I've been playing Overwatch as of recently because it's become a bonding time between my daughter and myself. I bought the XB1 (I'm a Sony fan boy) because all of my daughter's friends have said console, and she is already at a level 110 since December. I'm just a damn level 18. She uses D.Va, McCree, and Genji and I use Soldier 76, Mercy, and Reinhardt.
That is all you see in custom games now. I love it.
The thing I despise, is that in "COMP" people insta-locking in their "mains" and that they dont get off them even no matter what. These are also the idiots screaming to everyone else that "We need a healer".
Then switch retard.
Doesnt matter if its a control map people instalock Hanzo, Genji or Widow. Most people are shit with these characters and it doesn't justify the small percentage of people who are actually effective using them.
In COMP if my most played characters are taken I see what is needed and fill in the roll. Im not one of those f@gs that only plays 1 character exclusively. I play 1 or 2 characters from each class pretty effectively.
Go play Quick-play or Arcade if you want to throw games role-playing your weebo fantasies.
ProTip: I still love this game but want to strangle the player base sometimes.
HERO UPDATES
McCree
Deadeye
Targets now begin locking on after 0.2 seconds, instead of 0.8 seconds
Damage accumulated over the first 1.0 seconds increased from 20 to 80 (damage per second after the first 1.0 seconds is unchanged)
Developer Comment: McCree’s ultimate can deal a lot of damage if it has a lot of time to build up, but it was often too difficult to get even a small amount of damage out before being stopped or killed. These changes make it more flexible and powerful.
Reaper
The Reaping (Passive)
Removed health orbs
Now regains 20% of all damage done to heroes as health
Developer Comment: Reaper’s old healing passive was useful if you could kill a bunch of enemies in a row. But since enemies needed to be dead for it to work, it wasn’t very helpful unless the situation was already in your favor. His new passive lets him get immediate benefit from it, especially when fighting Tank heroes, which tend to be larger targets that deal lower damage.
Roadhog
Head hitbox size reduced by 20%
Scrap Gun
Bullet damage decreased by 33%
Fire rate increased by 30%
Clip size increased from 4 to 5
Developer Comment: Roadhog’s head was abnormally large compared to similarly-sized characters, so we’re reducing its size to increase his survivability. The Scrap Gun changes reduce the power of his hook combo and alternate fire burst damage potential while still keeping his DPS roughly the same.
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McCree and Reaper changes are a step in the right direction.
About the Roadhog changes, I feel the best way to kill characters in overwatch is for low level , low skill players to constantly whine and cry on the forums till they get their way.
Cancer community 👆
Reaper's change is interesting, though I don't think it will solve his problem of getting gunned down like the degenerate he is as he tries to approach or flank. His pathing is far more limited than other flanking offense characters, and he's not tanky enough to justify how immobile he is compared to them. He's sort of like a Roadhog that has less health, less one-shot potential, less range, and less utility.
I do prefer this take on his in-combat sustain though, definitely. His ult in particular will be crazy.
The Roadhog change is fine. His one-shot potential is being reduced, but now he has options beyond that one-shot. I'm down with it.
What about other characters that have one shot abilities or potential?
Is Hanzo's nonsense scatter arrow going to be looked at?
Other characters have 1 shot abilities too.
- Hanzos scatter
- Widows head shots across the map
- Reins charge
- Pharah and Lucio boops off the map
- Mei freeze to head shot combo
- McCree stun to head shot combo
- Junkrats Mine and trap combo
etc, etc.
Why was RH singled out so much? I dont even play RH alot. Seems people didnt want to get killed by RH all match. And also wanted to easily 1v1 him.
I dont get angry when a character I cant stand kills me. Its not like they are not suppose to ever kill me during a match.
Hog is easy to handle. Dont know why he is a huge issue for players. Bait his hook and he is useless after that. Just focus him and mow him down. He is a huge target and an ULT battery for the enemy team.
Even knowing how to handle Hog doesn't mean that he should NEVER kill you. Thats what people expect and its ridiculous.
They just destroyed Roadhog. People hate roadhog because they don't like being punished for their mistakes/being in a wrong position. That is basically it. People hate having no chance to fight back. Which is why good Widows made blizzard completely ruin her for the better half of year 1. -OH NO WIDOW HEADSHOTS ME BLIZZARD PLZ LEARN 2 BALANCE- I agree. People just want easy way out. PharahxMercy gets so much hate and people just want a char that will look at them an immediately destroy them. Someone even suggested giving McCree a buff that will double the damage he does to airborne targets. Are you serious? I'm glad Blizzard tends to balance things around high skilled/pro teams. Otherwise the game would've been reduced to shit by now like what happened with Destiny and the constant nerfs.
How many nerfs has it been now? 5?
But at least DeadEye got some love. Going to be destroying ****ers with it. Reaper sounds scary as all ****.
I hope one day Widowmaker gets an upgrade for her grappling hook so when you pull yourself towards a wall, she hangs there giving her exclusive vantage points no other sniper (or anyone that climbs) can access. Her theme is a spider for god sakes! It'd be a lore friendly buff even as we see her do this in her trailer. And speaking of lore friendly buffs, Reaper needs to fly when he turns to mist but for now, I'm quite content with his unique way of getting health. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
Oh yeah we got a new map incoming. WE'RE GOING TO THE MOON!