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Only Ana and her basket of Halloween candy can yield a ceasefire, Kit

I'd better play as Ana then, I have that emote

He just wants to get closer to you.


OMG some of those Holiday Skins. I gotta have them. I gotta.

Mostly Pharah's, Winston's and maybe Reapers (though I have the Pumkin King one, which is equally awesome).

Got like major luck, or they adjusted the legendary drop rates for crimbus. I got Imp Mercy, Elf Tracer, Mei's Christmas emote and a legendary cash drop. In 3 boxes.

I wish Mei had a "Do you want to build a snowman" voice line / taunt. Love how the taunt snowman stays around for a while and it's shootable.

OK, so Hanzo. Is there a trick to murderating people with him? I keep getting one-shotted by people with impossible reflexes playing Hanzo despite not taking headshots, but whenever I manage to hit someone as Hanzo it's invariably not a headshot, which means I accomplish nothing.

I believe Blizzard have been fiddling with the hitbox generated by his bow for headshots, meaning you don't have to be right on their head to score one. It's meant to balance out the fact that you're firing a bow rather than a weapon like Widowmaker's Sniper Rifle, but currently it seems a little excessive.

However, without it, Hanzo becomes ridiculously hard to play. It's the lesser of two evils, really.

I never seem to get any ridiculous headshots as Hanzo myself though, I shoot someone in the foot and it's a foot-shot, but I get hit in my foot from across the map behind a corner by the Hanzo in the next game over and I die. *grumble grumble*

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
I never seem to get any ridiculous headshots as Hanzo myself though, I shoot someone in the foot and it's a foot-shot, but I get hit in my foot from across the map behind a corner by the Hanzo in the next game over and I die. *grumble grumble*

Sometimes it has to do with Scatter Arrow. For whatever reason, if Scatter Arrow is fired at your feet at juuuust the right angle you take all of the arrows to the face and die.

It's called simple geometry for a reason

 Mozzyfuzzy wrote:
It's called simple geometry for a reason

Geometry is predictable, and with the right tools can be measured.

The Scatter Arrow is a meth-riddled Ian Malcolm's dream of Chaos.

Wish they replaced that awful 1v1 mode with an actual fun game type. No... I don't want to play mirror matches with Symmetra, Torbjorn, Bastion, Hanzo or Widow... Eesh.

 The Grumpy Eldar wrote:
Wish they replaced that awful 1v1 mode with an actual fun game type. No... I don't want to play mirror matches with Symmetra, Torbjorn, Bastion, Hanzo or Widow... Eesh.

God yes, this. Feth the 1v1 game mode with a glowing fork.

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:

 The Grumpy Eldar wrote:
Wish they replaced that awful 1v1 mode with an actual fun game type. No... I don't want to play mirror matches with Symmetra, Torbjorn, Bastion, Hanzo or Widow... Eesh.

God yes, this. Feth the 1v1 game mode with a glowing fork.

Seconded.

I don't know. I enjoy it.

I don't like it mostly because it just reinforces how terrible I am at any role besides Support

Dropped out of the Tracer game, have we Kit?

The Tracer game kicked me in the groin and told me to GTFO. I have the bad luck of being matched against players who know how to counter Tracer 9 times out of 10 now.

That's a shame. By the sounds of your record, you seem to be pretty good at playing her.

I only played the 1v1 once, but watched a lot more of it - it seems that some heroes make the game much more interesting, such as Sombra, while others end up being whoever clicked shoot first (D.VA) or who can charge into the enemy first and slam them. Some characters clearly aren't designed for 1v1 - remove them and perhaps the mode would be more fun overall.

 General Annoyance wrote:
That's a shame. By the sounds of your record, you seem to be pretty good at playing her.

I only played the 1v1 once, but watched a lot more of it - it seems that some heroes make the game much more interesting, such as Sombra, while others end up being whoever clicked shoot first (D.VA) or who can charge into the enemy first and slam them. Some characters clearly aren't designed for 1v1 - remove them and perhaps the mode would be more fun overall.

"Good" is a bit of a stretch. I have decent games with her sometimes, and other times I do awful. Its much easier to convince your team that you're doing good as a healer.

I personally like Sym in 1 vs 1, as it becomes a tense game of trying to draw your opponent into a turret nest

I think everyone here has a mixed record when it comes to playing Offence; your performance depends most on what the enemy team brings to the game, as their weaknesses will be exploited by you the most, while you also take the full brunt of their strengths. Just keep playing her, and learn when the enemy comp will and will not be an ideal time to play her

From what I've seen, Symmetra is one of the worst offenders as the game reaches a stalemate, but I guess it's all down to how brave each player is feeling.

Fair enough.

One thing I love about Sym though now is you can apparently kill someone without being able to see them. I got PoTG with a triple kill, but looking at the highlight you only ever see two people die (Lucio and Genji), I somehow killed a de-meched D.va a split second after I got Lucio

Just be glad you're not much of a Defence player - those heroes are like one trick ponies most of the time

Sounds about right for a Symmetra POTG - I've had many where my turrets have simply finished off weak targets while I was somewhere else

 General Annoyance wrote:
Just be glad you're not much of a Defence player - those heroes are like one trick pony's most of the time

Sounds about right for a Symmetra POTG - I've had many where my turrets have simply finished off weak targets while I was somewhere else

Would this be a bad time to mention I enjoy playing Torb?

And at least I actually killed two of them with my gun this time

It's always a bad time to mention it I'll balance it out by saying I enjoy playing Mei and Bastion

There's a first for everything I'm honestly surprised that Blizzard hasn't addressed the fundamental flaw with POTG's that has been around since the closed Beta - they've only added more ways for you to do absolutely nothing of note to secure it.

Keep that black Mei magic away from me!

Meanwhile I get a quad rez as Mercy and play goes to Genji and his SUPER IMPRESSIVE double kill. Not that I'm bitter or anything

Yeah, totally not bitter about it

You know me General, I'm a Mercy main, we don't hate anyone

Of course Kit, Mercy players are well known for not holding the typical abuse they get from Offence heroes against them

Of course. I totally don't resent always having Reaper and Pharah ults dropped on my head, and I TOTALLY don't hate having a Genji on my a** 24/7. Not. At. All.

Of course not. You're not that petty a person!