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1:57 PM

@Beedrill Depends on the mode. Elimination and 1v1s are definitely skill based. But Mystery Heroes? Yeah.

It also has the unfortunate side effect of making people just quit early if they're losing

@Sterno I played one 1v1 in the new mode and I don't think I'm ever going to play that again.

The new 3v3 mode where heroes are locked out when you win is pretty neat, though.

I've played about 4 and I'm with you on that.

Having fewer players really emphasizes how bad I am at the game, though.

I'm pretty sure there's no MMR for 1v1. it just matches you against whoever

Wait, what's the new 1v1 mode?

Just the new maps, or is there more to it than that?

MBraedley

@Beedrill Wait, they've changed how 1v1 works?

1:59 PM

The new 1v1 mode is where you and your opponent each get the same 3 characters to choose from each round.

Oh, I didn't know that. I might like that better. But still probably never play it

So if it's like, Tracer, Soldier, Hanzo, you get to pick one of those 3 and so does your opponent.

So you're trying to really quick figure out what the meta is with those 3, who hard counters who.

Protip: Don't pick Tracer against Soldier.

I do like that idea better than the old 1v1 though

Protip: Do pick Tracer against anyone who can't heal.

I still haven't seen Necropolis.

I played probably 6-8 new duel matches, mostly 3v3s.

Got a few each on Black Forest, Castillo, and the old one.

Black Forest's layout confused me for the first match or two, but it's actually pretty neat.

Once I get my 3 loot boxes I'm going back to quickplay.

Or I might just go back to quickplay anyway.

Yeah, there came a point for me where the 3 loot boxes weren't worth the hours of time I'd spend

I mean, sometimes I'd just get 9 wins in a row. Other times 2 hours later I'd have 1 win.

2:06 PM

I want that Beekeeper Mei skin.

I have like 30 in-game currency though so I'm going to have to get lucky to get it.

Q: Will the Anniversary skins be locked and unobtainable after the event

I think I'm at around 10k

I'm getting pretty burned out on event-only skins

Regular loot boxes are always at least 3 dupes for me, usually 4

Athena

2:28 PM

I'm specifically asking about the Anniversary skins as I heard somewhere sometime ago that the skins released just now will not be locked after the event is over, like all the Uprising, NY, X-mas, Halloween and Olympics skins. I've seen the Olympics question, and as explained just two lines ago ...

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Q: What's the difference between blocking and muting a player?

3:03 PM

I bought 50 loot boxes because I liked a bunch of the skins and I'm a sucker. I got at least 2 legendary skins that aren't event only, and I got the Genji skin twice.

I have all the skins I care about now except Mei, though, so that's nice I guess.

Wouldn't mind getting the Mei skin and/or Zenyatta dance through pure luck over the course of the event.

n_palum

3:25 PM

I always find it weird that they award other legendaries during these events.. Last event I also got 2 legendary skins from the normal boxes

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Athena

4:49 PM

In Overwatch, there are 3 options for dealing with toxic players. Mute, Report, and Block. Report is pretty self explanatory, but what's the difference between Mute and Block?

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6:33 PM

Just finished a trilogy of "Does X affect Y" answers. :P

Yuuki

@StevenVascellaro Will the prequels be better or worse?

@Yuuki Depends on how you feel about Reinhardt's Shield. :P

A user was calling me out for posting my list of Ultimates/Abilities Mercy's damage boost affected on "What ultimates can be damage boosted by Mercy?" instead of his own question "How does Mercy's damage buff work?"

I bring it up because there's a total of 7 questions on "Does Mercy's damage boost affect X", and I wanted to try and pick a single cannonical question to answer all of them

https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/269468/is-d-vas-ultimate-affected-by-mercys-damage-boost
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/282795/does-mercys-damage-boost-apply-to-anas-healing
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/267343/how-does-mercys-damage-buff-interact-with-genjis-deflect-ability
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/264496/does-mercys-damage-buff-affect-structures
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/269542/what-ultimates-can-be-damage-boosted-by-mercy

Dragonrage

@StevenVascellaro if you are wanting to dupe specific to general questions, how does mercy's damage buff work is more general than what ultimates can be damaged boosted by mercy

@Dragonrage Do you think I should transfer my answer over?

Dragonrage

let me look for a meta

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@StevenVascellaro i think your answer answers how mercy's damage buff works more than what ultimates can be damage boosted by mercy