OWL returns to The OVERWATCH Thread

Ashcroft · September 2017

Welcome to season 6

Overwatch, we love it, we all hate it, we all play it, especially these people

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RFACI8XMRoMQdcC5io6s8JjRkn4-RR0_j0nqXJnbMeY/edit#gid=0

Hi hello post about Overwatch already

MrMonroe · September 2017

Just lost 8/10 of my placements (I hate everyone)

placed 100 points lower than I was at the end of last season, still in gold.

Dys · September 2017

I've been meaning to post a couple Genji highlights here.

The first one of these was actually in a comp match at the end of last season. I seemed like it was definitely going to be a loss, so I swapped to Genji and someone else went Pharah for the sake of having fun. We actually turned it around to win the next three rounds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lQB75X3Jug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKrYtVtBw4E

godmode · September 2017

My comp history includes four seasons of placing around 1500-Ish cause I primarily heal. I missed last season because I was overseas. Today I finished my placements, and imagine my surprise when I placed 2500.

godmode · September 2017

Also

RandomEncounter · September 2017

Nice

Fencingsax · September 2017

Noice

Ashcroft · September 2017

Oh, the Blizzard store is back online.

Finally, I can go back to staring at the D.Va statue like a child at the window of a sweet shop.

ameybes · September 2017

I was so excited about this I even bothered editing the POTG & my recorded highlight so I didn't miss any!

https://youtu.be/CmzIPQJliUY

Henroid · September 2017

This highlight is fucking weird and it wasn't until just now when uploading when I remembered why it counted as a highlight the game wanted to grab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bydp0FjsUvU

It isn't shown at the start, but I had booped a Hanzo off the ledge, and it was quite delayed because he partially climbed back up or something.

Butler For Life #1 · September 2017

finished my first ever placement matches

I got 1299, Bronze

I was hoping for at least silver, but now I have a chance to improve and work my way up

Death of Rats · September 2017

I'm really enjoying playing deathmatch and only picking my least played character.

Brainleech · September 2017

I too enjoy Deathmatch

https://youtu.be/2qnzkym9DhA

Butler For Life #1 · September 2017

Butler For Life #1 wrote: »

finished my first ever placement matches

I got 1299, Bronze

I was hoping for at least silver, but now I have a chance to improve and work my way up

Update: 2 matches, 2 quick wins, 100 points away from silver

2 more matches, 2 losses, now I have 1 more point than I started with

Overwatch giveth and overwatch taketh away

Henroid · September 2017

Brainleech wrote: »

I too enjoy Deathmatch
https://youtu.be/2qnzkym9DhA

That would've been the sickest deployment of Reaper's ult I've seen yet.

Edit - lol that typo.

SirToasty · September 2017

Finished placements 6-4 and got 3067. First time I've placed directly in Diamond so that's nice! Played a lot more D.va and Zarya than I have recently.

godmode · September 2017

Butler For Life #1 wrote: »

Butler For Life #1 wrote: »

finished my first ever placement matches

I got 1299, Bronze

I was hoping for at least silver, but now I have a chance to improve and work my way up

Update: 2 matches, 2 quick wins, 100 points away from silver

2 more matches, 2 losses, now I have 1 more point than I started with

Overwatch giveth and overwatch taketh away

This right here is why I play my placements and then stop playing comp for the season

Marathon · September 2017

FFA death match is starting to turn into Hanzotown USA and it's not very fun.

Ashcroft · September 2017

Last night I managed to stall the cart right by the subway entrance on Kings Row for the whole time it took for my entire team to run back from the attack spawn during overtime, after they all got killed at once by a Junk tyre.

I was 1 v 6 and somehow they just couldn't kill me, even after destroying the mech. It must have been 30 seconds or more.

Genji and Rein came back with ult, we wiped them and ended up pushing it all the way.

I feel like it was better than any multi-kill or streak I've ever done.

WiseManTobes · September 2017

Marathon wrote: »

FFA death match is starting to turn into Hanzotown USA and it's not very fun.

I wonder if we'll ever see characters balanced separately for FFA to open up more diverse picks.

#pipe · September 2017

I played my first three placement rounds and they were all filled with smurfs so I got mad and stopped playing them.

godmode · September 2017

Isn't there a report option for that now?

templewulf · September 2017

Ashcroft wrote: »

Last night I managed to stall the cart right by the subway entrance on Kings Row for the whole time it took for my entire team to run back from the attack spawn during overtime, after they all got killed at once by a Junk tyre.

I was 1 v 6 and somehow they just couldn't kill me, even after destroying the mech. It must have been 30 seconds or more.

Genji and Rein came back with ult, we wiped them and ended up pushing it all the way.

I feel like it was better than any multi-kill or streak I've ever done.

I love doing that as Lucio, but D.Va doesn't even have wall-riding! How did you manage?

Ashcroft · September 2017

templewulf wrote: »

Ashcroft wrote: »

Last night I managed to stall the cart right by the subway entrance on Kings Row for the whole time it took for my entire team to run back from the attack spawn during overtime, after they all got killed at once by a Junk tyre.

I was 1 v 6 and somehow they just couldn't kill me, even after destroying the mech. It must have been 30 seconds or more.

Genji and Rein came back with ult, we wiped them and ended up pushing it all the way.

I feel like it was better than any multi-kill or streak I've ever done.

I love doing that as Lucio, but D.Va doesn't even have wall-riding! How did you manage?

I have no idea. I just kept jumping.

MrMonroe · September 2017

Marathon wrote: »

FFA death match is starting to turn into Hanzotown USA and it's not very fun.

just play Winston and eat all of their fun

Tonkka · September 2017

Okay, I'm going to try competitive placements tomorrow.

Henroid · September 2017

Marathon wrote: »

FFA death match is starting to turn into Hanzotown USA and it's not very fun.

It's more of McCreeville to me. The only two characters I hate dying to in DM are him and Genji. Everyone else I can deal with because, even in the hands of a super-expert-pro, there are ways to fight them to level the playing field more.

Ashcroft · September 2017

McCree's flashbang + right-click is just the cheapest shit in FFA. A combo like that has no place in a deathmatch game.

Einzel · September 2017

Does the single player DM bonus box work now?

Butler For Life #1 · September 2017

Was playing some 3v3 Elimination as Junkrat

Found a Sombra translocator

Did I place a mine on it? Yes

Did I detonate it the second she popped in? Also yes

Blowed up real good

Henroid · September 2017

It's really funny to me when a match is full of characters who aren't exactly killers, so everyone is clearly having fun. Except the one McCree player, who brags about being #1.

Einzel · September 2017

4v4 DM is so terrible pugging it. Either you join 10 kills down or your team is literally playing with their feet.

Henroid · September 2017

They need to up the backfill bonus XP for DM and team DM because how can you have any hope of winning when you're down by 10 from the start?

Einzel · September 2017

I've had 15 matches and one win.

Final tally 2 wins, 19 matches in 4v4 DM.

WiseManTobes · September 2017

Butler For Life #1 wrote: »

Was playing some 3v3 Elimination as Junkrat

Found a Sombra translocator

Did I place a mine on it? Yes

Did I detonate it the second she popped in? Also yes

Blowed up real good

It's fun when you find one and just toss a mine and a trap on it and carry on your way , then just flick right click when you get the trap triggered message.

Einzel · September 2017

Henroid wrote: »

They need to up the backfill bonus XP for DM and team DM because how can you have any hope of winning when you're down by 10 from the start?

At this point it's just a waste of time and excessive aggravation when you backfill into a DM. Why even bother?

Henroid · September 2017

Einzel wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

They need to up the backfill bonus XP for DM and team DM because how can you have any hope of winning when you're down by 10 from the start?

At this point it's just a waste of time and excessive aggravation when you backfill into a DM. Why even bother?

That's what I'm getting at. People sit in queues only to be delivered into an unwinnable situation. May as well give them something for their time.

I found out a couple days ago that if two or three people quit a DM, it will start a reinstancing queue regardless of time / score. So a match near its end can be cancelled out by sore losers.