super-famicom
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Got a 16 kill streak as Sym defending on Anubis. The other team was composed of 6 Lucios for some reason. Switched to Winston for point B since they started to play normally, super intense back and forths until the very end.
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Sparrowhawk
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Just had a game where a Pharah launched up to do her and ult and I followed her with D.Va...
Poor poor Pharah death by suicide.
Even better when you leap up as Winston.
What she lacks in horizontal she tries to make up for with vertical.
I think Tracer is better in most situations but D.Va's not useless. Just lacking.
lovely ladies
Member
Wait, so they're 122 and 117? That's nuts, they must just leave the machine running all day.wtf is that star? don't tell me they already got to level 100 and start all over again now.
How are they so fast, how is this possible?
wtf is that star? don't tell me they already got to level 100 and start all over again now.
How are they so fast, how is this possible?
Play the game a lot.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Yeah I don't think most people utilise her fly that well.
You know that goddamn junkrat or widow or torb turret up there? I don't need to find the long way round. I just get there.
You know that goddamn junkrat or widow or torb turret up there? I don't need to find the long way round. I just get there.
Chronospherics
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I did say it but no one listened to me! I really hate those games where people just roam around aimlessly like that. Though I know you're joking(at least hopefully)
I think we always need 1 healer minimum, and on attack or capture, two are a huge asset.
Yeah I'm joking
I just didn't hear you, though I'm sure that's not why we lost. Still, I generally that think switching out of healing is a bad idea, regardless of the map or scenario every team benefits from at least one support. I would have switched in if I had known. I have actually been playing Mercy a bit today, and really enjoy her character. Kind of hate her alt skins though.
With that said, I do think that bad switches are one of the main reasons why teams end up losing. It gets to the last 3 minutes or so and you start to see some really odd character picks coming out. Baston on attack? Okay then. Very weird some times. I think in regards to switching, ideally it's good to coordinate those switches with your team and re-compose the team rather than just an individual role, because the latter usually doesn't make the difference.
toastyToast
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I'm thinking about it like this. If McCree catches Trace/Genji/Reaper in a hallway they deserve to die, straight up. With a highly skilled player those three can be an absolute nuisance (especially Tracer) that have fantastic escape options. If they get close enough to McCree where he's aware of their presence, they fucked up. If they round a corner and McCree is there, they fucked up. If they run up on McCree's team capturing a point and get in the middle of the throwdown, they fucked up. The problem is McCree can kill characters without great movement options (the tanks) with the double fan combo. If you wanna argue his primary fire is too good that's one thing but the flash + fan combo wasn't an accident.
Have you considered he keeps mobile offensive heroes in check?
Longest I can go is 6 hours without taking a break, and this is playing with friends.
Two of my buddies that don't have jobs are still doing their marathon. They're on hour 17 now.
Blows my mind.
Disruptor and Bully. Charge the front lines. Her damage is best close-up. When your mech goes down, bail out, run around popping shots until your next mech is ready, repeat. If you can keep alive, use your ult to team kill from a distance.
Pharah's are the bane of my Junkrat. I'll be pleasantly minding my own business, throwing traps in front of Tracers and keeping people penned up in a kill zone, and suddenly rockets! And it's tricky to hit her that high up with a parabolic arc.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Yeah what people don't seem to really understand is that defense matrix is the part of her that can actually tank, her mech HP is just a timer you have to escape / harass after using DM to block shots for your team.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Nah, she can take a beating, just not upfront with her massive critical box, which is why I think they made her into a hit and run style is because you take far less damage facing away and boosting off. Just a matter of fine-tuning I guess, but whatever, I think she still has plenty of utility. If they buff her great, but there are other characters I want buffing more.
i do the same basically, i marathon when im in a crew
Mr Fahrenheit
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I feel such satisfaction from Blizzard saying they're going to buff D.Va after all the arguments I've had with people who swore up and down that she's perfectly fine and totally isn't the worst tank. Same with McCree getting nerfed. but there weren't many people fighting that observation.
"Fat" means she can take a fair bit of damage, and also has the block ability (which nullifies projectiles in a 3D space in front of her, not a 2D plane like Reinhardt's shield).
EDIT: So you can stick it out from behind a corner at a right-angle to what you want to block, and it'll still work.
"Tracer" means she should keep moving, and keep annoying the other team from various angles (especially people who like to sit in high places).
Her ult makes for satisfying POTG, but when it doesn't kill it can still clear people of an objective, or at least send people running in all directions.
That ties into one of her greatest assets, actually. The ability to break teams up. For a "tank", she's not actually that good 1v1 against a lot of heroes, but if you let people think they can take you, you can have them chase you halfway across the map just when their team might need them most. Even if you die, you may have kept them busy long enough for your buddies to push forward. I personally enjoy playing her with that "meta" in mind.
Poodlestrike
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Winston's not so bad. If you're high in the sky, he has to jump at you to hurt you. If you've got your concussion rocket in your pocket, you can mess him up.
The Wizard
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Had a crushing misplay that I only realised moments after earlier tonight.
I was playing Mei on Hollywood with a group pushing the payload. Enemy Mei sneaks up behind us and drops her ult, freezing 5 teammates. I narrowly escape the range and high noon is heard in the background. Now my instinct was to pop into my invincibility ice before he goes off but he ended up wiping the other 5 so easily and moments later I go oh fuck and realise a simple ice wall would have cockblocked McCree and ultimately helped turn the game in our favour. (It was very close)
I guess I can take some solace in spotting the play even if I didn't have the correct reflexes to execute it.
I was playing Mei on Hollywood with a group pushing the payload. Enemy Mei sneaks up behind us and drops her ult, freezing 5 teammates. I narrowly escape the range and high noon is heard in the background. Now my instinct was to pop into my invincibility ice before he goes off but he ended up wiping the other 5 so easily and moments later I go oh fuck and realise a simple ice wall would have cockblocked McCree and ultimately helped turn the game in our favour. (It was very close)
I guess I can take some solace in spotting the play even if I didn't have the correct reflexes to execute it.
Everytime I use that mini rocket he jumps right on my face. And god forbid if I shoot him when he's next to me because SPLASH DAMAGE! lololol
I'm usually jetting out of there no problem, but there's the small occasion that a widowmaker is perched somewhere waiting to play duck hunt with me. :lol
And fuck Hanzo too with his arrows having the hitbox the size of a fucking car. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Massive Duck. C.M.
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killertofu
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When I want to play a more relaxed game, I usually pick Mercy. It's not as much pressure healing the team.
That being said, the game is infinitely more fun with friends and party chat on discord.
That being said, the game is infinitely more fun with friends and party chat on discord.
keeblerdrow
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I was just part of a defending team that, through chance, ended up being 5 Meis. "Are we doing this? Please tell me we're doing this."
And we did. Icewalls everywhere. Everyone frozen for 5 minutes. Then, they got to the 2nd escort checkpoint... and we all went Reinhart. Five overlapping shields.
It was a brief moment of time I shared with 4 other internet assholes. And we all laughed out asses off as we lost.
And we did. Icewalls everywhere. Everyone frozen for 5 minutes. Then, they got to the 2nd escort checkpoint... and we all went Reinhart. Five overlapping shields.
It was a brief moment of time I shared with 4 other internet assholes. And we all laughed out asses off as we lost.
lol why? hes rarely useful.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Widow is for sure the real bane of the Rocket Queen's existence. Her and Hanzo's flying tree trunks.
Like I said, the rocket is fantastic because if you wait until he's right in your face you can just send him flying off into the distance. It's a ton of fun.
Heroes never sleeps.wtf is that star? don't tell me they already got to level 100 and start all over again now.
How are they so fast, how is this possible?
Considering the play time on my level 60 friends who already passed days in play time this is insane.
2 Bastions, my team got constantly lit up like James Caan in Godfather, I used Genji but cooldown wasn't quick enough and no one bothered to shoot at the bastard.
He's in every game and will find a way to ruin a streak.
LurkerPrime
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Bastion is legitimately the character I see least picked at this point.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Bastion sucks
Reverend Funk
Comfy Penetration
wowow just played as 6 zaryas vs 6 lucios that was cool
none of that says he needs a nerf. it says your group isn't playing well/have the right comp to beat them
I think everyone else feels okay. It's all about range.
Poodlestrike
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Bastion doesn't need a nerf, he needs a rework. Overpowered vs. pubbies and useless vs. experienced/coordinated teams does NOT, in fact, average out to a balanced character.
I mean, this is the beta talk again. They won't nerf him just because he owns a lot of players. McCree's getting nerfed because the math involved in that character being as good as he is (slightly) messed up.
Bastion? Counter him. Counter him. Counter. Him.
Yeah so use Hanzo or widow.
Even Junkrat works.
reelbigtink
Member
Yeah, I just played Lucio for the first time and sound blasting people off of cliffs might be the most fun I've had with a first person shooter in years. What a great character.
Anyone on your team were snipers? There was a team who had 3 Bastions in a game today and I just sniped them to death and they finally switched heroes. Bastion ain't all that.
Yup.
The only defensive character in 'need' of a nerf is Torb and his ridiculously accurate aimbot turret.
And not even a big nerf, just enough to stop low-skilled players from over-performing on low-level pubs.
Just had a game where a Pharah launched up to do her and ult and I followed her with D.Va...
Poor poor Pharah death by suicide.
Had a game earlier today where Pharah one enemy team launched up for ult, only for me to kille her with a direct rocket hit from my own Pharah. Fuckin loved it.
Ugh, idk. Every time I play Torb, my turrets are found and destroyed immediately, so maybe you just gotta be better at figuring out where they'd be hidden if other team is playing a torb?
And on the matches where I've found the turrets and the enemy torb never switched up his spots it was pretty easy to bypass or show up and destroy the turrets immediately.
I mean, I would love for there to be at least a second or two before they found you and started shooting at you, it just feels cheap that they have such impeccable aim and timing.
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