[Gaming] Overwatch (#boycottblizz)

GasBandit

GasBandit

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I know you guys have heard me say pieces of this before, but I decided to get it all in one place for a video so that I can subject the wider world to my fevered salty rantings.

 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Well, more than one person has told me the opposite. And honestly, when I really get worked up like that, it's not fun for me either.
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I know it's your "thing," and generally make allowance for it, but if it's really ceasing to be enjoyable for you (and the other modes like arcade, et al aren't doing it for you), then it is possible it might be time to quit.

--Patrick
 
ScytheRexx

ScytheRexx

Christmas Event is out! The new Zenyatta skin is just NUTS! :rolleyes:

So far my favorite things are the Winston Yeti, the Widowmaker Highlight Intro, and the Zarya emote (which seriously made me laugh for like 10 minutes straight).
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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ScytheRexx said:
Christmas Event is out! The new Zenyatta skin is just NUTS! :rolleyes:

So far my favorite things are the Winston Yeti, the Widowmaker Highlight Intro, and the Zarya emote (which seriously made me laugh for like 10 minutes straight).
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I wonder how they came to the decision to make McCree into Ebenezer Scrooge, and not 76.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
The brevity of the amount of time between those two earthshatters just makes me salty all over again.
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To be fair, he does eliminate what appears to be 67% of the enemy team, they rez, then he eliminates most of them again. It's what, 6% charge granted per elimination? Plus time, plus damage done, plus damage blocked, plus the successful charge kills. That adds up to a quick ult recharge. It would've been a quick death if that Zenyatta hadn't been there to keep him alive, that's for sure.

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Gryfter said:
Hmmm, well Mcree has a hat and it wouldn't surprise me if its built into his model so that might be a factor.
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He's got a highlight intro where he takes off his hat and holds it over his chest. So it IS detachable. (IIRC it also sometimes comes off during death ragdolls)

PatrThom said:
To be fair, he does eliminate what appears to be 67% of the enemy team, they rez, then he eliminates most of them again. It's what, 6% charge granted per elimination? Plus time, plus damage done, plus damage blocked, plus the successful charge kills. That adds up to a quick ult recharge. It would've been a quick death if that Zenyatta hadn't been there to keep him alive, that's for sure.

--Patrick
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He got 6% per hammer impact whether he killed somebody or not. And his firestrike gave him 25%.

Both zenyattas hit their ults together, and he just went buck wild during that... it demonstrates a large flaw I had in my tactics. When the enemy zenyatta hit his ult, I would usually stop shooting, because obviously I wouldn't kill anybody. It never dawned on me until now that I still could have been building ultimate juice.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Looks like it's 1pt ult juice per 1pt damage done, and he does 75 per swing, 100 per firestrike, and 300 per pin. If he can swing into a cluster, I assume that gets magnified 3x since he's doing that damage to 3 separate enemies. He only has to build to 1100 to light it up (which is less than anyone else except maybe D.Va's "call mech"), so it looks like the way to properly Rein is to get into the thick of things and just start swingin' away.

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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PatrThom said:
Looks like it's 1pt ult juice per 1pt damage done, and he does 75 per swing, 100 per firestrike, and 300 per pin. If he can swing into a cluster, I assume that gets magnified 3x since he's doing that damage to 3 separate enemies. He only has to build to 1100 to light it up (which is less than anyone else except maybe D.Va's "call mech"), so it looks like the way to properly Rein is to get into the thick of things and just start swingin' away.

--Patrick
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Firestrike also awards for each hit, and can hit multiple targets in a line, too.

So yeah, long story short, the more bunched up your team is when Reinhardt lays into them, the more likely you are to get HAMMER DOWN'd every 6 seconds.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Blizzard was pretty sparing with the event-based loot this time compared to Halloween. There aren't many must-haves for me, though I like Sombra's, Pharah's, and McCree's.

My wife jump at the Symmetra highlight intro though; she's felt for a while that Symmetra's current ones all suck.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

ScytheRexx said:
Christmas Event is out! The new Zenyatta skin is just NUTS! :rolleyes:

So far my favorite things are the Winston Yeti, the Widowmaker Highlight Intro, and the Zarya emote (which seriously made me laugh for like 10 minutes straight).
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Don't you mean...the Winston Bumble?
GasBandit said:
I wonder how they came to the decision to make McCree into Ebenezer Scrooge, and not 76.
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Because he's such a grouch? Or possibly because 76 already got a Hallowe'en skin and McCree didn't?

--Patrick
 
Far

Far

Will not forgive them for no ugly sweater 76 dropping mugs of cocoa as his heal. Also boo no DVA skin:(

I do really like Winston and Zenyatta though.
 
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