TatteredHat
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Yeah I always swap to Winston as well when there are annoying snipers on the loose, it doesn't always work out but generally it's worth making their life as miserable as possible.
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Overwatch |OT2| A New Low in Unlocking and Microtransaction Systems
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Objective kills is eliminations made while contesting an area (or of players within that area?). Objective time is the time you've spent pushing the payload or contesting.
It's a rough measure of how much you were fighting for the point.
Some one called me a no life and I was like, "I am living the good life dawg!" I have thicker skin than most but that was my experience with similar comments.Lovely people.
Had this guy do nothing but insult my friend and call her a cunt over and over just because she's a high level. She never even insulted the guy once.
Some people are just mad as hell when they are losing or just assholes. Best to report and block that kind of people.
Bruno
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Lovely people.
Had this guy do nothing but insult my friend and call her a cunt over and over just because she's a high level. She never even insulted the guy once.
Me and my girl both being 90+ we get nothing but toxic comments every other game. I REALLY wish I could disable the chat because I just don't like looking at it.
Valkerionseven
Member
Got this game randomly and only played a few minutes. A bit overwhelming since I jumped in with 0 interest or anything lol. Love the art style, now to mess around with characters more.
Also the joint Asia server is going to be fun. Mix of English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and who knows what else every match.
Also the joint Asia server is going to be fun. Mix of English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and who knows what else every match.
Baron Doggystyle von Woof
Member
Damn son. I gotta try this!
TheRedSnifit
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Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Beats me. Though in the past year they went from not on my radar to one of my fave devs. HotS, D3, and now Overwatch made that happen.
UltimaPooh
Member
This is what team work do.
Was playing with some PS4 GAFers and we combined Zarya's gravity pull with my Pharah's barrage resulting in a complete team kill and us taking the point.
Litterally where my rockets are going was their entire team.
Awesome games tonight guys!
Was playing with some PS4 GAFers and we combined Zarya's gravity pull with my Pharah's barrage resulting in a complete team kill and us taking the point.
Litterally where my rockets are going was their entire team.
Awesome games tonight guys!
Nothing imbalanced about a bunch of sitting ducks getting shot. There are thousands of better ways that all of those people could have played that.
This is especially true of the Pharah: People just think "weeee I can fly" when anyone who's played Quake or Unreal Tournament for five minutes knows that you are the most vulnerable when you're in the air.
TheRedSnifit
Member
Think it's a lag issue. Sometimes this can cause your client to unload some player and projectile models.
Haven't had this issue in Overwatch yet, but I know in TF2 I'd type "record fix; stop", which (appeared to) fix the issue.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Oh my
IbukiLordSA
Member
That moment when you have saved up 1000 gold to buy that one costume you really want only to get distracted and in the process your 2 year old decides to buy a bunch of random costumes for a character you don't play 
TheRedSnifit
Member
I mean, there was one person standing still. The rest were moving, and the Phara ate a headshot before she got off the ground.
Competent Widows get crazy killstreaks all the time, and I fully expect her to be a huge issue in comp when the game's been out longer and the skill level goes up. Especially with the inevitable McCree nerf down the road.
People who are amazing shots with Widow Maker kinda break Overwatch.
imyouroph3liac
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Last night something similar happened to me, suddenly the character who I was playing as, namely Zarya, decided to disappear completely, leaving just the weapon hanging in the air in front of me. I moved around a bit and she reappeared.
They were moving, but nobody was putting any effort into making sure they weren't hit from a Widow from basically the most well-known Widow starting position on that map.
Widow is an issue but it's an issue inherent to having snipers in the game, which is that the main counter for Widow is another Widow. Her damage isn't fundamentally broken in a game where a lot of things kill in one hit; if you toned her down you'd have to tone down a whole lot of other things at the same time. Really, the best fix for Widow would be to make Hanzo better so every game isn't just Widow plus five people against Widow plus five people.
As far as competitive play is concerned, as long as one team has a sniper the other team is going to have a sniper.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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That was pretty gangster, but when I leave Anubis it's not out the front door and definitely not without checking the arch over the initial choke.
LurkerPrime
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Me and my team went all Toblerone on a cart defense map and won. It was the sleaziest thing ever. Then I levelled up, opened up a lootbox, and got a legendary--Steambot Bastion.
Coincidence? I think not.
Coincidence? I think not.
GwyndolinCinder
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The problem with widow is the entire meta now revolves around her, at least in pubs it's normally fine. In groups, game may as well be called widowwatch.
TheRedSnifit
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No, it is an issue with her balance. You don't see Snipers run 24/7 in TF2 Sixes matches, because he has actual downsides and there are actually ways to handle him beyond "out-snipe them." Competitive Overwatch is more or less Trading Snipers: The Game.
Widowmaker is the single most broken sniper class I've ever seen in an FPS. It's just absurd how powerful she is and how many tools she has at her disposal.
yea, pretty much this. im glad ranked is not out right now because it would basically just be OP widows all day. On the plus side though I got lots of justification to practice genji pretty much every game.
I quite often see the bug where half of the team disconnect after the first defence point gets rolled
Whereas I have killed 4 people with it plenty and it still hasn't popped for me. Weird.
Man I don't know why people have trouble with that team, I've never lost once against a team of 6 Torbjörns, and then one of the times when we got near the end they all switched to Winston and we still won.
Yea I did the mine into the trap for Junkrat like 5 times before it actually unlocked.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Whenever I play Mercy, I try and start the game next to our Widow, because I figure she needs a damage buff during that opening fusillade
Widowmaker is my waifu. I thank players like you
Lovely people.
Had this guy do nothing but insult my friend and call her a cunt over and over just because she's a high level. She never even insulted the guy once.
Someone called me mentally handicapped when I was playing D.va. Apparently I was the entire reason we couldn't take point b on Hanamura even though they themselves were offering no resistance of their own. I have had more experiences with assholes on this game than probably any other fps multiplayer.
This right here.
LurkerPrime
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I think it just needs more coordination then most are prepared for. If you can't knock out a Toblerone and turret consistently, they'll just rebuild and replace everything and all is for naught. Basically, an asymmetrical team requires an asymmetrical comp which goes against Overwatch's recommended DPS/DPS/DPS/DPS/tank/healer sort of meta, throwing most people off their game.
The thing that makes it super tough is the builders'll all have ults and armor for days if the enemy doesn't adapt immediately. A lone Pharah, Hanzo, or Widow can only do so much, and Reinhardt's shield can't last forever against all of the turrets/mobile Toblerones. So then it becomes a meatgrinder, further demoralising them, until there's a mad rush to finish.
Doubt I could beat all-Toblerone as someone without a premade group. Not really looking forward to facing one when it happens to me. But we'll see.
It felt so dirty.
Widow is kept in check by the fact that she can't directly accomplish any of the objectives actually necessary to finishing the game; she can only lopside things in her favor by killing people.
When McCree is nerfed and people have more freedom to move around the map, Widow players will be forced to use more caution. However, as long as Hanzo is inferior to her in most respects she's still going to be ubiquitous. I see no way around that without seriously increasing the amount of area denial possible, which I don't see happening.
EDIT: For what it's worth, it wouldn't surprise me if Widow was nerfed -- people seem to want snipers to not be hyper-relevant in this game -- but I disagree that it's necessarily a good thing. The clip that started this discussion showed a bunch of unskilled players being killed by a moderately skilled Widow; that doesn't represent anything.
Yep. A good Widow who can land headshots reliably just shuts down a whole team alone.
What's worse though is that you usually need a good Widow to countersnipe the other Widow. If you don't have that in your team, well, not much you can do.
CountAntonius
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Black Widow needs a red dot on the wall when she aims like the TF2 sniper has.
NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
Anymore changes and she'll be a one for one copy. Why not give her a kukri to go with it?
Other than the both being snipers, I don't see many similarities.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Really happy with my Symmetra win ratio proper turret placement and some pressure jumping in and zapping people with the hand laser really does wonders for the team.
TF2's sniper didn't have one second charge times, an assault rifle, and a grappling hook
and he still rules of the Highlander meta with an iron fist
Uhm, her pea shooter is actually pretty strong and it helps her get her mech back.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Yeah I took out a Bastion with her peashooter. lol
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