Overwatch- After 2 long years, Symmetra is finally good. - Games

what about the bananaland arc

https://i.imgur.com/YZAAbcT.png These two didn't even play the game, they just swung from there for eternity.

I don't see anything wrong.

I didn't say it _was_ wrong.

So far from what I've played Hammond is probably the best addition Overwatch has ever done. I don't really see him taking the meta by storm though. Going to guess he's going to just right into the F tier list.

this hamster in ball hero is making me want to pick up the game after not playing since just before doomfist he looks incredibly fun to play and also he is a hamster in a ball

Hopefully the next hero is a good counter to Hammond, perhaps someone with a microwave gun.

The prejudice against defense characters is so huge Blizzard just merged attack and defense to make people stop crying

Thought I was the only one.

More like almost all of them preferred being played on attack save for Torbjorn and Mei

Okay, counters I've seen for Wrecking Ball are: Mei-her walls can stop him from spinning around a point. Brigette- Her stun and long melee range can cancel out his ball movement. Lucio- Can boop an incoming ball Bastion: Because he's always been a good long-range tank killer

So now we have a tank and a support with weird and fun movement tech (WB and Lucio, obviously) DPS based off of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater physics when? In all seriousness WB is hella fun, can't wait for release and I hope that we do eventually see a DPS that's as fun to control. I know Tracer/Genji/Doomfist all have some crazy movement tech possible if you know how to use their kits, but I'd love to see something crazy and much more movement based in the future. Maybe even tie it in to Lucio's past, a hockey teammate, just slamming the fuck outta people on hoverblades or however those work

Because if you can pull both off, you should. Blizzard couldn't. That doesn't ruin the game for me, but they tried and failed. It's a knock against it regardless of how impactful it is to the game itself.

https://twitter.com/LAValiant/status/1012414417344983040

It would be easier to give a shit about the world and characters of overwatch if we got more than one yearly story event and maybe an animated short. You can count the comics too I guess but the quality of those is so random.

Which deliver jackshit as far as setting-building is concerned, by the way. When they are not retcons, that is

Or if it wasn't written by Blizzard.

I know its a shitpost from Valiant but Im sure the OWL teams are looking at Hammond to see any potential uses. Im almost certain they aren't going to be A+ starters on every map, but there are a lot of heroes that saw play less than like, a dozen times in the season that were clutch picks in v specific circumstances. Mei comes to mind, I swear some team ran her last point to secure a win at some point in stage 4? Considering how map dependant WB seems to me (mostly because of the grappling hook, if you don't have a good space to set it up in its worthless) I'm sure there's at least one case where Hammond is the best pick.

OWL makes me giddy to see people use Hammond with near-perfect tracking. He's going to be such a monster.

He’s definitely going to be an essential pick on KOTH. Even more so points like Shrine on Nepal. He’s also crazy attacking first point hanamura. Use the upper right flank and spin on point hooked to the bell

That's damn cute

They really captured Junkrat's insane personality very well. Those eyes stare right into my soul...

I didn't think skill was relevant here Hammond's M1 is stronger when you're getting headshots, whereas DVA does devastating damage at point blank that Hammond wouldn't dream of. The upside for Hammond is that he doesn't need to be at short-range to be effective. Hammond hitting you with a ball at full speed is 50 health. Compare that to a DVA ramming you with micro-missiles and M1, or even just M1. DVA's ult can't be destroyed (hammonds mines can), kills in one hit, and can be used to get you back to full mech quickly in niche situations. They're completely different. You'd have more success comparing DVA bomb to RIP Tire.

Can we talk about how Reinhardt is the most unenjoyable hero to play as in this meta of knockback and CC And also how he practically enables it as a CC and knockback god himself

I'd say give him an Anchor ability that makes him immovable after keeping his shield deployed for, say, more than a second. He should still be stunnable with things like flashbang and sleep and similar. But all that knocking about really shouldn't happen to a massive tank like Rein.

As someone who likes playing Rein I have mixed feelings about this because one of my favorite things was charging the enemy Rein away from his team to end standoffs there's not a huge amount of Rein vs Rein matches anymore anyways I guess

How about this: > While holding up his shield, all raw stuns simply force Rein to drop his shield momentarily, without locking him in place or debilitating him in other ways > While holding up his shield, displacement abilities will apply the same reduced knockback as D.va or Orisa while they are firing their primary weapon > While holding up his shield, abilities that combine stun and displacement (hook, Rein pin, Doomfist rocketpunch, etc) will function normally

I would really like those changes. Just out of interest; Under which category does the spincycle of Hammond belong?

I forgot to mention, among all this hamster talk, that I'm extremely sceptical of the new endorsement system, given that: Unsurprisingly, people are giving endorsement points to the best players on their teams who led them to victory, not the ones showing actual good behaviour or, at the very least, enough self-restrain. So basically you can be an abrasive asshole and get endorsed as long as you play well. The system creates a stigma against people who didn't rack up enough endorsement points for themselves, whom are percived as toxic players to be avoided and shunned I hope that one day multiplayer videogame developers everywhere will realize that given the instruments to control/"breed" a given community to the community itself is not a good idea

There's also not really any incentive to give endorsements, other than the 50XP you get for dishing one out. And, as I predicted, in comp people don't even really stick around to give any out. They're busy trying to gain SR, they don't want to waste time endorsing people.