[Gaming] Overwatch (#boycottblizz)
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GasBandit
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Nope, the plugin lets you embed entire videos (including highlights, which are their own videos), but it doesn't properly parse the metadata for "clips" since they're sort of "just play this other, longer video, but make it look like its own video that starts at X and ends at Y"
Yeah, the Twitter link goes to the same place, I just left the clip link there because it was late and I wanted to compare the two.
I had a 300 point slide from my high in Sept during the end of Sept. (Which was 350 points higher than my starting rank, so I don't really think I placed too high), and October has basically trashed any hopes I had of gaining back that rank, since I'm still about 300 points behind everyone else now, and I'm basically stuck in the same win/loss pattern now, since I really don't want to try to solo queue in the morning to try to catch up anymore.
Gas will forever break our ranking curve anyways, since he's the only one who has never ever and will never ever play alone.
Gas will forever break our ranking curve anyways, since he's the only one who has never ever and will never ever play alone.
GasBandit
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Well, and it's pretty obvious why, too. Can you blame me?Gas will forever break our ranking curve anyways, since he's the only one who has never ever and will never ever play alone.
I mean, if Terrik hadn't solo queued so much, he'd probably be at my rank or higher.
Me:
Terrik:
Oct 19th. A dark, dark day.
I don't know, if he didn't solo queue, our team rank overall would have been higher, and we might have actually lost even more. Who can say.
Tell me about it. I can't even keep my rank consistently above 1800 due to That Guy Genjiing off into battle to die again and again, or insisting on sticking with Symmetra even when the enemy has pushed the cart to with 10m of the objective, etc. I'd ask to join you guys in the evenings, but thanks to @Gas I'm not even within 500pts of the party any more.
I suppose I'd care more if I wasn't mainly playing for the exp and loot boxes at this point.
--Patrick
We can only blame our randos so much. We still can't even manage to coordinate our ults into a giant ult bomb every 60 seconds the way even these scrub teams can. :x
GasBandit
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We do pretty well coordinating Ana ults, but Zarya not so much, given that Terrik rarely plays Pharah anymore because McCree is now overcountering her.[DOUBLEPOST=1478041362,1478041319][/DOUBLEPOST]
I wish I knew.
What does Terrik being Pharah have to do with all of us randomly firing off our ults with no coordination. :x Yes, I said all. I'm not blameless, but it's all of us.
GasBandit
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There's not much point to coordinating Zarya's ult with Reinhardt's. Possibly some to Roadhog's, but usually if you're playing Zarya I'm playing Lucio, whose ult doesn't coordinate with ANYBODY other than I have to try to be extra careful NOT to pop it at the same time as Zenyatta.
But back when Pharah was favored in the meta, you two got quite a few combo ults.
Really? No point? No chaining AE disabling skills to keep the enemy team inactive longer? Really?
GasBandit
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Well, I don't remember many Rein-Zarya combos being critical plays against us, anyway. Zarya-Roadhog, yes, Zarya-Pharah, sure, Zarya-D.Va ok, even Zarya-Reaper once or twice. Heck, once there was even a time I did a Lucio ult immediately after a Mercy rez that ended up enabling a teamkill that turned the tide of a match (it was the one that got me called a "daddy," remember)...
But the fact of the matter is, these days, outside of Ana, our 4-man comps don't often lend themselves to ult synergy.
Besides, Rein's resets so fast he practically just uses it constantly anyway.
Usually I'm RH/Lucio, occasionally 76.
Usually you're Mercy/Ana, occasionally Zarya.
Usually Snuffles is Rein/Hanzo, occasionally Zenyatta or Ana.
Terrik lately has been Reaper/Mei, occasionally Pharah or McCree.
I guess there's some potential in there we could work on, but our most common comp has been Roadhog-Mercy-Rein-Mei (or Reaper), and 3 out of the 4 of those are crowd control. (and Reaper generally doesn't need CC to pop his ult)
So maybe we need to work more at comboing with our randos? (wince)
We've been wrecked by chain disabling CCs extremely often, I'm pretty sure you're blanking them out from trauma.[DOUBLEPOST=1478043760,1478043660][/DOUBLEPOST]Here's an example using Rein/Zarya/Mei.
Zarya Ults. Enemy Rein still has a shield so Mei combos with freeze ult. Enemy Team dies, but their Mercy jumps in and rezzes. They are all grouped up from the Zarya ult still, so Rein uses his hammer and knocks everyone down again.[DOUBLEPOST=1478043900][/DOUBLEPOST]ALSO, I'm really getting frustrated with playing support, but I feel like I can't play D.Va the way I want if you're on Roadhog since Roadhog is really squishy without a healer watching him, and D.Va is a harasser if there is another tank to hold the front line. I've been working on Zarya because of that.
Zarya Ults. Enemy Rein still has a shield so Mei combos with freeze ult. Enemy Team dies, but their Mercy jumps in and rezzes. They are all grouped up from the Zarya ult still, so Rein uses his hammer and knocks everyone down again.[DOUBLEPOST=1478043900][/DOUBLEPOST]ALSO, I'm really getting frustrated with playing support, but I feel like I can't play D.Va the way I want if you're on Roadhog since Roadhog is really squishy without a healer watching him, and D.Va is a harasser if there is another tank to hold the front line. I've been working on Zarya because of that.
GasBandit
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If the enemy Reinhart just got rezzed, he has his shield back, blocks the followup.
And yeah, D.va-Roadhog probably not optimal, especially given how much D.va flanks. So that might be better to pair with Reinhardt, and I would go Lucio.
But still, those are three characters whose ultimates are largely irrelevant to each other.
Playing on PC sounds like so much fun.
GasBandit
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I may do that, when his buff hits.
Which brings up another issue - we'll probably be adjusting once the changes on PTR go live. Zarya and Ana are getting a nerf, 76, Mercy and D.Va are getting buffed, Pharah's rockets are gaining AE damage in exchange for reduced knockback, Torbjorn might actually be useful again, and I know we all look forward to ult charging being 25% longer across the board.[DOUBLEPOST=1478045845,1478045803][/DOUBLEPOST]
I don't understand how anything we're talking about is exclusive to PC.
Coordination does not exist on console, let alone arguing about coordination. Most people play without their mic on. It's a wild world and played for the lowest stakes.
Zarya's nerf really only affects her overall damage, her utility isn't being touched, and I don't think it's going to make a huge difference in the long run. I also don't think Mercy changes are going to mean shit, most of the time when I die it's because someone on their team is focus firing me and I don't have 1 second to regen anyways, unless someone is actually watching flank. I don't know that the D.Va buff is going to make it out of the PTR in one piece, but we'll see. The Ana ult nerf is needed, but it's still going to be strong, it just means that it won't default go to Rein anymore.
GasBandit
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Peasantry is a world without meaning, and therefore without stress, I suppose
I remember hearing @Snuffleupagus complain in Vent about juuuust missing his next level.
Here I am trying to climb up to 100 before the Hallowe'en event goes away and...
Missed it by only 66!
Well, that's not too bad, I guess, I mean it's not...
AAAARGHLL36BBLAUUGHHH
Sooo I played one more match to push me over, of course. And then I played enough to get another 5 easy loot boxes, just 'cuz. Didn't really get anything I was missing except for some blue skins, got dupes of a couple epics (skullyatta, coldhardt), ended up with about 3300 gold and only half the legendary skins. Dilemma then was which missing skin to get? Reaper or Roadhog?
...in the end I got the 76 one and a couple other epics, then bought every single Hallowe'en voice line I was missing.
--Patrick
Here I am trying to climb up to 100 before the Hallowe'en event goes away and...
Missed it by only 66!
Well, that's not too bad, I guess, I mean it's not...
AAAARGHLL36BBLAUUGHHH
Sooo I played one more match to push me over, of course. And then I played enough to get another 5 easy loot boxes, just 'cuz. Didn't really get anything I was missing except for some blue skins, got dupes of a couple epics (skullyatta, coldhardt), ended up with about 3300 gold and only half the legendary skins. Dilemma then was which missing skin to get? Reaper or Roadhog?
...in the end I got the 76 one and a couple other epics, then bought every single Hallowe'en voice line I was missing.
--Patrick
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Shit, I forgot the voice lines. I had the skins I wanted, but didn't think about those. There were probably a couple I wanted. Ah well.
Rando 1: "Hey Legs, why are you going symmetra? It's King of the hill"
Legs: "Im good with her."
Rando 2: "Just let him try it. Maybe it'll work, and if it doesn't he can switch"
5 minutes later
OBJECTIVE LOST - ROUND COMPLETE
Rando 1: Look bro, can you explain why you're still symmetra?"
Legs: "......."
Rando 2: "We only have 1 tank. Would you mind switching to a tank?"
Legs : "....."
OBJECTIVE LOST - ROUND COMPLETE
Rando : "Dude, Legs."
Legs: "Symmetra is all I know how to play"
Me: "Wait, what?"
Rando 2: "Well, look man, we're losing bad. Please switch"
Rando 1: Seriously. We were nice and gave it a shot. You need to be able to play multiple heroes
Legs: "I can't. My brain doesn't work that way. I can only play symmetra."
Team: " ....."
OBJECTIVE LOST - DEFEAT
Legs: "Im good with her."
Rando 2: "Just let him try it. Maybe it'll work, and if it doesn't he can switch"
5 minutes later
OBJECTIVE LOST - ROUND COMPLETE
Rando 1: Look bro, can you explain why you're still symmetra?"
Legs: "......."
Rando 2: "We only have 1 tank. Would you mind switching to a tank?"
Legs : "....."
OBJECTIVE LOST - ROUND COMPLETE
Rando : "Dude, Legs."
Legs: "Symmetra is all I know how to play"
Me: "Wait, what?"
Rando 2: "Well, look man, we're losing bad. Please switch"
Rando 1: Seriously. We were nice and gave it a shot. You need to be able to play multiple heroes
Legs: "I can't. My brain doesn't work that way. I can only play symmetra."
Team: " ....."
OBJECTIVE LOST - DEFEAT
What the figgity fuck is this?
GasBandit
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The continuation of a slump, that's what.
My rage levels would be about on par with the Angry German Counterstrike player...
Sombra's coming!
Someday!
Someday!