Overwatch: Year of the Rooster Event is live (Jan 24th - Feb 13), has CTF Brawl

Dice said:
I got Overwatch for Christmas and love Chinese folklore/festival/art so these skins are great and I'd love to better learn how to play, but I'm feeling very turned off by all the wait time in the game.

For some reason it takes 3-5 minutes to find a match in any mode, then there is the team formation, then you have to wait in the base together for some reason, then you run out to the objective, then half the time it is a level where you wait for the enemy, then finally you start fighting. If you die, which is likely when new to a game, you start back at base so waste more time running back to the fight instead of having good spawn points like other FPS games. Then at the end of the very short (for a FPS or MOBA) match, you have to watch a PotG, votes, stat counter, then back to super long queue.

Combat-to-downtime ratio has to be at least 50:50 here and that is completely insane to me. I'm fine shrugging off a death or loss and getting back in to practice and learn levels and characters and get better, but this game actually prevents getting back in quite significantly. The grinding system for loot boxes would be okay if you could kick out matches one after another, but you really can't. There is so much downtime vs uptime. Even if you never died there still would be compared to many FPS games. I feel like I'd have to devote my whole life to the game to get enough boxes for the RNG to pay off on these skins in the event timeframe.
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Which server are you in? Arcade mode will usually be slow to find people but quick play is less then a minute most of the time, it could be trying to look for new players to match you with.

A good way to learn the basics is to play the humans vs AI mode, you still get XP (it's little less) but it's a good way to learn the characters.
 
1st legendary since event started: Lionhardt
2nd: Riverboat

at least they're both skins that I wanted

also got:
- Junkrat's LNY skin
- Ana's LNY skin
- Sombra's LNY pose
- Ana's LNY skin (again)
 
LiK said:
Not a single good loot box from leveling up. This is starting to annoy me.
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I've only gotten two skins in the last 10 boxes, and one was a dupe. The other was a non-event legendary... and it was the Junebug skin for D.Va (I already have B.Va, which looks nicer)
 
Xiaoki said:
I'll never understand this weird amount of hate that D.Va has generated.

I've seen this statement a bunch of times over the past couple weeks. Even Jeff Kaplan said it.

But, seeing Reinhardt, Ana and Lucio in 100% of matches doing the same old crap every time is perfectly fine?

Why is it only unacceptable when it's D.Va?
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Reinhardt and Lucio fill a niche that no other heroes fill. No one can do what they do which might be a greater problem of the game.

DVa's current state then completely grayed out Winston and Reaper as options. It's why Lucio's healing got nerfed. It's what they're trying to do with Ana to try to make other healers more viable.
 
Got the Ana Rooster skin from my free box.....I like some of the skins but I don't think I'll be buying any boxes for this event. I can live without them.

Although I really like Tracers.
 
Data West said:
Reinhardt and Lucio fill a niche that no other heroes fill. No one can do what they do which might be a greater problem of the game.

DVa's current state then completely grayed out Winston and Reaper as options. It's why Lucio's healing got nerfed. It's what they're trying to do with Ana to try to make other healers more viable.
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This is correct. We need another area of effect healer, but some who contrasts Lucio by being somewhat slow and meaty. Perhaps a similar mechanic to Zarya, is which damage is absorbed and turned into an AOE heal bubble.

And additional tank slotting in with Reinhardt is a bit harder to figure out. Another pure tank that can just stand and take hits. Maybe an armor-based tank with some regen mechanic?
 
MHWilliams said:
This is correct. We need another area of effect healer, but some who contrasts Lucio by being somewhat slow and meaty. Perhaps a similar mechanic to Zarya, is which damage is absorbed and turned into an AOE heal bubble.

And additional tank slotting in with Reinhardt is a bit harder to figure out. Another pure tank that can just stand and take hits. Maybe an armor-based tank with some regen mechanic?
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Lucio's AOE heal isn't what makes him so integral, but rather his speedboost as aside from 3 characters and certain abilities, the entire cast has the same movement speed. Being able to regroup and return to fights faster is huge.
 
MHWilliams said:
This is correct. We need another area of effect healer, but some who contrasts Lucio by being somewhat slow and meaty. Perhaps a similar mechanic to Zarya, is which damage is absorbed and turned into an AOE heal bubble.

And additional tank slotting in with Reinhardt is a bit harder to figure out. Another pure tank that can just stand and take hits. Maybe an armor-based tank with some regen mechanic?
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Lucio's AOE healing isn't what keeps him popular either. It's his speed boost. His AOE healing has been weak for a while now.
 
Rickenslacker said:
Lucio's AOE heal isn't what makes him so integral, but rather his speedboost as aside from 3 characters and certain abilities, the entire cast has the same movement speed. Being able to regroup and return to fights faster is huge.
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True, but I can't see them giving that to another character.

Like, imagine a push tank or Reaper-style character with a speedboost ability, I think that would mess things up even more.
 
I have never seen so many draws in a CTF before. Although, sometimes the enemy will just take the flag... somehow... even with the whole team (minus me) guarding... yet not killing the team... just taking it easily 3 times in a row.

The only times I've won were games were I got at least 2 of our points. It seems to like matching me with brand new players (single digit levels) while putting 20-40s on the enemy team. Interesting method for "players of your skill" matching.

The mode does still have a very different feel since the enemy isn't 100% focused on locating and killing you.
 
MHWilliams said:
Then you should probably assume their metrics are showing D.Va outperforming their expectations.
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Are these the same metrics they use to evaluate Bastion, Widowmaker, Torbjorn, Soldier 76, Ana and Symmetra?

If they are then either their metrics or their expectations suck the devil's ass.

MHWilliams said:
And additional tank slotting in with Reinhardt is a bit harder to figure out. Another pure tank that can just stand and take hits. Maybe an armor-based tank with some regen mechanic?
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Bad idea. Another "pure tank" like Reinhardt(no matter the mechanic used) wouldnt be an alternative or replacement to Reinhardt it would be a mandatory companion to Reinhardt. Do you want to send us back to the bad old days of double Reinhardt in every match?
 
MHWilliams said:
True, but I can't see them giving that to another character.

Like, imagine a push tank or Reaper-style character with a speedboost ability, I think that would mess things up even more.
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it's also one of the reasons (coupled with the Jeff post a while back) that I do see them actually pulling the trigger on "retiring" heroes, or at the very least rotating some between seasons when they got a good stable of them. Obviously a change that would only affect comp.

I would change up metas and would make it so it's not just a constant nerf fest for every character.
 
Not to sound super pretentious or something but I swear the majority of times no one stays and helps defend the flag with me. They all run off and either all get eliminated or the opposing team sends a group of their teammates and destroys me who stays around our flag. I have to switch to Bastion to even get a good chance to defend.
 
Finally got one decent lootbox last night. It was a Tracer Highlight. It was like my 20th box from leveling up. Jesus, the grind is painful in this event. Not even getting dupes for any event skins I got from buying the packs.

At least it's been fun practicing with heroes I didn't play with much before.
 
Yeah my first legendary....and it turned out to be roadhog's sharkskin. Meanwhile my friend got roadhog's new intro, zen's new legendary skin and mercy's golden skin
 
I've started playing the game a few days ago and I'm only like level 8.
I plan to play again this week-end, hopefully to get a lot of the special stuff available.
I really love this new skin for Tracer, but how likely is it that I'll get it if I play as much as I can during this event?
Can I even consider buying it with ingame money? Heard it was not really cheap sadly, but I may have got that wrong.
 
LastMinuteHero said:
Yeah my first legendary....and it turned out to be roadhog's sharkskin. Meanwhile my friend got roadhog's new intro, zen's new legendary skin and mercy's golden skin
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During the Olympic event my friend got every skin, literally, some more than once while I never got half the skins I wanted (and I opened more boxes too, around 60).
 
So I'm new to Overwatch, currently at level 14. Loving it though, it's a ton of fun. I mainly play with Mercy, Reinhardt, Junkrat, Bastion or Widowmaker. Game is truly great.

Are these special events always handled like this though? Did you have to earn the skins in loot boxes during Christmas and Halloween too? I'm not complaining, I really don't mind working toward them. I'm just wondering because there are some old ones that I'd be interested in buying with currency, but they're not available because I didn't play back then.
 
St3v3 said:
During the Olympic event my friend got every skin, literally, some more than once while I never got half the skins I wanted (and I opened more boxes too, around 60).
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I got 2 dupes of champion zarya, had to use the ingame credits to fork out remaining stuff I want.

Halloween was worse though. 2 dupes of junkenstein and 2 dupes of junkenstein's monster. Fared better for Christmas, hope the same goes for lunar new year.
 
Genghis Khan said:
So I'm new to Overwatch, currently at level 14. Loving it though, it's a ton of fun. I mainly play with Mercy, Reinhardt, Junkrat, Bastion or Widowmaker. Game is truly great.

Are these special events always handled like this though? Did you have to earn the skins in loot boxes during Christmas and Halloween too? I'm not complaining, I really don't mind working toward them. I'm just wondering because there are some old ones that I'd be interested in buying with currency, but they're not available because I didn't play back then.
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Yeah once the events are over the only way to earn those skins again, right now, is to wait for the event to come again next year.

You can open or purchase all the base skins though if you have enough currency.
 
Got the new Tracer Rose skin. Reminds me of:

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Link_enfant said:
I've started playing the game a few days ago and I'm only like level 8.
I plan to play again this week-end, hopefully to get a lot of the special stuff available.
I really love this new skin for Tracer, but how likely is it that I'll get it if I play as much as I can during this event?
Can I even consider buying it with ingame money? Heard it was not really cheap sadly, but I may have got that wrong.
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It's completely RNG dependant, so there's as much chance as you not getting it as there is getting it twice in a row basically.

It costs 3,000 gold to buy though, so unless you get lucky or play a lot, you probably won't reach that amount. Getting gold becomes easier the more you play, because duplicate items give you good, and obviously as you unlock more items you get more they could be duplicates.
 
I wish I could ban Symmetra in capture the flag. Her turrets are so hard to deal with when placed on the other end of the wall behind the flag. This absolutely ruins the game mode for me.
 
Baah why do I do this to myself, really should stop buying boxes...

Have probably ~40% of cosmetic items on avg per hero (mostly non-skin item ofc...) yet going through 50x boxes I always seem to be getting 75% duplicates like really 1 out of 4 items per box is a non-duplicate and it's so often a voice line, spray or if I'm lucky an emote.

Don't like you RNG...go to bed.

Guess I'm lucky the game is awesome. Sad!
 
Rongolian said:
I wish I could ban Symmetra in capture the flag. Her turrets are so hard to deal with when placed on the other end of the wall behind the flag. This absolutely ruins the game mode for me.
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Use Winston. He cleans up her turrets so fast.
 
I got Riens Chinese legendary after about 8-ish boxes. Now all I want is Roadhogs and Winstons.
None of the girls got good skins unfortunately, but Mercys Chinese intro looks pretty good at least..
 
It drives me crazy that the seasonal are so much more expensive than the normal skins. It's almost like they want me to pour real money into loot boxes or something. (joke)
 
I usually drop 40$ on loot boxes for each event, but my gut is telling me there will be a Valentine's Day event right after this. Has there been any hints or data mining proving this yet?
 
Yukinari said:
Its so refreshing to see Dva less in comp and a bit of wiggle room for comp setups.
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Yeah Roadhog in every match now. Character is fucking stupid. Not sure why he has a tool that can kill you instantly. Then heals himself as he takes damage.
 
Spacebar said:
I usually drop 40$ on loot boxes for each event, but my gut is telling me there will be a Valentine's Day event right after this. Has there been any hints or data mining proving this yet?
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they confirmed there won't be any events for V-day or Easter. You're safe.
 
DR2K said:
Yeah Roadhog in every match now. Character is fucking stupid. Not sure why he has a tool that can kill you instantly. Then heals himself as he takes damage.
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When he doesn't have either it's pretty easy to take care of him

Separate him from the party and bait out his hook

If he blindsides you or rushes you with the team you're likely fucked

Also lol at the DVA problem, did they even fix the Mei glitch?
 
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