Seems like Overwatch is slowly turning into an FPS version of League of Legends. Everyone picks heroes they think are cool instead of picking something that's acutally useful, everyone thinks it's all about killing instead of taking objectives. Can't fucking wait for ranked so i can play with someone who isn't just playing to play "the cool ninja man" (as my autist cousin likes to call Genji). Think i'm gonna go back to playing fucking Battleborn Any of yall had the same experiences, or am i just unlucky?
remember when you retards said a paywall would save the community
>>340687170
Nah
I used to play League
Now I play this
Its the ultimates really, theyre big and fun to use with plenty of flavor
>back to playing fucking Battleborn
enjoy playing alone, dead game
I don't pick supports or tanks in OW because I suck massive dick at them, at the same time I rarely go below 20 eliminations while playing anything but
>>340687170
It's really shitty on the weekends.
>>340687170
>Think i'm gonna go back to playing fucking Battleborn
You almost had me.
Sorta.
>>340687610As a league player, is overwatch fun and worth getting? Is it here to stay or just another FotM?
>>340687610
>"5 Blizzbucks™ have been added to your account"
>>340687170
>Can't fucking wait for ranked so i can play with someone who isn't just playing to play "the cool ninja man"
Hope you got a full group of 6 to play with. Cuz ranked is going to be the same as quick but with much more salt and yelling.
>>340687510
Imagine how much worse this shit would be with Brazilians.
>>340688443
wait for ranked to come out, otherwise you'll just end up pissed at 5 reapers on your team. But yeah, it's a good game
>>340688443
If you want a very very casual class based shooter to sink some time into go ahead
Honestly I don't think it's very good for 40$
>>340687170
>not playing genji to have anime duels with other genjis
why even live
>>340687170
>design a game around having a perfectly balanced team in every game or you'll be at a large disadvantage against a team that does
>have no kind of proper matchmaking whatsoever, constantly matched against people ranked 140 while I'm 27
>every game is some tryhard tracer or widowmaker shutting a whole team down
etc etc
None of this would have been a problem with larger teams, or dedicated community servers. Instead its trying to lure people in with EVERYONE IS WELCOME EVERYONE CAN HAVE FUN XDDDD only to quickly show you that if you pick a hero that isn't ideal with your current setup you're going to get shit on from both teams.
Absolutely terrible game in its current form, no skill involved whatsoever.
>>340687170
Genji in a good hands can carry a whole team.
>>340688458
>s-stop liking things I d-don't ;.;
>>340688645
It's fine to play Genji. If you enjoy him, go ahead! What pisses me off is when i get into a team and everyone goes genji or some other attack hero without looking at what the team needs in order to win.
I don't have the same experience. Probably because I'm not a complete retard that cares too much about a disney shooters competitive play.
Odds are your little cousin thinks you have autism, you just have no self awareness to notice it.
So what's the trick with zen? there's got to be some way to be good with him but he just can't perform like Lucio imo
>>340687170
I thought this was pretty obvious from the start. Skills, character design from lol, gameplay from tf2. What did you expect from the mixture of the most cancerous fanbase on earth and the fanbase of a game that is basically a hat trading simulator these days?
>>340687170
>Think i'm gonna go back to playing fucking Battleborn
You almost had me reply seriously shill anon. You're getting clever.
>>340688932
You shit out the most damage of any support and you can remote heal.
Throw orbs on people before they even get injured so they can win any 1v1.
You want to be far away from the fighting, a stray bullet could oneshot you, you don't have to be close to heal, debuff or deal damage so stay at sniper distance from fights, untill you have your ult that is.
Realise Widowmaker is fucking bullshit and not only do you have no hp at all but your head does not bob at all making you the easiest target to hit outside of D.va mech.
>>340688505
but if it's anything like cs:go or any other ranked system at least the chances of people leaving or being retarded will go down slightly, which *might* just be enough
>>340688770
>>have no kind of proper matchmaking whatsoever, constantly matched against people ranked 140 while I'm 27
level disparity isn't an issue, it's the game constantly disbanding matches when the teams are somewhat even and sticking you into matches where 2-3 of your teammates are retards with no hope of getting back into even games until you lose 3-4 times in a row
>design a game around having a perfectly balanced team in every game or you'll be at a large disadvantage against a team that does
>every game is some tryhard tracer or widowmaker shutting a whole team down
gee I think those issues might be related
>>340688932
>So what's the trick with zen? there's got to be some way to be good with him but he just can't perform like Lucio imo
don't play him on capture point maps, sit back preferably with a rindheart, dish out healing and discord orbs like candy, deal massive damage
do not stray from your rindheart or from the back of the team because widowmakers will 1 hit kill you, pharahs will 1 hit kill you, hanzos will nearly 1 hit kill you, mcrees will nearly 2 hit kill you, etc
if the opponent picks tracer or can flank your team, pick a different support class
You guys are all fat
Why is Torbjorn such an unfun fag of a character to go against?
>>340690404
That's just uncalled for
I don't know if they fixed it (it's gearbox so of course the answer is no) but when I played the beta of Battleborn no one ever wanted to pick the mushroom, but anytime someone did pick the mushroom that team won 100% of the time because it was the only healer and you absolutely need a healer in that game.
>>340687170
>Everyone picks heroes they think are cool instead of picking something that's acutally useful
Welcome to the basics of non tier fag character select
>>340687170
How is literally anything you wrote even slightly different from TF2?
Quick match's tagline of "Play with people of your skill level" is a complete fucking lie.
Nothing, short of playing with a full premade, will affect the outcome of the games. If you play shitty characters and do horribly, you're still going to win half your matches because the matchmaking will find people to carry your dumb ass.
Play like a fucking champion, and after a few games the matchmaking system will saddle you with the dumbest, greenest motherfuckers it can find to drag you back down.
>>340690840
TF2 has much larger teams. Which means less dependancy on an individual or two to pick the "right" characters. TF2 also has much more basic characters without any kind of special abilities and "ultimates".
>>340688118
>back to playing fucking Battleborn
>enjoy playing alone, dead game
Plenty of people play Battleborn, all you hear is the vocal minority of one or two people complaining about how they "can't get games" when they're just too stupid to fix their NAT.
>tfw on some matches i have to spam the get on the objective button to remind the retards that dicking around on other parts of the map isn't the goal
I hate being that guy, but fuck, why are you going past the payload?
>>340688893
>join a game
>genji, tracer, repear
>no support, no tank
REEEEEEEEE
>Everyone picks heroes they think are cool instead of picking something that's acutally useful
God forbid people play video games to have fun
>Think i'm gonna go back to playing fucking Battleborn
Is this a meme or supposed to be a funny joke at this point?
>>340691367
because people are getting tired of doing the same shit on the same maps all the fucking time. There's not enough variety to keep players invested in the barebones gamemodes OW has currently. Not to mention you can't keep playing the one you want and you're forced to play on maps and gametypes you might not like.
>>340691445
>tfw lucio is my most played character because we never have a fucking healer
I mean, I like him, otherwise I'd play Mercy or Zenyatta, but I want to play other roles some times.
It doesn't help when the two reapers/mcrees/genjis/76s/snipers refuse to have one of them go support instead of doubling up
>>340691581
>forced to play on maps
I'll admit that this is an issue I'd like to see addressed. I'm sick of being put on Gilbatr and the African one. More Kings Row, Illios and Nepal please
>>340691326
>Plenty of people play Battleborn
>>340691126
I refuse to believe that people saying this are on PC.
I'm about 400 matches in and very very few of them are ever one-sided stomps. I've had more games last 4 minutes in overtime than I've had games last under 4 minutes. I've held between 49-51% W/L since level 20 and it never feels like I'm purposefully being pitted against players that I will destroy easily or will destroy me easily.
Call me a shill, but I didn't even give a shit about this game until a friend of mine had me play the open beta and I moderately enjoyed it. Spent the 40 bucks and I've definitely got my money's worth out of it.
>>340688118
>>340688264
>>340689153
At the time of me typing this up, I have 170 hours clocked on the game. I was lucky enough to play this game ever since the Technical Alpha. This game really has managed to be every bit as addicting as I'd hoped. While it has its fair share of problems, the game overall feels very rewarding and worth whatever time you put into it.
However, I can't realistically ignore how small the community is. Battleborn is a game that was released alongside multiple big titles within the same month. Uncharted 4, DOOM, Total War: Warhammer, and Overwatch amongst others.
When it comes to promoting this game and even building hype prior to release, its gotten an abysmally small amount of love. Even when it did get some publicity it would most often be compared to Overwatch. People would constantly compare the two or spell out how actually different the two games are rather than just taking Battleborn on its own merits and going in-depth about it.
So, here we are now with Steam only having about 1000 players online on average. The game was so immediately forgotten about that there's only ever under 300 viewers on Twitch for the game at pretty much any given moment.
Battleborn doesn't -deserve- this treatment. It's a new IP from Gearbox that they've given a lot of care and attention to. It's a fun game and despite some minor issues it still shines through with incredible depth, dialog, and gunplay. Everyone can undoubtedly have a blast with this title. Yet, very few even give it a chance because someone somewhere said something about it.
I'm honestly feeling quite desperate. I don't want this game to die. I want it to thrive. For a good while. Hell, Borderlands 2 gets more love than this game and that one's been out for several years now.
I refuse to be pessimistic though; Overwatch will meet the fill of gamers for now, but give it a few months. The hype will die down, and players will be hungry for a new experience.
Someone who's seen Cowboy movies explain what "high noon" is about. I don't get it.
>>340692275
>he plays Borderlands: MOBA Edition
>he listens to trademark Gearbox humour
>he listens to trademark Gearbox writing
>he looks at trademark Gearbox UI design
>>340692372
Cowboys supposedly organised duels where they would meet at high noon.
>>340692372
It's the time when they have their duels.
>>340692275
>Overwatch will meet the fill of gamers for now, but give it a few months. The hype will die down, and players will be hungry for a new experience.
On consoles, sure. I think it's got a lot of sticking power with the PC base though. Assuming Blizzard comes through for us (I have no real experience with them for current games, I played Diablo 3 for a whole 3 weeks) it should be enough. Even right now there are people with well over a hundred hours with no real desire to stop. Hell, I'd be playing right now if my FFXIV raid group wasn't looking for a pick-up tonight.
>>340692481
>>340692520
thank you
>>340687170
I think you just got unlucky. While I get games like that, I still get plenty of games where people will play the objective and switch heroes by need. Give the player base a bit more time to mature maybe? It's extremely popular so a large portion of the player base probably don't even know what a "meta" is and like you said will just choose whoever they think looks cool, Over time it'll probably start to thin out and those players will start to learn the meta of the game more.
Also i won't lie, at least a quarter of my investment in this game is the waifus
>>340691275
>TF2 has much larger teams
not in competitive
>much more basic without ultimates
that's really only an argument of degrees. medic has an ability that is clearly an ultimate and other characters have ways to enter into big windows of power.
>>340692972
Since when is Overwatch competitive? They haven't even added the ranked mode yet.
>>340687170
I hope we get more maps with unique instances.
Escorting payloads and capping bases is fun but surely theit are more activities that would be cool.
Maybe even a CS style plant/difuse the bomb mission. Or some kind of capture the flag.
The weekly arenas are cool in concept but the fact that week 2 is simply "random heroes" is a bad sign of things to come. Very lazy execution.
>>340692965
Who is this semen demon?
>>340687170
I have a favorite hero, but if we need something else, like support or whatever, I'll help out. Not everyone is a selfish cunt.
>>340687170
Disagree.
At my League Elo people pick whats best for the team and then bitch about it for the first 2 minutes of the game, and then again at the end if whoever took their preferred role sucked ass at it.
In Overwatch fucking everyone picks Widow or Hanzo even if we have 2 already.
>Play Reinhardt
>Oh yeah we have a tank !
>He doesn't stay on the payload and always chase some sniper
I love how everyone is always like, "wow my team wont go healer/tank/support/defense" and expects everyone else to switch.
I get that if you are an important role telling a less important role to switch, but if you are worthless yourself which is going to happen btw, you are just like the ones you complain about.
Everyone is a faggot when it comes to this. Everyone expects everyone ELSE to switch to fix the team, no one wants to switch off of something they feel like playing for something the team needs.
It's a huge problem.
There are exceptions but generally, people start a round wanting to play a certain character but if the team is losing they check what makes up the team and say "man this guy should switch we need a tank" when they themselves are a fucking hanzo or something.
Your k/d is not an excuse for not switching to what the team needs either, don't care if you are steamrolling and carrying the team, if you are still losing, it's not doing anything anyway now is it?
As long as people can switch mid round, this problem will always be around and it will never go away.
>>340687170
>the cool ninja man
>>340688893
>in order to win
nah, fuck you. This game is as casual as fuck, pretending otherwise means youre playing the wrong game
>le tictactoe pic
before you post your strawman, go fuck yourself.
You can play to win without conforming to being a pick-bitch. "We need a tank!" so pick a tank. "We need a healer!" So pick a healer. "I play tank/healer every time so we can win and i have no fun!" Shut up and pick what you want. If winning is the only way you're having fun, play something else-OR PLAY WITH A FUCKING GROUP.
Have any sense of human decency and you can meet people online in this game.
>that guy was a douche so I don't like meeting people online
grow some fucking balls, mute the assholes, and team up with the cool people. it isn't hard- this game isn't hard, it's casual as fuck.
>>340691696
I'm also in the same position, but he's fun so I'm okay with it
Also getting fairly good
>lijiang tower last night
>8 environmental kills on top of highest eliminations
>get 8 votesfuck
>total of 4 gold medals
>level up and open lootbox
>"breakaway" skin
It was a sign
I have more fun playing Dirty Bomb than this gigantic hitboxes boogaloo.
>>340688443
It's a blizzard game, this shit is going to be forced for at least another 3 years easy.
>>340693498
I had a hanzo and 2 widows with no healer at one point. I wanted to die.
>>340687170
I'm just lucky I happen to like playing reinhardt, zynetta, and lucio, so I'm pretty much always getting to play one of them.
>>340693813
at that point you pick hanzo or widowmaker to make it seem like you're a joke team then nervously laugh it off as you further descend into madness
I call this one the fuck and cuck
>>340692972
>that's really only an argument of degrees
Not exactly. The mechanics behind ultimates make the game fairly snowbally in its nature. Your team is a bunch of shitters? The enemy's going to get their ultimates in record time. Your own play can get you places but it's nothing compared to five or six ultimates while your team is sitting on nothing. The uber is completely different. Your teammates dying like animals doesn't make the enemy medic's uber charge faster and doesn't directly impact your ability to perform.
Or think of it as Sniper vs. Sniper as opposed to Widow vs. Widow
When your Sniper is shit on by the enemy Sniper, you're at a disadvantage, but only because a bad member of the team is not preferable to a good one. That's just common sense, and his badness does nothing to influence your own gameplay since having him is better than nothing.
When your Widow gets dominated by the enemy Widow, her wallhack has significantly more uptime and you are always in danger of getting your head blown off because the enemy can see you coming, and you don't have access to this power as often because your Widow is ass. You're better off not having a sixth team member at all than one who actively makes your enemies stronger.
>>340693423
>>340688547
I've heard so many stories of this. Is this exclusive to Amerifat servers? In NZ/AUS we always have people filling the roles, except when the random fun 6 hero meta games come around and everyone fucks around.
>>340694004
>That Roadhog
WHY CAN'T I POST REEEEEEEE
>>340687170
This would be fixed and we'd all have way more fun if the teams had a bigger number of players to them. But Blizzard took too much inspiration from muh esports and forgot that a game should first and foremost focus on being fun to play, not on tourneyfaggotry.
>>340692275
being this autistic.
>>340693416
after some light googling, I found the sperm wyrm.
twitter.com/theawakened_
>>340687170
So like are you Anti-Blizzard finished or are yall done?
Like why would you waste your life posting negative shit over a game you don't even play or respect. I bet your just butthurt people are having fun while youre on 4chan posting boo boo.
>>340687170
I only ever get put into a team that has no supports, only attackers with like 1 defender.And that's okay because I love to play as Mercy and love to fill the support role
>>340696270
>This would be fixed and we'd all have way more fun if the teams had a bigger number of players to them.
A team of 6 gets 5 DPS, invariably the same shit characters every time. What planet do you live on where doubling or even quadrupling that number is going to change anything about that ratio?
>>340687170
only problem is that too many abilities are low-skill free kills instead of high skill movement or aiming abilities
also CC feels pretty shitty. I just hope it's not as bad as dota where teamfights are all about stunning or slowing someone
>>340687170
>Not picking who you're the most skilled with
I pick zenyatta every game because i am the best zenyatta.
>>340687170
>Play casual game
>Complain when people don't take it seriously
What did you expect?
>>340698136
Random game mode with a massive map and a cluster fuck of players could be fun. But custom games are scary for companies since they cannot sell maps as dlc, so it will never happen.
Would you a high noon?
>>340690515
>hacker character
>support
>175 health
>M1: cool hacker weapon like a ray gun or something
>Shift: allows teammates to see turrets/enemy structures for a while
>E: places a 10 hp device on buildings that disable them; after 4 seconds, destroys them
>Q: turns all enemy buildings around hacker against the enemy team, buildings can only die from manually destroying them and not reaching the limit on them
>>340693492
lel, I hate those faggots
>>340688443
Not even the same thing as League. If you like FPS team shooters like RTCW or TF2, you will like this. If not, you'll be one of those shitters that think Bastion is OP.
>>340692372
How have you avoided this piece of pop culture anon? "High noon" is as pervasive as "Ehhh, what's up, Doc?" or the oft misquoted "Luke, I am your father."
>>340687170
>Think i'm gonna go back to playing fucking Battleborn
nice try gearbox
>>340701242
So a class with the spys sapper?
