Overwatch - The world needs heroes, and Blizzard needs a TF2 game! - Games

[QUOTE=Mr_Ripper;49169137]it's actually a 60 dollar game[/QUOTE] Only the Origin Edition is 60, base game is 40.

[QUOTE=Anderan;49169148]Only the Origin Edition is 60, base game is 40.[/QUOTE] fixed

I just checked my email and I had a weekend access thing oh woops I actually saw it and just ignored it, thinking it wasn't just for this weekend awful timing honestly, fallout 4 just came out

[QUOTE=Suttles;49169155]I just checked my email and I had a weekend access thing oh woops I actually saw it and just ignored it, thinking it wasn't just for this weekend awful timing honestly, fallout 4 just came out[/QUOTE] Yea, I normally check to see if I got in but this would be the weekend I didn't. Honestly tempted to pop a sick day to stay home and play.

Did anyone in AU get a beta invite? I few friends of mine are hardcore blizzard nutters for years and didn't get one, nor anyone else in AU that I know of.

[QUOTE=Trixxter;49169883]Did anyone in AU get a beta invite? I few friends of mine are hardcore blizzard nutters for years and didn't get one, nor anyone else in AU that I know of.[/QUOTE] A few Aussie content creators like [url=https://www.youtube.com/user/OnSolace/videos]OnSolace[/url] and [url=https://www.youtube.com/user/MrMuselk/]Muselk[/url] have got in, but I don't think any of us regular folk have got in, no.

just lost my weekend beta. shame, because this is the most fun ive had playing a game in years. definitely gonna be buying it when it comes out

I can only hope there will be more "open" betas for Overwatch later on. As in still private but a lot more invites

This Mgr 20 error is making me sad

God. I fucking hate Tracers. They can be such a pain in the ass to deal with depending on who you're playing. I might invest in going full-time Junkrat or Roadhog so I don't have to worry about them anymore.

Speaking of tracers. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2dvwwpUExg[/media] (:huh:)

For those of you still in the beta, are the servers down for maintenance or something? I get to the in-game log in screen and it just sits on authenticating

They'll be back up at 2PM PST.

[QUOTE=That Ninja;49171562]For those of you still in the beta, are the servers down for maintenance or something? I get to the in-game log in screen and it just sits on authenticating[/QUOTE] Always check [url]https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch[/url] if you're in doubt.

[video=youtube;VcDb-nh1FFM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcDb-nh1FFM[/video]

That form over function design philosophy is scary. They think of an ice hero and put it in without giving a second thought to how much that might suck to play against. A more proper way of doing things would be looking at the game as a whole and seeing the potholes in it and adding heroes to fill them. I guess you don't have 20+ heroes in the game that way though. Gotta have that quantity over quality.

[QUOTE=Drury;49173909]That form over function design philosophy is scary. They think of an ice hero and put it in without giving a second thought to how much that might suck to play against. A more proper way of doing things would be looking at the game as a whole and seeing the potholes in it and adding heroes to fill them. I guess you don't have 20+ heroes in the game that way though. Gotta have that quantity over quality.[/QUOTE] So many matches on Hanamura started with having a giant ice wall being put up in our spawn door, being completely frozen also sucked. I didnt get many screenshots but i do have some video clips im going to be uploading soonish. Slamming into people with D.va's jet boosters was really funny though, you could see people panicking trying to decide which way to run. [t]http://i.imgur.com/Sr1QTIn.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Drury;49173909]That form over function design philosophy is scary. They think of an ice hero and put it in without giving a second thought to how much that might suck to play against. A more proper way of doing things would be looking at the game as a whole and seeing the potholes in it and adding heroes to fill them. I guess you don't have 20+ heroes in the game that way though. Gotta have that quantity over quality.[/QUOTE] Games are played not made, it's a beta, try shit out and see if it works when people play it, there's no sense sitting around a whiteboard planning shit when everything changes once you actually get it up on its feet and let people play it. If it doesn't work, they can change it.

If they weren't sure centering a character around freezing people in place was balanced they would've tested it earlier. Now we have a fully modeled, animated and voiced character. It's a little late to reconsider Mei's core mechanics. The problem is that they wanted to have a good looking, polished beta. I really hope they've been testing Mei a lot internally before shipping it, cause if they rushed her out for the beta she might be horribly unfun to fight against and we're stuck with that character forever. I doubt they'd trash her completely if people complain about her mechanic.

[QUOTE=Segab;49174180]If they weren't sure centering a character around freezing people in place was balanced they would've tested it earlier. Now we have a fully modeled, animated and voiced character. It's a little late to reconsider Mei's core mechanics. The problem is that they wanted to have a good looking, polished beta. I really hope they've been testing Mei a lot internally before shipping it, cause if they rushed her out for the beta she might be horribly unfun to fight against and we're stuck with that character forever. I doubt they'd trash her completely if people complain about her mechanic.[/QUOTE] Shes already in the beta, she is very unfun to play against, same as the 2 turret characters, atleast she cant freeze you across the map though

[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;49174083]Games are played not made, it's a beta, try shit out and see if it works when people play it, there's no sense sitting around a whiteboard planning shit when everything changes once you actually get it up on its feet and let people play it. If it doesn't work, they can change it.[/QUOTE] Thinking they will remove heroes from open beta is pretty naive. That's not how it works, once you let something out for people to try you're committed to it, it's not like you can afford to just take it away and say "oh that does not work sorry" You do indeed sit down and plan around a whiteboard so you don't fuck up. They got it right with Starcraft, I don't know what's their problem right here. They seem to be very casual about the whole ordeal, as if they weren't asking 40 bucks per copy.

[QUOTE=mickers;49174220]Shes already in the beta, she is very unfun to play against, same as the 2 turret characters, atleast she cant freeze you across the map though[/QUOTE] Symmetra is pretty easy to counter tho

[QUOTE=Keychain;49174552]Symmetra is pretty easy to counter tho[/QUOTE] I thought we were talking about Mei the ice scientist. She can be countered by long range characters, i think its more noticeable because this game is so much more mobile than other shooters, you have characters with blinks, double jumps , wall running ect. and she can stop that. The second she hits you you are slowed by what feels like 50% quickly climbing to 90% and frozen in a few seconds. One thing i noticed while playing was because there is no recoil it turned into wiggle left and right frantically to dodge shots. I played a lot of hanzo in the weekend and i felt his projectiles were too slow aswell, hitting long range shots was almost luck and guessing where your opponents were going to be since they could easily sidestep it. I think its also more common in the eu, watching US streamers they don't tend to wiggle left and right just treating it like a csgo or cod match.

[QUOTE=mickers;49174615]I thought we were talking about Mei the ice scientist. [/QUOTE] He said "the 2 turret characters" as well. I was referring to that part of his statement.

[QUOTE=Keychain;49174655]He said "the 2 turret characters" as well. I was referring to that part of his statement.[/QUOTE] ah right i see, i keep forgetting about symmetra as a turret character, i was thinking or torbjorn and bastion

[QUOTE=mickers;49174220]Shes already in the beta, she is very unfun to play against, same as the 2 turret characters, atleast she cant freeze you across the map though[/QUOTE] Now that's not very nice. How dare you leave out Torbjorn. He's just as good as Bastion and Symmetra!

[QUOTE=ZnT00;49173546][video=youtube;VcDb-nh1FFM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcDb-nh1FFM[/video][/QUOTE] The concept art version of Mei's polar suit and weapon looked soooooo much better...

Weapon yes, suit no.

How do you think Console play is gonna be

[QUOTE=AcidAmbience;49175411]How do you think Console play is gonna be[/QUOTE] tracer will be ass to play