Poll of the Day > What happened to our overwatch topic?

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and why are they fucking up the defensive ability of a tank character? wtf.
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Nade Duck posted...

and why are they fucking up the defensive ability of a tank character? wtf.

because koreans could micro manage the hell out of it to a point where it was like dva always had her DM

Lemme just post my YouTube comment....

"OK, No, I'm a D.Va main, and I disapprove of the Missile Salvo, I don't mind her DM getting nerfed, and firing while flying will be a bit annoying, but helpful against annoying Pharah's, but we don't need another goddamn Helix Rocket annoyance.....I personally do not approve of the Missiles...."

She was just fine before, DM was annoying for it's ability to eat up Ultimate's, but I think I'd rather have that than yet another character with Helix Rockets, ya know, Soldier's thing?, I thought most characters at least tried to be unique?.
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D.Va is still unique. Just because she shoots rockets doesn't mean she's a Soldier clone. You don't even know how the rockets work. This doesn't make D.Va not unique. She was less unique when the way to play her was to manage her Defensive Matrix. That made her more of a "shield" tank since her role was to stand around shielding people from damage.

Also, how many characters have a secondary attack that's rockets? It's not like the majority of the characters have that kind of attack.
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http://www.c0derwatch.com/

Apparently Doomfist has had a decent presence in the meta despite being new, as an alternative to Genji.

being able to one shot people with little effort will probably do that.
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Yeah

It's basically Roadhog all over again

I mean, when you can fist people through walls and around corners, there's no real reason not to take a doomfist.
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Bligh_with_no_T posted...

http://www.c0derwatch.com/

That site doesn't want me to kill anyone that's on the objective.
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I assume what it does is compares your stats with the stats of people at high SR.

But it's often better to hunt down Mercy's bitch ass then shoot the tank on the objective.

papercup posted...

I mean, when you can fist people through walls and around corners, there's no real reason not to take a doomfist.

Has no one heard this? Doomfist already has received a significant nerf on PTR for his hit box, now he actually has to make contact with the enemy player.

Example in first 30 seconds of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwkzrkKA-Sg

Bligh_with_no_T posted...

Yeah

It's basically Roadhog all over again

Well I've seen many other users/layers point out some big differences:
-Roadhog was a tank not a DPS
-Roadhog had 600 health
-Roadhog also has ability that gives him back 300 health
-Roadhog wasnt required to get in amongst the enemy to get his 1 shot and instead could safely hook his targets from a distance

That's all true, I was more talking about the appeal and role in a team comp. I don't think current Doomfist is as bad as Roadhog was at his worst. Doomfist also has a long and loud charge up.

oh yeah forgot about the charge noise, plenty of warning there where as with roadhog you never knew when he was going to hook

Bligh_with_no_T posted...

I assume what it does is compares your stats with the stats of people at high SR.

But it's often better to hunt down Mercy's bitch ass then shoot the tank on the objective.

But it's telling me to do that as Rein.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tjcm_kI0n0

Long rumoured Mei origin short.

What looks like a new Mei skin in it.

My proposed balance changes:

Mcree:
New passive added:
Bar Fight Brawler: can now simultaneously reload and melee


Sombra:
QoL:
Can now hack one health pack before the game begins, allowing her to better play the role of an off healer on defense side

Hack:
cooldown reduced from 8 seconds to 7 seconds
This move is her bread and butter and this change will impact her contribution as part of the team.


Bastion:
Configuration: Recon
Spread reduced by 5% and clip size increased from 25 to 30
These changes will make the recon portion of the gun slightly more consistent and will only really benefit the best bastion players.


Mei:
New passive:
Ice Skating:
Allows mei to freeze the ground in front of her and walking on affected areas increases Mei's movement speed by 15% (to give comparison lucios speed boost gives a 30% increase).
The rate of decay for these areas is extremely quick and the radius in which these areas are created is extremely small. Meaning she will be only able to create these areas at the furthest, a few feet away from her, making it intended to be a tool to come back quicker from spawn.

Wall:
Qol:
Wall now has the opacity of 90% to Mei and Friendlies.

Stat change:
Health buffed from 250 to 275 to improve her niche as a stall character and "off-tank".


Torbjörn:
Rivet gun:
Projectile speed increased from 57m/s to 60m/s
For projectile speed reference:
Lucio:50m/s
Hanzo: Fully charged: 86.66 m/s || Uncharged: 26 m/s
Genji:47m/s
Zenyatta: 66.66m/s
This change will make torb's primary fire slightly more consistent, as often even at medium range its better to just use the shotgun variant.

Level one sentry:
Rate of fire increased from 2 round a second to 3 rounds a second.
For reference:
A Level 1 turret has one gun barrel.
A Level 2 turret has two gun barrels.
Rate of fire:
2/4/5 rounds per second
0/0/4 rockets per second
This change will allow his level one turret to make a slightly better impact for those times that his lvl2T has already been destroyed and theres no time to upgrade. Also it makes more sense mathematically as the pattern is self-evident.

Roadhog:
Chain Hook:
Cooldown reduced from 8 seconds to 7 seconds

Symmetra:
Sentry turret cast time reduced from 1.4 seconds to 1 second
This will allow sym players to set up traps more easily on the fly.
.4 seconds isnt a lot but now players have to chance to run behind cover throw down a single turret and be ready to counter attack


I think I do pretty well at balance changes, after all many of my proposed changes have already been implemented. These changes include: Soldier getting a one point damage nerf to his rifle. Winston getting a cooldown on his barrier as soon as he set it instead of after the barrier breaks. Hanzo damage increase (was actually a charge speed increase but has the same effect). Improvements to Bastions recon mode as well as faster transition times. Nerf to Ironclad.

All of these were changes I proposed on Battlenet which were all severely downvoted (lol they are so salty there) and these changes ended up being made. I also think the 20% projectile speed increase to Orisa's gun is going to be too much and they are going to end up nerfing the damage slightly. I think a 10% increase is more viable and less likely to create community backlash.

Reference guide for character stats:
https://overwatch.gamepedia.com/Overwatch_Wiki

Bligh_with_no_T posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tjcm_kI0n0

Long rumoured Mei origin short.

What looks like a new Mei skin in it.

omg meis so cuteee

dioxxys posted...

Mcree

This would be useful but not game changing. I wouldn't complain but I'm also not sure why.

dioxxys posted...

Sombra

First is whatever. Second is probably unnecessary, Sombra is already in a good place I think.

I might like for her to have separate cooldowns for hacking healthpacks and hacking enemies but that might be OP.

dioxxys posted...

Bastion

Bastion's recon is already pretty strong, arguably stronger than it should be. I think he should get the extra health back on his ultimate, he's really fragile in it right now.

dioxxys posted...

Mei

I don't think Mei really needs any change right now. Maybe the wall. I don't really want to see her get stallier.

dioxxys posted...

Torbjörn.

Sure.

dioxxys posted...

Roadhog

I'd rather see him completely reverted to his previous variant, or completely redo his scrap gun. I don't like how he works right now at all. He needs a rework.

dioxxys posted...

Symmetra

Symm should just be deleted from the game or completely redone. She's completely brain dead and boring to play and infuriatingly cancerous to fight against. She's like Lucio in that she's mostly useful just for being alive, but lacks any of the traits that makes playing Lucio fun.
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DH8cwf3UMAAnCqo.jpg:large
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Blightzkrieg posted...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DH8cwf3UMAAnCqo.jpg:large

wat?

another mei animation?

No it was just a poster they made for this one.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDlCqJ1tD3M

New Mercy sounds broken af
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new mercy sounds like combat medic...because that's what we really need to give people less of a reason to actually heal
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I'm digging the Mercy change! I actually want to try using her now!
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jesus mercy is wack yo

dioxxys posted...

jesus mercy is wack yo

She's gonna need some tweaking, but at least she looks fun now!
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I seem to like Mystery Heroes a bunch more than regular mode (Quick Play). normally, you have to think about who to pick, and you wonder if you should be playing that character or not, or who else you should play, and who synergizes better with the other players, etc.etc.

you're also possibly "pigeon holed" into a particular character. no one's a healer and you haven't picked? guess I'm Mercy or Ana...

but with random heroes, it's the opposite. here's who you are, now make the most it. really like who you are? don't want to die and lose them.
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Sahuagin posted...

I seem to like Mystery Heroes a bunch more than regular mode (Quick Play). normally, you have to think about who to pick, and you wonder if you should be playing that character or not, or who else you should play, and who synergizes better with the other players, etc.etc.

you're also possibly "pigeon holed" into a particular character. no one's a healer and you haven't picked? guess I'm Mercy or Ana...

but with random heroes, it's the opposite. here's who you are, now make the most it. really like who you are? don't want to die and lose them.

I agree mostly. Quickplay is better when you're picking for what the team needs but using it as a place to practice the hero you pick. Using your example of the team needing a healer. If you play Mercy and Ana normally as healers. Pick someone else. The sucky thing is when people take quick play way too seriously.
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I kinda feel like uninstalling for good, I've never had so many shit-tier trolly, fucking godawful teammates as I've had today. Fuck this game.
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Dunno if I'll uninstall it, but I basically play only smite for my team based game
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My randoms have been pretty good lately, enough so that even my last few losses were enjoyable.
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GanonsSpirit posted...

My randoms have been pretty good lately, enough so that even my last few losses were enjoyable.

Let's duo queue sometime, then we'll get super terrible randoms without combined bad randoms luck!!!!
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I've been doing great this season, started in Silver and ended up in Platinum this season

If someone wants to duo-queue I will, as long as you are near the same rank and are competent enough, microphone preferred because communication is key to good organized team gameplay.

I'm one win away from diamond.

In Lucio ball.
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XD

dioxxys posted...

I've been doing great this season, started in Silver and ended up in Platinum this season

If someone wants to duo-queue I will, as long as you are near the same rank and are competent enough, microphone preferred because communication is key to good organized team gameplay.

I ended last season in silver, then after my placements it threw me back in bronze. I've barely played at all this season.

I always use a mic in ranked mode though.
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hoowee bronze?

Yup, it's terrible.
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I am diamond!

In Lucioball.
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Didn't get a single legendary I wanted in boxes, but I didn't have a lot of time to play. Spent 6000 coins on the Mercy and McCree skins, so I have 4000 left for halloween. Kind of hope they don't release a lot of skins I want, as I still need the witch Mercy...

We get less coins now than we did with dupes. Supposedly that will stop once you unlock every blue and grey, and start getting dupes again, but I don't know how long that will take.

Hey GD, I don't know if you're still in bronze anymore, but how often do you get randoms commenting on it? I don't group with you super often but I remember it happening several times so I was curious.

I got pretty good skins during this event. I bought Widow's event skin last night just in case with my remaining coins although I don't play as her because I suck as her. During the event I also bought D.Va's skins (think there were two, from last year) and maybe Sombra's. Not sure if I bought it or got it from a lootbox. But yeah I got almost everything I wanted. I liked Mercy's, Reaper's and Tracer's skins but I didn't have enough coins and oh well.

And of course I got a few other skins for characters I don't use which was cool I suppose.
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Blightzkrieg posted...

Hey GD, I don't know if you're still in bronze anymore, but how often do you get randoms commenting on it? I don't group with you super often but I remember it happening several times so I was curious.

Yeah, im no longer in bronze, once i got to gold i stopped. i remember someone mentioning it like once. he was bronze also though

did anyone ever figure out why lucio and zarya's eyes are freakishly in sync yet
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Mystery heroes is so much better than quick play. 2-3 snipers on a team is basically the norm. Or 4 attackers

I would play quickplay if I wanted to practice a specific hero every match. Mystery Heroes is good for me when I just want to play a few matches.
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Nade Duck posted...

did anyone ever figure out why lucio and zarya's eyes are freakishly in sync yet

Well Lucios a frog and they have shifty little eyes
theyre damn little buggers thats for sure

Im not even convinced Zayra is human, I mean shes so disgustingly muscular. Probably a cyborg.

ended up getting reaper, junkrat, and widow's skins. bought sombra's cause she's hot.
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Managed to get Dad 76 in a lootbox right at the end.