10 boxes last night from winning and leveling up and all were sprays. bought a 50 pack and it finally gave me skins. my RNG is pretty shit now.
Overwatch: Year of the Rooster Event is live (Jan 24th - Feb 13), has CTF Brawl
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10 boxes last night from winning and leveling up and all were sprays. bought a 50 pack and it finally gave me skins. my RNG is pretty shit now.
Apparently Blizzard said the skin model has a bug.
http://kotaku.com/overwatch-skin-accidentally-made-mei-look-thinner-1791596606
afreaknamedpete
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Bought 11 loot boxes. Got skins for Tracer and Bastion who I don't play at all, and just sprays and shit.
All I want is the Winston skin. That's it. I still don't know why Blizzard does it like this.
All I want is the Winston skin. That's it. I still don't know why Blizzard does it like this.
By the way, has anyone noticed a bug where when D'va gets out of her mech in a small corridor, she phases through a wall and falls to her death? I was playing a bit of 3v3s yesterday and at least 15 D'vas died to falling off the map after getting stuck in a wall when they lost their mechs.
Paltheos
Member
Lucio Ball is good fun, and Junkenstein's Revenge is fantastic.
The other two def. though yeah. Mei's snowball war could have been tweaked to be decent (no rounds, allow respawns and go by a point tally at the end - closer to a real snowball game where you don't fucking sit on a sideline for a few minutes), and CTR... ugh. Like people said, banning some heroes would be a good idea. Additional incentive should have been added to not camp your own spawn - Maybe preventing you from capturing a flag if the majority of your team is on one side of the field? I don't know.
You really dont know why bliz does it like this?
Same here. Didn't get any skins last night. Best thing I got was the Roadhog highlight intro from my freebie box.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
Bolded the reason. Check the posts of all the people buying 50+ lootboxes too.
Then read up on "whales" as it pertains to gaming purchases
1) Make you play more to get boxes.
2) Make you wanna buy boxes.
Working as intended.
LastMinuteHero
Member
For the new page; I managed to capture the flag for my team but didn't get the the spray. Got the spray for 3-0 though. How do I fix this?
It's not for capturing the flag. It's for 'returning' a flag of yours that has been captured. Kill an enemy with your flag and stand over it to return it after a few seconds.
This is actually significantly tougher than just capturing a flag since most carriers tend to be hard to chase characters like Sombra, Tracer, Winston, D.Va etc.
LastMinuteHero
Member
Goddamnit I misread that as retrieving instead of returning.
Yeah that sounds way tougher.
I got it by chance since I was right there when it dropped near our base. Didn't even know there was a spray for it, lol (I was Torb)
Should be easy if you play with a group and you ask them to let you return any flags, I guess.
i doubt it, and i really hope that's not the case. ctf in comp would be even worse than 2cp.
Best part of the update.
i don't believe Blizz wants CTF as a perm mode at all. They didn't even want to do it from what I read before. I think they made this as event only since there was demand for a CTF mode and it's just fun.
I would love a perm mode for PVE tho. I miss Junkenstein's Revenge.
Sp3eD
0G M3mbeR
Yep happened to my friend and I all last night. It seems pretty random as she didn't even have to be in a cordoor for it to trigger. Only solution was for her to stop playing d Va.....
Are you me?
LastMinuteHero
Member
Yup, anything similar where you're fighting waves of enemies or have to fight a bunch of enemies to complete an objective. Better than All Brawls.
Yep, happened to me and after only one round. I was out in the open too.
Blizzard knows exactly what they're doing.
And yes, it's painful. It exploits some bad human instincts, including FOMO and the gambling urge.
EmCeeGramr
Member
I wish articles like these would show what the bug actually is (like how her back suddenly arches inward to the point her cryo tank isn't even connecting) and how a simple comparison to the Mei in the announcement trailer shows something is very different.
spindoctor
Member
It's actually not that hard if the game is being played 'properly'. I got it yesterday before I even knew it was an achievement.
A problem I'm seeing is that this achievement is affecting how people are playing the mode. Many choose defensive characters, camp around their own flag and wait for the enemy to come and get it so that they can get the return.
Yesterday I had a game where we capped the flag once and then everyone in the team decided to just turtle our flag so that we could take a 1-0 win. I'm guessing this happened because those folks were having trouble getting even their first win. So we just sat there camping our flag and holding off the team. It was ridiculous. On the flip side, I also got a couple of 3-0 wins so it's definitely possible if the team is trying.
Achievements/rewards that affect how a multiplayer game gets played are a travesty and a company like Blizzard should have known better.
but they do in the twitter picture at the bottom of the article?
EmCeeGramr
Member
It's a small screenshot of a Twitter post with two thumbnails!
Sp3eD
0G M3mbeR
I actually really like the CTF mode. Reminds me a lot of playing quake and quake 2 years ago. I do think some of the abilities (like mei being able to go into ice while flag holding)are a bit cheesy, but it is stupid fun like mei snowball before the ice wall glitches completely ruined it.
My only gripe about CTF is that you can capture the flag while your flag is being held by the other team. I don't think I've ever played CTF where you could do this and it seems really out of place. Also, they need to have a sudden death OT mode or something if the game is 0-0. These draws are frustrating.
This is a CTF for frills.
Being able to capture the flag and teleport directly back on top of your capture point as Sombra is a stupid system, in some CTF Games you can't use some abilities and it will just drop the flag.
To be fair, for a week(?) long event I can't see them spending so much time figuring out what ability should drop the flag or not. Though really, more thought could've gone in to it.
This isn't blizzards first CTF mode in a game though..so they should know better
Not the first time a game has had a bug like that, Robes in SWTOR for a while did this; on male characters.
D.Va loses to Mercy 1vs1. But, people still swear she's "fine."
Its like Blizzard is completely incapable of a middle ground approach to balancing.
Just ask Bastion, Torborn, Genji, McCree or Mercy how they feel about Blizzard's balancing.
Sp3eD
0G M3mbeR
Actually just thinking about this, in tie mode they could make the flags unreturnable so you or the enemy team could swarm and keep inching the flag closer.
I still think a stale mate could happen so maybe add 2 or 3 minutes before draw?
Diablohead
Member
I thought it was quite clear that the waist/spine rigging was broken looking in the screens I have seen, they fixed it and that's great.
Well, if you're spending real money, the desire for things you actually want is understandable.
It's a weird thing, like buying Pokemon card packs. I knew my chances sucked, but sometimes I'd get a nice full art or secret rare, which kind of made up for the 50 other packs that had crap. LOL I know it's dumb, but it is what it is.