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[Valestein]

Hate being 'that guy' but Bastion is fairly easily countered once you get out of the low ranks. He can beat you when he *should* beat you (like when he's set up and still catches you unaware), but he's fairly bad at long range, and at shorter ranges can be taken out by Reap, Hog, and Rat.

Ana's sleep dart can neutralize him at range, and Mei's ice wall can block off him for a bit too.

 

[PlanHex]

Keep in mind that those looks to be mostly tweets from back when the open beta happened and no one had a clue what to do. Look at the dates.

 

[Valestein]

The next animated short will be "The Last Bastion", which will be about.. well, Bastion.

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20236535

*zhwee beep boop beep*

Next Thursday, delve deeper into the world of Overwatch with of our fifth animated short: The Last Bastion.

"The Last Bastion" tells the origin story of the inquisitive transforming robot, Bastion. In this episode, we follow the forgotten battle automaton as it unexpectedly reactivates after laying dormant in the wilderness for over a decade. Fascinated by its unfamiliar surroundings, the curious omnic begins to investigate, but quickly discovers its core combat programming may have a different directive...

Save the date: "The Last Bastion" premieres exclusively at gamescom 2016 on August 18 at 9am PT. Watch online at gamescom.blizzard.com, or visit our official event booth in Hall 7 of the Koelnmesse convention center to watch it LIVE from the Blizzard Main Stage!

 

[Jackalope]

Man, I love those shorts.

There are rumors of a new map coming soon, a forest in Germany. Seems Bastion's short is set there. It's pure speculation, but it's probably going to be unveiled at gamescon (which is also in Germany).

 

[Gerrard]

Blizzard keeps banning more people per wave than Battleborn has players.

 

[Puukko]

Still lost, because fuck coin toss and fuck blizzard up the ass for this retarded system, implemented in comp no less.

Spoiler

Also, mm is god damn awful

I lost the match I hit 50 elims/50k dmg in as well.

 

[Quigs]

Still lost, because fuck coin toss and fuck blizzard up the ass for this retarded system, implemented in comp no less.

Spoiler

Also, mm is god damn awful

I lost the match I hit 50 elims/50k dmg in as well.

On one hand, his career average damage is only a few thousand off my highest game. On the other, healing 39 as a junkrat boggles my mind.

 

[Berekän]

They're rolling out 60 tick servers as standard for all modes, awesome.

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20748474858

 

[Gerrard]

But before they said that if they did that "20% of current players would not be able to play", or something like that.

 

[abija]

And those will play at lower tickrate, question is: will a 20 tickrate client still get "favor the shooter" treatment? :p

 

[Gerrard]

Also this update has doubled my ping. I played two games and already had a case where I shot FuckRee with a projectile weapon and he took no damage because he killed me moments later. So nothing's changed.

 

[Jackalope]

Also this update has doubled my ping. I played two games and already had a case where I shot FuckRee with a projectile weapon and he took no damage because he killed me moments later. So nothing's changed.

The only change I noticed is the "finding game" time has increased. But who knows, maybe I'm just imagining things.

 

[Valestein]

 

[you know what time it is]

How about an mmr system that is based on performance, instead of a shitty win % nonsense (with forced 50% ratio to boot). Climbing the ladder will be impossible as a solo player, unless you luck out and win all of your placement matches.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Sounds good, Season 1 was really shitty so any improvements are welcome.

 

[abija]

Basically they listened (or pretended) to the community and as usual people don't know what they want, probably quit in droves when ranking 30-40. Now it's time to get back to masqueraded values so people feel good about themselves.

How about an mmr system that is based on performance, instead of a shitty win % nonsense (with forced 50% ratio to boot). Climbing the ladder will be impossible as a solo player, unless you luck out and win all of your placement matches.

Performance based mmr system is an utopia. Any metric added on top of win/loss and initial ranks will make the mmr system worse. They apparently consider how well people played which is already bad.
And 50% winrate is not enforced, is just the goal for any matchmaking system and every player except the very good and the very bad ones should end up there.

 

[Jackalope]

Dunno about all this stuff but I think season 3 is probably going to be fine. Or maybe season 4.

 

[Mr. Pink]

Win/loss giving mostly static mmr gain (+25,-25) is the simplest and most elegant way to do things.

problems happen when matchmaking is too lenient. my last game had a lv65 on my team partied with two lv 33s. This should never be allowed to happen.

Performance based mmr doesn't work in team games. Takes focus away from the objective and fucks over support roles. Contributions to victory can't be reliably quantified by stats alone.

 

[SuperSonicGd]

Everyone is entitled to their tastes, but honestly this looks so contrived and forced marketing I can't even give it a chance. Least not for that price-tag...

I mean really, it's just league of legends, team fortress 2, and soft anime porn put into a blender. That does not sound exciting. I will say this so I don't sound like some hater; Overwatch seems to have better game balance in PvP than Team Fortress 2 or League of Legends.

 

[Puukko]

Hit rank 65, Genji sword here I come.

 

[Orma]

Genji pickers

 

[Quigs]

"We've noticed many people were associating themselves with their player rank. We didn't like that, so we increased the player rankings from 1-100 to 1-5000. This solves the problem."

 

[Puukko]

Genji pickers

Been playing Zarya on comp but Genji's my most played on qp.

 

[Gerrard]

Spoiler

When you play Torb and people just drop dead around you spontaneously.

 

[Valestein]