Tinks
Tinks
Since 6703 Days
I already spoiled the creation of this thread slightly in that thread which we shall not name here.



Let's discuss Overwatch!
It'll go live for everyone in just a few days and I'm already enjoying it of course as a pre-order person
I played it 3 hours straight with two friends tonight and feel like I'm only scraping the surface. I maybe understand ONE character fully at this point - Lucio and that's it.

Blizzard Animated Shorts in order
"Recall" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3WhdXPaUd8
"Alive" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlP-43NwrYY

Teaser/Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBIwGKDwnWY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwFu8kEsUW4

Official Channel for Character Profiles/Abilities
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClOf1XXinvZsy4wKP...

Gamespot 3 part Series
Fall of Titan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq-HwvYjLLg
90s Shooter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTMnJ5XJH6Q
Hero Salute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooWpfIazPRE

Wiki
http://overwatch.gamepedia.com/Overwatch_Wiki

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rayy
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Tinks
Tinks
Since 6703 Days
That is the best

Also:
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 6773 Days
Tinks meme/gif thread. I'll be sure to avoid it!
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asdfg
asdfg
Since 5607 Days
The two official comics that have been released:

Mcrees
https://comic.playoverwatch.com/en-us/mccree-train...

Reinhardt's!
https://comic.playoverwatch.com/en-us/reinhardt-dr...
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 6773 Days
And if you want extra codes... ask in general chat. That's worked twice so far.
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Tinks
Tinks
Since 6703 Days
Posted by asdfg
Awesome!

I'm soloing for a bit atm so I'm excited to try a few characters for fun

Just witnessed a team of Bastions just sit on spawn openings on my squad, but I feel like peeps should be able to get around that with a balanced team.
Guess we'll see.
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scoobs0688
scoobs0688
Since 5408 Days
I'll tell you what boys, that there overwatch is a pretty good vidyagamez
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Tinks
Tinks
Since 6703 Days
yeah it's pretty sweet

I need to play more and rank up so I can swim out of the sea of scrubs
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 6773 Days
I don't think quickplay will be anything but a mess in this beta. The sea levels are just going to rise tomorrow when the early access period ends. I doubt a few days is enough time for match making to really make heads or tails of things. That said... this game has good MMR and good match making.

And it has a competition mode that's disabled in the beta... where it is more of a sink-or-swim thing like other competitive matchmaking games... that delivers the best games but also most punishes solo queue.
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asdfg
asdfg
Since 5607 Days
Just gonna put this right here to trigger Grift. ^^

http://plays.tv/video/5727f524a3efe7a627/5-kill-q-...
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 6773 Days
The worst design in the game, and maybe the worst "feature" in any FPS I've ever played. And people get all pissy when you call it an aimbot. It speaks to the quality of the game that I still play it despite Soldier 76.

Consider me triggered. It makes me laugh at all the stuff that I complained about being "automated nonsense" in DirtyBomb. I'm sorry SplashDamage! I had it all wrong.

I think I'll go abuse it.
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 6773 Days
"Stats make people do dumb shit. It's a good call."

Fuck you, internet.
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Tinks
Tinks
Since 6703 Days
To be fair though there are a few Ult's like this that are close range insta kills though amirite?
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Tinks
Tinks
Since 6703 Days
Already a buzzfeed article? lolz
https://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/youre-trying-for...
"You got Roadhog, jeez I'm sorry"


What are your least favorite characters at this point? Do you even have one?


Also kinda old, but theorizing who the next heroes will be... or perhaps just old concepts?
http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/21/11278888/blizzard...


New Roadhog and Junkrat comic drops on May 5th
http://www.overpwn.com/

Guy 3d printed his own Tracer guns, pretty awesome
http://www.overpwn.com/forums/overwatch-general/he...
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asdfg
asdfg
Since 5607 Days
Well if Buzzfeed was a Overwatch hero it would be Junkrat.

New comic? Nice!
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 6773 Days
Posted by Tinks
To be fair though there are a few Ult's like this that are close range insta kills though amirite?
"To be fair" close range AOE instakills aren't aimbots.

It's garbage design and it doesn't belong in a "competitive" game at all.
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Well if Buzzfeed was a Overwatch hero it would be Junkrat.
Junkrat is pretty shitty too, but he's no Soldier. They're both silly.

Remember when someone tried to say that TF2 was more accessible than this? HAH!
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 6773 Days
Not only is Soldier's design 100% phoned in garbage, but he was one of the earliest heroes they completed according to Gamespot's vid doc series, and Blizzard seems convinced that they knocked it out of the park! He's perfect! No changes! Not even a nerf! Let's re-do Bastion again instead!

I think there should be some kind of relationship between difficulty and reward. There's really not in Overwatch.
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Tinks
Tinks
Since 6703 Days
You don't think Reaper's ult is an equivalent?
Soldier's design is certainly boring I'll give you that. Zarya's is kinda crap too

The only character you mention that I've experienced much issue with is Junkrat so far. The gun spam is real in an objective based game like this
Part of me feels like the eliminating the bounce would reduce the issue? Not sure

But I'm willing to see how things shake out as more people play longer
I think with competent teammates some of this stuff will go away

I thought you were enjoying the game though? Are you not?
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 6773 Days
Every single character in Overwatch is OP in some relationship to other characters. That's fundamentally OKAY. That's just how the game is balanced. But they didn't need to make everything so easy. Even sniping is easy, since low HP characters are one-hit-kills w/ body shots. And that includes Hanzo's scatter shot! Shooting the fucking floor should not 1HK Tracer.

Junkrat is not atypically abusive. He fits right in.

The flow of information sucks in the game too. Everything is a KILL, but kills aren't actually kills. Jeff Kaplan says that this isn't kids-glove bullshit, and yet they re-wrote the semantics of the genre to make sneezing on your opponent more rewarding. And god forbid anyone actually know who is contributing. If someone isn't "on fire", you're completely in the dark. The scorecards inadequate.

Team play and team composition outweigh individual skill in Overwatch. That is fundamentally OKAY. But you can achieve that without muting the skill curve across the board. You have to give players the ability to fail. When everyone wins, we're all losers.

And yeah I like the game. I've played it for hundreds of hours already. A few small (but fundamental) changes would go a long way in making it more viable as a competitive game.

Aimbots in eSports. What a load of crap.
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Tinks
Tinks
Since 6703 Days
Everyone doesn't win though do they? There are still winning teams and losing teams at the end of each round
You can still fail and get dominated
I can still be humiliated in someone's 'Play of the Game'

I think it's too early to judge the game. I want to see Competitive play and see where things go when they get into MLG shit
I'm interested to see higher level play with constant hero swaps (I assume) and certain pairings that start to dominate

I really like the space they're trying to occupy though. I feel like there's enough games that champion individual play, k/d, all the traditional FPS cliche's
It's simple but sometimes simple offers more fun? As I type this I realize it's an issue of constant debate on here between our preferences
Feels like they're trying to offer something new and refreshing here to me
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 6773 Days
Posted by Tinks
Everyone doesn't win though do they?
It's about excessive rewards and hand-holding bullshit. I think that was obvious.

If it has success as an eSports title, it will be because of promotion. Success in eSports is only kinda about the quality of the game. And I'm not advocating "championing individual play" at all. I'm advocating taking the kid-gloves off.

Also: an eSports game without round-to-round statistics or the ability to evaluate teammate performance is a joke.
Posted by Tinks
Feels like they're trying to offer something new and refreshing here to me
Everyone has been trying to reduce toxicity and reward mediocrity lately :D

There's a lot to like about Overwatch.. that won't prevent me from criticizing it.
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Tinks
Tinks
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What are your ideal changes to the game? Would you suggest minor tweaks or major ones?
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Megido
Since 6099 Days
yay, open beta finally downloadable!
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Cake or death!?

Tinks
Tinks
Since 6703 Days
Yeah and they just patched again

Curious to see how this affects the game.


It's completely pub tomorrow right?
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