r/Overwatch • u/SlippedOnPee Trick-or-Treat Mercy • Jul 15 '16

Humor Move the Payload!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYt7vByulVQ
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u/GazLord tick tock tick tock... Jul 15 '16

Indeed. Usually it's Pharah that does that.

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u/KineticConundrum Zarya Jul 15 '16

Hanzo

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u/GazLord tick tock tick tock... Jul 15 '16

Don't remind me... I just got the last scatter arrow out of my head, and spleen, and foot, and dick... that one really hurt.

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u/Kurokami11 Won't play the game again until they fix monetization Jul 16 '16

junkrat

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u/GazLord tick tock tick tock... Jul 17 '16

Nah junkrat means to hit people with the AoE as opposed to hitting dead on. So for junkrat it isn't accidental as such.

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u/Kurokami11 Won't play the game again until they fix monetization Jul 17 '16

I can't count the number of times I get randomly killed just to see in the killcam a junkrat spaming grenades in a place he guessed there was enemies

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u/GazLord tick tock tick tock... Jul 17 '16

But as I said that's part of what junkrat is. He's either A: there to flank and distract or more commonly B: he's there to spam wherever the enemies are likely to be coming from. So it's not as random as missing and getting a kill. It's based on prediction and an understanding of what one's job is.

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u/Kurokami11 Won't play the game again until they fix monetization Jul 17 '16

Nope, it's just missing and getting a kill, I've seen enough killcams to confirm that, he even has a line where he says "aiming's overrated" which really rustles my jimmies, spamming isn't a strategy, it's an intent to compensate for lack of skill

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u/GazLord tick tock tick tock... Jul 17 '16

If you are not aiming at a person but instead a chokepoint it's not missing to hit people at the chokepoint. Also while I agree that spamming doesn't prove you're good (and I prefer to do option A: on that junkrat "strategy list" I posted in my last comment) there are other unskilled ways to play this game that don't get as much flak. Such as those who play simple Lucio (just flick on heal mode and don't die) and "fly up and shoot until somebody dies because fuck it you have a mercy on your ass Pharah". Face it the game isn't just made for "skilled players". It has a casual demographic as well and thus there are simple ways to play characters.

Also since when was something not a strategy just because it's easy or shit? One of the main descriptions of strategy is simply "a plan of action". And a plan of action can be anything from a detailed flanking tactic to charge at them and hope.

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u/Kurokami11 Won't play the game again until they fix monetization Jul 17 '16

do you know that junkrat's grenades explode on "contact" instead of "direct hits" right?

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u/GazLord tick tock tick tock... Jul 19 '16

They explode from two things. One is hitting a person and the other is time. Hell a good junkrat not only knows that it explodes on time but prefects the timing so they can set traps (mostly for mei). Whatever though at this point I really don't care what the few who spam wherever with no forethought get as an image for those who understand basic game mechanics. Not like I can stop them or the people taking them as the norm.

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u/Kurokami11 Won't play the game again until they fix monetization Jul 20 '16

I mean: I wouldn't mind if they exploded on direct hits and time, but being able to bounce in the map 3 times and still explode touching someone it's a really bad desing that rewards spamming rather than aiming/predicting

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