NeoRaider
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My first ever POTG with Mercy: https://streamable.com/e9j2
It was VERY close, win or lose situation, and we won!
It was VERY close, win or lose situation, and we won!
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Overwatch |OT3| White, White, Blue, White
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For anyone curious, on console I switched Mercy's beam to Toggle and it seems to make things a lot easier to manage Heal and Damage
It is a bit awkward that even with toggle it doesn't seem to give me the option to disengage a beam from someone without running out of range or moving to someone else. I guess it's not the worst thing as I can't over heal or over damage-boost someone until someone else needs it.
But luckily you can easily click once to Heal someone then click Damage Boost to instantly swap to a Damage beam without first disengaging the Heal.
It is a bit awkward that even with toggle it doesn't seem to give me the option to disengage a beam from someone without running out of range or moving to someone else. I guess it's not the worst thing as I can't over heal or over damage-boost someone until someone else needs it.
But luckily you can easily click once to Heal someone then click Damage Boost to instantly swap to a Damage beam without first disengaging the Heal.
Moon Presence
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The card system is completely broken. 4 gold medals and 1 silver...70% enemies hooked.
Seriously? No one cared obviously.
Seriously? No one cared obviously.
It feels awkward at first, but you'll get used to it over time.
Looks like XB1 patch notes leaked. It was posted on Blizzard forums for some minutes. Console players will wait until July 5th...
http://www.overpwn.com/blue-tracker/topic/8882-xb1-overwatch-patch-notes-july-5-2016
http://www.overpwn.com/blue-tracker/topic/8882-xb1-overwatch-patch-notes-july-5-2016
Shake Appeal
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Yeah, some heroes are routinely cheated on the cards by silly stats.
It's my feeling that if you get 3 or more golds, top eliminations, or are on fire for >50% of the game, those cards should trump hero-specific ones.
NeoRaider
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Ppl barely vote for me too. Lol i usually get 2 or 3 votes. Sometimes 0 or 1.
But why does it matter? I mean does this "Epic" card gives you anything?
Hey, at least we have a date now. Better then just speculating.
you can play an active bastion, anticipating counterpicks and shifting locations to catch the team offguard. but yeah, not the most dynamic hero.
I'm starting to learn that some hero-specific stats are telling. For example, if Pharah gets a card that says 100 direct rocket hits, then I know that Pharah was fucking shit up. 100 is a lot.
A good bastion will move between kills and try to cut off enemy advances, but other than that it's just pointing and shooting. Sometimes you move while shooting, sometimes you're a tank while shooting.
I wish he had another ability instead of his self-heal. His heal is a good ability, but it's so passive.
I was robbed yesterday. I started the match and within about 30 secs on Roadhog I was on fire which never fell off, had highest eliminations and damage done and didn't get shit. I honestly think I was on fire for 96% or 97% of the match, I wish I could see my personal stats at the end of the match to confirm these things.
Dead Prince
Banned
They should remove rate match. Doesn't even do anything unless it's secretly marching you with probably better games
Soon and hook fixed in our so it'll come during the comp mode release at least for pc
Does POTG somewhat favor support heroes if they manage to kill 2-3 people in a row?
I often get that with Symmetra since it's pretty easy to kill a bunch of people grouped together while my beam weapon is strong, but I don't seem to get that when I do the same with other characters.
I often get that with Symmetra since it's pretty easy to kill a bunch of people grouped together while my beam weapon is strong, but I don't seem to get that when I do the same with other characters.
I just got a thumbs up from an enemy Widow for switching from Pharah to Winston to counter and Pharah in an almost losing game at the beginning, which turned into a winning game even though they switched to Reaper, Soldier 76, and so on. I actually thought that he was going to send hate mail since I purposely teabagged to provoke him. lol
Also, the game seems to throw me against almost all one star players while having 1-2 only on my side. I know it is not an indication of MMR, but it definitely feels like everyone's skill level went up somewhat while still seeing dumb stuff like teammates standing next to a point while 1-2 enemies finish off capping it...
Also, the game seems to throw me against almost all one star players while having 1-2 only on my side. I know it is not an indication of MMR, but it definitely feels like everyone's skill level went up somewhat while still seeing dumb stuff like teammates standing next to a point while 1-2 enemies finish off capping it...
Dreams-Visions
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lol @ "tipping".
In reality, support players and difference makers should receive an actual tip in the form of extra XP when they are voted for on the post-game card screen. Make checking that box mean something.
Kor of Memory
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Can someone copy paste this? It's hitting my work filter.
All that's going to do is have people vote for themselves every game. Though it may stop some rage quitters if they know they'll get a tiny bit more xp for just staying in the game for those last 20 seconds.
I'm assuming that's autocorrect for PTR, if so good news wasn't aware of that
Now ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give PATCH
Shake Appeal
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Yeah, during all the fuss over Bastion in the beta, it was hard to communicate that I didn't think he was OP, I just thought he was boring and the self-heal encouraged him to be boring. If he had to go hunt for health more, and he could do something else cool instead, I bet we'd see his popularity go up.
I really hope one of the skin sets will be black tie, and have the cast in tuxedos and suits. Want to set junkrat and roadhog half assing their suits of choice and just putting on a jacket buy with no shirts and not even buttoned up and with top hats, or they do a matching suit like in dumb and dumber.
Kor of Memory
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It was hilarious to me how completely useless he was during the first weekly brawl where all the cooldowns were reduced.
Just had a string of shit games. I don't mind losing, but the worst thing is losing a game which you KNOW you could have won, if only people would listen and respond. Clear the entire objective area as Junkrat, watch as the rest of the team wanders around chasing other enemies instead of rushing together to capture the point? FML.
GwyndolinCinder
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Nothing like the abuse you get for playing widow on attack, "Oh we are losing, lets blame the widow being far more useful than any of us, cause we are on attack"
Something to keep in mind with gold medals is that all they indicate is you were 1 point or more above the next best person on your team. You generally have to be far an above an outlier to get the callout for a generic statistic like damage dealt or eliminations, closer to 2x another person. I've only gotten damage cards for doing 30% or more of my teams' damage, and that's a LOT when you consider you're 16% or so of your team.
Just had a string of shit games. I don't mind losing, but the worst thing is losing a game which you KNOW you could have won, if only people would listen and respond. Clear the entire objective area as Junkrat, watch as the rest of the team wanders around chasing other enemies instead of rushing together to capture the point? FML.
Every...time.
The amount if times I've cleared an erea either by riptire or by a suicide push, but I leave it clear for anyone in my team to just walk into it but they don't is too damn high.
Hell I can clear a point just by activating my ult, specially on koth maps. I do it and run it into a wall, the opposing team scatters, guess what team, you can run in and start capping and force them back in and make them take the riptire or they respect it and we can get almost a full cap. Either way it's win/win. But no, it's almost as if people don't know there are different voice lines for when your team uses an ult and when it's the opponents.
The Overwatch community was a mistake, it's nothing but trash.
Dead Prince
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yeah ptr lol.
i've not used PTR since a friend hasn't been able to get on so i'm living with the hook and roadhog ult issue (this is fixed in PTR and looks like it's fixed on xbox when comp drops)
But generally having 1/6 of your players sitting back sniping when the point needs to be taken is frustrating. Being useful isn't just getting kills (especially with widow because of hitscan and wallhack), it takes getting asses on the point. Your abuse is valid in my eyes. It's just as abusive dealing with smug people who refuse to switch to a useful hero..
If you're killing it as sniper on offense and your team is still losing, consider yourself the problem.
LucidMomentum
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If your team is dead and you're picking people off but not pushing the objective, you're still going to lose.
Widow is great crowd control but boy is it frustrating having her on a team for offense since most of the time they don't help push / capture.
A good Widow will help you with your push by being annoying to the other team, but I'd rather have a bad Reaper or S76 that's near the objective than a bad Widow far away.
You're probably just getting lumped in with all the bad Widows people have had to play with on Attack.
They must have seen the GAF thread lol.
Nah. I've seen teams lose because everyone runs in one at a time all too often. The other team is more coordinated, etc. This is a team game, one person can't carry a whole team alone in most cases.
If Widow is keeping 3/6 of the team in spawn and playing well, it's up to others to take advantage of that. Sure you can switch off if your team is dumb, but you're doing your part in one way or another. Sometimes it's not worth the risk switching to a character you don't play as well, especially if your role is getting something done.
Now I'll often switch from Mercy to Pharah if my team ignores turrets. But if my team was in need of kills to get them to the point, I wouldn't complain if we had a solid Widow providing sniper support.
Nice to have a date. I don't see anything about the bugged lockdown achievement but I would expect it is in there since I think some people got it in PTR
Shake Appeal
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I can't believe they pushed the Widow/McCree nerfs to consoles, when Widow is much less of a problem already and they've already said (I believe?) that they're going to look at McCree again.
Of course they did, why not?
Wyndstryker
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The avoid player stuff has been pushed on PC for awhile now.
I think we are getting it (removal of avoid player that is). There was a story a few weeks back where there was a really good player was getting huge wait times on his games, and when Blizzard looked into it, it turned out that it was because he was so good, people didn't want to play against him and kept selecting to avoid him. Blizzard confirmed he wasn't doing anything wrong, and was just one of the top players in the world. So the feature was a little problematic and probably needs to be tweaked if it ever returns.
Edit - and apparently, it was already removed from PC, whoops, lol. I never used it, so didn't notice.
More Fun To Compute
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It will. The reason it was done is because one high MMR widow main on PC had too long queue times because too many with high MMR avoided him.
Competitive would be a joke on console with tank destroyers and bodyshot masters.
there's more cases where I'd rather have an actually good sniper on our side on offense than someone running to a point and dying pointlessly to enemy turrets/snipers. An uncontested sniper is absolutely the best way to keep healers dead. You need to win the team fight to take the point and Widow has quite important roles there.
As for whether the person on the sniper class is doing their job, well, I find it hard to believe that the salty guy losing his shit in team chat has the big picture. For all you know the only reason you took the point is because that Widow was locking down the enemy sniper, killing turrets/pharah, or managed a clutch Mercy headshot. Also quite possible the sniper was doing jack shit and was in a dick waving contest with a Hanzo somewhere. But it's quick play, I just assume my teammates are doing nothing but walking forward and shooting whatever comes into view. I find that more likely to be a reason for a loss than 'wow we definitely would have took that point if we had one more person standing on it'
You have to remember that this patch was probably in the certification process before Blizzard realized that they may have screwed up on the McCree nerf.
LonelyGreyWolf
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They were just as big of a problem on console as PC. Yes, Widow is more of a problem on PC, but body shots from Widow are still a big problem on consoles.
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