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Overwatch |OT5| 15 Million Strong, None Are On The Payload
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The Last Wizard
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Ya, really bad decision to remove it entirely. My first match back into quick play and the opposing team picks 5 tracers, I said fuck it and got off. I'll be back on season 2.
WaffleTaco
Wants to outlaw technological innovation.
Just longed and apparently my season high was 0 and my CP is 0...motherfuckers I did play...fuck off blizzard
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Just use those matches as practice. I can tell you from first hand experience that a team of tracers is excellent as target practice.
You still run into people that take it more seriously.
Newtype-001
Member
Check your hero gallery your cp should show where you can buy gold weapons
Atleast thats how it was for me when that showed up. Probably a bug showing we did nothing in comp
WaffleTaco
Wants to outlaw technological innovation.
Thanks for that! It makes me feel better lol. I was seriously quite angry for a moment.
2 swords mean 2 ults. Imagine a 12 sec Dragonblade ult.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Man, mei's ult feels soooooo good haha.
God it really punishes rein pushes.
God it really punishes rein pushes.
yeehamuffins
Member
Yeah, as someone who mostly quit on competitive a while back and just plays solo QP, I'd say about 1 in every 5 or 6 matches will have terrible stacking or just overall goofiness. But I still have some pretty damn fun competition on there a good portion of the time. Although nothing is more frustrating than being on a team that just can't deal with a double/triple Torbjorn stack, and still insist on playing the same characters even as they die to the turrets and generate Molten Core over and over again.
But I think I will give competitive a shot when Season 2 goes live. I like the whole tier system and not having to worry about slipping down into the dregs of low-ranked players if I have a bad run of games. Part of the reason I hated Season 1 was that dread of "If I win this match, I might go up a fraction of a level, but if I lose I'll end up slipping down even further into the 40s." New system looks a lot less stressful.
pinkurocket
Member
I'm only level 22 so I didn't get to play comp, but I feel now that the season is over the QP games have become quite different. More grouped up people and the games are more challenging.
Hellshingu
Member
This is part of the reason why I don't know if I want to get McCree's gold skin or now. I don't want to lose the murica gun when using that skin.
You can still switch between regular and golden weapons.
Hellshingu
Member
I know you can but what's the point of buying the skin just to switch it out is what I'm trying to get at.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Yeah america revolver is just too sweet.
Why would you want to replace that with a tacky golden gun?
Also lucio's soccer gun >>>>> golden gun.
Why would you want to replace that with a tacky golden gun?
Also lucio's soccer gun >>>>> golden gun.
Man this PTR weekly brawl features only female heroes allowed and it's a fucking nightmare on KOTH.
I got double tracers contesting points, double mercy with one of them doing the pharmercy combo, and alot of revivings. Double Symmetras with alot of turrets and portals with enemies coming in non stop and of course...Mei and her big ass radius ult freeze.
I got double tracers contesting points, double mercy with one of them doing the pharmercy combo, and alot of revivings. Double Symmetras with alot of turrets and portals with enemies coming in non stop and of course...Mei and her big ass radius ult freeze.
played a few placement matches on the PTR and I *love* the Mercy changes. people being able to act earlier after a res is a subtle but effective change.
i am still sad though since someone here got me hyped by the idea of a patch allowing targetless Guardian Angel, heh.
liked what i saw of the Mei ult change even though that was mostly from opponent's launching it on our team. the part i didn't expect was that i'm conditioned to guess when i'm probably okay based on the sounds of the ult going off, and i'd get caught by the edge of the thing while in a doorway or something. the ult still needs Mei's team to follow up and get kills, though.
i am still sad though since someone here got me hyped by the idea of a patch allowing targetless Guardian Angel, heh.
liked what i saw of the Mei ult change even though that was mostly from opponent's launching it on our team. the part i didn't expect was that i'm conditioned to guess when i'm probably okay based on the sounds of the ult going off, and i'd get caught by the edge of the thing while in a doorway or something. the ult still needs Mei's team to follow up and get kills, though.
toadsworth
Banned
I noticed this too! All my games yesterday were far closer than they were during the competitive season. Makes for some fun times.
Shake Appeal
Member
He just needs the triple jump back. Everything else is fine. I didn't even rely on the combo burst all that much before, and his ult is still gamechanging.
I also don't think people appreciated that the overall meta was helping Genji anyway. If Pharah, Winston and other tanks come back in more because of Discord nerf, and if Mei is actually viable in some ways, and if Mercy's buffed single-target heal makes ganking harder, Genji was going to suffer anyway. The Zencio meta particularly suited him.
NRG gonna win with 6 hanzos
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Like honestly, if ana is in play more, then genji will still see some use.
Also man, it'll be interesting to see how things go with mei, because now her ult punishes rein pushes HARD. She kinda used to do it with ice wall but now her ult can essentially break any positioning of the enemy team following rein. It'll be interesting to see how this changes deathball strats.
Also man, it'll be interesting to see how things go with mei, because now her ult punishes rein pushes HARD. She kinda used to do it with ice wall but now her ult can essentially break any positioning of the enemy team following rein. It'll be interesting to see how this changes deathball strats.
Newtype-001
Member
I was watching Seagull streaming and the guy fired his dragon and had his ult ready again in 11 seconds.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Man, Symm's never gonna get any kind of fix, is she? Major balance patch w/ season change and all she gets is some damn emote fixes.
RepairmanJack
Member
What needs fixed? She seems strong as hell but just too situational. If anything the distance of her auto aim needs a little nerfed.
Poodlestrike
Banned
"Situational" is kind of putting it lightly. She's got a tiny tiny tiny handful of spots (not maps, but spots on specific maps, and only playing Defense) where she's strong enough to merit a pick; under all other circumstances, she's an outright liability.
yeehamuffins
Member
Yeah, she used to be one of my mains until I realized just how limited she was. Hopefully she gets her turn on the buff rotation soon; with all the nerfs to Genji's movement coming down, it's going to be even easier for Sym to melt him down.
RepairmanJack
Member
Yeah I get what you mean but I feel like I'm those spots she's just too strong. But at the same time she will be completely useless on the new map with almost no choke points and too many paths open.
Maybe some kind of change to her right click?
My final match for comp was a match where I was McCree and I was getting flamed by my team and the enemy team for being in rank 27 and clearly not needing to be there, I guess they thought I was smurfing. All thanks to me running all of my placements as Lucio the first day and getting 8 of my 10 matches KotH.
Cheers to season two not being a complete **** show.
Cheers to season two not being a complete **** show.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I'm kind of of the opinion that she needs a dramatic rework, because you're right that an actual buff would make her wildly OP in her strong spots, but as it is right now she's simply nonexistent outside of them. Altering shields to be a flat % of health would be a good start, as would changing the way turrets work (maybe drop damage, up slowdown, and highlight enemies that are out of LoS?). Her ult needs a fair bit of tweaking too, as right now it's easily got the slowest effective chargerate in the game despite not being nearly that strong. About the only parts of her kit that I feel are working well are her primary and alt fire, which thread the needle of being strong, but with enough downsides to not be ridiculous.
Blak_Status
Member
I agree. Some characters are not ideal for offense but you can still use them and be somewhat effective. The one exception being Symmetra. Using her on offense is a death sentence. I definitely think she needs a buff.
Xamtheking
Member
Thank christ for no more double jump resets
I was just having fun last night for the final hours of Comp and some random messaged me and Vault with salty messages. Guess he still cared about winning lol
Kane Zakharov
Banned
Those beautiful Genji nerfs!
Made my day.
Made my day.
she needs a rework. her E is boring and not very good and the rest of her toolkit is too situational.
Pilgrimzero
Member
How cool would it be if Sym could place a small shield like Reins at a point or 2. Enough to cover 1 or 2 people. With maybe 200 hp.
After the McCree and Zen buffs, she kinda fell out of favour. They toned it down but McCree is still great at picking off people at the distances Pharah flies and Zen lives long enough for the discord orb to do its job as well.
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Exploratory
Banned
Honestly? Good. Roadhog is the worst designed hero in the game. I don't get why everyone hated launch McCree but Roadhog one shotting most players from a distance is totally ok.
optimus8936
Banned
Except he can only one shot people at 150 or 200 health, and some 200 health people he can't one shot, so I'd say, maybe 10 or so of the cast, which isn't that bad. Also, what's wrong with one shotting from a distance? Widow and Hanzo do it way more than Hog does. This bug for Roadhog basically makes him unplayable as his whole kit revolves around being able to one shot people off of hook.
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