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Overwatch |OT11| Have Mercy
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I hate current Hog so much. Takes forever to kill that fatty.
Won some, lost some. Wasnt great.
Nah, havent played much. Tonight was the first time I got back into Comp. But Ill need to get back to 3 stacks only.
SgtWiggles
Member
4 stack with 2 DPS and a Tank and Support bitching about not having 2 healers.
Sometimes this game makes my brain hurt
Sometimes this game makes my brain hurt
Thats the problem, he becomes an annoyance and ends up sucking up all the damage. Remember, we played against 6 stacks so he was more of a threat with a coordinated team. It was annoying as hell tonight especially when he gets rezzed by their Mercy. I miss the days when I could just crush him with Junk by myself.
Carl-Sagan
Member
Hey Blues we should get some games sometime soon. Had some fun playing comp w/ you on my alt. Oh yeah, hit masters last night!
Could have easily not gone my way, but I was glad it did, lol.
ScottSullivan
Member
That's not the worst place for hog to be, to actually be a tank. Sure you can say you are building ult charge, but if your team is wasting shots on him, they aren't shooting the other threats on the team coming in behind/around him
Berserking Guts
Member
Fuck it. I turned off ingame voice volume. Will blizzard PLEASE fucking limit voice spam? I've been hearing people spam it during matches all night tonight and it's really annoying.
Blizzard, Jeff, I don't care - stop sucking.
Blizzard, Jeff, I don't care - stop sucking.
Karsticles
Member
All of the shield tanks accomplish this same goal, but without building ult charge.
Sounds like a plan, man. I'll be on tomorrow night if that works in your favour? Let me know when it works best for you. :3
Why are you so angry?
Why are you so angry?
Why are you so angry?
Why are you so angry?
Why are you so angry?
Woo! Jackpot!
ScottSullivan
Member
Oh yea don't get me wrong, I love playing Orisa she kicks ass, but roadhog is pretty fun to me in his current state just being able to get right up in the middle of everything but still sustain point presence while dishing out alright damage
As a character, he's...acceptable. People have clearly been able to make some use of him, so he's not objectively worthless.
But I can't play him without missing the hulking predator he used to be. He used to be the only character in the game that actually scared me, with his animalistic laughter as he slaughtered my team(i'm easily scared in videogames, shut up). And I am not going to budge on the idea that he was nerfed not because he was overpowered, but because people just didn't like the hookshot, which I at once can sorta understand (boy, I wish enough people hated soldier like I do to nerf him into the ground) and also think it's an incredibly stupid reason to rework a perfectly functional character.
Old hog was better. New Hog is okay, but Old Hog was way, way better.
ScottSullivan
Member
I feel ya, I also don't think he was overpowed before either, sure getting hook 1 shotted kinda sucked, but as a wise youtuber once said, "Good Aim, bad positioning".
Play some Junkenstein's Revenge to up your spirits.
SgtWiggles
Member
Just had an Illios where I had Gold Kills, Objective Kills, Damage, and Objective Time as Symmetra. We had 4 Offense characters and 1 Healer.......
If you are gonna be a DPS main, atleast be fucking good at it.
If you are gonna be a DPS main, atleast be fucking good at it.
nabe_shogun
Member
Just played Junkenstein's Revenge for the first time and its pretty fun. I just played 2 games on normal and its pretty easy. First game as hanzo, second as ana. None of us died either time. Now just need to beat it at the other difficulties.
SgtWiggles
Member
Keep running into Sym one tricks tonight, not sure what the fuck thats about. Keep running into the same guy every other couple matches and he's already dropped like 200 SR tonight, he was higher than me when I had my first game with him, now I'm like 120 above.
Kids like that really are the ones who deserve to be banned or put into some sort of griefers queue.
Kids like that really are the ones who deserve to be banned or put into some sort of griefers queue.
I've just been playing CSGO and PUBG which are more into my roots personally. I'm still waiting on some people to get into Quake Champions or for Rainbow Six to go on a sale to check out. We ended up making a Warframe channel in the discord because so many people are playing it right now.
Iunno. I wanted to play a game where I just shot things and they died. It's nice playing games where I don't need everything to go right on my team for a chance at just dealing damage. If you wanna play something like Overwatch, you don't really have a lot of good options. There isn't anything else that plays like it really.
Berserking Guts
Member
In terms of shooters Titanfall 2, Destiny is touch and go for me I don't like the end game stuff other then crucible/pvp and Modern Warfare remastered here and there.
Titanfall is my go to right now to actually enjoy shooting in a shooter which sounds absurd when you say it out loud but it's not when you think about what the FPS and overall shooter genre is nowadays.
thoseAREmySHOES
Member
I just finished the achievement on Xbox One. It gets so tense in those bonus rounds.
I decided to just buy the Zenyatta skin. Not sure how much I'll get to play and I love Zen so it was well worth it. Will also get some of the emotes and sprays before the event is over.
I also love the pve aspect of the event. Overall I'm having a lot of fun this event so thumbs up to Blizzard.
I also love the pve aspect of the event. Overall I'm having a lot of fun this event so thumbs up to Blizzard.
SgtWiggles
Member
Currently watching a rank 4071 throwing because a rank 3971 picked McCree. The best part is the GM has 97 hours this season as McCree, and the lower guy has less than 2.
This community yo.
EDIT: And I lose 35 fucking SR from a game thats ranked 300+ SR higher than me. This fucking game yo
This community yo.
EDIT: And I lose 35 fucking SR from a game thats ranked 300+ SR higher than me. This fucking game yo
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
No other tank has this. Roadhog pulls enemies into a world of pain without much risk and exposure. Landing a grab while with your team more than likely means a quick kill.
Nope. I'm playing Tekken 7 and Dark Souls 3 for now. There isn't any other FPS that I'm interested in. I'll be back to OW once S7 starts I suppose, I just don't feel the desperate need to play OW daily. Before this event I was only doing the arcade boxes on Tuesdays. It feels good to take a break.
Zomba13
Member
No other tank has this. Roadhog pulls enemies into a world of pain without much risk and exposure. Landing a grab while with your team more than likely means a quick kill.
You need a team to be on the ball though, and most of the time they aren't unless you are playing with friends and actually communicate. Other than that Roadhog isn't much of a threat and just free ult charge. Unless he's by a pit, then he's still good.
I miss my sweet, perfect pig boy who could actually kill things he hooked.
I will say that most of the people I know and see who have turned on OW tend to be higher ranked players. The higher up you get, the more miserable the experience becomes for most. It was the opposite early on, but things changed for a lot of reasons.
I honestly don't think it's the worst game ever even with my own personal problems with it. Just the experience of getting into and finding a good game is actually a nightmare.
I honestly don't think it's the worst game ever even with my own personal problems with it. Just the experience of getting into and finding a good game is actually a nightmare.
it's still pretty miserable down here in silver
Got my first skin of the event. Zen. I'll take it.
I'll say its probably the most poorly constructed game I've played, due to all the different designs and being indecisive on what it wants to be.
It's clearly DOTA lite, but they want to add in enough FPS to give it that feel. But they've shifted so far into using abilities, where current FPS mechanics don't matter as much. A character like Mercy being 100% pick rate and basically plays itself. In comparison to something like Zen, where everything is a fight for survival. Or Ana which requires solid aiming. The current meta has been favoring characters with less reliance on aiming, and more abilities which are either strong defensively or capable of team wipes. It's a really bad combination.
I'll say its probably the most poorly constructed game I've played, due to all the different designs and being indecisive on what it wants to be.
It's clearly DOTA lite, but they want to add in enough FPS to give it that feel. But they've shifted so far into using abilities, where current FPS mechanics don't matter as much. A character like Mercy being 100% pick rate and basically plays itself. In comparison to something like Zen, where everything is a fight for survival. Or Ana which requires solid aiming. The current meta has been favoring characters with less reliance on aiming, and more abilities which are either strong defensively or capable of team wipes. It's a really bad combination.
Nocturnowl
Member
Confirmation I'm not insane, thank you!
for a minute I thought he got a stealth buff as an unjust forgiveness for him actually losing his ult if he dies during this motion now.
Karsticles
Member
Oh, definitely. But in terms of tanking ability I don't see him as a superior pick.
No other tank has this. Roadhog pulls enemies into a world of pain without much risk and exposure. Landing a grab while with your team more than likely means a quick kill.
I also think that Orisa's RMB is kind of a "mini hook" - I pull people from behind cover all the time to kill them, and when my team is competent I feel like I just landed a hook at mid-range or closer. And it's MUCH safer, plus her actual gun presence and shield are helpful to the team.
I'm glad you're having fun. =)
It's honestly fair to say it's a poorly made game with no clear direction. Remember when this game came out, their pitch was no hero limit and constant hero switching, then they backtracked on that to one hero limit. They didn't know what they wanted to do, the first year was pretty much beta... now we're stuck in this limbo between fps and moba, the game has problems of both and none of the features of each that make them work. In moba you have hero bans and you just draft a strat from the start, everyone has clear vision on the objective, it's far simpler to have teamwork overall. In shooters, individually you can make an impact and have fun without being at mercy of your team every match to have a decent time. I'm not saying winning, just the simple gratification of playing a decent game is hard to find in Overwatch these days.
Nobody switches ever, people just lock into their main for most/all of the match. Because you're punished for switching by ult reset and people have figured out how SR gain works and you benefit by just being on your best character even with 30 percent winrate.
I won't say that the salt doesn't get to me as a new player because, you know, I'd like for once to exist in a fandom that isn't constantly bitching (regardless of the individual validity of any one claim) and I obviously missed the honeymoon period, but I'll agree that I'm always enjoying my time with Overwatch. I guess it helps that I'm new; I never experienced the vanilla version of this game so I have no context for the developmental changes. To me, particularly in the context of being a Lucio main, it's always a mad scramble and crazy dust-up for the objective. Regroups and pushes, break-offs to kill that annoying flanker, ultimate abilities popping off everywhere, the rage of a fucking cheap-ass Junkrat- I call it the MvC2 of shooters for a reason. It's a hot, broken yet lovable mess, and it makes me laugh more often than not. The lore and characterization are another layer on the cake, helped a lot by the antics of the actors behind the scenes. I just honestly really love this game and I hope I don't get to the point where I utterly resent it as much as more seasoned veterans here.
To bookend this, here's a Lucio I drew on a napkin at a Nissan dealership. I love this hype-ass frog so fucking much you don't even know:
Do the new voice lines for Zens skin not work on console? Im using him constantly and havent heard them
I read somewhere they're not patched in on console.
Karsticles
Member
I think the key to playing Zenyatta is finding positions to pressure from where you are not vulnerable. This is easier on some maps than others. On some levels, with some teams, all I can do is peekaboo with RMB while staying safe.
But the second I get shot at all as Zen, I feel like I made a positioning error. Assuming my team is functional, haha.
Do the new voice lines for Zen's skin not work on console? I'm using him constantly and haven't heard them
Me either I was wondering this..
I read somewhere they're not patched in on console.
Oh ffs. Would have bought a different skin if I'd have known.
e: just looked and it's a known problem to Blizz so hopefully they'll fix it. I need my nothingness.
Incendiary
Banned
I enjoy Overwatch whenever I play in a group with other GAFers. That's always my peak enjoyment regardless of whether we win or lose. I tilt a lot less frequently when I'm in a group for whatever reason.
It's the solo queue BS that always drives me up the wall. People who stay out of team chat, making it impossible to strategize. Everybody in team chat comes up with a plan, and person who refuses to talk in team chat goes the other way and dies immediately. That sort of thing every other game. I think also they need to revamp competitive and it's matchmaking because right now it's ridiculously off-balance. I can never put a win streak of more than 3 together, ever, but the game is totally willing to put me on shit teams for 8-10 games in a row. I had an experience yesterday where a kid said he was a Mercy main, but felt like playing Tracer this game, and when someone asked him to play Mercy he said "nope." Which I don't have a problem with, except then I went Mercy and the kid spent the entire time bitching that I wasn't good at support. It's that kind of attitude in the player base that detracts from the experience.
The game itself is still the best and most addictive multiplayer game I've played in years. If Blizzard would get its shit together; make some sort of mandatory tutorial explaining basic things like teamwork, positioning, team fights, etc. - all the things that are required for enjoyable games beyond the usual FPS multiplayer - and iron out the toxicity problems, we'd have a good game.
Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
Where in your post is a description of a bannable offense? Not seeing how the person was a griefer.
Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
Wow, I love your art style. Really cool!
Complistic
Member
I loved that hog too, but it just wasnt fair to stand behind a rein shield and delete people every 6 seconds.
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