Overwatch thread

[DelusionTrim]

Ranked matches have been a lot more intense ever since I got to rank 50 but I say this in a good way, during the 40s ranking it felt like a good amount of matches were one sided but now it feels like that even if we seem to outplay the other team, they can outplay us in the next one too. Just this game I had in Hanamura we went 5-5 into Sudden Death and we won but even Sudden Death didn't feel one sided like it is sometimes.

Hopefully I can at least stay in the 50-60 gap (on the brink of becoming 55), it's a such a huge difference compared to 40-50 and I love it, matches have been more fun than before.

Also, it seems like McCree's nerf to his range falloff wasn't from 35 to 25 meters, according to someone on reddit it was actually decreased to 20. For reference the damage fall off for him pre-Ana patch was 18... his FtH definitely feels more useful now though, I haven't tried it out but I'm positive that he can kill Genji if he lands the flashbang + FtH combo.

[rednavi -RETIRED]

Don't worry. As soon as you're close to 60 you'll get hit by bad luck and rank down like a fucker.

I got to 57, pixels away from 58 and then went all the way down to 53 in a single day. Thanks a lot, fucking leavers and awful teammates :/ . Solo queue is suffering.

[DelusionTrim]

Man Blizzard should seriously pay attention to the current situation of the Defense Heroes, you know it's not looking good for them when they are not being picked that much even for defense teams, most players are just preferring to pick offensive ones instead since they are usually more effective.

At least now McCree won't make Widowmaker irrelevant anymore (or Pharah nearly unplayable) because they nerfed his falloff range, but still outside of maybe Junkrat I rarely see any of the other Defense Heroes being used (and even then Junkrat isn't used that much in general)... Symmetra too, and even though she's a "support" her role is more among the lines of defense.

[Darkflare]

Now that everyone's gotten their Ana fix and are going back to their regular heroes, I've taken the opportunity to use her myself and damn, I really love using her.
Need to work on my aim a bit for friendly Pharas and Genjis, but otherwise, if the team is competent I can keep them in the fight longer while staying out of harm's way unless the enemy goes way out of their way for me. Grenades are good for quick heals and to top off a critically wounded tank back to full. Also great for dealing with Mercy's patients.
Managed to find situations where I could save a teammate with the sleep dart instead of just myself. Feels great to turn the tables on an enemy that thought he would get an easy kill.

[DelusionTrim]

I find it so hard to hit targets (whether it's allies or enemies) with her grenades for some reason, the hitbox on that thing doesn't look as big as it seems... same goes to her sleep dart, at its best I manage to hit tanks because they are so wide, gotta practice the aiming of that.

Her ult combination with Genji is insane too, he becomes a nearly unstoppable killing machine with that... I think only once the team I was on was able to stop him.

And Darkflare if you are not aware of it, using her scope makes her bullet a hitscan instead of a projectile so keep that in mind because it's definitely useful.

[Darkflare]

Really now? I assumed it was always a hitscan.  Definitely have to get in the habit of scoping more if thst's the case.

[DelusionTrim]

Sometimes it feels bad to play Mei because the other teammates think it's my fault that we lost...

We're in Nepal, first round we win and this guy says "this Mei", not sure if I should take it as a compliment even though I helped a lot but whatever. Then cut to the next round and we lose, this guy comes up and says mid match for me to just quit. The entire time during this ranked match I was gold in eliminations, and had at least a couple silver medals... not only that, I even blocked D.Va's ult a couple of times to prevent her from killing all of those who were helpless, , and when we lost this set at least two of my teammates say that I "didn't do anything" and that it was my fault that we lost the match.

I just don't understand, I know she gets a bad rep but come on even when I'm doing good with her some people still complain like I didn't contribute to the team at all, had we won I doubt they would've put the blame on me :/

[rednavi -RETIRED]

Delicious second ban wave tears: http://imgur.com/a/ZzSGi

[DelusionTrim]

I was just about to post that, we must think alike Red :V

"You're gonna ban people who paid MONEY for this game?"

"what is blizzards ****ing problem? it must be ilegal to do something like this just banning us for running an external program that doesn't even hack the game. it was just a mouse bot ARE THEY GONNA BAN ME FOR USING PAINT NOW TOO"

Just wow these people feel so entitled for cheating as if there's nothing wrong with that, nice to see such harsh punishment for cheaters as they ruin games and such (not sure if I've ever encountered one so far, but still good riddance).

[rednavi -RETIRED]

Overwatch ruined, and not because of the Brazil map and the sport skins but because there are about 80 items that are going to be exclusive to the upcoming summer crate (Which replaces the standard crate and guarantees at least one event item), event which will only last for 3 weeks. Then you can say goodbye to the chance of ever getting all the items from that crate :/



Guess it's time to grind until you get at least the skins and highlight intros, if RNG ever helps you.

[R565]

OH RNGesus, please let my and my cousin get this stuff before it ends...

[rednavi -RETIRED]

The wording is actually kinda vague. No one is still sure if the summer items are going to be gone forever after the summer boxes are gone. Maybe they'll be part of the regular drop table?



Everything does seem to go towards summer box exclusive crap but we'll see. Worst case scenario, I hope they can rerelease the box and the items at least once a year for a few weeks.

[Moon Girard]

http://imgur.com/a/rgoVB



All that freedom brings a tear to my eye.

Lucioball is pretty fun

[DelusionTrim]

I like that McCree color a lot... here's hoping I get lucky and manage to get that along with Lucio and Zarya's costume (I'm probably one of the few who really likes the cyber goth costume, but her olympic ones are alright too).

[DelusionTrim]

So apparently the servers are down due to a DDos attack from the salty hackers that got banned recently:

http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/overwatchblizzard-servers-currently-due-ddos-attack/

These people are so unbelievable, holy shit.

[Darkflare]

In other news, those Ana buffs are the buffs that I never knew I've always wanted.

Feels so good to play Ana now.

[DelusionTrim]

So on another topic, looks like the Summer Games trailer dropped some very interesting hints:

http://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=Sombra_ARG

There's apparently a certain number according to the direction that's presented in specific maps of the trailer, so far these have been found:

Mercy - E - Route 66 - 35
D'Va - C - Anubis - 2
Torbjorn - N - Nepal -
Gengi - S - Hanamura - 18
McCree - SE - Hollywood - 9
Symmetra - W - Gibraltar -
Bastion - SW - Hollywood - 7
Winston - NE - Volskaya -
Tracer - NW - Kings Row -

Anubis is the easiest to find, it's 2 (it's right next to one of the doorways that's close to Obj A)... I tried to find the ones for Gibraltar, Volskaya and Nepal but had no luck... I guess Anubis is just supposed to be the obvious one :T

[DelusionTrim]

Dunno if it's luck, but I went from mid 50 to 61 in ranked last sunday... just got to 62, if I keep it this way at least I can get the 200 CPs bonus, but if I go 65 and above I get 300... tempting to say the least, Golden Abominable Mei gun here we go!

Also, been trying out Junkrat as of late since he was my least played hero of the game... he's pretty damn fun! Many times I burst out of laughter due to how over the top his personality is. His ult is so easy to destroy though, you really gotta know how to make a surprise entrance with this thing.

[Person Man]

Junkrat is best girl.

The best thing to keep in mind with his ult is that it can climb walls.  If you can position yourself right before setting it off it's great for sneak attacks.

[DelusionTrim]

Best... girl? What are you talking about :V

Yeah the wall climb thing is something I always forget about for some reason, also getting used hide to do an ult is so odd, sometimes I found myself doing it in opened areas lol.

Also, Lucio and Zen has such a great synergy now... damn is this duo good in matches.