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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:
--- Quote from: Battle.net List ---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
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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 >:(