Terareflection
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Yeah.
In other news, I am actually climbing again. And I bought a gaming laptop. Should be joining the pc crew soon.
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In other news, I am actually climbing again. And I bought a gaming laptop. Should be joining the pc crew soon.
Played some comp on my alt account last night, first game was on King's Row.
No lie, we had a Genji thrower who did nothing but fire shurikens at health packs throughout the map, he didn't engage the enemy at all, of course we lose the match. I proceed to block and report him. I solo q another match and the same fucker is on my team! I'm thinking maybe he'll actually try this time around and he did, we push the payload all the way on Numbani, fairly easily.
Our turn on defense and guess what? The former thrower decides to quit the match, leaving us 5 v 6, match is now tied at 3-3 and the other team have more time in the bank. Luckily, someone on the other team quit on round 3, to make our teams even again and we eventually win 4-3. Also won another match after that as well so ended up 2-1 for the night, all platinum games.
I don't see the point of the MS blocking feature if I end up playing with the same fool again. I think someone on here mentioned it before but I'll just wait 5 minutes before queuing again, just to make sure. That Genji was truly evil.
No lie, we had a Genji thrower who did nothing but fire shurikens at health packs throughout the map, he didn't engage the enemy at all, of course we lose the match. I proceed to block and report him. I solo q another match and the same fucker is on my team! I'm thinking maybe he'll actually try this time around and he did, we push the payload all the way on Numbani, fairly easily.
Our turn on defense and guess what? The former thrower decides to quit the match, leaving us 5 v 6, match is now tied at 3-3 and the other team have more time in the bank. Luckily, someone on the other team quit on round 3, to make our teams even again and we eventually win 4-3. Also won another match after that as well so ended up 2-1 for the night, all platinum games.
I don't see the point of the MS blocking feature if I end up playing with the same fool again. I think someone on here mentioned it before but I'll just wait 5 minutes before queuing again, just to make sure. That Genji was truly evil.
Carl-Sagan
Member
Let us know when you join! Think you're going to get Overwatch before Tuesday or on Tuesday?
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
Surprised to see Doomfist already has a very high winrate on Overbuff, given how little practice most players have with doomfist. I'd assume there's a lot more upside on people learning how to play doomfist than there is in learning how to beat doomfist.
Doomfist is in the bottom half of character winrates in bronze at least, but he gets relatively better and better very quickly going up the ranks.
Doomfist is in the bottom half of character winrates in bronze at least, but he gets relatively better and better very quickly going up the ranks.
Terareflection
Member
should be sometime before tuesday
Carl-Sagan
Member
Sweet! I wonder if the OverwatchGAF will have any groups for competitive Lucio Ball?
Terareflection
Member
Well, I thought I was gonna climb. Lost one match because our team got sniped by Hanzo on high ground. The team ran around like chickens on the point. Lost another because our retarded doomfist threw pretty hard.
Acidote
Member
When they changed the box drop for no dupes, did they also delete legendaries from the drops pool? Because I'm like 40 boxes in with no Legendary ever since.
I think he's one of the most OP characters the game has ever had once you learn to play it a little bit. I feel like a destruction god with it, like if they nerfed all his damage by 50% I would still be killing people by the heaps.
I think he's one of the most OP characters the game has ever had once you learn to play it a little bit. I feel like a destruction god with it, like if they nerfed all his damage by 50% I would still be killing people by the heaps.
Carl-Sagan
Member
It has felt a lot more rewarding to do the weekly loot boxes in arcade ever since the lootbox update.
Incendiary
Banned
I don't think he's OP - he has very glaring weaknesses - in open spaces he gets shredded, and he can't engage first because if he gets focused on it's over with his large hitbox.
But he's an even stronger enclosed space warrior than Junkrat is I think. Put him in a small room, especially ones right near chokes like on 2CP, and he wrecks shit. Or if the enemy is distracted, he can mix up the team and cause them to scatter.
As much as people might complain that Blizzard has added two offense characters to the game after the initial roster, I think they actually stealth added a Support and Defense character instead. I've had infinitely more success with Doomfist on Defense than Attack/KOTH. Move Doomfist and Symmetra to Defense, put Sombra in Support, boom.
Totally agree.
I never had any success with Sombra until I started playing her like a support hero instead of an attack one.
Haven't played that much Symmetra nor Doomfist lately, but definitely think of them as defense heroes.
FiveSix4Three
Member
Karsticles
Member
What if Sombra's hack only had a cooldown when you use it on an enemy player, and you could hack teammates to give them a Zen-like heal orb ability? Might help her as a "support" character.
Nuno Pinto
Member
Sombre is fine as she is, that might make her a bit overpowered.
Terareflection
Member
I wish Blizzard would stop focusing on OW as an esport, and focus on developing the game's lore.
Maybe give the game a plot too?
Maybe give the game a plot too?
It's sad, but being an Esport was Blizzard's intention from the beginning. I don't think they see a single player mode as a worthy investment. Best we'd get is a lore event like Uprising.
TWrecks310
Banned
A lot of people feel the complete opposite way, they want them to focus more on game balance and less on events and lore.
Either way those are completely different people working on those things so I don't understand what you're asking.
Spike Spiegel
Member
So last night I hit Level 25 opening up competitive play, and even though I've pretty much just been doing Player vs AI matches with the occasional Quick Play (because sometimes, who doesn't love a little abuse?) since I started, I decided to venture into the ranking matches to see what that's like.
Halfway through and with a record of 1W-4L, I'm wondering: are all competitive matches predetermined by the presence of a Reinhardt, Pharah and Mercy? Every match has boiled down to "can our team get past Reinhardt?" and "can somebody pick Mercy off before Pharah blows them away?" and people screaming to group up or quitting when things go from bad to worse.
Halfway through and with a record of 1W-4L, I'm wondering: are all competitive matches predetermined by the presence of a Reinhardt, Pharah and Mercy? Every match has boiled down to "can our team get past Reinhardt?" and "can somebody pick Mercy off before Pharah blows them away?" and people screaming to group up or quitting when things go from bad to worse.
I'd probably love this game if it had a PvE mode. As it stands now it's just something for me to do while taking a break from something else.
Terareflection
Member
Game balance isn't same thing as esports though. Events aren't same thing as lore/plot either.
What I want is just as I am saying. I am not happy with OW as an esport.
His one shot ability can swing fights very fast and it's on a decent cooldown. Then you combine it with his movement ability and his ult which he's invulnerable while doing it and he's one of the strongest characters in the game atm if not the strongest. More skilled players would be able to take advantage of him more easily.
Blackquill
Member
So I'm playing since month one but still can't play a lot of classes efficientely becaus I can't fucking aim properly, how do I train at this ? (for example I always shoot a little too right or left with soldier)
Busted in what way?
Reinhardt? Now that's a name I haven't heard in quite a long time. Tank wise, it's all been D.Va's and Winston's as far as I can see for me.
It depends on your rank. Though if all you've played were AI's and some QP, I can't imagine it's very high, which is why you are running into the problems your talking about. If that's the case, you could probably whip out Bastion on them and dominate.
THe_DeiCiDe
Member
TFW you go Ana in QP and your team has 5 dps...but you end the game with 5 gold medals.
Lulz.
Lulz.
oldschoolpinball
Member
where can I find the xbox one overwatch neogaffers?
FiveSix4Three
Member
Anyone want to stack on PS4? I'm plat.
THe_DeiCiDe
Member
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UshVhge8JIQ
I found a couple games I had saved in capture gallery a couple weeks ago and uploaded them to youtube.
If someone wouldn't mind watching it and telling me all the shit I did wrong that would be great.
I'd mute the volume tho, had a Zen who was punishing some chips during the match lulz.
I found a couple games I had saved in capture gallery a couple weeks ago and uploaded them to youtube.
If someone wouldn't mind watching it and telling me all the shit I did wrong that would be great.
I'd mute the volume tho, had a Zen who was punishing some chips during the match lulz.
TheDrizzlerJ11
Member
Add me, tag is same as GAF
I'm down, as I'm one of the few dorks who liked playing Lucio Ball. I'm curious to see how Lucio's rework will affect the mode.
I think it would make the most sense to have a standard PvE mode that focused on the original Overwatch Strike Team during the crisis. We finally got Torbjorn's Origin's skin from the uprising event, now we need Reinhardt to get some love on that front.
Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
Um yeah, just a bit, lol : D
Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
A great way to practice aiming:
1. Custom game
2. Headshots only
3. AI all Ana
4. Play McCree
Because Ana's critbox is so tiny, it should help improve your aim after even just a few games. Also, you can adjust your reticle options to help (my eyes are kind of terrible, once I found the best reticle setup that worked for me my weapon accuracy jumped a lot higher).
Good luck and have fun! : )
Terareflection
Member
If you over shooting, you might just need to lower your sens.
I'd do this to practice, but instead I'd keep the Easy Ana AI with body shots enabled because it's not as frustrating.
Also watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqmWVWP0tVk
Carl-Sagan
Member
Lets play some games on Tuesday. I think I have you added still on Battle.net. I'm the guy named Mercy.
Karsticles
Member
I'm not saying in a vacuum; I was following up on the idea of her becoming a full support character, since that seems to be how people are seeing her. Obviously she would need to be retuned.
Just the general idea of health backs being sufficient on their own for healing seems unlike to me, but it's something I hear a lot.
To follow up with what Chmpocalypse said, make sure you are happy with your sensitivity settings. I YouTube'd some videos about how to find "my settings", looked at what pro Roadhog players were using, and did research on mouse pads while experimenting a LOT in training mode, and I eventually found a setting that easily bumped me up a few hundred points in rating.
Feel free to add me, check my profile for my GT. I play regularly with another gaffer. What's your SR?
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