TheCanisDirus
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Right!? Id be happy getting my D.Va on with no tanks!
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Overwatch |OT| My Onlywatch Has Ended
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Right!? Id be happy getting my D.Va on with no tanks!
Stone Ocean
Member
Got to hook a Pharah out of the sky with Roadhog, yessssssssssss
EmCeeGramr
Member
Watching a teammate strafe around the point to take potshots when we're about to lose is infuriating.
What, are you afraid you'll die and then... what? We'll lose if you die? Because just tapping your foot inside the rectangle is what will do objectively more to help us not lose. I don't care if your high noon ass is at 67% and you're sure you can charge it up real fast if you play it safe.
markwaters
Neo Member
What's more, K/D in this game is effectively worthless as a metric because in a lot of situations, you get a eliminations for doing less than 10% of the overall damage to an enemy. It's funny to watch players from other kinds of games desperately cling to it to justify their ineffective play.
Stone Ocean
Member
At least your teammates are near the point. Meanwhile where's that fucking guy that locked in Genji at the start and never swapped heroes? Now that's a true ninja, even his team can't see him.
EmCeeGramr
Member
There have been multiple times where I laughed after the initial annoyance because realizing that half their team decided to chase me down as D.Va in the exact opposite direction of their payload is so ridiculous, or watching a tank go "OH SHIT A REAPER" and abandon their team to chase me for 30 seconds across the map.
Parmadillo Marshmallow
Member
Anyone know why I keep getting put into spectator mode when I join friend's games? This is on PS4. Help!
Besides, a manly last stand is way much cooler than that High Noon anyway.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
Getting the objective to 99% only to lose is extremely frustrating.
Yeah, I mean, a good widowmaker just getting kill after kill while her team plays the objective can be really valuable. Key point being "while her team plays the objective". If everyone is just kind of fighting all over the map, then the defenders (or attackers sometimes I guess if people don't stop a capture) are going to take it.
BlitzEngineer
Member
The lack of leaderboards is awesome. And while I don't think PotG is perfect, the fact that it is even capable of highlighting support and objective play is big step forward to what we're used to in games like these. This game really emphasizes working with your team to win more than anything else and that's awesome.
bigwinnerx
Member
Cause she's great!
KINGofCRA5H
Member
The team is full, you're waiting for a spot to open. I think.
If everyone stood on the point, the enemy team could just waltz to the point uncontested. I have no problem with teammates pushing forward and harassing, contesting their trek toward the point.
So, Amazon refunded me $11.88 due to the Overwatch price drop despite the fact that I had a Prime pre-order discount.
So between the Prime discount and the refunded amount, I got the Origins edition for less than what I would've paid if I bought the $40 Battle.net version. ¯\_(ツ
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So between the Prime discount and the refunded amount, I got the Origins edition for less than what I would've paid if I bought the $40 Battle.net version. ¯\_(ツ
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Acidote
Member
Diluted among a horde of new players. Be patient.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Oh my God I keep getting into the FPS dance where me and another person are in a 1v1 and we just keep jumping over each other and losing track of each other
I just did this for 30 seconds as Reaper against a Tracer and with our abilities WE DON'T DIE
I just did this for 30 seconds as Reaper against a Tracer and with our abilities WE DON'T DIE
Ghost is Bad
Banned
what really pisses me off is when i see 5 offense characters on the same team
thats when i nope out.
thats when i nope out.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Just won with this team composition. Love it. Boring ol' Soldier 76 for the win!
There is something really satisfying about stopping someone's ult.
You want your dragon to eat my teammates? How about molten core in your skull instead.
Justice rains from above? Nope, only thing raining is your corpse.
And as much as I hate it on my team, I love having stupid opponents who will try to shoot at me as I capture or move a payload as they stand entirely too far away to do anything.
You want your dragon to eat my teammates? How about molten core in your skull instead.
Justice rains from above? Nope, only thing raining is your corpse.
And as much as I hate it on my team, I love having stupid opponents who will try to shoot at me as I capture or move a payload as they stand entirely too far away to do anything.
RecRoulette
Member
You just said it. English is friendly Mercy, German is enemy Mercy
Friendly supers and enemy supers have different lines. Another example is McCree saying "Step right up" for his ult when he's on your team.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
I find that this ult is hard to use correctly. Whenever a Pharah leaps into the air I lock on to her in case she uses it because it makes her a floating target and she doesn't have much health.
It is very early days so players will get better in time (I mean a lot of players don't even know that they should be standing near the payload to move it). Towards the latter of the stages of the closed beta, pub players were much better about this sort of thing. Lots of great overtime tug of war battles can happen when people play the objective and the two teams are balanced.
Parmadillo Marshmallow
Member
Oh ok thanks. What's the best way to party then? I can't seem to figure this out for the life of me. Sorry if being dense.
I really wish you could see where your friends are in the game, as in, "in lobby", or "in full game" or "in game with available space".
Exactly. You can use it on the ground but its just so effective in the air. I think the problem a lot of times is that people are not dodging in the air that much. Maybe since I am on PS4 a lot of people don't know they can control fuel with L2 after they launched
phant0m
Member
Holy shit, 5 of us on the point and then 4 disperse in all different directions and end up dead. Me, I'm just Lucio wondering where the fuck my team is when 3 opponents rush me on the objective. Running away from your AoE healer is just super.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Join a group with a friend before starting to find a match. You can party up and then queue.
Because team selection and counter-picking makes up the majority of the strategic layer I think the game would have been unworkable without all the heroes available from the get go.
That would seem to be the point of divergence, an irreconcilable one I think. You literally said they were taking advantage of peoples addictions, how can you call that anything but exploitative?
Blind buy random distribution certainly is anti-consumer, this isnt black and white, its shades of grey. Blind buy random distribution is explicitly designed to offer poor return to and increase spend from the consumer. Are there worse anti-consumer practices? Sure, but that doesnt mean this isnt. You also seem to be conflating exploitation with anti-consumer practices. Explicitly exploiting addiction is clearly both. But it depends on the actual consumer, if you dont have any issues with gambling/completionism/etc. then the loot boxes are simply anti-consumer for you, you may not care about or think its of a sufficient level to worry about, but it is. If you have problems with addiction then the system is both anti-consumer and exploitative. I also cant believe you're suggesting that Casinos arent exploitative, its an industry built on exploiting addiction. CCG's can be, depending on the consumer, like loot boxes they run into the same default anti-consumer issues. The lottery I'd say is as well, the common joke about it being a tax for people who are bad at math, is true in more ways than one. As for consenting adults, the issue is that anyone can consent to mild anti-consumerism but if you are a "prime target" then your consent is compromised by your addiction.
No need to get so defensive. I didnt make any value judgement. There is a difference between a developer having an obligation to protect consumers from their addictions and actively exploiting those addictions. You seem fine with the latter, and based on your comments above about consent is there anything you actually would consider exploitation?
The idea you arent being exploited because a) you dont think you are or b) you're getting pleasure out of it seems, well, lets say a fairly outre way to define exploitation.
I love when someone drops an instakill ult when I'm the only opponent in the area (lol reapers) Talking about ults, I stopped two in a row as a bastion
Spring Drive
Banned
Thanks guys for the advice. I stayed away from the objective too often just to kill someone, resulting in losses. Old habits die hard
He's my main support. I like the ability to have a little fun and his ability makes it ok to be in the action a bit.
I'm just glad to have a shooter that makes me think. I was playing as him and I saw a Reinhardt coming at me so I flipped his ability to speed and did that boost power up and bolted out of there. My brain is having a hard time switching from CoD mode. Playing supports is helping though since you're pretty limited offensively.
Xamtheking
Member
phant0m
Member
I want to play on a 5 bastion team on defense
Lucio is amazing. Such a helpful character, and not super complicated to play. There is depth there, though.
GatticusFinch
Member
Does the ult do less damage than it did in the beta, or is it just me? I feel like before it would just melt people and now they get hit once, turn around, and delete her.
I assume they tweaked some stuff between open beta and launch, but I have no idea what.
WarMacheen
Member
Need some people to play with, not that great, but 20% boost is too good to pass up
PC: WarMacheen#1886
PC: WarMacheen#1886
-MD-
Member
I had a pharah shoot me twice and then ult me in a small room with nobody else around.
I was Tracer, I had 5hp.
So who do you pick GAF?
Depends on enemy comp.
Support or tank though.
Shake Appeal
Member
Yeah, sometimes I'll rush forward just to disrupt a respawning team where they're not expecting it. If you take two of them with you, you've staggered their next push.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Lucio or MercySo who do you pick GAF?
So who do you pick GAF?
Widowmaker, duh.
So who do you pick GAF?
Roadhog or Lucio
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