Overwatch

Kings Snow. Where Ebenezer Shimada will be visited by three spirits.

The Ghost of Overtime Past; an energetic and annoying sprite that blinks about like a flame and reminds Ebenezer of the meta long ago.

The Ghost of Overtime Present; a jolly giant who shelters the loathsome ills of Heal Spam and Ult Feeding behind his shield.

The Ghost of Overtime Yet-to-Come; a stoic, silent spectre who has the best costume AND WILL FEAST ON YOUR SOULS!

And so, as Tiny Torb observed, Get On the Payload, Every One!

Torb takes offense to that. Also, who plays Marley?

Why Genji, of course!

Now I want to see Mercy in a Christmas-themed dress.

To be honest, I still want everyone to get an Ugly Sweaters skin.

Chances are high that may be the Christmas sprays.

I wonder what special even their doing for the Holidays.

Reaper's Christmas outfit should be his standard outfit - but with a Christmas hat on top of his cowl.

edited 6th Dec '16 7:07:13 PM by DrunkenNordmann

Sexy Ms. Claus outfit for Widowmaker.

I can see widow using an elf costumes

Tho she would look more like a sexy smurf than anything else

TBH, I think I could see Widowmaker in a Santa outfit similar to what the girls in Mean Girls wear. Really short and kind of sexy, santa hat, high boots, maybe some long gloves too. It'd work.

Oh come on, we're talking Christmas elves here and NOT immediately defaulting to Tracer and Torbjorn?

Brah, Torbjorn is pretty much the most likely to get a Santa skin. Too bad he is Torbjorn.

Snowman Mei is another popular suggestion. I personally would love a christmas present mech D.Va. With her having an elf costume as a skin.

edited 6th Dec '16 8:21:30 PM by fasoman1996

Just played Sombra. Damn, she's a fun character. She's apparently listed as hard character to play, but I think disruptive, sneaky and unpredictable gameplay just comes naturally to me or something, because I had a blast with her. You just have to be careful not to pick a fight with too many opponents when you're in their back line.

Pretty good anti-Tracer if the Tracer is dumb enough to let you hack her.

I'm starting to love people who run good Zaryas when I'm on D.Va. Last night, I got one in who launched two epic Gravitons, the second of which let me get the quad-Self-Destruct-kill achievement in Comp. The first probably would have been a Team Kill if a lucky enemy Mei ult (it was deployed on the ground in Hollywood in the western section and I flew up to the an awning, where the animation wasn't even displayed, yet I still got frozen... so that thing's gotta have like eight feet of verticality) hadn't delayed me by a second, which allowed four of them to get to cover.

I'm having a lot of fun with Ana right now. Using sleep dart on an ultimating enemy is especially satisfying.

Today i killed a lot of healers while playing as Reaper. Man i really feel bad about them knowing that the enemy team could have easily killed me if they bothered to turn around.

Also, Reaper can be pretty sneaky if you don't use your Shadow Step to flank. Today i murdered a Widow, a mercy and a Roadhog in quick sucession just by flanking them in dorado in the initial spawn to the right. (Granted, the hog was in low health)

Yeah, I don't think Shadow Step is meant to be stealthy, just to help with mobility. You flank after you shadow step.

I decided to start using Widowmaker since I hadn't used her in ages, and I actually managed to do really well with her. I even got POTG with her in a ranked match (machine gunning a Tracer and two headshots). Granted, this was only around 2500 rank or so, and the rest of my team was also doing well. Still, I used her for a few more matches, and even if I didn't win every time, I never felt like me playing Widow was bringing the team down. I switched out when the situation called for it, of course, but I managed to do a good job landing headshots, or at least bursting down tanks and doing good support damage.

I used to flip flop between being really good or really bad with Widow, but right now I think I'm getting better, since I changed my playstyle; I'm playing her more aggressively and trying not to hesitate with my shot so much. A fully charged body shot is better than a missed headshot. It also helps I adjusted my sensitivity. I'm finding that Widow can do well on control maps. There are times though I kind of wish you could zoom in just a bit more.

I almost never see Widow on PS 4 anymore; she's not as strong in the meta as she used to be, and there's the stigma against using snipers if you aren't good. Players know how to deal with her effectively, and D.va and Winston counter her very hard.

edited 9th Dec '16 5:55:53 AM by StarOutlaw

Shadow Step is a big telegraph as to which flank Reaper is moving in on, though. I pretty much only use it to move vertical distances closer to sections that my team controls, then walk the rest of the way to flank. If matches were a little slower paced, I guess it might be interesting to use that telegraph against the opposing team and just place mind games by porting around within their audio range without ever engaging.

I never noticed it before but playing a Junkrat on any team against a Reinhart does wonders for it. I recently started going as him when I notice they have a Rein and it just seems to stop the other team dead in their tracks. Why is it that everybody always seems to hate having/using a junkrat on their team these days?

Also I hit Diamond today, I'm so happy with it!

Yes, Junkrat is a very underused counter towards Rein. He can easily burst down his shield and if the rein tries to charge him he has to be careful about the mine and the beartrap

Also, playing comp in Latam is a real pain when half your teammates speak portuguese. No offense to Brazilians but you make games harder to coordinate if you don't speak english.

Makes me wonder why they put a server in the only country in this part of the world that does not speak spanish

edited 10th Dec '16 4:08:36 PM by fasoman1996

I think there was a bit of stigma around him because a lot of people like to pick him, but then play poorly. On top of that, he was generally a pretty situational pick while Zarya was in style, as it was really easy to feed on the grenades for free energy.

People say he's the least skill-intensive character in the game. Maybe that's why even when I die like a dog, I tend to manage to bring down at least one or two people with me.

I managed to kill all six members of an enemy team with a riptire last night when they were dumb enough to all group up in the same room. Naturally, it was vs. AI, but still.

Somewhat related note◊

People already don't like you killing them, but killing them by just kinda aiming in a cone toward your general direction makes them really hate you. See also:Hanzo

x4

Junkrat should never be a problem against a Rein with a proper team comp supporting him....that and he builds enemy support ults like no other.

I can't link anything right now but the subreddit has some new datamined voice interactions. Surprisingly, very few of them are actually related the Christmas event