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Overwatch |OT2-2-2| Role With It
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I was thinking about that and are we sure it would? I mean isn't the issue the percentage breakdown between the different roles?
It could be possible that a lot of console players would hop off of dps given the disadvantage they'd be on controller and fps and default to playing more tank and support, which might help out the balance a bit. But then you'd have people on controller and 60 fps on tank and support. Also I imagine a lot of console people would be frustrated coming over from their rank there to a lower one on PC. I went top 400 on support and tank to platinum in all categories on PC (although mostly thats because I'm learning m/kb).
So I took a 1 month break/uninstalled OverWatch and holy hell I forgot how to play lol. But the one thing that hasn't changed is the community. After loosing my first game back, my teammate (who wasn't in voice-chat the entire match), decides to join vc just to inform us that "You guys fucking suck!". Never change OverWatch.🙃
lols I would become a Zen main if they added the Zen-walk to the game.😄
lols I would become a Zen main if they added the Zen-walk to the game.😄
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PC? I was just on PS4 all evening and my longest q was like 7mins.
Cross play will not help, the problem isn't lack of players, it's too many DPS players compared to support and tank.
As someone who's a Main Tank player, I sometimes like to play DPS every so-often.
It's not fair that the queue times are as long as they are.
While DPS is just an inherently more attactive role to most of the player base, the problem is also the lack of feedback as tanks and healers.
Did well as DPS? You have your name in the kill feed, you get potg, you have gold medals to congradulate you.
Did you block a game winning earthshatter? Did you sleep an ulting genji or rez a critical player? You get no recognition except what your team might give you....if they see it at all.
Worst of all, I don't even know how you can fix this. How would a game know to distinguish from these super situational decisions? If at all possible, it'd take the dev team making some kind of super AI that can track all this.
Did well as DPS? You have your name in the kill feed, you get potg, you have gold medals to congradulate you.
Did you block a game winning earthshatter? Did you sleep an ulting genji or rez a critical player? You get no recognition except what your team might give you....if they see it at all.
Worst of all, I don't even know how you can fix this. How would a game know to distinguish from these super situational decisions? If at all possible, it'd take the dev team making some kind of super AI that can track all this.
That's part of it, but just having more players in general might help as more games would be played. DPS queues would still be the longest, but hopefully all queue times would be shorter as there's more players to pull from to create a match. Maybe.
I'm basing that off how GM queues are long in any role due to the small amount of players, and get shorter in the ranks with the most players.
The majority of OW players will always lean DPS cause players always want to be behind the wheel so to speak.
There's a reason why few people in Battlefield play medic or why many Apex Legend fans are desperate for a solo queue. The truth is shooter fans gravitate towards lone wolf style gameplay. People want to only worry about their own performance and not rely or care about their teammates. It's why you used to always see supports and tanks switch to DPS when the others couldn't secure kills.
There's a reason why few people in Battlefield play medic or why many Apex Legend fans are desperate for a solo queue. The truth is shooter fans gravitate towards lone wolf style gameplay. People want to only worry about their own performance and not rely or care about their teammates. It's why you used to always see supports and tanks switch to DPS when the others couldn't secure kills.
Caved and just pre-purchased on Switch. Pretty sure I'm going to be playing more no rules Quickplay on Switch. Getting in a few rounds of 6 DPS comp shenanigans while lying in bed sounds fun.
Now my terrible Hanzo can scare no one on Switch too. Or maybe gyro will turn him in to a god. 12 hours!
Now my terrible Hanzo can scare no one on Switch too. Or maybe gyro will turn him in to a god. 12 hours!
Then release it a day later here or something this is a retail killer if people can pick up the game right now and can't play for another 15 hours.
I'm sure I'm the last person to discover this, but Nintendo sends you a three-month Online code by email when you prepurchase Overwatch for Switch. I thought it was just automatically added to the account you bought it from. Does anyone know if you can apply the three months to an account used in a different region?
This is a good point, kill feed notices beyond mercy res would be great, although I can imagine they don't want to swamp that to keep the signal/noise high.
They have some form of this heuristic for POTG already, not sure why you wouldn't just promote those events into the feed.
No, this is what they did for Summer, they drop in less than an hour anyway.
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HALLOWEEN TERROR 2019
The fright for the future returns!
We're celebrating the scariest time of the year with a seasonal event: Overwatch Halloween Terror! Expand your collection of spooky gear and relive the chilling tale of Junkenstein's Revenge in our limited-time PvE brawl. Overcome weekly challenges with wins in Quick Play, Competitive Play, or Arcade to earn a series of uniquely chilling rewards!
You'll also be able to unlock new seasonal items—including new legendary skins like Pharaoh Ana, Warlock Ashe, and Will-o'-Wisp Tracer—to add to our growing collection from previous years.
Learn more about Halloween Terror here.
GENERAL UPDATES
The Arcade has been expanded to 7 cards, to better handle its increasing variety of game modes.
COMPETITIVE UPDATES
Season 2 of Competitive 3v3 Lockout Elimination has begun.
BLIZZCON SKINS
We're celebrating 25 years of Azeroth's past at this year's BlizzCon—and to mark this legendary occasion, we've created a pair legendary Overwatch skins representing two iconic Warcraft heroes. Prepare to seek vengeance against your opponents with Illidan Genji, and call upon the power of the (hard-)light of Elune as Tyrande Symmetra! These new Legendary Overwatch skins are available to BlizzCon attendees and BlizzCon Virtual Ticket holders.
HERO UPDATES
D.Va
Defense Matrix
Orisa
Protective Barrier
Roadhog
Scrap Gun
Sigma
Kinetic Grasp
Winston
Barrier Projector
Baptiste
Immortality Field
Lucio
Crossfade
Mercy
Valkyrie
Moira
Biotic Grasp
Doomfist
Rocket Punch
Sombra
Translocator
Symmetra
Photon Barrier
Tracer
Pulse Pistols
BUG FIXES
General
Brigitte
HALLOWEEN TERROR 2019
The fright for the future returns!
We're celebrating the scariest time of the year with a seasonal event: Overwatch Halloween Terror! Expand your collection of spooky gear and relive the chilling tale of Junkenstein's Revenge in our limited-time PvE brawl. Overcome weekly challenges with wins in Quick Play, Competitive Play, or Arcade to earn a series of uniquely chilling rewards!
You'll also be able to unlock new seasonal items—including new legendary skins like Pharaoh Ana, Warlock Ashe, and Will-o'-Wisp Tracer—to add to our growing collection from previous years.
Learn more about Halloween Terror here.
GENERAL UPDATES
The Arcade has been expanded to 7 cards, to better handle its increasing variety of game modes.
COMPETITIVE UPDATES
Season 2 of Competitive 3v3 Lockout Elimination has begun.
BLIZZCON SKINS
We're celebrating 25 years of Azeroth's past at this year's BlizzCon—and to mark this legendary occasion, we've created a pair legendary Overwatch skins representing two iconic Warcraft heroes. Prepare to seek vengeance against your opponents with Illidan Genji, and call upon the power of the (hard-)light of Elune as Tyrande Symmetra! These new Legendary Overwatch skins are available to BlizzCon attendees and BlizzCon Virtual Ticket holders.
HERO UPDATES
D.Va
Defense Matrix
- Regeneration rate increased from 12.5% to 16% per second
- Delay before regeneration begins lowered from 1 second to 0.75 seconds
Orisa
Protective Barrier
- Cooldown increased from 9 to 10 seconds
Roadhog
Scrap Gun
- Ammunition increased from 5 to 6.
Sigma
Kinetic Grasp
- No longer blocks Chain Hook and Whip Shot
- High gravity effect duration reduced from 1.2 to 0.9 seconds
- Regeneration rate reduced from 175 to 150 per second
- Now has a 1 second cooldown after recalling the barrier
- Initial 0.2 second cast time removed
Winston
Barrier Projector
- Duration increased from 6 to 9 seconds
- Health increased from 600 to 700
Baptiste
Immortality Field
- Health decreased from 250 to 200
Lucio
Crossfade
- Speed boost's effect increased from 20% to 25%
- Speed boost's amplification increased from 50% to 60%
- Speed buff reduced from 40% to 30%
Mercy
Valkyrie
- The extra beams created by Valkyrie now ignore enemy barriers
Moira
Biotic Grasp
- Self-healing reduced from 30 to 20 health per second
Doomfist
Rocket Punch
- Time to reach max charge increased from 1 to 1.4 seconds
- Shield health gained per hit reduced from 35 to 30
Sombra
Translocator
- Cooldown increased from 4 to 6 seconds
- Cooldown now begins immediately upon deploying the beacon or if it is killed by an enemy
Symmetra
Photon Barrier
- Duration reduced from 15 to 12 seconds
- Health reduced from 5000 to 4000
- Damage per second reduced from 50 to 40
- Players impacted by the primary fire beam should now hear a louder impact sound
Tracer
Pulse Pistols
- Damage falloff now starts at 13 meters, up from 10 meters
BUG FIXES
General
- Fixed a player profile issue preventing hero win percentages from being displayed for competitive arcade mode seasons
Brigitte
- Fixed a bug with Brigitte's Rally checking line of sight from her feet instead of from her head
- Fixed a bug with Inspire's position being affected by the player's aim pitch
- Fixed a bug that could cause Doomfist's Rocket Punch to not travel forward if he was sliding along a wall while airborne
- Fixed a bug that caused Rocket Punch to briefly stop all movement on a Fortified Orisa
- Fixed a bug that allowed Doomfist to use Meteor Strike before taking impact damage from Sigma's Gravitic Flux
- Fixed a bug that allowed Sigma's Gravitic Flux to ignore line of sight through some ceilings
- Fixed a bug with EMP's position being affected by player's aim pitch
- Fixed a bug that caused Winston's Barrier Projector to not consistently play its destroyed visual effects
I was trying to get a refund for my preorder of this from Nintendo, but I think I'm just going to keep it. I feel dirty keeping the game and playing it, but I can sort of justify it as trying to support the devs themselves who had nothing to do with what happened last week, and seeing the work they've done on the game.
I dunno. Still don't feel good about it, but I already paid for it, so... may as well I guess.
I dunno. Still don't feel good about it, but I already paid for it, so... may as well I guess.
I think Nintendo's servers are getting crushed. 2%, 1 hour 33 minutes to go.
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