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Overwatch |OT2| A New Low in Unlocking and Microtransaction Systems
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I really don't know why people hate Mei so much. Yeah, she builds walls. It's not as annoying as walking round a corner and getting shot dead by a Bastion in a second or two.
Anyway, having fun so far. I usually do better with supports like Lucio or Mercy but I like Mei and Dva too. Junkrat is good for anti turtling.
Anyone in Euro PC land wants to add me would be great, always happy to hear advice and stuff. Lethia#2942 on bnet.
Anyway, having fun so far. I usually do better with supports like Lucio or Mercy but I like Mei and Dva too. Junkrat is good for anti turtling.
Anyone in Euro PC land wants to add me would be great, always happy to hear advice and stuff. Lethia#2942 on bnet.
I've been wondering... Are Soldier, Reaper, and Bastion the oldest characters? Maybe Reinhardt as well?
Because she slows and stuns and people find that annoying but they never play her and don't understand that she isn't easy mode so they instead just driveby trash talk.
playoverwatch.com lists Reaper and Solider as "unknown", Reinhardt is 61 (holy shit), Hanzo is 38 and Mercy is 37
Edit: Torbjorn is 57
Reinhardt appears to be the oldest. He even has a few voice clips like "Respect your elders" and "Get off my lawn"
What lol, I was testing mei in the pratice range last night and the freeze range is literally the yellow line after the first square where the robots are shooting, if I remember correctly it's 10 meters go test it out. It's weird that peole just dont back up when she's spraying away.
nhlducks35
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Don't forget her secondary fire
Sniffynose
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That's just Hanzo in general, he shoots log sized arrows I swear. Even in replays his aim can be like a cm away from anyone yet boom headshot
the accuracy of widows AR is not great. it's decent damage but any character that can get close to a widow should be able to easily win that 1v1 fight.
Guess it must be a psycological thing. This person stopped me from being able to move! I hate her! Regardless of the fact that a Widow would have shot them dead in half the time.
important bit is killing the Torbjorn. Take his turret out he'll just drop another one. Do not under any circumstances underestimate his primary and alt fire either. While there are a lot of knuckle-dragging hammer-swingers out there there are some who've realized how devastating he can be simply shooting people.Very high damage, large magazine gun he's packing.
Yeah. The key thing here is that Torb is not like TF2's Engie. You are not babysitting your turret or running around just looking for scrap. You are not a passive participant in the fights. You want to put the turret forward enough that it participates in team fights but protected enough that it isn't easily countered. Then you put your body in your team's back line to suppress forward chokes with your rivet gun. If somebody comes knocking at your turret, you shoo them away with your rivet gun so that they take fire from multiple directions.
Stone Ocean
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You mean that non-hitscan shot with shite rate of fire?
You guys talk as if Mei was McCree or something lol. You can absolutely shit on her at range.
I suppose I should have been more clear, but "everyone is different" is not a justification for imbalance. Otherwise you can just call McCree "different" and leave him alone with regards to balancing decisions, and Blizzard's balancing team can just take a nice vacation.
A better counter-argument would be listing the strengths of Mercy and Zenyatta kits that Lucio doesn't have. And for my part, I'd say Mercy's single target healing (~50 hps) doesn't really justify the lack of offensive, defensive, and mobility options compared to Lucio, whose healing is on par (12.5 hps x1 - 5 when NOT amped) that doesn't care if you've been hit in the last few seconds). Admittedly, his heals require LoS, but so does Mercy's.
What I had suggested (the removal of the knockback, or even an increased cooldown) seemed minor, when taking into account the rest of the amazing options left from Lucio's kit.
Finaika
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How can a turret even be stunned? It doesn't have a brain.
Well we know Morrison joined the army at 18 and served in it for a bit before joining their super soldier program. Then we know that the Omnic Crisis lasted over 30 years before the present and Morrison joined the army and the program before than.
His hair was originally blonde but greyed out before his supposed "death," (which probably both mentally and physically aged him a bit further.)
So maybe he is in his 50s?
He also has a line like:
"Young punks. Get off my lawn."
So at least old enough to consider other characters "young punks."
I don't think its simply Meis freezing, its that depending on what she is doing, she has more techs at her disposal to forgive sloppy play on top of the ability to freeze. I think she is just annoying to fight, not hard, I never really fear her like decent McCree, I kind of just groan and engage and kind of sigh if she ice blocks before I kill her. Slows down the kill, I have to wait for her to pop out and hope she's not facing me to be able to immediately throw up an ice wall for another forgive. No idea why she can immediately act after ice block, that seriously needs a shake off animation or some crap.
If that was a valid argument then (insert hated character here) wouldn't be able to be stunned
RIP "Sorry" emote
I use it like this: If the enemy is unaware of you, static in a position, use main fire. If the enemy is moving, use secondary fire. And remember, you are not a sniper.
It's a flashbang. The bright light interferes with its optical sensors.
I was shocked when I first picked her and started shooting normally
gutterboy44
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Had no clue Zen got a nerf prior to launch. Here I was thinking he was an OP badass, but I guess most people don't agree. Well, I hope it stays that way. Less pick competition and unlikely additional nerfs. Zen is a DPS machine with decent healing. It is so easy to mark and pick targets off from far away. If you have a Reinhardt on your team, you and one other attacker can move forward in his shield and drop anyone nearly instantly. I think his discord orb debuffs based on enemy HP % and not just a flat DPS boost. I have dropped too many Reinhardts, Winstons, D.Va's, etc solo with Zen for that not to be the case. Zen is all about positioning. You can easily mark targets through a crowd of your own players so keep things between you and enemies. Also, corner peeking is the best. Once marked, you can track that enemy through the wall and easily time charged shots for when they are about to peak themselves. Zen is still my favorite by far, but I tried Zarya last night for the first time and she was amazing too.
I guess I like the Z characters. They are opposite sides of the same coin. Zarya super tanky, Zen super squishy. Zarya for close range or AoE damage, Zen for long range precision. Zarya ult pulls in and damages, Zen radiates out the healing love. Really easy to manage the R1 and L1 skill balance on both two once you are used to one of them. They are now my go to priority picks, but I still often rotate through as many characters a night as possible. Keeps it fresh and by learning the intricacies of more characters, you can better defend against them or exploit them when you engage them.
I guess I like the Z characters. They are opposite sides of the same coin. Zarya super tanky, Zen super squishy. Zarya for close range or AoE damage, Zen for long range precision. Zarya ult pulls in and damages, Zen radiates out the healing love. Really easy to manage the R1 and L1 skill balance on both two once you are used to one of them. They are now my go to priority picks, but I still often rotate through as many characters a night as possible. Keeps it fresh and by learning the intricacies of more characters, you can better defend against them or exploit them when you engage them.
Head of Vengarl
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Can GAF point me in the direction of some good YouTube videos/channels for map and hero guides? Especially map guides. I still often get turned around in maps, and better map knowledge would REALLY help me play Torb and Symmetra.
Kor of Memory
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You aren't using her weapon right. The longer it is active, the more damage it does.
Notice here how my beam gets larger and more green as it stays connected: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGN48RDioyM
Also, while her Ult isn't as potent for the final point, it still help having a separate spawn exit from the most expected one that the entire attacking team is going to be watching.
If you wanna get better with maps, load up an AI game until you get the feel for all of them.
BannedEpisode
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Is there a thread for GAF groups? I haven't had any luck having people add me here.
ID: XOLSONX - PS4
ID: XOLSONX - PS4
I'm level 26 and was getting bummed about loot boxes always dropping ggbg. I've seen only a couple of purples and no legendaries. Last night I decided to try the new Hanzo/Genji mode and noticed my Hanzo had the young version skin. I first thought that the mode randomly assigned skins but everyone else was pretty much wearing the defaults. I go and check the hero gallery and sure enough I now have the young Hanzo skin. wtf??. I had let my son play for a while and he opened maybe 4 boxes from leveling. I ask him if he got the skin from a box and he's like "yeah, I actually got two of them in the same box". I ask him which 2 and he said they were both the same. Looking at my gold amount it adds up.
Kid got duplicate legendaries in 1 box.......
Then, after I finish playing last night I exit to the main screen and Symmetra comes up wearing the Vishkar skin. I'm thinking "that's weird" so I check back in the hero gallery and sure enough I now have that skin too.
I don't know if I should ban him from opening boxes since I want to be the one to see a yellow pop out, or...I should ban myself and only let him do it.
Kid got duplicate legendaries in 1 box.......
Then, after I finish playing last night I exit to the main screen and Symmetra comes up wearing the Vishkar skin. I'm thinking "that's weird" so I check back in the hero gallery and sure enough I now have that skin too.
I don't know if I should ban him from opening boxes since I want to be the one to see a yellow pop out, or...I should ban myself and only let him do it.
Dwarf Golem magic. The trapped soul of the turret weeps in silence.
those are my two favorites as well. I wouldn't mind trying Zenyatta on attack more often, maybe next time I see a Reinhardt. That's already how I play Soldier 76, who is really good at helping burn down marked people.
But if it's weakness weakness is accuracy that makes zero sense for a hero who's primary strength is long range: she's not going to be using the assault rifle at medium to long range anyways.
And if the weakness is accuracy, that means the weapon is at its strongest in a close fight, which makes about zero sense.
amazing
ToyMachine228
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I'd really love to join an Xbox One team here on GAF. ProgenitorRyan is my GamerTag. Shoot me a PM on here or send me a message on Live. I really love Overwatch, have been following it for a long time and I'd like to be part of a group or team that works together.
omg, had the BEST turnaround ever.
It was objective + payload. The enemy team got the objective and roflstomped us all the way to the END. The bar for the payload was LITERALLY FILLED UP TO THE LAST PERCENT with 6 minutes to spare.
In those 6 minutes our team magically came together and we not only held our ground but we pushed the payload back a checkpoint. It was so unfuckingbelivable that we where able to handle that punishement. They nearly got it back at the end but with 10 seconds left they couldn't get it in time.
It was objective + payload. The enemy team got the objective and roflstomped us all the way to the END. The bar for the payload was LITERALLY FILLED UP TO THE LAST PERCENT with 6 minutes to spare.
In those 6 minutes our team magically came together and we not only held our ground but we pushed the payload back a checkpoint. It was so unfuckingbelivable that we where able to handle that punishement. They nearly got it back at the end but with 10 seconds left they couldn't get it in time.
there was a bit of talk in a thread about the skins and a few other people agreed, and i don't really think it's a derail
also if any company would take positive action on something like this i'd expect it to be blizzard
I cant wait to have kids so i can create little gaming factories and have them grind loot based games for me!
what do you mean?
gutterboy44
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It is really fun marking Reinhardts by squeezing angles. You can also really put a hurting on his shield HP by just doing a few fully charged shots. Like hitting the broad side of a barn. Wait till he flinches, mark, take him down or make the job easy for the team.
I find the game balance pretty damn good. Hope they add some new tools to existing characters over time though.
Only thing that bugs me is the accuracy/damage of the Auto-turret is ridiculous. And watching a play of the game as a player is literally just buffing a turret seems pretty silly.
Only thing that bugs me is the accuracy/damage of the Auto-turret is ridiculous. And watching a play of the game as a player is literally just buffing a turret seems pretty silly.
most of us have but barely. like 55% or less. Blizzard are known for their 50/50 matchmaking afterall
How do you check?
what's even more annoying is that it could have been a sick horus skin instead
I'd be judging someone with a keyboard like that.
Can you sum it up for those at work?
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