Overwatch Group

[TexasDice]

1 minute ago, Flutterz said:

There's a skype group?

READ THE OP BEFORE JOINING  

[Flutterz]

Just now, TexasDice said:

READ THE OP BEFORE JOINING  

But reading is for lame lame-os!

[DarkZedge]

4 hours ago, TexasDice said:

Guys, this group doesn't work if it's scattered between EU and Americas and if only 33% of the member are in the skype group. 

I did not know there was such a thing  

[Mkilbride]

Lucioball is quite fun.

 

 

[CryingWestern]

Well I'm in the Americas... so all that's needed is the skype... you should be able to see it on my account page.

[Mkilbride]

Super disappointed the way the cosmetics are handled though.  You can get about 1.20 lootboxes an hour(Sometimes less, if you lose as well).  You have a 0.5% chance of obtaining the Skins. (0.05% for Tracers, because Blizzard are greedy fucks.)  You only have 1 chance for an Olypmic item per lootbox.  Super disappointing.  Even if I play 5-6 hours every night in a group during the event, well...

 

Normally, it'd be fine, but these are limited to 3 weeks - and you can't use Currency. I have 4,200 currency saved specifically for skins and the like I'd want...yet Blizzard...bah.

 

 

 

Also, first guy to hit Level 700:

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4w4qab/first_world_silver_starlevel_700/

[Mkilbride]

40 minutes ago, Zenophilious said:

Is anyone else getting disconnection problems?  This is now the third day in a row I've been unable to play several games in a row without it DC'ing me at least once.

Blizzard is getting DDosed hard.

 

Blizzard just did a ban wave about 3-4 days ago. Right afterwards - the DDos started happening. Just idiot people.

 

 

Also, Overwatch is now the fastest selling PC game of all time.

 

https://pvplive.net/c/overwatch-becomes-the-fastest-selling-pc-game-of-a

 

http://www.polygon.com/2016/8/4/12382000/overwatch-15-million-players

 

Pretty impressive. I remember so many people saying this game was going to flop, because Blizzard "Took too long and the hype has died"

[ChrisPZT]

Went on holiday and forgot to check this thread, I'll update the OP tomorrow with everyone's tags. And yeah I recommend everyone get Skype,, it makes it easier to get together as a group and play.

[Mkilbride]

Why not use Discord? Discord is free, better sound quality, doesn't use up even 1/5th of the resources Skype does.

[ChrisPZT]

We could use discord but there are already a lot of fuwanovel members on skype so it just made more sense at the time. It all depends on what everyone else wants I guess.

 

EDIT: I updated the OP, let me know if I missed anyone!

[TexasDice]

 

This was very predictable, but I am still speechless by the feels. I love every single thing about this short. 

[kyrt]

I generally use discord over skype for gaming but skype is I think the same as anything else which is kyrt (you can tell it's me because I have an avatar of either a metal gear prinny or firo)

[Mkilbride]

5 hours ago, kyrt said:

I generally use discord over skype for gaming but skype is I think the same as anything else which is kyrt (you can tell it's me because I have an avatar of either a metal gear prinny or firo)

Holy fuck, your avatar.

 

Irresponsible Captain Tylor. OTHER PEOPLE HAVE SEEN IT?

[Jun Inoue]

Here I am, to join the good people!

My tag is Gistradagis#2714, and EU ftw ;o

Skype is spongebobthemagnific btw. I know, best name ever. Haven't regretted it at all.

[ChrisPZT]

Haven't checked this thread in ages...

Maybe I'll update the OP but I doubt anyone reads it anyway.

Anywho new character Sombra finally revealed. Check out the new animated short of her:

 

[Flutterz]

3 minutes ago, Zenophilious said:

I'm kinda surprised that Blizzard didn't just cave halfway through the ARG and just give us Sombra.  Hopefully they won't needlessly drag things on that long.  I mean, they were teasing her from before they released Ana, FFS.  That said, I'm ready for all the salt her hacking will bring.

By the way, if you play 15 games (game mode or difficulty of AI doesn't matter) of Heroes of the Storm with a friend, you'll get this sweet Oni Genji skin.  More info.  I don't even play Genji that much, but I NEED this skin.

I'm saltier about her invis. For once there was a game that doesn't have the dumbest mechanic imaginable in a multiplayer game, and Blizzard ruined it. Invis is the stupidest thing in Starcraft, in Dota, in TF2, and even in LoL from what little I've played, and now Overwatch has it too.

[Flutterz]

Just now, Zenophilious said:

Yeah, it was pretty shitty in LoL.  Getting insta-gibbed by some asshole you couldn't see, and couldn't react to, never feels good.  I loathed LeBlanc, and when Kha'Zix was super strong everyone hated both him and the people playing him with a fiery passion (he had invisibility as an ult, jumps that could go over terrain, and he did more damage to people that weren't grouped together).  I hope her overall kit power is set accordingly, because extreme burst capability coupled with invisibility and denial of ability usage sounds like pure cancer.  Here's to hoping she has Tracer's health pool of 150.

Invisibility is kind of a gimmick mechanic, isn't it?

It is. At least the way it's done in Starcraft you can at least tell invis units are there, even if you can't target them, and it's still cancer. Whoever was the first to decide that an ability that makes it impossible to see someone (when people get 99% of their information about a game by looking at it) is a good idea in multiplayer wasn't a very smart person.

[kyrt]

Been trying out Sombra in the PTR as well and in the quick play scenario she is very easy to counter. If you can find her teleport you can set up a trap for her pretty easily and even if not she's pretty squishy. The fact she exits as soon as being hit means she's unlikely to sneak up in middle of a firefight. If anything her main purpose seems to be harass from behind. Her inclusion though means we might be seeing more defense heroes actually being used and likely an increase in winston usage. Honestly when first fighting her people might find her overpowered but over time she becomes semi-predictable. They do need to get rid of her ability to constantly keep respawning health packs though...

[madvanced]

On 11/8/2016 at 7:32 AM, Zenophilious said:

Just played Sombra in the PTR...she's got 200 HP.  Good news is that if you get the jump on her, she's really easy to kill.  Her gun does more damage than I expected, though, and her invisibility gives her more movement speed, which is kinda stupid, IMO.  Her CDs might need to be messed with so failing to play correctly is more punishing, especially her invisibility, which is only a 6 second CD.

Her invis needs the speed buff to even be useful though, she is supposed to be used as a flanker, as such you need that mov speed buff to be able to get behind the enemy team while invis and while your teleporter is still up, basically it's a poke-y combo. Like I think that she is pretty easy and straight forward to play, but her cooldowns reinforce that combo, you're baically gonna drop a tp, use invis and get behind the enemy team to poke a bit if you can't kill a squishy and tp back to safety, then rinse and repeat. If you mess with the CDs too much she will have too much time of little to no solo action, something flankers like reaper and tracer excel as. I mean I still find tracer much harder to play against since sombra loses part of her invisibility if she gets too close to an enemy hero.

[TexasDice]

The most notable thing to come out of the Sombra patch wasn't Sombra herself, but all the balance changes. Reduced ultimate charge means that Mei and Reinhardt get a little worse, since they could ult every 2 minutes and Symmetra gets shoved down the drain even further. 

Also, Soldier 76 is so good now. Holy fuck, try him out if you haven't yet.

[kyrt]

Soldier 76 was on my do not play list since I was shit at him. Now he's on my I can play him if i have to list because he's gotten better to the point I am not complete shit at him. 

I've been trying out the new Symmetra changes on the PTR and it looks like she is going to need to be nerfed a bit. The ability to quickly move nests around is great though and I like her second ult but the new ability doesn't seem like it's going to do a whole lot although (and I haven't tested it yet) if she can block dva's bomb similar to reinhardt's shield it could be useful for blocking certain ults. It's difficult to judge how symmetra will be with other characters at the moment. She does seem significantly better though.

Oasis the new Map is expected on the PTR in december and audio files for an xmas event and music have been found in the recent patch so we can probably expect a holiday event come either the first or second tuesday of december.

As Mei is one my Meins the reduced ult charge is not horribly significant. Hell I barely notice.

Sombra on the other hand is a really interesting character. While the majority of people I've seen play her are absolute garbage with her she is a defensive beast. If you play her ignore doing damage unless you can group up and get an enemy alone and then quickly teleport away. She is best when hacking and stopping ults but extremely squishy so you always need to be ready to make a quick exit and stay invisible as often as possible and sneak behind the enemy team. 

Not bad overall quite a bit coming for overwatch in the near future.

 

[Yukiru]

Is this still a thing?

[TexasDice]

Yes, two players from the group assisted in ruining my season 3 placements today. 

[Nobody~~]

10 hours ago, TexasDice said:

Yes, two players from the group assisted in ruining my season 3 placements today. 

Oh how lovely, people are saying you're getting placed way down from what you were before, that true?

[TexasDice]

6 hours ago, Nobody~~ said:

Oh how lovely, people are saying you're getting placed way down from what you were before, that true?

Yes and it hits people who were in Platinum and Gold really hard. I was at diamond 3002 in season 2 and after fucking up my placements, I was shot down to 2850, so I assume Diamonds are mostly safe. At least safer than plats and golds.