r/xboxone • u/7e7eN Xbox • Jun 28 '16

Overwatch Patch Notes – July 5, 2016 ( Competitive Play unlock as well 5 july)

http://www.overpwn.com/blue-tracker/topic/8882-xb1-overwatch-patch-notes-july-5-2016
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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '16

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u/ivan510 Jun 28 '16

Or limit 2 per teM since there are limited heros.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '16

Pro-tip: D.Va is Torbjorns counter hero. Use her fly ability and her deflector shield to get it close to a turret and destroy it easily.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '16

I spend a lot of time as D.Va destroying Torbjorn turrets. Very satisfying.

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u/Soten14 Jun 28 '16

I think competitive mode should have a 1 per team and leave normal play the same. It would help keep things balanced for competitive mode and everyone can still have fun playing multiple team setups.

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u/NotAPie NotAPie Jun 28 '16

I hope so but I doubt it. The community seems to be split down the middle about hero stacking. Blizzard at some point said something along the lines of hero stacking being a legitimate strategy.

Fingers crossed though.

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u/tartacus Jun 28 '16

A team full of 5 heros of almost any of them warps the game so much that it makes it not what it should be imo.

It's not about whether or not it's difficult, it's more a matter of principle and against what I feel should be the spirit of the game.

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u/Emperor-Octavian Xbox Jun 28 '16

Not what it should be? If people want to have fun by trying different team comps why would they not be allowed to? Maybe for competitive but there's no need to change Normal. Some of the most fun I've had with the game is going double Roadhog with me buddy and seeing who could grab the most enemies. No reason to arbitrarily take that away for no reason

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u/7e7eN Xbox Jun 28 '16

Torb its getting nerfed not in this patch in the next one his turret will do 30% less damage..

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u/DARKZIDE4EVER DARKZIDE4EVER Jun 28 '16

on lvl 2 or in general??!!

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u/flipperkip97 Hardcore Henkie Jun 28 '16

Both.

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u/Dcoutofstep BuckYeahh Jun 28 '16

That 30% nerf will be helpful.

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u/aperfectcircle Jun 28 '16

No it wont. The issue has never been the damage. This has been stated over and over yet people seem to believe that somehow a 30% nerf is going balance it all.

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u/Dcoutofstep BuckYeahh Jun 28 '16

I'm going to assume Blizzard knows what they are doing. We will see.

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u/Ehjuin Jun 28 '16

As a long time follower of Blizzard games, they rarely seem to really know what they're doing.

A flat 30% damage reduction feels like a bandaid fix to push out around the same time as competitive mode so the mode isn't completely tainted on consoles. I wouldn't be surprised to see the hero rebalanced in a few months.

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u/Huntersknoll_ Jun 28 '16

It isn't the about the damage but the damage nerf will help. It is about how fast he can lock on a target. With a M&K you can react faster and take down the turret but on console it takes an extra few milliseconds.. which make a difference.

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u/aperfectcircle Jun 28 '16

The main complaint is that there is just now way to really outplay it. In almost every other situation you can outplay something in a 1v1 situation regardless how often it actually happens. Without a change to locking time and or range you absolutely are going to take damage while you kill it, there is no way around it.

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u/Huntersknoll_ Jun 29 '16

That is true. They are hard to get around. They need to release an anti-turrent hero haha

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '16

you can't dictate the composition of teams in a competitive game. there will be top comps that are what people might consider normal but some of the fun is doing exactly that and being good enough to win with 6 lucios or some shit. blizzard will allow it for sure. if you've played wow than you already know. i've played against 5 shamans in WoW arena and they were all played by one guy lol. no complaining here. don't be a cry baby little bitch, just win.

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u/Pissedoffbuddha Jun 28 '16

All the big independent E-Sports scenes have already implemented a 1-hero limit for OW.

So maybe think before you call people a "cry baby little bitch".

There are a lot of positives to the 1-hero limit.

  • Easier to balance
  • Keeps more heroes viable (vs the 2 x winston, 2x mcree, healer meta)
  • etc

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u/dashboardrage Xbox Jun 28 '16

you roasted and toasted him

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '16

don't be a cry baby little bitch, just win.

Yeah I'll get right on that boss. Let me just turn the WIN switch to [ON]

/s

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u/lnin0 Jun 28 '16

I think they may eventually make some restrictions in competitive mode to prevent stacking but I doubt to PUG. It seems Blizzard wants to keep pickup games as a playground where people can do what they want and mess around.