Overwatch

[The_Wise_One]

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How's everyone doing in Season 4? I've been playing a lot of Zarya and doing well.

I'm looking forward to playing Winston if the ptr changes go through. Essentially a 3-4 second reduction on the shield cooldown.

[The JareBear]

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How's everyone doing in Season 4? I've been playing a lot of Zarya and doing well.

I'm looking forward to playing Winston if the ptr changes go through. Essentially a 3-4 second reduction on the shield cooldown.

I've felt his shields cool down is too long for awhile. Didn't know they are changing it. Glad to hear

[KSUowls]

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Nice post man.

I don't really play her very much, what makes Ana so hard to balance? Was she really OP before? Is her damage output plus burst healing just too strong as a combo?

I play a lot of Ana, and she probably did a little too many things well. She has pretty good DPS potential, the best burst healing in the game, and some of the best utility skills like grenade & sleep dart. The problem centered around the best way to counter an enemy Ana was to have one of your own. IMO a lot of that is simply due to the current hero roster. We have just 4 heroes who offer team healing, and of those 4 only 2 of them operate as true healers (Ana & Mercy) given their HP/s potential. Of the remaining 2, only 1 of them (Ana) has additional utility outside of her healing.

Overall what made her the best healer was her ability to heal a teammate through targeted fire, and her ability to delete enemy healers (including Zen's ult) for 4 seconds every time she throws her grenade. You could possibly add in the 60 splash damage that her grenade does on enemies too given it's ease of use and fairly large aoe.

[The JareBear]

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Are you guys playing on PS4? I really wanted to get to master last season but only made it do diamond. Not gonna blame randoms, a lot of it was my fault. My teams just didnt win enough at the end.

Would love to team up if anyone is still on the PS4 side of things.

[Speedy]

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Are you guys playing on PS4? I really wanted to get to master last season but only made it do diamond. Not gonna blame randoms, a lot of it was my fault. My teams just didnt win enough at the end.

Would love to team up if anyone is still on the PS4 side of things.

I'm only on Platinum.

[Speedy]

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I've had two games in a row where a member of my time leaves within the first 2 minutes of the match.

Blizzard needs to fix this where it counts as a loss. If the guy is my party, I get it...but why am I penalized for some random guy quitting?

[KSUowls]

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I'm on PC.

I've given up on rank in this game. I was working my way to 60 in season 1 (~Diamond in the old system) with a group of gamer friends I had. Near the end of the season I started grouping with some RL friends (FPS are not their strong point) and dropped 3 levels.

Season 2 I played solely with my competitive group. Got up to 2800, but just didn't play quite enough competitive games to boost me up to 3k because my gamer friends all left the game mid season.

~57% win rate in both season 1 & 2.

Season 3. Now that my gamer friends are gone I just play full time with my RL friends. Played all 10 of our placement matches together and that was it. I was more than 1k points higher than them so we couldn't group anymore. I only played a few games in Season 3 after that, mostly with Zanner and some of his friends one night at a local gaming bar, but we found the atmosphere to not be very conducive to playing ranked lol.

Season 4. 1 game in again with my RL friends and that's all we've done so far. Kind of disheartening to play comp because there is a good possibility that once we finish our 10 placement matches we will once against be unable to play together. I don't care if it placed me in Silver. I just prefer playing a group with people I can talk to.

[The JareBear]

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Is the new patch today for the Lucio changes?

[Speedy]

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Is the new patch today for the Lucio changes?

What changes?

[The JareBear]

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What changes?

From a GS article

Put simply, the changes buff many of Lucio's abilities but limit his ability to aid his entire team at any one time. The area of effect on Crossfade has been reduced from 30 meters to just 10, but the amount of health restored by his healing song has increased by 50 percent. To help players adjust to this, a visual effect has been added temporarily that helps to demonstrate the new range of Lucio's songs. On a related note, his Ultimate, Sound Barrier, sees its range drop to 30 meters to 20.

It's not all bad news for Lucio, as other changes are being made to compensate for this. His weapon's projectile speed has increased from 40 to 50, and wall-riding provides him with a 30 percent movement speed boost. Jumping off a wall also provides an additional "burst of speed."

Blizzard provided some explanation for this in the patch notes, saying, "Lucio has often felt like a must-pick due to his raw healing output and the versatility of providing a speed bonus to your entire team. The goal of these changes is to keep those elements feeling strong, but making them harder to apply to everyone on your team at all times. The end result is that he should feel stronger with teams that he can stay close to but not as strong when on teams with heroes that are often spread out (such as Pharah, Widow, Genji, etc).

"Much of Lucio's character power was tied up in his large passive auras, which caused other elements of his kit to be weakened over time in an attempt to balance him. Now that his auras are more focused it will allow them to be much stronger and allow Lucio to be more active in his role."

[Speedy]

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That's a drastic change!

[KSUowls]

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I think only orisa and the non Lucio changes went live so far.

Can't wait to play the new Lucio though

[Swamp Swagger]

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Finally got back to playing this and proceeded to lose 13 out of 15 matches

Quick match it says, matches you with even players lmao [emoji23]


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[Speedy]

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Interesting that they've excluded Orisa for competitive play.

Good decision by Blizzard.

[The JareBear]

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Interesting that they've excluded Orisa for competitive play.

Good decision by Blizzard.

I guess it all boils down to where people stand on "the tank meta."

From what I gather, Blizzard doesn't seem to think it is that big of an issue, otherwise we would have been given more heroes with abilities that bypass Rein's shield.

My best guess on how to "solve the tank meta problem" if it even is a problem, is that just overall DPS should be lowered across the board for all tanks. Make the play more like a typical tank in an RPG. Pillow hands, iron skin, that kind of deal.

I feel that the Bastion changes were steps in the right direction to get a hero out there that can melt a tank and melt Rein's shield.

This gets debated a lot on Reddit. Not sure where people here stand on it. Personally, I didn't mind the tank meta when it was D.va, Roadhog, and Rein in almost every match. But I get why a lot of people were annoyed by it.