optimus8936
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The answer seems obvious, but I assume it's only on PC?
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Overwatch |OT4| You Want A Good Genji, But You Need The Bad Hanzo
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Mr Nash
square pies = communism
Tracer and Widowmaker. My aim is generally pretty bad, so sniping is out of the question, and Tracer's speed throws my aim off. Would actually like to get to the point where I hit folks consistently with these two.
Dead Prince
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pc first always.
Patch Notes?
finalflame
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PC is always first.
yea... this is my concern too.... isn't zen basically a sniping healer already? How do they differentiate them without making zen useless? I think they either have to limit the new supports damage or ultimate ability to be not as good as zenyattas.
It seems like the most nail on the head brute force solution to the problem of: "Everyone wants to play sniper, no body wants to play support".
New hero is just called "Zenyatta 2.0" and he's done floating and being peacfull, now he's just got a sniper rifle and kills everything.
Hellshingu
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I've been looking through the forums and don't see anything on there. Last one is from July 1st when they added the patch to PS4.
Dead Prince
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i can't aim for Widow either. I even lower my sensitivity and see how that goes. but nope. Tracer i have her set at 6 in-game. forget what my mouse DPI is but it's pretty good. slow enough to aim but fast enough to 360 turn when i blink.
Dead Prince
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yeah they mentioned that. i think there's a recap thread on b.net forum
YESSSSS GIVE ME SOMBRA
Sombra is supposed to be a villain along with Reaper right? Possibly with Talon? I don't think she's going to be a healing sniper if that's the case. The classified note here is Torb sending specs to Reaper and Soldier 76 while they were all still at Overwatch, so it's likely very old. Mercy's concerns about it is that she fears they will weaponize her biotics... which seems like what Talon would do.
So what if Sombra's sniper has the opposite of Mercy's beam? Sniper range, enemy target only, primary is a damage beam like Symmetra, but possibly with different properties, secondary is a debuff beam that weakens them somehow. Since all the sniper heroes have a wallhack skill, maybe Sombra's beam can "tag" enemies she hits, making them visible to the team until they die?
So what if Sombra's sniper has the opposite of Mercy's beam? Sniper range, enemy target only, primary is a damage beam like Symmetra, but possibly with different properties, secondary is a debuff beam that weakens them somehow. Since all the sniper heroes have a wallhack skill, maybe Sombra's beam can "tag" enemies she hits, making them visible to the team until they die?
That would be awful, the game doesn't need more snipers that can (help) kill stuff and def no more wallhacks.
Is she really supposed to be a bad guy?
The mercy note had me thinking that this is the design they used to make widow makers kit.
Like it got sent to reaper and 76, reaper used it to make widow maker and 76 used it to make sombra...
My theory is that sombra can't snipe the enemy team at all.
Primary fire: big burst heal, double for head shots
Healing mine the does a small aoe heal over time, like the exact opposite of widows poison mine
Then like secondary fire is an SMg similar to widows
And maybe she has a mobility or disable ability to help with flankers
And I don't know what her ultimate is.... It must be crazy because I feel like all the obvious choices are taken. Like it can't really be a revive or big aoe heal or shields
God, please let every asshole Hanzo just switch to Sombra. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee
Give me Sombra, right now.
Well, asshole Hanzos can miss shots and stay away from the objective just as good with Sombra, so it won't change much. Also no ryus kurauing the tekis.
Stone Ocean
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Are you sure you want shite Hanzo players playing a hero whose healing might depend on accuracy
Are you 100%, positively sure
Shake Appeal
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Bad guys need healing too! If I had to speculate, her primary fire will snipe healing (maybe AoE?) over time from the backline, but she'll also have a (cooldown?) damage-over-time "weaponized" biotic.
Vaguely reminiscent of the crusader's crossbow (TF2 being the closest analogue I have) as it healed from range with a targeted shot. I didn't personally enjoy that style of gameplay but it could work well.
Edit: Beaten!
Edit: Beaten!
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
So I guess the patch helps people who lost their connection then come back so that they aren't dinged with a loss on competitive. Doesn't look like it does anything to rectify when someone leaves on purpose and doesn't care about coming back. That's one I'm sure they'll be mulling over a while longer before taking action on.
chrominance
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That is not what I was expecting for sudden death changes. Seems like that'll just raise more complaints? actually the timing changes are relatively minimal, so I expect the same amount of complaints as before.
This can be 100% true and still not be the right way to do things. For example, if the game decides you're playing below the skill rating it gives you, what's a better strategy?
1) gradually lower the rating until the player finally starts winning games consistently, and in the meantime have fun losing two-thirds of your matches or more;
2) lower the rating drastically, get placed with morons, outperform everyone, jump back up a few ranks; repeat until equilibrium is reached
Because I got hit hard with the first option and it really goddamned sucks.
This can be 100% true and still not be the right way to do things. For example, if the game decides you're playing below the skill rating it gives you, what's a better strategy?
1) gradually lower the rating until the player finally starts winning games consistently, and in the meantime have fun losing two-thirds of your matches or more;
2) lower the rating drastically, get placed with morons, outperform everyone, jump back up a few ranks; repeat until equilibrium is reached
Because I got hit hard with the first option and it really goddamned sucks.
I mean, they'll be slightly less useless. Maybe? If the healbox is anything like Hanzo, accuracy won't be a huge issue anyway.
Shake Appeal
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Unless I've missed something, they haven't done anything to remedy winning teams suffering as a result of rage- or spite-quitting.
Aaannnd there's no mention of the persistent bug with score counting on KotH maps in Quick Play.
Aaannnd there's no mention of the persistent bug with score counting on KotH maps in Quick Play.
Incredibly happy that they fixed the rejoin issue this quickly. That was breaking the back of at least one member of my group after it happened twice in one evening.
Although no change to the reduced competitive rank exp earned when a member of the same/opposing team leaves the game?
Although no change to the reduced competitive rank exp earned when a member of the same/opposing team leaves the game?
Shake Appeal
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I assume they're just tinkering with timings to try to get the results as close to 50/50 as possible on a map per map basis.
Kaplan explained what they're planning to do to dramatically reduce the incidence of sudden death in future (it's already a very rare event on 2CP maps), but it won't be ready for this season.
Environmental kills or a sweet sound barrier?
Stone Ocean
Member
So meta
Interfectum
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They might have stealth fixed winning XP?
http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20745706565
Hard to tell if troll or not. Can anyone confirm?
Edit, nvm, bullshit still in:
http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20745706565
Hard to tell if troll or not. Can anyone confirm?
Edit, nvm, bullshit still in:
Hopefully they do the logical thing and implement Stopwatch Rules when playing Payload maps. Sudden Death is such a BS way to end those matches.
Knocking people off the map in Li Jiang tower.
Someone in a game was trolling me yesterday by constantly switching to the same character I was. Like I picked Mercy, they did too. So I switched off to Junkrat. They immediately followed, leaving us with no healer. So I switched back. Then they did the same thing. This was all during setup. Even in the match whenever they died and I had switched they'd switch to follow me. This continued for the whole match.
I'm annoyed at how effective this was at annoying me.
I'm annoyed at how effective this was at annoying me.
rip zarya
If Sombra is a hard counter to Zarya, I will be the greatest Sombra on the planet.
God damn I hate that hero and their 'I have no real counter play except maybe Reaper if he can fulfill the Twelve Labours of Hercules'
The game doesn't suddenly "decide" you're not in your appropriate skill bracket, the matchmaker collects data and adjusts its evaluation of your skill level accordingly. That data is you playing matches.
StrangeTaco
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The more I play competitive the more disenchanted I am with it. Just had a group who all went 3 junkrats the entire game. Seriously if you're going to dick around with friends keep that in quick play so other people aren't affected by it. Asked politely for two of them to change and was quickly told to fuck off and that I'm an idiot. Not like this is a isolated incident either, I can count on one hand how many "good" games I've had where both teams where evenly balanced and felt like it was a fun game win or lose.
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