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Overwatch |OT4| You Want A Good Genji, But You Need The Bad Hanzo

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Crzy1

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Bought $20 in boxes, got 4 legendary skins including the red Zarya one in the last box I opened. That was the only skin that I wanted because I'm not a fan of any of her regular legendaries.
 

Gurrry

Member
since the event is 3 weeks long.

next week's brawl should be mccree's polo and they are all on horses but it'll probably be tracer rugby.

but i wouldn't mind a 9 hole golf with s76.

but then again i can't think of anything olympic related or sports other than fantasy stuff lol.

I think the next games are a tracer race styled mode and something to do with zarya. Probably some sort of lifting game or something? Im not sure what they will do for her game.
 

dskillzhtown

keep your strippers out of my American football
Thinking of picking this up this week. How hard is it to get a grasp of the game without being useless or a negative to teams?
 

Owzers

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Bought $20 in boxes, got 4 legendary skins including the red Zarya one in the last box I opened. That was the only skin that I wanted because I'm not a fan of any of her regular legendaries.

i've been reading a lot of red suit Zarya stuff here, i got the white one as my only skin so far, this red bias must end.
 
Holy shit, I have slowly and unwittingly been defaulting to Zenyatta, Ana, Lucio for all my matches.

I think I may need to diversify...

Yeah I've started to realize that I'm settling into a niche of a few characters - Junkrat for defense/KOTH, Soldier/Tracer for offense, D.Va for tank, Ana for support. I guess I'm also comfortable with Pharah/Reaper/Zenyatta/Winston for counter picking purposes and I'll go Lucio on KOTH if needed or for payload dancing, but at this point it's really rare if my starting pick isn't one of Junkrat/D.Va/Soldier/Tracer/Ana.

Also I think I love Ana more now with her faster fire rate and larger clip. She's pretty viable and I feel less pressure sniping with her since headshots don't matter.
 

finalflame

Banned
Thinking of picking this up this week. How hard is it to get a grasp of the game without being useless or a negative to teams?

Not had, most people at lower levels are useless. Just learn to work towards the objective in every map, learn the heroes progressively starting with the ones you list best, and focus on your own game/keep on top of the meta/ask and read strategies on how to play the heroes you're interested in and learn the maps.
 

J Range

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Has this game been successful financially for blizzard? I know its garnered lots of hype and good will amongst gamers, but im wondering if that carried to selling well. A tracking website i looked at only had it at about 1 mill.
 
I think the next games are a tracer race styled mode and something to do with zarya. Probably some sort of lifting game or something? Im not sure what they will do for her game.

but i like rugby ;(

and i don't know about the zarya. i figure it would have to benefit from her moveset and probably related to the the sports in brazil or the rio games.

but. zarya can do this with moving targets

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Owzers

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The white one seems rarer. But I admit that I think it's uglier than the red.

my gripe with the red one is that it lacks contrast, but i don't especially love the design of the white one either, though i would be happy having gotten either of them since i thought i'd just get sprays and wanted one of the Zarya ones. Second best would be getting one of those tracer skins, then Mercy. Now that i got one of my top skin priorities i probably won't try to buy loot boxes even if i don't get anything else.
 
Has this game been successful financially for blizzard? I know its garnered lots of hype and good will amongst gamers, but im wondering if that carried to selling well. A tracking website i looked at only had it at about 1 mill.

Well it was #1 in revenue in June's NPD, but who knows what that means overall.
 

finalflame

Banned
Has this game been successful financially for blizzard? I know its garnered lots of hype and good will amongst gamers, but im wondering if that carried to selling well. A tracking website i looked at only had it at about 1 mill.

It's a resounding success and has reached over 10 million players. Also:

https://www.vg247.com/2016/07/22/overwatch-best-selling-without-pc-sales-npd-june/

Not to mention the money people spend on loot boxes (I've bought 4x 24 loot boxes so far).
 

LiK

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Has this game been successful financially for blizzard? I know its garnered lots of hype and good will amongst gamers, but im wondering if that carried to selling well. A tracking website i looked at only had it at about 1 mill.

They sold a shitload of the game and loot boxes already so I would say yes.
 

Crzy1

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i've been reading a lot of red suit Zarya stuff here, i got the white one as my only skin so far, this red bias must end.
I would have been fine with either, but I prefer the looks of the solid red with the text inlayed on it (no idea what it says, though). She's the only character that I spend a lot of time playing that I didn't use a legendary skin for.
 

Owzers

Member
I thought i'd settle in on playing Zenyatta too but i'm having a hard time aiming projectiles and that's pushing me back to Lucio.
 

LiK

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I thought i'd settle in on playing Zenyatta too but i'm having a hard time aiming projectiles and that's pushing me back to Lucio.

i wanted to play with him in QP last night but a fucking goddamn annoying Tracer kept coming after me at our spawn and made it hell for me. I couldn't even last long enough to practice with him. fuck that Tracer player. fucking bitch.

/rant
 
The white one seems rarer. But I admit that I think it's uglier than the red.

Yeah, I bought 50 boxes and ended up with both skins, but I've been sticking with the red. Just wish I had gotten that Symmetra emote instead of burning my luck on two skins for the same character.
 

Prelude.

Member
I haaaaaaaate zarya with blonde hair, she looks so bad. and the costume itself is good :(
I didn't like her when I first saw her on the postcard, but when I realized she had a ponytail I changed my mind. She's ok, I guess. I'd still like a good pink hair skin, though.
 

finalflame

Banned
put that turret on the payload and the game is won. Attack Torb saves the day again, while never getting the credit for hard work paying off.

What, in rank 20 games or with people that have never played before? Any half decent team will get the turret off the payload in a matter of seconds.
 

LiK

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put that turret on the payload and the game is won. Attack Torb saves the day again, while never getting the credit for hard work paying off.

maybe if they had a Reinhardt and another hero escorting close by to protect it. but turrets in Comp go down pretty fast with a good group. with the damage nerf, it's even easier to take down now unless the Torb activates Molten Core at the right time.
 
maybe if they had a Reinhardt and another hero escorting close by to protect it. but turrets in Comp go down pretty fast with a good group. with the damage nerf, it's even easier to take down now unless the Torb activates Molten Core at the right time.

Ugh, as someone who plays a lot of solo QP, the worst feeling in the world is seeing a Torbjorn or Bastion get set up on the payload, with a Reinhardt standing in front of them to shield. Not really a challenge for a coordinated team, but when you're playing with randoms it's pretty much a sure bet that we're about to get stomped.
 

Owzers

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maybe if they had a Reinhardt and another hero escorting close by to protect it. but turrets in Comp go down pretty fast with a good group. with the damage nerf, it's even easier to take down now unless the Torb activates Molten Core at the right time.

I remember being disappointed in my qp matches where a turret/reinhardt combo on the payload was too much for us. I miss Torb though, i have to make the case for people using him no matter what it takes, Torb needs to make a return. I stopped playing him even in quick play defenses because i'm trying to get better for competitive and most of the time i used him it involved at least two torbs in Volks or Hanamura and that's not going to get me anywhere now.
 

LiK

Member
Ugh, as someone who plays a lot of solo QP, the worst feeling in the world is seeing a Torbjorn or Bastion get set up on the payload, with a Reinhardt standing in front of them to shield. Not really a challenge for a coordinated team, but when you're playing with randoms it's pretty much a sure bet that we're about to get stomped.

true, randoms are bad at it unless you happen to have a D.Va who's not afraid to boost in and take it out quickly.

I remember being disappointed in my qp matches where a turret/reinhardt combo on the payload was too much for us. I miss Torb though, i have to make the case for people using him no matter what it takes, Torb needs to make a return. I stopped playing him even in quick play defenses because i'm trying to get better for competitive and most of the time i used him it involved at least two torbs in Volks or Hanamura and that's not going to get me anywhere now.

Torb is still viable for solo queue at least if you know some good placements.but yea, he's less of an issue now with the nerfs on consoles.
 

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20747925082
MAP BALANCE UPDATES
Made several minor adjustments across Watchpoint: Gibraltar to ensure better balance for defending and attacking teams

Ugh, as someone who plays a lot of solo QP, the worst feeling in the world is seeing a Torbjorn or Bastion get set up on the payload, with a Reinhardt standing in front of them to shield. Not really a challenge for a coordinated team, but when you're playing with randoms it's pretty much a sure bet that we're about to get stomped.

In one of my competitive placement games, I had a game on Temple of Anubis. The enemy team put a Bastion, a Torb turret, a Reinhardt and a Zenyatta up on the elevated platform, and also had a Symmetra who sentried the side paths. It was not pretty. Nobody got past the gate. I tried going D.Va, Tracer or Genji but Symmetra, Zenyatta and Torb went to pick me off usually. I had the gold medal in objective time with like 20 seconds.
 
Any details on what exactly was changed on Gibraltar? I haven't noticed anything yet.

There was a supposed bug on Gibraltar sudden death. Something to do with the game glitching out and literally making it impossible for offense to win in sudden death because the game did not recognize the offense taking any capture points or something.
 
i still don't know what this means. does this mean we don't spawn as far away or what?

That's what the original poster asked. Then Prelude. asked what the context is, so I provided the patch notes stating that Gibraltar was changed. I don't know how, myself.

There was a supposed bug on Gibraltar sudden death. Something to do with the game glitching out and literally making it impossible for offense to win in sudden death because the game did not recognize the offense taking any capture points or something.

That came with the patch, though, that wasn't the "adjustment". If it were, they would've put it into bug fixes.
 

Alavard

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Leavers are the worst...

In a tie with people who scream into the microphone.

Last night, we've got the payload just about to get into the final point, and someone screams 'WE NEED A MEDIC, GOD DAMN IT!'. Not sure what his problem was as a) I was Lucio, and pushing the payload and b) we won like 10 seconds later.
 

Jarate

Banned
You people spending money on this game are gonna just allow Blizzard to get away with this!

I'd probably buy a box of 20$ if I had the money lol
 
In a tie with people who scream into the microphone.

Last night, we've got the payload just about to get into the final point, and someone screams 'WE NEED A MEDIC, GOD DAMN IT!'. Not sure what his problem was as a) I was Lucio, and pushing the payload and b) we won like 10 seconds later.

My favourite thing I've seen so far was a streamer trying out Lucioball and one of his team members saying "are you autistic?" and shit like that. It's especially sad given that it's not, like, competitive, but Lucioball.
 

LiK

Member
sometimes i wonder why people verbally abuse people just because you might lose or you're not doing well. stop that garbage. no one will wanna play with you in the future.
 
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