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Overwatch |OT2-2-2| Role With It
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Long, unbound hair is a bitch to animate. It's why Ashe's concept art showed her with long hair, but cropped it off when they made the actual character model. The closest we'll get is Widow's long ponytail.
I'm so-so on Ashe, but in it for the Bob
Alright, so my skin rankings are thus:
Must Haves:
Talon Baptist (Killmonger fuck yea)
Scientist Moira (I honestly feel this should have been her default look. It fits her character best.)
Want and will probably get:
High Roller Hammond
Racer Zarya (This is probably the best color palette swap variant of her default look)
Socialite Ashe
Indifferent:
Gwishin Bastion
Deadlock McCree (No cape, no buy)
Do Not Want:
Circus Junkrat (seriously, why)
worthless garbage trash:
Formal: 76 (the quality of the skin itself is actually really well made and probably would be in must haves section if not for the character it's attached to)
Must Haves:
Talon Baptist (Killmonger fuck yea)
Scientist Moira (I honestly feel this should have been her default look. It fits her character best.)
Want and will probably get:
High Roller Hammond
Racer Zarya (This is probably the best color palette swap variant of her default look)
Socialite Ashe
Indifferent:
Gwishin Bastion
Deadlock McCree (No cape, no buy)
Do Not Want:
Circus Junkrat (seriously, why)
worthless garbage trash:
Formal: 76 (the quality of the skin itself is actually really well made and probably would be in must haves section if not for the character it's attached to)
That's one of the reasons why I want them to remove that restriction, it's like they're herding people towards an offensive play style. I've been guilty of playing too offensively as Moira since you get lost in battle.
So I asked if your QuickPlay MMR affects your starting Competitive SR for new accounts and got 2 answers (below)...
Can anyone verify which one is true?
Well, someone else say they started in diamond in the first placement, so it could be true that QP matters.
Either way it probably doesn't matter too much as if you tryhard in placements it will put you close to your skill level anyway. If you mess around in QP and then tryhard in comp, you'll probably win more games than if you tryhard in both.
You should be more concerned about winning your first couple placement games. If you lose your first two, you might place low plat at best. It can vary wildly in your first couple games.
For example when I recently placed my new account, my first game was high gold average, won that and second game had both plat and diamond players, lost that and was back to playing with gold and a few plat players.
Blizzard has never come out and said anything on the issue.
Last time I heard it was very small affect, you'll still wind up a few hundred from 2500, highest I've heard was mid diamond. When you first start placements it uses your qp mmr as a baseline but from what I've seen it's more towards lowering your rank then increasing it.
Just play your best and go from there. You wont get masters or gm through initial placements. Plus you have a period after placements where it'll give you a boost in sr if you do well.
Yeah, I think they also changed the system so you can't place super high. I remember watching something long ago where someone got 3500 on their first placements, but they went 8-2, winning the first 7 games in a row.
Competitive arcade is a good example how you really can't place that high even if you do amazing, and I'm betting regular comp works like that now too. IDDQD went 10-0 in FFA comp last year and got mid-diamond.
I believe it's been always like that tho
Also. No symmetra or zen skin BOOO
Speaking of, I was just thinking how Sym could enable some really cool PvE plays with her teleport. Limitless Uprising is gonna be fun now that you can enable altering positions on a whim. Sym could benefit more from it than any other character work.
Overwatch Storm Rising merchandise is now available to buy and there's a shirt with Talon on it that has both Maximilian and Doomfist. Which makes the idea that he'll be a boss in the event more plausible.
Junkrat time
OVERWATCH RETAIL PATCH NOTES – APRIL 16, 2019
A new patch is now live on PlayStation 4. Read below to learn more about the latest changes.
To share your feedback, please post in the General Discussion forum
For a list of known issues, visit our Bug Report forum.
For troubleshooting assistance, visit our Technical Support forum.
PATCH HIGHLIGHTS
New Seasonal Event: Overwatch Archives 2019 — Storm Rising
Experience a decisive moment in Overwatch's history during the Overwatch Archives event! Get ready to travel back in time and visit beautiful Havana, Cuba where Overwatch agents are hot on the trail of the notorious businessman and Talon associate Maximilien. Team up with your friends to capture and interrogate Maximilien—whose knowledge could shape the future of Overwatch. Relive the action of previous Archives events, where you'll fight off hordes of Talon agents while escaping Rialto and stop an Omnic insurrection in King's Row. You'll earn Archives Loot Boxes as you play, unlocking cosmetics from Overwatch's past, including Legendary skins like Deadlock McCree, Scientist Moira, Talon Baptiste, Socialite Ashe, and many more!
HERO UPDATES
Junkrat
Reaper
Symmetra
Hero Gallery
General
Ana
Black Forest
OVERWATCH RETAIL PATCH NOTES – APRIL 16, 2019
A new patch is now live on PlayStation 4. Read below to learn more about the latest changes.
To share your feedback, please post in the General Discussion forum
For a list of known issues, visit our Bug Report forum.
For troubleshooting assistance, visit our Technical Support forum.
PATCH HIGHLIGHTS
New Seasonal Event: Overwatch Archives 2019 — Storm Rising
Experience a decisive moment in Overwatch's history during the Overwatch Archives event! Get ready to travel back in time and visit beautiful Havana, Cuba where Overwatch agents are hot on the trail of the notorious businessman and Talon associate Maximilien. Team up with your friends to capture and interrogate Maximilien—whose knowledge could shape the future of Overwatch. Relive the action of previous Archives events, where you'll fight off hordes of Talon agents while escaping Rialto and stop an Omnic insurrection in King's Row. You'll earn Archives Loot Boxes as you play, unlocking cosmetics from Overwatch's past, including Legendary skins like Deadlock McCree, Scientist Moira, Talon Baptiste, Socialite Ashe, and many more!
HERO UPDATES
Junkrat
- Frag Launcher
- Projectile speed increased from 20 to 25
- Grenades now bounce less but explode sooner
Reaper
- Shadow Step
- Can now be used in air
- Time to exit Shadow Step reduced from 1.0 second to 0.5 of a second
- Reaper is now invisible for the entire time it takes to exit shadow step
- Railings and other breakable objects no longer block teleporting
- Disabled by Zarya's Graviton Surge and Junkrat's Steel Trap
Symmetra
- Teleporter
- Railings and other breakable objects no longer block teleporter placement and teleporting
Hero Gallery
- You can now set your Victory Pose choice to random
- There is now an option to set your profile so only your current group can view it
General
- Fixed a bug that caused the player's view to become jittery while standing on certain objects
- Fixed an issue where the camera would be offset slightly when changing rapidly into third person view
- Fixed an issue where players were able to shoot through unintended small gaps on the Ilios, Nepal, and Temple of Anubis maps
- Fixed a bug where your view would become level with the horizon after using Symmetra's Teleporter
Ana
- Fixed an issue with the steam not rising correctly from Ana's cup in the Tea Time emote
- Fixed a bug where Ana didn't receive audio or visual cues when a hero she boosted landed a shot
- Fixed a bug where the Orb of Discord sound effect would play when Bob was affected by Zenyatta's Orb of Discord
- Fixed an issue where Bob wouldn't consistently stop and damage large objects deployed by heroes, like Junkrat's RIP-Tire or Orisa's Supercharger, if he encountered them while running
- Fixed a bug where Immortality Field wasn't immediately destroyed when it is hit by the payload
- Fixed a bug where Bastion would take damage while in Sentry Mode if it was hit into a wall by Doomfist's Rocket Punch
- Fixed a bug where enemies would not collide with walls while being knocked back by Rocket Punch
- Fixed a bug where Seismic Slam wouldn't break objects that should break
- Fixed an issue where Rocket Punch would knock back Orisa even if she was using Fortify
- Fixed a bug where Mei could not be healed by other heroes while using Cryo-Freeze
- Fixed a bug where Mercy didn't receive audio or visual cues when a hero she boosted landed a shot
- Fixed a bug where Mercy didn't receive defensive assist credit from healing beams when using Valkyrie
- Fixed a bug where Orisa would take damage while using Fortify if she was hit into a wall by Doomfist's Rocket Punch
- Fixed a bug where Reinhardt was unable to raise his shield properly while looking upwards if he had opened his shield while looking downwards
- Fixed a bug where his Heroic victory pose didn't loop properly
- Fixed a bug where Symmetra would gain ultimate charge when her Sentry Turrets were attacking objects deployed by other heroes (Wrecking Ball's Minefield, Torbjörn's Deploy Turret, etc.)
- Fixed a bug where Torbjörn would gain ultimate charge when his Deploy Turret was attacking objects deployed by other heroes (Wrecking Ball's Minefield, Symmetra's Sentry Turrets, etc.)
- Fixed a bug where Widowmaker's rifle goes into her head and shoulders while walking and aiming her scope, when wearing the Biathalon skin
- Fixed a bug where dying did not cancel Infra-Sight
Black Forest
- Fixed a bug where flying heroes could get stuck on trees and wall climbing heroes could get stuck on birds' nests
- Fixed a bug where flying heroes could get stuck on trees
- Fixed a bug on the Sanctuary map where heroes would bounce when standing on the edge of the first capture point
- Fixed a bug where Reaper could Shadow Step to unintended places
- Fixed a bug where the spectator camera started at the incorrect position
- Fixed a bug where players could get stuck on top of a worktable
- Fixed a bug where Junkrat's RIP-Tire could get stuck in the grates on the ground in King's Row
- Fixed a bug on the University map where a hero that touches the enemy team's spawn room doors will take significant damage
- Fixed a bug where D.Va would get stuck behind a desk when using Call Mech
- Fixed a bug where ivy on walls was preventing certain abilities from impacting enemies, like Winston's Tesla Cannon and Doomfist's Meteor Strike
- Fixed a bug where players killed on a specific bridge would fall through the bridge
- Fixed an issue where players could become stuck between a dolly, the wall, and a counter
- Fixed a bug where Wrecking Ball would get stuck on ventilation ducts
You mean the drum?
That's really only a problem if its goats v goats while lucio and dva are dead.
Very disappointed with the mission.
It's basically Uprising/Retribution. No new enemies, no new abilities or driving like some ppl were speculating, no boss battle. It's just so boring and very similar to previous two. Map is great tho. But other than that i am really disappointed.
BTW. Got new Ashe skin in one of my 8 boxes.
It's basically Uprising/Retribution. No new enemies, no new abilities or driving like some ppl were speculating, no boss battle. It's just so boring and very similar to previous two. Map is great tho. But other than that i am really disappointed.
BTW. Got new Ashe skin in one of my 8 boxes.
Mission is fun to play, bugs me big time though. Three new (?) characters introduced, none of which with any real substance to them or any real information given and two teases which will result in nothing.
I really should give up the hope that we'll get some actual story.
I really should give up the hope that we'll get some actual story.
Arcade then Archive then you'll be able to select between the 3 missions.
OP
OP
The event would have been capped off pretty well if we ended it with a boss fight. It wouldn't even have had to been a super good boss fight, just one giant ass enemy with a shitload of HP that everyone has to take down together.
As is, it's good, but just kinda anticlimactic.
As is, it's good, but just kinda anticlimactic.
- The Havana map will be a PVP map later down the road.
- Echo and Sojorn is NOT hero 31.
- Jeff Kaplan: "We are never making Jetpack cat!"
- Jeff Kaplan: There are big plans for Junkerqueen. More on the long-term front.
- Jeff Kaplan: The dev team is more focused on "feature content".
- The Anniversary Event is going to be cool because we have a feature that many have asked for that is going to be really huge for the game.
- Jeff Kaplan says there is going to be a skin for the Anniversary event that is "going to break the internet".
- Coming this summer and the early fall are a couple of more features that have been asked for by the community.
- Guilds/Clans is NOT coming soon and not one of the upcoming features.
- Cross platform play for Overwatch: "We would love to work on the details and challenges for that. But it's challenging from a technical and business standpoint."
- Comics are in development.
- There is no major reworks plan for any hero at this time.
- We are definitely entertaining the idea of forced 2-2-2/role queue.
- We have no immediate plans for permanent free-to-play.
- No confirmation if Overwatch will come out for the Nintendo Switch at this time.
- Jeff Kaplan: "We are looking to make further improvements to visually-impaired and hearing-impaired players including a subtitle system.
- The design team consists of players ranging from Bronze to Grandmaster in the Competitive ranks.
- Making a story mode would be as ambitious as many a brand-new game.
- Last comment from Jeff Kaplan: "There is a really cool PVP surprise coming to the PTR very soon! Please be looking out for it!"
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/o...f-kaplan-lots-of-upcoming-news-updates/330896
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