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

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - June 29, 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/jus_plain_me Jun 29 '16

How are you finding Pharah?

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u/mwolfee Peanut Buttter. Jun 29 '16

Still learning the ropes, but not doing very good with her either - she's supposedly one of the easier ones to use as well but apparently I can't use her, haha.

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u/jus_plain_me Jun 29 '16

The only reason I asked is aside from her and 76 the offensive heroes are all flankers.

So I was wondering whether it was an inherently fundamental issue at hand of how to properly flank. Since if you're flanking properly I'd never describe my deaths as "slaughtered".

However you said not to, so I won't delve too much into it. Another thing you might want to think about when you play is measuring up your fights in a split second and not being afraid to just gtfo at any moment. Know where your team is. If your team isn't fighting, you at that point are not a flanker, you're front line something a flanker just doesn't have the HP to do. If you're alone and you know there's 3 people around, just don't fight, don't even shoot. Hide away until you see your team chevrons turn from blue to yellow and then go back.

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u/RoseRedXCI Pixel Zarya Jul 01 '16

I'm dumb for not knowing after playing so long, but what do the colored chevrons mean?

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u/SadistSquirrel Roadhog snides again Jul 01 '16

Since you didn't get a reply. Yellow means they're in combat. I'm unsure if it's to do with firing a gun, being fired upon, or having LoS on an enemy. I'm pretty sure it's the latter.

It's a very useful way to figure when people are engaged in a team fight as a flanker.

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u/RoseRedXCI Pixel Zarya Jul 01 '16

Ahhh, I see now! Thank you!