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[DevilDog]

Second last game I captured today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2ATIIcad0Q
It's a loss and longer than the others I posted so lots of critique please.
The game was pretty much just a mess. At one point my team uses 5 ults at once, I nano a Lucio and pretty much everytime I sleep dart a nano boosted target they get woken up straight away, so pretty frustrating match.

You got bad teammates. Nothing really bad stands out from your side except from your lack of communication.

If you don't want teammates shooting at nano boosted targets better call it over voice comms that you're about to sleep him. For many heroes it takes time from clicking the mouse to actually damaging the enemy.

Also, in general since you're in the back line you should tell your teammates when to group up and when to fall back. You shouldn't hold so forward in Dorado and you should always pick the high ground if you have that option.
It's easy to lose track of everyone if you're a tank or dps.

 

[Laputa_94]

The don't think Tracer does that, except maybe in that parody movie.

 

[optimus8936]

You know I wonder if Sombras hacking abilities will involve giving a negative effect to enemies and the other ability would be giving her teammates a positive effect.

And then maybe her ult multiplies it???

Or maybe her ult hacks her gun making it do crazy shit.

 

[Hellix]

Why do these dickheads exist in comp? He just camped in spawn since the beginning of the game. Fucking frustrating.

 

[xaosslug]

You know I wonder if Sombras hacking abilities will involve giving a negative effect to enemies and the other ability would be giving her teammates a positive effect.

And then maybe her ult multiplies it???

Or maybe her ult hacks her gun making it do crazy shit.

Sombra's ult can hack enemies revealing who is about to have/has ult up by %... sort of like Widowmaker's sight...

 

[optimus8936]

Guy saying Genji needs a buff because he can't kill healers XD

 

[DevilDog]

You know I wonder if Sombras hacking abilities will involve giving a negative effect to enemies and the other ability would be giving her teammates a positive effect.

And then maybe her ult multiplies it???

Or maybe her ult hacks her gun making it do crazy shit.

Sombra's ult is the ability to imitate any other character's ult.

 

[Skii]

Did another hour on the practice range today and my left hand is killing me. Genji on PC is no joke and constantly needing to press shift is hurting my hand lol. Does everyone do hand exercises or is there something wrong with me?

 

[UltimaPooh]

PS4 GAFers...

We currently have a 4 stack going if you wana join.

 

[DevilDog]

Did another hour on the practice range today and my left hand is killing me. Genji on PC is no joke and constantly needing to press shift is hurting my hand lol. Does everyone do hand exercises or is there something wrong with me?

How exactly do you place your hand on the keyboard?

Also if it isn't convenient, just rebind it to another one. Maybe switch it to Q and bind the ultimate to another key.

 

[Blues1990]

Why do these dickheads exist in comp? He just camped in spawn since the beginning of the game. Fucking frustrating.

Okay, Blizzard REALLY needs to up the penalty for players that quit, harass, or just perform stupid stunts like this.

 

[Jellie]

You got bad teammates. Nothing really bad stands out from your side except from your lack of communication.

If you don't want teammates shooting at nano boosted targets better call it over voice comms that you're about to sleep him. For many heroes it takes time from clicking the mouse to actually damaging the enemy.

Also, in general since you're in the back line you should tell your teammates when to group up and when to fall back. You shouldn't hold so forward in Dorado and you should always pick the high ground if you have that option.
It's easy to lose track of everyone if you're a tank or dps.

The mic I used on PS4 doesn't work properly on my PC for some reason. It's really quiet and if I amp up the volume it also amps static up so not really usable. Might have to buy a new mic soon.

Did another hour on the practice range today and my left hand is killing me. Genji on PC is no joke and constantly needing to press shift is hurting my hand lol. Does everyone do hand exercises or is there something wrong with me?

I did have some cramps when I moved from PS4 too but not because of shift, though I haven't played genji yet.

 

[DevilDog]

The mic I used on PS4 doesn't work properly on my PC for some reason. It's really quiet and if I amp up the volume it also amps static up so not really usable. Might have to buy a new mic soon.

On the bottom right corner of the screen there should be a speaker icon. Right click and go to Recording devices. Find your microphone, right click and select properties, turn your microphone level to 100.

 

[Jellie]

On the bottom right corner of the screen there should be a speaker icon. Right click and go to Recording devices. Find your microphone, right click and select properties, turn your microphone level to 100.

That's what I mean by when I amp it up.

 

[DevilDog]

That's what I mean by when I amp it up.

Ok I thought you just boosted it and it came out distorted.

 

[Skii]

How exactly do you place your hand on the keyboard?

Also if it isn't convenient, just rebind it to another one. Maybe switch it to Q and bind the ultimate to another key.

Index finger on D, middle finger on W/S, ring finger on A, pinky on shift and thumb on space bar. And then I use index for E and ring for Q. Is that how I'm supposed to do it?

I've also rebinded reload and melee to the mouse buttons. I might test my abilities or there next.

I did have some cramps when I moved from PS4 too but not because of shift, though I haven't played genji yet.

Yeah maybe my hands just cramping from WASD movement. Did you get over it? Or are you still getting pain/cramp?

 

[ohkay]

Did another hour on the practice range today and my left hand is killing me. Genji on PC is no joke and constantly needing to press shift is hurting my hand lol. Does everyone do hand exercises or is there something wrong with me?

What fingers do you place on which keys? Took me a little bit to readjust to Genji on PC vs PS4 (though getting used to Tracer took longer), but I've also played a fair amount of shooters on PC

Edit:

Index finger on D, middle finger on W/S, ring finger on A, pinky on shift and thumb on space bar. And then I use index for E and ring for Q. Is that how I'm supposed to do it?

Those are the normal finger positions so maybe it's just a matter of getting used to using those finger muscles more

 

[Data West]

What do you suggest they animate ?

 

[Jellie]

Ok I thought you just boosted it and it came out distorted.

Boosted it and put the levels to 100. I might try fiddling with some more settings later.

Index finger on D, middle finger on W/S, ring finger on A, pinky on shift and thumb on space bar. And then I use index for E and ring for Q. Is that how I'm supposed to do it?

I've also rebinded reload and melee to the mouse buttons. I might test my abilities or there next.



Yeah maybe my hands just cramping from WASD movement. Did you get over it? Or are you still getting pain/cramp?

I got over it within a week I think. Mine was my right hand with the mouse. I also bought a bigger mouse pad so that might have helped me since I no longer used my wrist to aim.

 

[DevilDog]

Index finger on D, middle finger on W/S, ring finger on A, pinky on shift and thumb on space bar. And then I use index for E and ring for Q. Is that how I'm supposed to do it?

I've also rebinded reload and melee to the mouse buttons. I might test my abilities or there next.



Yeah maybe my hands just cramping from WASD movement. Did you get over it? Or are you still getting pain/cramp?

Yeah thats pretty legit. The only thing I would recommend is that you place your fingers like how pianists do it. At least that is how I did it.

Hope this helps, different people have different preferences though when it comes to it.

 

[optimus8936]

Sombra's ult is the ability to imitate any other character's ult.

That would be so OP.....

I want to see that in action lol.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

Sombra's ult should just be to kill Genji

Like wherever he is in the map

He just dies

 

[Azoor]

She should carry a laptop with her and smack people with it then

 

[Skii]

What fingers do you place on which keys? Took me a little bit to readjust to Genji on PC vs PS4 (though getting used to Tracer took longer), but I've also played a fair amount of shooters on PC

Edit:
Those are the normal finger positions so maybe it's just a matter of getting used to using those finger muscles more

I got over it within a week I think. Mine was my right hand with the mouse. I also bought a bigger mouse pad so that might have helped me since I no longer used my wrist to aim.

Yeah thats pretty legit. The only thing I would recommend is that you place your fingers like how pianists do it. At least that is how I did it.

Hope this helps, different people have different preferences though when it comes to it.

Alright thanks guys. Since I can finally start playing QP on Tuesday, I'll probably get used to it with more game time. Maybe I should lay off Genji for now though lol.

That would be so OP.....

I want to see that in action lol.

Maybe she could imitate the opponents last ultimate? That could be pretty cool.

 

[Data West]

Sombra's ult should just be to kill Genji

Like wherever he is in the map

He just dies

nah they should make her actually useful and make it so zarya dies

 

[OdysseusVA]

mei should just die

 

[optimus8936]

Maybe she could imitate the opponents last ultimate? That could be pretty cool.

But imagine having two graviton surges available, or two nano boosts, or really two of anything.

Sombra would be picked more than Lucio if that happened lol.

 

[LiK]

Healing it doesn't make sense either, to be fair.

Nanomachines!

 

[Garrett Hawke]

nah they should make her actually useful and make it so zarya dies

true tbh

mei should just die

what if sombra just picks someone from the enemy team to kill

the griefing potential...

 

[xaosslug]

Second last game I captured today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2ATIIcad0Q
It's a loss and longer than the others I posted so lots of critique please.
The game was pretty much just a mess. At one point my team uses 5 ults at once, I nano a Lucio and pretty much everytime I sleep dart a nano boosted target they get woken up straight away, so pretty frustrating match.

hmm, something I noticed was that when you prioritized healing your teammates/sleeping imminent threats y'all did well in your little skirms, but when you went for kills and healing was secondary that's when things usually went sideways, and by the time you went back to healing your teammates there was usually only 1-2 left and y'all would get overwhelmed. Also, very bad payload management. Y'all would abandon it to chase kills too many times.

that said you have great aim (some nice, clutch sleep darting!) and the grenade in Zarya's graviton surge was awesome. xD

 

[OdysseusVA]

true tbh

what if sombra just picks someone from the enemy team to kill

the griefing potential...

To kill? Or to control? They're a passenger now.
Mei would actually be useful


Hire me, Blizz!

 

[Azoor]

Nanomachines!

Never thought this image would be applicable to the lore of Overwatch.

 

[xaosslug]

how come from Zarya's POV she's punching when melee, but you see her hitting you w/ her cannon?

 

[Garrett Hawke]

how come from Zarya's POV she's punching when melee, but you see her hitting you w/ her cannon?

just different first and third person animations

like how genji's third person model does a flip while double jumping but the player doesn't see anything like that

 

[DevilDog]

Never thought this image would be applicable to the lore of Overwatch.

Now there's a pretty meme

 

[Jellie]

hmm, something I noticed was that when you prioritized healing your teammates/sleeping imminent threats y'all did well in your little skirms, but when you went for kills and healing was secondary that's when things usually went sideways, and by the time you went back to healing your teammates there was usually only 1-2 left and y'all would get overwhelmed. Also, very bad payload management. Y'all would abandon it to chase kills too many times.

that said you have great aim (some nice, clutch sleep darting!) and the grenade in Zarya's graviton surge was awesome. xD

Decided to check and my quick play stats show my healing is around double my damage but in comp its even. Probably because want to get more SR for wins by getting more kills I guess. But yeah should focus on healing more thanks.

The whole game was a mess. Everyone was running around everywhere.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Motherfucker, i kinda hate hanamura now because when i do play there i pull out mei, get a draw more often than not and that registers as a loss on overbuff.

 

[Wyndstryker]

Second last game I captured today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2ATIIcad0Q
It's a loss and longer than the others I posted so lots of critique please.
The game was pretty much just a mess. At one point my team uses 5 ults at once, I nano a Lucio and pretty much everytime I sleep dart a nano boosted target they get woken up straight away, so pretty frustrating match.

Yeah, that game is mostly bad teammates. Although a few things to add on top of what I said earlier.

-There were a few moments where I'm wondering why you zoomed in at midrange when being engaged directly. The speed loss while in zoom hurts a lot more than the potential accuracy gain. You probably had a better chance at landing 2 hip shots in the time of the zoomed shot.

Regarding the zoom, the moment that really struck me was zoom shots into Reins shield at the start. I know we just shoot in the shield to weaken it. But there is really no advantage to a zoom shot into the shield. Just hip fire it, and you keep larger situational awareness and mobility. You did that later in the match so it's probably not entirely a habit yet.

 

[Veelk]

Motherfucker, i kinda hate hanamura now because when i do play there i pull out mei, get a draw more often than not and that registers as a loss on overbuff.

Your solution is obvious. Don't use Mei.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Your solution is obvious. Don't use Mei.

But then I'll actually lose, because man, she can be an adorable nightmare on hanamura.

I just need to get my teammates to actually learn how to bait out the enemy mei's ice wall.

 

[Jellie]

Yeah, that game is mostly bad teammates. Although a few things to add on top of what I said earlier.

-There were a few moments where I'm wondering why you zoomed in at midrange when being engaged directly. The speed loss while in zoom hurts a lot more than the potential accuracy gain. You probably had a better chance at landing 2 hip shots in the time of the zoomed shot.

Regarding the zoom, the moment that really struck me was zoom shots into Reins shield at the start. I know we just shoot in the shield to weaken it. But there is really no advantage to a zoom shot into the shield. Just hip fire it, and you keep larger situational awareness and mobility. You did that later in the match so it's probably not entirely a habit yet.

I tend to zoom if there are people near the shield. If on my team so I can heal them quickly and if on their team might be able to kill them if another person is shooting at them. Though I don't really think about it too much. In a 1 v 1 though yeah it's better to hip fire. I'm just not confortable yet due to it being projectile. Eg the reaper at the beginning I tried scope but had to run so hip fired. Missed most of the shots but got away.

 

[Wyndstryker]

A lot of things that are sniper habits work if you're WM. But Ana is so unconventional that it takes time to realize these things, which work for every other sniper out there doesn't work for Ana.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

Win a hard-fought 3-2 KOTH on Lijiang, go 58-9, get play of the game. Feels like a good place to stop.

I'm up 50 points on the day, mostly just playing Mei. Because fuck everybody, that's why.

 

[Majine]

Are they waiting for Blizzcon to announce Sombra? 💤

 

[Nuno Pinto]

Thx for the diamond guys, I was hearing you in chat

GGs on KOTH, that 1st round in Lijiang I changed to Genji because I was thinking the other dude wanted to play Lucio since that was is most played character on par with Zarya.

Vault, it felt great being nanoboosted as Lucio xD
I've seen that happen so many times lol, it' really bad luck. Have you tried to map that ability to L3 instead of /\? It's where I use it and it feels very intuitive.

 

[Red Arremer]

Are they waiting for Blizzcon to announce Sombra? 💤

I honestly do not think so. The timer on the moment in crime site ends October 16/17. Expect something to happen there.

 

[Data West]

Sombra should be able to hack DVa's mech and fly it off ledges

 

[Veelk]

You know, I don't think that Sombra will be another support character, but she'd actually be pretty clutch if she reset the cooldowns on other members abilities or accelerated other Ult build up. That's the only thing that I can think that would make sense with her hacker motif other than specifically targetting mechanically inclined players, like D.Va, Genji and Zenyatta which I don't think is gonna be something Blizzard plans on doing.

 

[Jellie]

Final game I managed to record today. Thanks everyone who gave critique on previous ones. This one is Zarya so more exciting than Ana everytime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti1CeAZNo2A

 

[Wyndstryker]

I'd say she's a defense char .

I actually hope she has some really unique mechanic like a bomb that prevents ult from charging.