Overwatch

[Tempest]

hey here's a separate thread for that blizzard game because it's blowin' up right now so i figured we could use one

overwatch is a class-based shooter by blizzard, think sorta similar to tf2 but also sorta not (it's closer to monday night combat than tf2 tbh), it carries a lot of moba elements with it. characters have abilities, and ultimates that charge up over time more like a moba, but the core gameplay is decidedly 'goofy-ish tf2 shooter'. it's crazy fun.

matterialize and i have been playing a bunch of it since it launched and i was in the beta before. it's one of those games where to me i have a lot of fun, even if sometimes i feel like the balance is juuuust a bit off. ultimates charge way too fast (especially Mercy, a medic who can get 75% of her ultimate charged by healing a single tank from almost dead to full hp, which takes like 5 seconds, and her ultimate revives all of her teammates nearby her which is probably the single most game-changing ultimate) for my liking, and motherfucking Genji is an absolute nightmare to deal with for me. but it certainly achieves its job which is to be a crazy fast (games rarely take over 10 minutes, and that's only if a defense can be extended out to the maximum) arcade-style shooter that delivers huge moments regularly.

i recommend people check it out, and i'm curious what characters everyone else is enjoying the most. i am a Roadhog shill through and through, I won 9 games straight with him before finally losing one and I think I'm 11-1 with him total now. i also play a lot of junkrat, d.va, hanzo and winston. i can play soldier: 76 and lucio pretty well if we need an offense or support class, but defense and tank are sort of my bread and butter.

also fuck hanamura i hate that map

[Delirious Biznasty]

I got a 25 kill streak with D.VA without dying

she is my favorite character

[narcissa]

I have been crazy excited about it since it was first announced but i have nowhere to play it since my laptop doesn't support it and it makes me really sad and jealous that's all i have to contribute carry on

[Delirious Biznasty]

I also agree with the maps, I really dislike the KoTH maps as well as all the fucking chokepoints that are ridiculously easy to defend.

[Tempest]

idk if you have a console narcissa but apparently the console versions play really well, i have been hearing good things about them and it might be an option. otherwise idk that sucks this game is surprisingly poorly optimized for lower end systems considering it's a blizzard game and they usually aim for their shit to run on like, a cellphone from the early 2000s with graphical scaling.

but yeah overwatch is unique because i often feel like i run into what might be balance issues, etc, but i don't really dwell on them long, just momentary annoyances. like the servers are 20 tick rate (which means they only update 20 times per second, which is SUPER low for an FPS: most counter-strike servers are over 60 tick rate, to try and match modern monitors, and a lot of them can even go up to 144 tick rate for those there fancy monitors) so it feels like a LOT of the time you'll hide behind a wall then die, or use an ability and then an enemy kills you and in the killcam the ability didn't even go off on their screen

but it seems to override all of that by just being fun as fucc

[Delirious Biznasty]

It's currently suffering from the same faults that tf2 started with, which will all be fixed like you said. The lag compensation is annoying as hell.

Soon when they release better maps that are more open I will love the fucking game

Comparing the gameplay to tf2 is funny though, since Overwatch feel more like a first person MOBA

[Tempest]

yeah, i really don't subscribe to the "TF3!!!!!" train. it plays more like a moba than tf2 ever did. it's so fucking fast paced; if you and your team truly stomp the enemy team, a game can literally be 2 minutes long. i love that shit. i can just pick it up and play a game pretty much whenever; even if i have to be somewhere shortly, i likely have time for at least one match.

i would love more maps, and especially a new gametype: i hated the King of the Hill gametype when they introduced it but the maps have grown on me a lot, but there are a handful of maps that I really despise now (hanamura is almost impossible to attack on, same with temple of anubis, they both almost always turn into a full length game where you are just throwing corpses at the final point praying they don't have a mercy ultimate up)

[Delirious Biznasty]

More things I dislike:

Junkrat's bombs taking 7 seconds to detonate

Respawn times incredibly short

Widowmaker

Zenyatta being fragile as shit

[Tyler_Legrand]

I like the rule 34

[Tempest]

oh yeah the respawn times are a huge issue too when you're trying to push a point; especially temple of anubis where it takes 2 seconds to go from the defender spawn point to the final capture point. like fuuuuuuck come on.

i think ultimate charges should reset on respawn too, but i guess that might make defense TOO hard

[narcissa]

I only have a ps3, otherwise i'd have given it a try even on console, i don't imagine it can be that bad

I used to be able to play hots during beta but since launch it went downhill to the point it's unplayable, the reaction time is so slow that winning in those conditions could only mean opponents were THAT bad so i had to give up that too

[narcissa]

What's bad about widowmaker

[Delirious Biznasty]

What's bad about widowmaker

everything

[Delirious Biznasty]

more specifically, her dps is insane and her ultimate is too strong and charges too fast

she needs a heavy nerf

[narcissa]

I was v excited about her too