05-23-2016, 02:31 PM | #1 |
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Obligatory Overwatch thread for Blizzard Hegemony
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Story Gameplay Assuming you're old enough to remember when the Orange Box was an actual product, TF2 with characters borrowing MOBA skill elements in a game not encrusted with several years of weapon and feature bloat. Discuss How much of Mei's fanbase hinges on her being a Hollywood 7/10, meaning that despite being a world class scientist she would totally be down with your neckbeard and MLP collection
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05-23-2016, 04:31 PM | #2 |
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A lot of characters look super fun. From what I've seen Tracer, Reaper, Bastion and that cowboy...Mcree? Yeah they look exceptionally fun.
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05-23-2016, 05:33 PM | #3 |
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I liked Reaper most when I played the beta.
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Pretty much my only method of beating him is D.Va shield, and I'd need reliable teammates who can quickly murder him
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05-23-2016, 05:57 PM | #5 |
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Man I wish my laptop wasn't complete ass so I could play Overwatch - I've seen a bunch of gameplay and looked up all... most of the characters and it seems so fun to me even though I'm not a lover of the FPS Genre. Sucks, I'd have loved to drop some beats with Lucio.
Oh well ;~;
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05-24-2016, 12:43 AM | #6 |
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EDIT: I also commend Blizzard on making a healing support (Lucio) who isn't concentrated boredom to play
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Mercy irritates me because she relies so heavily on line of sight which is very bad for a squishy support. If you're in a place with long lines of sight, you open yourself up to getting assassinated.
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Everything about him is cool. His voice, his background, his music, his sound gun that can force push, his kit, his everything. I legit have "We move together as one" as one of my music tabs open because that shit is banging. Legit if it weren't for him looking so good I never would have even considered trying Overwatch and would have just enjoyed the new source of meme income from afar. ...heck I think I might have a crush on him aaa >Bastion Speaking of meme income, if I had a pound for every post I've seen where people complain about bastion getting play of the game... well I wouldn't be a billionare but I'd be pretty rich regardless. Though I can understand the frustration - it doesn't seem like it is a mechanically intensive... hero? Is that the title of the playable characters? Idk, I digress. It doesn't look mechanically intensive so other people's clutch big looking plays end up being drowned out by it's ability to multikill with ease. And if they're learning heroes that look like they need a lot of time and patience to master, like uh... Zarya (that gravity/shield lady), I guess being beaten by a Bastion would feel like being beaten in the Olympic Gymnastics by someone with a simpler routine. You've both worked hard and put in the time and effort and energy to learn the routines so it's fair that the other entrant won, but it doesn't feel fair because your efforts to use more complex moves weren't recognised. On the other hand, people seem to have a knee-jerk reaction whenever "not mechanically intensive" characters that do well are released in any game, reviling them and making people who may not have the mechanics to play another character - or perish the thought, ENJOY playing characters like Bastion - out to be the scum of the earth and the worst player. It feels kinda unfair to them too, ya know? But on the third hand I haven't played Overwatch at all and this is all coming from my (casual) experience of the league community. And I probably am sounding like one of those "holier than thou" uppity assholes right now so I'll wrap things up - My point is just don't play Bastion. It's not worth losing your soul over, and I will probably irrationally hate you and I don't want to do that.
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You won't always want to transform from turret mode, even to reload, and in most defense cases blowing all 200 bullets and reloading when everyone else is dead is better than tossing some shots and trying to use Recon to finish or chase.
Part of the issue is that people don't charge in all at once cuz they're all afraid of dying. By the time people have enough courage to charge the Bastion it's usually given him time to reload so he can murder again. The dude's just annoying and he'll probably get nerfs. If it were up to me I'd halve his turret-mode magazine so that the drawback you mentioned is more noticeable. Also, really? When I played Mercy it was either "follow your hanzo around" or "discover Widowmaker's location."
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05-26-2016, 06:48 AM | #12 |
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Surprised no one here has mentioned Genji yet. He's a flat out counter to Bastion's bullshit sprays, since you can reflect all of his bullets back at him for massive damage, if not flat out killing the Bastion. |
05-26-2016, 07:22 AM | #14 |
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Out ranging. As both you can snipe from outside Bastion's range.
Hardly counters though. |
05-26-2016, 10:52 AM | #15 |
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I've heard walking around him is an excellent counter :x
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05-26-2016, 07:38 PM | #16 |
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So I've been playing for a while and I've made a few little plays:
Spoiler: show Also Bastion is only a problem for new players who don't really understand team composition. He's a nuisance, sure, but easily countered by flankers that can get to his weak spot on his back (Yup, he has a crit spot on his back in turret mode). Generally all teams will start with Lucio/Reinhardt on offense so you just rush him down with Amp it Up and Shield. It does require a bit of co-ordination but new players will get the hang of it eventually. Bastion is a pain in the arse atm mainly because players don't know what synergises well with what and how to play with/against particular characters. So the Bastion shit-storm is gonna be short lived. Last edited by Midgeorge; 05-26-2016 at 07:48 PM. |
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So like, worth the buy or not?
Asking probably doesn't even matter at this point considering I guess I'll be getting it no matter what most likely Mostly for D. Va because I'm fucking trash |
05-26-2016, 10:32 PM | #18 |
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>Not getting it for Mei
Trash confirmed I might get this game but only when it's on sale in maybe a year or so (not entirely sure how often Blizzard does sales so.) Too poor otherwise Albeit my PC might need an upgrade to play it with 60 fps.
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And yeah, he's not likely to be nerfed: he's strong now because we're in day 3-4 of general release and people are still learning the characters and maps. He's going to lose his luster or require more support from his team to pwn once people know enough to not run into his line of fire like lemmings off a cliff. I don't know how much weight Blizzard will put on competitive Overwatch, but he doesn't see a lot of play there for basically the same reason competitive TF2 isn't being run by Engineers with level 3 sentries. Quote:
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At first I was a little upset that the skins and accessories weren't very interesting, but then I remembered what happened to TF2. More recolors, please!
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Picked up a Decent Reaper Quadkill to win the game.
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05-31-2016, 01:32 PM | #23 |
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Reaper is literally Katarina.
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05-31-2016, 05:08 PM | #24 |
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I love Hero switching as I can now be multiple kinds of trash all in the same game.
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05-31-2016, 11:17 PM | #25 |
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POTG I'm pretty proud of considering I'm only Lv 7. Visuals glitched out in the replay for some reason, so you can't see the mech go catapulting into the middle of the capture point and nuking their entire team.
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