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Overwatch |OT| My Onlywatch Has Ended
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Ghost is Bad
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Avoid these guys because they can and will fuck you up if they aren't terrible: Reaper, McCree, Tracer. All of them have ridiculous mobility and close range damage that can force you to use abilities ineffectively and can avoid your freeze beam/ult very quickly due to invulnerability or being too mobile. McCree in particular is dangerous because he can flashbang you to deny the life-saving self freeze and melt your HP pool with his right click.
Your job isn't to block off line of sights, because that is a double edged sword that messes with both teams. Block out specific areas of approach, especially flanks. Mei is good at supplementing a push or a hold because she can immediately and temporarily block off an avenue that the other team can push from, forcing them to go into the line of ire that your team favors instead of the path with more cover/vantage points, etc. Your ult should almost always be used onto the enemy supports or frontline, due to them lacking the escape tools to get out of the ult before being frozen. Try and coordinate this with your teammate's powerful offensive ult like Deadeye or Rocket Barrage.
If you see a teammate about to ult, immediately put a wall in front of or under them.
Relative to your team, you will be way more effective.
Well but PS4 doe :/ its well known how slow it is. Last game I downloaded there was Until Dawn and damn son. All afternoon, meanwhile im downloading 40gig games on steam in under an hour
Durrzerker
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Voting for myself seems really arrogant, and I'm sure as hell not voting for the -other- team.
EmCeeGramr
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The tick rate stuff is getting kinda annoying. Hearing the ult sound start and then dying and seeing on the kill cam that you didn't start ulting is beyond frustrating.
This is actually pretty solid advice. Though I did play a game where the Mei on our team blocked the path out to the KOTH point. Don't accidentally or purposefully in that persons case block your teammates.
Another good way to play her is to just hover around the place you will defend. She actually seemed to do well up close defending as well as taking pot shots from far away. Area denial seems to be her thing. Get the jump on people, left click, freeze, right click.Work with other heroes that liked to have their opponents stand still.
chaobreaker
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Tick rate?
LegionAgent
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Can I come share my happiness? It's nothing to write home about, but still, made me happy. It's note worthy that in that moment we turned the tide and won the match (we were going 0 to 92%)
Reaper play of the game
Reaper play of the game
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Yes sir, or making it 50ft around the corner and dying but on the kill cam you're still out in the open.
How often the server checks your position and all that.
Silent_Ocarina
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I'm not sure if this means you should play him, but Soldier 76 seems like he was meant to imitate the stereotypical Call of Duty-esque gameplay, so he seems like a familiar starting point. He has a sprint, automatic weapon, and a heal. If you're like me and can't really get kills without being killed, maybe picking a support character like Lucio or Zenyatta might be easier. It's also kinda fun to play a tanky character. I think D. Va has a pretty forgiving kit.
Juke Joint Jezebel
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Good starters are Reindhart, Soldier76, Torbjörn, and Lucio. No crazy fast reflexes required and they're all simple to play. Lucio and Reindhard in particular are my favourite of that bunch.
chaobreaker
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What's wrong with it? I don't feel like the game's laggy or anything.
Yeah, his gun is only doing damage. Same with Symmetra which confuses some people.
It isn't really a lag thing, its why you sometimes will get sniped after you run behind a wall where the Widowmaker shouldn't have seen you and general responsiveness. A lot of people who care about that sort of thing seem to want a tick rate of 90 at the minimum.
If your teammates aren't obscured by the environment, your aura will reach them. You can see how many people you're affecting right in the middle of the healing/speed indicator. The gun is purely for damage and knockback.
Juke Joint Jezebel
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Yup, damage output and knockback. Your allies will passively heal or speed up if they are in range of you. Using your "E" bound ability allows you to boost both status effects greatly though. Having all the healing and buffs applied automatically leaves you to just focus on knocking back and attacking peeps, it's great.
thoseAREmySHOES
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Right, his buffs are purely based on where he is standing. I can't quite tell just how big of a range it is, or how well it works on people through walls or at a different elevation than you, though.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Yep, gun is for killing them softly only. On his hud you can see how many of your teammates are near you, useful for keeping them up and building ult
Damn it. My wallet does NOT NEED THIS.
That's a crazy handle you have there friend
That's what I've been doing exactly, but it then becomes extra frustrating if the team is not piling onto the objective, because alone I'm not doing any good, then I die. My first game of the night as Lucio, everybody crowded around me on the objective and I immediately got a 6 kill streak and we went on to win the round. The difference is just ridiculous.
I mean in a coordinated tean other support setups can definitely be effective but he assists so naturally without needing to communicate that he's perfect for randoms.
Yeah this
I'd really love to play with some gaf teams! I'm no pro fps guy but I'll talk lots of voice, switch heroes when necessary and strategize. Dunno how games are being set up with fellow pc players but I totally want in.
Are any of those healers? I like the idea of playing support
Not Spaceghost
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I love it when you get a 5 stack of the same hero on your team, it's always hilarious.
We just did a 5 junkrat stack and the other team was just unable to figure out how to push it.
Edit: OH GOD WE JUST DID A 5 STACK TORBJORN THAT FELT DIRTY
We all walked out with 25 eliminations and only 2 deaths each.
We just did a 5 junkrat stack and the other team was just unable to figure out how to push it.
Edit: OH GOD WE JUST DID A 5 STACK TORBJORN THAT FELT DIRTY
We all walked out with 25 eliminations and only 2 deaths each.
Ghost is Bad
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Lucio's basically the only "real" healer out of those, although 76 has a small healing field he can deploy to heal himself and maybe a few others if they're in the area.
Juke Joint Jezebel
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Lucio is a healer, AND a speed buffer! You can switch between both status effects on the fly on both yourself and people around and you'll all get buffed automatically. Leaving you to focus on shooting and pressing "E" to buff your status effects for a brief period of time. He's both simple and incredibely useful!
Lucio is and he's AOE support. You heal or speed up people near you and can enhance the effect of either.
MetroidPrimeRib
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optimus8936
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Lucio is a healer, and one of the best support heroes too.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Looks like Lucio it is. Thanks guys. This is my first real foray into competitive shooters so I should be active in here asking advice
If you do pick Lucio a lot people will love you. Easily the most useful hero to have on a team.
PlatypusDude
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Best part of my games tonight was the fact that apparently the hole in the middle of the capture point on ilios still counts as in the map so a Lucio on the other team kept wall running in the hole after being knocked in to stall our capture by 10 seconds or so.
A Sentient Keyboard
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Correct, healing happens in an aura of line of sight around you, the gun is there to mildly inconvenience enemies and occasionally bump someone of a cliff.
Matchmaking has a serious hard-on for in-progress games tonight. Damn near every game I join is one that's in progress (with my team about to lose of course). If I quit and requeue, I get another in-progress game. If I sit through it, I get bumped back out into the queue and into yet another in-progress game. The one time I queued into a fresh game the server closed a few seconds in because it "couldn't find enough players."
Oh well. Will try more later. At least those JIP games don't count as losses (I think).
Oh well. Will try more later. At least those JIP games don't count as losses (I think).
Kayo Police
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GLORIOUS
JetBlackPanda
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Is there anything better then skunking a Bastion with Genjis reflect?
MisterShine
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Double support of any of the main three healers seems to be a great combo. Zen/Luc/Mercy all complement each other and pretty much any team very well. Zen/Luc is probably the better combo if you have strong tanking, Luc/Mercy otherwise.
Sir Griffith
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Ugh, did not have good luck in pubs tonight. Maybe only won 3 or 4 out of like 12. Feels bad man.
A Sentient Keyboard
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Matchmaking has a serious hard-on for in-progress games tonight. Damn near every game I join is one that's in progress (with my team about to lose of course). If I quit and requeue, I get another in-progress game. If I sit through it, I get bumped back out into the queue and into yet another in-progress game. The one time I queued into a fresh game the server closed a few seconds in because it "couldn't find enough players."
Oh well. Will try more later. At least those JIP games don't count as losses (I think).
You also get significant bonus xp for sticking with them, so it's not all bad.
Yep makes sense and all are true answers
The amazon package came today and the box was actually fractured on the side >_> thankfully the game is fine so I'm not gonna fuss. About to jump in in a bit
D.Va was the tank for the match, so she wasn't really "tanking"
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