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Overwatch |OT10| That'll do pig, that'll do
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AppleSeason
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I'm surprised at how different people can be. Yesterday everybody getting called "Noob Team" (and me answering "Well, I'm an actual noob"), and today the group being nice and educated, and even joking.
And I am not that bad as a Reindhard, or at least I can hold things a bit at the chokehold. Seeing how bad I am at aiming, maybe it's better to stick at healing / defense.
And I am not that bad as a Reindhard, or at least I can hold things a bit at the chokehold. Seeing how bad I am at aiming, maybe it's better to stick at healing / defense.
Yeah, as much as I love the balance for this season, I'm starting to hate how many of the games that I've played have a Pharah/Mercy combo. It's just not fun to deal with.
Nuno Pinto
Member
As Vault already said, nerfing the healing output when using angelic descent would be a simple solution for this pharmercy problem.
Vital Tundra
Member
Not a bad suggestion. Its not a huge part of her gameplay to glide and heal (literally the only time you do it is with Phara) at the same time.
Berserking Guts
Member
Mystery Heroes is only fun on defence.
Whoah whoah whoah, it's a huge part of my Mercy play, with or without a Pharah. There's always D.Vas or snipers or Junkrats flying around to swoop up to, and the best place to hook up a healing beam to Rein isn't behind him - it's above him, where people aren't looking or shooting.
My survivability on KotH or just defense points - and keeping an entire team alive - is contingent on my ability to zip around, healing as I fly.
The answer to the teamwork of Pharah+Mercy is the same as the answer to the teamwork of Torb+Orisa or Bastion+Rein: teamwork of your own.
Nuno Pinto
Member
I don't know if we are talking about the same thing. Angelic descent is when you press a button to descend slower, and not the one you press to fly to a target.
I'm no mercy expert, but I don't see how can you use this frequently without a pharah. Winston/D.Va maybe, but if you are close to the ground why would you want to use it? It just makes you an easier target.
The lifetime plat/diamond players who krept their way into high master this season....be gone. Had a mercy try battle mercying a genji while I was soldier already fighting him; asked for healing or damage boost to just kill him and had to explain that healing or damage boosting is better than trying to battle mercy for the fact that we both gain ult charge off it. Then in OT were taking the point to win the game, three of us are on it, Mercy has rez. Enemy Mcree uses dead eye on the three of us on the point with no tanks to protect us; our mercy flies over to heal us. He kills us all. He starts saying we needed healing. When he had rez. Apparently we needed healing so bad we all just needed to die rather than rez us all on the point from out of sight.
Unbelievable that I have to explain these things this far into the game. Like just use your head.
Unbelievable that I have to explain these things this far into the game. Like just use your head.
Dangansona
Member
Ok, as much as I love Mystery Heroes, it should probably be a bit less random. Maybe just don't allow duplicates.
Definitely talking about the same thing. Angelic Descent allows me to stay off the ground longer, which is generally where all those bullets are whizzing around.
A nerf to Mercy in the name of nerfing Pharmercy is a nerf to teamwork itself! Down with the haters!
Nocturnowl
Member
You haven't lived until its team healers vs the Hog squad.
Darryl M R
Member
Hmm last season I only won 3 of my placement matches and I was SR 2325, this season I won 4 and tied 1 and I'm 1850.
Any explanation for this?
Any explanation for this?
Dangansona
Member
Yup, just played ranked and was reminded why I hate playing ranked. But of shit talking assholes who have to at their character, don't play it well, and force winning strategies on the team like letting them walk the payload halfway to the capture point.
Nuno Pinto
Member
Ended up betraying torb and got the golden weapon for hanzo instead on my alt (also 4k credits spent just on him). I'm just having way too much fun with him on mystery heroes, dude is a beast. I love getting the card at the end with the bullshit kills (aka scatter arrows).
Honestly I don't see how you can stay in the air for long periods of time without a Pharah, which is the whole point of this suggestion. Anyway, it's up to blizzard to decide if something has to be done, I just hope they don't see a need to nerf Pharah instead.
Honestly I don't see how you can stay in the air for long periods of time without a Pharah, which is the whole point of this suggestion. Anyway, it's up to blizzard to decide if something has to be done, I just hope they don't see a need to nerf Pharah instead.
Huh?
I'm okay with nerfing Pharah! Reduce her rocket damage by 30% - surely, that is the solution to combating enemy teamwork. Any nerf to the healing ability of the hero described in her character bio as "a peerless healer" who can't heal as much as an octogenarian with a rifle is not the answer.
It's just a given that you'll be paired up with an idiot or three regardless of when you play.
Berserking Guts
Member
How the hell can anyone enjoy Mystery Heroes? It's more random then playing with randoms. Both together and I might as well throw on a blindfold too.
I'm going back to Mayhem. It might have gone to shit. But at leastI feel like I'm doing something.
I'm going back to Mayhem. It might have gone to shit. But at leastI feel like I'm doing something.
igordennis
Member
Are you kidding me game.
I finally have some good legendary drop rates, had 5 in the past 15 or something, they have been:
Currency
Duplicate mei event skin
Non event junkrat skin
Duplicate zarya event skin
Duplicate lucio event skin
Give me something not useless, PLEASE.
I finally have some good legendary drop rates, had 5 in the past 15 or something, they have been:
Currency
Duplicate mei event skin
Non event junkrat skin
Duplicate zarya event skin
Duplicate lucio event skin
Give me something not useless, PLEASE.
Berserking Guts
Member
Zarya and Junkrat are so much fun in Mayhem.
RecRoulette
Member
Sick of playing comp games where I'm stuck being the only healer so I decided I wasn't going to do it. Both rounds, no healer and we still won (Gibraltar).
This game is bullshit.
It's a little bit better because you know that when you're playing with 4 attackers on defense, it was decided by the game and not your team themselves.
Sucks for getting wins though if you want the boxes. Most of the time it just depends on which team rolls into a great makeup
This game is bullshit.
It's a little bit better because you know that when you're playing with 4 attackers on defense, it was decided by the game and not your team themselves.
Sucks for getting wins though if you want the boxes. Most of the time it just depends on which team rolls into a great makeup
It's pretty much as I said. The eagle beak helmet she holds in her hand? Unlike her other costumes, she doesn't wear it.
On another note, quickplay continues to be marginally worse than cancer. How is it that I keep getting matched up against players that are clearly working so well in lock step that they are either communicating or just good enough that they don't have to, while my teammates are eternally silent, routinely play without a healer or tank or triple snipers, and can never switch to counter the comp they are up against. Maybe I should start keeping numbers on how many games I get like this, because it feels like it's a lot.
Berserking Guts
Member
All these Rein Shields, Bubble Shields, Sym shields and Orisa Shields. How's a DPS hero supposed to make it in the world? We need a Hero who's ability can syphon the enemies shield juice over time into a... thing that can only be created and sustained by leeching.
I like this idea cuz it would force you to rethink throwing shields everywhere all willy-nilly.
I like this idea cuz it would force you to rethink throwing shields everywhere all willy-nilly.
You know, I wish more teams (both professionally and commonly) could incorporate Sombra, as plays like this one are pretty rad. Had a match where the Sombra on our team had coordinated her EMP with my Graviton Surge, and it made our comp match all the more easier.
Berserking Guts
Member
This game is full of stupid cunts.
Awww that is a bit disappointing, and the helmet is pretty nice.
RecRoulette
Member
Double XP weekend baby!
I'm actually glad for this change, as up until now, all of Pharah's Epic skins have had a recoloured variant of her helmet from her original design. (I personally would've loved for the Possessed skin to have her head severed to serve as the "helmet" for that cosmetic).
So glad they stuck to their guns this time and didn't include it, outside from one of her highlight intro's. Her new Legendary is better off without it.
Double XP event + Weekend is weaponized salt.
Complistic
Member
You can practically taste the salt.
igordennis
Member
Yeah, i don't get that. Especially in quick play, like, is the salt that real? In fucking quick play? /shrug
JustAnotherMike
Member
I needed this cathartic laugh. I've had 1 win out of 20 games since this double xp event started. It's like every person who sucked at this game came back to just suck more efficiently.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Nah, that's just barrierwatch.
Just harrass with tracer until you build up a pulsebomb for the easiest stick in the world.
Nuno Pinto
Member
Yup, so dumb.
Oh god, don't remind me. While it's possible to counter a team that protects their Bastion player, it can be a headache if you can't communicate/cordornate.