Overwatch (the second thread)

fixXxer wrote: »

BUT WHAT IF!!!

The combo abilities would never be used in PvP because your Brig will be to busy charging into the enemy team trying to 1v6 them :pac:

A big win for those happy enough to stick with ow1 I would say, a wave of new maps and characters without spending a penny more

I'll prob buy it out of my sheer love for the game but I I'm not pushed on pve on any game inc overwatch.

went back to this game after a long absence, did my placements. Went from 2688 to 2402 in placements despite winning 2/5 and getting blue dps card in 4/5 of the matches, seriously wtf. didn't think it was possible for that to even happen, usually sr is within 100 or so range?? Can anyone explain how I could lose almost 300 sr in that scenario

Yeah someone just told me that in placement you can lose 50-75sr per loss, normal competitive is 20-30, but it seems a bit OTT to me. It's kinda killed my interest in the game again tbh. The losses I had weren't bad ones they were close games and I enjoyed them, but to be slammed down so much sr has just made me lose interest. i'm not quite sure at this point how the game calculates sr because for dps I won 3/5 and gained sr (4/5 gold damage medals but only 2 blue card i think), compared to winning 2/5 for support and loosing hundreds (4/5 blue card heals). I'm sure there is some sort of logic but can't really understand it.

I play lots of competitive games like apex, siege, cod, etc, and overwatch is the only game that I get this frustrated by, theres such an element of complete unique randomness to it that doesn't exist in other games

Anybody still playing Overwacth. Ony really started to give it a proper go and just love the look and style of Overwatch. Only lvl 20 at the moment and dont know if if good, bad or mediocre. Playing Pharah for damage, Zenyatte when healer and have not really touched tanking. Is there any end game/goal with Overwatch or is it just to keep leveling up?? Playin on PC

Still playing on PS4, probably the last of my group that still gets any enjoyment out of it. Funny time to get into it, last time I played through a smurf account the first 25 levels were a wierd wasteland of other smurfs and forever bronze. The end goal? Find characters you like, and git gud. Oh and use LFG, its best played with a team communicating. Enjoy!

I have gone back to it again lately actually on PC. When you get used to playing Comp it feels more like "real" Overwatch but Quick Play is just so relaxing in comparison I find myself playing that all the time.

Kinda wish I was more motivated to play more comp as I play so little it's hard to gauge what my "real" rank would eventually be. I'm hardstuck with DPS at high gold/low plat now but that suits me fine as that's kinda as good as I can be and I'm OK with that.

Support is my main role and I am 2600SR but I feel there's definitely room to climb there as I'm not outclassed at that level and even the losses are usually close run things..... I just don't ever feel like playing on my own and rarely get to play with friends.

Haven't bothered doing my tank placements as I never play tank even in QP and the last season I did, the SR gap between my tank and support was nearly 1,000SR. :eek:

I play Support always all the time but lately been enjoying playing Soldier 76 and Ashe, I would say 80% of the time I have the end-game card for damage done as well. I'm more of a spam-damage player though rather than picker as my aim and tracking aren't the best. But works well enough at high gold/low plat level.

I played for a while on PS4 because some friends were, but it's mad how different it feels to the PC version, I didn't really enjoy it.

I still play the odd 2-3 games but as said, the wait to play DPS is atrocious still.

So a few quick games as Zarya/D.Va and I'm done for the night.

Anyone tempted back into OW2 now thats its released??? Worth a spin if its free to play I suppose.

Didn't get playing last night as couldn't get in, but I played the second beta, then went back to OW1 again for a few weeks, having not played in about 3 years previous.

At its core it's still such a fantastic game to play. The gameplay is tight and fluid, great selection and variety of heroes and abilities, and the back and forth between teams can be exciting.

That said, I worry about what they're doing with OW2. Going forward, new heroes will be locked deep into the battle pass system, which goes against the whole ethos of being able to switch to a different character whose abilities would help counter another etc. So how are they addressing that? Firstly, you can't play competitive until you've unlocked the new hero (they've said Competitive won't start until 2 weeks into the start of each season to gove people time to unlock the hero, but it'll still be a lot of work/grinding). Secondly, they've said they want to do away with having to pick heroes who are great at countering other heroes by trying to balance out all heroes, which makes it sound like all the heroes will become more generic and interchangeable. Plus moving to a 5v5 with only one tank means each tank now has to be more interchangeable too or are very circumstantial.

Locking heroes in the battle pass is a really sh*tty move because they're not like using different guns; their differing abilities are integral to the balance of each map in terms of how well their abilities and ults can work together etc.

So in a way, I worry about how it's going to go. But on the other hand, I only ever play Mystery Heroes, and they've said new characters will be available in those kinds of modes even without unlocking them, so none of the above will really impact me for the most part. I'll certainly be playing for the first few weeks anyway.

Was reading last night (as I still can't get into the game) that to buy a legendary skin for a character (eg. not from the battle pass but just using the in-game currency) costs about 1900coins. You can only earn the currency by completing weekly challenges, and if you grind and complete all the challenges each week, that's 60 coins per week.

So buying one legendary skin will take 7-8 months.

I had no real complaint about the loot boxes in OW1 either. You got them fairly consistently, and even though there was a lot of nonsense items in them, you'd still get skins, voicelines etc pretty regularly. And even then you'd also either get coins as an item, or a few if you got a duplication of an item you already had, so you'd still end up with coins to buy the actual item you want every few weeks too.

I get that the game is F2P now, but they're really getting the balance wrong. If I felt the currency/reward system was fair, I'd be inclined to buy the occasional battle pass and grind some others. Now I'm not inclined to try get any items and will probably be far more of an occasional player.

Which new character? There are two new characters which are being given for free at launch (Junker Queen and Sojourn) and were part of the Beta. The other new hero Kikiro is the one in the Battle Pass.

It's a disastrous launch.

I jumped on for a few games this evening and enjoyed what I played. Couldn't give a shite about the battle pass or cosmetics or anything like that.

I placed in silver 4.

I used to be high platinum/low diamond. How the mighty have fallen.

Really weird occasional bug where everything on screen other than the characters gun and UI is incredibly blurry, as if the character is suddenly short-sighted. Happened once on the first night after launch, but happened twice last night. No matter if I left the game and joined a new one, was still happening. Only way to fix was to close the game completely.

I googled and all the fixes appear to suggest turning off anti-aliasing settings or other graphical settings, however this is on PS5. I did try play one game like that hoping it'd fix after respawning etc, but no joy. Once it happens, just have to close the game and restart.