Overwatch Thread: UPRISING PvE, HotS Promotional Event 2.0, and New D.VA Skin!

[Silent Harmony]

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Overwatch is a team-based First-Person Shooter by Blizzard Entertainment, a developer practically synonymous with multiplayer PC gaming thanks to Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo, their biggest franchises. It is available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

The gameplay of Overwatch revolves around teams dynamically changing their characters (heroes) over the course of a round in order to achieve an objective, usually within a set time limit. Balance within the game revolves on a rock-paper-scissor system where certain heroes hard-counter other heroes, but are in turn hard-countered themselves by yet other heroes. For a quick example: Bastion can be countered by Genji, who in turn can be countered by Zarya. In truth every hero has multiple counters and can counter multiple heroes, so players always have an answer to what the other team throws at them (should they choose to use it and not go one-trick-pony). The heroes are divided into 4 groups: Offense, Defense, Tank, and Support. However, most characters can thrive in both offense and defense, and really countering the enemy's strategy is more important than forcing a "balanced" team on your end.

The game has 4 main modes chosen at random based on the map. Three of them (Assault, Escort, and Hybrid) use an attacker/defender system, while the 4th (Control) is a standard "King of the Hill" mode.

If you are interested in learning more, here are some links:

Basic Info
www.playoverwatch.com - Official website.
http://overwatch.gamepedia.com/Overwatch_Wiki - Overwatch Wiki

Guides
Stylosa's Overwatch Videos (Youtube) - Features several guides and even map strategies. Constantly updating.
Cynical Nerd's Quick Guides for every Hero (Youtube)
[NEW] Skyline- Various instructions covering a large range of topics, including team compositions, rankings, positioning, teamfighting,
 and more. Uses a lot of hand-drawn images and graphs.
Aiming Practice (vs. Ana bots) (Youtube) - The video aimbot scripters don't want you to know about!
(Please suggest more!)

Heroes of the Kaleidoscope:

Silent Harmony: Harmony11#1694
AJS: Artiphex#1212
Labuto: Labuto#4435
Spotty Len: SpottyLen#2914
Matsuri: Framboise#11899
Dormio Ergo Sum: Dormio#1616
Chaore: chaore#1398
kinoko: scorps#1739
Tamashii Kanjou: Kanjou#21588
NaCl: NaCl#21827

Temporary Note: This is the first time I have made an Akyu's Arcade thread I believe, so if you have any suggestions to improve the opening post please feel free to say so. I'm going to be gone for a couple of hours but will check back.

[Edible]

Just in time!

[Chaore]

I'm not usually an FPS person, but this has that vibe to it I almost want to try it. :V

(Most of that is wanting to mccree even though that is a bad thing

[Spotty Len]

Beta was fun, I preordered the game yesterday. It releases at 1AM here though, so I won't play until tomorrow.

[theshirn]

IT WILL NOT LET US IN

[Edible]

IT WILL NOT LET US IN

Right? :|

[Silent Harmony]

I'm not usually an FPS person, but this has that vibe to it I almost want to try it. :V

(Most of that is wanting to mccree even though that is a bad thing

http://i.imgur.com/1NYIPvG.jpg

I usually default to Lucio or Mercy myself, but that said

Spoiler:

Mei is bae (sorry not sorry)

[Chaore]

http://i.imgur.com/1NYIPvG.jpg

I usually default to Lucio or Mercy myself, but that said

Spoiler:

Mei is bae (sorry not sorry)

Honestly if I do pick it up, I'd probably pick up something support myself because what the fuck is aiming.

But man I like everything about mccree's stylings.

[theshirn]

It let me in.  I had frequent lag spikes (several around 7 seconds long).

I got a quadruple kill with a Reaper ult anyway.

Game is good, everything is good.

[Helepolis]

And I was wondering yesterday on IRC why nobody had created a Overwatch thread yet. I guess not many FPS players around at MotK. Well, not directly a lot.

Checked this morning whether the game boots. It does. Though configuration is quite limited or I haven't discovered yet where you can tweak things like mouse sensitivity. To be honest, I had limited time to discover. (Had to leave for work).

So tonight I'm going to check out a few classes. (No idea what I want to play either). Since you can change hero mid-game or something I read somewhere.

[The Greatest Dog]

And I was wondering yesterday on IRC why nobody had created a Overwatch thread yet. I guess not many FPS players around at MotK. Well, not directly a lot.

Checked this morning whether the game boots. It does. Though configuration is quite limited or I haven't discovered yet where you can tweak things like mouse sensitivity. To be honest, I had limited time to discover. (Had to leave for work).

So tonight I'm going to check out a few classes. (No idea what I want to play either). Since you can change hero mid-game or something I read somewhere.

Changing your character in the middle of the game is not only possible but recommended.

Take Symmetra, who can spawn a teleporter that takes people directly from the spawn room to where people need to be most. In the "push objective to the other side" variants, the Attacker team has little use for Symmetra in the beginning because the objective is right there; conversely, the Defenders have to travel all the way across the map to fight against the objective.

However, at the end of the same game, when the objective is near opposite side, the Attacker will find Symmetra much more valuable. That's probably the most obvious case of character changing being important.

[Silent Harmony]

And I was wondering yesterday on IRC why nobody had created a Overwatch thread yet. I guess not many FPS players around at MotK. Well, not directly a lot.

I was thinking of making one during open beta earlier this month, but the fact that nobody else did so made me decide to wait until launch and see. If I remember correctly TF2 had a lot of threads for a good while no?

Also support is so much fun in this game. Even off-supports like Zenyatta are fun even though I suck at him. It helps that I play with friends and one of them also loves support so we tend to base our picks around each other (such as I'll go Mercy or Lucio if he starts Symmetra on Defense, or I'll temporarily switch roles and he'll take over healing).

This is definitely a game that's more enjoyable with friends (or at least a friendly premade).

[Dormio Ergo Sum]

I was playing some Overwatch shortly after launch yesterday. Mei-be that was a bad idea

[Labuto]

Huh, so this is a thing.  Anyways, Battletag is Labuto#4435. Junkrat's Concussion Mine is amazing.

[AJS]

I was surprised nobody made a thread yet, but I didn't want to be the one to make it...

Anyway!  Battle tag is Artiphex#1212.  I'm looking to add more people because I've finally come to realize solo queuing sucks.

[Zerviscos]

Gonna buy this game soon.
I was having so much fun during the beta. :V

[Edible]

Got my first legendary skin!  McCree's Mystery Man.  Sadly it's for a hero I'm terrible with, but I got my first quad kill with his ultra with it on so I'm not complaining :V

[InfernalExuro]

Time to get my tf2 replacement fix! Battlenet is Exuro#11291. This can't download fast enough.

[Helepolis]

Game needs more game modes. We only have now capture/defend location, payload and a point domination-like mode.

[Labuto]

So I ventured into the american servers

Domino Ergo Sum: Labuto#4435

Wat

[Spotty Len]

Time to get my tf2 replacement fix!

That game is very far from that though.


My Battle.net ID, by the way : SpottyLen#2914

[MatsuriSakuragi]

I am intrigued by this game. Am I missing out on anything important if I just get the standard edition?

[Silent Harmony]

So I ventured into the american servers

Wat

 :fail:

Thanks Hele.

[Chaore]

I am intrigued by this game. Am I missing out on anything important if I just get the standard edition?

Only difference between standard and origins is other game nonsense and some skins.

[MatsuriSakuragi]

Huh. I figured the extra $20 cost would have contributed to actually meaningful content. Good to know that it does not! I might pick this up tonight.

[Helepolis]

Went for the standard edition as well. Cost me ?39,99 which is in my opinion more than enough for the game.

:fail:

Thanks Hele.

Got your back soldier.

[Edible]

Huh. I figured the extra $20 cost would have contributed to actually meaningful content. Good to know that it does not! I might pick this up tonight.

Hey, it has a really nice box ;_;

Plus, some of the bonus skins are great.  Bastion's and S76's specifically.

It also came with two free HotS heroes and a Hearthstone card back/free pack, so... uh... so there!  Take that.

[MatsuriSakuragi]

I don't play any of those, and I don't have a box at all.

Already ordered and installed, will check it out tonight.

[Edible]

Yeah, it's really only worth it if you play basically every other blizzard game

[Helepolis]

When you play with your grenade launcher too much. The face tells a thousand stories