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Are we sure the immortality field is the ult? I thought the amplification field was the ult since it was 4th on the mobile site.
Seems to me like he'll keep ya alive, but not super healthy based on my limited time in the PTR...though I'm not really competitive so who knows?
Immortality Field is his E, AOE heal is his shift, and his ult is the Amplification field.
Jesus Christ he seems overpowered. Just everything about that kit looks outrageous!
I hate to be ragging on shit this early, but you would think the Overwatch team would have learned with Mercy's control of the meta game early on in the game's lifetime that an immortality field is not such a good idea.
I much prefers his immortality field than Mercy's rez thought: But again I don't think it's impossible to make the idea work (temporary immortality and resurrection of allies), but their execution are so bad in OW people think they're fundamentally flawed. His immortality field can be destroyed, and leave you with 50 hp at the end (if you did get shot during the immortality time, it only forbids you from dying by keeping you at 50 hp). But yeah, he is INSANELY overloaded. Like, WHAT? And he had to have MOBILITY in his kit? I expected better. This is no Sombra, Doomfist or Ana: This is Brigitte-tier.
Meh, people said the same thing about Orisa.
Bastion + Baptiste Ult should be disgusting.
+mercy boosting
So basically, in a meta dominated by AOE healers running in a deathball, they made an AOE healer who gives strength to deathball comps.
I think Baptise will help more with low mobility dps and help them live longer to do more dmg. On paper, he doesn't really seem to synergize very well with high mobility tanks and dps, but he can keep a reaper, symmetra, or a bastion from insta-dying with the immortality field. Not many tanks can benefit too much from his kit. Those that will the most will be like orisa and roadhog. Rein dva and zarya have to be aggressive. Rein would walk out of immortality field unless being defensive. Dva has high mobility and moves around alot unless you want to be immobile to get most of ur heals. Zarya has to be aggressive which would put baptise in bad situations. Remember goats requires you to be very mobile and move very quickly. Sure his aoe heals would help but the rest of his kit wouldn't be used to it's full extent. I'm cautiously optimistic and interested in what people come up with.
That does make me wonder what Baptiste will do to the Pirate Ship/Protect the President strat on payload maps.
Immortality field seems like another mechanic that could negate half the ults in the game. Mostly ults that one shot like deadeye junktire or dva mech
Not to mention that you can throw it like half way across the map in almost an instant. Learning how to throw it to the objective from spawn will be quite important to make effective use of it. That reminds me; has anyone tested if you can reflect/destroy/defense matrix the projectile before it deploys?
Rein's firestrike can now oneshot any 200Hp with a single bop through his ult. Widow and Hanzo mains will also love that ult, touched the foot of that Reaper coming out of spawn? instakill. Junkrat spam will be real. Moira's orbs that went through his ult are fucking INSANE at sustaining a tank push in GOATs (tested this one myself) it's basically a 2nd "immortality" field. His mobility is insane in some maps. This won't make GOATs go away, it'll make it even stronger. I can already see him, Lucio and Moira taking to the stage.
Ok, guys, I need help. This question isn't quite related to overwatch, more like battle.net, but this shit is literaly pissing me off. I can't change my sms number because I don't have the number anymore, the authenticator also doesn't works, and to change these I need to submit a ticket. All is good, until the point that they ask for my ID. My account's name isn't the same as the one I have on my ID, because of the usual "you shouldn't use your real name on online stuff" bla bla bla. I've submited a ticket, they've said they can't do a thing because it isn't the same name, BUT, I can provide emails that date back to 2015, sent by Blizzard itself, that have the name I used to create the account. Not only that, I still know which number was used to authenticate the account via SMS, the devices from which I used the authenticator app and the secret answer that seems to be unused (fucking lmao) Is there ANY chance to get this sorted out?
A new sound plays when you land a hit while damage boosted https://youtu.be/TxzhpEbbnKk
I wonder what Coalescence would do while going through it, and if it stacks with Nanoboost...
why is it taking Winston 3 years to recall the overwatch team?
We still dont even know WHY he's recalling them.
Cause Reaper called him a monkey
In universe time it's probably been about a week or 2 for most. Agents like Mei might be months later
I feel like this character would be cool in any other game that had more proper balancing.
Weird Baptiste tech: Running off of a surface and buffering a jump allows you to use Exo Boots silently. It also lets you retain the charge, but the only way to use it again in time is to stop yourself by bumping your head which makes it mostly useless. It's sadly impossible to step onto a surface while moving upwards (unless you're Hammond) even if you slide the bottom of your collision capsule onto it.
What makes me an overpowered healer? If I was a cure for GOATS, three tanks wouldn´t be sitting on the payload, going forward towards the next point now would they!? One triggered teammate, one wayward Hanzo out of position, one twitchy Tracer, and KABLOOOEY! Let’s DOOO EEEEET All of you are going to survive this! I got some kind of sci-fi glasses. I am a black, Haiti Super-Saiyan. They got more cliched storylines in this game than they know what to do with. SO To all you DPS:s, so proud, so cocksure, prancing about with your ults full of q-presses. Come and get me I say. I´ll be waiting with a whiff of the old immortality field. I am a bleeding sunshine story, with an unbalanced, broken game. Oh they are going to have to glue you back together WITH MERCY
Excuse me for intruding but, given what you guys told me about this "GOATS" issue and the fact the Overwatch development team tunes the game on the competitive sphere and pretty much nothing else, what is the exactly the added value of a hero with huge burst and AoE healing potential?
I didn't really get the impression that he does huge burst healing, he does aoe but still not as fast as some other supports, some parts of his kit seem better designed to counter certain aspects of goats. Add to that a bunch of buffs to dps characters currently on the PTR I think overall they're trying to move things away from goats. Things like: Deadeye damage per second increased from 275 to 550 after locking onto targets for 2.5 seconds Increasing soldiers dmg per shot to 20 and allowing tac visor to target riptire and immortality field They've also changed armor to reduce beam damage by 20% which should help reduce Zaryas dominance
Im not convinced anything they did will really effect goats.
GOAT being fixed would be a first step toward fixing the game. It is good to see them trying to do something against it, and as I said previously, I think making characters to beat specific meta (read: characters) is not good at all. We shall see what Baptiste offers, but even if he doesn't strenghten GOATS, I think he is still a very overloaded heroes with absolutely no direction that they gave everything. His ability doesn't stick together at all, and his healing aura is unnecessary and redundant. I won't hide my disappointment at his primary fire being the same thing as soldier 76 excepted it's a burst rifles instead of being a real grenade launcher with AoE that explodes directly on any contact to make him different from junkrat, and I also expected him to have an ability to change grenade type.
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