Overwatch - Blizzard's latest game

I've watched a number of videos on it now and it looks great fun.
Really want to try it out as the beta looks very polished too.

No more invites until after Blizzcon anyway.

Cormac... wrote: »

Except that is Battleborn and not Overwatch.

Also that guy is suspiciously overbearing in his praise of the game.

WTF sorry, I had 2 threads open and somehow managed to merge both posts into 1 Derp :o

https://eu.battle.net/shop/en/product/overwatch-origins

€59.99 for the digital origins edition. Seems a bit on the pricey side to be honest. Thought it would aim for the 30 quid mark or there abouts.

TetraxShard wrote: »

The standard edition is only €40. If you don't want the other stuff (the skins will be separate at some point, and the stuff for other games is only relevant if you're invested in other Blizzard games) there's no reason to buy the Origins edition.

I'll be getting the Origins bundle anyway, if only for Tracer in Heroes and the Hearthstone card back.

Console version is origins and collector only.

No Mac client, interesting. Usually Blizzard are quite good for launching their games with OSX support.

Belox wrote: »

To tell the truth was quite surprised with the price for that game that is quite high even for standard edition! Will be waiting for Cyber Monday to order this one.

Not really. Blizzard expansions now are going for the price of a normal game.

Most blizzard titles now go for the €40-50 mark. And I'm totally fine with that. The quality and longevity speaks for itselves. And very few companies can stand near them when it comes to after launch support.

You'll pay €40 for Overwatch, and that helps to pay for a dedicated post go live team who will deal with issues, balancing etc.

I bought SC2 on release and while I didn't buy the expansions, I got a good year out of SC2, and was ridicuclous value for money. As is pretty much any WoW expansion I buy.

I've pre-ordered the new WoW expansion legion which is coming in at the €40-50 mark, and will probably also grab Overwatch as from watching a few favourites streamers play it, looks incredibly promising and enjoyable.

Yeah looks good, might try get it on PC as its too much run and gun for PS4 me thinks. Mouse and keyboard FTW

Benzino wrote: »

Is it not starting on Thursday?

Sorry Thursday yea. (although it does say 12am 5th so whatever way you want to look at it. Late tomorrow night / Early Thursday morning.)

Noxin wrote: »

Open beta starting tomorrow. Looking forward to trying this out. Getting very good reviews.

Wow...what a way to try take the steam out of BattleBorn's sails. It released today !

Is there a way to preload the BETA ?

Amazon germany still has beta codes, don't think the UK does anymore and didn't try anywhere else. PSN should also be an option but might be safer to use amazon.de

code get's sent almost instantly.

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

No Mac client, interesting. Usually Blizzard are quite good for launching their games with OSX support.

Haven't Apple been pretty bad with GPU drivers (and using underpowered GPUs) lately?

TBH I can't stand their design direction for the past few years, the machines are completely consumer-unfriendly.

Got in early thanks to OSiriS myself

Day1 thought, I'm kinda meh which in turn has me very disappointed. I was really looking forward to it.
Maybe I just haven't played it enough or am completely $hite?
Truth be told, I'm having a bad fps day in general so that might be hurting it. Terrible in CSGO. Not great in BF4 either.
This I started out well. Plenty of kill streaks and the first 6 games were all wins. Got a few level ups and some crate. All good. Nice to see some progression etc..
I feel there is some balance issues to work out.
Everywhere I look the top killer is Bastion?? (not sure if right name, robot dude who turns into a standing turret)
Fukcer is camping in every corner.
I played Winston a bit and couldn't get my head around him at all. His gun is muck. Extremely close range floppy dick lightning sprayer that seems to do sweet fook all. Usually by the time I got close, I was getting wrecked.
The sniper gal I enjoyed somewhat. Although like I said - bad fps day so my aim was pretty off.
There was some character there that I couldnt figure out how to attack with. Ít didn't seem to have one. Was using some sort of a gravity gun that said hold to charge which did nothing at all. Ran into enemies full on allahu snackbar to die asap with that one.
Another chick I did well with was able to buff others with a shield, buff herself with a shield and had some weak attacks. Still enjoyed her.
The engineer dude who plants a turret is op as fook. I placed that thing down and just watched the kills rack up.

Again, like I said. Bad fps day in general. I'll be testing plenty more every day over this beta. I've not given up hope yet. :P

tok9 wrote: »

Helps get rid of the whole K/D ratio that everyone who plays online seems to care about.

Sadly this is still all people seem to care about. So many times people are standing off the objective trying to get kills instead of escorting.

Worst thing about this sort of game is playing with pugs. Feel like banging my head against a wall after the last three games :P

Noxin wrote: »

Got in early thanks to OSiriS myself

...
I feel there is some balance issues to work out.
Everywhere I look the top killer is Bastion?? (not sure if right name, robot dude who turns into a standing turret)
...
The engineer dude who plants a turret is op as fook. I placed that thing down and just watched the kills rack up.

Glad I could help out

I highlighted 2 perception issues here. The reality is that both classes are relatively weak and difficult to perform well with for good players. The problem is that for newcomers they are easy to play and easy to rack up kills with as they are difficult to deal with for newer opponents. I can assure you that there are plenty of counters out there, and once you start to learn them, it gets ALOT easier

Things like sheltering behind a Reinhardt shield while you take them out, flanking them, jumping Winston in on top of them. Ducking in and out from behind walls while taking pot shots with a high damage character like Pharrah or Hanzo all make short work of them. It helps to have someone tanky distract a Bastion while you take it out. with Torbjorn, you generally want to find and kill the turret at level 1 when it is squishier.

If you have trouble getting to grips with the shooter aspect of the game, don't overlook the support classes. there are some that don't require high accuracy like Lucio, Mercy and Symmetra, but are very powerful and very beneficial to your team.

I have one key to giveaway for the early access, as I got two for buying the game. So first to comment can have it.