Jetsetlemming

There are definitely different strengths to each entry in the series. The first one rules supreme in terms of level and character design. If you don't mind the dated visuals I would start out with 1. It will also give you a lot of backstory (as long as you're looking for it). Second best I would say is 3, as the level design is pretty solid and the gameplay has been refined. If you're playing 1 and don't have a controller, you need DSFix for M+KB to work.
Either way, I love the entire series. They remind me of the great games of the 90's, in that they let your imagination fill in the blanks. There are no maps. No UI/quest log telling you were to go. Plenty of obscure secrets that you might never figure out on your own.

He's not a tank though, there's nothing in his kit that makes him a tank. The label in game doesn't change that IMO. Roadhog will be nothing but a self-healing ultimate battery for the opposing team, so we won't see him until the next tweak. At least that is my take as someone who plays a lot of RH.
-200 armor +200 health is big. Soldier melts her. RIP.

So, due to some video i saw on youtube i got Dead Rising 1 on PS4, it's suposed to be one of those oldie but goldie kind of games, and fuck me it's fun.
I haven't laughed this hard playing a game in a while. Choping a zombies arm and stuffing it into his mouth so he can't bite never gets old, neither does warming up a pan and frie zombies faces off or throwing CDs at zombies inside a music shop... like, why didn't i play this before  ahah
Oh and, run out of guns? You can spit on zombies. Because.

I was surprised to see the new map Oasis in Competitive-rotation already, as I (and many others) haven't played it for one minute. Eichenwalde was at least introduced first in Brawl, before throwing it into Competitive. I wasn't surprised in a good way to be honest.
What comes to the map itself from one play: It's gorgeus and seems to have a lot of routes and ways. Not really into it that much though gameplay wise yet. Too much vertical-space, my virtual neck breaks when trying to find someone on the upper platforms. Also, I noticed a lot of areas that go pretty much unplayed totally. Anyway, we'll see how it goes once I get more used to it learn the map more. Only mentioning the first impressions here.

I'm not saying McCree isn't good in a vacuum. He's just not good right now, because there's all these barriers in between him and heads. He actually still excels at taking down Pharmercy more than Soldier 76, because of the burst damage, but nobody seems to remember that either  

I miss the Ole Mccree. Before the nerf..

My headshots with Zenyatta are a lot more consistent than with McCree due to the lack of recoil, plus the hitbox advantage on projectile weapons. At 120 damage per headshot (assuming Discord orb), that's enough to double tap most heroes. Again, while healing 30 points per second while doing it. And 3/4 of my HP pool regens. And with all that, Zenyatta still isn't considered "meta" right now because nearly everybody is behind a D.Va field, Reinhardt shield, and Zarya bubble so it doesn't really matter anyway, except to shut down flankers and further reduce their utility.
Instead, a more useful comparison might be to stretch out their damage over time, to look at consistency: Zenyatta has 20 shots per reload, takes eight seconds to shoot them all out (at 2.5 balls per second). With discord, that's 1200 damage. Without (this is mostly for hitting Reinhardt shields), 960. Reload time is two seconds, so the full time for that damage is ten seconds. Range isn't a factor, which means Zenyatta can stay safely behind all those layers of shields and away from Roadhog's hook.
McCree, if he's within 22 meters of his target does 70 damage per shot, or 420 per reload. Takes him three seconds to unload, another 1.5 to reload. 420 damage per 4.5 seconds means ~930 damage over ten seconds. For Fan the Hammer, the range is reduced to 18 meters, and the damage per shot is reduced to 45, so 270 damage per unload, over 2/3 of a second, taking 1.5 seconds to reload. That's 1244 damage per ten seconds, which just beats Zenyatta's damage with discord but at the cost of increased risk, both because of the range and because of the enormous downtime between bursts of damage creating easy opportunities for the enemy to respond (which is why I didn't factor in the combat roll: Its cooldown is eight seconds so it isn't a huge increase anyway, but more importantly you'll need it for emergencies). Soldier 76 does slightly more damage (1272) over the ten seconds, but also has his heal ability and can stand up to 30 meters back while doing so.
It's really striking how similar these totals are over time, imo. Going up against a team of high HP and survivability, you need high HP and survivability to match, or you need overwhelming force to counter that. Since there isn't really any dedicated "overwhelming force" in Overwatch that can massively out-punch the other hero types (the point I was trying to make with the comparison), you need to be bringing the high HP and/or survivability to the table to really contribute well to your team. Blizzard could solve this by massive nerfs to most of the game's cast, but that would be bullshit and horrifically un-fun compared to buffing the weak heroes, especially by giving them more utility and usefulness in different situations like they did Symmetra. 
 
PS: Over that same ten second timespan Roadhog and D.Va can both do about 1600 damage in close range (ten meters for D.Va, at least nine for Roadhog if he's using his right click), which is why they're both so good at taking down Reinhardt's shields. Too bad most people playing those heroes don't realize they have that utility, though. 

There's a whole lot of people complaining about the "Three tank meta" and "Ana's too good", which is insane IMO. Ana's exactly as good as she should be, Zenyatta should be slightly better. The problem is that people have embraced this bizarre "DPS/Tank/Support" framing that treats Overwatch like an MMO instead of a shooter. EVERY hero is DPS, and the dedicated "DPS" heroes just aren't nearly good enough at killing to be worth the lost utility that tanks, supports, Mei and Soldier 76 have. McCree, for example, has 160 dps. Zenyatta has 150 dps, and can heal 30 hp/s while doing it. Ana has 96 dps, but can sleep dart, which is much more useful than McCree's flashbang. Hanzo can get a bullshit instakill with his scatter arrow, but Roadhog can do nearly the same thing more often and more reliably with his hook, while also standing on the fucking point instead of hiding off in the shadows. Pharah's in a middle ground, because she's really useful as a mobile flight point for Mercy, while also ironically making all the flanker heroes redundant. 
Nerfs are a terrible idea to solve this problem. Bliz has already had to redesign multiple heroes, and I see a lot more of that in the future to fix the root problems with the Attack/Defense class heroes. Sombra was an interesting start, but she's mostly ineffective, not so much because she's weak in a vacuum but because teams aren't really playing in a style that works with her.

That's exactly why it's interesting  Because of the consequences.
The chance at exceedingly rare items is highly likely to be 0.128% or slightly higher, below 0.2%. A very, very, very small percentage of CS players have seen the math that points to this. Most people have no idea, many of which would be turned off by bullshit (personal opinion) rates.
Here's some data on 10k openings from one and the same person: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-dESMRnu_o-LwSNCE1ymrE7bxrsGeBP18jiHv8a0N7M/

Yeah sombras ult really requires the team to be well coordinated. When it works though it's awesome. 

My favorite map, as far as details/visuals go, is Dorado. There's a fish near the map start, laying on a table, that flops if you shoot it. 

My favorite map, as far as details/visuals go, is Dorado. There's a fish near the map start, laying on a table, that flops if you shoot it. 

My favorite map, as far as details/visuals go, is Dorado. There's a fish near the map start, laying on a table, that flops if you shoot it. 

would it be too much to ask for some brief explanation on how texturing in overwatch works? do you use multiple UV sets? if so, what are they used for? Do you blend in details solely via vertex colors? do you fake AO in any way? how do those sweet normal mapped corners work, are they just a bunch of trim textures?
the teal building to the left in the pic above for example, is that dirt in the corners mapped in via separate UV set? stuff like that
it's probably really obvious but I'd still like to hear about it from someone way more experienced than me.

You know it's gonna happen. You can't not have Terry Crews in your game.

Yes, please tell us he is going to voice Doomfist. PUH PUH PUH POWER.

I love a lot of the games you guys are posting too, but as far as a "comfort game" I guess my standards are a bit different

Yeap, we're gonna be talking about Doom 2016 for many years to come. What a gem!

Just watched the noclip Youtube documentary on the making of Doom, so I'm bumping that up to my number 2 slot, over Picross 3d. The details on the creative process, especially for the writing and music, is the best I've ever heard from game developers as far as thought out, intelligent designs.
 

Overwatch, no contest. Put tons of time into it, had a lot of fun. Haven't played CSGO since it came out, which is a good thing.
Second place: Picross 3D: Round 2 on 3DS. 
Dark Souls 3 actually really disappointed me. It's hard to articulate, but it just wasn't nearly as satisfying to explore and learn the world as Dark Souls 1 was, and to a much lesser extent Dark Souls 2. I don't know why they abandoned the interlocking "puzzle box" level design of DS1, but I sorely missed it. The game was alright for what it was, but it was missing that spark.

A couple hours into the event and already 2 legendaries in 1 lootbox! Good start

It's just a prank bro

Trump is bad, but also that quote is literally the exact opposite of the truth. The Electoral College (brainchild of newly minted liberal icon Alexander Hamilton, who also made the first Bank of the United States to fund Native genocides) was designed to let slaveowners vote extra on behalf of the people they owned as property, at 3/5ths of a vote per slave.

So i managed to work my way up from 2100 to 2900, wich is nice :). Too many Hanzos thinkin they are awesome yes..
Really excited for tomorrows christmas event! Show me what you got!

I managed to claw my way out of gold into platinum over the weekend. Got on a little win streak with a group that invited me after I had a few bad matches where people were maining genji/hanzo/tracer and would refuse to change and said that they had gold damage and gold kills, but they weren't playing with the team at all. 
Platinum is a little better and people seem a little friendlier so hopefully I'll just keep on going up from here.