Overwatch

Brigette was okay at release, just a little overtuned. Her counters had no problems against her, but since we can't have Tracer and Genji weak to anyone or players not complaining about "skill," we get the nerfs. The shield bash damage reduction is a harsh nerf, but it is somewhat offset with the healing buff so it sorta works out.

#ReworkMercy isn't going away. Personally, I say bring back Mass Resurrect add LOS and a cast time and give her chain-heal as the new "E" ability and call it day. Let the people complaining about Mass Resurrect be mad.

Personally I would like a way to heal and damage buff at the same time with Mercy, like how Moira is able to heal and attack at the same time. I want to use the damage buff, but as soon as the fighting starts people get hurt and need healing so you hardly get a chance to damage buff.

Edited by shigmiya64 on Dec 21st 2018 at 3:00:49 PM

Switching between damage and healing is one of the things balancing Mercy, however. From what I gathered, Mercy mains doing necessarily want her to be this totally awesome character, most are happy keeping her in a low-tier position so I think Damage/Heal at the same time is a bit too much.

I think it was a mistake to nerf her healing output since at the moment she's the only healer who has to consciously sacrifice healing to do more damage. If you have to sacrifice team damage output by picking her in the first place, she should at least slightly outperform the other healers.

A lot of the revert Mercy mains from what I have seen just want her to be engaging and could care less if she was low tier. They think the old version of her was more engaging for them. A lot of people forget that before the ult invulnerability buff Mercy was low tier.

I don't really blame them. Mass rez is more satisfying then flying around aimlessly half the time.

Edited by Wispy on Dec 21st 2018 at 1:56:25 AM

Even if a character is “low-tier,” depending on how well you play, you can still be a valuable asset to the team. As Sym 2.0, I saved my team plenty of times proving them wrong when they would tell me to switch. Then again, she was a bit too much for low tier but that could’ve been fixed without turning her DPS.

Edited by MegaJ on Dec 21st 2018 at 8:41:09 AM

Random thought.

You know what I want for Ashe? A speedloader for reloading. It would be nice if Ashe loaded individual rounds for 6 rounds, but 7 or more rounds she uses a speedloader to insert multiple rounds at once.

So, not a bad event for me. Got everything I wanted from the holiday season. Which is to say, most of the stuff from the last holiday season, nigh all of which I missed to an epic degree. Wasn't much interested in this year's holiday season swag, though I did get Symmetra's figure skater costume and that was pretty cool.

Something simple I realized:

Now that I have a semi-functional mike-headset, I can voice chat. You know, even if I don't give out game saving information to teammates, just keep saying "Hell yeah!" "You guys are doing great!" and other cheering words will likely to boost team morale and win the games.

Not sure where else to put this, but since Overwatch is part of Activision-Blizzard...

Activision-Blizzard is firing their chief financial officer Spencer Neumann due to "violating his legal obligations to the Company"

Neumann is now becoming CFO for Netflix, Dennis Durkin will return as CFO for Activision Blizzard, which is surprisingly significant for reasons.

Blizzard names and shames 18,000 South Korean Overwatch accounts banned for toxicity

https://www.pcgamesn.com/overwatch/overwatch-south-korea-bans?amp

Goddamn Korea.

Oho yeah, I can totally attest for the sheer toxicity of South Korean players.

You will very easily find yourself suddenly lack of parents. See, the thing is that it's a very delicate act of balance. If you do poorly, your teammates will call you a motherless piece of shit. If you do too well, though, your opponents will call you that.

So basically, it's hard to keep your mother alive. Don't ask me why it's always mother, I don't know either. XD

Edited by dRoy on Jan 4th 2019 at 5:51:15 AM

"Our stock prices are down, what do we do?!"

"Ban some people so we can sell them new copies of the game!"

I just want them to hurry up and institute an "Avoid Parties" button like Dota 2 has so I don't have to run into account boosters and shit.

Who here has Sombra's 15 hacks without dying achievement?

Because holy shit it's an insane achievement. Best I managed so far is 12...

Couldn't you theoretically just ignore the fight and just run around hacking every health pack you can find?

If your team is getting their faces smashed in going 5v6 every fight, would the round last long enough for you to get your cooldown back 15 times?

Edit: Also, it looks like the achievement specifies that you must hack 15 enemies without dying. Not health packs.

Edited by HighCrate on Jan 3rd 2019 at 6:33:11 AM

That's unfortunate.

And, true, forcing your team to go 6v5 but I suppose it could be doable if you're team is just smashing the objective.

I...think I have this achievement, considering that I main Sombra since she came out, however it is nigh impossible to get this when playing her in a way that isn't somehow sabotaging your own team.

In Quickplay I definitely prefer to play Flank "The thing that goes Bump in the backline" Sombra as opposed to the Boring, but Practical Second Line "hack and provide cover fire" Sombra.

For the achievement you basically have to play the former but only hack-and-run people, which is not really providing actual help unless you somehow manage to hack their tank every single time.

Edited by Kiefen on Jan 4th 2019 at 10:36:04 AM

I have it, but I was aiming to get it specifically.

I imagine it was a lot easier to get back when people using hacked health stations gave you ult charge. With a reasonably cooperative team helping you farm ult charge, you could get EMP very quickly, and hack 4+ enemies at once instead of one by one.

Yeah, when I still played, I used Sombra a lot, and I got the achievement by just sneaking around, hacking isolated targets, and teleporting to safety. Find health if needed, and repeat. My team lost, but I got the achievement.

So do any of you folks know how to say things like "get on the objective" or "we need a healer" on console? I've seen people say them, but I can't figure out how to do it myself.

"Get on the objective" is something characters say automatically when the objective is uncontested, "We need a healer" replaces the "I need healing" call out when none is selected.