I don't imagine there to be a lot of gamers in this forum, but it's definitely worth it to ask.
Any Overwatch players out here?
Would like to possibly play with you all or just talk about the game in general!
What is Overwatch?
Overwatch is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. It was released in May 2016 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Overwatch puts players into two teams of six, with each player selecting one of several pre-defined hero characters with unique movement, attributes, and skills; these heroes are divided into four classes: Offense, Defense, Tank and Support. Players on a team work together to secure and defend control points on a map and/or escort a payload across the map in a limited amount of time. Players gain cosmetic rewards that do not affect gameplay, such as character skins and victory poses, as they continue to play in matches. The game was launched with casual play, while Blizzard added competitive ranked play about a month after launch. Blizzard states that all Overwatch updates will remain free, with the only additional cost to players being microtransactions to earn additional cosmetic rewards.
I personally subscribe to Mei is bae. Other heroes I enjoy (from offense to support) are Pharah, Reaper, Junkrat, Reinhardt, DVa, Zarya, Zenyatta, Lucio, and Mercy. I'm absolutely terrible with Hanzo, Widowmaker, and McCree. BUT enough about me, what about you guys?
WOT Oh my god so many fellow players. You guys don't understand how happy I am. I didn't expect to get any replies. ;___;
Looks like a lot of Support and Tank players but WHO CARES. Play what you like. It took me a couple of months to try out other heroes to figure out that I enjoyed them as well. As someone mentioned, I think it's a great idea to be able to play 1 hero per class. Makes you flexible! But idk, there's always gonna be a hero you love playing, and for me that's Mei. Playing the ice demon is fun. haha
Let's play!
So I'm not sure what servers you all play from, but I play on the NA one. If possible, I'd like to play with you guys! Post up your battlenets so we can connect. Or add me musuney#1337 (my battlenet number is luckily super easy to remember) and let's team up and play for fun. I'm honestly sooo giggly and excited that some of you guys play! So happy~
On another note, is anyone following the Sombra ARG?
Also, AikawaMahoFTW, any advice on how to play Ana? I'm terrible at her. Or maybe that's because my aim sucks. But stuff like when to use her heal grenade or sleep dart... Or positioning. I just keep dying when I use her.
I try to get to know all the heroes, but the heroes that I really like and sometimes play a lot of are as following:
- McCree, Soldier: 76, Pharah, Junkrat, Mei, Roadhog, Zarya, Zenyatta. So I try to be flexible when playing.
My PC's GPU is fine, however my CPU suck, so my frame rate is not what I'd like it to be (35-60fps). When I can I will upgrade my PC, and the goal is 300fps on a 144hz monitor.
What I really would recommend to everybody who loves this game, whether on console or on PC, is to pay a little attention to what the top players do. When you play the game you will of course get a basic understanding of how things are done, but if you watch streams of top 500 players or pro players, you will learn so much in terms of strategy and tactics, situational awareness, positioning, and just play-style overall. And this will help you regardless of your level or rank.
As an example: I thought Zenyatta was a very intriguing hero, yet very squishy (at the time he only had 150HP). Then I started watching Seagull play Zenyatta for fun in competitive play, and I was amazed with just how busy he was, paying constant attention to the health bars of all of his teammates as well as trying to harm and kill as many enemies as possible. He was very aggressive and very active. Then I tried to emulate his play style, and of course I am nowhere near as good as him, but my results soared up almost instantly. I've gotten more MVP cards with him than any other hero as a result of studying pros.
Same if you're a McCree player: Check out pros like iddqd, Taimou, or aKm - watch how they move on the maps. Even if your accuracy is not as great as theirs, by knowing how to position yourself, you will get a lot more opportunities for making that one important shot that can change the course of the game.
For this I watch streams on Twitch, or clips on YouTube. Then I also watch pro tournaments, which is very fun.
I have no idea how much people follow "the scene" or not, but if you want to learn, learning from the best helps, so here's a few channels that you might find interesting:
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https://www.twitch.tv/a_seagull-- Seagull, from USA - arguably the most popular OW player. Primarily a DPS player, who when playing with his team NRG, will tend to use heroes like Genji, Mei, Hanzo, Pharah, sometimes Zarya (when his teammate Enigma plays Tracer), or even Junkrat and Bastion in some rare situations. The reason I like him, is because he is one of the top players, has a very wide hero range, talks a lot while playing and is pretty much always positive, explains why he makes the certain plays that he does, explains why something went wrong with either his team or the other, and answers every question people asks him.
https://www.twitch.tv/taimoutv-- Taimou, from Finland - equally amazing hitscan player and another McCree ace. If we talk about the best McCree players on the planet, it's either Taimou, iddqd, or aKm.
https://www.twitch.tv/chipshajen-- chipshajen, from Sweden - one of the absolute best support players around. For those who solely focuses on support, he's definitely one to watch.
https://www.twitch.tv/moonmoon_ow-- MOONMOON, from USA - not a pro, but a very good tank player. Primarily plays Roadhog, although Reinhardt sees a lot of play, including D.Va, but also Ana or whatever else he wants to play. Dank meme-factor.
https://www.youtube.com/user/flame617-- flame, from USA - pro and aspiring caster/analyst. His Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/flame -- Why do I link him? Because on his YouTube channel he analyses pro tournament matches (i.e., team vs. team), as well as commenting on people's videoes, e.g., someone gives him a video of them playing as Zenyatta, and he critiques their play. And it's all quite educational. A lot to learn from him.
From recent Overwatch APAC finals in China, Rogue (EU) vs. Lunatic-Hai (Korea), TviQ (Sweden) plays Pharah and Mei, and destroys on attack and defense:
^I watch Seagull a lot especially when he was constantly streaming a while ago! I don't play Hanzo at all (he plays Hanzo a lot on streams) but I agree that he's the one who goes into more detail about the game mechanics which is awesome. He once saw and explained how one of his arrows that got stuck on a Reinhardt shield manage to headshot a McCree. Was hilarious. A friend of mine also got to play against him on competitive and my friend got super nervous and tiled. I don't blame him, I would too. But it's impossible for me to play against Seagull seeing as how I'm only ranked Gold.
Zenyatta is definitely a fun hero to play. His discord orb can most definitely shred tanks. Its an amazing feeling to kill charging Reinhardts with Zen. Also agree that chip's an amazing support. Sometimes I wish they'd show the support cameras more in tournamenrs but I guess most of the action come from DPS heroes.
I follow the scene as best as I could! Im part of a TESPA chapter at my University so I get to talk to a lot of people about the collegiate and professional competitive scene! And since my uni just opened an esports arena, oftentimes Blizzard devs come and visit and its fun to ask the developers for Overwatch about what they think of the conpetitive scene so far. The overall consensus I got was that they want to make as many heroes as viable as possible, so their concern is balancing the heroes out. I'm personally excited about how they're revamping Symmetra. Should be an interesting change.
Nice to hear that others enjoy the pro scene as well! I have no dreams of becoming a pro myself, but I get a lot out of watching what the pros do.
If I were to play against Seagull I don't think I would tilt, but I would definitely sigh extremely loud... Probably laugh too... If he was on my team however I'd probably be really nervous actually. First, it could be fun to see if you'd be able to strike up some useful synergy, but mostly I think there's a chance you think "I must not let him down I must not let him down..."
There was one moment in the EnVyUs vs. Misfits finale in Atlanta that was awesome from a support perspective: on attack King's Row, after an intense battle - primarily centered around Talespin on Pharah - EnVyUs got killed, except chipshajen, who was hiding on the 2nd floor, and then flew out over the main cap point, "HEROES NEVER DIE!!", and resurrected his team, followed by Talespin ulting on Misfits, and then they capped the point. The crowd was cheering loudly at this, and it was pretty cool. I think if production can showcase more what support actually does, viewers can get to see some amazing stuff.
Regarding Blizzard and hero balancing, there are certain issues and I am not a fan of all of them. Soldier: 76 for example got nerfed so hard he's only used in extremely rare situations. Symmetra is pretty much useless. Pharah is also a very niche pick (and if Soldier: 76 will get buffed again as he is now in PTR, Pharah will struggle even more), and Mercy as support is a too high risk choice when there's Lucio, Zenyatta, and in particular Ana to choose from.
I think Blizzard needs to introduce more heroes and not spend so much time on useless ARG's. And also accept that certain heroes will never see daylight in more competitive play. Everything cannot be 100% equal. But they should at least try to balance them as best as possible.
@Krusha Although I'd like for Blizzard to introduce new heroes, I wouldn't want them to go at the rate say League does it. Balance gets thrown off the wall and some heroes will never see the light of day. If they had to add a hero, I'd rather that hero bring something new to the table to contribute to the current state of the game. Not for the sake of merely having a new hero to play because the existing heroes are boring people, but for the sake of adding a new game mechanic that players can combine with existing heroes to create something new to make the game more enjoyable for newer and older players alike. That's a difficult task to tackle, but it feels like Blizzard is going for it and I respect them for that.
Map-wise though, I wish they'd add more of them with new game modes. They only have 3 at the moment; control point, payload, and a hybrid of the two. The halloween brawl mode to me is actually pretty fun. And if they expanded it, I think it would be enjoyable for lots of people.
Also played with Skyrockets yesterday! I found that he's a pretty good Lucio and Zarya. Was pretty fun!
I watched most of the matches, and I think USA should be able to defeat Germany. Russia is the strongest team in that group, due to only having pros and USA vs. Russia will be very interesting. They need to stop ShaDowBurn when he's on Genji, because he's a monster.
South Korea had their way with Australia so hard, it was almost painful to watch. On Eichenwalde, they picked Junkrat, Symmetra, and Torbjörn on defense solely as troll-picks, not due to strategy. And they even gave their nanoboost to Symmetra of all heroes, just for shit n giggles, and Australia still couldn't cap first point. Before this, South Korea attacked by using a Bastion - that wasn't even pocketed by Mercy and Reinhardt - and they still rolled over Australia.
Sweden vs. Brazil was another slaughter, and here is chipshajen on Ana, stopping the only good player from Brazil, soulive, who ulted as Genji when he got the nanoboost:
Thailand's NZNR's my new Mei idol. I'm a bit sad they couldn't get in --- or rather, get out of groups. That 3-way tie at the end was a bit unexpected. I thought for sure China would win over France but France stepped up the plate. I honestly thought China and Thailand would make it out. I'm so bummed out Thailand couldn't make it. However, the USA vs Russia match was pretty amazing. Seagull and Shadowburn dueling it out. Gods picked off Shadowburn a couple of times but I guess that wasn't enough. And I thought Talespin was doing pretty well with Tracer but I guess Unfixed switching it off to Tracer as well caused problems for Team USA. Good matches nevertheless though. South Korea pretty much dominated in their group though. I'm not sure what Finland did wrong... but it just looked like South Korea overwhelmed them.
And speaking of South Korea, this bracket looks pretty spicy. USA got the short end of the stick... haha
My win predictions are... Russia, Finland, South Korea, Sweden
The USA-Russia match was ridiculous. If anybody here who plays Overwatch has never seen an actual pro match before, then you absolutely have to watch this:
As for Finland, it looks to me like at least a couple of the players - Hymzi in particular (who is a Roadhog god) played a bit nervously. Taimou for what it's worth carried that entire team. The stuff he's capable of doing on McCree... Unfortunately you can't solo carry on this level.
I think your predictions are quite spot on, but these aren't hard to guess. In terms of which team can pull out an upset, Spain is the most likely one. Does USA have a chance? Yes, they have a chance. But they will have to perform at their absolute lifetime best. Everyone will have to make everything they do work immediately, because the South Korean team is just too good.
How did I not see there was a thread for this I mainly play D.va and Mercy
Welcome! It looks like me and Krusha are mostly the ones doing the talking haha, but feel free to join in. I miss the days when they didn't limit 1 hero on competitive and we'd go 6 DVa on any control map and would quickly win.
Have only played with Skyrockets so far. Would love to play with you too Krusha! You seem very knowledgeable about the game.
I mainly play D.va and Mercy 
