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I just found out the voice actors for Sombra and Symmetra are coming here this month for Sydney Supanova festival. ....I need to find something for them to sign. D:

[QUOTE=Killajax;52297902]They better not revert this Roadhog nerf, he's finally at reasonable levels now. Don't cave to the crybaby Roadhog mains again blizzard.[/QUOTE] "Don't cave into the crybaby Roadhog mains, cave into the other crybabies that can't deal with him" isn't very good reasoning.

they made roadhog a soloing hero with his ability to pick off idiots with terrible positioning and his ability to self-heal without the use of a teammate and now they're reworking him nerfing his damage? here have 2 solo abilities, but we don't want you to be able to really fend for yourself so HAVE A DAMAGE NERF

Why the FUCK does blizz decide it's a good idea to put me (diamond / master MMR) into a comp game with team that 1: has 2 players who never touched comp in their lives and 2: has a guy who was 1-9 on their placements. I'm doing great when i'm with actual good players in my actual skill level but then blizzard puts me in a trash compactor for no reason.

[QUOTE=redBadger;52298274]Why the FUCK does blizz decide it's a good idea to put me (diamond / master MMR) into a comp game with team that 1: has 2 players who never touched comp in their lives and 2: has a guy who was 1-9 on their placements. I'm doing great when i'm with actual good players in my actual skill level but then blizzard puts me in a trash compactor for no reason.[/QUOTE] Because matchmaking process for placements is a literal shit-fight and always has been since Season 3.

Rein on Mayhem is stupid fun.

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;52298273]they made roadhog a soloing hero with his ability to pick off idiots with terrible positioning and his ability to self-heal without the use of a teammate and now they're reworking him nerfing his damage? here have 2 solo abilities, but we don't want you to be able to really fend for yourself so HAVE A DAMAGE NERF[/QUOTE] We already going back to this silly "terrible positioning" = "Anywhere close enough to be doing anything useful and where most maps funnel you into anyway" meme again?

Playing Mei feels really mean She's pretty much exclusively designed to debilitate and annoy the enemy more than actually kill them, from what I can tell

Mei should've gotten the police skin She can be the fun police

I'm disappointed by the lack of bee puns in Mei's bee skin.

Just finished my placement matches and I was placed [b]unusually[/b] low, like the 2100's. I've never had that low of an SR before, so what gives? I've placed in the 2500's or higher every single season 'till now.

Weird observation, but... This game has what I think might be the most optimistic vision ever for a future central Africa. I didn't even realize that's where Numbani was until I looked off one of the ledges and saw what's clearly the Savannah.

regarding roadhog positioning isn't just whether or not you're standing away from the team, or you're with your team, or whatever. it also accounts for minute details. take for example you're on high ground and roadhog is below you. do you walk along the edge knowing he has hook up, or do you play the peeking game while making sure you have enough floor beneath you so that when you crouch it breaks los? or that you have enough space in between you and the hog to know that he can't hook you? if you're standing at a choke, are you playing behind a shield? does your team have a zarya? are you standing out in the open when you know his hook is up? are you pushing a corner by yourself when you know he's there? he trades in his defensive and mobility capabilities for offense, and by nerfing both his burst damage AND his total damage, you're effectively taking away the niche he fills. that's the entire point of the hero, he has a hook. honestly, if they keep these changes i do hope they at least look at the numbers again and adjust them from what they currently are, because at this rate they're tanking roadhog into oblivion and irrelevancy.

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;52298273]they made roadhog a soloing hero with his ability to pick off idiots with terrible positioning and his ability to self-heal without the use of a teammate and now they're reworking him nerfing his damage? here have 2 solo abilities, but we don't want you to be able to really fend for yourself so HAVE A DAMAGE NERF[/QUOTE] Everything else about his gun got buffed so it's really only hurting the hook combo by giving a chance to escape

[QUOTE=Mingebox;52298557]We already going back to this silly "terrible positioning" = "Anywhere close enough to be doing anything useful and where most maps funnel you into anyway" meme again?[/QUOTE] if you're getting hooked as mcree when you walk near an alternative route maybe it's time to pick a hero designed to get around people

I think I'm starting to understand why I saw so many Hanzo and Genji jokes before I started playing Because nearly every single team seems to have one if not both, pretty much every time

[QUOTE=Everything;52298660]Weird observation, but... This game has what I think might be the most optimistic vision ever for a future central Africa. I didn't even realize that's where Numbani was until I looked off one of the ledges and saw what's clearly the Savannah.[/QUOTE] Halo had that too. Since Space Elevators had to be near the Equator, new places arose as commercial centers, like Kenya and Cuba. I feel like there was another SciFi thing were Africa became a center of commerce too but I cant remember.

Basic rule of Overwatch: There will always be either a genji, hanzo or widow on your team. Basic rule #2 of Overwatch: The other teams genji, hanzo, or widow will always be leagues ahead of the ones on your team.

[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;52298704]Everything else about his gun got buffed so it's really only hurting the hook combo by giving a chance to escape[/QUOTE] not at all. like i posted before, his burst damage went from 225 down to 150, and the total damage of his clip is now 750, which is -150 damage from before.

I feel Hog could use an additional shot, at least.

[QUOTE=PopSkimo;52298744]Basic rule of Overwatch: There will always be either a genji, hanzo or widow on your team. Basic rule #2 of Overwatch: The other teams genji, hanzo, or widow will always be leagues ahead of the ones on your team.[/QUOTE] And rule #3: If Hanzo doesn't get PotG, he will complain. Loudly.

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;52298724]if you're getting hooked as mcree when you walk near an alternative route maybe it's time to pick a hero designed to get around people[/QUOTE] the bad positioning meme was being spouted when roadhog's hook brought people point blank and at head height with the gun it was an excuse for poor balance in basically every patch before this one [editline]1st June 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;52298273]they made roadhog a soloing hero with his ability to pick off idiots with terrible positioning and his ability to self-heal without the use of a teammate and now they're reworking him nerfing his damage? here have 2 solo abilities, but we don't want you to be able to really fend for yourself so HAVE A DAMAGE NERF[/QUOTE] the fact that he's a "solo hero" at all is probably the problem in a team game also hook is absolutely not a "solo ability" and the fact that you're considering it that suggests that the hero's design is very very bad they should couple this with other changes to his kit, to make him more a tank and less a dps with 600 hp

[QUOTE=Everything;52298660]Weird observation, but... This game has what I think might be the most optimistic vision ever for a future central Africa. I didn't even realize that's where Numbani was until I looked off one of the ledges and saw what's clearly the Savannah.[/QUOTE] Overwatch is sort of weird about that. The thing is when you've got massive construction robots that can build shit super fucking quick and make it look real good, I guess having a big shining city isn't that hard? And yet there's still favelas. Though with Numbani in particular the background is that the city was founded by humans and omnic deliberately with 100 percent equality. No prejudice or fighting whatsoever. And that equality combined with natural robotic efficiency makes Numbani ludicrously quick to progress in comparison to the rest of the world. So for all we know, Numbani is the [I]only[/I] city like that, and a huge portion of africa is deep in poverty.

[QUOTE=Everything;52298660]Weird observation, but... This game has what I think might be the most optimistic vision ever for a future central Africa. I didn't even realize that's where Numbani was until I looked off one of the ledges and saw what's clearly the Savannah.[/QUOTE] the design theme that they said they wanted to go with was a sort of "optimistic future", which is pretty much there with every map except maybe the London map i've gotta say it's probably one of the most refreshing things about overwatch's style - it's real tiresome running into the same drab apocalyptic/dystopian future setting, so it's nice to play something with a bit of spirit to it

The fact that people think Roadhogs changes were unwarranted is absurd and honestly baffling. No hero or character in any game should have the ability to CC a person and then 1 shot them at 5 feet away. How is this still being argued?

I absolutely loathe dystopian/misanthropic fiction and I'm glad Overwatch has a non-wretched future setting for once and not the topical "we deserve to die because we're shit and the apocalypse was all your individual fault for X or Y" It's worse than the "everything but with zombies" craze and I can't wait for it to die forever

[QUOTE=Killer monkey;52298825]The fact that people think Roadhogs changes were unwarranted is absurd and honestly baffling. No hero or character in any game should have the ability to CC a person and then 1 shot them at 5 feet away. How is this still being argued?[/QUOTE] because believe it or not people don't want balancing to be based around nerfing a character into the ground.

[QUOTE=Jarokwa;52297317]just rip off paladins and turn roadhog into makoa entirely.[/QUOTE] Makoa is a much better designed hook tank in almost every way.

something i think would be a cool change would be to make it so that roadhog can throw his hook in a different way like, if he could throw the hook so it sort of arced down, like an overhead throw that curved down, you could use him as a counter to reinhardt/barrier wall game - something like a fishing rod attack the fact that his gun was good at breaking barriers is going to be missed with the nerf

Speaking of Overwatch's universe, I find it funny how every country but the USA is shown as super developed and advanced. Hollywood isn't much different from the modern day and Route 66 is a shithole.