Overwatch

[maarti]

4 hours ago, Taylor said:

New D.va is ridiculous. Her block is always up when you need it so you're shooting down a lot more ultimates. I still hate that she's immune to her own ultimate explosion, mostly as a D.va player who thought it was fun to have to scramble away from it with everyone else - now I'm just guaranteed I'll kill at least one person shooting them in the back of the head and daring them to stay in the blast radius.

Ana is strong but people just player her like Widowmaker even though her gun does half damage. In my experience you want be with the offense heroes, usually not bothering with your scope, throwing grenades at your feet and sleeping people so they can run a train into them. Her sleep is really good for stopping Bastion, too.

I agree with the new D.va and also it is getting kind of annoying when you have to concentrate on killing off their ult while trying to secure a site. I feel the self destruct should affect your character as well, i mean it is "self-destruct". I cant really enjoy playing Ana, i feel she would be great if her gun did the same damage as windowmaker but just the lust of having that extra support helps. I also cant really get use to throwing that healing grenade cause I usually miss haha 

[Bastion]

Since D.va does not need to flee from her self destruct anymore, I don't think she needs to get a new mech the moment the old one blows. Since she can fight instead of flee now to charge the ult.

[FMPONE]

So close to rank 25! Really excited to try ranked.

[-HP-]

27 minutes ago, FMPONE said:

So close to rank 25! Really excited to try ranked.

Dude, it's night and day! Love that 9 out of 10 matches people take it as seriously as possible and actually communicate too!

[Taylor]

I never played ranked again after I was punished because the enemy team rage quit. No joy to be had there at all.

[Bastion]

54 minutes ago, Taylor said:

I never played ranked again after I was punished because the enemy team rage quit. No joy to be had there at all.

The system is reduction without context, even if one enemy player abandons a second before the game is over, the reduction is not different. At least the last time I did comp this was the case. I feel your pain

[Minos]

 

New patch is live!!

[Zyn]

So at 0:08 seconds in that video, there is one interesting frame. Turns out it's a base64 encoded string with a salted hash, so now the hunt begins to find it!

[Tisky]

Jesus, and after that base64 string, some compass points in the trailer. Also a skycode at dorado that leads nowhere lol. Exciting but kinda feels hard. Nothing new the last 2 days :/

[Jetsetlemming]

I swear to god, the single biggest weakness of Symmetra is the effective nerf it applies to half your team as they stop playing to bitch that you're playing Symmetra. 

[Harry Godden]

12 hours ago, Tisky said:

Jesus, and after that base64 string, some compass points in the trailer. Also a skycode at dorado that leads nowhere lol. Exciting but kinda feels hard. Nothing new the last 2 days :/

I joined the discord room and started to work with all of those guys in there, aaand we came up with this...

(arranging characters onto the compass on the floor to try and activate something)

It was pretty embarrassing considering it did completely nothing... Everyone is out of clues on it

[grapen]

Haven't played in a long time now, stopped at rank 62. Now they announced 65+ gets 300 CP after 17th of August. Back to the grind!

[Tisky]

Haha nice Terri. Hope they solve it soon!

I was rank 58 but played with some friends and got dropped to 46 lol! Now im 52 again, but it is hard to play with randoms!

[Bastion]

This is the best thing ever.

 

[Taylor]

Hidden message says "buy loot boxes".

I gave competitive another chance as I would like to get a golden hook but I think this was enough to seal the deal. First one we lost and I had all 5 gold medals for our team, which made me a little upset but I shouldn't expect to one-man carry so that's fine. Next game the teams are horribly stacked as we're all randoms versus a 2 man and 3 man queue, but we actually win it pretty hard... until someone disconnects and then we lose. So, I notice when my team disconnects I still lose a shitload of rank, which is in stark contrast to when the enemy team ALL LEAVES and I get 5% of the rank for winning. This is completely ass backwards.

I don't really enjoy competitive. It seems to go against every every design principle of this game for DIGITAL SPORTS. It makes a feel-good game with a positive loop feel like a constant kick in the ribs, especially when every game is full of horrible players (in terms of personality) and it provides open insights into how utterly broken the ranking system is. Back to quick match for me. If you want to give me 300 points just let me know.

The Blizzard polish seems to have all been chipped off this last patch and it's unfortunate. UI VFX lingering during screen fades, popping back into the game after rounds end, lots of interfaces fighting for your attention at the end of a match, UX being really bad in places (the alert telling me I can leave the game after my team mates leave is drawn on top of the overtime display ffs). Would be nice to see that stuff fixed up. Just feels like it lost something in the updates.

Also, DotA does that "you can now leave" thing... but in DotA you can actually leave. In Overwatch you're still going to lose rank so why even bother displaying it?