Melee characters are harder to play in videogames than range heroes, because they have to close distance before they can do damage, but I see they have added a few “closing distances” skills on this one and a bit of survivality, so it could work. More in maps with holes and abism where you can push people than in other maps, perhaps.
I am not playing Overwatch just now, but is interesting to follow it because of the meme culture.
He seems to do a lot of damage in training, but then again, pretty much every hero does. I dunno, 250 odd HP with a growing shield dependant on hitting abilities that are on 5sec+ cooldowns and limited fallback ammo the offhand gun…I think he’ll get demolished as a diver without a team that follows up…ie solo queue competitive.
But, the rocket glove goes through shields, so he could be a must pick in coordinated teams. Should put the nail in Sombra’s coffin anyway.
I usually only play POG so my opinion has no value, but i’ve been doing pretty well using Bastion offensively as a “shield cracker”. Have to move around a whole lot though or will get flanked/Zenyatta’d pretty quick. But i’m usually hauling in 1-4 gold medals. Bastion has definitely been my solution for Winston/shield spam that breaks apart weaker teams like butter.
Oh wow not much activity in this thread in the last month?
Summer games are a go!
Lol, numbers must be down (PUBG anyone?) - Blizz has caved and is adding deathmatch modes.
Is this just a rehash of last year’s event or are there new things in there?
I agree that Blizzard is feeling the pinch (i see it a lot in hearthstone too - with the free arena giveaways and free gold multipliers last month), but it’s going to take a lot more to get me playing overwatch again. The last time i played i very nearly uninstalled out of annoyance(with myself) for playing it again when it’s not doing anything for me…
If you have Twitch Prime, claim your 5 free Standard Loot Boxes.
Season 6 brings a move to two month seasons, instead of three (because ‘engagement’ is better at the beginning of a season - ie ‘we sell more loot boxes at season start’), more comp points per win, removal of placement fuckery purposely rating players below their MMR, decay rate changes and control maps in comp moving to best of three.
PUBG probably hurting the revenue!
I hit Diamond last night!
Never thought it possible but as a Pharah main, the latest Mercy changes are the best thing that could have happened for me. I think I won something like 19 of the last 20 games I’ve played since that patch came along.
Mercy (well, Resurrect really) being grossly overpowered probably doesn’t hurt any :)
Their forums were so hilarious when that update was in the PTR.
I’ve been tempted to buy Overwatch for the PS4. How is the community for newbies these days? I’m pretty much expecting that the second I start playing, I expect a ton of ‘LTP jackass’ comments.
How is this game of friends vs bots? My buddies and I are old and slow and have no interest of playing other people. I have 175 hours in DOTA 2 and only played 2 matches vs other people, all the rest is with friends vs bots (standard level bots) and I’m hoping this game will be just as enjoyable.
Thanks
You and @TundraToad can see for yourselves this coming weekend. I’m pretty sure it’s a free play weekend.
It is. I’m going to try it.
The bots are decent. They are laughably terrible on easy and medium, so I would move to hard if you want any kind of challenge. On hard, they have unreal aim (you will get angry), but are predictable, so if you play smart and have a good group you should still win.
I played it and liked it. I quick joined a few games and had a good time. Managed to luck into a “play of the game.”
It was on sale for $29 for Plus members so I grabbed it. I don’t think I joined the voice channel (unless it does by default) so that may have aided my pleasure.
My 7 year old boy plays Overwatch exclusively now, he is really good… the downside is, he has to play on my box… so I’m going to build him his own machine for xmas.
Anyone been playing around with the new hero, Moira?
I really want to like her but I’m having a devil of a time being productive with her. It seems like all the time when I need to heal someone I will be out of “biotic energy” and then can’t heal. This seems like a huge problem as the thing about being a healer is that damage bursts can be unpredictable and sometimes you can’t heal because you haven’t inflicted enough damage to refill your biotic meter.
I then tried approaching her like Solider 76 – primarily as a DPS and as an off-healer. But her DPS is kinda low so she doesn’t really fill that DPS role very well at all.
The biotic meter refills so slowly on its own that it creates real problems to heal reliably.
In addition, when I’m playing a different healer such as Mercy or Ana and someone else is playing Moira I’m constantly wondering if they even have enough energy to do their job.
Admittedly it’s still early since she has been introduced into the game but right now it seems like she is falling into that no-mans land of not being a very good healer and not being a very good DPS which is a pathway that leads into becoming unplayable as the other heros are much more efficient at their roles.
I think Moira is my first pick in most situations at this point. My top 2 were previously Mercy and D.Va, and Moira feels like a combination of the two in a lot of ways.
Moira is bad at: rapidly returning to a fight after dying, healing allies in hard-to-reach places, and burst healing a target, which requires a brain adjustment vs Mercy.
Moira’s heal has a heal-over-time effect after you turn it off, so you don’t actually want to heal people to full with the beam unless you’re dealing with sustained fire. Just sort of wash it over them to top them off. This naturally creates a heal->identify soft target and finish them off-> heal cycle.
Don’t follow enemies into bad situations - send your orb into that building. Don’t try to follow your allies into hard-to-reach situations. In fact, if your party has a sniper and a Pharah and no other healer, you might not want to choose Moira.
The dash is primarily helpful for two things - crossing sniper kill zones to reach your allies, and dodging ultimates. It will, however, not get you out of a Junkrat trap. That sucks.
Moira’s range on her dps beam is pretty far, and she doesn’t ever run out of ammunition. If someone isn’t hurt right now, or isn’t hurt enough that you need to heal right now, \you’re not full on energy, and there is an enemy visible, you should be firing.
Other interesting things to note:
Genji can’t parry Moira’s beams. If you see a low-health Genji attempt to deflect and disengage, he is a tasty snack.
Fading out of the way of a charging Reinholdt and shooting him in the back with an orb never gets old.