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Penny Arcade - Comic - Sample Size
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Sample Size
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Any character is powerful in the right hands and situations.
This game is also a game of counters and balances. Mei can slow people down, but her range on her slow attack is very short, nearly melee range. That makes her a counter for melee characters, and speedy characters to slow them down, if they're dumb enough to get into her range.
You know how you avoid getting frozen by Mei? Don't walk into her freeze range. This game has a lot of dudes with guns. Pick any one of them that can range her freeze-ray and then shoot her in the face. It's really not that hard.
Also, don't be Genji and run at her head long. If you get slowed and frozen, that's on you for being dumb.
Law and Order ≠ Justice
Dead By Daylight killers got a buff this last week and survivors got a nerf because they were literally destroying all the hooks, which are the only way the killers can win. Cue the salt.
The only way to fix Overwatch's obvious balance problems.
I find I sometimes lose games and that is unacceptable.
LOL.
Now Genji? Genji is a dick.
It's less that she's super effective and more that she is super annoying. True a decently played Mei can kill you, but aside from that, she is great at control, cutting off your escape routes, separating you from your team, shield her team mates, and if you get caught in her ult or can't get out of her spray in time you basically yell Noooooo in slow motion as horrible things happen to you and everyone around you.
Even worse though, is that a bad Mei on your team is probably more destructive than an other hero played at a similar level. Because a badly timed ice wall can shield the enemy from both bullets and sight, prevent you from chasing down and finishing off low health enemies, or worst, completely fuck up an ult use.
Which I'll be the first to admit isn't fun on the receiving end. Stuns and slows are generally never enjoyed in quick paced games. And when they happen you notice them much more than, say, Reaper or Widow taking you out in a couple shots. Those unpleasant experiences are much shorter lived.
But at the same time I do think it and her other abilities are neat mechanics that add more variation to the game. And so long as they can be reasonably countered I'm okay with them.
Game devs hate him for this one simple trick
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I dislike Mei for a few reasons, one of them being the amount of rage a slow freeze death brings to a boil within me, but this is my number one reason for hating her. I don't even think it's bad players as much as it is trolls love to play as her. Whenever I'm on the same team as one in quick play, they are mostly there just to troll and will block the shuttle door with an ice wall at the start of the round, as well as any other choke point between the team and the objective.
AND YET... people often give me shit if I try to play Bastion in competitive, and tell me to pick a "real character". Buffing him because the community's opinion of him is low, mostly out of the fact that the personality type of people who play these games usually doesn't lend them the kind of patience and mental acuity it takes to be masterful Bastion... does not mean he needs a buff. Same could be said of Mei. She's not easy to play really really well. That's why people aren't picking her. She already has massively too much regen and her right click shot does plenty of damage. She's supposed to be DEFENSE. She's got that. I actually do feel like some of the reason she's not getting picked is probably for similar reasons. If you're a really good Mei, you get no end of toxic verbal garbage from the enemy team, because getting killed by her is super annoying. If you're a bad Mei, you're just dying constantly, and going to get the same from your own team. She has an image among the community that inspires vitriol. Most people don't want to get shat on verbally just for their character choice. I don't know if Blizzard is really taking this into account.
PS- D.Va needed a buff, but they really overshot the mark. You know something's out of balance when almost every game now contains the character you just buffed, and if you DON'T have her against a team that does, you're prone to losing.
I must be playing the wrong matches.
It is difficult to have every single one balanced both for pros and noobs. Different level of skill required.
Sensible game balance would require that each character is viable at some level of skill while none of them is overpowered at any level. Sure, you might have pro/noob games completely empty of some characters, but so what? As long as there are enough viable choices for everyone this isn't a problem.
It's a problem WoW suffered from all the time, there'd be a class that could be outstanding in some edge case scenario, sometimes a really silly one (like affliction warlock DPS in early WotLK which only applied to one fight, or consecration stacking which only applied in arena teams consisting entirely of paladins), and to control that they'd end up giving the class a kick in the nuts in every other situation.
Agreed.
If they could like install a "WIN GAME" button on my PC, and ONLY on my PC, that would be great.