Overwatch

[The JareBear]

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Love hooking people in mid-air

[bcruise]

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Many times we killed some of the enemy team and had enough players to move the payload in for the win but instead of everyone moving in to it they stay spread out and allow 1 or 2 defenders to stop it from moving.

The payload is a messure of how many people are around it to move.

Example: 1 defender on payload and 2 offense on payload moves it forward while reversed it moves it backwards.

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I'm not sure about this...anytime both attack and defense are in the vicinity of the payload it says "contested" and stops moving, at least on PC. That's also why attack can't win the game until they clear all of the defenders off of the payload's area (and why getting those last few meters can be such a pain for the attack team).

When one side or the other is on it (but not both sides), it moves in their direction.

[CC]

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Just played a team of all Tracers, lol. It was interesting. They got the payload all the way to our doorstep, but we stopped them about 5 feet away.

[The JareBear]

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I'm not sure about this...anytime both attack and defense are in the vicinity of the payload it says "contested" and stops moving, at least on PC. That's also why attack can't win the game until they clear all of the defenders off of the payload's area (and why getting those last few meters can be such a pain for the attack team).

When one side or the other is on it (but not both sides), it moves in their direction.

I always thought the payload only moved backward automatically after a certain period of time with nobody pushing it on offense, regardless of anyone being in range

[The JareBear]

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Straight from the wiki, just read this

"The central mechanic of Escort is a special object (the payload) which the attacking team aims to progress across the map toward an end point. This is achieved through keeping attacking heroes within range of the payload. Each attacking hero within range of the payload will increase its speed, up to a maximum of 3 heroes.[1]

Defending players can interact with the payload to contest its progress, stopping it from moving forward. The payload will roll back towards the start if no attacking players are near it."

I also didn't know that the payload heals you on offense. Good to know

[sbauer318]

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To the PC crew:

I've added every PC player that has listed their name in here (I think). My name is sbauer#11769 if I missed you

We're organizing on discord. I've sent a message to everyone I've seen online. Just hit me up if you need an invite

[The JareBear]

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To the PC crew:

I've added every PC player that has listed their name in here (I think). My name is sbauer#11769 if I missed you

We're organizing on discord. I've sent a message to everyone I've seen online. Just hit me up if you need an invite

I was reading about how well the game runs on PC, I might have to get a PC version downloaded sometime soon to group up with you guys

[bcruise]

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Straight from the wiki, just read this

"The central mechanic of Escort is a special object (the payload) which the attacking team aims to progress across the map toward an end point. This is achieved through keeping attacking heroes within range of the payload. Each attacking hero within range of the payload will increase its speed, up to a maximum of 3 heroes.[1]

Defending players can interact with the payload to contest its progress, stopping it from moving forward. The payload will roll back towards the start if no attacking players are near it."

I also didn't know that the payload heals you on offense. Good to know

Okay, that makes sense re: the payload going backwards. Anytime I saw it moving backwards was because Defense was all over it, which of course means Attack is getting beaten back. Had the general idea right, but not the exact cause.

Also didn't know max speed was 3 heroes. Good to know that a few can hang back to support without being directly in the firing line.

[sbauer318]

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I was reading about how well the game runs on PC, I might have to get a PC version downloaded sometime soon to group up with you guys

Do it! Buy that new 1080 a new game.

Game runs damn near flawlessly. Console versions run pretty well, but I just prefer keyboard/mouse which is why you haven't seen me.

[bcruise]

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I was reading about how well the game runs on PC, I might have to get a PC version downloaded sometime soon to group up with you guys

It really does. Looks great to me on High settings (the middle pre-setting) and typically hovers around 70-80 FPS. Going up a level to Ultra starts to give me sub-60 FPS in some areas, so it's not really worth it (particularly when I start trying to capture video at the same time).

Coming off of the performance nightmares at times with XCOM2, this is a breath of fresh air for my PC gaming.

[Brandwin]

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Good times last night guys.

I figured three was the max because the most I've seen is 3x when payload is moved.

So payload can heal you ?

[sbauer318]

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So payload can heal you ?

Yup. Pretty helpful and rewarding

[rudyjuly2]

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I need some advice. My son is begging for this game. Unfortunately we never tried the beta. We did try the betas for Battleborn and Paragon and he played those a little bit, got bored and never went back. I thought these three games were similar so I told him he can't get Overwatch right now since he probably won't care that much. I would prefer to wait for a sale price.

So the question is, what makes Overwatch better than Battleborn and Paragon? If he didn't love those games why would love this one?

[sbauer318]

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I need some advice. My son is begging for this game. Unfortunately we never tried the beta. We did try the betas for Battleborn and Paragon and he played those a little bit, got bored and never went back. I thought these three games were similar so I told him he can't get Overwatch right now since he probably won't care that much. I would prefer to wait for a sale price.



So the question is, what makes Overwatch better than Battleborn and Paragon? If he didn't love those games why would love this one?

Overwatch is not similar to those games at all. They're mobas. This is a class based shooter similar to Team Fortress

[IlliniM1ke]

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To the PC crew:

I've added every PC player that has listed their name in here (I think). My name is sbauer#11769 if I missed you

We're organizing on discord. I've sent a message to everyone I've seen online. Just hit me up if you need an invite

I haven't had much time to play yet due to work and usually have between 1-3 friends on when I play, my username is IlliniM1ke#1297 if you're interested in grouping up sometime or if I'm on and my other friends aren't I'll look for you.

Anyone else on PC feel free to add as well, I only know 3 who play so far from outside OS so def good to have more.

*Edit - I'm not typically great at shooters but seem to be solid with overwatch, particularly enjoying Lucio and Mercy.