Overwatch, It Isn't New Anymore

[AidenCarby]

Anyone else's client just randomly crashing?

[Nama]

Not alot but its happened to me a few times. Seems to have stopped now though.

[Zeb]

Haven't crashed, but I've been randomly DCed a few times.

[Meian]

They should add a Friend feature for forming groups in the future. There's no way to add people in-game.

Not sure what you mean, you can add people in the upper right.

[Kuishen]

Super smooth launch thus far, one of the best I've had with any new game. (PC of course.) At first I hated Zarya but after playing her some more I think she has real potential.

My only gripes are yeah, almost nobody uses mics for some reason and afaik there is no way to save highlights, which is absolutely retarded considering the highlight system seems like it was made for that kind of thing.

Also play of the game seems completely random sometimes.

[Wulfgang]

So I take it matchmaking difficulty gets kicked up a notch if you play in a premade party? Joined Mal tonight on PS4 and it was way harder than solo queue.

And I took some time before bed to peruse the skins. Some of the yellow ones are amazing (Widowmaker and Mercy in particular). Unfortunately, at my current pace of currency collection from crates, I'll be LV 44 before I can afford one (255 through LV 11 thus far). Also, I didn't realize the crates can give you duplicate items; kind of meh.

[Jaxzer]

Not sure what you mean, you can add people in the upper right.

People you have recently played a match with.

[Malithar]

So I take it matchmaking difficulty gets kicked up a notch if you play in a premade party? Joined Mal tonight on PS4 and it was way harder than solo queue.

And I took some time before bed to peruse the skins. Some of the yellow ones are amazing (Widowmaker and Mercy in particular). Unfortunately, at my current pace of currency collection from crates, I'll be LV 44 before I can afford one (255 through LV 11 thus far). Also, I didn't realize the crates can give you duplicate items; kind of meh.

Felt like we just had some meh teams, lots of trickling in, some weren't swapping even when they were being hard countered, etc. Two different games there was someone camping where very few would come with Widowmaker in the first and Bastion in the second. I don't know what the fuck to do when there's 6 Junk Rats on defense, that was silly as hell. Traps at every choke point/entry, constant blind spray of bombs out of windows, and hearing the rip of a tire every 10-20 seconds.

That +20% exp boost sure is nice though. Does it increase with more players in your group?

[Meian]

People you have recently played a match with.

There is a tab for it if you click the add friends for recent players.

[Jaxzer]

You're right! Thank you.

[TheDirtyHobo]

So I take it matchmaking difficulty gets kicked up a notch if you play in a premade party? Joined Mal tonight on PS4 and it was way harder than solo queue.

And I took some time before bed to peruse the skins. Some of the yellow ones are amazing (Widowmaker and Mercy in particular). Unfortunately, at my current pace of currency collection from crates, I'll be LV 44 before I can afford one (255 through LV 11 thus far). Also, I didn't realize the crates can give you duplicate items; kind of meh.

Currency will come slightly faster as you level more just due to more duplicates.

[Arcana]

Playing just now looking for anyone to party up with on xb1 just send inv

[Wulfgang]

Felt like we just had some meh teams, lots of trickling in, some weren't swapping even when they were being hard countered, etc. Two different games there was someone camping where very few would come with Widowmaker in the first and Bastion in the second. I don't know what the fuck to do when there's 6 Junk Rats on defense, that was silly as hell. Traps at every choke point/entry, constant blind spray of bombs out of windows, and hearing the rip of a tire every 10-20 seconds.

That +20% exp boost sure is nice though. Does it increase with more players in your group?

Haha the six Junkrats was ridiculous; just bombs and tires everywhere. We capped the final point with like 3 seconds left.

[Melena]

I can't wait for some of the noobs to die out of this game. I had so many games where we are on offense, especially anubis where a 2 people would be bastion and widowmaker and not even attempt to cap the second objective and just sit way in the back and try to pick someone off. Had one match where I was Reinhardt and was third on damage at 1800 and third on eliminations with 3.....

[avelle]

I can't wait for some of the noobs to die out of this game. I had so many games where we are on offense, especially anubis where a 2 people would be bastion and widowmaker and not even attempt to cap the second objective and just sit way in the back and try to pick someone off. Had one match where I was Reinhardt and was third on damage at 1800 and third on eliminations with 3.....

I like all the Genjis running around being totally ineffective. Also a big fan of the people who don't try to take down threats like turrets, widowmakers, or bastions. They just keep running into the open and getting mowed down.

[Melena]

Last night, had a turret in front of me, my shield up, had a pharah stand behind me, stare at the turret and run off. It's like playing with a bunch of over caffeinated kittens.

[avelle]

I'm not sure people realize you can and should change who you are playing to combat certain threats, particularly if the rest of your team seems ineffective at dealing with them.

[Wulfgang]

I like killing turrets because I am bad at killing normal people, you get a message pop-up, and I feel like I've done something productive. I just haven't been able to get the hang of the aiming and frenetic pace yet on offense; so different from Destiny for me. I think I'm ok on support / tank.

Think my biggest pet peeve thus far are Widowmakers / Hanzos hiding in a nook half a map away from the group / objective who continually spam "I need healing!"

[Kaisha]

I'm done with solo queueing in this. I always play support, and I keep getting stuck with crews using no mics at all, and people with zero self awareness when their sole healer is getting focused while they dance on ahead. Nevermind wasting you time with offense players who can't aim.

Lack of community servers sucks as well, I hope that eventually gets added to PC so I can find groups of randoms that aren't completely incompetent.

[SamanosukeShiva]

I went to the Overwatch battle net forum, and I see a lot of people are complaining about 20 tick server? comparing it to CS:GO's 60 tick server. I haven't encountered this problem myself probably because i'm not that good at the game yet to even have that kind of problem, but I can see why this is going to be a problem if Blizzard is trying to market this as an e-sport kind of game.