Overwatch

[The JareBear]

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I'm glad I'm getting both, now that I've played both I see they aren't that similar at all. Great month for gaming, these games are awesome!

[The JareBear]

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Fear, candy, and I are getting aome work in right now. Game really is great great fun

[The JareBear]

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After their 4 hour session just had I safely say this is gonna be a for sure purchase for me.

Everytime I think something may be OP I then learn a counter for it. Very deep gameplay. So much variety in play style.

With 3 of us it was great, with six of us I bet it's gonna be amazing

[KSUowls]

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Yeah every character is good in the right hands. I would like to see a few small balance tweaks though as some are definitely better than others. These are my thoughts on a few classes that could use small tweaks.
Reaper - love playing him, and the hard counter is range... He has one of the highest dps in the game though, heals with orbs after kills, and has abilities make him extremely mobile and temp invulnerable... Which means he wins most 1v1, he can pop into a group unleash his massive ultimate, pop invulnerable and get out. Oh and the range on his shotguns isn't too bad either lol.

Bastion,- his turret wrecks if placed in a good position. Again the counter is range/flank, but he has good range too and if he backs into a wall you can't really flank him which severely limits the counters to him. Especially if he has a healer nearby where you can't just widdle him down. He can still be beat with good teamwork but you will take more losses than with most other characters. I'd like to see maybe a cool down on his ability to get out of and go back into turret mode so at least people can't just constantly reposition.

Tracer - I actually think she could use a small damage buff. For a glass cannon there isn't much cannon about her. Outside of picking off low health characters, unassuming stragglers, and being generally annoying I find her usefulness to be lacking. She can be good in the right hands but I think everything she does outside of light harass is done better by other characters. Other than not being able quickly zip across the battlefield, I think Reaper is just as mobile in a fight with much higher Dps, more hp, the ability to self heal (kind of) and has his on ability to extract himself from a bad situation.

Junk rat - the AoE on his ultimate is too big given its destructive ability. I think if you destroy it prematurely it should lose some of its power, or it should lose some of its range.

Again no class is truly broken but I think the above are slightly out of balance. I think bastion is the most likely to receive a nerf of some kind.

I kind of enjoy the mystery character mode in concept, and maybe it was just bad luck... I played about a dozen games in it yesterday though and out of 21 heroes 90% of my spans were among just 3.

Very upsetting about competitive mode not being available at launch.... Kind of a key mode to be missing at launch, but I guess it's better to fix it now.

[DocHolliday]

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Played last night. Was fun but we had some massive issues with "turret" characters.

Any good counters on how to take them out?


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[KSUowls]

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Turrets are vulnerable to range and flanking. Was it bastion, torj or symmetra?

Symmetras Turrets are annoying but do much damage per second and are destroyed with 1 hit.

Bastion does not have full 360 radius so characters like tracer, reaper, and anyone else who can get behind will be at a disadvantage. Hanno and widow maker are also pretty effective if you are accurate. You just want to snipe them from distance and duck for cover.

Torb is similar too. Also characters like junk rat and pharaoh with their ranged exploding attacks will make quick work of his turret.

Unless you are sniping though, the key is really to make sure you aren't running in solo without support from your team. You also just can't go in Rambo style with the team there either. Combine the above counters with a push at the right moment and you should be able to pull it off.

I haven't tried it, but I think it could be effective with a strong team push. Ice wall the turret you are facing with Mei to either buy a few seconds to work on the Turrets support or to get into a strong flanking position

[Boltman]

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Downloading it now.

[DirtyJerz32]

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Downloading it now.

Looking forward to hearing impressions

Watching a ton of videos today, I'm really thinking of picking this up. Seems like a great alternative to R6 and Divison.

[Boltman]

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Absolutely right. Even the healers are all pretty radically different in how they hope to accomplish their role. Just like on the assault side it's way different playing as tracer than as soldier 76 (or whatever). I definitely think it's awesomely balance and varied.

The only hero I consistently saw dominating was Bastion

The main thing that first attracted me to this game is Blizzard. I have extreme faith in their ability as devs

You're right about dominating with Bastion. I eventually got around to trying him and oh boy.

I'm not sure I'll use anyone else again (unless he were nerfed in some way).

I was going on huge killstreaks once I switched to him. It was almost getting ridiculous heh.

Only played about 3 hrs this morning, it's a fun little change of pace game. I'll delve into it more later.

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[Hoos]

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Extremely fluid. I dunno if it's locked at 60 FPS but it definitely does not seem to stutter or slowdown at all from my experience. Extremely responsive controls

Controls are not complicated, using your abilities may be somewhat complicated but activating them is simple. Standard R2 to shoot, powers mapped to L1 and R1, etc

I agree with Jare on this, I found the controls to not be over complicated at all, albeit a slight learning curve after playing a **** ton of The Division before this. The HUD does a great job of displaying what button to press for your kills and specials respectively. No stuttering at all during my gaming session with it, very smooth across the board.

Very fun game, plan on playing more of it today and hoping to group up with some of my normal gaming friends tonight or over the weekend.

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[fearme504]

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One good counter to bastion/any torrent is Reinhardt. If you can shield up until you get close enough for the charge kill they can be taken out easily...now it doesn't work every time of course if you get too deep and your getting shot from your non shielded side then your gonna go down quick

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[Cowboy008]

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Was just checking out the Overwatch website to see when it will be available to play tomorrow and I came across this "The all access portion of the Open Beta will begin on all supported platforms May 4 at 4:00 p.m. PDT (11:00 p.m.UTC). All players will be able to play for FREE during this period; no sign-up or code required." So does that mean I will be able to play it tonight at 7PM?

[Brandwin]

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Can we not download the open beta yet? On PSN and it shows the beta, but no way to download.

[Cowboy008]

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Can we not download the open beta yet? On PSN and it shows the beta, but no way to download.

Probably have to wait until the open beta begins in order to download it.

[Candyman5]

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Out of all the characters Bastion is the one I got a problem with regarding OPness. Everyone else seems fine.

Is there any counter to Junk rats ult? I die to it a lot.

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