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Overwatch |OT3| White, White, Blue, White
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That sounds like exactly what I do on Lucio. Maybe it was me.
Earthpainting
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Reinhardt can be tricky if no one is sticking next to you. Ideally, you'd have someone next to you who can deal some consistent damage at different ranges. Personally if I see a Zarya in the group, I'll ask her to team up. She can dip in and out of the safety of my shield, to build charge safely, but she can also sap charge off my shield as well. Zarya also doesn't have the best mobility or the best HP, so this is a pretty beneficial relationship for the two of you. A Hanzo or Zenyatta will also do in a pinch, but those characters don't have the best track record of staying with me. Getting abandoned for long stretches as a Reinhardt is definitely not what you want.
A big tip for Reinhardts too when you are faced with another one, your projectile attack can pierce the other one's shield, and does big amounts of damage. Definitely worth lowering your shield for, and definitely worth strafing to the side if you see one coming back your way. The move is a good way to signal where your allies should be shooting or looking at.
Kor of Memory
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Can someone explain the thread title to me?
BrassDragon
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Question for the wise: is Reaper's ghost form visible to Widowmaker's recon sight?
Contents of loot boxes (the rarities)
*shakes fist*
I'm on PS4 and it was last night on Dorado, probably 8 PM Eastern Time. If it was you then props -- you stumped me and my team.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
As support they kinda are.
He probably got 7-0 k/d ratio and felt like he played his best game ever.
PrivateRyan
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When you open a loot box four icons pop out - purple for legendary, blue for rare, white for common.
Three whites and one blue is the lootbox that makes you go -_-
No way.
Kor of Memory
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Ahh so by the time we hit OT4 we should do:
Overwatch |OT4| White(dupe), White(dupe), Blue(dupe), White(dupe)
MyNameIsRye
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Huh? That's just your highlight list, and just because you had a few good games with them doesn't mean anything.
Skill determines it. Some kind of MMR system I believe.
Interfectum
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There's more to 'support' than healing.
You get a highlight for every match afaik even if it's just you flailing around.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
There is, but that doesn't mean that their support skills are not inferior to those of mercy and lucio.
I've opened 20 boxes so far and I had one purple... which was 150G.The only thing Symmetra does that classifies as support is that ult teleport. She gives 25 shields while Torbjorn gives 75 armor. She has defensive turrets like Torbjorn, she murders invaders with her gun without needing a debuffing orb. She might as well be in the defensive class category. In PUG's, the game says your team is good to go in the support department as soon as someone picks Symmetra but that's simply not true.
chrominance
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Is this true? Zarya can pick up charge by shielding a Reinhardt that already has his own shield up? Because if so, GAME CHANGER
That's solid money right there
PayOffWizard
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It usually saves a highlight form every game you play, Even if it wasn't PoTG.
Took a night off last night to play more of Xenoblade Chronicles X and it felt good. I really, really like Overwatch but I'm happier with it when I am also playing other types of games.
The new OT title is very funny. In my experience it is right on the nose as far as what to expect from a loot box.
The new OT title is very funny. In my experience it is right on the nose as far as what to expect from a loot box.
Yikes, I need to know this too. I thought I saw someone say in the past that Zarya's barrier extends a bit in the front beyond Rein's shield so if someone is shooting the center then it could work?
He slices and dices!
Unlike armour, the shield regenerates. There is implicit healing there.
Ryo Hazuki
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My internet decided to fuck up right near the end of a really good match we were about to win after making a comeback.
Depending on how good they are.
Backline harasser or bastion counter if they're just alright, fucking ninja god that makes me want to alt F4 if they're good.
In a game where currently the play of the game is all offensive and extremely rarely rewarding to support classes for their support, getting play of the game as Symmetra or Zen isn't a show of how good they are at SUPPORT, it's a show of how good those classes are at killing. They never show Lucio's timely ult that saved the team from a tire blast and never show Mercy scrambling around flying between teammates keeping them healed during a big fight.
I get why she's support, but she's the worst at direct team healing. 25 hps that very slowly starts to regenerate after battle is nice to have but isn't going to win a fight. She is the most damaging when you catch a group from behind though, especially on consoles where it's tough to get your sights on a hopping sym rampaging through your group.
vakarian32
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I wish some people playing Mercy would use their pistol a bit more, it does a surprising amount of damage at times. I've had a few games as Reinhardt when a Mercy would keep healing me even when I'm at full health behind my shield, it would be far more useful for Mercy to switch to pistol and take out a turret tearing Rein's shield apart.
Measure twice, cut once.
I haven't seen any non-PoTGs appear in my highlights, but my bad for thinking they are synonymous.
Interfectum
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Again though, seems mainly focused on healing. They should just make a sub category of healers and let the team know they don't have one yet.
I've been struggling with this too as I love playing her, but when I do, most of the time, none of my friends wants to pick tank. Heck, sometimes they'll claim we don't always need a tank.. And then we get crushed by a team with 2 tanks.
KillerDark
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Last night was pretty entertaining, some guy was salty and said anyone who voted for my card was a food and then immediately accused me of "wall hacking" hahaha. We managed to beat that same team the next game (pushing the payload in overtime for the win) so that felt pretty satisfying.
A lot of people also don't know that the classes that switch weapons like Mercy and Torb, when they switch off their offensive weapon to their support item, their weapon automatically reloads in the background and will be full when they switch back (assuming they switch for at least the duration of one reload of time. On Mercy when there's no offensive heroes to buff and no healing to do, unload a clip with gun then switch back. When you need the gun again it will be full.
Earthpainting
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That might be the technical explanation for it. I just noticed that I got charge from Reinhardt with their shield up, but I don't know where they were actually shooting his shield. I suppose some tests are in order to get a conclusive answer.
Incendiary
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Actually gold/orange is legendary, purple is rare, blue is uncommon.
I must have great luck with loot crates - level 32 and I've gotten four legendary skins ( two for Hanzo, one Soldier 76, one Widowmaker ) and enough to coin to buy a fifth (I bought Mei's Abominable because it's adorable and she's adorable). Also gotten a lot of purple emotes and voice lines, although only a few purple skins.
Feels like with more and more players, the POTGs are really fucked. We had one last night where it was just two normal kills. Nothing special.
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