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Overwatch |OT5| 15 Million Strong, None Are On The Payload
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DevilDog
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The summer games already changed everything.
Jup, nice start. Thought I was gonna wash away that 20 game lose streak or whatever it was from yesterday. Start up the game, click competitive, get thrown into a game right away. Then the character select screen loads up without the hud. None of the keys works, can't click or do anything, just had to wait till the game kicked me for inactivity. Another 40 rank points down the drain.
Thanks Obama.
xaosslug
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Delete this post.
finalflame
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¯\_(ツ_/¯
Neat, from this reaction I can tell the kind of player you are. Just happy I'll never have to encounter you on PC.
xaosslug
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i don't think so... Blizz will probably just nerf her survivability and give her 350 health and 50 shield, or something. Maybe, up the cooldown for her buddy-bubble 10 seconds.
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You're literally asking for Zarya to be stripped of everything that makes her Zarya and for her to be worthless. She needs that many shields and her buddy bubble is her main source of energy. Nerfing these will kill her.i don't think so... Blizz will probably just nerf her survivability and give her 350 health and 50 shield, or something. Maybe, up the cooldown for her buddy-bubble 10 seconds.
¯_(ツ
i'm okay with Draws more than SD. at least still earn some CP and the matches aren't insanely long as hell.
finalflame
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I have faith that Blizzard does not listen to the stupid opinions, and most of their adjustments are based on statistical gameplay data. I don't personally think Zarya's head is on the chopping block, but even if they do adjust anything, it certainly won't be her shield, or her survivability goes to shit. She needs to be able to enter the fray and start taking hits before activating her barrier to be most effective, and the shield regen makes that manageable.
She'll be fine.
xaosslug
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i'm not asking for anything, merely predicting what Blizz will do to 'balance' her.
KINGofCRA5H
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How do I git gud with Zarya?
finalflame
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Learn to use/time your barrier and the projectile barrier for high energy, turn on allied health bars for sick saves with projectile barrier, learn the drop off on her cannon projectiles so you lob them where you want, learn the range on her beam, lower sensitivity and get good at tracking enemies with your cursor (PC) or depend on auto-aim crutch (console). Also be aware that her barrier cleanses discord and Mei freeze and will absorb up to 200 damage.
Play conservatively unless your barrier is up. When your barrier is up, walk into the fray and activate it, even if it means losing a few shield HP. It'll regen. When your team pushes, be at high energy and fuck shit up hard.
Also call out your ult and stack it with other ults like Genji/Pharah/Tracer for maximum team-wipe-ability.
optimus8936
Banned
Blizz ain't that stupid. They designed Zarya for a sole purpose and those nerfs kill that purpose. They wouldn't want to kill the reason they made her in the first place.
I'm starting to feel like I called it by saying that we are slowly going to nerf everything into oblivion that is either hard to kill or kills a lot. Genji got butchered. Next is Zarya. Then they'll nerf Tracer. Then people will get them to nerf Roadhog for stupid reasons. Then Hanzo will get nerfed again. Then Lucio. Then Mercy. Then Zen again, and on and on it goes.
Nuno Pinto
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Shitty timing for PSN maintenance...
GGs joninder and undignify!
Yup, you disappeared from my social list and when I tried to see my friends on PSN it didn't even load anyone.
GGs joninder and undignify!
Yup, you disappeared from my social list and when I tried to see my friends on PSN it didn't even load anyone.
optimus8936
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Because it's his fucking ability?
I thought people were ok with this because it was an "easy ult battery"
Seriously, he's a sitting duck like this. Majority of times I heal in the middle of a team fight, I have less health than before I healed, and 9/10 times, you're dead before you can respond.
That's usually a bad play since he's just feeding ult to people. He needs to heal in a decent spot, and ideally 180 so his head isn't easy to hit.
Yeah just got hit with it. It was 5 v 2 at one point. Poor Lucio wall riding everywhere trying not to die.Shitty timing for PSN maintenance...
GGs joninder and undignify!
Yup, you disappeared from my social list and when I tried to see my friends on PSN it didn't even load anyone.
Shake Appeal
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Like I said after the Genji nerfs were announced, one day we really will all be Soldiers.
Garrett Hawke
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give it a few mins
it's there. all the maps are. rotation is fucked cuz they quit you out of searching after each match.
There is something really weird with the map rotation in this game. I go a long time without seeing certain maps and it feels like specific days keep throwing me on the same handful.
people literally admit they shoot at genji when he has his reflect up standing right in front of them and get mad that the shots go back and kill them
u think overwatch players have the self control to not shoot zaryas bubbles to the point that shes max charged the moment she leaves spawn? LUL
u think overwatch players have the self control to not shoot zaryas bubbles to the point that shes max charged the moment she leaves spawn? LUL
xaosslug
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the same can be said about all the characters they've nerfed so far, LOL Genji's been nerfed into oblivion because they 'fixed' all the 'bugs' and Hanzo was perfectly fine before they reverted the projectile hitbox, likewise Mei was great before the ridiculous ult buff... now they're monsters for no reason.
y'all just wait.
give it a few mins
finalflame
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It is, and most people insist on trying to push through the tiny choke with the payload instead of going around the side stairs and flanking. Go figure.
Have you played since the Genji "nerfs"? He's still absolutely fine, extremely powerful, but just more balanced. Same with Hanzo -- with the faster projectile speed, he's still a great hero.
The Mei buff I have a hard time defending, but it's not the end of the world. I feel they'll come back and nerf the radius by 1m or so.
KINGofCRA5H
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Awesome advice dude. Didn't know any of that. Thanks!
optimus8936
Banned
LOL, what? Hanzo was terrible before the buff. He was just as useless as Bastion. F-- tier lol.
Also, the hitbox changes help Mei waaay more than the ult buff imo.
Out of all the nerfs and buffs lately, I think the only poor decision was taking Genji's triple jump away. They'll give it back to him eventually I feel.
Isn't the hitbox change just a revert to what it was before when she wasn't used much either?
Took a while because of work, but I finally finished my placements!
Also I got a question. Sometimes during my placements I would see people with silver logos like the one beside my sr. What does that mean?
The logo is the tier you are in (platinum, 2500-2999) the next one up is diamond (3000-3499) and the one below is gold (2000-2499).
sounds good to me
It is but you could argue the nerfs to zen/lucio slowing things down a bit also just make the old mei better too.
Took a while because of work, but I finally finished my placements!
Also I got a question. Sometimes during my placements I would see people with silver logos like the one beside my sr. What does that mean?
you're in the Platinum tier.
optimus8936
Banned
Yeah, the power of Lucios speed boost kind of nullified Meis freeze and she usually got overwhelmed because of this. Same reason Symm was mostly ignored because you could just speed boost past her turrets and she couldn't build ult as fast.
And yeah, Zen beats Mei as long as she doesn't get too close to freeze him and usually Zens are in the back lines so this is very hard for her.
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