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Overwatch |OT2| A New Low in Unlocking and Microtransaction Systems
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Poodlestrike
Banned
Reinhardt is the Tank's Tank, no question, but Zarya can fill the role; it's just REALLY DAMN HARD. Properly executed, she can make the whole enemy team leery of attacking at all, which at times is nearly as good as having that 2k shield. You do have to be damn near prescient with your shield use to manage to hit that point, though. Lord knows I'm not there.
I was going to say that Streamers need to eat, so I'm cool with their encouragement of subscribers...
But then Seagull started using that "Floating Turret" strat on Volskaya and all of my compassion disappeared...
I get that the game wants to favor Roadhog when he hooks you but holy shit the amount of fuckery in what you can be pulled through is insane
super-famicom
Member
Yeah, people fear hitting you since you can alt fire them to death really easily when charged up.
I will admit the chain seemed wonky as fuck when I played the beta. I think the length is fine (gotta hook them bastions) but the pulling enemies through walls ans through yourself shit needs to go.
PushingButtons
Member
Thanks. Yeah whenever I play multiplayer FPS games I do enjoy playing the support classes anyways and I'm way more objective oriented than just trying to get a pretty k/d ratio.
I'll be adding some folks once I get. Few practice rounds under my belt. I'm on PS4
deicide2673
Neo Member
Hi,
Played about 20 hours and love the game but no one on my friends list plays. On ps4 deicide2673 UK time. Older guy btw lol.
Cheers
Played about 20 hours and love the game but no one on my friends list plays. On ps4 deicide2673 UK time. Older guy btw lol.
Cheers
super-famicom
Member
What region? I'll play with whoever, though I am in NA West Coast.
PSN: hi-fi_famicom
RandomExpletive
Member
Its a super weird weapon, IIRC its got a half second of animation that plays and then it becomes hitscan, which lets you basically hook people that have left your visible range... super wonky. I understand it would be nearly impossible to use if it was just a projectile, but I'd feel less cheated that way
1) Retreat and find health packs. Being out of the fight for 5secs to get some health or run to your healer is infinitely better than dying and running from the spawn point. Seriously, it sounds dumb and obvious but having an extra body for 5secs because you didn't die can swing a match in your favor. Also in a fire fight (1v1), stand on the health if possible so you take it when you get damaged. 'Wasting' it to heal a little is better than letting your opponent heal.
2) The overtime timer counts down when no one is contesting the point from the team about to lose. If you're a sniper, get your ass in there to reset it. Here it's OK to die.
3) In King of the Hill matches, the % increases while a team controls regardless if it's contested. Don't run in solo (or duo) just to contest for a few seconds thinking it'll slow down their gains. Wait for your team and push together.
4) I think 3 is the max number of people to push a cart, so if your team has 3, no need to stick around unless there's a strategy to stay grouped up. edit: the cart heals you as well. And can be used as pretty good cover.
5) I would take the time to run through most of the characters in the training range to at least know what their basic abilities and limitations are.
There's probably a ton more, but a lot is character/map/matchup specific.
Hurt and Scared
Member
If anyone has a ps4 party going I'm Hurt_and_Scared
I still feel like Zarya works best with another tank. Like say, Zarya + Winston, with Zarya having her shield on the ready for when Winston's bubble gets broken or when he leaps in to cause chaos. It'd be a more proactive tanking team than something like Reinhardt + Mercy, which unfortunately means I can't see it working in pubs.
I love Zarya so I really wish that I was better with her and that she worked better in pubs, but sometimes I just feel like I'm never contributing a whole lot because I can't properly coordinate when to shield allies and I can't predict when to shield myself. When I get lucky and get a huge charge though, man it feels so fucking good to lob those orbs at people.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Just be glad there is no robot voice saying what the donation contains. Hate that part the worse :/
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Yeah, great, let's take another character and render him nigh-on useless like Zenyatta.
That'll be great for the game.
What an awesome suggestion.
You should work in game design.
John Rabbit
Banned
two things:
1. is there a way to add multiple IDs to your Battle.net friends list at once?
2. is there really no in-game group mechanic so i can easily join with other GAFfers?
1. is there a way to add multiple IDs to your Battle.net friends list at once?
2. is there really no in-game group mechanic so i can easily join with other GAFfers?
So the data loss indicator (flashing orange lightning symbol on the top left) seems to appear for me quite frequently, even though my ping hovers around 60-70 constantly. After watching a few replays on twitch and youtube, seems like lots of people get those flashing constantly. So...anyone know if this is "normal"? I am on WiFi, so that could be it, but I do have around 100 Mbps down and 60 to 70 ping.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Soldier spam is actually the strongest spam in the game. Better than your team all going Hanzo or Toblerone.
Is it really? Toblerone spam is brutal. Bruuuuuuutal. Can't imagine anything worse.
Why's Zenyatta useless? He(it?) seems interesting to me.
Aren't they hurt by lack of mobility?
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
McCree needs to be nerfed for sure. I think Blizzard said they don't want his main method of racking up kills to be Fan the Hammer.
I've never seen a McCree get the majority of his kills with High Noon/left clicks. On the medals screen its always
McCree - 27 eliminations, 19 Fan the Hammer kills
I've never seen a McCree get the majority of his kills with High Noon/left clicks. On the medals screen its always
McCree - 27 eliminations, 19 Fan the Hammer kills
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Toblerone spam only works with a decent Reinhardt or something backing them up.
Conversely, I've nearly lost to a six-man Soldier-spam team. They steamrolled the payload all the way up until almost the last point because their abilities just synergize over each other.
Confused Cheeseburger
Member
Amazing that the microtransactions thread is still going. Both the ot and that thread are at the top.
I get it from time to time hardwired with a 1 gigabit connection.
Yea, depending on how good the soldiers are more than one of him can actually be pretty decent. Solid damage if you can aim, good burst from rockets, not reliant on a healer, decent movement speed. I could see a pub team not being able to figure out how to deal with it.
Yes, he's well rounded. Lost to an all Soilder team and our team was decent.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
I don't understand how that thread got so many replies
Just wait until ranked, ppl will get even more salty and toxic.
Demoskinos
Member
So I just found a Porn video with D.VA where someone mashed up various SFM clips and overlaid it with Girls Generation music. Lmao of course someone did this.
You really need to consider the opportunity cost of the Reinhardt shield or Winston. Like everything in this game, a lot is map/match/comp/skill dependent, but I played a cart match as Reinhardt and our team simply didn't have the damage to break through their Reinhardt and Mercy heals/rez's. They held us on a corner for like 7mins. We could disrupt them here and there, but once we killed someone it seemed like Mercy was ready with a rez nearly every time. Eventually, I swapped to Zarya, but we burned too much time by then.
Confused Cheeseburger
Member
mountain=mole hill
Snkfanatic
Banned
We did this as a joke and won rather easily...of course not saying it's even a remotely viable strategy, but still.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Zenyatta needs only one counter. Widowmaker, who blasts him to bits with a single body shot.
Lack of awareness is a good way to put it. As a Mercy player I'm sure you've felt a Tracer or Winston single you out while the rest of your team fails to react to them in any way. It can be really frustrating especially if you are playing the support class out of necessity. People tend to just run around looking for kills in the majority of cases.
basically people who played the game vs people who didn't. people who don't play the game don't even understand the loot box stuff. conversations also have been going into micotransactions in general and about RNG loot you buy blind.
MakeshiftChef
Member
Damn, I'm part of the "problem" now. Bought 5 loot boxes and got Mercy's Valkyrie in the first one. The rest weren't anything to write home about. But Mercy's Valkyrie skin was one of my most wanted. Dodged a bullet there. I think I'll be able to hold of from buying anymore for a while.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
"Ryū ga waga te--"
"OH SHIT! EVERYONE SPLIT!"
"OH SHIT! EVERYONE SPLIT!"
Pretty sure Reaper can ghost out of the stun.
He's interesting for sure, but a combo of no mobility, low hp, but needing to keep line of sight to use his orbs can make him really weak. He dies to sniper body shots and any flanker can gun him down before he can react.
Then I'll use him whenever there's a lack of snipers and fast characters! That happens often, right?
markwaters
Neo Member
He's not "USELESS", but he is extremely difficult to keep alive and he occupies a role that is better served by two other heroes. Mercy actually does the same exact things that Zenyatta does (heals teammates and increases damage output) with extra mobility and escape options. You can argue that Zenyatta's offensive options are superior, but they put him in severe danger since he is so slow and has 150 health. Lucio can't boost his team's damage output, but he does a much better job keeping them alive while providing some utility (speed boost, secondary fire). Overall, you're better off just picking Lucio or Mercy if you want to play support. If you want to do damage, just pick an offensive hero.
GwyndolinCinder
Member
Widowmaker charged shots deal 150 damage
bbkkristian
Member
Okay Torbjorn's turrets need an HP nerf. Just faced a team with three of them, even with Widowmaker, she still needs three hits to destroy them at full power.
Gold_Loot
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