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Transient wrote:

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.

yea only 2 new highlight intros, and theyre pretty meh

Elf Tracer is so adorable I just want to pinch her cheeks.

Perv.

The 'Stay in team' feature is much appreciated.

Yeah that was a big bonus for me too - had quite a few wins on the bounce because of that

Don Carlos wrote: Lucky bastard!!! I have no winter skins yet

You're doing it wrong

Got that peppermint sombra skin from a box. Lots of voice lines too.
Also got the legendary emote for Zarya that randomly picks a gift from a box with different reactions to them.
I could have sworn there was going to be a mercy skin for xmas and super bummed that I stockpiled credits for nothing. Tracer skin is great even though I never play her.
Stay In Team feature is A+
Snowball Offensive game mode is way too slow. Was fun for me for one round then I was pretty over it after I got my loot box. 1v1 duels have been a blast though.
Mei's legendary skin is the laziest skin I've seen put out so far. It's a recolor with a hat. That's it. Sure, ice block gets a snowman head put on top of it but this skin is 'epic' at best imo. Disappointing that a hero who's entire theme is ice/snow gets a weak-ass skin update during a winter event.

Symmetra. Symmetras everywhere. Not opposed to this. Her new E has been pretty disruptive and makes for some good push opportunities.

I feel like she's gotten a bit OP. She can chew through people super fast, with hardly any time to react. And turrets, God the turrets, are everywhere!

Transient wrote:I feel like she's gotten a bit OP. She can chew through people super fast, with hardly any time to react. And turrets, God the turrets, are everywhere!

This was my thought and then I saw how quickly the turrets can be taken down by Mei and Winston.
Her latch on beam is rather good at destroying people now. I've seen lots of POTG when she runs in after a Blizzard or a Graviton Surge and destroy anyone frozen/sucked up in it.

How come I hadn't noticed McCree in the Winter title screen until now?

I hadn't noticed him, either.

MKJ wrote:How come I hadn't noticed McCree in the Winter title screen until now?

Excellent spot

Roadhog's Christmas gun is a present from Junkrat. AWWWWWWWW!!!

It's a shame that competitive play remains a cesspool of entitled morons.
Still doing my placement matches for season 3 and I just had a game where our team barely managed to get the payload beyond the first checkpoint in Gibraltar. When on defense, the enemy team got to the first checkpoint relatively quickly, but after that it stalled. The payload inched forward but time was ticking away as well. At one point, they were only 3 meters away from where we got to and there was only like 30 seconds left on the clock. With 10, maybe 15 seconds to go, they pushed it beyond where we got and won the match.

Instantly a good number of team members went "gg noob team", "my team sucks" and comments like that. To be honest, it felt like a really well balanced match. If we had pushed just a tiny bit further on offense or had slowed them just a bit better on the first half of our defense round, we would've ended up winning that match. Whatever way you look at it, that match was close and should've been a massive source of enjoyment for any party involved. However, some people just insist on being assholes no matter what. It ruins the competitive experience greatly.

Same as the morons whining about Mei's winter skin. Jesus Christ that's a textbook definition of entitlement right there

Sad to say but it's like that on most FPS these days.

/hidechat

the only thing that bothers me are the hilarious people throwing up an icewall when the doors open.
there's always one

MKJ wrote:the only thing that bothers me are the hilarious people throwing up an icewall when the doors open.
there's always one

I do that to the opposition. Gains valuable seconds in taking down a small number who go through a different door

Eraser wrote:It's a shame that competitive play remains a cesspool of entitled morons.
Still doing my placement matches for season 3 and I just had a game where our team barely managed to get the payload beyond the first checkpoint in Gibraltar. When on defense, the enemy team got to the first checkpoint relatively quickly, but after that it stalled. The payload inched forward but time was ticking away as well. At one point, they were only 3 meters away from where we got to and there was only like 30 seconds left on the clock. With 10, maybe 15 seconds to go, they pushed it beyond where we got and won the match.

Instantly a good number of team members went "gg noob team", "my team sucks" and comments like that. To be honest, it felt like a really well balanced match. If we had pushed just a tiny bit further on offense or had slowed them just a bit better on the first half of our defense round, we would've ended up winning that match. Whatever way you look at it, that match was close and should've been a massive source of enjoyment for any party involved. However, some people just insist on being assholes no matter what. It ruins the competitive experience greatly.

Yeah it's a cancer...but just play in a group with people who you know and you will be fine

That's fine. I was talking about when your own teammates do it.

OK so it is time to address Symmetra.

At the moment she is WAY OP. I like the fact she has been changed up, but a fully charged Symmetra can deal 125hp a second. She should not be able to destroy a Reinhardt that quickly. The weapon range is now great, but the DPS is too high. I think she will be nerfed quite quickly from a DPS point of view. The rest of her updates have been great.

MKJ wrote:That's fine. I was talking about when your own teammates do it.

Heh...imagine 6 walls in Mei's Christmas brawl

Don Carlos wrote:

MKJ wrote:That's fine. I was talking about when your own teammates do it.

Heh...imagine 6 walls in Mei's Christmas brawl

[vid]https://giant.gfycat.com/EdibleDistinctKakapo.mp4[/vid]

Eraser wrote:Same as the morons whining about Mei's winter skin. Jesus Christ that's a textbook definition of entitlement right there

Not at all. The complaint about Mei's winter skin is that they're trying to pass it off as a 3k credit quality skin when there's less that's been done visually compared to other legendary (1k credit) and even epic (750 credit) skins.

They even apologized for Mei's skin and admitted that they didn't nail it but mentioned that she's going to get some sort of new skin early next year (chinese new years maybe? )