Dead Prince
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does mei's ice wall block her ult.
i never tried because i hear the beep and i'm like oh shit. let me hide lol.
i never tried because i hear the beep and i'm like oh shit. let me hide lol.
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Spiritreaver
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It does, lol. You can also avoid them with a Zarya shield for an easy charge boost.
Not sure about Winston shield though.
No one wants to watch a game they can't play.
I see a lot of people saying this and while this is very true, bear in mind a lot of the big streamers have moved onto other games too which is why Overwatch had those numbers in the first place. Those streamers switched games and a lot of the crowd went with them.
Dead Prince
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hm. i half expected that the ice wall would take some damage before being destroyed and still damage you somewhat. but 100% block? neat.
machemachete
Banned
A friend of mine lend me his account to play the beta and as a seasoned TF classic and TF2 player, I can say this game is very fun but IT TS lacking something.
-It could be the shooting mecanics, something feels off.
-It could be some funless heroes like Symmetra, the Engineer is way more fun.
-It could be the strange "pick to counter" that everyone does many times during a match.
-It could be that a lot of heroes don't are very deep to play and are very straight forward with very little to master.
-Maybe is just the lack of modes to play
It still feel a little soulless but I'm still having fun (except when friend starts to play Hearthstone
) and I always look forward to play some more daily. The game have room to improve and I am pretty sure that it will.
Be careful with that high ground calling other human beings "crap people".
They have the right to have fun, mutting them is ok.
-It could be the shooting mecanics, something feels off.
-It could be some funless heroes like Symmetra, the Engineer is way more fun.
-It could be the strange "pick to counter" that everyone does many times during a match.
-It could be that a lot of heroes don't are very deep to play and are very straight forward with very little to master.
-Maybe is just the lack of modes to play
It still feel a little soulless but I'm still having fun (except when friend starts to play Hearthstone
) and I always look forward to play some more daily. The game have room to improve and I am pretty sure that it will.Blizz, if you are reading this gimme a code pls
Be careful with that high ground calling other human beings "crap people".
They have the right to have fun, mutting them is ok.
Codeacious
Banned
IIRC a dev said somewhere that properly implementing matchmaking via a hidden MMR is one of the critical things the dev team wants to work out in the early beta. Some streamers have mentioned a hidden MMR as well, and I notice the better streamers getting pitted against one another frequently.
A friend of mine lend me his account to play the beta and as a seasoned TF classic and TF2 player, I can say this game is very fun but IT TS lacking something.
-It could be the shooting mecanics, something feels off.
-It could be some funless heroes like Symmetra, the Engineer is way more fun.
-It could be the strange "pick to counter" that everyone does many times during a match.
-It could be that a lot of heroes don't are very deep to play and are very straight forward with very little to master.
-Maybe is just the lack of modes to play
It still feel a little soulless but I'm still having fun (except when friend starts to play Hearthstone
Blizz, if you are reading this gimme a code pls
Be careful with that high ground calling other human beings "crap people".
They have the right to have fun, mutting them is ok.
I would like to hear more pro tf genre players opinions on this game.
Having never got into team fortress but always being told the class selection metagame was similar to the Tribes series I feel a mixed bag about overwatch and though I haven't played it it does seem like the kind of game that gets repetitive very quickly at high-level competition. Similar to how I found seasonal diablo 3.
Does this game have the depth for a lasting competitive community or are we going to see the same constant hotfixes and gameplay rebalances like d3?
With people like daHang from Quake playing (I think he came in 2nd in Vanilla Quake 1v1s at Quakecon 2014 and has been ranked a top Quake player for almost a decade). Or talespin or chump from the Tribes series. It really seems to be drawing some attention from the pro E-Sports community.
Whether it turns out to be the real genre unifying FPS E-Sports game people want it to be idk though.
Pyros_Eien
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Today for the invites I'd say, but who knows really.
On symmetra being boring, I think a few changes could make her less boring. Reducing the charge time on alt fire, increasing projectile speed but compensating by reducing damage. Currently, you spend A LOT of time charging orbs, then shooting them in a quick peek and going back to charging, which is super boring. You also don't aim at anything but a general direction(or a Bastion), because the orbs are so slow you're guaranteed to only hit people who run into the orb several seconds after you shot it, rather than people you tried to hit(might overlap but like, it's not on purpose). It feels fairly poor.
They could also tweak the shielding mechanic to be more active, like for example increasing the cd a bit again, and letting you refresh shields on people to actually act as a healer, rather than just a health buff on everyone.
She's a strong hero mind you, although a bit binary(if you lose hard early on, you have to switch because she becomes useless as the game progresses, if you win early, you snowball due to teleport), so she doesn't really need buffs, but could use some rework to be more fun to play, in general. I kinda like playing her, nothing like killing bad Genjis with the beam, but I could see how they'd want to change her.
I think a lot of heroes will see some changes over time to be honest, they "locked" the roster but I don't think they locked roles or hero skillsets. And hell for all we know they could decide they're lacking something and add a new hero, there's plenty of time for it. I'd expect a support if they were to do it, as it's really the lacking space, but I guess they could change an existing hero to a support(Mei due to her fairly support friendly skillset already or Torbjorn in a full rework would make sense I guess).
On symmetra being boring, I think a few changes could make her less boring. Reducing the charge time on alt fire, increasing projectile speed but compensating by reducing damage. Currently, you spend A LOT of time charging orbs, then shooting them in a quick peek and going back to charging, which is super boring. You also don't aim at anything but a general direction(or a Bastion), because the orbs are so slow you're guaranteed to only hit people who run into the orb several seconds after you shot it, rather than people you tried to hit(might overlap but like, it's not on purpose). It feels fairly poor.
They could also tweak the shielding mechanic to be more active, like for example increasing the cd a bit again, and letting you refresh shields on people to actually act as a healer, rather than just a health buff on everyone.
She's a strong hero mind you, although a bit binary(if you lose hard early on, you have to switch because she becomes useless as the game progresses, if you win early, you snowball due to teleport), so she doesn't really need buffs, but could use some rework to be more fun to play, in general. I kinda like playing her, nothing like killing bad Genjis with the beam, but I could see how they'd want to change her.
I think a lot of heroes will see some changes over time to be honest, they "locked" the roster but I don't think they locked roles or hero skillsets. And hell for all we know they could decide they're lacking something and add a new hero, there's plenty of time for it. I'd expect a support if they were to do it, as it's really the lacking space, but I guess they could change an existing hero to a support(Mei due to her fairly support friendly skillset already or Torbjorn in a full rework would make sense I guess).
Dr. Buni
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We aren't getting invited anyways.
Okay? Anything else you want me to do, master? Good job quoting a week old post btw.
I know it's a joke, But you're a beautiful person for suggesting it.
Well that's true ,but battlefront and fallout 4 just dropped too
CuckFupertino
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How can I tell if I get invited? Will I get an email, or will it just show up in the Battle.net launcher, or both?
You'll be flagged before an email is sent out. So the answer is yes to both. Check your B.net account when you hear of a wave of invites.
First overwatch weekend stress test announced (This weekend)
http://us.battle.net/overwatch/en/blog/19964704/
I did get myself flagged for this at least by talking to someone
http://us.battle.net/overwatch/en/blog/19964704/
I did get myself flagged for this at least by talking to someone
notworksafe
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Fingers crossed! I like the sound of "a lot more players"!
Meh, will be travelling this weekend.
Oh well, if I'm flagged I'll be able to play a bit sunday night and monday early in the morning.
Here's hoping a good bunch of us Onlywatchers here manage to get in!
edit: it's Fryday 9 AM PST until Monday 9 AM PST btw.
edit 2: flagging will happen on the 19th.
First overwatch weekend stress test announced (This weekend)
http://us.battle.net/overwatch/en/blog/19964704/
I did get myself flagged for this at least by talking to someone
Yay! I do hope I get flagged for this!
AzureSkies
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First overwatch weekend stress test announced (This weekend)
http://us.battle.net/overwatch/en/blog/19964704/
I did get myself flagged for this at least by talking to someone
Here's hoping I get flagged for this
I did get myself flagged for this at least by talking to someone
huh
Hopefully they will need more people in their Beta for a stress test. Big wave please!
Pyros_Eien
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Well assumption would be, to run a stress test, they had to setup a ton of server stuff. After the weekend is done, they might keep a good bunch of it opened, and invite people. I think it'd make sense, kinda. Then again they've said they want a really small beta because reasons and stuff so don't know.
24hour maintenance sucks though.
Ahhhhh.
Correct me if am i'm wrong, but the people who get flagged for the stress test weekends, can only play for those weekends right. ?
Congrats.I did get myself flagged for this at least by talking to someone
Don't suppose you can get me in too, please.
Ahhhhh.
Correct me if am i'm wrong, but the people who get flagged for the stress test weekends, can only play for those weekends right. ?
Congrats.
Don't suppose you can get me in too, please.
I wish I could
I actually just happened to get really lucky getting in contact with them, and they wouldnt even flag me for the real one! If I was close to that person, I'd totally help you!Dead Prince
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See y'all there. (Y)First overwatch weekend stress test announced (This weekend)
http://us.battle.net/overwatch/en/blog/19964704/
I did get myself flagged for this at least by talking to someone
Codeacious
Banned
It should be interesting to see how well Blizzard's prepared for a larger test. Even if I'm not invited, I'll be watching closely this weekend to see how things go.
That's what I've come to understand, but I think (hope) they might 'upgrade' weekend accounts to full-time testing accounts sometime in the future as the beta scales up towards release.
CommandThrower
Member
First overwatch weekend stress test announced (This weekend)
http://us.battle.net/overwatch/en/blog/19964704/
I did get myself flagged for this at least by talking to someone
Well, here's to hoping I can be a part of this. I need some of the Overwatch tanks in my life.
Yes, I think it's time you went to bed. Rest ye head weary beta wanderer.
Fingers crossed for us all.
It's cool, i appreciate the sentiment though.I wish I could
Ahh, that's a shame, i hope they would upgrade them.
They probably have a pretty good matchmaking system already there, since they could just copy what they've used in their other games. It's probably just a combination of too few players and too little data on them right now.
The matchmaking was updated on yesterday's patch, did you notice any changes?
Seems worse, but I guess it's just calibrating still.
CommandThrower
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I'd imagine that accounts will be flagged beginning mid-late Thursday or early Friday.
Otherwise, I haven't heard any rumblings about accounts being flagged for the weekend stress test right now.
They said they will be flagging them during this scheduled maintenance tomorrow.
http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/19891109379
Balmung421
Member
Great new video about the state of the beta.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04a7Mv_eWdY
The changes to torb and bastion early next year will involve making them less devastating to new players, but more competitive for experienced players. Excited to see what that will mean! Also, they are for sure going to tweak mercy's ult, since they agree having it cast at the end is too much of a negative change, but they don't want it to be as powerful as it was before the change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04a7Mv_eWdY
The changes to torb and bastion early next year will involve making them less devastating to new players, but more competitive for experienced players. Excited to see what that will mean! Also, they are for sure going to tweak mercy's ult, since they agree having it cast at the end is too much of a negative change, but they don't want it to be as powerful as it was before the change.
theSlacker
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I would assume that they are going to make it so Bastion doesn't kill as fast, but can't be so easily countered either.
Emperor_Uriel
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I feel like one will be Tracer, since she's so well liked already the writers might see it as zero-risk
(the Ellie principle)
Reaper or Hanzo would be really interesting choices on the male side, but I'd personally love to see Reinhardt be the one. I don't think I've ever seen an immensely badass old man who happened to be gay in fiction, so there's some neat ground to break.
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