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Overwatch |OT2-2-2| Role With It
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Forgot the part where if your team survived all that then the enemy mercy would come out from hiding and insta rez everyone.
This is a misnomer.
If you have fond memories of, say, a local theme park in your childhood, you can visit it again as an adult and it will probably mostly be the same. There are some new rides, but the experience is the same. It might not reach the same levels of excitement and discovery, but its now been replaced with a feeling of comfort. And, most importantly, when you're done with it, you can leave and come back to it after however many months and years and find it to be the same.
What if instead, the theme park was consistently changing, AND you worked there? Not only would you have to see a bunch of changes that you might not be a fan of, you're actively witnessing the loss of things that you enjoyed when you were first hired. So if you're unhappy with your job at the park in the end, of course you're going to reminisce about the good ol' days.
If you played Super Mario 64 on a semi-frequent basis over four years and Nintendo kept adding balance changes to it that removed some things you liked and added things you didn't like, you're damn right it would be come unfun to you.
Believe what you want. As long as you accept that your waning enjoyment is not due to "the game is worse," it's due to a variety of factors such as "the overall community is better at the game," "there is very little opportunity to discover some grand new approach to playing the game," "my old favourite heroes no longer give me an undue sense of power due to being OP and subsequently balanced," "I can't play something for four years without getting somewhat bored," etc.
Fact of the matter is, if Overwatch released as it is today, you'd feel almost exactly the same joy and excitement discovering what heroes worked best in 2-2-2, which class you enjoyed the most, which heroes, maps, and so on.
Yes, the game feels like it's in a very good place right now. The only really unpleasant part is when someone doesn't rotate effectively to fulfill a needed role, but that's a small issue compared to the previous mess of 4 dps comp.
Honestly yeah, don't get me wrong it's got many of its own issues but early OW really got by for me because me and my friends were stepping into the unknown, a period where Bastion tore everything up and defending Reins could wait by attack spawns as they opened for cheeky charge pins without getting whacked as everyone just flailed around madly and stumbled towards the objective with the off kilter pathing of a drunkard.
It was new and exciting and that did wonders to hide a number of issues that were present then and are still pointed at as issues today like ult economy and all that.
I'm not sure I want to experience what a more well rounded or borderline competitive match would be like in those days, especially with hero stacking and limited healer options.
Of course 2-2-2 stings me less as a support and tank player primarily, it means that I actually get others backing up my roles and not the fabled four hitscan, solo heal and solo tank on a good day.
Has it though? I mean, they don't always balance around pro level play, but I think the game should be balanced more around the higher end than the lower. As someone who plays in silver - plat, there is no meta and a lot of times it doesn't really matter what you run.
"Let's attack from 6 different directions!"
"But only 1 or 2 people at a time".
"Let's weave in and out of our friendly barriers for absolutely no fucking reason and then get sniped"
There was a PC mod (banned I think) that gave proper tips on when to engage/fall back/group up or when to play aggro/defend your healer because they kept on dying to the enemy flanker.
Maybe Blizzard will somehow make it a thing in the future?
Also another dark reminder of early OW: Lucio's aura had 0 visual indicator for both him and his teammates
Really my biggest issue has been that if I want to play DPS in something that isn't arcade I have to wait over 10 minutes for a single game which is absurd
Really my biggest issue has been that if I want to play DPS in something that isn't arcade I have to wait over 10 minutes for a single game which is absurd
I really wish that Brig had a better healing indicator- for both Brig's player and teammates to see.
You can do what the rest of them seem to be doing and play Moira while complaining about the other healer while being outhealed by a Zen and a Roadhog.
My event loot box luck has finally run out it seems. I've gotten every single thing except the 3,000 gold skins and next week's Hamster reward.
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Yea I've seen quite a few people complain about it. Don't know if it's a bug or not.
And on the flip side when I lose due to a leaver I still lose the regular 20-25. So frustrating.
If there's one thing that frustrates me too is the SR system. Leavers, afkers, throwers, all these affect your so called "skill rating", when no matter the skill, in as team heavy a game as this is, you have no control over it, specially when folks don't even join coms. If there's one thing I'd like this update we are gonna get this week is how this system works
Complex formula for SR based on the way you win/lose would be pretty neat. Like you would lose less sr if multiple people weren't in team chat or you had a leaver.
Yeah. I posted the other day when it happened to me. 3 of the enemy team left and I got 14 SR for the win.
Let's try to get picks while waiting to group up even though we already have ult
As a support
I've been playing this game for a long time and have never seen something like this first hand
I agree. One of the reasons I just don't care anymore for a rank in OW sadly.
TFT has me on the hooks eitherway and I can't seem to play anything else anymore lmao
I don't know why this always been the case for me. There's always one enemy dps who give our whole team trouble that I'm pretty sure he's smurfing.
Then come next game, I meet him again and our team dominate the whole way. Like, how???? It's not like he's good previously by getting a perfect ultimate kills ---- it was his super good tracking with Tracer and Widow. Now he can't kill anyone with either???
Then come next game, I meet him again and our team dominate the whole way. Like, how???? It's not like he's good previously by getting a perfect ultimate kills ---- it was his super good tracking with Tracer and Widow. Now he can't kill anyone with either???
Australia here - switching over to the Asia servers tonight as the America one is taking forever to find a game...guess that means i'm getting my butt handed to me but hey i get to play one of my favourite games!
Man I am amazed my team won on attack just now considering we had a Reaper who refused to leave spawn for the first two minutes. He finally left the match after we somehow won the first part of Hollywood. No surprise after we got a sixth our team just won without any trouble. Reported that Reaper ass so hopefully he gets punished.
Playing competitive CTF and you remember how 5 DPS is abysmal. At least this time I got Symmetra and Tjorborn in DPS and not Widow and Hanzo. We actually won the game when the Mcree swapped to Roadhog. It came down to a tight sudden death and a swap from Baptiste to Lucio in the end.
Yeah, CTF is a quick reminder of how much I hated pre-role lock OW towards the end.
Do you ever wonder why people turn to evil instead of being respectable members of society? Also known as people that play Roadhog or Moira in deathmatch
oh why did you have to remind me of comp ctf
I really do not want to do it but I am so close to my next gold weapon.....
I really do not want to do it but I am so close to my next gold weapon.....
I don't play deathmatch in OW, but i mean, it's deathmatch. Anything goes right? It's a fight. To the death.
I always looked at deathmatch as a gimmick mode in OW since characters are not balanced in a 1v1 vacuum.
Either today or Thursday would be a good guess, at 2pm EST. If we go on pass releases.
Balance update live, seems they can do these without a download now.
McCree didn't get his HP or Peacekeeper change
Orisa's primary fire reduced by 1 instead of 2
Sigma didn't get his Primary range reduced
McCree didn't get his HP or Peacekeeper change
Orisa's primary fire reduced by 1 instead of 2
Sigma didn't get his Primary range reduced
So rather than patches, balance updates are now hotfixes that don't require an actual download... Interesting.
Console been doing this for weeks, nobody noticed the 'Applying update' message right before match loads?
Maybe? I've been getting patches all along though, including the one with Lucio's eyebrows. This was the first time I didn't have to update my game on PS4
I have noticed "applying update" or whatev at least once before but I can't recall a big PTR balance change being pushed without a patch
I hope so, she's superfun since her rework. Bap + Lucio is more likely though.
Man, 1-4 for Healer this season.
The only mistake I felt I made was in one game on Volskaya not building ult fast enough as Zen and getting the Ult off a second too late to save the Orisa/Roadhog tank combo we had.
The other 3 I felt more came down to a fact we had an instant lock widow that got Sights off maybe once each round and never swapped out of the role.
The only mistake I felt I made was in one game on Volskaya not building ult fast enough as Zen and getting the Ult off a second too late to save the Orisa/Roadhog tank combo we had.
The other 3 I felt more came down to a fact we had an instant lock widow that got Sights off maybe once each round and never swapped out of the role.
RIP Zen in meta Jan 2020 - Jan 2020.
The rise of Reinhardt as main tank, and the likelihood of a D.Va on the opposite team (who is more willing to solo jump a Zen as she can jet back out in 3 seconds), means it appears to be reverting to Lucio. Again.
The rise of Reinhardt as main tank, and the likelihood of a D.Va on the opposite team (who is more willing to solo jump a Zen as she can jet back out in 3 seconds), means it appears to be reverting to Lucio. Again.
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