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01:36
Ah, damn, @Yuuki beat me to it
Take your damn star
Also, the best part is when it's showing potg and none of the other player models load. You just see one person running around shooting at nothing
⭐️ There is your star
02:21
Enemy defense kept pushing spawn on Volskaya, took Tracer and backcapped. Twice.
<3
 
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03:44
someone go scienec the mei question
 
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08:47
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Q: Can I Flashbang a D.Va Calling Mech?

Arle Camille McCree's Flashbang is a grenade which stuns anyone within the blast radius. Channeled ultimates differently interact with Flashbang hero-by-hero. For example, Whole Hog is cut out when the Roadhog is Flashbanged, while Bastion's Configuration: Tank will not be cancelled (although its duration wi...

 
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13:01
@Yuuki Just wait. Eventually someone is going to call that that shouldn't be allowed, you shouldn't be able to cap if the battle front is too far away from the point or some nonsense.
@StrixVaria and hopefully Blizzard ignores such a stupid request.
I'm confident they will
That's similar to the argument that "backdooring" shouldn't be allowed in MOBAs.
Yet in DotA there are built-in anti-backdooring measures.
@StrixVaria What's backdooring?
Attacking base structures without any minions around to help push.
@StrixVaria ah I see
well can't comment much there, but in overwatch it would be incredibly stupid to prevent it
13:05
Agreed 100% for Overwatch.
The counter to camp spawning is to have a flanker just push past.
Right.
but Blizzard ignored everyones cries that Bastion was OP, or that hanzos ult was, et cetera
so I'm confident they'll ignore this too
I had such a satisfying game last night where the other team's Widowmaker was just picking our team apart, making it easy for the rest of her team to push on Gibraltar. Then I switched to Winston and just shut Widow down; she even switched characters.
It'll always be an issue for low levels players I'm sure, but most folks will move past it
@StrixVaria That's so satisfying. Winston completely shuts down Widowmaker. On most maps, anyways.
there are a couple positions where he can't actually get to a tracer, but that's not usually the case.
13:07
Also, at one point the enemy D.Va ulted, so I put a bubble around her mech so it couldn't damage anyone.
and tbh even if the widow is proteted by the enemy team it's worth tosing away your life to kill the widowmaker
Yeah, the reprieve for your teammates is palpable.
Winston is so good at hopping in to pick off one target.
Especially if you have your shield when you do it
what I like to do is hop in, then drop my shield as soon as folks start shooting at me. Almost always gives you enough time to kill who you wanted.
I'm a bit too trigger happy on the shield; I should start using it more like Zarya's where I don't drop it until I need it.
Plus it usually completely disorients the enemy team. they all start trying to attack you instead of your team.
In fact good example of how you can make a tank work in an FPS
13:10
They can't ignore you either, though. You don't have great DPS but you will kill someone if they don't do something.
His shield is the most obvious method of tanking, but he "draws" aggro by becoming a threat the team needs to target
I played against a Reinhardt/Zarya combo yesterday that worked really well together.
The Reinhardt would charge in and Zarya would shield him during the charge. He used the charge primarily for positioning so that he could get behind us and force a flank.
It was especially devastating when he had ult up.
@StrixVaria Zayra makes such a great secondary tank
Zarya best
she'd probably work really with with DVa too, since she also flies straight into enemy lines.
13:20
I want to play overwatch tonight but NOOO DISPLAY PROBLEMS
@Unionhawk Your dad's a display problem
Also steam sale starts today, so I might wind up playing something I buy tongiht instead.
Zarya combos really well with most characters
I hope the steam sale isjust the regular ol' sale they id last time
Zarya + Reaper is brutal
13:24
no fancy flash deals and what not
My laptop is having some weird problems which is SUPER COOL
@StrixVaria I hated that Widowmaker.
I was at like 2 kills 8 deaths before you switched.
13:46
@StrixVaria To be fair, if someone can solo a tower without minions then it's not just a problem about backdooring but also being able to really easily towerdive.
@Yuuki Every MOBA I've seen could only feasibly have this happen in the late game, because earlier than that the tower just shreds everybody.
So I wouldn't say that implies that tower diving is "really easy".
As far as LoL goes, I know that Riot's been trying to encourage big team fights so that's the other reason why they've implemented anti-backdoor measures.
Riot has done a really good job of making LoL a fun game to watch.
Otherwise, you'd essentially have one person on anti-backdoor duty and one person on backdoor duty.
So I guess I can't fault them that.
13:52
So team fights would be 3v3 deals. And no one likes Twisted Treeline.
There's still a big split push meta but they push with a wave, not alone.
I do really enjoy seeing good wave control.
14:09
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Q: How to counter a team of multiple (5-6) Torbjorn?

fcmIf the enemy team picks up multiple Torbjorn, specially while defending a map, I find extremely difficult to capture even the first point, because each turret is defending another, and hidden behind walls where a sniper can't hit them without being attacked from another. And it can be even hard...

"The only winning move is not to play" @Athena
Has there been word on when Competitive will go live?
I'm kind of afraid of competitive and that it will be extra toxic
@Sterno Only "late June" from a few weeks ago, and that the game designer mentioned that even though they see room for improvement after the short PTR run, they're still going to run the summer season as is to get even more feedback while they change some stuff up for the fall season.
Also this brawl is actually the worst
Every brawl has been terrible.
Not that I've played more than 1 round of a single brawl.
14:15
Arcade was fun imo, and the soldier one was surprisingly fun despite being only one hero
Someone talked me into playing like 3 rounds of the stupid random character Brawl and I'll forever regret it.
The one game of this brawl I've played I was on Attack on Temple of Anubis. Aka, literally impossible to win with only defense heroes
Why are asymmetric maps an option in this brawl? Worst design choice
All Mei beats everything
2 Mei is max
You're right, the brawl is awful
14:17
@Sterno Even another team consisting of all Mei?
That's arguably the worst part, is you can't stack one champion
@MBraedley That makes it even more clear that all Mei would win
@Sterno But one all Mei team must lose to another all Mei team, and therefore, by definition, all Mei can't beat everything... while also beating everything.
Ow, the way you worded that makes the paradox worse somehow.
There was a match and all Mei won. I will simply rest my argument there.
If you had said "All Mei wins everything" I'd be right.
14:23
I want to do a Reinhardt + Lucio + 4 Soldiers match
Maybe 2 reinhardts
German beer dance party?
@Sterno That was a fun game yesterday where 5 people on the other team went Junkrat and we switched to Pharah so they switched to Soldier so we switched etc.
@StrixVaria Yes. Did we win that one? I can't remember.
Sign of a good game is I can remember having fun but not if I won or lost
I think they started 5xJunkrat + McCree on Dorado defense.
14:32
@Sterno I can't remember either.
One guy said in match chat "X is a douche. you'll see why in a minute" and then X was the one who was on McCree.
Heh
He was a bad McCree. He stood right in front of the door when the match started, I guess hoping for a quick flashbang kill despite 3 people coming out? Then tried to hide around a corner to ambush me after I'd already shot him down to about 30 health. So I waited for the helix rocket to recharge and just shot around the corner and killed him.
Ambushes don't work if the person saw you hide there, buddy
I think we won because I eventually wound my way back to Zarya and I remember that going really well once they weren't all Junkrat.
Well, our pharah counter worked, but we were slow to switch back to other classes after they got 2-3 soldiers, so I think it wasn't so much going back to Zarya as not being PHarah anymore
I switched right after that too to I don't even know what
I really need to learn Roadhog. He's a good S76 counter
That 4-Roadhog game was fun too.
Could have been 5!
I need to figure out why when other Reinhardt's ult, they hit me and every other person on my team, but when I ult as Reinhardt, I don't even get the guy literally standing in front of me
14:43
Haha, just got five medals. Three silver, two gold
As Roadhog
@Sterno I just killed S76 so much in that match
Land hook, shoot, not much to learn
@StrixVaria Was that Dorado? I remember 3 Junkrats at the start. And we did win that one.
@Sterno You need about 1-2m separation.
@Yuuki Oh, if only he'd gone in the other door...
(probably still would have lost)
I see the TF2 soldier harshly criticizing The OW characters because not a single one of them owns a shotgun.
Uhh... Reaper?
And then Soldier just repeats himself louder, ignoring Reaper.
15:23
Actually, who all has shotguns...
reaper, roadhog, d.va...
That's it actually
Sorta Torb
Oh torb
Where shotgun means shoots multiple pellets
I never said Soldier would make a valid argument. Just that he'd make one.
At the very least I need some kind of TF2 vs. Overwatch comic by the end of the year. Get on this Internet.
It'd just be porn, which probably already exists
I say probably because I'm not going to confirm
Okay no, not that.
... Okay this beginners guide is great.
Torb is now Tolberone.
15:47
16:12
So how low do you think the discount will go for Battleborn when the steam sale starts?
16:39
Probably not that high
17:27
I'll put the over/under at 1/3 off
aka same price point as Overwatch regular edition?
Halo 5 is all the FPSMOBA I need really
People have said Battleborn is neat, though
Yeah, I guess.
 
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18:41
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Q: What hero-specific options are available, and what do they do?

BrienA few days ago when playing Mercy with a group of friends, someone told me that there is an option specific to Mercy to change from needing to hold down the mouse button to heal/damage boost to a toggle (click to turn on heals, click again to turn off). What other hero-specific options are ava...

19:34
@Athena This feels way too broad to me.
 
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21:46
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Q: Which character is best for killing Bastion from behind Reinhardt?

DCShannonOften, at the start of a game, the defense has a Bastion set up in sentry mode near the objective, aimed at a chokepoint. When this happens, one of the best strategies is to have a Reinhardt stand in front of Bastion with his barrier up, and have someone or someones shoot the Bastion from behind ...

@Fluttershy The answers show it's not, though.
Especially once I read the question for more detail
I thought they were asking options as in options in battle like "mercy can run behind crates to heal", or something
also steamworld hest rocks, just putting that out there
probably going to be playing that tongiht instead of overwathc. So good.
22:51
omg
And we won
My favorite part was when I dropped an ulting Bastion into a pit
@SaintWacko Obviously a custom game against AI. There's no other way to get 5 gold medals.
:P

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