TheLetdown
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Personally, I'd prefer new maps first.
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Personally, I'd prefer new maps first.
chrominance
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Re: Hanzo ult uselessness. I would love to see something like these basketball shot charts, but using Hanzo's position as the origin and showing deaths/escapes based on where people were when the ult got fired. I assume the kill percentage very close to the dragon's origin is extremely high, but I'd love to see the drop-off with distance.
I mean, it's not happening unless Blizzard builds something like this into the game (or has some kind of API you could plug stat tracking scripts into) but it'd be so neat.
I mean, it's not happening unless Blizzard builds something like this into the game (or has some kind of API you could plug stat tracking scripts into) but it'd be so neat.
spindashing
Banned
Holy hell, this is crazy.
toastyToast
Member
It's OK if you don't actually kill anyone. The main thing is being a nuisance. Like before I kept pestering (and occasionally killing) the other teams Reinhardt which pretty much ruined their push. She's also great for disrupting Widow and Hanzo. Even if you don't kill them they still need to go for health which means they're not on the lane they were covering which makes life easier for your team.
Another thing is Tracer is markedly more dangerous if you can stay accurate and land headshots. Ideally you'll wanna be able to drop heroes wroth 250 and under health in two clips.
Mr Fahrenheit
Member
The worst in when you're walking down a hallway from your spawn across the map or something and it just slowly coasts through and kills you. It doesn't happen often but god damn it's annoying.
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Been playing Reinhardt a lot these past couple days. At first I thought he was boring but now I really enjoy him. He's a hero that instantly makes almost any pub team better, since most pub teams seem to be skewed toward offensive picks/snipers.
D.Va can boost out of Zarya's ult, and Mercy's ult can be canceled if she's killed fast enough.
Incendiary
Banned
Another new person question: what does the "on fire" stat mean at the end of the game? Just got a card as Lucio where I was the MVP because I spent 88% of the match on fire.
TheCanisDirus
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I've been in that situation before and i just bug the fuck out looking for an escape route and quickly hitting my slash while usually looking up... and poof "ninja vanish".
Though on the other side when i play McCree and encounter a decent Genji i MUST hit that flash in close proximity or i'm toast. McCree cannot compete with a skilled Genji in close range (without the flash). Mid range is another story however.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Well, it's not as bad of a way to come to a conclusion, than the way you just did when talking about the "state of pubbing", no? If anything, then, I'm glad we're equally bad at making conclusions.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Same.
Wouldn't the key be to position the ult over a pit rather than dragging them into the pit?
I think someone on here confused GG as git gud instead of good game. Maybe something similar to that? lol.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
It's different for the character/role that you're playing, but it basically means that you did good. Being on fire is a way for the enemy team to get an idea on who to counter and who to focus their efforts on, although of course there are scenarios when a person not on fire is a more urgent target. Your player portrait literally turns on fire. There's a blue meter in the bottom left.
Under your life bar there is an on fire meter. It basically is a measure of how well you're doing in the last few minutes. When you reach the threshhold, you will be on fire, and your portrait will burst into flames.
SDCowboy
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I don't think so. Was probably some retarded kid out of school for the summer.
Probably one of my favourite things about Overwatch is these edits
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/06/03/...tchs-play-of-the-game-into-an-incredible-joke
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/06/03/...tchs-play-of-the-game-into-an-incredible-joke
orthodoxy1095
Banned
There's a meter running under your player icon with a marker towards the end of the line.
When you do enough stuff for points (kills, assists, captures, etc) and get past that marker, you're "on fire." Your portrait will burst into flames and stay on fire until (if) you get below that threshold.
For the person on fire, it's not a huge deal, but I always glance at the list of players to see who's on fire. It's a decent way to get a quick gauge on who's the biggest threat and the best player on the opposing team. And then target that person to cripple them.
Incendiary
Banned
Ahhhhh gotcha. That makes sense. That's what all the little +10s and +5s for moving the payload and healing people mean when they pop-up I assume. Thanks guys!
Saucycarpdog
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idonteven.
LurkerPrime
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You know, shortly after release I would have sworn that the HP bar went from some other colour to white. Pretty sure I was mistaking armour/shields for regular HP, but still it freaked me out.
Overwatch does things to your mind, man.
The grim satisfaction of knowing dupe money is in your future.
Overwatch does things to your mind, man.
The grim satisfaction of knowing dupe money is in your future.
Thank you! This is way better than the POTG-infested main Overwatch sub.
Don't think so. Only thing close is getting an achievement for unlocking almost everything for a single hero.
Incendiary
Banned
There's a trophy/achievement for unlocking 50 things for a single hero, but beyond that no I don't think.
While I don't play Reaper, one of the funnier things is when I hear one counter-ult a Mercy
"Heroes never d-"
"DIE DIE DIE!"
Saucycarpdog
Member
Try playing Mei. When you dominate with her, the entire enemy team seems to make it their mission to kill and teabag you.
I've just learned to laugh at it.
WarMacheen
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Offense 4 bastions
Offense 2 snipers 2 tanks
Defense 3 snipers
Offense 3 tanks
fml
Offense 2 snipers 2 tanks
Defense 3 snipers
Offense 3 tanks
fml
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
I haven't tried every interaction with Zarya's ult, there seems to be a lot
Are you SURE you can cancel Mercy's ult? I killed her almost instantly when she used it (fast enough she couldn't say the first letter of quote) and it still happened
Dupe money to start saving for future skins!
orthodoxy1095
Banned
This is actually really solid advice.
Just because you're learning a new character doesn't mean you need to stubbornly roll with them the whole time. You're not going to learn much if you're just dying all the time without a chance to really experience engaging the enemy.
Typically if I'm at mid to far range I'll with dash to close the distance, or run away in order to flank to close the distance, just like against a widow. In close range he has to get the flash bang right click or die, If he's just holding onto flash and waiting for deflect while left clicking me at close range and actually hitting those shots then he deserves to win. I don't feel threatened by McCree left clicks in close range, that's why I think it's actually harder to deal with widows or soldiers then mecrees. Like, yea he probably out dpses genji with left clicks, but at close range it's really hard to left click genji with the pistol. Flash bang right click combo determines the fight, but I feel like that's easier to play around as genji then any other hero, attack hero that is.
The first time I played Lucio i thought shooting my paddle gun thing at my teammates is what gave them health. So I did that for a quarter of the hand until a widow asked me what the hell I was doing. The fifth game I played I was on fire from the get go and did a 24/3 with 6.5k healing. So now I'm somewhere in between the two and it's really fun. Him and Soldier 76 are my two go twos and I just started using Reinhardt ( the big shield guy ? ) and I think I'll try him for a bit be a use the ones that are good offensively with him are a menace and I've been playing too cautiously.
Yeah, I've definitely seen it happen. I think the light effect from her ult comes out before the quote, so that's probably the only moment where it can be canceled.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
re: cancelling Mercy's ult
I need to test this some more, but last night I killed a Mercy on King's Row that was just starting her ult animation and the rez didn't go through. I wonder what the timing factor is though. It's gotta be just like a bare second.
I need to test this some more, but last night I killed a Mercy on King's Row that was just starting her ult animation and the rez didn't go through. I wonder what the timing factor is though. It's gotta be just like a bare second.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Yeah if you can do that you must need to have amazing luck and perfect timing. Never seen it, but I don't doubt it.
You pretty much have to be in the act of killing her before it goes off.
I've tried hooking her so many times as the ult starts and it's never failed to go off.
You know a match went great when you get best healer on the team with S76, 700 in heals...
In another match I finally ran into a, "then play healer" team... I swear sometimes I hate multiplayer games... I picked Roadhog to tank, 3 other players still hadn't decided who to pick. Made my way to the first choke point and realized no one picked healer (someone picked Zarya after me). Pointed it out, was told, "then play healer" by the Zarya. I switched to Mercy and refused to heal the Zarya... sometimes I'm too bitter.
In another match I finally ran into a, "then play healer" team... I swear sometimes I hate multiplayer games... I picked Roadhog to tank, 3 other players still hadn't decided who to pick. Made my way to the first choke point and realized no one picked healer (someone picked Zarya after me). Pointed it out, was told, "then play healer" by the Zarya. I switched to Mercy and refused to heal the Zarya... sometimes I'm too bitter.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Yeah, that makes sense. I think I was playing as 76, already shooting her, and the only way I managed to cancel the ult was by panic firing my rockets.
Played against a bunch of losers who thought they could gain the system by all picking the same hero. They first tried Winston, then Roadhog, followed by Reinhardt, D. Va, Pharah and more D. Va.
Guess they forgot that one Mei can already ruin their day, especially when they have to push the Payload. My team was just randoms but you could feel how everyone wanted them to fail and tried their best to counteract. A Symmetra provided good teleports, a Tracer flanked them. We won. I left the game afterwards anyway.
Also I've earned three throphies within five or six matches today. Huge Success, Supersonic and Ice Blocked, pretty cool, wasn't even aiming for them. Let's see how the weekend will go.
Guess they forgot that one Mei can already ruin their day, especially when they have to push the Payload. My team was just randoms but you could feel how everyone wanted them to fail and tried their best to counteract. A Symmetra provided good teleports, a Tracer flanked them. We won. I left the game afterwards anyway.
Also I've earned three throphies within five or six matches today. Huge Success, Supersonic and Ice Blocked, pretty cool, wasn't even aiming for them. Let's see how the weekend will go.
Incendiary
Banned
I usually end up being support because in solo queues rarely does anybody want to be support. If I end up in a group of people who split up and run all over the place, I switch to Symmetra and just shield them whenever I see them, then do my own thing with turrets because fuck it.
I had an enemy team go all Roadhog. Our two Bastions pretty much shut them down. This was on that snowy Russian map.
It was fun to wreck them, but stupid all the same.
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