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Yet another non-stereotypic female character to play, and an old one too to match Reinhardt.

Overwatch is doing great with its diversity.

looking forward to 6 vs 6 Ana games on the day she's released since that's all anyone will wanna play.

I wonder what her legendary skins will look like? too bad you can't give her a car that drives really really slow.

 Kanluwen wrote:
For all intents and purposes, it looks like she IS Sombra.

To be fair, the Ana and Sombra teasers were in two different places weren't they? Could it not just be that they were teasing more than one character at once?

Edit: I stand corrected; looks like the image of "sombra" that was leaked was the Shrike skin for Ana.

 Necros wrote:
looking forward to 6 vs 6 Ana games on the day she's released since that's all anyone will wanna play.

I wonder what her legendary skins will look like? too bad you can't give her a car that drives really really slow.

She has an origins-style young self skin and wasteland salvager type skin. She also has an epic at the 250 price point, that feels a bit like a legendary with face visor and purple hood.

I don't remember where I heard it, but I think giving everyone an Omnic skin (and maybe give the Omnics a Human skin) would be really neat.

One game away from skill 54. Still rising. My cousin did his placement matches and got an insane 62 skill. At the rate our team of players is rising it won't be long till we are all in the 60's.

Speaking of ranks. god damn it i hate leavers.
we work our asses off and one of their guys leaves on the final round. it then removes half the ranking you earn if you win... this happened twice yesterday and im at a deficit even though i won more games.

also the sudden death round. you still get a full loss in skill rating even though by getting to sudden death round means that both teams played super hard and well.
it punishes you for a very good game instead of rewarding you for getting to that point. :/

im just salty but still

The whole sudden death needs to be reworked, as in, there should never be one in a 3/5/etc KOTH match, or a stopwatch mode A/D unless neither team gets a point captured.

 Wolfblade wrote:
The whole sudden death needs to be reworked, as in, there should never be one in a 3/5/etc KOTH match, or a stopwatch mode A/D unless neither team gets a point captured.

I actually dont mind the modes. or best of 5 or stop watch mode. i mean if you cleared the attack faster then them then you should be rewarded with more time to win. the straight you get 1.5 minutes to win one needs massive work.

the thing i cant stand is the amount of skill rating you get for losing an epic game.

 Desubot wrote:

 Wolfblade wrote:
The whole sudden death needs to be reworked, as in, there should never be one in a 3/5/etc KOTH match, or a stopwatch mode A/D unless neither team gets a point captured.

I actually dont mind the modes. or best of 5 or stop watch mode. i mean if you cleared the attack faster then them then you should be rewarded with more time to win. the straight you get 1.5 minutes to win one needs massive work.

the thing i cant stand is the amount of skill rating you get for losing an epic game.

No, what I meant is, in stopwatch mode the best time wins. There should never be a need for sudden death unless the times are the exact same. Best of 3/5 don't need sudden death period (most map wins, wins)

That, and winning a map in 3 minutes while your opponent wins in 11 minutes (10 + 1 overtime), then getting sudden death is pretty stupid. Sudden death implies the teams were roughly equal.

Ah i see what you mean.

Though my only counter point is that the games would be much shorter and cause people to panic way more (due to a set time frame) which is bad for skill.

It would also make people take certain speed comps over a slow and steady comp which not everyone really does (though we should all learn them)

I would argue staying calm under pressure is what sets the best of the best player apart. Everyone has nerves and some people handle it better through being born with it or training themselves to be calm under pressure.

I'm my team I'm would be the sub-captain mostly due to my calm nature under any situation and ability to know counter play really well so I'm like the intelligence officer.

Well that certainly is true. at higher lv play thats how it should be.

but for the rest of everyone and especially solo que i can see it as an excuse for people to leave or get super super salty.

and the focus on only fast comps would be bad for the game.

i dont want to see 1 build over and over.

Mobawatch playlist needs to be a permanent fixture. Am loving the "no character switching on the fly and 1 of each character".

Do you mean as a permanent game mode, or THE game mode? Agreed with the first, no on the second.

And yeah, Gamegee pretty much said what I was going to. It'd prevent stupid things like 2 D.va 2 Winston lucio mercy (or 2 mercy) and literally just stalling on the point FOREVER, until the winstons or dvas get their ult and can clear the area of enemies long enough for them to cap.

 Desubot wrote:
Well that certainly is true. at higher lv play thats how it should be.

but for the rest of everyone and especially solo que i can see it as an excuse for people to leave or get super super salty.

and the focus on only fast comps would be bad for the game.

i dont want to see 1 build over and over.

I am Rhinehardt for nearly all my matches since he is so important and we always have a lucio as well. If an enemy team has a mercy we got to have one as well. Which is many times. If someone is willing to swap to Rhine they usually let me take mercy, or we get someone to play her. That is our core team so yeah it can get boring, but the whole point of wanting to win is doing the very best you can do. Now the problem with our team is we have a good tracer who is also the good mercy other than me. So if double tracer shows up and a Winston isn't good enough to stop them we're in trouble. The other 3 heroes on our team are more flexible, and depending on enemy team comp and the map I might even go a different tank or tell someone to if it combos well on this map.

Thankfully we aren't that high to be seeing double tracers all that often yet.

 Gamgee wrote:

 Desubot wrote:
Well that certainly is true. at higher lv play thats how it should be.

but for the rest of everyone and especially solo que i can see it as an excuse for people to leave or get super super salty.

and the focus on only fast comps would be bad for the game.

i dont want to see 1 build over and over.

I am Rhinehardt for nearly all my matches since he is so important and we always have a lucio as well. If an enemy team has a mercy we got to have one as well. Which is many times. If someone is willing to swap to Rhine they usually let me take mercy, or we get someone to play her. That is our core team so yeah it can get boring, but the whole point of wanting to win is doing the very best you can do. Now the problem with our team is we have a good tracer who is also the good mercy other than me. So if double tracer shows up and a Winston isn't good enough to stop them we're in trouble. The other 3 heroes on our team are more flexible, and depending on enemy team comp and the map I might even go a different tank or tell someone to if it combos well on this map.

Thankfully we aren't that high to be seeing double tracers all that often yet.

Yeah having a 6 drop team on hand is always nice.

iv seen double zarya work stupid well over rhin mercy combo.

also really enjoy a good road hog.

as for Winston.. on sudden death defense if i anticipate a Winston rush, going bastion is really good. 2-4 Winston still disappear to bastion in a few seconds.

Ana is live now. Very interesting character to play with. Her sniper rifle can't one shot kill anyone(it has a DOT effect rather than high impact damage), but man can you lay down the hurt via a teammate if you Nano Boost the right person.

I hadn't played yesterday but had been a game away from ranking up. First Loot Box I got once Ana came out contained the "Shrike" skin for her; so I'm happy as a pig in a blanket.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Ana is live now. Very interesting character to play with. Her sniper rifle can't one shot kill anyone(it has a DOT effect rather than high impact damage), but man can you lay down the hurt via a teammate if you Nano Boost the right person.

I hadn't played yesterday but had been a game away from ranking up. First Loot Box I got once Ana came out contained the "Shrike" skin for her; so I'm happy as a pig in a blanket.

Nice, what luck.

Yeah Ana is weird. honstly i find my self just siting way back and healing from afar and out of line of sight for kill lanes and enemy widows. i honstly cant tell what kinda impact she is having in a team. :/ besides the nano boost and occasional sleep dart on an enemy bastion ulti

still need to get better at the sleep dart .

edit on a side note. booya! 4/5 ranked games won yesterday. its seriously awesome to play with a non salty non toxic group who actually mic chats.

 Desubot wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Ana is live now. Very interesting character to play with. Her sniper rifle can't one shot kill anyone(it has a DOT effect rather than high impact damage), but man can you lay down the hurt via a teammate if you Nano Boost the right person.

I hadn't played yesterday but had been a game away from ranking up. First Loot Box I got once Ana came out contained the "Shrike" skin for her; so I'm happy as a pig in a blanket.

Nice, what luck.

Yeah Ana is weird. honstly i find my self just siting way back and healing from afar and out of line of sight for kill lanes and enemy widows. i honstly cant tell what kinda impact she is having in a team. :/ besides the nano boost and occasional sleep dart on an enemy bastion ulti

She can have a HUGE impact...especially with a well-placed Biotic Grenade; where you hit both your team and the other.

Your teammates get boosted damage and regeneration while the other team has their healing disabled(it shuts Zenyatta's super down effectively) and take DoT.

I didnt realize the bio grenade boosted damage and a dot.

i know it had boosted healing when being healed and shut down healing though.

Yeah, her grenade and rifle have dual effects.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Yeah, her grenade and rifle have dual effects.

Wasn't sure if it was her rifle too - good to know!

Also in other news, Zenyatta and D.VA have been buffed on the PTR - Zenyatta's balls (hurdee-dur) are much faster when tracking allies and enemies, and he now has 200 base HP. D.VA on the other hand can now switch her Defence Matrix on and off as she pleases, so it no longer has a cooldown or constant effect in which people just stop shooting at her. It regenerates when it's down and can be put up for a total of 4 seconds at a time (roughly)

Two of my favourite characters buffed up back to a competitive level - where are my PC components dammit!

Also I believe Competitive mode next season will only permit one of each hero per team, so no more double Mcrees and whatnot. Also they're dealing with sudden death, but haven't specified how.

All of those things are already live in regular games.

Oops, thought that was PTR only

Toggle dva is awesome

D.VA is just awesome - why do you think I have her as my Avatar?

Oh and I forgot that D.VA can't die to her ultimate anymore - even better!

Finally decided to bite the bullet and get the game. I'm awful at it, but holy feth is this game fun

It is, when you can get a decent number of games going. Over the last couple of days I've been stuck with a bunch of wee fannies that chuck a hissy and quit after one single loss(on my team and the other), leaving the half of the game that aren't sad little huffy manchildren stuck back in searching mode, and it's been happening every other game so I spend ages waiting for games.

This is why matchmaking will always be inferior to hosted servers.

Also, I've noticed a big uptick in trash-talking wee gaks recently. You know, the kind who take the time to type "EZ", "LUL EZMODE" etc into chat every time they get a kill, or feel the need to spaz out at the end of a match if their team loses calling everyone "NEWBZ", responding to polite "gg"s with "nuh-uh, bg, totes bg, you suck" and so forth.

Ugh. I'd like to believe it's because of the school holidays, but sadly I've been playing FPS for too long to be that naive, a good portion of them will be supposed-adults.

Y'know, I played the Beta of this on XBOX ONE and the PC version later and I have to say;

This is one of the most inaccessible games I have ever played in my entire life. The balance is shoddy, the characters feel like they have no weight to them, so moving about is a pain in the arse for someone used to Half Life, the fact that Bastion gets play of the game 24/7 (God that is grating) and the whole MOBA part of it doesn't lend itself well to an objective class-based FPS.