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Overwatch |OT9| There is no Cow Hero
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Nuno Pinto
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Haha xD
Nuno Pinto
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More Lucios is always good 
He's such a beast now, really love the changes blizz made with him and hog (a while back), two of my most played characters got so much more enjoyable to play, what a bliss.
He's such a beast now, really love the changes blizz made with him and hog (a while back), two of my most played characters got so much more enjoyable to play, what a bliss.
I just had the worst match since I started playing.
2-stack picks Rein and Road, I pick Lucio. Someone else picks Zenyatta after we've already left spawn, so we're low on healing.
First fight, our Rein charges so far ahead he's in front of the enemy spawn and obviously gets picked off. Immediately the 2-stack starts yelling in voice chat, russian swear words and all. And I mean yelling LOUD. "retard team", "so bad", the usual things.
The Zen fires back and yells in russian too. Says he's done healing (after the 2 minutes as Zen) and switches to Hanzo. The other DPS give up too and pick Junkrat and Torb, Rein switches to Mccree, Roadhog switches to Rein. He continues his friends strategy of charging into all enemies by himself.
At his point the yelling is way too much so I leave the voice chat and switch to Mercy, desperately trying to dish out enough healing for all the diving dps.
Every single fight the Rein opens by charging in, either getting destroyed immediately or charging into a hole. Every time the 2-stack insults everyone in text chat. Junkrat keeps catapulting himself into holes or the enemy team. I'm fairly sure the Hanzo wasn't even aiming at the enemy. When I quickly check into the voice chat again, the yelling is still going on. It seriously sounded like people were screaming their souls out.
Of course we lost 0-3. I have never had a more miserable round of Overwatch and I absolutely hate how my enjoyment of this game hinges so much on the sanity of random people on the internet. I love the game itself, I really do. But I fucking hate people.
And i don't give a damn who I offend anymore: Playing on EU, 4/5 times it's russians that are needlessly aggressive in both text and voice chat and wouldn't switch to a character that would benefit the team if their life depended on it. I have a friend who speaks russian and I can pretty much understand all they're saying just because he used to teach me swear words in russian. Call it confirmation bias or whatever but at this point I almost lose hope the first time I hear an eastern european accent on voice chat. That's what this game is doing to me, making me hate entire groups of people.
Fuck I'm mad.
2-stack picks Rein and Road, I pick Lucio. Someone else picks Zenyatta after we've already left spawn, so we're low on healing.
First fight, our Rein charges so far ahead he's in front of the enemy spawn and obviously gets picked off. Immediately the 2-stack starts yelling in voice chat, russian swear words and all. And I mean yelling LOUD. "retard team", "so bad", the usual things.
The Zen fires back and yells in russian too. Says he's done healing (after the 2 minutes as Zen) and switches to Hanzo. The other DPS give up too and pick Junkrat and Torb, Rein switches to Mccree, Roadhog switches to Rein. He continues his friends strategy of charging into all enemies by himself.
At his point the yelling is way too much so I leave the voice chat and switch to Mercy, desperately trying to dish out enough healing for all the diving dps.
Every single fight the Rein opens by charging in, either getting destroyed immediately or charging into a hole. Every time the 2-stack insults everyone in text chat. Junkrat keeps catapulting himself into holes or the enemy team. I'm fairly sure the Hanzo wasn't even aiming at the enemy. When I quickly check into the voice chat again, the yelling is still going on. It seriously sounded like people were screaming their souls out.
Of course we lost 0-3. I have never had a more miserable round of Overwatch and I absolutely hate how my enjoyment of this game hinges so much on the sanity of random people on the internet. I love the game itself, I really do. But I fucking hate people.
And i don't give a damn who I offend anymore: Playing on EU, 4/5 times it's russians that are needlessly aggressive in both text and voice chat and wouldn't switch to a character that would benefit the team if their life depended on it. I have a friend who speaks russian and I can pretty much understand all they're saying just because he used to teach me swear words in russian. Call it confirmation bias or whatever but at this point I almost lose hope the first time I hear an eastern european accent on voice chat. That's what this game is doing to me, making me hate entire groups of people.
Fuck I'm mad.
StaffyManasse
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Aaar you pljayink on Pjee es fjour? Add mje, if you wont. I jam njot rjussian. Prjomise.(New to game, gold league, getting better)
Symmetra where are you going come back: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/LTF Yager/video/29894547
I'm on PC. But I have my doubts it's any better on console.
StaffyManasse
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I hear mostly french or arabic screaming but mostly it's quiet.
I don't have any problems playing the Same hero all the time. I mean I have a shit ton of hours on mei lolMore Lucios is always good
He's such a beast now, really love the changes blizz made with him and hog (a while back), two of my most played characters got so much more enjoyable to play, what a bliss.
So if you guys ever get tired of someone or just need someone to main a certain hero all the time I have no issues with that.
What do you guys do when you solo queue? Do you usually lock down your favorite dude and hope everyone fills just bases their picks on creating a balanced comp or do you wait until everyone else has picked and then fill in whatever is missing?
I play non-standard heroes like Mei and Sombra, but it never feels good picking them. If I choose first, then it's like, "I'M PLAYING MEI! DEAL WITH IT!". If I don't choose first, then I never get to play with them. lol
edit: Actually goes like something like, I choose Sombra / Mei and the next picks are Hanzo, Widowmaker, Junkrat, and Tornbjorn / Tracer. Then I have to choose to switch to Support or play (off) tank with D. Va.
I play non-standard heroes like Mei and Sombra, but it never feels good picking them. If I choose first, then it's like, "I'M PLAYING MEI! DEAL WITH IT!". If I don't choose first, then I never get to play with them. lol
edit: Actually goes like something like, I choose Sombra / Mei and the next picks are Hanzo, Widowmaker, Junkrat, and Tornbjorn / Tracer. Then I have to choose to switch to Support or play (off) tank with D. Va.
StaffyManasse
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In my experience (from the around week I have had OW, lol) it's better I pick a character I am at my best with (in my case, D Va) and not try to fill in by choosing character I don't know how to play properly. Seems to lead to a better win percentace that way. YMMW ofc.
Edit. Except that one time when I got into a real nice group that didn't have a healer so I picked Mercy and we went into a winning streak (of two games, until the group disbanded)
Terareflection
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I am off work till Saturday after tonight. Let me help.
You're a nice person.
I don't want to risk deranking you though! You are so close to Masters!
Twilight Gap
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Uprising has reminded me that the majority of the people who play video games have no idea what they're doing.
Pretty much know it's an insta wipe if someone picks one of the first like 10 characters, or loses half their health within the first 30 seconds.
Pretty much know it's an insta wipe if someone picks one of the first like 10 characters, or loses half their health within the first 30 seconds.
TheLetdown
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Incendiary
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I know people have been clamoring for a PVE mode or story mode, but man I was done with the Uprising mode after playing it twice. I've never really been a fan of horde modes in any game, though, so it could just be that.
It's pretty light. They need to do a more substantial Raid-like mission with actual puzzles and bosses. It's a good first step.
Yeah, I've been trying to solo queue the expert mode and just leave when I see silly picks. Seen people pick McCree, Hanzo and silly heroes who won't last 5 seconds when it gets crowded. I just leave and search for another session. Think the only way I'm going to get the expert and legendary is with friends.
TheLetdown
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Incendiary
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True. I think part of it also is they're just repurposing multiplayer maps into PVE maps right now. So Uprising especially to me just feels like a variant on the normal playing against AI on Kings Row. New maps designed with PVE in mind would perk my interest - especially if they're designed to take abilities into account.
That would be cool too. Like you get EXP and can shorten cooldowns, or get extra blinks as Tracer, etc. That would definitely add variety to the mode which it sorely needs.
Played two solo queue games earlier today, won both.
Pharah is too good on Eichenwalde. I snuck around map and hid near point A. Defence got a few picks so I waited for my team to respawn, I kill the Sym and Junkrat and my team push through, I barely play Pharah but she's almost a must-pick on map for attack teams. It helped having a Winston as well.
Pharah is too good on Eichenwalde. I snuck around map and hid near point A. Defence got a few picks so I waited for my team to respawn, I kill the Sym and Junkrat and my team push through, I barely play Pharah but she's almost a must-pick on map for attack teams. It helped having a Winston as well.
We have to play one day man. 99% of the time I'm online I'm playing with people, if you don't mind joining a team of spaniards I'll invite you one of these days (or if I see you online and I'm in solo q).
Welcome to a new matchmaking cesspool!Lost 2 but won 2 finally hit diamond for the first time.
Out of one hell into another.
Twilight Gap
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I actually really enjoy it. Overwatch took me by surprise last year and I've had mostly good experiences with it, but I can only play about 5 full games in one sitting before I get bored. I just find it extremely repetitive and the wait times on PS4 certainly don't help with keeping my interest.
But then along comes Uprising and now I can't put it down. I've been grinding the hell out of expert difficulty and even though I wipe most of the time, I still find it fun. And yea, it's pretty repetitive as well, but something about it keeps me coming back. I was a big fan of Extinction in CoD Ghosts too and this is very similar.
It's just too bad that half the roster is useless on higher difficulties. As soon as I see a Reaper, Pharah, Ana, McCree or Sombra up on the board, I just drop out. I had one game wipe because Junkrat launched himself on top of the map and nobody could get to him to heal him. Even Reinhardts now seem to like throwing themselves into the fray and dying in bad spots. Most of the roster is just a liability, especially if you're playing a healer who has to leave your safe spot to go bandage them.
It's a good step for PvE content, but I'll probably get bored of it pretty soon. It seems like I'm matching more and more Genjis and I'm running out of face to palm
I've beaten expert a handful of times with randoms. The best team comp in my experience (and apparently the PS4 leaderboards reflect this) are Bastion, Orisa, Mercy and either Torb, Reinhardt or Zenyatta. There are some wild cards, but I feel like most of the rest are liabilities. The last time I checked, Dva wasn't even on the board until 130.
I'll team up if anyone on PS4 wants to give legendary a go. I seem to see more stupid picks on that difficulty than expert, so I doubt I'm ever going to beat it solo.
Yeah cool, no probs to me at all. I sometimes play with a bunch of French dudes, so I'd be used to it! I see you made diamond, I'm really determined to get there this season.
The issue with the pve is that everything spawns in the same spot every single time. The predictability of it all not only makes it incredibly easy but incredibly boring.
I enjoy them doing things like that for sure and I hope they do more but after playing it twice its boring.
I live in spain lol but I always group up with US PS4 GAF. (my parents are from Spain, I was born in the US but now living in spain for about 3 years)
How come I don't have you on my friends list???
Twilight Gap
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That's fair. i don't mind the predictability - extinction was pretty much the same way - but the fact that there is a "meta" temp comp is a bigger problem. I've started playing Zenyatta more now just because it's different.
Well I play on Xbox, I guess that's why
Nice, next time there's a free spot and I see you around I'll send you and inv.
Lol yeah I noticed after I had posted.Well I play on Xbox, I guess that's why
you are the only Spanish person I know who owns an Xbox everyone owns ps4 here. I have the Xbox one but never use it.
90% of my friends got an Xbox. We've been playing together since CoD 2 on the 360, I guess that's why, because Spain is Sonyland.
Twilight Gap
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i tried spawn killing as bastion on hollywood the other day
it went better in my head
it went better in my head
Cheat Code
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Gained 20SR for a hard fought win.
Lost 24SR for a hard fought loss.
Fix or explain your shitty SR algorithm Blizzard.
Lost 24SR for a hard fought loss.
Fix or explain your shitty SR algorithm Blizzard.
Dead Prince
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i guess it's easier to do 33% on 2cp than tick since you save yourself .3% but why can't they do ticks.
Could be several different reasons.
Your SR is probably higher than your hidden MMR. Game tries to put you where your hidden mmr is so if you are above it you gain less and lose more and if you are below you'll gain more and lose less.
Or you played worse on the hero than the average person at your rank does.
Or you were the underdogs and lost or heavy favourites when you won.
OW Principal Designer recently explained it in great detail.
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20754415323#post-1
Meta report time!
D.Va is back
https://www.overbuff.com/blog/2017-04-19-overwatch-hero-tier-list-and-meta-report-rogue-squadron
D.Va is back
https://www.overbuff.com/blog/2017-04-19-overwatch-hero-tier-list-and-meta-report-rogue-squadron
Vault Dweller 111
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They make Lucio a completely new character with that aura nerf, but he's still got the speed. So stays s tier.
Rein tier 3 though
Rein tier 3 though
Garrett Hawke
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the lucio "nerf" lol
LucidMomentum
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Seems like Orisa propaganda.
LucidMomentum
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I liked Junkenstain revenge better. it got the nice villian/boss intro and the constant stream of bots that you really can non stop practice your aim at. the uprising have a slower bot spawn and no boss intro. no flare no glare!
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