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[Bee]

Some people have two guns

[notbov]

Some people are guns

Hearing Bastion’s death boop makes me happy and sad

[boojiboy7]

@Godamn_Milkman

While characters like Bastion and DVA dont’ seem to have a lot of depth either I don’t mind as much. They have a role and boy do they fill it. Mobile turrets one who soaks damage and one that can be a point of contention for the other team. I see greater potential for the game here where characters have a super clear role with super clean controls and people work together around this.

Man, D.Va has a lot of depth, actually. The one play of the match I got last night was from doing her Dash->Suit Bomb and man that is just a devastating weapon if done right. I think I got three or four kills off of it. People will wise up to it, but then it will be great for temporarily zoning opposing teams out of objectives.

@Godamn_Milkman

If nobody is palying Widowmaker you are ‘missing a sniper’ which seems silly, one character is supposed to be used every round by at least one team? Often on defense they say you need a builder. There’s two. Along with the fact it often yells that nobody is playing a healer, because who wants to play the healers in this game?

Well I think they aren’t hard and fast guidelines, as much as recommendations. For example, when I was on Attack, it would complain that nobody was a builder, because duh, but nobody paid much mind to it. Depending on the map, sniper matters less as well. Also, man I will totally play a healer because the Angel and her resurrection ability can change a battle in a second. I saw one get a Play of the Game on a well timed rez.

This game is pretty neat, and I am really excited to watch it develop.

[Gate88]

@Godamn_Milkman

Can anyone figure out winston? I want to like a gorilla with an overzealous tazer. But the damn thing is about double melee range? about as far as hanzo’s sword I think? and he can drop a stupid bubble? That’s it? I’m positive I’m missing something.

Winston fills a similar role to other tanks – he gets in and disrupts the enemy. If you get the jump on someone you can very easily take them down because he’s a giant sack of health and doesn’t have to aim, and he can stick to them because of his leap. The bubble shield has multiple uses – you can use it while retreating or taking heavy fire, but it’s also just good in close range. You can still shoot through it so you can create an optimal range where you can hit them with your taser and they can’t do shit about it. Even putting a bubble shield on top of an enemy is good because it isolates that enemy from the rest of their team (and they can’t shoot out of it). Finally, Winston’s ult full heals him to 1000 health and gives him insane knockback on his melee, which again, is great for disruption.

I find Winston is most useful on the king-of-the-hill style maps or maps with a lot of ledges.

@Godamn_Milkman

If nobody is palying Widowmaker you are ‘missing a sniper’ which seems silly, one character is supposed to be used every round by at least one team?

The game considers Hanzo a sniper too.

[Iammadmak]

I’ve got an extra beta code if anyone wants to play this before the open beta tomorrow. Message me
Battle Tag is Miskatonik# 1841

[boojiboy7]

Open Beta actually starts at 7 EST tonight, because Blizzard doesn’t know how to handle timezones.

[notbov]

Technically they do since both early access and open beta start on the 3rd/5th in Europe and Asia (it was midnight launch for the UK)

I swear to god if I see another team with 3+ Meis I will be driven to murder. I hate this meme comp though it does a good job of showing how the balance works, ironically.

[Iammadmak]

A lot of matches with three Hanzos or three Reapers. Hardly ever any tanks or supports but I don’t mind playing as Reinhardt or Zenyatta if I need to.

[Drem]

notbov is dumb because whenever we play he never agrees to the idea of making an entire team of Tracers.

[boojiboy7]

@notbov

Technically they do since both early access and open beta start on the 3rd/5th in Europe and Asia (it was midnight launch for the UK)

Well yeah, they do technically, but someone should tell their marketing team that keeps sending out emails to the US saying that it starts tomorrow.

[notbov]

Playing HotS has made me Tracist and you can can’t stop me from feeling this way

[Bee]

Much like the Scout in TF2, I adore Tracer and she is my single worst character.

[Godamn_Milkman]

@boojiboy7

D.Va has a lot of depth, actually.

Fair point. Though unless something comes in time Mixing a special with an ultra isn’t tops here. Still good move, seen it done. Depth I guess is relative and in comparison to the Spy or Scout in TF2 it may not measure up, but again I don’t think it’s supposed to.

Well I think they aren’t hard and fast guidelines, as much as recommendations.

That’s true. But sometimes they’re red or yellow, I assume red means the game is yelling at you?

[Godamn_Milkman]

Your take on winston is pretty cool, I wanna see you in action now

The game considers Hanzo a sniper too.

If it does I must of hit a glitch, cuz when it said we needed a sniper I selected him and the prompt didn’t go away. But ya he’s a sniper. I think he’s harder to use, has some cool tools, and a competent sniper would probably really excel with him.

[Diamond-Friendly]

I have it, it’s happening, it downloaded as “Music Player” on my PS4.

The control binding screen is a very literal PC port.

It defaulted to horizontal sens being twice the vertical sens and I am worried.

[botagel]

The PS4 version runs well, but I can’t imagine playing this game on a controller, it just feels so restrictive compared to mouse & keyboard even for unskilled players like me. The menu UI is absolutely not sized for TVs.

[Diamond-Friendly]

I’m on a monitor.

The aiming is fine; I’ve played faster and twitcher games on console, though headshots are tricky.

It’s the movement that feels all wrong, because it’s omni-directional WASD-sliding with no nuance. No ADS and rigid crosshair adherence is also weird for me.

Not digging the whole Western Dreamcast HD Redux look of the game and I wish Blizz would stop targeting toasters (I’d be surprised if maxed-out PC looked or ran any different from PS4) and made games that looked like their CGI cutscenes.

The BOLD ITALIC FONT PRESENTATION doesn’t titillate me. The fonts are boring all around. The status ticker text in the lower-left, a common cancer of PC games, is egregious.

The heroes are all very cool and unique but seem individually shallow and maining any would get old quick.

I wish it would spoonfeed me the health locations.

[geist]

is there anyway to look at what characters do outside of just picking them

[Bee]

When you have them pre-selected, you can click on the little exclimation point in the upper right corner.

[geist]

in a level 1 game and it’s already nothing but ragers named FUCCBOI and AIDS