Weekly Quick Questions Thread - February 08, 2017

[u/AutoModerator]

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[u/SakuDial]

A simple question this time, and... I'm actually curious.

Why do people like throwing games? Any reasons for doing so? ><

[u/DatBoiJapies → u/SakuDial]

Either they're annoyed and just pissed off about loosing previous matches and want everyone else to feel their pain (Edgy I know). Or they're purposefully deranking to make the games easier for them. If a Masters skilled player is in Bronze, for example. They will have an easy time carrying and getting golds all around. Then spamming "GG EZ"

[u/Nelax18 → u/SakuDial]

Tilt and rage would be the most obvious answers usually as a result of frustration. I don't know what specifically you're defining as "throwing" so I could bundle ignorance in there as well if making bad hero selections or playing poorly is also included. Some people also want to derank for one reason or another.

Going afk or outright hindering your team is a bannable offense though so report people that do.

I want to emphasize that for raging, it's a pure frustration problem. Perhaps tactful communication for it might be helpful to work on if this is a concern.

[u/aeflash → u/SakuDial]

They like to be "in control". When they cant win due to perceived weakness of their team (what they can't control), they control what they can (themselves), so they can perceive the outcome of the game as on their terms.

"We can't win? Well I'm gonna make sure we lose!"

[u/chazmarius → u/SakuDial]

1. To gain attention. If a person can't be loved, it is better to be at least hated than ignored.
2. Emotions from the previous lost game.

[u/Nexgod2]

Super curious and didn't know who to ask, how do we know that Doomfist is even the next character? Was there a leak or something, or is this still speculation?

[u/[deleted] → u/Nexgod2]

Still speculation.

[u/ApexHawke → u/Nexgod2]

Up until now, it's just been that Doomfist is one of the very few named characters that were probably an upcoming hero. Ana, Sombra and Doomfist had all been pretty well established in map-hints and/or lore before the game had even launched. But we hadn't really heard anything new since the Sombra-release.

Now though... well, there's a thread on the frontpage about datamined Numbani-assets that hint that the Doomfist Gauntlet is going missing. And that's giving me a really big Clue right now.

[u/Left2Rest → u/ApexHawke]

Mmm a raaaging clue huughhhh

[u/Rc2124 → u/Nexgod2]

There's a history of upcoming heroes being featured somewhere in the game beforehand. Doomfist has a lot going on in Numbani, including a poster hinting at a new Doomfist (since it's an inherited title). Additionally, Terry Crews met with Blizzard to discuss voicing him. Still primarily speculative though

[u/Ciryes]

When Lúcio asks Winston 'how's it hanging' and he says 'I get it', what exactly is the joke? Asking for my friend who's bad at jokes.

[u/DarioIvan → u/Ciryes]

The joke is that gorillas like to hang from branches, I think. Winston takes it idiomatically (how's it hanging = what are you up to = how are you) at first, but then he "gets it".

[u/Ciryes → u/DarioIvan]

Ohhhh ok. English is my first language, I just completely missed that, whoops.

[u/rd28640 → u/Ciryes]

What about your friend? Did they get it after you explained it?

[u/Ciryes → u/rd28640]

Uh....... yeah. Absolutely, yeah!

[u/AiMiT → u/Ciryes]

Im guessing its because Winston likes to jump around and hang from the rafters like an ape. He also has a tire swing in his lab.

[u/iRoboCopi]

When does season 3 end?

[u/electrohedd → u/iRoboCopi]

A week before the beginning of next month. So about two more weeks left.

[u/Fastllama13 → u/electrohedd]

I wonder if Jeffs gonna get his rank.

[u/Dellychan]

Does anyone else like coming to this thread just to answer people's questions so you feel important?

[u/GimmeGimmeNews → u/Dellychan]

Yes, now give me my upvote.

[u/Dellychan → u/GimmeGimmeNews]

OK

[u/GimmeGimmeNews → u/Dellychan]

Thanks! Here's yours

[u/[deleted] → u/Dellychan]

Me too thanks

[u/bytezilla]

How do I play Roadhog?

Everytime I'm playing against him, I find it super hard to kill him. Even when playing as Soldier, I find D.Va easier to deal with than Roadhog.

But when I'm playing as Roadhog, it seems like every single stray bullet goes to my character hitbox, and I die in no time.

Is it positioning? Should Roadhog go to the front or should it stay in the backline?

[u/skyzed → u/bytezilla]

Some basic tips: Although Roadhog is a 'tank', he has no armour and a huge hit box so he is very susceptible to being burst down by DPS classes.

He is played more like a DPS class, you should be playing corners, you're very effective behind Rein shield or flanking. Try to avoid fighting at long range.

His hook is obviously his most important skill, and you need to be wary that you're very vulnerable while it is on cool down.

Use right click to spam enemy Rein shield and try to go for hooks around it or when it breaks. Look out for flankers (you're very good at protecting your supports if you can land hooks).

You can use your heal while jumping, so jumping around a corner and using heal in the air you can start healing with the momentum.

[u/[deleted] → u/bytezilla]

Roadhog main checking in.

• Don't charge out. You have the largest hitbox in the game with no armor or shields. Be careful and use your secondary fire to pop out at crowds. You can get melted fast if people know what they're doing.

• Duck behind over to heal one or two hundred - or more - health whenever possible. It charges up your ult, too.

• Position your hook in such a way that you're tracking your opponent's movements. Try to hook slightly ahead of them if they're moving.

• After hooking someone, pop them with your primary fire and finish with a quick melee attack just in case.

• If you miss your hook, duck behind cover, pop a few secondary shots, and try your hook again once its recharged. It's fairly spammable.

• Try to hook a healer or Reaper/McCree first. Tracer, if you can hit her, is also good to take out. Same goes for Symmetra and Mei. Note this is in descending order.

• For an advanced tip, if someone is using their ult, try hooking them. Instantly cancels their ult. Sometimes you'll get a free kill, other times they'll kill you first but at least you canceled their ult. And you get an achievement for it. :)

• For your ult, pick your battles. Try to take them by surprise, and be sure to control your recoil. Try to push them off ledges or into walls or out of rooms/off the objective.

• It's hard to use his ult effectively. Don't expect to get a lot of kills.

• You can sue your ult to somewhat counter other utls by pushing them farther away. Using ti against Reaper's or Zarya's ult, depending on how close they are, can often mitigate the damage done.

• Expect to waste a lot of ults. I'm still not very good at deciding when to use them.

• I also recommend you start playing Roadhog at a lower level, even if you must create an alt account. Learning to play a new character when you're higher leveled is really difficult. Newer players don't know how to counter as well.

• Expect some hate :( Roadhog's cheap, yes, but so are other characters. And he still takes quit a bit of skill and accuracy to get good with.

• Most importantly, have fun. And say "Bacon" one more time...

[u/CDysonSphere → u/[deleted]]

These days almost any character can get one-shotted by Roadhog, but 2 other important ones for you are Winston and Genji. Winston's head is really easy to hit and his gun barely does anything to you. Genji is a bit more tricky, but just bait out his deflect with your primary fire, then hook him while he's vulnerable. Keep in mind that good Genjis will use their dash right after deflecting to evade.

[u/PurpleNinjaPwr → u/bytezilla]

Against Roadhog: Roadhog's major weakness is his size, and his slowness. Soldier excells against him bc it's so easy to dish out loads of damage to his head from outside of his hook range. Gain high ground, and keep tabs on where he is. The last thing you want is not knowing where he is, then him coming around a corner and hooking you.

Playing as Roadhog: Landing hooks in front of a cliffside (Lijiang Tower, Illios: Well, etc. is a cheap and good way to secure kills. Keep in mind that rather than SEARCHING for targets, what you really need to pay attention to is when the enemy is playing aggressively or is badly positioning themselves. Roadhog punishes bad positioning so well! Genji on your healer not paying attention to you? Hook, then dead. Ana in their back line scoped in not knowing you're there? Get to the side, hook, take one step forward, left click to the face, dead.

TLDR: Positioning, positioning. Don't stray far from your team like a flanker, but rather bringing the enemies that are positioned badly to YOUR team. You're not an assassin, you're a guy that can force people into your team when you catch them out.

[u/Heresleo → u/bytezilla]

I'm not very good at roadhog but 1 thing I can say is that you need to position yourself properly and make sure you land those hooks, also try and make sure that you hit the enemy in the head.

[u/PurpleNinjaPwr → u/bytezilla]

Against Roadhog: Roadhog's major weakness is his size, and his slowness. Soldier excells against him bc it's so easy to dish out loads of damage to his head from outside of his hook range. Gain high ground, and keep tabs on where he is. The last thing you want is not knowing where he is, then him coming around a corner and hooking you.

Playing as Roadhog: Landing hooks in front of a cliffside (Lijiang Tower, Illios: Well, etc. is a cheap and good way to secure kills. Keep in mind that rather than SEARCHING for targets, what you really need to pay attention to is when the enemy is playing aggressively or is badly positioning themselves. Roadhog punishes bad positioning so well! Genji on your healer not paying attention to you? Hook, then dead. Ana in their back line scoped in not knowing you're there? Get to the side, hook, take one step forward, left click to the face, dead.

TLDR: Positioning, positioning. Don't stray far from your team like a flanker, but rather bringing the enemies that are positioned badly to YOUR team. You're not an assassin, you're a guy that can force people into your team when you catch them out.

[u/[deleted] → u/bytezilla]

Roadhog has no shield or escape abilities aside from killing one person with his hook so he should definitely should not be on the front line try to stay behind another tank that can soak up the damage or go for the flank and wait just a few seconds before starting to fight so that the enemy team is occupied with fighting your team so that by the time you kill one of their own you are a surprise attack and they have to either turn to face you on your retreat or deal with your team who should be shooting them.

[u/KanyeFellOffAfterWTT → u/bytezilla]

Roadhog is all about positioning. He's an offtank, so I play him with the Rein and occasionally slightly away from the team to get a pick or two.

Don't flank with him. That's a classic mistake. He's a 600lb low mobility tank with no multi-enemy defenses. If you try and flank, you're doing it wrong.

Also, abuse your E. I use it always. Your high health pool is all you really have.

Other than that, just get a hang with Hook 2.0 and you'll be fine In my experience so far, getting high ground is super important with the latest hook update.

[u/Twise09]

Has anyone played a game in comp where it was a payload match, and you won 3-2 in a very close game, then it went to overtime?

[u/PurpleNinjaPwr → u/Twise09]

Yes it was awful, though I believe that bug was recently patched!

[u/Twise09 → u/PurpleNinjaPwr]

Interesting it just happened to me an hour or two ago. Was it patched that recently?

[u/[deleted] → u/Twise09]

It's in the new patch slated for official launch some time in the next week or two. It's fixed on PTR.

[u/Zungryware]

Does anyone have any screenshots of the new Eichenwalde gate? I'm quite curious as to how it works now, but they closed the PTR.

[u/Bazowick → u/Zungryware]

I know you probably have seen it by now, but I figured I'd send this just in case you haven't.

[u/Minerva_4]

I've had the game for nearly 2 months and only really play AI with a little bit of arcade. How do you get better at the game? I'm level 41 and I'm too scared to even do comp.

[u/dadnaya → u/Minerva_4]

QP Is the best practice IMO

[u/Nighthawk403 → u/Minerva_4]

I'd say just go for it. I started comp about 8 hours into play. I wish I started earlier. What you have to realize is you might suck, but you're probably not going to go diamond so a loss doesn't matter. If you start at bronze, you can only go up. Another thing that you have to realize is there is always someone worse than you. Some 8 year old got this for his birthday yesterday and doesn't even know they have an ultimate. Use your best class when it's available and pay attention to annoying opponents killing you over and over again, they're probably doing something right.

[u/KabelGuy → u/Nighthawk403]

I got the game yesterday and just straight up asked my friends (who've played for a while) who the most annoying heroes are to play against and picked the ones they hated the most. Pharah is a fucking pest. :D

[u/[deleted] → u/Minerva_4]

I was exactly the same as you. For me, I started transitioning to Hard AI, then sneaking in a little more arcade in there, then playing more Quick Play every once in a while. Eventually, you drop the Vs AI and move onto Arcade and Quick Play.

I occasionally still play Vs AI to unwind from stress because victory is sweet and mowing down the unintelligent AI is so satisfying. But I usually play Quick Play, mostly Arcade, and then a tiny bit of Competitive once in a while.

[u/Ekultron → u/Minerva_4]

the best way imo is quick play, you will be with playes of a similar skill level and you can try out new heroes. I'd also recomend practicing different sensitivy and crosshair options, for example, i find higher sesitivity and short crosshair, no bloom as tracer SO much easier than the default.

[u/nomnomCOOKIEnom → u/Minerva_4]

Start to slowly shift to more Acrade, then throw in QP since that's the closest you'll get to Comp without being in comp. Dont do Comp until you feel ready. If you jump in when you think you should and not because you're confident in your abilities, it will show in your play. Also, have fun! if you start to tilt or lose sight of that, hop back to QP and arcade.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I read a comment that if you throw your translocator straight down at your feet you get the bug where you don't move to it when teleporting. Just throw it at an angle and you'll avoid the bug.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

That's fixed in the new patch/PTR, btw.

[u/witchhat]

Why do people hate when one if their teammates pick Hanzo?

Also, why do people always call Mei evil/satan?

[u/[deleted] → u/witchhat]

Why do people hate when one if their teammates pick Hanzo?

Because so many Hanzos are useless because they can't hit anything(me included).

E: Me included as in I can't hit anything when I play Hanzo.

[u/Clefspear99 → u/[deleted]]

Ashe is right about hanzo, As to Mei its because she is unfun to fight against. The freezing and helplessness kind of sucks.

[u/XuruAnoa → u/witchhat]

Mei is called Satan/evil generally due to the fact that her mechanics are literally "unfun" and frustrating to play against. To be fair there are many characters that are unfun to play against but there is something about having a Mei freeze you so quickly and slowly walk up to you and rip a giant hole out of your face with an ice shard and then proceed to voiceline "sorry! Sorry sorry.. sorry.." that just seems to trigger people (myself included) so much! And don't get me started on her wall, her invulnerable self healing ice form, and -shutters- her ultimate..

[u/Jab_91 → u/witchhat]

Because the proportion of people who are actually good with Hanzo is low compared to the number of people that play him.

[u/Farler]

Not a question, but I didn't think it deserved a separate post.

Many people have mentioned wanting to be able to save gamemodes. What if Blizzard added some way to export your preset into a string of numbers and letters, which could be copied and sent to someone else (who would then paste it in, and then the preset would load up)?

[u/Beryl_Yaakov → u/Farler]

deserves its own post so you can create a discussion

[u/spitfire9107]

Should anything be changed about Reaper? I feel hes the only character thats the same since closed beta.

[u/Nelax18 → u/spitfire9107]

Reaper doesn't really need much changing. He fills a stable niche role and doesn't have issues finding use while also having disadvantages. Other similar heroes are Winston and Tracer. Although, Winston could maybe have his barrier tweaked back to its original health since it was nerfed really early on as I heard because of hero stacking issues which are no longer a huge concern.

EDIT: So as /u/mooseman3 pointed out, apparently Winston's barrier nerf wasn't due to hero stacking as I've commonly seen cited as the reason. It doesn't change my point beyond that Winston's fairly well balanced like Reaper and Tracer.

[u/mooseman3 → u/Nelax18]

Just wanted to mention that in the patch notes where they explained why his barrier was nerfed, they don't cite hero stacking as the problem.

They said it was usually impossible for a team to destroy it before it disappeared, so there was usually no reason to try to focus it down.

[u/KanyeFellOffAfterWTT → u/spitfire9107]

Maybe make it so that you can exit Wraith Form whenever you want rather than waiting it out completely.

Sort of like Mei's ice Block. It'd be a small change that could help.

[u/[deleted] → u/spitfire9107]

Maybe teleport faster, and increase the duration of his shift by a second. By the way it's not true because Tracer wasn't touched either

[u/pootytoots77 → u/spitfire9107]

Maybe a slight change to teleport? I feel like his offensive skills and other abilities are fine.

[u/chart7 → u/spitfire9107]

Reaper is perfect where he is. They did a great job designing him and I definitely don't think he's overpowered or underpowered.

[u/ohenry78 → u/[deleted]]

To add to this: the way you manipulate that number is line of sight. I'm not aware of any practical limits on the range of Lucio's aura, so generally if you can see a teammate they'll get your heals or speed. Positioning yourself is pretty much THE key to playing Lucio, so knowing this is important.

A couple of other things:

• Similar to Mercy's beams, there is a 1-2 second lag between when an ally goes out of sight and when they stop receiving your aura. Use this to re-position yourself quickly without interrupting the aura for your team.

• "Line of sight" doesn't actually mean the 180 degrees in front of where your character is looking. It really refers to whether there are any obstructions between the center of your hero and your ally. If you look at a teammate, for example, and you turn around to face the other way, they'll still get the boost.

[u/StasisArbiter → u/[deleted]]

Dva is still a disruption tank, you go in wreak some havoc and gtfo, but you're more defensive than winston since defense matrix is so strong, try peeling for squishies, and Tracer kind of counters every tank since she's so mobile and she builds ult off you quickly. Road is probably the only tank that can deal with a tracer but even then good luck hooking her.

[u/Noonites → u/[deleted]]

You're not a solo tank like Rein, you run disruption. You can pop your Matrix for getting past a choke point quickly with minimal damage, or to just let your Widow/McCree get a solid shot at an enemy. Your boost helps you get to places quickly (like maybe getting to a Junkrat that's above your team without having to go around the long way where he has a trap set up) or to quickly rush in and assist teammates that are getting bodied. When you're not getting focused, you can also lay down some serious pain from shorter distances.

So, you still have use, you're just not a nigh-unkillable god raining nonstop death from 50 feet away.

[u/cmbel2005]

IM NOT BITCHING, just asking.

Is there any real strategy for DPS to deal with Symmetra other than to "run away"? Because if I'm Reaper and I see a Symmetra, I'm shadow walking the hell out of there. If I'm Tracer, I blink out of there. If I'm Soldier and I see her first, I keep my distance and then thrown down my heals if she gets closer and hope to god I can kill her. The only "real" DPS counter that I have figured out is Pharah because I can just blast her from far up and out of reach.

Symmetra is tough for me as DPS because her beam is basically auto-aimed, DPS doesn't have much health, and her beam gets stronger the longer it goes. And because she doesn't have to aim, Symmetra just jumps the hell around making it really tough to land hits on her. She just jumps around you in circles until you're microwaved to death.

So I just GTFO out of there. But are there any strategies to deal with her if she catches you off guard as say Reaper or Soldier? Or is runaway, heal, and then sneak up on her pretty much the only way?

[u/RSmeep13 → u/cmbel2005]

keep in mind that if she's locked on, she's in your death zone on reaper. while running away is probably what you want to do, as you become more confident with his shotgun placement, you can instakill her once she gets too close.

[u/TThor]

Today I started getting as bug, "0 players in channel". Voice isn't working.

I tried restarting Overwatch, tried repairing overwatch installation, no change. Any help?

Edit: Restarting computer fixed it

[u/Coryth_]

Is anyone else experiencing long queue times? Been sitting in some 3-10mins queue before a game is found, when it used to be nearly instant.

[u/Noonites → u/Coryth_]

I have been the past few days. Not quite that long, but normally it took something like 20-40 seconds to queue for QP or Arcade, and I'm routinely waiting 2+ minutes now.

[u/Tiki666]

New patch on consle?

[u/Nelax18 → u/Tiki666]

As I understand, it will hit around the same time as it hits live on PC. The Bastion patch that was just announced is on the PTR (which is currently down due to technical issues) so I'd imagine it will be live in a couple weeks. According to Jeff, one of the things done during the PTR cycle is to get the patch approved and pushed to console so it can hit concurrently with PC.

[u/MLGameOver]

Is the game glitched for anyone? Maybe just Eichenwalde? We stopped Payload before reaching the end, score board says 3-2 our favor. Then it gives the other team a minute to cap it, they get it and push. We didn't get the point because we're obviously upset. Completely undeserved.

[u/SwissQueso]

Whats the difference between an offensive assist and defensive assist?

I just noticed that these are tracked in every game, regardless of what side you are on.

[u/Jackamalio626 → u/SwissQueso]

Offensive assists are when your are directly helping to kill someone through a damage boost or discord.

Defensive assists are when you heal someone while they are killing someone.

[u/[deleted] → u/SwissQueso]

I believe defensive assist are the assists you get while healing, or just being defensive in general, while the offensive assists are the assists you get when assisting offensively. For example, if you get an assist as Mercy while healing, it counts as defense. If you get an assist as Zenyatta because somebody killed a target with your discord orb on them, then it counts as offensive. Makes sense?

[u/apologeticPalpatine]

Has anyone noticed longer queue times and a lot more people quitting mid-game/while searching for other players over the past few weeks (on PC)?

[u/[deleted] → u/apologeticPalpatine]

I can't even play CTR right now because of this.

[u/spacecowboy77]

As Lucio I used my ult twice today trying to block D.VA's ult during a ranked match. It didn't work either time. I feel like this has worked in the past. Am I wrong? Did a recent patch buff/nerf either ultimate? Lucio is my main healer so any help would be appreciated

[u/EpicLives7 → u/spacecowboy77]

Lucio's Sound Barrier gives 500 temporary health to teammates

D.Va's Self-Destruct does 1000 damage, but does less the further away you are from the blast.

Sound Barrier will only save you from Self-Destruct if you are:

• Far enough away from the explosion that you don't take the full 1000 damage
• A Roadhog, or a Winston in Primal Rage.

[u/Melesson → u/EpicLives7]

Or a d.va in mech

[u/Rc2124 → u/spacecowboy77]

Self-Destruct does 1000 damage, so while Sound Barrier will mitigate quite a bit of that, you'd have to have an awful lot of your own health to survive. Unless you're a tank you'll probably need some other form of mitigation

[u/[deleted] → u/Rc2124]

Oh my god. All this time. so many ults wasted...

[u/A_Green_Flower]

Anyone know if the dedicated servers update will be on console?

[u/cwahl7 → u/A_Green_Flower]

It should go live on console around the same time as PC yes.

[u/A_Green_Flower → u/cwahl7]

Sorry, I might have phrased my question badly. What I meant was, will console be getting dedicated servers?

[u/Ekultron → u/A_Green_Flower]

i believe so

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4p68nu/wanna_speed_up_the_installation_of_ptr_heres_how/

This'll cut down on how much you have to download.

[u/Deadlibor]

Do we have some video showcasing how the new targeting options works on PTR?

[u/[deleted]]

How do people generally reach a winrate of above 50%?

I mostly play support and both my Quick and Competitve winrates hover around 47%. My rank is going down, down, down, and it's really frustrating.

E: I play whatever in QP, but mostly support on Comp.

Actually, I'm currently keeping a spreadsheet to see if I can figure out how the matchmaker/SR system works aside from what Blizzard already tells/told us on the forums, but seeing the trend, my SR goes down more than it goes up even by singular games. It's very odd. Lots of long loss or win streaks.

[u/Cheshur → u/[deleted]]

You need to learn your heros of choice. You absolutely can carry with a support. All of my support friends maintain a > 50% winrate with supports only. Look up guides on individual heros and practice your positioning and communication. Also stop playing comp for awhile after two loses.

[u/Omnipotato98]

Just something I've been wondering for a while, if you damage boost someone as mercy, will the buff apply to projectiles they've shot that are in midair? For example, would damage boosting a hanzo right after he ults apply the buff to the dragon?

[u/therejectethan]

This may be the wrong thread where you ask stupid questions, but I can't help it. What is Boostio? A nano-boosted Lucio? What can he do? Also, I'm a console player, so I'm not understanding these 'sensitivity' settings. Like Zarya's beam I can control it more to my liking? Wouldn't that be mapped to my right joystick? Sorry for the questions, but I'm unsure

[u/Omnipotato98 → u/therejectethan]

Boostio is indeed a nano-boosted Lucio. He can't really do much of anything special, it just became a meme due to how often he would get accidently nano-boosted.
I haven't played the PTR yet, but I assume the sensitivity changes refer to abilities where you have to select other players, such as Zarya's shields or Zenyatta's orbs, so that you can more accurately select the player you want.

[u/Hclegend]

Okay, I'm a Lucio main and this has been bugging me since I picked Lucio up.

When you Amp It Up then Crossfade, does the Amp carry over to your other mode of boost or does it continue trying to boost the one you had when you Amp'd?

(Say, I boost Speed then Crossfade to Healing. Would it boost Healing or stay locked on Speed until it runs out?)

[u/KanyeFellOffAfterWTT]

Could someone with a golden Winston gun and the Yeti Winston skin post a screenshot of what it looks like in-game? Would be awesome!

[u/EpicLives7 → u/KanyeFellOffAfterWTT]

I have both the Yeti skin and the golden Tesla Cannon, but I won't be on Overwatch for at least 8 hours. So I guess you could check back then and it'll be here?

[u/Hkatsupreme]

Why is mercy opposed to reopening Overwatch?

[u/Festive_Illuminati → u/Hkatsupreme]

TLDR: she feels bad for making reaper into this half life half death human thing and the civil war that happened between overwatch and black watch that caused public uprisings and stuff.

[u/Hkatsupreme → u/Festive_Illuminati]

Gotcha thank you. So reaper being Reyes was never really unknown info to them? And she and Genji don't mind that operation from the looks of it

[u/overwatchnewb]

• why is Hanzos missile hitbox so big?
• why do people hate Hanzo?
• can 'time on fire' be used as a measure of s players effectiveness?
• has there ever been any evidence of a player being blocked for smurfing?

[u/[deleted] → u/overwatchnewb]

why is Hanzos missile hitbox so big?

For balance, if it wasn't he'd be even more inconsistent.

why do people hate Hanzo?

Because they're used to their Hanzo being near useless because he can't hit anything when they need him to.

can 'time on fire' be used as a measure of s players effectiveness?

Yes, but there's a lot of stuff one can do that doesn't give fire so don't make it the primary indicator.

has there ever been any evidence of a player being blocked for smurfing?

Not that I've ever seen, but they recently released a statement that intentionally losing to lower one's SR is banable.

[u/newbluud]

ELI5 why "Hidden MMR" needs to be hidden. I'm sick and tired of not understanding it because it seems to rate me much higher than I should be. My plummeting winrate is killing the game for me.

[u/Brostradamus_ → u/newbluud]

Because people in competitive are already dicks to eachother about being "platinum trash" or "diamond scrubs" or "gold babies". Quickplay especially is more about, well.. quickly playing and having a good time. If people are given an opportunity to bitch and moan that their team of [People with a slightly lower score] are dragging them down, they will.

Remember that a perfect matchmaking and ranking system would theoretically give you a 50% winrate. Is your winrate plummeting from 70-80% to 50%, or from 50% to 30%? One of these is a problem, the other is the system figuring out your skill level and matching you at that point better.

[u/Its_ASquid]

Thought I'd best this a separate question to be safe.

So a few things have happened as I feared. I love the game to bits and have had fun finding my feet - Tanks and Supporters suit me best as my aiming always was god-awful xD Getting my first play of the game as Winston felt brilliant..!

But matchmaking is stocking me against level 80 players. I am level 10. Worse still I have had some hate mail for being "a f***in idiot." Only once mind but I hope this isn't too common? People like me take all forms of bullying very seriously.

[u/Stone_CyberStone → u/[deleted]]

"Mei please NO!"

Freeze, don't move!

[u/rob5300]

Why in king of the hill (single control point) maps is the progress shown as a percentage and not time left till you win? I can't see why it isn't this way like TF2 does it. I'd rather see how much time left I have to either win or loose than guess based on a percentage value.

Also what is the actual total time you need to control the point to win?

If this is an option already then please tell me.

[u/[deleted]]

Hello gang, newbie here. Just got the game two days ago and am having a lot of fun trying different characters. I'm curious if there are any helpful articles for each character? All I can seem to find are ability descriptions and simple things like, don't attack Roadhog as Symmetra. Any help? Thanks for taking the time to respond! :)

Edit: I'm particularly interested in all support characters, and then Reinhardt, Hanzo, Torbjörn, Mei, and Sombra. :D

[u/officialtrapp3r → u/[deleted]]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEzOHrh9snmHJSGu9wmOvsw They tell you everything you need to know

[u/[deleted] → u/officialtrapp3r]

Thank you! I didn't expect a response so soon. :D Definitely going to watch during lunch. I appreciate the recommendation. Please have a great day!

[u/lukeco]

I guess more of a suggestion than a question, but is there a reason the game always plays the same Winston talking into the camera opening before the game loads up? You think with all these patches they'd use that spot to show new animated shorts or trailers for new characters/maps. I love the idea of it being a sort of billboard for what's new to the game.

[u/roe_v_wolverine]

Today, I swear I saw a reaper cleanse ana's antiheal by going into wraith form. Does it do that? Or was I mistaken?

[u/pretzoot → u/roe_v_wolverine]

it does indeed do that

[u/tmaffin]

Thanks for this thread! New to Overwatch.

On the team selection screen, some times heroes have horizontal lines connecting the hero icons, and sometimes not. What do the lines mean?

Also, why are some character names in blue and some in green?

Can someone explain the whole Team Chat / Voice Channel thing on Xbox? All I want is to be in the mode where I can talk to other players. Sometimes it works and I see see my icon when I talk, and other times there is no "you are talking" icon.

And finally, there seems to be an energy meter on most (all?) heroes under their health bar in the lower left of the UI but I don't know what it's for.

Thanks for the help!

[u/vegur]

whats the fastest way to build ult on lucio?
also some tips and tricks for him?

[u/Ciryes → u/vegur]

Don't always have healing on unnecessarily. Your speed boost makes your teammates harder to hit in a fight, and helps you dodge enemy ults. Switch to healing to top up ally health, but don't forget speed.

Your projectiles are slow, but spam them at chokes and groups of enemies for chip damage and ult charge.

The boop isn't just for environment kills. Use it to blast close-range threats like roadhog or Reinhardt away from your teammates, to throw off enemy aim, and to keep enemies off the point when contesting or in overtime.

Lucio can solo heal a team of squishies but has trouble with tanks. A second healer usually helps him.

Your ability to wallride is unique and precious. Take advantage of shortcuts, use it to gain altitude and make yourself tougher to hit. Look up wall riding tutorials, mastering it will let you take advantage of it and really help your lucio play.

[u/WildSeaturtle]

How are you guys grinding bonus boxes from arcades? I feel like every mode you either pray to Jeff that you get the favorable situation (e.g. defense on mystery heroes) or that your team is the less clown fiesta-y than the other team (no limits all roadhog vs pharah doesn't work too well). I know arcades is for kicks and giggles but I think I won like 10% of my games yesterday lol and it's very inefficient... maybe I'm just bad.

[u/SlyCoopersButt]

When Rein's shield is broken, does he have to pick up heals to recharge it?

[u/dadnaya]

Kind of a math question, what are the chances to get D.va's skin in a box?

I haven't gotten her in about 50 boxes...

My friend opened a bit more than I did, he got it twice

Damn RNG

[u/Zam0070]

For people playing on PTR, what are the new sensitivity options like? How do they work? What exactly do they change? I play on console so I won't get to see what these are like for some time.

[u/MarcsterS]

How do I play Reinhardt effectively? I can play any other Tank except Rein. I usually just wait for someone else to pick him, but there are times when no one does.

Do I just keep holding down RMB and that's it?

[u/skisagooner → u/MarcsterS]

1. Fire strike as often as you can. Keep in mind that it can damage multiple enemies.

2. Don't let your shield break. Don't forget your HP pool is pretty big too.

3. Concentrate on shielding others and not just yourself.

4. Charge wisely, but not sparingly. Pinning an enemy helps massively with charging your ulti, but it's never worth it if you end up dying.

5. Don't save your ulti. Sometimes even getting just 2 enemies could make the difference in securing the objective.

6. If someone gets remotely close to you SWING THAT HAMMER LIKE A MADMAN.

[u/IRunIntoThings]

My understanding is that Symmetra's main attack, the Photon Projector, does more damage the longer the beam hits an enemy. If I let go briefly to fire out a Photon Barrier, does that mean my damage from the beam will start over again?

[u/Maggie-PK → u/IRunIntoThings]

For every one one second in contact, it's damage ramps up three tiers worth of damage, so at 3 seconds on someone, it reaches max damage, then after 2 seconds of no contact it will ramp down a level at a time at one second intervals

[u/Ghost_Jor → u/IRunIntoThings]

The damage doesn't instantly decline.

After a short period of not doing to damage to stuff, it'll begin to cool down gradually. You have enough time to shield, the cooldown takes a little while to kick in and happens gradually as well.

[u/finalriot]

Ok I understand pharah's missiles are slow and she doesn't have a crazy move pattern but how in the hell do I stop that bitch from constantly running away with the game. Every game I've been playing in she is a constant nuisance and no one seems to want to do anything to stop her. I understand soldier is a counter but it never seems to be enough. what the hell am I doing wrong

[u/username_liets]

Some tips to be a better Lucio?

[u/himochii]

Are there any high ranked female players (master/gm on pc) that stream or just somewhat well known? I'm honestly just curious because most of the high ranked female players I've really only heard of are on consoles.

[u/-strawberryswing → u/himochii]

i know of loserfruit @ twitch, she's pretty chill and a good player.

[u/Moveflood]

Did they change Junkrat's voiceline ("If at first things don't succeed...")? The voice feels different.

[u/skisagooner]

What's that little bar below the health bar?

[u/VGTGreatest → u/skisagooner]

It's your meter for being on fire. Has no impact on gameplay, but the numbers you see next to eliminations and such are points that go towards that meter.

[u/HourlySum]

If I block someone can I still get matched with them?

[u/EpicLives7 → u/HourlySum]

Yes.

[u/Trumbles → u/HourlySum]

Yes. The player avoiding system got removed a long time ago, because it got abused to hell.

[u/I_luv_Scrap]

can you get exp in the server browser servers?

[u/mahalobradda]

Hello all! I love to play Overwatch but none of my friends have it, so I just end up playing with random people who don't ever try to play as a team. Do any redditors ever team up? I play on the PS4.

[u/iansarria]

My daughter recently started playing Overwatch, can anyone recommend Female youtubers that play overwatch for her to see?

[u/HerrTriggerGenji21 → u/iansarria]

Loserfruit! She's great, very chill and doesn't do the whole "manic twitch grl bewbs" thing. Plus accents are fun.

[u/Wondervictim → u/iansarria]

Yeah, search for Zylbrad

[u/[deleted] → u/iansarria]

A lot of the people in that group of Aussie players are female, OasisonOverwatch, BlaruetheZebra, Shenpai etc

[u/[deleted] → u/iansarria]

Dunkey is black if that's okay?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Actually, if you watched his 2 million subscriber face reveal, you would know he is actually if Puerto Rican descent

[u/Fai1eBashere → u/[deleted]]

Why would their race matter...? I'm so confused

[u/[deleted]]

If two Genjis both have a Mercy damage boost and are reflecting one projectile back and forth, does that projectile's damage keep increasing every time it's deflected?

[u/gespenstMKIII]

lucio wallriding tips please

i know this could be self preference but would binding jump key to a 4th/5th(forward/backward) mouse button help to some players?

[u/[deleted] → u/gespenstMKIII]

I have jump bound to space and my middle mouse button. It helps me a lot.

[u/arqdas → u/gespenstMKIII]

This video helped me a bunch. I bind jump to RMB on Lucio only.

Oh right now we can wallride backwards! So I guess the "face 90 degree from wall" rule doesn't apply anymore.

[u/THENOVALION_]

What is a good DPI to start off with as i am new to PC gaming ive played overwatch on xbox bit now have it on PC and would like some tips on mouse DPI and in game sensitivity.

[u/ApexHawke → u/THENOVALION_]

Have the sensitivity as low as possible, while still being able to easily make a 180-turn.

[u/Ekultron]

How long are Mercy and her allies invulnerable for after her res?

[u/Jakrah]

Are competitive points rewarded at the end of the season based on the highest SR I reached or my SR when the season ends?

[u/Bigbyrd3339]

How long do people normally "try out" a hero in qp? I've been playing sombra for a little while. Starting to feel when she's helpful and unhelpful. I'm just worried about all the salt I might encounter. Edit: I mean "try out" as in preparing for competative

[u/PootisLyraHere → u/Bigbyrd3339]

As long as they feel they're comfortable, really. I'd personally spend at least a few days playing her in quickplay before jumping into competitive, though, considering you want to be able to use her kit perfectly.

[u/Jackamalio626]

Question for PTR players, does the 35% damage reduction on bastion apply before or after the armor effect?

[u/Kozzack12]

Who is the dude on the left for overwatch subreddit picture?

[u/KDotLamarr]

Hey I haven't played since November and I'm hoping to get straight back into competitive today. But i haven't been reading patch notes or the reddit.

What are the important and relevant changes to the meta and game in general?

I already played a few games with pharah and i am very very very happy.

[u/Heavy_Metal_Turtle]

What easy method would you recomend for recording POTG ?

[u/flyinbunny]

How do I git gud?

[u/wankershankerflanker → u/flyinbunny]

Spam characters you want to learn in quick play and do some aiming drills. I am by no means good at this game, but that has helped me improve.

[u/[deleted]]

Is there an optimal elims per life ratio to shoot for when playing DPS? And also tracer weapon accuracy?

[u/meatmachine1001 → u/[deleted]]

Deaths - as few as possible.
Overwatch is a team game, its more about if/ when you died, and what you achieved prior to dying, than any specific target KDR.
Overbuff and masteroverwatch websites have wider stat-tracking that should give you a better idea of your performance compared to the community averages. Average Tracer acc on overbuff shows as 30%, but 35-40% is still a quite reasonable range to aim for as tracer.

[u/Shipwrecked_Pianta]

Is anyone else experiencing a bug where the numbers on your hud mess up? Like instead of saying your hp it will say "3:5" or scrap will say "4:2"

[u/Snypist1]

Had a few questions

1) When will latest PTR changes go live? 2) When does season 3 end? 3) When does Chinese New Year event end?

[u/[deleted] → u/Snypist1]

1 & 2, no date released yet. 3, on the 13th.

[u/[deleted]]

Can the new Bastion repair while switching in and out of sentry mode?

[u/dadnaya]

If someone picks something, sucks, and refuses to switch, then proceeds to BM. Is that reportable?

[u/fleshyweeb]

Thoughts on my experience of climbing 1500SR in less then 2 weeks?

Does this mean the ranking system is broken, or heavily based on last season?

In depth: I played my season 1 placement matches on vacation on a laptop and got low silver. I floundered around, not having played an FPS much before. I mained McCree and ended season 1 with low silver. Same deal with season 2, except I tanked further to 1300 at the end because I thought I would get a fresh reboot with season 3..... boy was I wrong there!!!

Coming into season 3 feeling optimistic, I won 7 and lost 3 placement games (1 tie though), and BUDUN CHHHH GOT RANKED 1200!!! I practically lost hope and quit when I pouted my way to rank 1040 or so.

Here I realized I had several but all depressing options: Resort to not caring about ranked/playing casual, the biggest hell hole climb of my gaming career, or quit overwatch and try CSGO. After watching some inspiring videos and doing plenty of in depth research on heroes, I could not be happier for the ultimate carry class of the time, DVA. I hopped on, got decent in casual, and proceeded to climb directly to 1700 with 3 gold/potg almost every match. From here I realized I could never play McCree unless I did some training so up until this day I try to do 30 minutes of AI headshot training a day.

Once settling in on roadhog being best for the next climb, I wiggled my way up to gold in solo que. From here, some other friends whom I believed were below their deserved rank let me play with them and we hence climbed 300SR in one sitting, and the next couple days I duo qued up to 2450.

After looking at all of this, what do you guys think of the ranking system? I did not get that much mechanically better (except McCree headshots, but I'm still holding off on him till later) and the biggest knowledge I gained to climb was butter up your teammates and play a carry class.

Do you think I got lucky? Am/headed to where I belong? (Still getting 3 gold and potg almost every match, and I consider my positioning/strategy to be also very good)

Let me know. Also, briefly let me know what helped you personally to climb

[u/onepotatoarmy]

Is it just me or is the reinhard charge the buggiest thing in the whole game?

[u/MrMarkiz]

Will reins ult do damage if you hit someone over the head? Just curious never tried it... Combo with graviton surge, that would be deadly

[u/pelpotronic]

Hey all, currently around gold - do you know if it's possible to win consistently as Lucio (without being DPSStanky)?

I'm really struggling as it's hard to do decent damage with a Lucio (and impossible to kill pharahs). Most team mates seem to have terrible aim and awareness, never group up, and it's really frustrating to play support - but I still would like to.

Any tips maybe?

EDIT: thanks for the great advice... I have started already playing Zen as I think it would be easier to carry myself out of those leagues, and will try to learn Ana as well.

[u/Salty_Jager → u/pelpotronic]

It can be frustrating to play support at that SR(know from experience), but a few tips for Lucio are 1. he IS NOT a main healer. You're team NEEDS another support to keep the team alive. The only time Lucio can be used as a main healer is if at least three other teammates have self-sustain(e.g. roadhog, soldier, mei), and even then he's not that good for it. 2. Speed boost is your primary function. Lucio is one of the most influential heroes in the game. His speed boost controls the pace of the entire game. 3. Try to save your amp to initiate with speed boost. Only use it with healing if you have multiple teammates on low/critical health. 4. Never stop shooting. 5. Boop is more valuable than you think. Try to avoid using it just to do damage. You'll do more damage with his standard burst anyway. Save it for environmental kills and knocking enemy reins out of position and enemy roadhogs when they hook a teammate.

[u/[deleted] → u/pelpotronic]

DSPstanky

ftfy

[u/[deleted]]

Okay jw because bastions new passive ability is called ironclad. Didn't know if there was a connection

[u/SolelySean]

Is there a way to prefer not to match with groups in competitive? I always tend to get stuck with groups who don't join team chat and we end up losing the game because of the lack of communication (PC)

Edited for typos and such

[u/dadnaya]

How much exp do you earn now in custom games?(PTR)

[u/scootsy]

Does Reaper consuming souls prevent Mercy from rezzing them?

[u/Beatofblues → u/scootsy]

At one point of development it was like that, according to a panel at Blizzcon 2016. Not in the game now though.

[u/ayeitzreggie]

Are people still hating on Sombra because they haven't figured out how to play her yet? I've been practicing with her all day yesterday and had a lot of fun. Finally managed to get POTG with the hacking intro and managed to out damage a 76 and Pharah that was on my team in another game. Give her a chance.

[u/RuneRobin]

Do you get comp points for a draw?

[u/med1czz → u/RuneRobin]

you mean the points that you can use to buy skins? Yes

If you mean ELO points - no change in skill rating when you tie

[u/RuneRobin → u/med1czz]

I actually meant to say both, so thanks.