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GraveRobberX

Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Thing is pub players want to play casual
They don't give a fuck about wins or have a strategy set up to combat issues

Console players pool you can tell they're just doing the bare minimum
How many don't jump into the point to extend overtime or push payload
Chase enemies far away for no reason, most of the time die due to flanks and no situational awareness when even the game fucking tells you, your enemies footsteps and guns sound louder, also a death icon appears on the area where teammate died and a scoreboard telling you who is getting killed or what's being done to relay you info from the game itself helping you by calling out specific things, "Hey they have a teleporter!", "Sniper", "Turret Ahead"

Shit I bet most don't even pull up the menu to see who they're fighting against and the team makeup, you know within first 10 seconds what each team composition is

Torb is a hassle, multiple Torbs stacked at least 3+ are annoying, but you see most players not give a damn, they'll play there favorite and move along to the next match

You can combat stacked Torb but you need communication and players willing to cooperate. 2 Widows can at least shave 2-3 turrets down quickly, hopefully netting a Torb kill or two if they're baby sitting their turret
Have at least 2-3 D.Va's and a Mercy as the last resort
Thing is no one will play to counter it in pub play, why put effort into an extra few +500 xp point...

I've played Torb and had players harass me to not get setup after my initial start
You need Genji, Tracer, or a Soldier 76 to keep pestering and destroying their turrets

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Competitive with the SR will most likely show how players will need to communicate and cooperate or it will be a rough mode for them and not earn the reward the mode offers
I'm guessing the higher tiered SR players will sacrifice team setup to combat and counter what other team has


Remember Nerf Bastion during Beta and early days, too OP, very hard to counter, not fair
Yet we are closing in on 1 month of game release and Bastion went from a main stay to a situational class to be used sparingly
Classes will fluctuate up and down depending on skill and how much the general population of gamers can ape the elite setup or style of play that they watched
 

Antiwhippy

the holder of the trombone
One time i got matched into a team with 3 torbs i got fucking stomped. Got so fucking pissed that they wouldn't change out. He's like bastion. Effective against teams who don't like to adapt but fucking useless once the team decides to go hard against him.

Attack torb on capture maps nearly makes me want to leave the match on character select.
 

Valahart

Member
Hey guys, I just bought a new gaming laptop and I've been able to run Overwatch on Epic settings. However, although it runs at 74fps stable, all characters keep just disappearing and showing up again in a way the game just doesn't make too much sense.

I'm wondering, is it a matter of my internet connection being bad or is it that the settings are too powerful for my PC?

Worth noticing that my old potato PC used to run it on low with framerate drops but the game actually made more sense.

Ps: I know I probably could easily test it myself, but I'm anxious and can't wait 'till I'm able to play again lol
 

kromeo

Member
Hey guys, I just bought a new gaming laptop and I've been able to run Overwatch on Epic settings. However, although it runs at 74fps stable, all characters keep just disappearing and showing up again in a way the game just doesn't make too much sense.

I'm wondering, is it a matter of my internet connection being bad or is it that the settings are too powerful for my PC?

Worth noticing that my old potato PC used to run it on low with framerate drops but the game actually made more sense.

Ps: I know I probably could easily test it myself, but I'm anxious and can't wait 'till I'm able to play again lol

If you're having connection problems your own character will move about all over the place without you touching anything
 

Kornoponing

Neo Member
Had a situation where an enemy was hating the Torb on our team while we were defending. When we switched to attack, we wrecked him playing Torb. It's all about the counters, but people just don't like switching even if they keep running into a meat grinder.
 

Veelk

Banned
Hey, so heres a question: I might be getting Overwatch on PC when I decide to upgrade.

Is there a way to link my account to the PC so I won't have to work to unlock all my skins and stuff a second time?
 

kami_sama

Member
One time i got matched into a team with 3 torbs i got fucking stomped. Got so fucking pissed that they wouldn't change out. He's like bastion. Effective against teams who don't like to adapt but fucking useless once the team decides to go hard against him.

Attack torb on capture maps nearly makes me want to leave the match on character select.

I understand a torb on escort maps, but in capture? Really?

Also, I had a game where Zennyata just clicked and won handily. Shame he's so slow.
 
Bastion obviously has higher damage than Gimli's turret, but its the range-auto lock on-accuracy-never reload thats crazy IMO. As a Widow or Hanzo, a Bastion I can flank, because its player controlled and can only see in front of him, get an angle on him, and destroy. Those turrets though will spot me in a room peaking around the corner 2 blocks away. Sure, I can peak, and destroy it even if Gimli is babysitting it, but since there is no cooldown or scrap needed for another turret, that "one turret down, five to go!" victory will last about one second.

Hell, talking with GAF while playing, if a turret is about to get taken down or ult'ed, theyll just immediately put another one up where they are, leaving no turret downtime at all.

Id like to see something done - lower health, slower lockon, needing scrap, at least to upgrade. Thing is, if there is only one, he's fine. Hes a threat, but nothing crazy... like everyone else. But when you get half the team or more doing it....
 
Blizzard is obviously testing the waters with the weekly brawl of only allowing 2 of the same heroes per team.

The same they did in CBT when they had the exact same brawl? :p

Blizzard is obviously testing the waters with the weekly brawl of only allowing 2 of the same heroes per team.

Bastion obviously has higher damage than Gimli's turret, but its the range-auto lock on-accuracy-never reload thats crazy IMO. As a Widow or Hanzo, a Bastion I can flank, because its player controlled and can only see in front of him, get an angle on him, and destroy. Those turrets though will spot me in a room peaking around the corner 2 blocks away. Sure, I can peak, and destroy it even if Gimli is babysitting it, but since there is no cooldown or scrap needed for another turret, that "one turret down, five to go!" victory will last about one second.

Hell, talking with GAF while playing, if a turret is about to get taken down or ult'ed, theyll just immediately put another one up where they are, leaving no turret downtime at all.

Id like to see something done - lower health, slower lockon, needing scrap, at least to upgrade. Thing is, if there is only one, he's fine. Hes a threat, but nothing crazy... like everyone else. But when you get half the time or more doing it....

There is a cooldown when he places one though. So you destroy his first, he places a second that has only 150 hp and he starts banging on it right away, takes at least 5 seconds to get to level 2. While he does that he is super vulnerable. And if you damage the turret, it halts upgrade to repair it. The weakness he has is when he places the first turret, you destroy it, and then he has to wait the cooldown to place another. And he is pretty weak without his turret tbh.
 

Antiwhippy

the holder of the trombone
I understand a torb on escort maps, but in capture? Really?

Also, I had a game where Zennyata just clicked and won handily. Shame he's so slow.

He actually has the same movement as the normal characters, it's just that he doesn't have the mobility options of Lucio or mercy for his extremely low health.
 
Hey, so heres a question: I might be getting Overwatch on PC when I decide to upgrade.

Is there a way to link my account to the PC so I won't have to work to unlock all my skins and stuff a second time?

i doubt it. if it's anything like Diablo 3 then you'll need to start over from the very beginning. you'll need to decide which platform you want to focus on and stick with it.
 

maouvin

Member
Blizzard is obviously testing the waters with the weekly brawl of only allowing 2 of the same heroes per team.

Was already like that on the beta. All brawls that limits to a single role limit to 2 of the same character.

There was a no-repeat, no switching brawl too.
 

Antiwhippy

the holder of the trombone
Bastion obviously has higher damage than Gimli's turret, but its the range-auto lock on-accuracy-never reload thats crazy IMO. As a Widow or Hanzo, a Bastion I can flank, because its player controlled and can only see in front of him, get an angle on him, and destroy. Those turrets though will spot me in a room peaking around the corner 2 blocks away. Sure, I can peak, and destroy it even if Gimli is babysitting it, but since there is no cooldown or scrap needed for another turret, that "one turret down, five to go!" victory will last about one second.

Hell, talking with GAF while playing, if a turret is about to get taken down or ult'ed, theyll just immediately put another one up where they are, leaving no turret downtime at all.

Id like to see something done - lower health, slower lockon, needing scrap, at least to upgrade. Thing is, if there is only one, he's fine. Hes a threat, but nothing crazy... like everyone else. But when you get half the time or more doing it....

The thing is, level 1 turret is so weak and takes awhile to build to level 2. If you keep on him before he builds it up he's basically dead weight.

Hell, level 2 isn't that hard to take down either.

I sometimes dread being teamed up with a torb honestly. It really depends if the opposing team is willing to actually counter him, and he is so easy to counter.
 

Crescende

Banned
There is only one thing that sucks when going full torbstomp: next match you get full torbstomp back lol

Any good elite controller setups you might want to share? I prefer a low sensivity for aiming but need to crank it up cuz symatra circle strafe is a thing on xbox. I just cant find a sweet spot. Its counter symatra/tracer or good aim for me :(

Edit: I dont get people claiming torb is nothing without his turrets. He has very good close and longrange options while still beeing more support than symatra.
 

Banzai

Member
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Must...resist.
 

Banzai

Member
Why though? The content is already decided in the boxes, there's no point in waiting other than torturing yourself on not getting new cosmetics.

I'm trying to not care about the cosmetics, so I thought I might as well wait until 50 to get at least 2 guaranteed legendaries. I'm not really having trouble with not opening them, I was just kidding.
 

Bisnic

Really Really Exciting Member!
I'm trying to not care about the cosmetics, so I thought I might as well wait until 50 to get at least 2 guaranteed legendaries. I'm not really having trouble with not opening them, I was just kidding.

If you're fine with the default skins/intros/sprays/voices/emotes/victory poses/player icons, then more power to you I guess?

I don't see why I would prevent myself on having more choices, but, eh...
 

Yushi

Member
So i ranked 60(60% better than everyone...a passing grade!) in the PTR...somewhat dissapointed. Maybe its cuz im only lvl 35+. I was 8-2 in the placement, got 6 PotG with Mercy, Reaperx3, Winston & Lucio.

I was really hoping for 75ish. Oh well,guess i ain't that good.
 

Banzai

Member
If you're fine with the default skins/intros/sprays/voices/emotes/victory poses/player icons, then more power to you I guess?

I don't see why I would prevent myself on having more choices, but, eh...

It's fun to open multiple boxes at once. I think I'll open them when I have 25.
 

cHinzo

Member
Lol it's so awkward to have a PotG with Torbjörn where u just respawned and only pressed Q while walking back. Wished nobody saw that. T.T
 
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JeremyEtcetera

Unconfirmed Member
Lol it's so awkward to have a PotG with Torbjörn where u just respawned and only pressed Q while walking back. Wished nobody saw that. T.T

This sounds like the norm as far as PoTG, and a good reason why a ton of people dislike said character.

Which is funny because the consensus here seems to be that mccree was nerfed too hard and widow barely nerfed at all.

Those same players recently learned that McCree had a left click too. And that it was pretty good at hitscan damage.
 

ncslamm

Member
Found the perfect pub lobby early this morning. Joined in and both teams were playfully talking shit to each other before the match starts. It turned into a match of 6 Junkrat vs 6 Torbjorn followed by the next match 6 vs 6 Symmetra on Lijang tower round 1, 6 Rein vs 6 Roadhog round 2, and 6 Lucio v 6 Symmetra round 3. It was silly but so much fun. Kind of a nice break from the "too serious" lobbies I've been finding myself in.
 
It hurts my heart to see that Genji isn't being used
He used to be used more: When Zenyatta was dominant in beta (and didn't require LoS for harmony orbs), so were Genji and Tracer. He dropped to being "balanced" at launch, in the sense that he was used about one-third to one-half of the time... until the McCree/Widow nerfs.

Those nerfs indirectly empowered tanks and other characters that Genji is at best neutral with, especially Reaper and Pharah, both of whom have seen much more use since the patch. Reaper is, honestly, overpowered at this point, but it'll take people a while to figure that out fully. He was strong before, and now McCree isn't a reliable counter. Reaper's also more necessary than before now that it's safer to play tanks. Pharah's in a good spot (and a good Reaper counter!), but in the hands of a skilled player, she's bad news for Genji.

So Genji is getting edged out of the meta not because he sucks, but because he's not a good counter to the heroes that are currently optimal.

This is all an indirect consequence of them choosing the wrong nerf for McCree (nerfing FtH's damage instead of its availability). Good Reapers can now routinely escape FtH, which is bad news.
 

Hyun Sai

Member
Which is funny because the consensus here seems to be that mccree was nerfed too hard and widow barely nerfed at all.

In fact McCree went from theory crafting "this won't change a thing look at the hard numbers" to "Garbage useless delete him tiers" in the end. The people saying that only players who could aim with him would still use him were right ^^.

It's funny to see the rise of Roadhogs now in the category of brain dead stun one shot hero for those not able to do it with McCree anymore lol.
 

Antiwhippy

the holder of the trombone
In fact McCree went from theory crafting "this won't change a thing look at the hard numbers" to "Garbage useless delete him tiers" in the end. The people saying that only players who could aim with him would still use him were right ^^.

It's funny to see the rise of Roadhogs now in the category of brain dead stun one shot hero for those not able to do it with McCree anymore lol.

Hey, at least you need to aim the hook instead of throwing it on the ground in their general direction. :p
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
I'm trying to not care about the cosmetics, so I thought I might as well wait until 50 to get at least 2 guaranteed legendaries. I'm not really having trouble with not opening them, I was just kidding.

guaranteed? lol. I havent gotten a legendary in 30 boxes recently (last one was 33 boxes ago if I remember correctly)
 
It's fun to open multiple boxes at once. I think I'll open them when I have 25.

I agree with this. I'm not doing it now, but two weekends ago, I stopped opening them.

It was also a completely free weekend with no obligations, and I ended up gaining over 20 levels. I played a lot.

I think I had maybe 1 good drop out of it, but in one of the boxes leading up to the hold-off, I pulled both a legendary Zarya and Mei in a single box.
 

TalesFromHoth

Neo Member
Lol it's so awkward to have a PotG with Torbjörn where u just respawned and only pressed Q while walking back. Wished nobody saw that. T.T

Torb has the most hilarious PotG sequences. Some of them he isn't even alive at the start of the PotG, but still getting those eliminations.
 
guaranteed? lol. I havent gotten a legendary in 30 boxes recently (last one was 33 boxes ago if I remember correctly)

GAF told me you get a guaranteed legendary in your 25th if you didn't get any in the last 24. Might include money.

You are indeed guaranteed a legendary once every 25 boxes. If you think it's been 33 boxes since you last got one, you've definitely missed it. Go through your hero gallery and double check.
 
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