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  • ChanceChance Registered User regular
    edited January 2017
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    I don't know what they're on about. Unless she's in a bad position (too far from enemies), a boosted Sym can wreck two thirds of a team.

    Chance on
    'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    There's probably going to be a better choice than her on your team, though.

    Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    TexiKen wrote: »
    Wouldn't....wouldn't it make sense to make Junkrat an actual rat then for the chinese new year?

    Australia's like an hour away from China too, WTF.

    Those animal-y skins above are all part of a big Chinese story of Sun Wukong. A random rat doesn't have exactly the same connection. For worldwide games ya just gotta accept sometimes the holidays aren't going to be aimed at your culture.

    Besides, it isn't even like it's the year of the rat or anything.

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  • DuriniaDurinia Evolved from Space Potatoes Registered User regular
    Chance wrote: »

    I don't know what they're on about. Unless she's in a bad position (too far from enemies), a boosted Sym can wreck two thirds of a team.

    It was more true back when the buff gave a speed boost so the death beam was unescapable.

    For business reasons, I must preserve the outward sign of sanity.
    --Mark Twain
  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited January 2017
    Yeah...Like Symmetra is probably in my top 10 of most preferable boost targets.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    Yeah...Like Symmetra is probably in my top 10 of most preferable boost targets.

    Pfft. You have a preference list? The way it works is you point it at the biggest tank in the middle of a melee, and then it goes to Lucio or Mercy.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    Almost every time I ana boost someone, even if we coordinate the push, they end up dying

  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited January 2017
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    Yeah...Like Symmetra is probably in my top 10 of most preferable boost targets.

    Pfft. You have a preference list? The way it works is you point it at the biggest tank in the middle of a melee, and then it goes to Lucio or Mercy.

    Yeah. I base it on character choice and player competency. The latter being really important.

    Cause goodness have I had too many Reinhardts just sit there and stare at the enemy when I boosted them.

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  • ChanceChance Registered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    Yeah...Like Symmetra is probably in my top 10 of most preferable boost targets.

    Pfft. You have a preference list? The way it works is you point it at the biggest tank in the middle of a melee, and then it goes to Lucio or Mercy.

    Yeah. I base it on character choice and player competency. The latter being really important.

    Cause goodness have I had too many Reinhardts just sit there and stare at the enemy when I boosted them.

    I tend to just hold it till Soldier ults. Any Mercies blue beamed a nano'd, ulting Soldier?

    No survivors.

    'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    edited January 2017
    Let's for sake of arguments and people being "confused" remember that both Mike and Jerry aren't exactly the most pro at video games. Gabe and Tycho are probably referring to pre-Sym re-work... in fact Jerry points that out in his news post for today's comic:
    Symmetra is not his attack choice. Although, I just had a conversation with somebody yesterday about the effectiveness of Attack Symmetra after the rebuild, so who knows. He has an Attack roster and a Defend roster, and he won’t mix those anymore than he would allow foods to mix on a plate.
    Like the joke is good, it works. I just think they missed the mark due to experience. So let's just pretend it's a Mercy drawn in there instead of a Sym for thread sake.

    KoopahTroopah on
  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    Symmetra and Mei are my top picks for powering up. No one is quite prepared for it and they are terrors on any player nearby.

  • EinzelEinzel Registered User regular
    In a mystery game the other day a Mercy boosted Sym was brutalizing us on Nepal shrine.

  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    Quid wrote: »
    Symmetra and Mei are my top picks for powering up. No one is quite prepared for it and they are terrors on any player nearby.

    When I'm powered up as Mei and I rampage I chat WINTER IS COMING.

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  • ZekZek Registered User regular
  • davidsdurionsdavidsdurions Your Trusty Meatshield Panhandle NebraskaRegistered User regular
    I randomly selected Hanzo in a recent solo QP match. Just kept mowing everything down all the way til the end when it seemed like my team decided to all go in different directions instead of staying with the payload and provide me adequate cover to continue doing what got us there and so we lost, but I'm pretty pleased with the highlight that I got from the match:

    https://youtu.be/xyHs4MRmx70

  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited January 2017
    TexiKen wrote: »
    Wouldn't....wouldn't it make sense to make Junkrat an actual rat then for the chinese new year?

    Australia's like an hour away from China too, WTF.

    What? No way. Australia is 3 hours away from China, minimum, and there aren't even any direct flights to China from the Northern Territory anyway. So it's at least 5 if you're in a part of Australia that matters.

    Also it isn't the year of the rat so it would make no sense to do it for CNY. Wait 3 years and it could totally happen then, but year of the pig is in 2, so see if Hog gets a skin that year.

    Worst part is that year of the monkey was just last year so Winston missed out big time.

    Vixx on
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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    How is that the worst part? What were you hoping for? A monkey skin for Winston?

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited January 2017
    I didn't even know they were gonna acknowledge Lunar New Year at all so yeah I kinda wanna know if they're going to do Zodiac skins for the given year where possible. And if they do, Winston's got 11 years to wait.

    Vixx on
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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    Now I'm thinking which heroes would best fit what animals. Some are obvious...others not so much.

  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    For a monkey skin. On an ape.

    As opposed to this year, when he's (supposedly) getting a Monkey King skin.

    For the year of the Rooster.

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    Hanzo and Genji for year of the dragon in 7 years.

    DVa year of the rabbit in 6 years.

    Roadhog pig in 2.

    Junkrat rat in 3.

    Winston monkey in 11 years.

    That'd be about it though. No spider or frog years exist and the only bird is chicken... good luck selling folks on a chicken skin for Mercy.



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  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    Hanzo and Genji for year of the dragon in 7 years.

    DVa year of the rabbit in 6 years.

    Roadhog pig in 2.

    Junkrat rat in 3.

    Winston monkey in 11 years.

    That'd be about it though. No spider or frog years exist and the only bird is chicken... good luck selling folks on a chicken skin for Mercy.

    Widowmaker?

  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    I didn't even know they were gonna acknowledge Lunar New Year at all so yeah I kinda wanna know if they're going to do Zodiac skins for the given year where possible. And if they do, Winston's got 11 years to wait.

    ...isn't he literally getting a monkey king skin?

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    Hanzo and Genji for year of the dragon in 7 years.

    DVa year of the rabbit in 6 years.

    Roadhog pig in 2.

    Junkrat rat in 3.

    Winston monkey in 11 years.

    That'd be about it though. No spider or frog years exist and the only bird is chicken... good luck selling folks on a chicken skin for Mercy.

    Widowmaker?

    He means Widowmaker's thing is spiders, and there's no spider in the Chinese zodiac. Or frog for Lucio.

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited January 2017
    I am a she, btw.

    A Chinese she, too, in case that was not clear.

    Vixx on
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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    I didn't even know they were gonna acknowledge Lunar New Year at all so yeah I kinda wanna know if they're going to do Zodiac skins for the given year where possible. And if they do, Winston's got 11 years to wait.

    ...isn't he literally getting a monkey king skin?

    Yeah but that's from a classical Chinese story that has nothing to do with his zodiac animal.

    It's kinda hard to explain but it basically wouldn't count cuz it's not the year of the monkey anymore and I'm curious to know if they'd even consider doing zodiac-based skins in the current year.

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  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    Zodiac skins will probably be sprinkled across the Lunar Festival events. Just from a time and resources standpoint.

  • ChanceChance Registered User regular
    Chicken skin for Pharah plz ty.

    'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
  • davidsdurionsdavidsdurions Your Trusty Meatshield Panhandle NebraskaRegistered User regular
    This ain't no Chance level video/audio editing, but I'm experimenting with some software and thought I'd delve into the old Highlights chest. These are from the Open Beta and first week of the game being released. There's >8.5 minutes of highlights packed in here, but I tried livening it up with some choice tunes. Enjoy:

    https://youtu.be/OrZFGBSMAmU

    What I learned:

    1. There are some characters and moments that, when the beats are right, really go well with different kinds of music.

    2. I need to learn some keyboard shortcuts in this software so it isn't such a hassle to clip down videos.

    3. I'm going to need to record some with in-game audio during actual play because sometimes the reactions are the best part.

  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    I don't use Ana but I figured I would learn to use her.

    Wow. She's bad. Her SMG is a pea shooter, and she dead before she can hump an enemy long enough to silence hack them. In this current meta I can only see her being used, hiding behind Rein's shield, hacking the other Rein's shield.

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  • übergeekübergeek Sector 2814Registered User regular
    edited January 2017
    Just like that, I lost 100 rating. For some reason people just won't go healer or tank when it's needed. If we need 2 tanks, and I'm already one, me switching isn't going to help.

    übergeek on
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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    Cantido wrote: »
    I don't use Ana but I figured I would learn to use her.

    Wow. She's bad. Her SMG is a pea shooter, and she dead before she can hump an enemy long enough to silence hack them. In this current meta I can only see her being used, hiding behind Rein's shield, hacking the other Rein's shield.

    What do you want from her? She's a one-eyed old lady. All she knows is point n' click, and hard candies for the kids.

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    tonight I had the worst roadhog hook I've experienced.

    On Eichenwalde, when you leave the castle on the left you can walk up the rubble instead of going into the little two-story area, yeah?

    Well I get to the top of that rubble to ptew ptew someone on the top pile there. You can't see me from below, just hear me. And then a Roadhog down there right where the first gate is hooks me, and on the replay killcam, he can barely see the top of my head (you can just see my name) yet he throws the hook into the rubble pile there and it pulls me down. That's the kind of bullshit that shouldn't even exist with this stupid hook, I can't wait for the patch.

  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    Overwatch is now in-advance downloading a 1 gig patch

    A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    Cantido wrote: »
    I don't use Ana but I figured I would learn to use her.

    Wow. She's bad. Her SMG is a pea shooter, and she dead before she can hump an enemy long enough to silence hack them. In this current meta I can only see her being used, hiding behind Rein's shield, hacking the other Rein's shield.

    I was about to lay into you for really bad opinions until I realized you actually meant Sombra.

  • soylenthsoylenth Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Cantido wrote: »
    I don't use Ana but I figured I would learn to use her.

    Wow. She's bad. Her SMG is a pea shooter, and she dead before she can hump an enemy long enough to silence hack them. In this current meta I can only see her being used, hiding behind Rein's shield, hacking the other Rein's shield.

    What do you want from her? She's a one-eyed old lady. All she knows is point n' click, and hard candies for the kids.

    I think arc meant Sombra not Ana. Ana doesn't hack anything but she does make the best damn cup of tea you've ever had.

  • XeddicusXeddicus Registered User regular
    Cantido wrote: »
    I don't use Ana but I figured I would learn to use her.

    Wow. She's bad. Her SMG is a pea shooter, and she dead before she can hump an enemy long enough to silence hack them. In this current meta I can only see her being used, hiding behind Rein's shield, hacking the other Rein's shield.

    You mean Sombra. :P

  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
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    soylenth wrote: »
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Cantido wrote: »
    I don't use Ana but I figured I would learn to use her.

    Wow. She's bad. Her SMG is a pea shooter, and she dead before she can hump an enemy long enough to silence hack them. In this current meta I can only see her being used, hiding behind Rein's shield, hacking the other Rein's shield.

    What do you want from her? She's a one-eyed old lady. All she knows is point n' click, and hard candies for the kids.

    I think arc meant Sombra not Ana. Ana doesn't hack anything but she does make the best damn cup of tea you've ever had.

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  • ZekZek Registered User regular
    Jeff was saying in the last video that they don't think of Sombra as an assassin but more of a disabler, like a reverse support. I don't think that's really what the community wants from her though.

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