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Overwatch |OT8| Our love will last Pharah-ver
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Shake Appeal
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The coming patch will probably shake things up more than the last one did.
Revenge of the Bastion Mains.
Current meta is pretty decent after the nerfs went live. With Roadhog's hook nerf coming soon, it should be even better for season 4 even without the new hero.
Yeah I don't think they've been nerfed/buffed since the game was released. They are also probably the hardest characters to buff/nerf without ruining the game lol.
I believe Tracer, Reaper, and Rein haven't been changed at all.
Hanzo has only had the speed of his arrows buffed slightly. Junkrat has only had the casting speed of his Ult sped up slightly.
Ended season 3 on 3222, reached a high of 3266 and started from around 2500 , very satisfied. I think I could reach masters next season. The more I think about it the more I believe my new PC might have helped me, going from my old gaming laptop where I was between 30-60 fps with the occasional frame drop to buttery smooth 144 fps on my 144Hz screen is a world of difference, especially in big team fights. The game also looks amazing on higher settings. Now I also have 4500 competitive points to spend and I don't even like the golden weapons, might do a troll pick like a golden Torb hammer of a golden Mercy staff or a
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On current Spidertanks events, I just want more lore, less events, more lore, more comics and an artbook please.
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On current Spidertanks events, I just want more lore, less events, more lore, more comics and an artbook please.
LumpOfCole
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I'm getting the feeling that Eli Oladele was written to be sacrificed / killed. I think she builds a robot thing, Talon tries to take the robot thing, Reaper kills Eli ("Nothing personnel, kid."), and the robot thing goes berserk in avenging Eli.
Tracer hasn't been touched at all.
finalflame
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There's zero chance Blizzard is going to kill a kid.
Karsticles
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The only change I really want for the game right now is everyone getting max abilities. It really bothers me when I play Reaper and my right-click does nothing, or that Mercy has no E ability.
Shake Appeal
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Pro Reapers know to bind the clap emote to RMB.
Nocturnowl
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You'd think a match where the only hook is on your team would be free from hook salt but nope!
D-Va drops a D-Va bomb in one of the Lijiang control center lobbies where its stopped by the front desk leaving it pretty ineffectual, I dart to the stairwell, a soldier opposite hides behind the statue, Zen and Roadhog are already outside the front door, safe.
EXCEPT Roadhog has to have his heroic martyr moment and decides to hook the thing a second before it explodes, dragging it over the front desk straight into all four of our sightlines and thus we all got nuked.
I almost never spam THANKS in a passive aggressive manner but by god he flippin' earned it.
D-Va drops a D-Va bomb in one of the Lijiang control center lobbies where its stopped by the front desk leaving it pretty ineffectual, I dart to the stairwell, a soldier opposite hides behind the statue, Zen and Roadhog are already outside the front door, safe.
EXCEPT Roadhog has to have his heroic martyr moment and decides to hook the thing a second before it explodes, dragging it over the front desk straight into all four of our sightlines and thus we all got nuked.
I almost never spam THANKS in a passive aggressive manner but by god he flippin' earned it.
Pro Winstons bind hello to right click.
And the peanut butter emote to left click.
Pro Mei's have Sorry on the scroll wheel and Ameizing on q.
Nocturnowl
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Paltheos
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I admit it - I'm one of those guys. I play allot of Roadhog, and every once in a while, like 1 in a 100 Dva bombs, I'll have an enormous brain fat and leap from "Dva ulted!" to "I MUST HOOK!" There's no solid rationale, and the feeling I experience may just barely last long enough to qualify as panic. My brain just correlates hooking a threat to safety and tells me to hit Shift before it's too late.
The 2 or 3 times I've done this, to all my teammates, I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.
I feel like Bastion is going to have the same issues even after a buff.
He's going to be overpowered at low levels, and under utilized at higher levels where people exploit his lack of mobility.
I was fine with Blizzard just leaving him as a joke character.
Nocturnowl
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It's understandable, basically like a variant of the classic "i'm helping!" Mei wall, sometimes the best intentions go sour like when a D.Va Bomb dropped in front of me, Rein stands in the way with his shield up and for some reason I decide "I'm gonna wall that as well!" except I clip Rein with the wall hoisting him above so that even his shield can't protect his exposed toes from eating the explosion, I actually sent an apologetic message after that blunder.
But I just had to vent it this time, not helped that the match also contained point where I was being pursued manically by Genji as I guardian angel and run past 4 teammates from the front no less while eating shurikens in my spine and not a single one even so much as glances at my predicament, should've stuck with Lucio but I got tired of them asking for healing while I'm standing there with the heal on like "well this is all you can get right now".
hanzo's arrow hitbox has been adjusted twice i think, a nerf then a buff
Well Reaper definitely does if he continues to be this useless into season 4. But I understand it's difficult to adjust someone like Reaper or Reinhardt without breaking the character or making them just flat out OP.
i think the bastion changes could be significant, people underestimated the recon gun previously and now it's way better. he'll still have the same counters as before (some will be worse for him since his effective range in turret mode is now far less) so he'll need to always be playing with his team but i think we'll see him a lot more.
Only on PTR, IIRC. The projectile size change didn't make it live and was replaced with the projectile speed buff, instead.
there's precedent!
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/overwatch/Hanzo
going by the version changes here it looks like some of the hitbox changes never left PTR but the arrow is smaller overall
i guess they haven't figured out how much more to nerf cuz it can totally break her.
They increased Hanzo's arrow hitbox before decreasing it before it went live. As a Hanzo player I wept.
heh, we might just keep seeing more buffs to other heroes just to counter the tank meta instead. they seem to be focusing on that.
and i think i saw McCree Ult doesn't even lock onto him in Turret mode, haha.
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What the hell is Ironclad?
Passive armor when Bastion is in Turret or Tank mode. Currently it's at 35% which is INSANE.
bastion has a new passive that reduces all incoming damage by 35% when he's in turret or tank modes. it stacks with nanoboost so he can get up to 85% reduction.
I don't have access to PTR so I don't know how good/bad Bastion is, but the statements make me anxious.
For one, I now hear his recon mode gun is very reminiscent of Soldier's. See, that's already a bad sign. We don't need another Soldiers. In fact, we could easily lose the one we have and the game wouldn't be worse for it.
For another, the ironclad sounds like it can be hell. Bastion's is already not too bad if he's adequately protecte, usually from Reinhardt. His weakness is that once you get past the Reinhardt shield, he's fairly easy to take down. But if you give him an armor buff, an healing buff, and if you have a healer also taking care of him, I can see him being very hard to kill.
The only positive I see is that he could be a more useful Reinhardt Shield eater, perhaps emphasizing that character less in the meta. But I'm worried what the cost of that is going to be. Personally, I'd still rather see what a Reinshield with 1000 or 1200 HP would play like.
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