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Overwatch |OT3| White, White, Blue, White

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Last four games

"No one is on the payload"

"No one is on the point"

"No one is on the point"

"How the fuck does my team manage to pick everything but a tank and support?"

Time to go to bed.
 

Codeblew

Member
Easy mode.

I have so many legendarys for characters I will literally never play.

Bastion, Torb, Mei.

Do I look like a scrub?

I am 37W / 17L with Torb. He is an easy win on defense maps. On hybrids, I will use him for the first checkpoint and switch to something else for the escort part.
 

ncslamm

Member
You know your addiction to this game is strong when your internet goes out at 2am and you freak out because you had big plans to play Overwatch all night. Thank god it came right back up a few minutes later.
 

LiK

Member
I get self destruct kill with D.Va for 3 guys for the first time and I don't get POTG. They give it to some dumbass Torb who killed two dudes. The hell
 

Satch

Banned
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I was kinda cooling off overwatch for some reason. But then I realized I just wasn't playing enough Tracer. I kind of fell into the habit of only playing tracer on koth, but now I am playing her again on every map, both sides. Had a 70% winrate tonight with her, and a 4.2 KDA. And I didn't want to stop playing again.

Even picked up a few random friend invites.

Here is an awkwardly phone recorded quintuple kill . Wish my PC could record better :(
 

Luigi87

Member
Aww man. I record all my PotG
I got ones as Symmetra, Lucio, D.Va, and Winston tonight.

My Winston one was especially good, but for some reason it got replaced in my Highlights by some regular highlights... Weirdly enough my Lucio one I got before it was still there...
 

Skel1ingt0n

I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Ummmmm...


... so, why didn't anyone tell me how much fun Tracer is? Holy shit.

She was one of the first heroes I tried some 20+ hours ago. And she was squishy, zipping around didn't seem to really matter, and her ult seemed weak. A few rounds, and I left her... never to return until tonight.

Decided I'd give her a go after five losses in a row... and holy shit. After a few games, the groove I got into. It was like a rhythm. Zip in. Empty clip, enemy turns, I zip past while reloading, as they're turning empty clip, zip past again, reload, kill enemy... time it right, and you have another teleportation ready, and you zip away.

You can wreck absolute havock on a team if you can just stay alive. I didn't get oodles of kills, but I was an utter nuisance to the enemy that my comrades were able to push payload or come to point.

Just... so much fun.

Or that "oh shit, Lucio just blew me off the map" but not to worry, I rewind time and I'm back in it.

Probably the most "flow" I've had with a character outside of Lucio. She plays a lot like him, surprisingly - so I shouldn't be surprised that I like her.
 

rafa

Neo Member
I need to vent real quick:

If you're complaining about Widowmaker, and you're playing as Genji or Tracer: that's your damn issue. If I'm Reinhardt and I'm trying to capture a point, please tell me how it's my responsibility to take out WM. Please.

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Blizzard

Banned
Ummmmm...



... so, why didn't anyone tell me how much fun Tracer is? Holy shit.

She was one of the first heroes I tried some 20+ hours ago. And she was squishy, zipping around didn't seem to really matter, and her ult seemed weak. A few rounds, and I left her... never to return until tonight.

Decided I'd give her a go after five losses in a row... and holy shit. After a few games, the groove I got into. It was like a rhythm. Zip in. Empty clip, enemy turns, I zip past while reloading, as they're turning empty clip, zip past again, reload, kill enemy... time it right, and you have another teleportation ready, and you zip away.

You can wreck absolute havock on a team if you can just stay alive. I didn't get oodles of kills, but I was an utter nuisance to the enemy that my comrades were able to push payload or come to point.

Just... so much fun.

Or that "oh shit, Lucio just blew me off the map" but not to worry, I rewind time and I'm back in it.

Probably the most "flow" I've had with a character outside of Lucio. She plays a lot like him, surprisingly - so I shouldn't be surprised that I like her.
Good Tracers are so horribly annoying. :( I wish there were a decent way to kill them besides flashbang (and that they couldn't rewind on seeing the flashbang animation).

I finally tried playing Roadhog today. He's fun but the 600 HP goes away almost instantly. Feels weirdly squishy.


I reached level 40 and have only had 1 legendary skin. I FINALLY got past 1000 coins so I could buy one though.
 

Satch

Banned
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eek5

Member
I finally saw a legendary prize in my loot box!!



But it was just gold.

The 500 unit ones are great man. That's half of a legendary that you actually want (or a bunch of voice lines and stuff). The alternative is getting a legendary skin taht sucks or is for a hero you never play. I'll take the currency every time!
 

darklin0

Banned
Good Tracers are so horribly annoying. :( I wish there were a decent way to kill them besides flashbang (and that they couldn't rewind on seeing the flashbang animation).

I finally tried playing Roadhog today. He's fun but the 600 HP goes away almost instantly. Feels weirdly squishy.


I reached level 40 and have only had 1 legendary skin. I FINALLY got past 1000 coins so I could buy one though.
For Tracer I find Winston pretty effective. A good RH hook does the trick too.

As for RH. You have to hook and get a kill. If you aren't taking too much damage wait for a second hook. If you are hurt dip and heal. His E heals for 300 and really helps you to stay in the fight.
 

Blizzard

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For Tracer I find Winston pretty effective. A good RH hook does the trick too.

As for RH. You have to hook and get a kill. If you aren't taking too much damage wait for a second hook. If you are hurt dip and heal. His E heals for 300 and really helps you to stay in the fight.
She can instantly dash/rewind the Roadhog hook and ignore Winston though, as far as I know...unless Winston has some CC I don't know about.
 
Good Tracers are so horribly annoying. :( I wish there were a decent way to kill them besides flashbang (and that they couldn't rewind on seeing the flashbang animation).

I finally tried playing Roadhog today. He's fun but the 600 HP goes away almost instantly. Feels weirdly squishy.


I reached level 40 and have only had 1 legendary skin. I FINALLY got past 1000 coins so I could buy one though.

The flashbang is a click to win button against tracer unless you're slow with fan the hammer. Tracer has to work for her kills, there's no reason she should be easier to kill. She is one of the heroes where the game doesn't play for you.
 

eek5

Member
She can instantly dash/rewind the Roadhog hook and ignore Winston though, as far as I know...unless Winston has some CC I don't know about.

Just having a Winston with the rest of the team makes her job a lot harder though. Every time she pokes in she'll be taking damage and if she makes a mistake she is dead
 

bkw

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So there's team shuffling in the game? That kinda sucks. Our team was doing really well together but then got shuffled. I think it'd be better if the game just found another team of six to go against instead of shuffling...
 
Just bought this game today, I was only going to play it for half an hour. That was about 3 hours ago. I suck at it but it's way too much fun.
 

eek5

Member
So there's team shuffling in the game? That kinda sucks. Our team was doing really well together but then got shuffled. I think it'd be better if the game just found another team of six to go against instead of shuffling...

I've never tried it but can you invite randoms to your group? Then again you'd end up facing premades if you did that so idk
 

-MD-

Member
She can instantly dash/rewind the Roadhog hook and ignore Winston though, as far as I know...unless Winston has some CC I don't know about.

Definitely can't escape a RH hook, assuming the guy knows how to play, if you get hooked you're done. Tracer's biggest threats are McCree and Roadhog by far.

Winston isn't really an issue for Tracer, I'd argue Tracer is an issue for Winston.

A great tracer will not often die to a mccree. They basically have to catch the tracer off guard with flashbang or get really lucky with fan hits. I think tracer's biggest threats are widowmaker and hanzo with good aim. Soldier with good aim too I suppose. Same with junkrat.

Huh.
 
She can instantly dash/rewind the Roadhog hook and ignore Winston though, as far as I know...unless Winston has some CC I don't know about.

Roadhog will always be able to at least shoot before Tracer can rewind. But you better believe it, if you miss or fail to 1hk, a good tracer is going to rewind every time.

Here is a tip for roadhog, holding the left click will always shoot the earliest possible moment, therefore you will never have a tracer rewind on you if you hit her hard enough.

And for tracers, holding E does the same thing, assuming you don't instantly die, you will recall the earliest possible moment.

The ball always starts in the roadhogs court though.

Against winston.... tracer I feel is really favored. I just kite the monkey all day and sometimes let him think he is gonna get a kill and then rewind. Then you ult and gg. Same deal with roadhog, but roadhog actually can kill you with hook. Sometimes long enough engagements lead to 2 hook chances.

Definitely can't escape a RH hook, assuming the guy knows how to play, if you get hooked you're done. Tracer's biggest threats are McCree and Roadhog by far.

Winston isn't really an issue for Tracer, I'd argue Tracer is an issue for Winston.

A great tracer will not often die to a mccree. They basically have to catch the tracer off guard with flashbang or get really lucky with fan hits. I think tracer's biggest threats are widowmaker and hanzo with good aim. Soldier with good aim too I suppose. Same with junkrat.
 

rafa

Neo Member
So there's team shuffling in the game? That kinda sucks. Our team was doing really well together but then got shuffled. I think it'd be better if the game just found another team of six to go against instead of shuffling...

I love/hate those magical matches where your team synergy is peak and everything just clicks, only to have the team split apart the next match.
 

Kinsei

Banned
Good Tracers are so horribly annoying. :( I wish there were a decent way to kill them besides flashbang (and that they couldn't rewind on seeing the flashbang animation).

I finally tried playing Roadhog today. He's fun but the 600 HP goes away almost instantly. Feels weirdly squishy.


I reached level 40 and have only had 1 legendary skin. I FINALLY got past 1000 coins so I could buy one though.

Roadhog is an absolute beast with that HP if you know when to take cover. Thanks to his self heal (which does 300 IIRC) you can tank through things like Reaper's ult just fine if it catches you off guard.

Roadhog will always be able to at least shoot before Tracer can rewind. But you better believe it, if you miss or fail to 1hk, a good tracer is going to rewind every time.

Here is a tip for roadhog, holding the left click will always shoot the earliest possible moment, therefore you will never have a tracer rewind on you if you hit her hard enough.

When it comes to Tracer always use your alt fire before hooking her so she's already low on health when you hook her. Also do this to bait out Reaper's wraith form and Mei's self freeze before hooking.
 

eek5

Member
Roadhog will always be able to at least shoot before Tracer can rewind. But you better believe it, if you miss or fail to 1hk, a good tracer is going to rewind every time.

Here is a tip for roadhog, holding the left click will always shoot the earliest possible moment, therefore you will never have a tracer rewind on you if you hit her hard enough.

And for tracers, holding E does the same thing, assuming you don't instantly die, you will recall the earliest possible moment.

I've heard that you should be pressing forward as RH as well because he can move a little bit which won't help with tracer but means you'll be able to shoot/melee combo other heroes easier.
 
When it comes to Tracer always use your alt fire before hooking her so she's already low on health when you hook her. Also do this to bait out Reaper's wraith form and Mei's self freeze before hooking.

That shouldn't really be necessary ever tbh. Because as roadhog you should always follow up with a melee hit anyway. Primary fire + melee at the same time. True versus reaper and higher hp targets though, because that could make a big difference.

I've heard that you should be pressing forward as RH as well because he can move a little bit which won't help with tracer but means you'll be able to shoot/melee combo other heroes easier.

Maybe true. I don't think I've had that problem with tracers ever since they buffed RH to pull small targets closer to him.
 

Kinsei

Banned
That shouldn't really be necessary ever tbh. Because as roadhog you should always follow up with a melee hit anyway. Primary fire + melee at the same time. True versus reaper and higher hp targets though, because that could make a big difference.

If They use their abilities as soon as they are possibly able too then they'll activate before your melee hits, or at least that's what's been happening to me.
 
Very detailed and helpful post Chronospherics, I'll be sure to share it with my buddy. Thanks a lot for the feedback.

No problem, though do bear in mind that I've only played on PC for around 2-3 hours, and 80 hours on PS4. I play the PC version sometimes when at a friends. I would buy it if I had a better PC, and play both. Though I probably get on better with the PS4 version due to my background as a largely console gamer.
 
That feeling when you come within one more teleporter kill of that Symmetra bullying achievement but your pug teammates are going off and win the game.

:(
 

Nimby

Banned
>Overtime on Hanamura, second point
>Playing as Genji
>Whole team is dead, no one on the point
>No time to approach any other direction but the middle
>Pop my super
>Get shut down immediately
>DEFEATED

I hardly ever win when I'm on the offensive :\
 
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