Overwatch, It Isn't New Anymore

[Tokitoki]

And two of them are the same. Automatic handicap.

[tyven]

Lol

[Tokitoki]

Wife has classes tonight so I'll be around if anyone wants to play. If nobody's on when I get on I'll probably play a round of PUBG. Just send me a message. I want to try out the new PVE thing.

OttomanRob#1594

[shukudai]

The Uprising PvE is super fun, it's what I want out of this game in general. It would make me actually find a group, if there are tough "raids".

That said "Expert" and "Legendary" using the default heroes and solo q is like stabbing yourself in the face with a machete. The level of stupidity is just *ASTRONOMICAL*. People LITERALLY will not stand anywhere near in LoS of each other, which makes healing it a horrible experience. Tracer's just run all over the place, like "Oh, there's 4 enemies there, I'm sure I can solo all of them away from the tea- HEAL ME OH GOD HEAL ME", Reinhardt just holds his shield up 100% of the time, fuck swinging that hammer, and Torb's... Torbs are just everywhere. They're spinning wildly in circles, placing turrets in places that make no sense.

First Point: Oh, i'm stuck in a small room that limits how the enemies can get at me? Easy as shooting fish in a barrel, never fail there.
Second Point: This is super easy, I never mess - Why are we all dead?

[Karbuncle]

The Uprising PvE is super fun, it's what I want out of this game in general. It would make me actually find a group, if there are tough "raids".

That said "Expert" and "Legendary" using the default heroes and solo q is like stabbing yourself in the face with a machete. The level of stupidity is just *ASTRONOMICAL*. People LITERALLY will not stand anywhere near in LoS of each other, which makes healing it a horrible experience. Tracer's just run all over the place, like "Oh, there's 4 enemies there, I'm sure I can solo all of them away from the tea- HEAL ME OH GOD HEAL ME", Reinhardt just holds his shield up 100% of the time, fuck swinging that hammer, and Torb's... Torbs are just everywhere. They're spinning wildly in circles, placing turrets in places that make no sense.

First Point: Oh, i'm stuck in a small room that limits how the enemies can get at me? Easy as shooting fish in a barrel, never fail there.
Second Point: This is super easy, I never mess - Why are we all dead?

If theres a skill thing in the PvE event (I.E in QP or Comp you get paired with people near your skill level), it must be broken. I've run into far too many just... unbelievably bad people in just a few short runs. Bad in ways I've never seen in QP/Arcade or Comp to date.

That aside, This event is fucking fantastic, I'm trying to do the 8 different Hero's achievement and its fun, real fun. I've already burned through all 4 healers (big surprise) so its time to troll pick to finish my last few cause fuck repeating it as a healer I wont get credit for.

[Ghost_Wheel22]

One match with Karb we had a suicidal genji and pharah and I was on zen.

In a nutshell:

[Melena]

And two of them are the same. Automatic handicap.

Just realized that. I did clear it as Pharah on Hard. By the way, Pharah isn't very good for it outside of using her ult to clear stuff.

[Meian]

Some advice for Legendary, on the second hack after 50% have someone stand near the phone booth where the payload is and it won't spawn those shield dudes from behind, makes life easier.

[Wulfgang]

One match with Karb we had a suicidal genji and pharah and I was on zen.

In a nutshell:

Hahaha I actually love Beerfest; massively underrated movie from that crew.

[synistar]

So the effect of winning/losing streaks have on SR change is being lowered. https://us.battle.net/forums/en/over...ic/20754005467

[Karbuncle]

Already implemented I believe as of Tuesday's patch unless I misunderstood some videos lol. Basically a tl:dr summary is now win/loss streaks take 4 games in a row either direction to begin adding a multiplier to your SR and the multiplier starts lower and gains alower than before.

[synistar]

Also the SR gain for supports is bugged again. You will lose more SR than you gain if you have a win 1/lose 1 50% win rate. Unless you waste your ult or play stupidly to gain fire gauge. Basically, playing Mercy will mean a slow climb even with a 52% win rate.

[shukudai]

I think I've encountered a new level of stupidity with my last Solo-Q match.

Defense, Anubis. First pick is me on Lucio. Second is Roadhog, third is McCree, fourth is Tracer. I'm like, um.. well, let's see. Second to last person picks Symmetra. Welp, OK, i'll swap to Mercy. Last person waits until about 15 seconds before the match begins, everyone in place, chooses Winston. Like, wtf kind of retarded comp is this.

But hey, things are looking up! Roadhog got a pick on his first hook, and two people then ran into all six Symmetra turrets, and i'm seeing her RMB everywhere, so that's like a TP.

But WAIT... Winston solo jumps out to their spawn. Dead, instantly. 100% alone. Symmetra, instead of putting a TP (yes, i looked, yes, she had ult), runs out to the fountain and tries to hide behind it... Except she instead ran face first into four people respawning. Dead Winston, dead Sym with no TP up who could've put it up (and they were queued together), so yeah we lost the first point about twenty seconds later.

OK, maybe can hold the second point. Sym... changes to Soldier. Proceeded to not even make it onto the second point, twice. It's OK, the Roadhog switched to D.Va then spammed "I need healing!" about twenty times in a row while I was dead, because y'know, being the only healer vs a Genji and Winston made it really easy to stay alive. I'm just not sure how people get this special level of stupid. It was possibly one of the worst comps you could imagine, especially for Anubis Defense.

[Corrderio]

Welcome to the world of support. Where your team (and Blizz with this SR bug if I'm reading correctly?) will most likely shit on you.

[Diomer]

I think I've encountered a new level of stupidity with my last Solo-Q match.

Defense, Anubis. First pick is me on Lucio. Second is Roadhog, third is McCree, fourth is Tracer. I'm like, um.. well, let's see. Second to last person picks Symmetra. Welp, OK, i'll swap to Mercy. Last person waits until about 15 seconds before the match begins, everyone in place, chooses Winston. Like, wtf kind of retarded comp is this.

But hey, things are looking up! Roadhog got a pick on his first hook, and two people then ran into all six Symmetra turrets, and i'm seeing her RMB everywhere, so that's like a TP.

But WAIT... Winston solo jumps out to their spawn. Dead, instantly. 100% alone. Symmetra, instead of putting a TP (yes, i looked, yes, she had ult), runs out to the fountain and tries to hide behind it... Except she instead ran face first into four people respawning. Dead Winston, dead Sym with no TP up who could've put it up (and they were queued together), so yeah we lost the first point about twenty seconds later.

OK, maybe can hold the second point. Sym... changes to Soldier. Proceeded to not even make it onto the second point, twice. It's OK, the Roadhog switched to D.Va then spammed "I need healing!" about twenty times in a row while I was dead, because y'know, being the only healer vs a Genji and Winston made it really easy to stay alive. I'm just not sure how people get this special level of stupid. It was possibly one of the worst comps you could imagine, especially for Anubis Defense.

What level is this? These kind of things seem to stop happening the higher up the ladder you get... I finally got back into diamond (I was diamond last season) after solo queing with Rein all the way down the pit to 2100 until I decided to just play my favorite tank (D. va) instead regardless of the team "needing a Rein." Once I did that, I plowed my way up to 3180ish really fast and I've had some great games and that kind of stuff has seemed to dissipate.

Also, that SR thing isn't really a support only thing... it happens a lot to me when I'm playing D. va and my damage blocked isn't super high (usually because I'm more offensive and end up with silver or gold damage along with gold elims.) It seems like to me that the game isn't happy when I start doing that and it's reflected in minimal SR gains even when those are wins. As far as supports, I played some Lucio last night and seemed to be getting normal amounts during wins (mid 20s generally) so I just think it's generally hard to sometimes quantify if you were doing your job as whatever hero it is outside of the DPS ones; those ones seem pretty straightforward.

[synistar]

Mercy gets hit the most because assist fire generation is crap for her. It isn't as bad for Zeny, Anna, and Lucio, but they still feel some of the effects

[Wulfgang]

Play Mercy on Gibraltar in comp; recorded 27,500 healing and two quad raises, still lost. If you play support often, you can appreciate just how much healing 27,500 is on Mercy. Ridiculous.

[tyven]

Play Mercy on Gibraltar in comp; recorded 27,500 healing and two quad raises, still lost. If you play support often, you can appreciate just how much healing 27,500 is on Mercy. Ridiculous.

that's insane. how much of the match was spent in Overtime? I feel like there is not enough time in a match to record that much healing.

[Corrderio]

PVE all heros is fun. Orisa/Zen is so damn fun.

[Wulfgang]

that's insane. how much of the match was spent in Overtime? I feel like there is not enough time in a match to record that much healing.

Both teams pushed all 3 cps to go to OT, but OT wasn't that long. Lost at the first bridge. Just had a DVa who never used defense matrix.