Overwatch

[feedback]

never play overwatch on sunday

[Eraser]

Getting super tired of volunteering to fill the tank role and not getting any heals through the round.
Decided to try healing on Zenyatta and Mercy and suddenly winning a ton of comp matches.
I don't want to heal but I want to win...

I always enjoyed playing Zenyatta. He can do some pretty effective healing but is also great at picking off enemies when using the discord orb appropriately. Ever since his shields regenerate he's not quite as flimsy as he used to be either. He's a lot more fun than Mercy IMO.

[Eraser]

Creator of Fairly Odd Parents draws Overwatch characters:

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[Don Carlos]

Apparently Overwatch Christmas stuff is happening on December 13th

[Transient]

Just finished my placement in competitive.

Game 1 - Loss - Leaver after enemy team took the 1st point, and after the 1st round ended, 2 more leavers.
Game 2 - Loss - Enemy team had a 6-stack vs two 2-stacks and 2 randos.
Game 3 - Loss - Ally kept disconnecting, so we perpetually had 5 players.
Game 4 - Win
Game 5 - Loss - Because I suck.
Game 6 - Win - This time the enemy had a perpetual disconnector.
Game 7 - Draw - Draws are bullshit.
Game 8 - Loss
Game 9 - Win
Game 10 - Loss - Enemy team had a 6-stack and we had a 4-stack that spent the whole time bickering with the other rando on our team.

Came away with a score of 2416. Gotta love competitive mode.

[feedback]

your placements don't matter, it will put you like 400 points lower than your season 2 rank.

[Transient]

You're not the first person to tell me that. And that number sounds about right, I ended Season 2 slightly in Diamond. I misread my placement score, it was actually 2116; another 400 would put me where I ended last season. Here's hoping placements are gone for season 4.

[phantasmagoria]

Is this like MMR?

[Silicone_Milk]

never play overwatch on sunday

lesson learned

Getting super tired of volunteering to fill the tank role and not getting any heals through the round.
Decided to try healing on Zenyatta and Mercy and suddenly winning a ton of comp matches.
I don't want to heal but I want to win...

I always enjoyed playing Zenyatta. He can do some pretty effective healing but is also great at picking off enemies when using the discord orb appropriately. Ever since his shields regenerate he's not quite as flimsy as he used to be either. He's a lot more fun than Mercy IMO.

Yeah, if I feel like we have low damage I'll heal as Zenyatta just to give a little bit more to the team. Sometimes getting those 4x rez potg feels good though. The recent buff to her health regeneration is annoying to play against and great when playing as her.

Apparently Overwatch Christmas stuff is happening on December 13th

I am excited for this. Stockpiling credits for new skins.

You're not the first person to tell me that. And that number sounds about right, I ended Season 2 slightly in Diamond. I misread my placement score, it was actually 2116; another 400 would put me where I ended last season. Here's hoping placements are gone for season 4.

Just don't make the mistake I made of playing comp on the weekends. After last weekend ended I started winning games again and climbed back up to where I was before the weekend started. What I don't understand about placements is that Blizzard admitted that they screwed up with the SR distribution in Season 1 and 2 saying the system was flawed. Yet, they're calibrating Season 3 rating placement off of Season 2's SR meaning they're calibrating off of a broken system they admitted was wrong to begin with.

[Don Carlos]

Christmas Event starts today

[AndyW]

I wonder when it will start... Its all the same here. Maybe theres no X-Mas for Germany cause we were that bad.

[MKJ]

just waiting for the skins

[Eraser]

I saw Christmas lights in the offense starting area of Temple of Anubis yesterday. Was that always there or was that added specifically for Christmas?

[Don Carlos]

Should be live by 7pm GMT

[Don Carlos]

My 1.16gb patch is downloading

[Don Carlos]

Mei's snowball game is mega

[Don Carlos]

Symetra changes are live too - going to give her a blast now

[Eraser]

Loving the snowball game

I only just realized you get loot box rewards for the various arcade modes. Is this always the case or only because of the winter festivities now? I'm loving the 1v1 mode. It's incredibly tense. Not all heroes work as well (Bastion is shit because of his massive health and self-heal ability) but it makes the game actually kind of scary to play.

Already got a winter Lucio and winter Widowmaker skin btw

[Don Carlos]

Loving the snowball game

I only just realized you get loot box rewards for the various arcade modes. Is this always the case or only because of the winter festivities now? I'm loving the 1v1 mode. It's incredibly tense. Not all heroes work as well (Bastion is shit because of his massive health and self-heal ability) but it makes the game actually kind of scary to play.

Already got a winter Lucio and winter Widowmaker skin btw

Yeah you always get a loot box for 3 wins...1v1 is awesome
3v3 is also very good.

Lucky bastard!!! I have no winter skins yet

[Eraser]

Had a good 3v3 matchup with torbjorn, Roadhog and myself als soldier 76. Teammate said go Mercy instead but that didn't work out well for me. Soldier 76's healing ability was enough.

[MKJ]

didnt know the new symmetra was already live

[Don Carlos]

Went live in this patch brah

[Don Carlos]

https://blizztrack.com/g/overwatch/patch_notes/33403

[Transient]

Starting today, all in-game Loot Boxes have been replaced with our impeccably wrapped Winter Loot Boxes, and they’re filled to the brim with over 100 new cosmetic trimmings!

LOL, that's a lot of voice lines.

[Transient]

I saw Christmas lights in the offense starting area of Temple of Anubis yesterday. Was that always there or was that added specifically for Christmas?

I noticed that last week, pretty sure they were always there.