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Overwatch |OT10| That'll do pig, that'll do
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Incendiary
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I feel like that's an oversimplification of the status of the game. Lots of DPS have been hit with nerfs (Genji lost ult time and triple jump, for example) - and while the results of Roadhog's nerf have been questionable, D.Va has definitely contributed to the stagnation/prevalence of the dive meta. She's also been the tank they've tinkered with the most, trying to get her in the right overall position.
Regardless, though, godspeed to Blizzard because complaints from the legion of D.Va & Mercy mains at the same time is gonna be a drawn-out battle.
THe_DeiCiDe
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waitwhat42
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I wonder if Jeff would embrace the ridiculousness of DinoFlask's videos and commission him to do one exclusively for BlizzCon this year.
Hmm junkrat seemed to already be picked on pugs a lot, this will probably make it much worse, though the trade off is there is a higher chance of the player being more useful. Hanzo actually never bothered me as much as junkrat because, if a Hazo did appear he would either have been chosen earlier during pug select or later in the match. With Junkrat, there would always be a decent well balanced comp, one slot needs a healer or tank and then the person goes with junkrat, that happened so many times I've began to hate the character more than Hanzo.
killdatninja
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Is there any other youtuber out there who takes a forum post (that took someone 30 seconds to write) and makes a 10 minute video out of it? There's so much filler in his content that even the Naruto anime writers would be humbled. It's disgusting how little thought he puts in his video's and contradicts himself consistently without any high profile youtuber calling him out on his shit.
If you think that's the bottom of the barrel, try to watch ohnickel.
No Pallytime love? ;(
I wish I could, but I find him pretty boring. I don't like his gun, I can't seem to get the most use out of his bubble, and his jump has always seemed like a crappy version of Dva's boost to me. Don't get me wrong, he's obviously super effective, especially in this meta, but he's a hero I felt I should want to play because he's a gorilla scientist, but really don't.
Still, I'm not doom and gloom about the Dva update. She's one of those heroes that if she's underpowered, they'll be pretty quick with the buff. Right now, the main thing they need to do is shrink her critbox. And I've gone over how I fully accept dps Dva, so it's all good.
DR2K
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Everyone already plays DPS. I mean it might be better at higher levels, but gold and platinum and below are just a land mine 5 DPS teams. I'm shocked I we get 1 healer and 1 tank.
nabe_shogun
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Nope.
Guess it's time I learn Rein or something. D.VA only tank I can play.
I'm looking forward to playing more Zarya for Season 6. Lucio is going to be benched, as I have too many hours on him with little payoff.
Same, sounds like we need to basically revert to the selfish asshole DPS tank role which was necessary at launch to be effective though. Actually aiding and protecting your team was fun while it lasted though.
Spike Spiegel
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Farting around in Deathmatch this afternoon, it looks like one can earn as much if not more XP per match as in PvAI, with far less effort involved. All one has to do is be active enough that the game doesn't kick you out.
I can pretty much flex all tanks with rein/hog/winston as my real 3 but I'm not pulling winston/rein duty for 2 months straight especially if dva is frail as hell in this nect update. I had fun going almost winston only last season but that shit hit my tank limit for awhile. Tanks have been getting too wonky with updates for the past 6 months.
Sir Griffith
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This season I'm going to be sticking with Zen, Lucio, Zarya, and Soldier. I'd like to play rein and hog too, but I doubt there'll be many situations where I can if dive meta is still prevalent. I'd like to try Mercy as well, I really enjoy the way she flows now in PTR.
TheChillyAcademic
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Yeah the inbetween seasons is fucking awful, both QP and Comp. Jesus.
Stallion Dan
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Junkrat rules FFA, chuck a trap and mine in front of where you spawn and free kills, plus stealing them all over the shop. It hard to steal from him too.
Plus if you do die you get martyrdom kills fairly often as everyone low hp.
Plus if you do die you get martyrdom kills fairly often as everyone low hp.
Very late reply, but I use dual zone with hitscans.
I started playing day 1 and mostly play projectile heroes (Pharah, Hog, Zen, Mei) so I was used to exponential ramp for them.
For Soldier and Ana I use dual zone. I have McCree, Sombra, Widow (and possibly Tracer iirc) set to dual zone as well but I rarely play them anyway.
THe_DeiCiDe
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I use dual zone for everyone. 100 aim smoothing 65/60, aim assist off.
I don't know. I can still shut a Junkrat player down, especially the ones that try to out-flank me.
I guess I've been playing Reaper and that's why. I should switch to soldier or Zarya cuz getting close is a bitch.
I think I drove a Widowmaker insane in a death match, kept sneaking up on them and fan hammer killing them, they got angry and paranoid so when I came to them again they were ready for me, I quickly killed them with my left click as they were jumping around and they started LOLing in the chat, guess I pushed them over the edge. Probably didnt help that someone switched to Winston later.
As Reaper, it all comes down if you can get the drop on Junkrat. Also, never be afraid to look down and see if his trap had skunked into the ground, which usually takes about 10 seconds when you lay down a trap (as Junkrat).
Anywho, I've been getting into Pharah's mechanics and playstyle, and she's a blast to play. Here's a POTG from a recent match.
A tip for you, as Widowmaker you want to get in line of site for areas that you know will have high traffic and enemies are forced into predictable movements (make sure your reticle is lined up to the average height of the characters), until you become a vet, do not head shot players who are in combat, they move unpredictably depending on your angle. Just focus on picking them off with body shots.
Conrad Link
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As a Zen, I really enjoy the 4 player team deathmatch mode.
Talonz
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They are still tweaking the numbers on Mercy and D'Va. I wouldn't expect the changes to go live at least for a couple weeks.
Talonz
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It seems like most people are trying to snipe with her missiles instead of using them as a complement since they can be used independently of her other abilities. The missiles actually take some skill to use. She'll be a good hero still. The D'Va community likes to overblow things. She'll still do more DPS than Roadhog does by quite a bit.
I'll quote this post from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/...ting_roadhogged_on_ptr_and_no_one_is/dmcne5q/
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