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>Speaking of which, do you have any plans for what you're going to do with your grant? New computer? College tuition?
>Oh… I have an idea…
Oh shit dis girl gonna hit us up with a new robot/drone hero I'm like 99% sure
Edit: Several people are telling me that the article being posted in 2017 means that Efi is going to be 70+ years ingame. The Lumerico scandal articles and the Lucio teaser article were also written in present tense by "Afus news staff", show post dates of 2016 and 2015, and Sombra and Lucio for sure aren't 70+ years old. The post dates does not matter for the in game timeline.
Edit2: The above edit was confirmed by Lead Writer Michael Chu. Efi is 11 in game.
Official gameplay video of her skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrPuSRYA4U
Official skills page: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/sombra/
OPPORTUNIST (Passive):
Sombra can see enemies, who are below 50 percent health, through walls.
MACHINE PISTOL:
Sombra’s fully-automatic machine pistol fires in a short-range spread.
HACK:
Sombra hacks enemies to temporarily stop them from using their abilities, or hacks first aid kits to make them useless to her opponents.
THERMOPTIC CAMO:
Sombra becomes invisible for a short period of time, during which her speed is boosted considerably. Attacking, using offensive abilities, or taking damage disables her camouflage.
TRANSLOCATOR:
Sombra tosses out a translocator beacon. She can instantly return to the beacon’s location while it is active (including when it’s in mid-flight).
EMP (Ultimate):
Sombra discharges electromagnetic energy in a wide radius, destroying enemy barriers and shields and hacking all opponents caught in the blast.
She's a tank
Main fire: Projectile machine gun with long range
Alt fire: Sends out a pulse that can be reactivated for a mini-graviton surge that pulls in for a brief moment
Fortify: Immune to crowd control and 'tougher'. Examples are concussive blast. Active ability with an unspecified uptime.
Protective Barrier: Sends out a barrier half the size of Winston's bubble where she aims that works like all the other barriers.
Ultimate: Throws a device onto the ground that supercharges any ally in LoS, think Lucio, increasing damage. It can be killed by enemies.
Here's a picture of her official page on the Overwatch website for those who are at work.
D.VA's Legendary Skin in-game (3D model): https://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/content_folder_media/iv/IVPQ2WC0SG671516407930757.jpg
New highlight intros (scroll down): https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/21353116
He's in the right here. The person that actually won has around 300 followers on twitch.
Edit: Check this page, it says
> *All committee members and players are subject to approval by Blizzard.
edit: PATCH NOTES! JUST READ THESE AND IGNORE THE REST OF THIS POST LOL
https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20178523#patchnotes
~~they gave more details here.~~
~~https://esports.yahoo.com/overwatch-patch-notes-competitive-character-170000549.html~~
~~more zenyatta details:~~
~~* ult is 300 hps instead of 200 * 50 additional shields for a total of 200 "health" * moves twice as fast during his ult~~
~~dva's E toggle:~~
~~* going to be on a one second cooldown~~
~~mercy is ALSO being changed:~~
~~* she can now move while she ults * ult charge is being slowed down * damage boost on right click being increased~~
~~NOTE: This is only additional information from an additional source, not a summary of the changes listed in the OP article. To find a summary of the OP article scroll down some, it has more info~~
I was banned for Symmetra one-tricking like a month ago. I always tried my best and peaked top 400 just before the ban. Here's what I was told:
>As we discussed, in this game it is very important to play as a team and communicate with others regarding the heroes picks as well. Our developers are aware of some of the heroes being less popular than others, and some even considered as you say as "troll" by others. But believe me they do their best to balance the game and make each of the hero unique and worth the play. Sometimes the team consistency may not be ideal for the certain hero and you will just need to swap to some other hero to complete the group to be able to perform as best as the group can. While sometimes your pick will be just perfect for the set up. Please feel free to raise this matter on the Overwatch forums, which are being monitored by the game developers themselves: https://playoverwatch.com/en-gb/community/
https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20972920
Junkrat
Concussion Mine
Junkrat can now hold two mines
RIP-Tire
Tire’s movement speed has been increased by 30%
There is no longer a time limit when wall climbing
If anyone is watching, this is Sekon. At the time of posting this, (s)he is a high masters / low gm widow main.
After posting this, I realize OP is /u/SekonOW. Nice flicks, tho.
BCRF teamed up with Blizzard a while back and released a promotional Mercy skin you could buy for $20. It is no coincidence that the skin is simply named Pink.
Eat a dick, Komen. You don't own a color.
Nice, the link is working now!
Nothing major here, though this does confirm:
- This mission resulted in Blackwatch's suspension, which is still in place at the time of Uprising. Edit: this means that McCree does not leave because of the Venice mission. Whatever happens in the immediate aftermath of Venice (e.g. his debriefing, Reyes' debriefing) is NOT enough to make him leave the group.
- The Assassin is "enhanced" in some way. Edit: this wording is very similar to the wording used to describe the Soldier Enhancement Program (quote: "Military scientists shaped Morrison and other inductees into the perfect soldiers, blessed with superhuman speed, strength, and agility." (source)).
- The Snipers do appear to be using the same technology that Widowmaker has (or perhaps a prototype of it).
- What the hell did they do the Heavy Assault troopers?? "Extensive genetic engineering"??
You get a report system with it :)
Edit: ... probably. Edit 2: Yep! https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/game/patch-notes/ps4 ---> General ---> Player reporting has been enabled (Both, for PS4 and XBOX)
This is awesome! I'm glad they actually took time to create a quality skin for this instead of just doing a recolor or something!
Also, when I first read their charity page i saw
> your purchase of the Pink Mercy skin to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, with a guaranteed minimum donation of $250,000 USD
And I was like aww wtf?!
EDIT: To clarify, i thought it was saying you get the skin if you donate a minimum of $250k
It's a new map for the new Deathmatch game mode, currently on PTR. The map's called "Château Guillard" and it's basically Widowmaker's family estate.
Thread with developer update youtube video: https://redd.it/6svxpy
PTR patch notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20972920#patchnotes
If you can't watch the video, here are the important details on her changes:
- She's getting a second ultimate. You can now toggle between her teleporter and a new shield generator, which gives free shields (exact amount wasn't mentioned) to teammates within its radius. It also ignores line-of-sight so it can be hidden more effectively.
- Both ultimate placements will now have some regenerating shields to make them last a little longer.
- Her shield-giving ability will be replaced by Photon Barrier, which fires a shield (similar to Reinhardt's) that moves forward.
- She'll now be able to hold a stock of 6 turrets instead of 3, and their cooldown will be reduced by 2 seconds.
- Her beam will have slightly more range.
Changes are coming to PTR "very soon".
Edit: "very soon" apparently meant today! Reworked Symmetra is now on the PTR.
This is a great deal. Even a better deal because it's the origins edition.
If you're not sure about if you should buy Overwatch, the game will be free this weekend. It's a great chance for those in doubt to test it and see for yourself what the fuzz is all about.
Also keep in mind that any future content to be released, will remain free and there won't be any paid DLC's ever.
[BLIZZARD] Lylirra posted on 07/12/2016 05:41 PM:
>Now that we’ve revealed our upcoming hero, Ana, we know that some of you may want to try to prepare for her arrival either by stocking up on Loot Boxes or holding off on opening the ones you already have.
>
>Before you do that, though, please remember the following: *Loot Box contents are generated at the time that they earned or purchased, NOT when they are opened. *
>
>This means that any Loot Box you earn or purchase now, or at any point before Ana is released, will not have a chance to contain her cosmetic items. Only those Loot Boxes that are earned or purchased after she is live and playable on your gaming platform will be eligible for her skins, sprays, voice lines, hero emotes, etc. (This is how the system will continue to work for future content updates, too.)
>
>/cue “The More You Know”
>We hope this helps! (PS – If you’d like to learn more about Ana, click here
>.)
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The leak was reasonably accurate! Anchora was probably her internal name, and it reflects in the description, too:
>Orisa serves as the central anchor of her team, and defends her teammates from the frontline with a protective barrier.
From here
> New hero option: allows players to adjust nano boost sensitivity
RIP boostio :(
Also, the source: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20529203
Edit: nevermind, u/paaatchnooootes added the link to his post in a edit.
Honestly, I totally feel like we're getting a South Korea map eventually. Namely, Busan.
D.Va's from Busan, and we know that in the lore, the coastal area of South Korea has had some wild things happen to it. A colossal omnic monstrosity caused 'catastrophic damage' 20 years ago, and the monstrosity constantly rose up over the years attacking South Korea and neighboring areas. I'm willing to bet Busan is one the cities that's been messed with, since it's on the coast.
That's fucking wild, though. A massive mysterious robot that destroys cities? And they haven't even found a way to properly deal with it yet?
And besides that little bit of lore right there, we know next to nothing about what's going on in South Korea. D.Va's got her Police skin which is representative of a police officer from Busan, too.
I just feel like there's a lot relating to that one place, and with not much information on the area, a map would be an ideal way to give us more information on it.
Have a look at the Overwatch patch notes any time they balance a hero. Developer commentary immediately follows the change:
> Ana
> Biotic Rifle
> Damage increased from 60 to 70
> Developer Comments: Ana has been outshined by other support heroes lately. Boosting her damage will help her defend herself and make her more threatening to the enemy team.
10 damage. Such a tiny change, but developer commentary is included in it anyway. I hope Bungie follows suit, eventually.
Well, that's pretty much what happened on the Moon.
> But [Winston's] life was thrown into chaos when the other gorillas led an uprising, killed the mission scientists, and claimed the [lunar] colony for their own. Taking on the name of his beloved human caretaker, Winston built a makeshift rocket and escaped to Earth. There he found a new home with Overwatch, an organization that represented everything he had come to admire about humanity.
This guy is our captain... kill me please. It's so stupid how youtubers that have very few hours played are team's captain. I guess that my country is retarded when they have to vote, that's why they chose the current joke of a president.
That makes sense, but basing it strictly off McCree's backstory, there was no indication that he was given a second chance out of sympathy. https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/mccree/ Overwatch saw use in him as a member. When you think about how they saved Genji and gave McCree a chance, it's easy to think they just did it for goodness sake. But in both cases, they did it with the expectation that they would benefit Overwatch in some way (which they both did).
>And a lot of our fans have assumed "oh, that's why Reyes and Morrison hate each other"
I'm gonna nitpick semantics, but this isn't correct. The fanbase was deliberately led to believe that with the material we have so far.
Quote from <em>Fading Glory: On the Trail of Jack Morrison</em> > The UN rewarded Morrison for his contributions by making him Overwatch's first official commander. Reyes was passed over in the process, and it created a rift between the two men that would lead to tragic consequences.
It's not like anyone could have guessed otherwise when it is spelled like that.
The question now is, why the fictional author of the article painted the situation like that? Is that the official version of the facts given by the UN or whatever higher-ups? Bloody convenient to make it look like jealousy and infighting between two (believed) dead.
Overbuff dosent need a update, it's the blizzard that needs to release an accurate API over match history so that websites like Overbuff can relay the information. Right now it just relays info from https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/career/pc/eu/<battletag> to the best of it's knowledge.
I asked Bill Warnecke about this the other day, and he responded that unfortunately the guys who would normally have implemented this; have been dead busy (obviously) implementing the support for the OWL Web app.
"Sombra is a stealthy offensive infiltrator who can hack enemy abilities, she can turn the tide of battle in subtle and not so subtle ways"
EDIT: Detailed info on Sombra's abilities, thank you /u/kittycatalyst!!!
> Her teleporter is her E. You toss it and have 15s to teleport to it. The tendrils is her right click and over time it will disable enemy abilities and hack health packs and turrets. Her Lshift is a temporary stealth and speed boost, she can also see through walls in that time. Her Q is an EMP blast that disables all enemy abilities for a short time in the blast radius. Her uzi gun does decent damage and feels squirrly to aim but that just be the mouses here being set to a higher dpi than I like
EDIT2: Sombra's official hero page on the Overwatch website!
damage beam is fucking terrible. It legitimately is. Blizzard themselves said that they want damage boost to be mercy's main source of damage as opposed to her pistol, when their own numbers showed that wasn't remotely true at all. They attempted to correct for this by heavily nerfing mercy's ult and buffing damage boost to compensate. They immediately reverted the boost buff and forgot to reconsider the other half of their rebalancing. The developers themselves WANT damage boost to be useful but THEY THEMSELVES know that pistol is far more used and far better. source: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20178523
If you are behind a reinhardt shield, alongside several members of your team, its far better for you to use your pistol than it is to boost your mccree or 76.
times to use damage beam:
a) Use it for a split second when a roadhog hooks someone
b) When an ally is ulting
c) The DPS player is at full health, and shooting something that you yourself cannot shoot because you are behind cover.
in pretty much every single other circumstance where you would consider using damage boost, its better to use pistol instead. Not only because its higher damage, but because it charges your ult very quickly.
what bugs ME is when mercy + a DPS is attempting to kill some solo hero and all the mercy does is damage boost the dps when its almost always stronger to use pistol instead. A mercy using a pistol beside her dps is two heros. A mercy damage boosting her dps is 1.3 heros.
Well, it depends on how big the SEP groups were. If you've got 100 soldiers in each test group, then they started at the same time.
As for why Jack got leadership of Overwatch the organization when Reyes lead Overwatch the Strike Team:
"Leadership of Overwatch fell to Reyes, but Morrison would have a greater impact on the group in the long term. He brought out the best in the people around him and helped mold Overwatch's diverse (and sometimes conflicting) agents into a cohesive fighting force. In unity, they found the strength to defeat the robots and end the Omnic Crisis.
"Even I had my doubts about whether Overwatch would succeed," UN Under-Secretary-General Gabrielle Adawe, one of Overwatch's key architects, said shortly after the end of the Omnic Crisis. "But Morrison never gave up hope. He didn't just meet our expectations for what Overwatch and its agents could achieve; he shattered them."
The UN rewarded Morrison for his contributions by making him Overwatch's first official commander. Reyes was passed over in the process, and it created a rift between the two men that would lead to tragic consequences."
From: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/19809396/
That's the official reason why. Basically Morrison was the reason Overwatch the Strike Team was successful. So he was given leadership of Overwatch the organization.
Assuming, of course, that they don't retcon it as they're fond of doing. They already retconned the rift part. So I wouldn't put it past them to retcon all of it.
Exactly. Most people I know play on PTR now who were playing competitive S1 to practice up on the new meta,new season changes and new maps. I'm not sure how access is for that on PC Bangs in Korea but I imagine they would be really laggy playing on the PTR if its still only located in the US.
https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20243886#participate
> Q. What regions are eligible to participate in the PTR? > A. Accounts from all regions (excluding China) are eligible to participate; however, the PTR will be hosted on our Americas region. As a result, if you plan to play the PTR from a region outside the US, please anticipate lowered performance and increased latency.
OVERWATCH PATCH NOTES – AUGUST 28, 2018
PATCH HIGHLIGHTS
D.Va’s Nano Cola Challenge
We’re celebrating the release of D.Va’s action-packed animated “Shooting Star” short by making some special content available to unlock in-game. For a limited time, your wins in Quick Play, Competitive Play, or Arcade will all earn you additional D.Va sprays, a player icon, and a new epic skin: NANO COLA D.VA!
When you’re not playing to win, you can watch sponsored Twitch broadcasters to unlock even more D.Va-themed sprays!
To learn more about D.Va’s Nano Cola Challenge, click here.
BUG FIXES
Hero Gallery
- Fixed a bug that prevented hero descriptions from displaying when a skin was selected
- Fixed a bug that prevented hero descriptions from displaying in the Hero Gallery
- Fixed a bug that prevented cosmetics’ unlock requirements from displaying in the Hero Gallery
Heroes
- Fixed a bug that prevented some of Roadhog’s voice lines from playing with his Lacrosse skin equipped
- Fixed a bug that caused Symmetra’s Sentry Turrets to fall through the environment when thrown into a Teleporter
- Fixed a bug that allowed Symmetra to teleport players into certain vehicles on King’s Row and Numbani
- Fixed a bug that caused Winston’s Jump Pack damage to not fall off properly
Sound
- Fixed an issue that prevented sound from playing after a memory-intensive team fight
Streaks, and player performance should never be removed from any elo-based competitive system. The very system gets undermined by removing those 2 influences and it results in, like OP said, people being "cemented" in the rank/average SR they were in at the time streaks and player performance got removed. People who deserve to be higher have a harder time to get there. If you played flawlessly, but still lose due to 1 troll in spawn, you will gain nothing and it feels very bad. If there still was PP, the system would know you played better than the average player in that rank and would make you lose less SR on a loss and gain more on a win (which also feels good and fair/rewarding). Streaks and player performance go hand in hand in getting players to the SR they deserve to be at the fastest. OW should add it back in and should look at LoL's ranked divisions (for example gold V, IV, III, II, I). These divisions make it so that there are less large climbs and drops. In LoL, you need 100 "LP" (league points) to qualify for a promotion to climb to the next division on which you need to win 2/3 games to succeed. You gain more LP for a win if you played well/are playing well over the last couple of games and tho opposite with losses.
Honestly, big-mouthed players, who just have to be vocal about what should-, or should not be in the game, while having 0 understanding of it, is what's actually hurting the game. The devs are also to blame for sometimes actually listening to stupid things.
Fwiw, they deliberately made a separate "Legendary Skins" section under the global "New Skins" section on their https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/21353116 page.
So yeah, not that it's a guarantee, but this at least hints that there may be new epic skins.
>rite
Ok, lets see...
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$40 pls have cancer will die in two minutes
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DSPStanko is my god.
Alright. Should be good to go. Come at me mods!
^^^^^^^don'tactuallypls
Edit: I love r/Overwatch.
A friendly reminder "Blizzard Entertainment will donate 100% the proceeds that it receives from all Pink Mercy skin sales to BCRF, with a guaranteed minimum donation of $250,000 (USD). The total donation amount will be disclosed after the campaign concludes on May 21. Please visit our shop page for more details."
https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/21758132
Im really interested in how much money they raise
It's quite funny isn't it, imagine if you didn't know overwatch and heard of this lucio musician, literally the first link is a "news article" saying
> "Lúcio, an acclaimed musical artist who's built his career doing live shows, has already become something of a national icon in his home country of Brazil. Now he's poised to win an international following with his Synaesthesia world tour.
> "My heart beats for Brazil," Lúcio told Atlas News. "I get inspired by the people here. Their struggles. Their triumphs. I want to share that energy—the energy of their lives—with the rest of the world."
You'd think he was a real person since people wouldn't be particularly knowledgable about the brazillian music scene
I would recommend watching all the videos for the heroes on Overwatches offical page here: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/
Afterwards, try them out in-game.
Lastly, pick your favorites and look up guides. Here is a site for guides: http://www.owfire.com/ (same as hotsfire, just for ow)
Youtubers:
> Skyline, iostux, Dibz, OneAmongstMany (demos),
I do **not* recommend Overwatch Central, YourOverwatch or Unit Lost - they have went from good content to clickbait/shitty content.*
Streamers: (Get the hang of the game before watching them!)
> MoonMoon (Roadhog main), ReallyNavi (?), Poke (Genji main - can be salty at times), Seagull (projectile heroes), Surefour (Tracer main (?)), Harbleu (off tanks), IDDQD (hitscan), Gale_Adelade (Ana + hitscan), Mendokusaii (jack of all trades + quite educational), Valkia (Pharah), Kephrii (Widowmaker - can be a bit salty at times), DSPStanky (Lucio), Grego (supports)
Have fun, and feel free to ask more questions! (and PM me if you want my btag)
edit: I don't know how to format this shit xD
Edit 3?: Added more to the lists thanks to the comments! Credits to the other users in the replies!
Edit 4: Updated
Edit 5: Updated
I don't play Overwatch so I didn't know the characters, who apparently are called heroes.
So I looked them up and the cast seems pretty diverse. Nice mix of brown and even fucking animals as heroes.
I'm all for diversity but this isn't an issue.
I'm surprised with no teasers either from official social media channels.
Based on all the other event webpages, this URL will show you all the new skins, emotes, and highlight intros once they actually publish the content to their site, right now it will just lead to a broken URL:
For those wondering what are we watching for 8 hours, it's a couple of streamers throughout the event, similar to the Pink Mercy Charity Event.
List of streamers and more info here: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/22380666
His backstory has this in it.
>Survivors have described a black shadow ghosting unscathed through the most hellish battlefields. The few bodies recovered of those he kills are pale, empty husks drained of life, their cells showing signs of intense degradation. It is possible that he is a byproduct of failed genetic alteration which forces his cells to simultaneously decay and regenerate at a hyper-accelerated rate.
So yeah, Mercy probably did some medical stuff but messed up and now Reaper is in a constant state of decay and regeneration (old Trundle lore, anyone?) which would explain why he hates Overwatch
I love to imagine someone going to playoverwatch.com, trying the code, expecting something groundbreaking that would've been the next step in the ARG, and this is what they get.
BUG FIXES
General
Fixed a bug that caused some players to lose audio during the match Fixed a bug causing the vacuum-of-space sound effects from the Horizon Lunar Colony menu screen to persist even after selecting a new menu area Heroes
Fixed a bug that prevented Pharah’s “I am the rocket queen” voice line from playing correctly Fixed a bug that allowed Orisa’s ultimate to charge while her Supercharger was deployed
NO DOOMFIST! damn https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/game/patch-notes/ps4#patch-37890
Check out his actual bio in the story tab. In short, he was a martial artist that competed frequently, but he lost his arm in the omnic crisis. He had cybernetic prosthetics, but he was ineligible to compete in tournaments. Talon gave him a place to fight and he adopted his beliefs from the previous Doomfist. He wasn't interested in joining Overwatch.
> ... an extremely popular FPS called Overwatch.
If you're even half serious about gaming, you either know what the heck Overwatch is, or you'll be one of today's lucky 10,000.
There are a few ways that you can achieve this usually.
1) Scrape the data. You can write python code for example that will request a website (just like you when you go to www.google.com) and it will read the raw HTML. It will 'scape' for keywords, or for whatever it is that you're searching for and have specified in your code.
2) Using an API. Some companies or platforms have an API set up so that developers can request to use data that they store on their servers (but only the data that the company or platform specifies, not just any data). Here is an example of a movie database API that you can use to serve up data & metrics about movies. https://www.omdbapi.com/
The overwatch website specifically scrapes data form https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/ and serves it up so that anyone can just search it.
If you can wait another week before making the decision, there will be a free weekend from July 26 to July 30.
https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/21963964
Edit: the free weekend will be on PC only.
Plus 9 new CTF maps and the ability to filter/search for custom games! I wonder if the CTF maps are the same maps as the KOTH maps.
Edit: official blog
I find it funny when people say things like this, because back in beta, the competitive system was designed specifically to promote the idea of progression. The community spoke out about it, en masse, and the system was changed to better place players at their appropriate rank, to promote balanced games over all else (rather than artificially 'climbing the ladder').
It's working as intended.
HERO UPDATES
Lúcio
Sonic Amplifier
Projectile speed increased from 40 to 50
Alternate fire now considers vertical orientation when knocking targets back
Crossfade
Song's area-of-effect radius decreased from 30 meters to 10 meters
A temporary in-game visual has been added to illustrate this radius (it is only visible to Lúcio and his teammates)
Heal Song
Healing-per-second has been increased by 50% (also applies to Lúcio's Amp It Up ability)
Sound Barrier
Radius decreased from 30 meters to 20 meters
Wall Ride
Movement speed increased by 30% when wall riding
Lúcio now receives a burst of speed when leaping off a wall
Developer Comments: Lucio has often felt like a must-pick due to his raw healing output and the versatility of providing a speed bonus to your entire team. The goal of these changes is to keep those elements feeling strong, but making them harder to apply to everyone on your team at all times. The end result is that he should feel stronger with teams that he can stay close to but not as strong when on teams with heroes that are often spread out (such as Pharah, Widow, Genji, etc). Much of Lucio’s character power was tied up in his large passive auras, which caused other elements of his kit to be weakened over time in an attempt to balance him. Now that his auras are more focused it will allow them to be much stronger and allow Lucio to be more active in his role.
- https://blizzard.com
- Click "GAMES"
- Click "OVERWATCH"
- Click "COMMUNITY"
- Click "TECHNICAL SUPPORT"
- Click "Known and Common Issues"
You can skip 1 and 2 by going to https://playoverwatch.com
Has it always been like that? I know you're right. I've seen it demonstrated, but.... good news!!!
The current PTR test version patch notes include:
"Fixed a bug that allowed enemy players to detect Sombra (while Stealth was active) if they were within a certain distance"
I never thought it was a bug, but... maybe?
A similar thing happened in Croatia - sprEEEzy, #1 ranked player in our region, TOP10 EU at one point - got declined, while random rank 60 players are on the voting list. WTF Blizzard
The money pretty much gives you a swag bag, here an excerpt from the website
> look at the game's lore and storytelling efforts during a special developer panel hosted by Michele Morrow (not to mention some pretty sweet swag).
Edit: here is the link to the site
- SONIC AMPLIFIER: Lúcio can hit his enemies with sonic projectiles or knock them back with a blast of sound.
- CROSSFADE: Lúcio continuously energizes himself—and nearby teammates—with music. He can switch between two songs: one amplifies movement speed, while the other regenerates health.
- AMP IT UP: Lúcio increases the volume on his speakers, boosting the effects of his songs.
- SOUND BARRIER: Protective waves radiate out from Lúcio’s Sonic Amplifier, briefly providing him and nearby allies with personal shields.
Junkrat's lore sets him up to potentially be the most important character out of the entire cast. His backstory is that he found some sort of "treasure" within the ruins of the Australian Omnium, the one that when destroyed turned the entire Outback into a Mad Max wasteland. It's never said what this secret is, just that it's huge. The entire reason he hires Roadhog is for protection because Junkrat is paranoid that people will come to steal his 'treasure'
That's why he reacts all sketchy when Hanzo asks him about it, because he's legit paranoid about people coming after him. His entire relationship with roadhog is based on this, as well, as Hog's just a hired merc who has to deal with this twitchy maniac's shit, while Junkrat like to think they're friends.
Again, whatever his 'treasure' is, we don't know. Given recent developments, I can't help but think it's tied to the Sombra conspiracy, but we'll just have to see. I wouldn't put it past Blizzard to put their endgame MacGuffin in the hands of the one character nobody would expect.
They're changing the mechanics of roadhog's hook, read about it here.
The joke is that after the change was announced, you'll see a significant amount of people on non-PTR nowadays saying stuff like "I can't wait for hook 2.0 (or 2.1)" whenever they get rekt via the hook, pretty much regardless of whether or not it was a clean hook or not.
In this case, hog landed a CLEAN hook on sombra, so it's a jab at those whiners :-)
Personally, I think people say it as an excuse for being out of position or not having the awareness...aside from the obvious through-the-wall/LOS etc hooks.
For more information, this amount of money probably is not coming from the Pink Mercy skin alone. They also have been accepting donation from Twitch collaborating streamers when people watch, donate and cheer within the pre-decided slot time for the streamers. Link here. Three days ago, the stream donations topped at $77,000. The amount has probably increased by now.
So if people don't want or cannot afford to spend $15 for the donation, they can always donate in smaller amount.
And also, BCRF is one of respectable cancer researches with a clear and transparent policy about where donation money will go. You can read about it here and here, from the contributions of Overwatch mods and subredditors.
More info: 100% the donation will be sent to BCRF without Blizzard receiving any profit. Blizzard also assure the minimum of $250,000 (way past that point now) with their own money. It's the same like WoW charity pet before.
We still need help, so I posted here to raise more awareness. I'm not forcing anyone, just to clarify.
That is more than likely his mentor, Akinjide Adeyemi, who was the second Doomfist-- The Scourge of Numbani. He brought Akande to Talon initially and possessed a different point of view than Akande, leading to Akande killing him to become the new Doomfist.
You can read the whole story here on Doomfist's official Overwatch profile.
But Riot did make a video about the skin, released about a week before it came out here. Also the fundraiser just ended 6 days ago. When blizzard made their post talking about how much money Pink Mercy had made it was a month and a half after they stopped skin sales.
Here you can see that the skin went on sale May 8th and they stopped selling it May 21st.
Here you can see that on July 9th they announced how much money the skin made.
So if we give Riot the same timeline we can expect them to announce something in mid to late September.
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We have to convert the percentage they give to actual numbers... So these will not be 100% accurate but close to what you actually have after the next push
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It's written in her bio that she's believed to be.
It's essentially A. In the story tab in her Hero Profile, the timeline is:
-Joins Blackwatch
-Venice Incident
-Overwatch Disbands
-Goes to Oasis
-Part of Talon
There are rumors that she's been secretly funded by Talon for years, but it's stated vaguely, so it's unclear whether that would just be concurrent with her work at Oasis or if she had connections with them during her time at Overwatch.
The swimmer or the game reference?
The game is Overwatch (/r/overwatch) which is a fairly recent hero-based team shooter from Blizzard. Not entirely unlike Team Fortress 2 but with more classes and less hats. The specific hero is Reaper
Swimmer is, uh, probably American?
Edit: For the sake of those who don't want to scroll down to the million+ replies to me saying Michael Phelps, it is apparently Michael Phelps.
wait you have to have a paid subscription to play in a free weekend? lol...
yep found the source
https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20372506#faq
> Q. Do I need Xbox Live Gold or PlayStation Plus to participate in the Free Weekend?
> A. Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation Plus is required to play on Xbox One during the Free Weekend.
(a bit of a typo on their page lol but you get the idea)
... So the only change to competitive is to hide sub-500 skill ratings?
I don't know.. I expected a little bit more. Oh well, time to warm up my gatling gun!
edit: obviously I wrote this before Blizzard posted this blog, but for the most part the sentiment holds true.
Gameplay info about Sombra is out now too.
https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/sombra/
Machine Pistol
Sombra’s fully-automatic machine pistol fires in a short-range spread.
Hack
Sombra hacks enemies to temporarily stop them from using their abilities, or hacks first aid kits to make them useless to her opponents.
Thermoptic Camo
Sombra becomes invisible for a short period of time, during which her speed is boosted considerably. Attacking, using offensive abilities, or taking damage disables her camouflage.
Translocator
Sombra tosses out a translocator beacon. She can instantly return to the beacon’s location while it is active (including when it’s in mid-flight).
EMP
Sombra discharges electromagnetic energy in a wide radius, destroying enemy barriers and shields and hacking all opponents caught in the blast.
The Scourge is dead, Doomfist (Akande Ogundimu) killed him. From his bio page on the website:
> Adeyemi was a useful asset to Talon, but the organization saw far greater potential in Ogundimu, with his intelligence and his ability to inspire as a commander. While Adeyemi was content to profit from raids on Numbani, Ogundimu had a grander vision. This difference in aspiration would lead Ogundimu to kill his teacher and take on the mantle of Doomfist, along with the eponymous gauntlet.
How recent was this?
>Fixed a bug to prevent hit effects from being inflicted on D.Va’s human form while piloting the mech.
It looks like her suit breaking was canceling by the sleep. So she was supposed to be out of the suit before the actual animation occurred. Thought there was a fix with Ana's sleep messing with animations, but I can't find it now.
"Blizzard Entertainment will donate 100% the proceeds that it receives from all Pink Mercy skin sales to BCRF, with a guaranteed minimum donation of $250,000 (USD)."
https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/game/patch-notes/pc/#patch-46510
It's interesting that they're still doing these. I thought they were just pre-event hype things.
We're probably getting one for Moira too at this rate. Also, there was seemingly a fifth Blackwatch agent mentioned in the memorandum (second page, under Mission Report): "Agent [redacted] also secured a position [redacted]." Is it possible they might show us who that fifth agent is with one of these debriefs?
<strong>hand-picked by Blizzard</strong>, include fan favorites like Seagull and questionable selections like <strong>notorious holier-than-thou yet horny-on-main streamer</strong> Kephrii.
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lmfao 8" adderal
Although the Sombra ARG ended on Nov 2nd, this Atlas News article was posted on the 28th of October. If I'm not mistaken, it's the first time the name Sombra is mentioned outside the ARG, with the exception of the Dorado newspaper. ("Who is Sombra?")
It also fits with the 1-week-before-reveal teaser trend!
Where did you ever see it called Skydrop? Even the playoverwatch site says Meteor Strike.
edit: they already changed it to Meteor Strike in the patch notes
Blizzard will pick the nominees.
This Blizzard blog post actually has a lot more information than their official world cup page.
>First, we will select up to ten nominees per eligible country with expertise in the field, including analysts, coaches, statisticians, and other authorities in the Overwatch esports community. From there, players in each of those countries will vote for who they want to see selecting the roster for their nation.
nah. https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/21665270
Qualification: From today through the end of Competitive Season 9 (April 28), we’ll be tracking the average skill rating (SR) of each country’s top 150 players. Each country’s progress can be tracked on the Overwatch World Cup website.
A stealth hero would be a interesting counter against Widowmaker, Torbjörn and Bastion. Certainly brings more dynamic to the table.
Edit: Sombra's habilities:
https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/sombra/
Looks like she can also counter Reinhardt and Winston.
You can buy it for $40. Only the "Origins Edition" is $60, which just gets you some extra skins and some other goodies for other Blizzard games.
That's not a theory, it's literally from his official bio: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/reaper/
As for the Mercy thing, their pre-game voiceline interactions strongly suggest she's partly responsible for Reaper's condition:
Mercy: "What happened to you?" Reaper: "You tell me, doc."
My guess is that in the explosion that destroyed the Overwatch facility, Morrison and Reyes had a battle that left Reyes injured. Mercy tried to fix him, but something must've gone wrong and she assumed he didn't survive the procedure, so she doesn't know who Reaper actually is.
Confirmed they will be competing in Blizzard Sponsored APAC LAN League in Taiwan (https://playoverwatch.com/zh-tw/blog/20653216) Starting April 8 (runs for 13 weeks). $275k USD prize pool.
Very excited to see these guys compete at LAN. Glad they got this opportunity.
If you head on over to playoverwatch, there is a schedule for all of the Twitch streamers that are participants in the charity stream! Gotta scroll down a bit :)
Edit: Here's a screenshot of the charity stream schedule! Couldn't do this earlier because I was running errands.
But Blizzard loves fan content. They even have reference kits on their media page so people can recreate their assets. As long as the game isn't being made for profit, it should be fine.
You're getting downvoted, but you're not wrong. I think the ability is cheesy as shit and needs to be changed or reworked entirely, but even on the official site the video of scatter arrow is Hanzo shooting it at the ground.
They made a GIF of it as well on the OW blog website
https://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/content_folder_media/07/071ZSAJBIZTO1488228614005.gif
source;
There are comics which are great and clarify a lot of character backstories/sidestories!
The best reference link I can give is this tumblr post - it's up to date with just about every bit of Overwatch lore-related media, and is constantly updated when more comes out :)
I'm a massive lore nerd so as soon as I got into Overwatch I went poking around for stuff haha
Speaking specifically at number 3, was Doomfist's teaser subtle?
"...it can now be confirmed that what occurred was an attack by the Talon organization with the express purpose of freeing one man: Akande Ogundimu, better known as Doomfist."
"Rise and Shine" is set a little while ago - Mei has already reached civilisation and is up to heroics by the "present day" timeframe. Her exploits with the Endothermic Blaster are noted in this in-universe article about Talon's failed Doomfist theft, and she's on television talking about the climate in the "Reflections" comic, set some time after that.
Alternatively, if you're lazy and don't want to spend time filling everything out, you can login to and use the official Overwatch website.
They have an events dropdown menu that shows the most notable event items, and whether or not you own them. It even works for PS4 (and I assume XBOX) players if you have your account linked.
But again, it doesn't include every item category. Just skins, highlight intros and emotes. Victory poses, voice lines and sprays are sadly not included. Perhaps the community could convince them to catalogue everything at some point.
https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/widowmaker/
"It is believed that in her former life, Widowmaker was married to Gérard Lacroix, an Overwatch agent spearheading operations against the Talon terrorist organization. After several unsuccessful attempts to eliminate Gérard, Talon decided to change its focus to his wife, Amélie. Talon operatives kidnapped her and subjected her to an intense program of neural reconditioning. They broke her will, suppressed her personality, and reprogrammed her as a sleeper agent. She was eventually found by Overwatch agents, apparently none the worse for wear, and returned to her normal life.
Two weeks later she killed Gérard in his sleep."
While you are "technically" correct that not everyone shoots, the game type is STILL a first-person shooter (FPS). Look at literally the first line on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwatch_(video_game) and even on Blizzard's own site, where if you scroll down the game is called a "team-based shooter" https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/.
An "action" game is something different from a First-Person Shooter, which is what Overwatch is. Jake just has the media savvy to not say "Shooter" which was a good move.
On her hero page they talk about it a bit more:
> ...she was caught unprepared when she stumbled into the web of a global conspiracy—one that had also noticed her. With her security irreparably compromised, ░░░░░░ was forced to delete all traces of her identity and went into hiding. > She later reemerged as Sombra, upgraded and determined to find out the truth behind the conspiracy she had uncovered.
>In Overwatch, whether your MMR goes up or down is contingent on winning or losing. But there are a number of factors that determine how much that rating goes up or down. For example, what map you’re playing on and whether you were attacking or defending is factored in. We know the win rates on attack/defend on all of the maps and we normalize accordingly. Not all wins and losses are equal. We also look at your individual performance on each of the heroes you played during the match. Everyone has better and worse heroes and we have tons of data showing us what performance levels should be like on those heroes. We also look at your opponents and whether or not their matchmaking rating is higher or lower than yours. These are just a few of the things that are considered when determining how your skill should go up or down.
>Skill ratings will be visible at the beginning of every match. As you compete, your rating will increase or decrease with each win or loss based on a number of factors, including your own performance and the skill of the other players in the match.
Is he really Maori? I don't think so, his bio states that he's from the outback. I think the Maori/Islander skin is just a skin, a lot of them just have no lore basis and are there just to look cool. totally fine.
Though, as an Egyptian, I do have to somewhat agree with the tumblr OP that it's a bit dumb; would have preferred some consistency and a neato Egyptian themed armor. At the same time, I care very little about these things, this skin looks awesome, and this will probably be the least racist way Native American stuff will get represented in OW. Will definitely try to get Thunderbird at some point (I love Pharah).
Are you actually serious? This is an exhibition tournament. There isn't even a prizepool, and half the players were chosen by fan votes. We knew from the very first announcement that this was for show, rather than being an actual competitive tournament with winnings.
If there was a prizepool at stake, I guarantee this situation never would have happened. But there's no money involved and clearly the spectacle was deemed more important.
Christ, some of you people here are acting like Blizzard is trying to matchfix.
I'm talking about the nerf from earlier this year. It's not a recent change, that's why I said "still" in the title.
RIP old Hog. The one who could consistently oneshot full-health Symmetras.
on the wbsite it says
"But when he lost his right arm in the aftermath of the Omnic Crisis, it seemed his martial arts career was finished before he had reached his prime. His company's cybernetic prosthetics allowed him to recover from his injuries,"
hmm something is not adding up
Straight from the official lore on the website.
>As the youngest son of the master of the Shimada ninja clan, Genji lived a life of luxury and privilege. He had little interest in the family's illegal businesses, and although he excelled at and enjoyed his ninja training, he spent most of his time pursuing a playboy lifestyle. Many within the clan considered the carefree Genji to be a dangerous liability, and they resented his father for coddling and protecting him. Following the clan leader's untimely death, Genji's older brother, Hanzo, demanded that Genji take a more active role in their late father's empire. Genji refused, enraging Hanzo. The tension between the brothers built to a violent confrontation that left Genji on the verge of dying.
There's a good bit of backstory about all of the characters on there if you look through them.
Would it be possible to have this added to the patch notes, similar to how Overwatch has a "Developer Comments" bit on some of their changes? It feels like it should be on there and not just on a random thread on Reddit. Also, more of this! I love seeing the developers thoughts on why changes were made.