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The [Overwatch] Thread: June Joust Starts May 21

KanaKana Registered User regular
edited May 2021 in Social Entropy++
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BQIqtyrRRU

Overwatch is a team shooter from Blizzard. It's been out for like 3 years now, you probably know the deal by now.

There's also the Overwatch League, which is an esports league made up of multiple professional teams and also the Florida Mayhem. It's fun!

Replays just came out recently, you can now view your last 10 matches in the replay viewer, it gives you complete access to review the game from any viewpoint you want.

There should be a new hero out in July, but no solid hints are out yet.

Here's Kariv being very very very very good at Ana
https://youtu.be/G1qyxmPmMHI

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.
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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    josh "sideshow overwatch" wilkinson gets paid real dollars to talk about this game

    it is a relief for everyone that he does not draw a salary for playing it

    https://clips.twitch.tv/StrangePoliteTubersFutureMan

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  • BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    I cannot imagine the frustration of being on the same team as Sideshow.

    Steam Overwatch: Baidol#1957
  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    Baidol wrote: »
    I cannot imagine the frustration of being on the same team as Sideshow.

    The worst part is that sideshow never, ever tilts

    He's happy all the time he plays

    Even as he drags his team down, down, down

    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.
  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    also i don't have the clip on hand but haksal's POV during that one pharah sleep is hilarious as he slide whistles down the roof

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  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    Had a bit of a mess around with the replay viewer, caught a nice bit of incredibly annoying Symm play.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjRUJrCV6GI

    Chat not shown because it got very spicy

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    I saw Luci-Os at Kroger yesterday and I realized I had not played OW in ages

    I should find some time to fix that

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
  • mightyjongyomightyjongyo Sour Crrm East Bay, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    Ashcroft wrote: »
    Had a bit of a mess around with the replay viewer, caught a nice bit of incredibly annoying Symm play.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjRUJrCV6GI

    Chat not shown because it got very spicy

    The hanzo/rein really should've known better than to go through that door twice though

  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
  • BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    I'm traveling for most of July and, thus, won't be playing Overwatch for most of the month, so here's a video dump

    Ana-focused

    https://youtu.be/8rOfiM9V7WY

    Everything else

    https://youtu.be/wmcluDNZSnk

    One last Lucioball clicp

    https://youtu.be/mpbtFr1s-KQ

    And what I'm pretty sure is a glitch

    https://youtu.be/JohgwIBySMc

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  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    edited June 2019
    I have a few clips from Monday I should post, but was fun playing with the PA crew again! I should try busting out of bronze. . .

    EDIT: I of course saved my potg, but there were some silly mystery heroes moments to share.

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    I wish I would play with people instead of the highs and lows of pugging but few people are interested in playing just the arcade and QP

  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    edited June 2019
    I will always be down for mystery heroes, and sometimes quick play if I feel like actually making a hero decision.

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  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    I was laughing too hard to hit the f9 in time, but. . .
    https://youtu.be/aphxHBgQQDo

    The original moment was more amusing, but this is still funny.
    https://youtu.be/aiOvN9ycS9o

    And then that big play of the game.
    https://youtu.be/G37aT7i-vRU

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  • SixshotStrikerSixshotStriker Registered User regular
    Brig in the first clip: "I'm here to heal-...oh."

  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    Fissure is retiring from Overwatch and claims that 2-2-2 is coming for stage 4. The funniest outcome would be that this is one last troll from him so I hope that's the case

  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    God I hope it's not a troll. I am so sick to death of solo tanking or solo healing. And the amount of incredibly suspicious low level account DPS players that utterly destroy the other team has gone way up in the last 6 months, hopefully longer queue times will piss on their biscuits and make them quit smurfing.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Tonkka wrote: »
    I will always be down for mystery heroes, and sometimes quick play if I feel like actually making a hero decision.

    My normal crew is finally starting to shift away from MH after playing it almost exclusively since inception. I don't know if it's just a confirmation bias thing, or current balance makes it a worse proposition, but we just feel like we're getting comp fucked by the RNG way more often than we used to.

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    MH is so good when it works, less so when you're trying to attack Anubis A vs Double Symm Bastion Orisa Double Mercy

    I wish they'd just give no hero stacking a try in MH, almost every bad game in that mode is caused by that.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    time to cash in those OWL tokens, the jjonak skin is up

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Ashcroft wrote: »
    MH is so good when it works, less so when you're trying to attack Anubis A vs Double Symm Bastion Orisa Double Mercy

    I wish they'd just give no hero stacking a try in MH, almost every bad game in that mode is caused by that.

    That and when you end up 0 healers or tanks for extended periods. Sometimes you can break those horrible stacked comps ( especially since MH sometimes incentivizes you to make sacrifice plays to get rid of a troublesome hero and reset their ult), but when you consistently outplay a team but always lose the battle of attrition because you can't get a healer in your comp, it's demoralizing.
    Has anybody tried the "balanced" MH workshop mode? Does it end up forcing 1 person into the same role or does it try and cycle it a bit?

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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    time to cash in those OWL tokens, the jjonak skin is up

    damn unless i luck out i don’t think i’ll hit the 200 token price before the 14th

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    also

    fun fact

    you remember those tombstone victory poses that everyone hated so much they removed them from lootbox drops?

    TIL that the whole rest of the character models are just

    hangin out under there

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  • mightyjongyomightyjongyo Sour Crrm East Bay, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    ...did people really hate them that much? I thought it was thematically appropriate and kinda fun even if it wasn't really my jam

  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    I don't see myself ever switching off of the Widowmaker tombstone thing, because it's the single funniest thing in the game imo

  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    i thought they were fine

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  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    tbh that makes a lot of sense, it's probably a ton faster to just manipulate the existing model than re-edit and re-render a whole new one for a one-off use

  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    tbh that makes a lot of sense, it's probably a ton faster to just manipulate the existing model than re-edit and re-render a whole new one for a one-off use

    Yeah that kind of thing is done all the time, like Skyrim just varying how far a tree is shoved into the ground.

    But it definitely looks funny when you pull back the curtain.

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Hanzo all "Why am I even here they could have just taken the quiver off"

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    ...did people really hate them that much? I thought it was thematically appropriate and kinda fun even if it wasn't really my jam

    personally i love the idea of a victory screen popping up and just seeing a graveyard, but people complained about how they were the only things that they'd get in their loot boxes during that first halloween event, since they made so many and you'd only get 1 or 2 event items per box back then

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  • PerrsunPerrsun Registered User regular
    For me, they weren't great, but they weren't horrible. I liked the compromise they came to of having them available to buy but not in boxes.

  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    The only thing I didn't like about them taking them out of the boxes, is that I got so many low value dupes that could have been them instead.

    I'd rather have had them, instead of like, 15 credits or whatever a dupe of that value gets you.

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    I don't see myself ever switching off of the Widowmaker tombstone thing, because it's the single funniest thing in the game imo

    I use bastion's tombstone as mine because more often than not the whole enemy team will gang up on me

  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    That's got to be one of the shortest Volskayas ever. oof

  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
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    Seoul comes out on Nepal with 4 DPS and no tanks. Very interesting. They end up on Sombra GOATs soon after.

  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited June 2019
    ughhh this game is too late, i have to sleep
    but the chengdu chads are up 1 vs the san francisco shook aaaaaa

    edit:
    ohhhh YXL

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  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    Oh what a great segment.
    Sideshow hasn't watched any of the first half and he comes out and guesses the score before they show him a few setups from the first match and he has to guess what happens next. Highlights include guessing Jinmu 3k Barrage but he actually gets denied and killed by Choihyobin and guessing that YXL EMPs and wins the fight when he actually hits nobody with it. Sideshow almost falls over when he sees the last one.

  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    map 5 hyyyype

    rascal's a monster on baptiste

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  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    https://clips.twitch.tv/AnimatedTrappedTortoiseDoggo when you're clutch but also throwing

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