Overwatch thread

[Moon Girard]

When is Blizzard deleting Hanzo from the game again?

[Person Man]

A new Hanzo skin is unlocked everytime a Hanzo player switches characters, which is why he'll never get any.

[Hyogo]

I NEED that Sun Wukong skin for Winston, Roadhog's is lovely too.

Here's hoping that's legit, the one week date does bug me out a little, but we did only just have Winter Wonderland...So idk.

EDIT: I heard that the date is a week trial thing, I'm not sure but whatever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[rednavi -RETIRED]

This is great

[Moon Girard]

Mercy and Sym getting new epics and highlight intros possible new epic for tracer(hard to tell with the crap quality) and a capture the flag mode which hopefully becomes permanent after the event

[Hyogo]

CTF would be amazing to have as a permanent mode, though I wish Tracer would stop getting skins.

[Darkflare]

Yea, I would hope CTF limits abilities or something cause Tracer/76/Reindhart are going to make flag captures easy

[Moon Girard]

Hell Sombra would break the mode with no limit on abilities if it's not limited to only Tracer.

[SlySuavity]

Has event costumes been priced at 3000 before? All I'm eyeing right now is that D.va~. <3

[Dumanios]

Has event costumes been priced at 3000 before? All I'm eyeing right now is that D.va~. <3

Event legendaries have.

[Darkflare]

It's a full fledged Seasonal event until February 13
Epic Skins:
Junkrat
Bastion
Tracer
Symmetra
Mercy

You've already seen the Legendary skins.

Brawl appears to be Hold the flag (Team oddball for you Halo players.)

[Moon Girard]

here's the full trailer

lol Hanzo officially has gotten the least individual event items(non sprays, voice lines or RiP victory pose since everyone available for those events got those things) now that Sombra is getting that fireworks victory pose.

[DelusionTrim]

Oh man these legendaries and epics look magnificent (I gotta get that Mei, Reinhardt, Roadhog and Zen... there is no way I'm not gonna get those) and Mei finally has a great legendary that's not a coat, not only that but she also has an alternate color with it, the best girl has it all.

And yeah poor Hanzo... most forgotten character in all events, I feel bad for the ones that play him :T

edit: How can you not love this woman, she's so Mei: https://twitter.com/25yolanda8866/status/823919615017238528



Patch notes have arrived too:

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20752795395

I just tested Roadhog now and the hook no longer clips through structures, instead it like bends against them like it would IRL. I tested it for a bit and one specific strategy that's most likely gone, is when you hook someone from far and you walk back into a wall to avoid open fire, I did it just now and the hook disconnects as soon as I go behind a wall... sucks that this is gone, but even as someone who plays a lot of Roadhog, it's probably for the best.

Also Lucio can back wall ride now, to do it though you have to turn on the option in the control settings.

[Hyogo]

Loving Wukong and the other skins, hoping Season 3 ends soon so I can get me a gold weapon for Zenyatta.

[Darkflare]

Spoiler (click to show)

But enough about me

Spoiler: What does Tumblr think about Mei's new skin? (click to show)

On another note, I feel like the xp gain in the new brawl is pretty low. As for the brawl itself, I have mixed feelings about it.

[Moon Girard]

Symmetra needs to be removed from the new brawl she ruins the whole mode and Torb ain't much better.

[Darkflare]

It really depends on how many defenders there are. Torb and Symmetra alone won't be able to hold off a well coordinated attack. Mei can wall off Torb's turret long enough to grab the flag and Winston can still tear apart Symm's turrets. I find Pharah to be really good in the Garden area with so much open space, provided the enemy doesn't have a 76/McCree/Widow/Ana that can aim.

[Moon Girard]

Every match i've had has had Torb, Sym, Hog and Junkrat defending the flag which is about as fun as passing kidney stones.

[Darkflare]

I never saw a Junkrat on my end and the hogs were attacking instead. Not to mention that something needs to be left behind or you risk things like this happening instead and you would wish their team was turtling instead.

[DelusionTrim]

The new mode is pretty fun, the problem I've encountered though is that it seems a little too hard sometimes to catch the flag, whether it's my team or the enemy's. There also seems to be a bit of a coordination problem when attacking but it may be because it's a new mode.

On the other hand, I have like 5 lunar boxes to open by now... I'm one of those people that likes to open the boxes when there is quite a few of them heh.

Also lol @tumblr's reaction to Mei's new skin, I was actually imagining something like that was going on somewhere on the internet but that they should've known that she just wears a very thick coat that's it...



Item tracker for the new event is up:

https://js41637.github.io/Overwatch-Item-Tracker/