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Overwatch Beta Thread: Cheers Love, The Beta's Here!

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Twookie

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Magnus said:
Also, what IS SFM? I've been seeing it on the forum a lot lately, lol. "so fucking metal?"
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it's what people makes the lewd rule34 vids with
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Alavard

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Toxi said:
Question from someone who barely played the beta to those who spent a lot more time on it... I don't want to be a load on my teams, but I want to play with characters I enjoy most.

So far it looks like the ones I will enjoy most are

  • Pharah (Rockets! Also jetpack!)
  • Reaper (Shotguns!)
  • Roadhog (Fat shotgun!)
  • Mercy (TF2 style Medic is always easy and fun)

Can these characters function well in a variety of situations? Or should I try learning someone else for a situation these characters are deficient at?

In my FPS experience, I suck at aiming head shots, but I'm decent at leading rockets and tend to do decent at positioning.
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Honestly, those characters are all great in many situations, and most of them are the characters I started with. It's true that you'll need to learn as many heroes as you can, but you should be pretty safe sticking with any of those heroes for full matches when you first start out.
 
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Maligna

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Toxi said:
Question from someone who barely played the beta to those who spent a lot more time on it... I don't want to be a load on my teams, but I want to play with characters I enjoy most.

So far it looks like the ones I will enjoy most are

  • Pharah (Rockets! Also jetpack!)
  • Reaper (Shotguns!)
  • Roadhog (Fat shotgun!)
  • Mercy (TF2 style Medic is always easy and fun)

Can these characters function well in a variety of situations? Or should I try learning someone else for a situation these characters are deficient at?

In my FPS experience, I suck at aiming head shots, but I'm decent at leading rockets and tend to do decent at positioning.
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4 characters is way more than some people choose to play, so yes.
 
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Mupod

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Toxi said:
Question from someone who barely played the beta to those who spent a lot more time on it... I don't want to be a load on my teams, but I want to play with characters I enjoy most.

So far it looks like the ones I will enjoy most are

  • Pharah (Rockets! Also jetpack!)
  • Reaper (Shotguns!)
  • Roadhog (Fat shotgun!)
  • Mercy (TF2 style Medic is always easy and fun)

Can these characters function well in a variety of situations? Or should I try learning someone else for a situation these characters are deficient at?

In my FPS experience, I suck at aiming head shots, but I'm decent at leading rockets and tend to do decent at positioning.
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I feel like learning a few characters to fill necessary roles is the way to go early on. As you play, you'll learn how to use other characters as you watch other players/get killed by them. At least that's how it worked for me, now I can use everyone.

Roadhog is actually a kind of weird character. He's a 'Tank' and has a huge body/health pool but isn't really specialized in that protection role like Reinhardt or Zarya. In fact eating tons of damage as him can be detrimental as he builds enemy ultimates. He's not a bad beginner character as just wandering around hooking people is a fine strategy. Needs good aim though.

Pharah is almost always a good pick but don't be afraid to switch off if they are countering you with snipers.

I like to play flankers for practice but they always get picked so I never get to play them. Nobody will complain about a Mercy on the team, but give Lucio a try. It's actually pretty hard to play him poorly but there's tons of room to improve.
 
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Poodlestrike

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Asd202 said:
But at it's core SFV is very polished fighter nobody can deny that. While that game suffer from lack of modes at least it has some kind of story (with story mode coming in June) while Overwatch doesn't have it in game at all. I think SFV got hammered too much while people are much more lenient on Overwatch because it's Blizzard not Capcom but hey maybe that's just me.
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I mean, part of it is down to Capcom vs. Blizzard, sure, but it's also about the per-title expectations. People expected a proper singleplayer mode with SFV because there's always been a proper singleplayer mode in Street Fighter games, but there's never been an Overwatch game, so nobody goes in looking for something that isn't there.
 
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Overwatch |OT| Heroes never die.
Overwatch |OT| Your watch begins.
Overwatch |OT| Cavalry's here.

Everything else is silly. I like the Bastion one, but it's too long.
 
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Tecnniqe

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Toxi

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Alavard said:
Honestly, those characters are all great in many situations, and most of them are the characters I started with. It's true that you'll need to learn as many heroes as you can, but you should be pretty safe sticking with any of those heroes for full matches when you first start out.
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Maligna said:
4 characters is way more than some people choose to play, so yes.
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Mupod said:
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I like to play flankers for practice but they always get picked so I never get to play them. Nobody will complain about a Mercy on the team, but give Lucio a try. It's actually pretty hard to play him poorly but there's tons of room to improve.
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Thanks for the tips!

I'll try out Lucio.
 
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