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

CTF sucks and fuck this bullshit D.Va nerf eugh I only started maining her recently. :/

Edit: At least I got D.Va's and Mei's cool ass skins I guess.
 
CaptainTiptop said:
CTF sucks and fuck this bullshit D.Va nerf eugh I only started maining her recently. :/

Edit: At least I got D.Va's and Mei's cool ass skins I guess.
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Yeah, no idea why they thought D.va needed to be nerfed so badly. From the matches I played, she feels slightly worse than she did at launch, and she wasn't even viable then.
 
Opened 3 boxes... no Mercy skin V__V
 
Imho Lucio Ball was shit but all the other ones (Junkenstein and Mei Snowball fight) were pretty good.
CTF is horrendous because nearly all the games I played were stalemates.

DVa is worse offensively than she was at launch, but defensively she's the same. People tend to forget how awful the defense matrix was.
 
CTF would have been better if it was one flag in the middle of the map you need to bring back to your base or the enemy base.
 
It's been around a month since I last touched Overwatch. Some cool skins this time around. The Journey to the West ones feel a bit foreign to maybe use all the time but they're well done and D.Va's has her wearing something other than a jumpsuit so it's good, even if the mech looks a little weird. The rest kind of fade into the background like most uncommon skins in these events.

Opinions:

-Seasonal skins should be double, not triple the original cost if events are being released this quickly.
-Every game mode in this game outside of competitive and quick play is blatantly trash with only a few having the potential to be good with a few tweaks that will likely never be made
-Obvious balance issues still aren't fixed quickly enough. Soldier should've been fixed in this latest update
-Overwatch is barely more balanced than it was at launch because Blizzard keep changing intricate values of certain heroes while ignoring glaring flaws on others.
-PTR being for bug testing rather than feedback makes it completely pointless. There have been cases where some changes are like watching a train coming at you in slow motion and not bothering to move out of the way.
 
BY2K said:
CTF would have been better if it was one flag in the middle of the map you need to bring back to your base or the enemy base.
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Wouldn't this basically be a reskinned KOTH at that point? Plus, if you wipe out the majority of the enemy it would be a free flag capture. They'd need to increase the required captures to win way past 3 for this to work.

At least in the current form it requires your team to split between defense and offense roles, even if it's completely unbalanced because of characters like Sym and Torb.
 
Surface of Me said:
CTF is complete shit. Every game mode they've added in these seasonal events feels completely half assed.
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I don't know I kind of disagree, in my own opinion

Lucio Bowl - a lot of fun, especially playing goalie

Halloween - was fun but ruined by having that sniper healer in there, I just really don't like her and you have to shoot people to heal, easily my least favorite healer

Mei Snowball fight - was a lot of fun, digging up more snowballs was rough, didn't realize until the last day of event your super allows you to wipe out a whole team at once

CTF - you're going to get steam rolled if you don't roll with a team I feel like. But as a solo player on Xbox (I have no GAF friends on there) I feel like it could still have fun by playing on defense. I'm usually the only person left defending the flag as Mei or Torg
 
OVDRobo said:
Wouldn't this basically be a reskinned KOTH at that point? Plus, if you wipe out the majority of the enemy it would be a free flag capture. They'd need to increase the required captures to win way past 3 for this to work.

At least in the current form it requires your team to split between defense and offense roles, even if it's completely unbalanced because of characters like Sym and Torb.
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Currently, you can win with just one and then turtle hard.
 
Wow, for some reason I thought this would be a small event compared to the previous ones.

They really went all in.

Love the look all these skins have to them. I need them all.

Edit: Oh no, it's finally the Roadhog patch. Shit. Time to find out if they broke my main... It took them so damn long to fix the fact that his hook never brings targets to him, and they coupled it with a nerf to something that's an issue with the game's tick rate.
 
squall23 said:
Currently, you can win with just one and then turtle hard.
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Yeah. The mode's just not particularly well thought out or balanced as-is. Blizzard practically admitted as much in their latest dev update.

Like a decent chunk of content in Overwatch, just a little refinement and the removal of some heroes from possible selection would go a long way, but it'll probably disappear into the mists like every other seasonal game mode with or without potential and we'll get another half-baked attempt next time. Possibly when we start getting dupe events we'll see better implementations of these modes, but who honestly knows?
 
17 loot crates (yeah I'm counting) and no legendary skins except... I have got that Tracer highlight intro 3 times though.

Human Trashcan said:
Can't believe there are Mei's Snowball fight defenders, that mode was so trash
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It was trash, but it had its moments. I definitely enjoyed it more than CTF.
 
CTF is alright and I'm enjoying it for what it is as I love CTF game modes, but it could be better.

D.va with her health changes is a lot worse then I thought, she was better with more armour and 500hp instead of 600 with less armor, roadhog can 80% you with one close range shot which is really nasty now.
 
It's incredible to see how many people get bent out of shape by the seasonal brawls. They're one off modes that are a bit of fun, and a bit different. They're not meant to be taken especially seriously. Is it suitable for high level competitive play? No, it's not, and Blizzard know that better than anyone. The entire Arcade section of the game is about relaxing, having fun, and not worrying too much about winning or losing.

Personally, I think the mode's kinda cool. It plays very differently from any of the main modes as it requires you to split your team up to attack and defend. I don't think the balance is as bad as some people are suggesting either... it requires a massive paradigm shift in play style and some teams are adjusting very badly.
 
QisTopTier said:
LOL dva is fine.

Also Got Rein, Ana, and Mei skin today :D
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No she is NOT fine.
She can be killed out easily by widows and trobs. How the fuck is that fine. They were the original characters that could be countered by dva.

Dva was a character to flank and take out people that where stupidly alone. She was detroyed easily already by a zarya, that is in every godamn game, symetra and mei, or if a dva was stupidly enough to go against a group of 3 alone or a good coordinated 2.
Offensive people were salty because their soldiers and reapers couldnt kill her, but I would say that was never their fucking job if they were completely alone like fucking madmen. What they should do is move dva away from any fray, get her low enough and she will go flying for protection, because thats her job. But not killing her seem to be a complete failure for them.

And Dva was not the real problem of the 3 tank meta, it was ana.

EDIT Oh and I say this as a zenyatta main that was ok with the last nerf they did to him, because he was indeed a tad bit too powerful with teamplay.
 
Played CTF, won, got my loot box, goodbye CTF.

Some of these skins are awesome though. Worth noting that Mei's new costume confirms she isn't fat. An age old question finally answered.
 
Kinda digging the Roadhog fix. Will need to play some more matches to find out how bad the corner thing is though...

CTF isn't half bad.

Killfeed looks super weird now. Dunno how I feel about that.

I need the Roadhog skin.
 
Kiro said:
Player with the flag can't use abilities.

There. Fixed.
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Also, wouldnt that actually make the game have even more draws?

Only defensive characters would be totally useful in that case, and they would all stay at the point with a million turrets and shit on each side.
Is good that people with fast abilities are useful for a good counterattacks.
The thing I see this game is something like football (eruopean). You wait in defense, and when the other team makes a mistake, you counterattack.
 
BossDarkseid said:
They literally said they did not want to do this because it stops them being OW characters
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Don't you know that the armchair developers here on GAF know exactly how it would feel despite never having tried it, and Blizzard are clueless despite, no doubt, trying all sorts of different CTF permutations?
 
Lol at dva nerfs. Meanwhile Reinhardt is still in almost every team comp with 99% pick with pros. And there is still zarya who is fucking annoying and strong.
 
SpacePirate Ridley said:
No she is NOT fine.
She can be killed out easily by widows and trobs. How the fuck is that fine. They were the original characters that could be countered by dva.

Dva was a character to flank and take out people that where stupidly alone. She was detroyed easily already by a zarya, that is in every godamn game, symetra and mei, or if a dva was stupidly enough to go against a group of 3 alone or a good coordinated 2.
Offensive people were salty because their soldiers and reapers couldnt kill her, but I would say that was never their fucking job if they were completely alone like fucking madmen. What they should do is move dva away from any fray, get her low enough and she will go flying for protection, because thats her job. But not killing her seem to be a complete failure for them.

And Dva was not the real problem of the 3 tank meta, it was ana.

EDIT Oh and I say this as a zenyatta main that was ok with the last nerf they did to him, because he was indeed a tad bit too powerful with teamplay.
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She's effectively the same against widow. Armor would only dock 5 damage off fully charged shots.

Also "it's not the damage dealer's job to kill a tank." Lmao, then who's is it?
 
Blizzard have been saying for ages that CTF doesn't really work, but people kept asking and asking for it, so they put it in as a seasonal brawl and everyone is up in arms that it doesn't work very well...

The event seems fine to me, like every other one, they have been quite enjoyable. My only gripe is the price of the seasonal legendary skins is too high especially with this one coming so soon after christmas.
 
Blizz keeps throwing garbage teams my way. Dunno who I pissed off to deserve this.

Right after my three ranked games in a row with leavers. Ugh
 
I like CTF so far, it's a nice change of pace and I think it works quite well in Overwatch. I'd like to see it on some of the other maps too so hopefully they add it to the brawl playlist at some point.
 
SpacePirate Ridley said:
No she is NOT fine.
She can be killed out easily by widows and trobs. How the fuck is that fine. They were the original characters that could be countered by dva.
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Wanna see something really fun, fight a Dva with tracer. At this point the moment I see DVa on the other team I swap to tracer. Its hilarious. You can kill the mech in something like a clip and a half (havent actually tested it) and get like 60% ult

DVa is bottom tier now, talking with pro comp buddy he said they had already given up on her during PTR
 
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