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Overwatch |OT10| That'll do pig, that'll do

antitrop

Member
Have they nerfed XP?

I'm getting 2-2.5k per match when usually get 3.5-4k.
Not that I noticed. Here's how it works (copy/pasted from some guy on the Blizzard forums):

1) Time - 3.4 XP per second
2) Medals - 50 XP for a bronze, 100 XP for silver and 150 XP for a gold medal. You can only earn XP for one medal per match (max 150 total)
3) Finished the game - 250 XP
4) Winning - 500 XP
5) Consecutive Matches - 200 XP
6) Back-filling a match in-progress - 400 XP
7) First day's win - 1500 XP
8) Group bonuses - 20% for playing with friends
 
Not that I noticed. Here's how it works (copy/pasted from some guy on the Blizzard forums):

1) Time - 3.4 XP per second
2) Medals - 50 XP for a bronze, 100 XP for silver and 150 XP for a gold medal. You can only earn XP for one medal per match (max 150 total)
3) Finished the game - 250 XP
4) Winning - 500 XP
5) Consecutive Matches - 200 XP
6) Back-filling a match in-progress - 400 XP
7) First day's win - 1500 XP
8) Group bonuses - 20% for playing with friends

Oh yeah playing solo, guess that and matches ending quick are what's doing it.
 
Does anyone know if they improved the loot box situation? I swore off buying loot boxes after the Omnic crisis because of how abysmal the drop rates were, but a friend spent $15 and got almost all of the skins this week. Was he just lucky or is it actually better? I've opened three since the event hit and got nothing good.
 

antitrop

Member
Does anyone know if they improved the loot box situation? I swore off buying loot boxes after the Omnic crisis because of how abysmal the drop rates were, but a friend spent $15 and got almost all of the skins this week. Was he just lucky or is it actually better? I've opened three since the event hit and got nothing good.
It's going to vary from person to person depending on how many total non-event items they have unlocked on their account.

All of my boxes have been 4 Halloween items, because I have almost everything and there's nothing else for the system to give me.
 
It's going to vary from person to person depending on how many total non-event items they have unlocked on their account.

All of my boxes have been 4 Halloween items, because I have almost everything and there's nothing else for the system to give me.

Sorry, I meant skin drops specifically. Back in the Omnic crisis, I got almost all of the skins. Comparing that to the Anniversary Event, I had to buy the one skin I wanted because no skins would drop from boxes. This ended up causing a huge community outburst against Blizzard because it was obvious that they had significantly nerfed the drop rates for skins. I'm wondering if that has improved.

Basically I'm wondering if I should buy a few bucks worth of boxes or boycott them still because the drop rates for skins are abysmal.
 
Does anyone know if they improved the loot box situation? I swore off buying loot boxes after the Omnic crisis because of how abysmal the drop rates were, but a friend spent $15 and got almost all of the skins this week. Was he just lucky or is it actually better? I've opened three since the event hit and got nothing good.

Best estimate is an average of 1 new legendary per 12-13 loot boxes.

Now, you might get a Legendary sack of coins, or a Legendary from last year, so take that into account.
 

antitrop

Member
Right now on PTR, Mercy can literally GA bounce on top of her teammate's heads to fly indefinitely without Valkyrie (as long as a teammate is directly underneath her). There's so many bugs.

It's gonna be a while until they fix her, lmao.
 
I wonder if my friend just got very lucky. He said he spent $15 on boxes and got almost all of the new skins.

I'm going to call bullshit.

What's odd is there is no $15 box package (assuming you're talking about USD). They come in:

2 boxes for $1.99
5 boxes for $4.99
11 boxes for $9.99
24 boxes for $19.99
50 boxes for $39.99

So even if he spent 19.99 on 24 boxes. He likely got 2-4 legendary skins. Consider there are 9 skins this year, on top of 5 from last year. I'm going to say odds are: your friend is full of the poopy.
 

Crzy1

Member
I've been having luck that feels like things are back to normal drop rates for legendaries in seasonal boxes. Have gotten about 10 boxes and have had two legendary skins and some legendary coins drop(probably a bit luckier than average on those). Feels much better than anniversary and summer games did. Might be able to get all the skins I want, which is actually all of them that are new this year. Feel like they did a great job on all of the skins this time, no clear winner for me.
 
We <3 Harmony and Discord, man!

I rarely even see Tracers to orb or to discord their attackees. I know from the kill feed that they're out there doing the lord's work, I just never catch more than a glimpse of them.

Side note, there was this one tracer months ago who would call out "Hey, Doc!" from the rear, and when I'd turn around they'd be sitting on the ground directly behind me, waiting for an orb. Don't know how they got there without me seeing them, every time, but it made me laugh, every time.
 

TrueBlue

Member
Ooh.

Just played Kings Row Attack with Tracer. In the spawn room she said something along the lines of "I wonder if I have time to visit Emily...no, gotta stay focused."

Is this the first in-game acknowledgent of Emily?
 
Ooh.

Just played Kings Row Attack with Tracer. In the spawn room she said something along the lines of "I wonder if I have time to visit Emily...no, gotta stay focused."

Is this the first in-game acknowledgent of Emily?

That line has been around since the Uprising event I think.
 

rulerk1

Member
down to 3483 after two matches with Torb one tricks and one of them was with a duo consisting of a Sym one trick and an orisa one trick who played Pharah ( neither were in voice)

My third match had our only healer play attack Sym, a support main who picked winston when need a support and some dude playing Sombra who i kid you not went MIA for a good 2 mins do ing god knows what (not killing the shield gen and zen i know that much)

The one win i had today was against a team with a sym one trick that we steamrolled. Is masters always this bad or was this a bad day? Because the amount of throwing is insane today
 

AbaFadi

Banned
down to 3483 after two matches with Torb one tricks and one of them was with a duo consisting of a Sym one trick and an orisa one trick who played Pharah ( neither were in voice)

My third match had our only healer play attack Sym, a support main who picked winston when need a support and some dude playing Sombra who i kid you not went MIA for a good 2 mins do ing god knows what (not killing the shield gen and zen i know that much)

The one win i had today was against a team with a sym one trick that we steamrolled. Is masters always this bad or was this a bad day? Because the amount of throwing is insane today

That's generally the trash you'll find in masters.
 

antitrop

Member
Sombra's skill ceiling has gone up pretty drastically with the changes to the way Hack interacts with Ults now. The timing and decision to use EMP has to be considered even more now, because of how much more potential value you can get out of it now than you could before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQPS7viiSbA

Simple example: If Mei casts Blizzard and Sombra EMPs while Snowball (Mei's little drone that she throws out) is still in the air, Snowball will just disappear, the Blizzard won't go off, Mei will be hacked and at 0% Ult Charge. That's a huge change.
 

Data West

coaches in the WNBA
Yeah Cultist Zen has a bunch of unique dialogue like 'listen to the whispers of insanity' when discording


zen is secretly blizzs favorite. tracer is just jeffs favorite
 

antitrop

Member
Find a team that plays hanzo, mccree, zen and torb.

If someone picks genji or widow leave because they do not have the damage output to survive expert endless. I doubt they can even survive hard endless.

Ya, you really need Zen over Ana. As useful as Sleep Dart is, in general, and Anti-Heal is for Roadhog, you need Transcendence to survive the later levels.
 

hypernima

Banned
12 People.
12 Computers.
One goal. Win.

Introducing the new EggInHouse.

Interested? Post to sign up, before it gets killed by a hand rubbing Orc for lootboxes.
 
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