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haha. Oh the idea of teammates ever helping turrets.
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I agree on this there's no reason to lose a buff because you used a cleanse ability. "Oh no I'm in trouble - thank goodness I can use my single defensive skill and relieve myself of these troublesome heals."
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
I just think the RIP Tire shouldn't be able to turn on a time, avoiding deliberately aimed shots by jittering the mouse.
Edit: omg but I came to post I just had 2 fun as balls games on route 66. On defense my brother wants to play Reaper so I go Zen, and really get my ass handed to me by their Pharah on the first check. Point B our Ham switches to Orisa and we hold it down, making them fight for every inch and I start gettin' some real work done, but I have terrible ult usage.
Final point, we do an awesome job holding them and I pull off some stuff I'm really proud of, but they're like 10 meters from the end and when I die I switch to Tracer, come outta' spawn like a mad dog and one or two-clip everything in sight. Turn around, blink back to spawn, switch to Zen. Held 'em off for another minute, switched back in overtime, ended up 7 and 0 on Tracer for the game.
Then went Tracer on attack, 29 and 3 and a 4k PotG it was awesome.
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
Sound Barrier does give ult I thought?
As for turrets...yeah maybe.
But Bob? Ashe instantly trash tiered. I'm going to call it "being Roadhog'd".
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I occasionally damage beam Bob. He's kind of a turret. I assume it helps? I should probably look that up.
It 100% does - you can heal and nanoboost him too.
Hm I was sure SB didn't. Must test!
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
Hm. Google seems to agree. You win this round, facts!
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
I know it used to for most of the game's life, but I could have super ultra sworn that they changed that in one of the patches from the last few months to make it consistent with other temporary shields (so none of them give ult). But for the life of me I can't find it posted or listed anywhere. Maybe I just dreamed it all...
Also missing Hanzo, but ... meh. I"m also downloading apex legends though, but after watching some streams I don't think it's exactly my kind of game so I think it won't impact my thriving overwatch lifestyle. Although Anthem might for a bit.
Of course, I had to try out the skin, so I had a rein vs rein match where we ultimately lost but it was really fun. I had a great highlight where I slammed 3 people, charge killed two and fire-striked a zen to death. HE had POTG from later on where I slammed FOUR squishies and was charging in to glory, only to be slammed and murdered by him hiding around the corner. I am 100% positive they knew my hammer was up, read that I was about to use it and let me charge into the trap. He/she/they also had a golden hammer so ... yeah. Well deserved win for them. I still don't quite grok how to push with rein, but he's fun in those moments where it clicks.
Also, I am still murder on Orisa. 4 gold medals, most of my elims were 100% kills on aggressive squishies who keep thinking I won't point my gun at their head close range. We lost, but only because I can only carry so far (I am really aggressively average). You guys see what I'm doing here? SHOOT THEM IN THE HEAD. Also: shield. You might have noticed I have placed a shield here for your protection.
Same - and while I'll still burn through a SB on someone who was low-health before Lucio dropped the beat just to try to kill them before they get healed up, I swear I'm like consciously ignoring SB'd targets in favor of those who missed it lately just because of the ult charge - like I remember looking at my ult charge and seeing it not move as I damaged someone.
...but Brutal tends to know their shit and Google agrees. I just don't know what to believe.
@soylenth when an Orisa can land headshots you know it.
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
Well la dee dah with our fancy healers and peelers helpin' their tanks.
I'm just kiddin' I'm peelin'.
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
Tried it for half an hour before I got bored. Seems like the Overwatchish abilities barely come into play and it's 95% identical to Fortnite.
game dayyyy
also if you haven't been keeping up during the offseason here's some vids to get you up to speed
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Not identical to Fortnite by any means, but yeah it is a Battle Royale game first. In particular, anyone being able to use the same guns and equipment is a core principle of that genre. Overwatch on the other hand is a game that was designed around every character having incredibly powerful abilities, with guns specialized around their kit. I remember first playing this game and being blown away by how crazy strong all the abilities were compared to TF2. Like, a character that can fly almost forever? A walking turret that can kill anybody near-instantly? Massive shields that block all damage? It's all busted as hell. But it works because everybody is designed to counter somebody else's OP shit.
It has its pros and cons - one of the things I got sort of burnt out on in Overwatch is just how hard the counters are. Team comp is absolutely everything, to an extent you didn't see quite as much in TF2. So if you're stuck on a team with an incorrect comp against your opponents, you're not going to have a fun game.
About the only thing i'm really missing right now are more healer choices.
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I've wanted something to point out the pieces of shit who leave games and not be teamed up with them. Unless Blizzard is willing to count that as gameplay sabotage (which to me is 100% accurate), I get so sick of such a light slap on the wrist in terms of just denying normal xp. At this point the silver portraits probably don't care about xp and they'd probably just buy loot boxes instead so if they leave they don't care.
Exactly. The toxic people (throwers, leavers, etc.) will get either long queue times or stuck with each other (which would be good). It's an actual punishment, which is how you create disincentives.
At this point, I think Blizzard wants to do the bare minimum to be seen as doing something, but without doing enough to actually affect behavior and avoid blowback from toxic players.
I said I'm trying baba
Also I noticed they won't call GOATS "GOATS," they keep saying triple tank triple support.
And a Moira and a Sombra PotG from QP.
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
Iirc it's named after some rando team that devised it first, ofc that wouldn't be confusing at all in the commentary
(Also I hate the name and think it's stupid)
I played 3 or 4 rounds and uninstalled. I like the characters, like the shooting, but it turns out I hate the battle royale format. Alternately boring and frustrating. Yet another game format that might work for me if I were at all social online or any of my real life friends actually gamed.
Should get the tracer skin tonight. Will probably just be okay not having the Hanzo skin. I love hanzo, but that skin is very meh to me and I only really want it for completeness.
There was no chance Bastion was ever going to be a common component of any OWL team, even with his buffs. He'll get pulled out for surprise cheese/stall comps and that's it. He's just way too easy to counter by a properly prepared and coordinated team.
1. Teams will always play what's safest/they are more comfortable with.
2. Blizzard's sledgehammer nerfs can be harmful at times.
That said even though double sniper dominated last year you did see more picks as time went on.
But yeah the one meta being the meta is something they still have to work out.
Case in point - NYXL just tried to run a Bastion/Orisa trap on the first point of Route 66 defense, and Boston went triple dive tank and destroyed it immediately. Bastion's great for pub stomping and that's about it.
are drops enabled right now? i'm on twitch but don't see the little 'battlenet ID connected' badge
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Only if he can be comically scraped off on low ceilings.
Nod. Get treat. PSN: QuipFilter
Did the team that fielded her win?
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid