MHWilliams
Member
That's the worse.
Bait his hook and focus fire. Pharah, McCree, Reaper, Bastion, or Symmetra can chew him up.
Overwatch: Year of the Rooster Event is live (Jan 24th - Feb 13), has CTF Brawl
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That's the worse.
Bait his hook and focus fire. Pharah, McCree, Reaper, Bastion, or Symmetra can chew him up.
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Deleted member 325805
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I'm very much in the "Roadhog is anti-fun and bad for the game camp", absolutely hate him. I've had friends quit the game just because of him, getting hooked + one shot is just depressing and zaps the fun out of the game.
Really, I don't find him a major issue. Discord with Zen and focus fire on him. He'll go down even if he's trying to self-heal. Make him top priority.
Diablohead
Member
I hope it stays too, even if it's a little unbalanced it's still fun
More fun than some of the dumb modes in All Brawls. Pharmercy and Super Shimada Bros is fucking garbage.
I'll never understand this. A good Roadhog is just a good Roadhog and even then there's ways to avoid him. I don't think I've ever gotten hooked repeatedly for an entire game, people need to learn how to dodge.
Know my pain. I absolutely hate Pharah and these damn lootboxes almost always give me Pharah skins or other accessories related to her.
Echelon079
Member
I personally, completely hate the capture the flag game mode. 90% of the time as soon as one team gets a flag it devolves into a defend for 3 minutes, completely boring snooze fest.
I also don't like that I can literally die defending while a team is capturing our flag, and by the time i have respawned the other team can already be capturing the flag for a second time and be a quarter of the way back while there is nothing I can do about it.
I also don't like that I can literally die defending while a team is capturing our flag, and by the time i have respawned the other team can already be capturing the flag for a second time and be a quarter of the way back while there is nothing I can do about it.
JamesHolden
Banned
Agree completely. I've had matches where both teams camped on defense and nothing happened for three minutes. Setup a Torn and/or Symmetra turret(s) and support your team on attack.
TangoAlphaLima
Member
6 loot boxes thus far, and the only thing halfway decent is Tracer's dragon intro. Oh well.
Anyway, had a great game of CTF last night. The rest of my team was mostly focused on battling in the middle of the map or defending, didn't seem like many were trying to cap the flag. I was Soldier 76 and was making pushes to cap it myself. Had a great run where I offed several defenders around the flag, then went to cap it. I was too hasty though, and just before the flag was actually captured, I moved out of the capture area and lost my progress. Went to grab it again, but was gunned down by some respawns. The game was 0-0 at the time, and I was crushed, thought I single-handedly let the team down.
So the game is down to about a minute left. I'm pushing for the flag again, and I'm killed. I realize that there's very little time left after my respawn, so I haul ass to try one last time to cap it. I get to it with seconds to spare, gun down several defenders, grab the flag as time is expiring, and I'm truckin' on out of there with the flag trying to get it back to my base. I'm just sprinting, hoping for the best. I turn the corner and see a couple of enemies. One of them was a Roadhog. I hesitate for a split second and assume I'm hosed, then I notice the Roadhog used his heal ability, and can't do anything as I sprint past him and take the flag to my base. Overtime expires, 1-0 win.
It was exhilarating.
Anyway, had a great game of CTF last night. The rest of my team was mostly focused on battling in the middle of the map or defending, didn't seem like many were trying to cap the flag. I was Soldier 76 and was making pushes to cap it myself. Had a great run where I offed several defenders around the flag, then went to cap it. I was too hasty though, and just before the flag was actually captured, I moved out of the capture area and lost my progress. Went to grab it again, but was gunned down by some respawns. The game was 0-0 at the time, and I was crushed, thought I single-handedly let the team down.
So the game is down to about a minute left. I'm pushing for the flag again, and I'm killed. I realize that there's very little time left after my respawn, so I haul ass to try one last time to cap it. I get to it with seconds to spare, gun down several defenders, grab the flag as time is expiring, and I'm truckin' on out of there with the flag trying to get it back to my base. I'm just sprinting, hoping for the best. I turn the corner and see a couple of enemies. One of them was a Roadhog. I hesitate for a split second and assume I'm hosed, then I notice the Roadhog used his heal ability, and can't do anything as I sprint past him and take the flag to my base. Overtime expires, 1-0 win.
It was exhilarating.
Brian_FETO
Banned
"I'm not the problem, everyone else is"
If a character was outright broken everyone would be using it and having 100% success rate. As it stands enough people still don't know how to cope with it that Roadhog ends up being effective a lot of the time
I've still had plenty of times where I've picked Roadhog in 3v3 and get rekted by people who know how to handle one.
He's one of my usual picks in 3v3 because his slower pace and healing fitting the mode well, but if you get don't land your hook you are pretty much done. He's too slow to run away and if people are focusing fire on you the self heal won't save you
Sombra hack or Ana healstop can make a Roadhog pretty much useless. The latter locks him in the animation while you melt his healthbar lol
Doug Heffernan
Member
So in CTF I had a random Mei on my team who did absolutely nothing expect stand around doing nothing. I was pissed, thinking what the heck is this guy doing? Then when one of our team members grabbed the enemy flag he would immediately spring into action and the block the pathway behind the flag carrier with ice wall. It was surprisingly effective, I was impressed. We won 3-0. lol
AbortedWalrusFetus
Member
I've played a ton of it, despite despising it, because I want the loot boxes.
TangoAlphaLima
Member
You know you only get one loot box for your first CTF win, then you can play any other mode in Arcade to get your standard 3 loot boxes for winning 9 matches, right? You don't have to exclusively play CTF.
Ban Puncher
Member
Got 50 boxes.
Got Roadhog's event victory pose SEVEN FUCKING TIMES.
THREE WERE IN A ROW.
Got Roadhog's event victory pose SEVEN FUCKING TIMES.
THREE WERE IN A ROW.
AlexFlame116
Member
Getting really tempted to buy loot boxes...
Hispanic! At the Disco
Member
The man is transporting a LOT of TNT!
Random chance.
Also every time people think something like loot algorithm changes because they don't see the same drop chances it brings me back to every patch back in vanilla wow, "does onyxia deep breath more?" Threads on the forums.
AbortedWalrusFetus
Member
Yeah, the other modes just tend to take longer. Although given I haven't had much luck winning CTF I should probably try one of those.
So far got red Mei, Zen, Bastion and Kelly-Ana Conway, which I suppose isn't terrible for 10 or so boxes. Damn, I want that Wu Kong Winston though... really wish I didn't spend all my gold on random stuff on the Xmas event.
I find the CTF is somewhat playable on the open marketplace map, the control center one is so terrible though.
I find the CTF is somewhat playable on the open marketplace map, the control center one is so terrible though.
LastMinuteHero
Member
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
Total Mayhem (Double health, ability cooldown's halved) is also hilarious fun!
Diablohead
Member
Enjoy hook 2.0 before they add a ground check for hooked targets.
I also have over 9k in coins since the end of the halloween event all from dupe payouts.
I also have over 9k in coins since the end of the halloween event all from dupe payouts.
Charge is fun. Altho I seem to be the only one who plays Lucio, lol
LastMinuteHero
Member
I'd like to play more often but I seem to rotate between show your support, we're all soldiers now and highly offensive
Yeah I'd choose lucio over reinhardt. Still don't have the hang of the latter after playing for so long.
TangoAlphaLima
Member
If you get at least one decent teammate in matchmaking, Elimination can be pretty easy and quick.
Diablohead
Member
There's a few things I like about ctf right now:
It's a new mode, somethnig fresh.
It makes each hero carry a slightly different role to normal, for example lucio is good to carry the flag with, rein and winston are good defenders and attackers since you need to not be hit to grab the flag.
It also changes the flow of the maps a bit, no more rushing the center point you can go around the edge to ambush different spots.
I also quite enjoy how fast it is, 5 minute matches at most.
Only change I would personally add is slowing down the flag carrier a little bit, just enough to you can chase them better because right now if someone has the flag more often then not they are out of sight within seconds.
It's a new mode, somethnig fresh.
It makes each hero carry a slightly different role to normal, for example lucio is good to carry the flag with, rein and winston are good defenders and attackers since you need to not be hit to grab the flag.
It also changes the flow of the maps a bit, no more rushing the center point you can go around the edge to ambush different spots.
I also quite enjoy how fast it is, 5 minute matches at most.
Only change I would personally add is slowing down the flag carrier a little bit, just enough to you can chase them better because right now if someone has the flag more often then not they are out of sight within seconds.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
nice, buy another pack.
Join me.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Infinite Mei stalling and Zarya bubbles
I haven't spent a cent, and I got all of Mei's stuff from leveling up & obtaining the arcade loot boxes. (I got her Lunar Legendary Skin, all of her sprays, the new victory pose, & her "So Excited" emote).
So I'm pretty happy, and I'm not too bothered if I don't get the rest of the Lunar cosmetics for the other heroes.
Troubled Bat
Member
Out of like 30+ boxes, I've only gotten Rein.
I'm just gonna be leveling up from here on out (and depending on the last week)
Gentleman Jack
Member
Until you get stunlocked by an Ana for 3 minutes. Then you stop playing that mode forever.
If you're playing the PC version, feel free to add me if you want help with the grinding. Regardless, I'm down for some matches.
Blues1990#1733
Sorry I'm not on PC. I'm on PS4.
capylikesgames
Banned
It's been two patch cycles and D. Va STILL clips through the world and dies in Ecopoint. I get the Lunar New Year event just started and Blizzard's probably caught up atm, but I would've assumed that bug would be a priority. I'm not a D. Va main or anything either, I just feel bad when my team or the opposition picks D. Va and gets shafted.