Overwatch thread

[Person Man]

Awesome!  New shorts for both of my favorite characters in the same week!  Although clearly Mei's had a bit more budget poured into it.

[Darkflare]

https://blizztrack.com/patch_notes/overwatch_ptr/39362

[Hyogo]

Love the new Mercy, to hell with that boring hiding style of play she currently has.

[Darkflare]

[GenericFurryDude]

According to the forums that's a bug and will most likely get fixed? It's fucking sick though.

[DelusionTrim]

Tested D.Va and Mercy a little bit, and man I'm digging the DVa redesign even more than I thought I would. Her buffs make her so much more versatile, the missiles ability seems really powerful as she can do some serious damage in combination with her weapon, or choose to DM a bit while dealing damage. Last but not least, dashing while firing feels fantastic. Making her less of a DM bot is definitely a step in the right direction.

As for Mercy, I've never played her much but I'm liking her redesign as well. I really think they needed to do something about her ress ult, and this New one she has gives her so much stuff (her gun has infinite ammo and is fast, It caught me off guard). I like How this redesign makes her more complex overall.

Now that I got that out of the way... I do Hope they redesign Orisa's ult sometime soon. Mercy's new ult makes her heal/power-up beam chain with her teammates, and given how much Mercy can do during this new ult, It makes Orisa's kinda pale in comparison since it only amplifies the damage of her teammates. I think they should eventually redesign her ult to be in line with a defensive one (she is an anchor tank after all).

[Hyogo]

PTR Patch came out a lil earlier, D.Va's missles got nerfed lmao.

Still testing if Mercy got a nerf with her ult or whatever.

[DelusionTrim]

What nerf did It get? I cant find anything about it.

Speaking of D.Va, playing her in PTR made me realize that the dash buff means I cant cancel It with her primary fire anymore so I'll have to get used to it. Kinda wish they would put a secondary option to cancel It with shift, in that instead of pressing It again you Just let off of the button.

[Hyogo]

What nerf did It get? I cant find anything about it.

I believe all missles hitting is 180 damage in total, was somewhere in the 200's before.

[Hyogo]

PTR has Junkertown and a Mercy ult nerf on there, nice map, definitely better than Dorado imo.

Mercy nerf being that her Pistol has no added damage & firing rate when used, infinite ammo during it is still there, also her flight was slightly reduced during it.

[Hyogo]

https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/915275560380637186

Halloween update confirmed for 10th of October, new skins for McCree (Van Helsing inspired) and a Vampire/Dracula skin for Reaper
Obviously more skins to be expected, but I love the Reaper one so much.

[Beta158]

Well then. I hope Tf2 doesn't has the "Pyro" update on the 10th as well. It could be too much time on my hands.

[Hyogo]

Some skins got leaked.
https://dotesports.com/overwatch/overwatch-halloween-2017-skins-leaked-mei-symmetra-17866
There might be more (other than McCree) but we'll have to see, I'm happy with these regardless.

I'm so happy to see one for Zenyatta, Gold orbs with that are going to look amazing!!

[Person Man]

Holy shit, that jiangshi skin for Mei!  That looks incredible!  I've been trying to save up so I can get the Dr. Junkenstein skin I missed last time around, but I need that Mei skin.

[Hyogo]

Event is live! (Few hours ago, but nobody posted)

And here's some screens I took with Zenyatta and Reaper with their Gold weapons applied with their new skins.
https://twitter.com/Sir_Hyogo/status/917825898300301319
https://twitter.com/Sir_Hyogo/status/917826857650786304

Also I did NOT expect Winston to get a Blizzcon skin.
...And I went ahead and bought the ticket to get it...haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...

[Xhominid]

Holy shit, that jiangshi skin for Mei!  That looks incredible!  I've been trying to save up so I can get the Dr. Junkenstein skin I missed last time around, but I need that Mei skin.

I caved...and bought the Zenyatta Halloween skin because Cthulhu bitch!
But then after the 2nd box I open was Mei's Jiang Shi skin...game knew not to mess with me on that one.

[Person Man]

Heh, I got the Zenny skin in the first free loot box they gave out. 

Nothing decent since then, though...

[DelusionTrim]

So far I've only gotten costumes from the last event, which so far have been Junkrat's and Symmetra's, Junkrat was the only legendary I hadn't gotten last year which is good. As for other things, got victory poses for Sombra, Junkrat, Orisa and I think Hanzo, along with Mei's hopping emote (still gotta get that costume tho, it looks so good) and Reinhardts emote.

Also quick note, I thought ults being gone to 0 after dying immediately was a glitch until I found out today that it's actually a change... interesting one regardless, I really disliked killing Genjis when starting his ult only for him to pretty much have It again in the next fight. Overall I think it's a nice change for the game since ults are so powerful.

[Person Man]

New support hero, Moira.

She looks like a straight-up WoW character.

[Mgbenz]

Looks more like she's more at home in Battleborn. I'm not feeling her design at all.