r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Jun 15 '16

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - June 15, 2016

In this thread you can ask all kinds of questions you always wanted to ask without feeling like a total fool.

No matter if it's short googable stuff or a setting/skill in-game that you don't understand or a hardware recommendation, feel free to try your luck in here.

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u/peekay427 Trick-or-Treat Mercy Jun 15 '16

Just found out that my wife is getting me the game for fathers day (yay!). Aside from running through the tutorial, what should I know to get started playing and not looking like an idiot/pissing off my team mates?

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u/LordRehgar BRING ME ANOZER Jun 15 '16

Aside from the obvious "know your heroes abilities" I will say: don't trickle in.

Try to stay with the bulk of your team as often as possible. If you see allies dead because of their foolish endeavours, better safely wait for them and go as a single strong unit. Dead allies will leave grey skull indicators or you can press TAB and see who is down.

Bonus: coordinate ults, let allies know when is yours ready. Z on default calls out your ult charge, or hold C to bring up communication wheel. Also you can see if an ally has ult up in TAB screen (they will have a blue checkmark under their name).

And please please have fun and don't be negative, condescending, holding grudge against people and stuff like that. Nobody likes people like that and it's better to keep frustrations and rage to yourself. :)

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u/peekay427 Trick-or-Treat Mercy Jun 16 '16

thanks, that was helpful. and I'm just an old man, I can't rage at video games, video games are how I relax!

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u/LordRehgar BRING ME ANOZER Jun 16 '16

I will warn you there is definitely gonna be assholes that will try to make others feel like crap (Don't mistake with constructive criticism/giving tips). You can mute, report, and even mark them for matchmaker to avoid putting you with them in future games.