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Vault Dweller 111
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At this point I would exclusively play Ana if it were socially acceptable.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Tracer is kinda a 50/50 thing. Being able to one-shot her can makes tracers very skittish. And you should be able to one-shot her. Not about luck either. Get good with your icicles. One of the best projectile in the game as far as speed and trajectory goes.
How is zen a strong counter?
Pharah should not be losing to mei 1v1 (though I've met a lot of shitty pharahs)
Reaper depends on which range the engagements starts.
Funnily enough mei is used more now because she is pretty good at locking down tanks so the team can finish them off without them getting ana healed, so she's considered to be their counter, but yeah, don't go 1v1ing tanks.
Widow counters her only in that she can counter any character that can't reach her easily or quickly get in her range, but mei can block LoS. Same deal with hanzo really, I really don't see how both of them are specifically hard counters.
How is zen a strong counter?
Pharah should not be losing to mei 1v1 (though I've met a lot of shitty pharahs)
Reaper depends on which range the engagements starts.
Funnily enough mei is used more now because she is pretty good at locking down tanks so the team can finish them off without them getting ana healed, so she's considered to be their counter, but yeah, don't go 1v1ing tanks.
Widow counters her only in that she can counter any character that can't reach her easily or quickly get in her range, but mei can block LoS. Same deal with hanzo really, I really don't see how both of them are specifically hard counters.
Hurt and Scared
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At least speaking from personal experience the only characters on that list that give me any problems as mei are pharah and tracer never really had any problems with the rest my biggest problems as mei happen when it's a two on one situation I personally think mei is one of the best at one on one encounters
Did you go back to comp after I left? How did you do?
Vault Dweller 111
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Me Badboy TJ and Owzers plays some QP then when Badboy and Owzers left we played 1 king of the hill comp game. Eeked out a win, after I made some really bad misplays we pulled it together at the end with LRG and TJ on the supports.
Decided to end on that high note.
A mei that stays with her team is freaking annoying. And yea I usually run away when having to face a mei 1v1.
Permanently A
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Widow scope time buff and Ana ult nerf + biotic grenade range buff
Some balance changes to ana, junkrat and someone else, it's in the patch notes
Newtype-001
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Played 1 match this morming and Anas ult charge didnt feel very different tbh.
Vault Dweller 111
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I noticed it a lot playing her a ton today.
I need to stop just blowing my ult as soon as I get it because now it might be awhile before I have another. That being said, some good tank healing can still charge it crazy fast.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
The grenade buff honestly negates the ult charge nerf.
Vault Dweller 111
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Yea the grenade is even better now.
No way the 'nerf' keeps her out of the pro meta either.
Red Arremer
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Your best option is to sit on the ultimate until the enemy team does a group push.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Or get a zarya.
Red Arremer
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Zarya's ult doesn't help if the enemies trickle in 1 by 1 or something like that.
But yeah, if you have a friend who is willing to help you with achievements, having them play Zarya and set you up for ults is the easiest way to get those "kill X amount of people with your ult" achievements on every hero.
I play for my throphies in QP. I don't want to annoy others, and myself, with an insta-pick Bastion. Even on Attack.
Altough I couldn't keep my attack Bastion when somebody called me out on it. I'm not that kind of person.
But I rarely run into tight groups in QP. It's more individuals running around.
So sorry
But I rarely run into tight groups in QP. It's more individuals running around.
Stop engaging Mei 1 vs 1.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Man.
Tumblr going crazy over all the gay shipping potential in the new update.
Tumblr going crazy over all the gay shipping potential in the new update.
When people talk about Mei I'm always split. I hate running in to her, but on the other hand she is not that OP if you play it smart. If you are with teammates and she put's herself in Ice there is no way she gonna survive when she comes out.
One thing I really would consider tho is making her magazine size a bit smaller. Maybe make the Icicle darts consume less to compensate.
One thing I really would consider tho is making her magazine size a bit smaller. Maybe make the Icicle darts consume less to compensate.
Red Arremer
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The only thing that I find obnoxious about Mei is her ult's massive radius. Beyond that, I never had any issues with her. Stay away from her and she barely will hurt you.
Eh?
Eh?
Don Draper's Hat
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No way? Really? You can shoot the wall?! What with? Like a gun or something?
The post I was replying to said that after Mei has used her Ice Block there's no escape for her. Which is untrue.
Jimnymebob
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I got it over the weekend on Hollywood attack near where you deliver the payload too, because I killed 3, then a Mercy resurrected her team, so I got 5 in total.
I've had good luck with the Halloween lootboxes though. I got Symmetra's victory pose in my free one, and Junkenstein and Antique Bastion in my second.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Mccree asking Hanzo out for a drink and junkrat caressing roadhog's belly in the main image.
Newtype-001
Member
Hanzo and Mccree and bros from across the globe fam.
DevilDog
Member
He asked Hanzo to take a sip of his sake, he didn't ask him out on a romantic date.
Not that it this will stop them. Tumblr people are crazeh.
MarioHead3
Banned
And we aren't?
DevilDog
Member
Salty all the time. No room for crazy.
MarioHead3
Banned
It's never stopped me.
TheLetdown
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Early morning randoms on the PvE. Absolutely slayed it.
We almost had the no damage win but one tire slipped by with a sliver of health. No other wall damage.
We almost had the no damage win but one tire slipped by with a sliver of health. No other wall damage.
Red Arremer
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So I've been thinking about the future of the seasonal content in regards to content from the previous year(s). How do you guys think Blizzard will proceed?
Here's the options I thought of that they can go with. I do believe that next summer, they'll make all Summer Games 2016 items available for credits as well, mind you, but I'm thinking about box contents here.
1.) They just keep adding new stuff to the same boxes. This will probably mean that there won't be ~100 items each year, but that every subsequent year will have small amounts of new items (probably in the ballpark of 20-40 if I had to guess), most of which will be catching up with new heroes that had been released since the past year. However, within a few years, that would also lead to content overflow, where if you've been playing the game since the start, you would mostly get duplicates, and the new items would be really difficult to get.
2.) They make an entirely new set of boxes for subsequent years with all new content. Older years' boxes can be bought with $ or exchanged for with the current year's box (since you could exchange summer crates for normal ones, the mechanics for such a system are already in place as well).
3.) A mix of both of the above: They exchange the low commodity items (white/blue tiers) for new ones, but keep the high commodity ones (purple/gold tiers) in the new boxes. If you really want that BMX Reaper Spray or that RIP Tracer victory pose, you can still grab them for credits, but they are not going to drop from boxes.
Personally I think that 1 could happen next year, but Blizzard getting a lot of backlash because of the duplicate rate for older players in particular, and down the road, option 2 is the most likely.
Here's the options I thought of that they can go with. I do believe that next summer, they'll make all Summer Games 2016 items available for credits as well, mind you, but I'm thinking about box contents here.
1.) They just keep adding new stuff to the same boxes. This will probably mean that there won't be ~100 items each year, but that every subsequent year will have small amounts of new items (probably in the ballpark of 20-40 if I had to guess), most of which will be catching up with new heroes that had been released since the past year. However, within a few years, that would also lead to content overflow, where if you've been playing the game since the start, you would mostly get duplicates, and the new items would be really difficult to get.
2.) They make an entirely new set of boxes for subsequent years with all new content. Older years' boxes can be bought with $ or exchanged for with the current year's box (since you could exchange summer crates for normal ones, the mechanics for such a system are already in place as well).
3.) A mix of both of the above: They exchange the low commodity items (white/blue tiers) for new ones, but keep the high commodity ones (purple/gold tiers) in the new boxes. If you really want that BMX Reaper Spray or that RIP Tracer victory pose, you can still grab them for credits, but they are not going to drop from boxes.
Personally I think that 1 could happen next year, but Blizzard getting a lot of backlash because of the duplicate rate for older players in particular, and down the road, option 2 is the most likely.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Personally hoping they do lunar new year too. Game seems pretty big in China and Korea.
Qipao mei.
Qipao mei.
Red Arremer
Member
I feel like Lunar Year might be a tad too regionally specific to have a whole event based on it, but I can definitely see them doing a couple skins and stuff to tie into it, maybe even a Brawl.
We've also had a discussion in the OW-GAF Discord about how many seasonal events Blizzard might be doing, and in what time distance. While I personally think they'll stick with one every ~3 months for each 'proper' season of the year (Easter or just generic Spring stuff, Summer Games, Halloween, Christmas), someone suggested that they might be doing a seasonal event every 2 months.
It kind of would line up (Christmas/New Years for Dec, Valentine's/Lunar New Year/Mardi Gras for Feb, Easter for April, whatever the fuck for June, return of Summer Games in Aug and thus the wheel begins anew), but I feel like that might be a tad overkill.
We've also had a discussion in the OW-GAF Discord about how many seasonal events Blizzard might be doing, and in what time distance. While I personally think they'll stick with one every ~3 months for each 'proper' season of the year (Easter or just generic Spring stuff, Summer Games, Halloween, Christmas), someone suggested that they might be doing a seasonal event every 2 months.
It kind of would line up (Christmas/New Years for Dec, Valentine's/Lunar New Year/Mardi Gras for Feb, Easter for April, whatever the fuck for June, return of Summer Games in Aug and thus the wheel begins anew), but I feel like that might be a tad overkill.
5 Voice lines, 2 sprays for me so far. I hate you by the way.
I don' hate you, I am just extremely jealous. T-T
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
To be fair it is region specific, but it's region specific to 2 of the biggest markets for overwatch.
broncobuster
Banned
On hard I'm able to reach Junkrat making an appearance but then Reaper comes in and it all goes bad.
DevilDog
Member
Use ana boost on mcree. Then use dead eye and reaper is pretty much nearly one shot.
Jimnymebob
Member
I nearly beat medium on my first try with Ana, but everything went downhill once I killed Mercy. The Soldier on my team was on point though with his heals.
I tried playing as Hanzo and McRee, but people don't seem to realise that Ana can stop healers from healing.
I tried playing as Hanzo and McRee, but people don't seem to realise that Ana can stop healers from healing.
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