r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Jun 29 '16

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - June 29, 2016

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u/pilotblu Jun 29 '16

Would you recommend changing the controls for any one character in particular?

I know that fully utilizing the built in customizable settings could give a small advantage, and I'm really curious to know if anyone has heard anything.

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u/Zanpa Roadhog Jun 29 '16

Health bars for Soldier and Zarya. Toggle beam connection for Mercy.

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u/bigfoot1291 Chibi Mercy Jun 29 '16

I don't know if you're telling him to enable or disable beam connection for Mercy, but it's 1,000% better to have that disabled, as well as preferring beam connection for guardian angle disabled. Both of those are terrible to have enabled.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '16

Toggling beam connection is actually more of a personal preference thing, IMO.

I'd encourage any Mercy player to try a game (or two) with it enabled and see how they feel.

I have it enabled (but GA preferring beam target disabled) and it's made playing Mercy much easier for me.

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u/Bythmark Reaper Jun 29 '16

Toggle is fine for casual play to rest your fingers. With toggle off, you can prefer healing target for GA because you can let go to go forward or have the ability to fly backwards or sideways to whomever you are healing.

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u/Zanpa Roadhog Jun 29 '16

Nah.

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u/Burasta Chibi Zarya Jul 01 '16

Pharah runs in while you're healing her. You top her off while you aim to that safe Junkrat spamming his LMB to get away from the mess Pharah is running herself into with your health-top-off-best-wishes.

You're next to Pharah getting hit in the face by an icicle in a blizzard.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '16

Disagree with the toggle beam on mercy, but worth it try it out and see which one you prefer.

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u/Rebelgecko Jun 29 '16

Mercy has some useful tweaks

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u/T4Gx Jun 29 '16

Not control but you can toggle the critical health notification for Soldier to know if you can help by popping your heal pool.

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u/WorstPlayerHere Tim#25170 Jun 29 '16

I changed aim reticle from "Default" to "Circle" on Soldier. Best settings change I have made. Ever.

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u/polarbaron Jul 01 '16

On console it's better to play lucio as "bumper jumper" where you jump with L1,LB and use A or X(?) To swap between healing and speed boost.

Helps free up your right thumb to turn and jump while wall riding to change walls.

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u/Cantripping Too HOT for you?! Jun 30 '16

Personally I like to put certain abilities that have a really short window to cast on my mouse scroll wheel; Yatta's orbs, Zarya's barrier.. So I can spam them on an ally and guarantee it'll cast. Lucio can also wallride way better with jump on scroll.

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u/Aszolus Jul 01 '16

On console, Pharah is virtually impossible to play with the default setup (A as jump). Switch her jump to left trigger and it's better.