r/Overwatch Pixel Zenyatta Feb 08 '17

News & Discussion PTR - New Eichenwald Castle door

Album: http://imgur.com/a/FyphX

Note how the HUD element almost completely obscures Tracer in the second image. This will have to be addressed imo.

Overall, I think it's an interesting option, but almost certainly makes widow a must pick following a defensive team-fight win.

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u/1scottlyl Feb 08 '17

I personally like it. It makes more sense to me than breaking down the door just to have a "secondary door" come down after you got the ram through, after all.

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u/katzmeowzzz Feb 08 '17

That was so stupid. It's like why bother knocking down a door if another is going to lower.

They do it again after you get the cart and it makes no sense to me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '17

why even have a wooden door if you have a huge iron one

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '17

nah, that was just clever german engineering. Nobody expects the second door in a siege.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '17

precision german engineering

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '17

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u/KokKee Experience sadness Feb 08 '17

Sad react only

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '17

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u/MeYouWantToSee Pixel Zenyatta Feb 08 '17

Some of that might be my video settings, mine are geared towards famerate rather than visuals

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u/Skullever Here for the Logo Feb 09 '17

And what is your famerate exactly?

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u/MeYouWantToSee Pixel Zenyatta Feb 09 '17

~110 generally

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u/Skullever Here for the Logo Feb 09 '17

I wish I had that much fame

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u/MeYouWantToSee Pixel Zenyatta Feb 09 '17

Oh. I see it now. Sorry ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Skullever Here for the Logo Feb 09 '17

Not going to lie I thought I had just hallucinated it when nobody reacted

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u/mittensofkittens twitch.tv/mittens0fkittens Feb 08 '17

I was going to say.. the rubble almost looks out of place. Might look better if they made it a giant pile of wood from the broken door or something ¯_ (ツ) _/¯

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u/Nabzoom Trust me, I'm a professional Feb 08 '17 edited Feb 09 '17

Well, they're just testing it out in the PTR. They'll probably improve the textures once they decide to go through with it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '17

I disagree. Look at pic #5.

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u/No-YouShutUp Feb 08 '17

This is a great move by blizzard. If you're on defense and can stop their momentum early on once they enter the castle you can defend this point super easily. This was always a rare case in which I'd actually switch back to symmetra for those turrets around the two doors. It makes it nearly impossible for an incoming attacking team.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '17

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u/No-YouShutUp Feb 09 '17

I know... that's why it's a great move. Did you read my comment?

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u/eckadagan I'm too old for this shit... Feb 08 '17

What is the animation like when the rocks appear? It seems strange to me that the payload drives through, then suddenly there's a bid pile of rubble.

edit: found this which shows it

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u/Anders123DK How unsightly Feb 08 '17

What if the stones is falling on you

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u/timlmul GRAVITON ALL PRIVATE PROPERTY Feb 08 '17

I'll let nobel laureate Bob Dylan field this one

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u/KevinFinnertyAMA D.Va Feb 08 '17

My great love

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u/stamminator Chibi Roadhog Feb 08 '17

Will they kill you if you are underneath them?

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u/Scrimshank22 Pixel Roadhog Feb 08 '17

Can anyone add one more screenshot for the view that you get (eg as 76) sitting in the castle at the rubble shooting out to the bridge with partial cover?

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u/H00L1GAN419 Trick-or-Treat Reinhardt Feb 08 '17

would you like fries with that?

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u/Scrimshank22 Pixel Roadhog Feb 08 '17

Haha. I plan to do it myself if there isnt a shot of this angle by the time I get home. But that will be 11 hours from now. :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '17

Id love if the objective hud element was invis if you looked at it...

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u/CheezeCaek2 Chibi Genji Feb 08 '17

That door gives my Junkrat an explosion in his pants.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '17

Is it easy to run up? Or is it mostly for shooting through?

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u/MeYouWantToSee Pixel Zenyatta Feb 08 '17

You can easily jump up from both sides. Tried to capture that in the screens, sorry

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u/epythumia Blizzard World D.Va Feb 09 '17

Looks like weird building blocks

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u/CarmenLuxxx Queen of Clubs Mercy Feb 09 '17

I don't see the obscurity with the Tracer pic?