Defense are where my skills lie.
There is a chance that you are running into people who know how to use him more effectively. If you land his shots he does pretty good damage for good range. Kind of like an all around hero.
From my couple of hours last night there are definitely more people seeming to use him. Had a match with a total of 5 of him in there at some point.
finalflame
Banned
A well positioned Widowmaker can quickly get rid of an annoying Mercy, and then go in for the kill on Bastion, too.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Shadow quality and real time reflections, I think. My 780 exploded recently so I'm on my backup 570 and I'm running at a mostly smooth 60 with a mix of high/medium with low shadow resolution (lighting quality itself, e.g the amount of shadows, is still on high, so it looks pretty nice all things considered)
Matrix XII
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People complaining about cosmetic microtransactions that fund free gameplay content
It's fine to disagree but jesus dude.
Yeah mercy really is a queen.
Last night I was reaper and the other team was pushing the payload. I teleported in behind the payload and used my ultimate to team wipe them easily the potg right?
Wrong.
Mercy who was above everyone on the rooftop was the only one left.
She ulted and resurrected the entire enemy team like a boss and they wiped us and pushed the payload for the win.
Last night I was reaper and the other team was pushing the payload. I teleported in behind the payload and used my ultimate to team wipe them easily the potg right?
Wrong.
Mercy who was above everyone on the rooftop was the only one left.
She ulted and resurrected the entire enemy team like a boss and they wiped us and pushed the payload for the win.
Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
Lol, he really isn't. The longer you play, the more you'll realize no character is OP.
My level 2 loot case reward:
Guess who I started playing as lol
Complete with Blizzard shoulderpads. Looks like someone's ready for raiding!
Visualante2
Member
Can Widowmaker shoot through the wall mercy is hiding behind?
Matrix XII
Member
Yeah I feel Mercy's ult can change the course of a game like no other.
TheCanisDirus
Member
What's wrong with his post?
My level 2 loot case reward:
Guess who I started playing as lol
Didn't know Blizz worked out a Darksiders crossover.
Yep as soon as I saw that I had to admit it was amazing.
I started playing her the next match haha.
Visualante2
Member
It's little more than a "lol" reply. We need some actual data instead of people just citing random number generator.
In Service
Member
I had Mercy behind Dva on defence. That was fun. By the time Dva died here super was back up and ready to call in another Mech.
Zomba13
Member
Tracer is soooooo insane in Arcade mode. Zipping and zapping all over the place, almost always at full health thanks to being able to go back in time and it being on such a short cooldown. Only issue is I feel my bomb should be sticking a lot more, like they seem to go through people too often instead of sticking to them...
No problem. Fair warning that I might be terrible.
As far as I can tell, the job of a tank in Blizzard's view is not necessarily to charge or quickly engage, it's to be good at standing on the point. Which makes sense -- the tank's job in multiplayer games is generally to force fights, but everything in Overwatch is point-based, so all the tank has to do in order to force fights is go get the objective.
D.Va isn't great at quickly engaging, but she soaks up damage reasonably well, she does good damage at close range, and she has the mobility to get to objectives quickly. Her ult and her non-mech form both make her really good at contesting objectives. She just doesn't do Reinhardt things like walk forward through enemy fire all day.
TheCanisDirus
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Won many a last minute clutch off a friendly Mercy zombie raise.... she's truly worth her weight in the right hands. As is every character really... stellar balance all around. I'm sure tiny bits will get tweaked here and there over the next year or so but through the betas and now launch it's damn near perfect.
Matrix XII
Member
haha I love doing that.
"Wow, that person was really good with that character, I'm changing to them."
It's a great way to learn the game, and to understand all the characters.
The Omega Man
Member
My real loot box from Blizzard just arrived at the office, this will ease the wait until I can play again tonight.
Guess the characters!
Guess the characters!
TheCanisDirus
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You mean you don't believe that every cosmetic item is indeed unlockable without spending real cash?
My real loot box from Blizzard just arrived at the office, this will ease the wait until I can play again tonight.
Guess the characters!
Tracer and Genji.
TheCanisDirus
Member
Combination of "cool looking dude ninja character" and ease of use/good at range/added mobility?
My real loot box from Blizzard just arrived at the office, this will ease the wait until I can play again tonight.
Guess the characters!
did it glow and when opened all the stuff shoot out 30 feet into the air?
He's surprisingly easy to get kills with. He does tons of damage and for whatever reason he gets a lot of headshots easily with his arrows. That means lots of 1HKOs on people with not that much effort.
I set one up in Hanamura and just waited around a corner so I could get the kill. I love the combo of the trap and mine. I never use his skill to jump. Just trapping and blowing people up together.
For some reason I thought I heard he was hard to use. I haven't played him yet to see.
EroticSushi
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CarbonFire
Member
Powerful single shot weapon, powerful ult. Arrow with hitbox the size of a telephone pole. And everyone wants that PotG.
The game itself rates him as hard to use. Personally I agree that using him (effectively) is hard.
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I'm not ashamed to say I had a play of the game where I was just randomly firing and reloading as Torbjorn. Turret got 5 kills.
Depths of Orion
Member
Not sure if you can still do it but in the beta you could attach your traps to basketballs and launch them into players. It's hilarious
Kor of Memory
Member
I'm sure it has an interesting weight to it. I've seen PotGs that only have like 2 kills in it.
hell, I saw one this morning that was a single kill.
Me, as Mei used my ULT to freeze that Egypt map with the control area that has pits around the edge of it. The only one I froze was a Reinhart. lucio pushed him off the map.
That was it.
Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
Custom Game all by yourself works (Play > Custom Game).
The Omega Man
Member
Close! you got one right.
Oh man I wish! but the loot is epic regardless
Besides the incredibly large image macro that implies he's laughing at him for his opinion?
The best part is you don't have to wait around a corner, thanks to the on screen prompt that goes off when your trap is set off.
XANDER CAGE
Member
I'm still impressed at how polished this game feels, but there's a lot of little stuff I'd like to see improved or tweaked for quality of life's sake. Let me know if I'm just an idiot and missing something:
-I'm earnestly surprised that you can't save highlights yet. I guess I can Shadowplay the ones I really like, or something, but I shouldn't have to.
-As far as I can tell, there's no way to duck out to the hero menu to change skins/emotes and stuff between rounds unless you're actually matchmaking (e.g you can change stuff while waiting for a match, but not between actual matches) - it'd be nice to not have to leave completely if I feel like switching between skins.
-On a similar note, a random skin/random emote/random voice line option would be nice. I'd much rather cycle through unlocked voice lines than pick a specific one to hear over and over (except maybe "winky face"). Likewise with skins - especially as we all get further along and unlock more cool stuff, it'd be nice to be able to either 1. change at character select, like in League of Legends and other games or 2. just set it to cycle through unlocks at random per game or something.
-Some kind of daily or weekly challenge system to unlock a couple of loot chests would be nice, although I imagine at this point they're gating them only behind progression/dollars to keep people from getting everything they want too fast without paying. I imagine something like this will roll out after they've added more unlocks, if that's something they're planning to do.
-Something something tick rate
-Some more responses on that quick communication wheel would be nice. Maybe enemy callouts or some general "get on the point stupid" ones (heroes sometimes say this at random but it'd be nice to manually trigger) and maybe a general "good job/nice shot" attaboy.
-I'm earnestly surprised that you can't save highlights yet. I guess I can Shadowplay the ones I really like, or something, but I shouldn't have to.
-As far as I can tell, there's no way to duck out to the hero menu to change skins/emotes and stuff between rounds unless you're actually matchmaking (e.g you can change stuff while waiting for a match, but not between actual matches) - it'd be nice to not have to leave completely if I feel like switching between skins.
-On a similar note, a random skin/random emote/random voice line option would be nice. I'd much rather cycle through unlocked voice lines than pick a specific one to hear over and over (except maybe "winky face"). Likewise with skins - especially as we all get further along and unlock more cool stuff, it'd be nice to be able to either 1. change at character select, like in League of Legends and other games or 2. just set it to cycle through unlocks at random per game or something.
-Some kind of daily or weekly challenge system to unlock a couple of loot chests would be nice, although I imagine at this point they're gating them only behind progression/dollars to keep people from getting everything they want too fast without paying. I imagine something like this will roll out after they've added more unlocks, if that's something they're planning to do.
-Something something tick rate
-Some more responses on that quick communication wheel would be nice. Maybe enemy callouts or some general "get on the point stupid" ones (heroes sometimes say this at random but it'd be nice to manually trigger) and maybe a general "good job/nice shot" attaboy.
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