I wonder if the Junkrat skin was intended for summer and not rolled out because it was somehow unfinished or something or if the plan was to put it out in the winter all along.
I figure the latter. Itās not like they donāt know these events are coming, I doubt theyāre going to miss a deadline on a skin for something like that. They know how long this sort of things take, they know how to plan this shit out. Also, itās the kind of thing theyād do - they have included Australia in their marketing efforts on more than one occasion. Plus, we have opposite seasons, remember? Itās the Christmas event, and the beach is Christmas for us.
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Iām just mad that D.Va got passed over for an event skin AGAIN. I can only figure itās hard or very time consuming to do new models for the mech but come on guys not even a paint job?
Yeah, I got that and it does seem like a thing theyād do, but I also assume theyāre pretty much always working on new skins. I mean it would make sense that they would be sketching out halloween, winter, summer, etc. skins all the time and then decide to seriously work on them whenever. Either way itās pretty good.
Roadhog seems like heād be a little harder to summer theme without looking a lot like one of his existing skins, but Iām not an artist and am a fan of the walrus look.
She got Officer D.Va, the 50s hot rodder look, and in the summer she got the Korean national team skin(maybe thatās from last year, I donāt know off hand) but sheās not been hurting for quality skins
(Sorry, I meant to reply to @panfriedmarmot, not Burritoad)
Yeah, heās already got the islander skin and such, and plus, I think theyāre keeping him back a little until they decide if they want to make him Maori, TS Islander, or whatever else they might do. Honestly, Iām not sure if theyāve fully decided if heās Australian or Kiwi.
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And those are all great, but Iām speaking more of the holiday ones. No Halloween, no Christmas / winter, and a lot of characters get multiple skins across multiple events.It goes along with that she has had very little lore and story development since launch. I know itās a bit childish but sheās my favorite hero both to play and as a character so its rather disappointing.
āNo, you didnāt smoke shit. Shut your fucking mouth,ā Lengyel said. āGo back there, suck a fat cock. I mean, he would like that.ā
(The player he said this to is openly gay).
Overwatch League gave him a 4 game suspension, but his team is suspending him for the full season (thank god). Donāt look at the twitter replies unless you want to get angry.
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Itās a wonderful feeling knowing that people still donāt know that crouching mutes your footsteps.
Spooked a good number of people in Mei mode.
Apparently this guy has been making waves before, including throwing games on stream. However, he has also said that he is going to match the fine and donate it himself to a pro-LGBT organization should the fine not be allocated in such a way.
If anyone wants to play and banter over the state of the union, Iāll be in-game as soon as the update finishes.
New patch! Mercy nerfs are live! Thoughts?
Personally, Iām not sure if this is the right way to go about it. I think Resurrect is too powerful to be a cooldown skill, and needs to be earned (especially at pro level play, where picks matter). IMHO it needs to be a part of an ult. This adds skill - better Mercy players get their ult/res faster, but also keeps the ability in check (also keeps me from feeling like a Rez-bot rip). Instead, Iād love to see them give her a couple rezzes when she ults,maybe keeping Valk more or less the way it is.
Having only watched, but not played Overwatch it was immediately obvious that resurrection is an extremely OP ability. The timing and usage of it clearly determined who would win/lose a match. Nerf is obvious, but will it be enough?
Nothing is quite disheartening like barely surviving a scrum and then having some Mercy be hiding some where to pull off a 5-man rez. Suddenly the entire team is at full health, in your face, gunning for you while you have a silver of health remaining.
Mercy can only resurrect one person at a time, with a LONG cooldown. It also isnāt instant: you can kill her while sheās trying to do it. I think itās enough.
Even the current Mercy pre-Nerf is a nerfed version of the old ability. Her ultimate was to resurrect EVERYONE at once. It was stupid.
I think part of the problem is balancing Mercy between competitive use vs quick play. In quick play if I canāt kill valk Mercy by myself I just have to wait it out and she can go wherever she wants because people donāt focus. Coordinated teams she still has to consider sight lines and stuff.
The way rez has been recently I thought was pretty good. It makes kill positioning matter, which I think is fun. Hog hooks can make someone unsafe to rez, and a well placed kill can be used to bait Mercy into a snipe or whatever.
Quick play will never be balanced. Itās not possible without ruining the competitive scene. They definitely wonāt split the mechanics between the two either.
Also,
I donāt disagree, but community perception of things being over / under powered is going to be partly an aggregate of games people are actually playing so I would expect them to take qp into account to a small degree. Iāve found her occasionally frustrating to play against recently but didnāt really think she needed a nerf. That said I havenāt been playing a lot of comp recently.
Obviously Blizzard has lots of data and I donāt.
The meta of QP is so ridiculous that I can barely dignify it. Symmetra, Zarya, Junkrat are invincible gods in thereā¦
You mean awesome? I really hate all the Mercy nerfs, they should revert to original. Sheās basically useless now because you WILL die if you try to rez.