Overwatch - Weekly Quick Questions Thread - February 07, 2018

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• Weekly Quick Questions Thread - February 07, 2018
• OWL Season 1: Stage 1/Week 5/Day 1 Discussion Thread
• Starting tomorrow you can change your skins at the start of the game!
• I gave up
• I just played two games of Competitive with a child who clearly could not have even been in his teens yet. As soon as I heard his voice, I knew we were going to lose.
• When no one counters widow so you do it yourself
• When you are one win away from Masters and ~5 seconds away from losing.
• You can now change skins at the start of a match!
• Karmas a B***h
• Jeff Kaplan: Mei, Sombra, Symmetra, Torbjorn, Doomfist, and Hanzo being looked into
• Junkertown Reinhardt Rollout
• Moira's new dance emote looks great
• If you're close to spawn when your Mercy respawns, please go get her
• AimbotCalvin casual widow switch.
• New Blizzard World Roadhog Flank with u/Decwin
• Ayutthaya will be permanent, also sorry for not posting lately
• This Orisa on my wife's team was insane.
• Surprise, Motherf***er!
• Never thought I could BM twice in the same POTG.
• Shaq joins SFShock's #BabyBayChallenge
• [Kaplan] Forum Comments 2/7/18
• 1000+ Hour Ana Main. Two simple changes to help Ana.
• List of abilities which make you drop the flag with new Capture The Flag rules (sorted by hero)
• Come with me Brother!
• EZ shots, I know, but this was the game that got me to diamond. So, I'm happy.
• Put down the wall, Mei! Crap! Wait... did I just? Jeff?
• Blizz plz. Allow me to illustrate how Blizzard World would truly operate. (Love the map btw!)

Weekly Quick Questions Thread - February 07, 2018 Posted: 06 Feb 2018 09:07 PM PST 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 Google-able stuff or a setting/skill in-game that you don't understand or a hardware recommendation, feel free to try your luck in here. Trolling or making fun of people in here will be punished extra harshly! Please report such behavior. For the purpose of helping people, make sure the comments are sorted by "new" in this thread. submitted by /u/AutoModerator [link] [comments]

OWL Season 1: Stage 1/Week 5/Day 1 Discussion Thread Posted: 07 Feb 2018 02:59 PM PST Information Streams: Twitch | overwatchleague.com | MLG.tv Schedules: Official | Liquipedia | Over.gg | GosuGamers Format Group Play matches will be 4 Game Sets. The map order is as follows: 1st map: Hybrid 2nd map: Assault 3rd map: Control 4th map: Escort Tiebreaker: Control Schedule Stage 1 Week 5 will run Wednesday February 7th - Saturday February 10th. Season 1 match start times will run as follows: Day Start Time Wednesdays 4 PM PDT Thursdays 2 PM PDT Fridays 4 PM PDT Saturdays 11 AM PDT Broadcast Talent --- --- Host Chris "Puckett" Puckett Analysts & Desk Soe "Soe" Gschwind - Jonathan "Reinforce" Larsson - Josh "Sideshow" Wilkinson - Alberto "Crumbz" Rengifo - Brennen "Bren" Hook - Malik "Malik" Forté - Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez Casters Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles - Erik "Doa" Lonnquist - Mitch "Uber" Leslie - Matthew "Mr X" Morello - Auguste "Semmler" Massonnat - Robert "Hexagrams" Kirkbride Overwatch League Teams Atlantic Division Pacific Division Boston Uprising Dallas Fuel Florida Mayhem Los Angeles Gladiators Houston Outlaws Los Angeles Valiant London Spitfire San Francisco Shock New York Excelsior Seoul Dynasty Philadelphia Fusion Shanghai Dragons Matches & Results DISCLAIMER: Times are approximate and are subject to change and/or delay. Matchup Start Time Result Dragons vs Fuel 4 PM PDT 2 - 3 Shock vs Gladiators 6 PM PDT 1 - 3 Valiant vs Dynasty 8 PM PDT - submitted by /u/SpriteGuy_000 [link] [comments]

Starting tomorrow you can change your skins at the start of the game! Posted: 07 Feb 2018 06:03 PM PST submitted by /u/Scrungi [link] [comments]

I gave up Posted: 07 Feb 2018 05:34 AM PST submitted by /u/DeorroTT [link] [comments]

I just played two games of Competitive with a child who clearly could not have even been in his teens yet. As soon as I heard his voice, I knew we were going to lose. Posted: 07 Feb 2018 08:33 AM PST We won both games, by a landslide, and he partially carried us there. He had a 22 player kill streak on D.VA in one game, and POTG with a 5 player kill as Pharah on the other, where he used the "pro strat" of launching himself quickly past a building using her denial attack thing, the push. He is a genji main with 41 hours on Genji, and level 397. He was extremely active in voice chat (along with the two other players he was grouped with), switched heroes multiple times, coordinated ults, called out people coming from the sides and back, extremely politely asked Mercy if she could rez him... All I uttered the entirety of the two matches is "I do have a mic, btw, i'm just shy" and "I'm not very good at Bastion". I apologize for immediately assuming you were gonna suck, little kid. I kinda hope a member of his group sees this post and knows it's him. His name had Boom in it, that's all I remember, and it was on PS4. We played Eichenwalde and Dorado. Edit: I am so sick of explaining this to people- The reason "You're the same SR, why assume he's bad?" doesn't work is because my SR is currently lower than it was from my very first ever placements at level 25. My SR is lower than it was in my very first non-placement match ever. That means everyone else I play with could theoretically be doing the same thing- playing their first match ever- because I am not high enough SR to have the luxury to assume everyone around me has "worked hard" to "get on my level". I am not high SR. I am not high rank. I am not above Silver. I placed into silver at level 25- and it's entirely possible anyone I play with also placed into this SR at level 25, and it is not fair for me to assume everyone is going to be a super skilled pro, because I got into this SR when I had no clue what I was really doing. submitted by /u/_Atlamillia_ [link] [comments]

When no one counters widow so you do it yourself Posted: 07 Feb 2018 12:00 PM PST submitted by /u/joshkroger [link] [comments]

When you are one win away from Masters and ~5 seconds away from losing. Posted: 07 Feb 2018 12:33 PM PST submitted by /u/CostlyElk [link] [comments]

You can now change skins at the start of a match! Posted: 07 Feb 2018 06:31 PM PST submitted by /u/TheRosstitute [link] [comments]

Karmas a B***h Posted: 07 Feb 2018 07:06 AM PST submitted by /u/Pakmanjosh [link] [comments]

Jeff Kaplan: Mei, Sombra, Symmetra, Torbjorn, Doomfist, and Hanzo being looked into Posted: 07 Feb 2018 05:51 PM PST submitted by /u/GetOffSombra [link] [comments]

Junkertown Reinhardt Rollout Posted: 07 Feb 2018 12:10 PM PST submitted by /u/joshkroger [link] [comments]

Moira's new dance emote looks great Posted: 07 Feb 2018 02:30 AM PST submitted by /u/RandomDentyne [link] [comments]

If you're close to spawn when your Mercy respawns, please go get her Posted: 07 Feb 2018 12:05 PM PST I can't tell you how annoying it is when my teammates are juuuust out of range of my Guardian Angel and don't stop for just a brief second so i can fly to them. Or when there's a moment of calm before the next team fight, have a high mobility hero come to spawn to get me. If you do that, I promise the heals will come to the team sooner, and I'll be in position for the team fight. I've been playing more D.Va since the nerf and everytime our Mercy (if we have one) dies I always try to go back for her so she can do her job faster and more efficiently. Because I know the struggle. TL;DR Go get your Mercy when she respawns and taxi her back to the point submitted by /u/Frostychica [link] [comments]

AimbotCalvin casual widow switch. Posted: 07 Feb 2018 04:24 AM PST submitted by /u/ikilluinface [link] [comments]

New Blizzard World Roadhog Flank with u/Decwin Posted: 07 Feb 2018 04:32 PM PST submitted by /u/reilly_witte [link] [comments]

Ayutthaya will be permanent, also sorry for not posting lately Posted: 07 Feb 2018 05:20 PM PST submitted by /u/ImWithDerp [link] [comments]

This Orisa on my wife's team was insane. Posted: 07 Feb 2018 09:16 AM PST submitted by /u/Khan_The_Great [link] [comments]

Surprise, Motherf***er! Posted: 07 Feb 2018 06:32 AM PST submitted by /u/BigShaxx [link] [comments]

Never thought I could BM twice in the same POTG. Posted: 06 Feb 2018 10:51 PM PST submitted by /u/beerupopcorn [link] [comments]

Shaq joins SFShock's #BabyBayChallenge Posted: 07 Feb 2018 09:57 AM PST submitted by /u/Fordeka [link] [comments]

[Kaplan] Forum Comments 2/7/18 Posted: 07 Feb 2018 05:45 PM PST Updating Live Looks to be done Kaplan made several comments in the forums today. Wondering if the new map will stay in rotation after the event Yes, Ayutthaya will be a permanent addition to the Capture the Flag map pool. (p.s. apologies for not posting on the forums for awhile. my forum account was in a broken state because we're preparing to update to our new forums soon and we were doing some testing. small indie company) Source In regards to a better colorblind mode We're still planning updates to colorblind mode using the OWL system. Sorry it's taking so long. Source Asking about a possible Winston shield buff We feel like Winston's shield is extremely powerful. Winston uses his shield very differently than Reinhardt or Orisa but we feel like it fits his kit well and is very strong. We're not currently thinking about any buffs for Winston. Source State of Pharah We feel like Pharah is in good spot right now. Source Regarding Junker Queen She's soooooo not nice. Source Concerning Doomfist(Goodman goes into specifics farther down) He has some minor buffs coming. Details closer to PTR. Source Regarding One Tricks Let's be clear here and not confuse policy: One Tricking is not bannable and should not be reported (it even says so in the text) Throwing is bannable and should be reported. We appreciate your help here. False reporting is bannable. Don't misuse the report system. Source Status of Mercy We have no plans to revert Mercy. We also feel like she's not in a horrible place or unplayable. It's still to be determined if she is exactly where she should be because it has been too soon and the dust needs to settle. Her playtime in QP and Comp is still incredibly high. Her winrate is still above 50% but more in line with what we'd expect. But I'd like to put the notion that Mercy is going to be reverted to rest. Also, we don't agree with the statement that all supports are weak. Support heroes are extremely powerful and impactful in OW. Source On the state of D.va/Heroes on balance list We're always evaluating all of the heroes. We don't have any D.Va adjustments in the works. She gets played a lot and is very powerful but she's not on our list currently. These heroes are on our balance list: Mei Sombra Symmetra Doomfist Torbjorn Hanzo We're trying different things for all of them. I know you want details but I don't have them now -- we're experimenting. Some will be ready sooner than others. I'd expect Mei, Sombra and Doomfist first... maybe Hanzo depending on the direction we pick. Source State of Torb Torb is on the list but no changes on the next PTR. He's going to take some time to do what we want to do. Source Concerning Overwatch League Map Pool The map pool is limited by stage. Stage 1 ends this Saturday. When Stage 2 resumes (Feb 21), you'll see new maps. Source Goodman: Doomfist buff specifics Doomfist actually has a couple things coming, one change is coming in the next update. The change that is coming soon will help make his primary fire more consistent. We've increased the number of bullets that he fires, but lowered their individual damage. The net result is the same damage over time, but there shouldn't be as much variance from shot to the next. Along the same lines, we've changed his spread pattern to help consistency as well. There is at least one more change we're testing that wont hit until a little bit later, which you guys still see once we get closer to the next PTR (as Jeff noted) Source Regarding 'social media' ban policy We have no control over what comments you make on social media. If a video gets posted of you playing OW and doing things that are against the rules, we will action you if we see it and can confirm the bad behavior. Source submitted by /u/Seagull_No1_Fanboy [link] [comments]

1000+ Hour Ana Main. Two simple changes to help Ana. Posted: 07 Feb 2018 03:44 AM PST I would like to keep this short, I play a lot of grandma, managing to reach top 500 in 3 season with her. Here are my two changes to Ana that would really help her. 1) Nano boost cast range increase. Nano boost currently has a cast range of 40 metres (Discord/Harmony orb share this cast range), I feel this is too short considering this is Ana's ultimate ability. Remember playing Junkenstein's Revenge during the event and having to run forward just to Nano your McCree on the Eichanwalde bridge? This limitation punishes Ana players and forces them to rubber band forwards into poor positions (having Genji dash outside of Nano cast range before blading also sucks). 2) Biotic Grenade no longer exploding on teammates. Biotic grenade has an almost immediate hitbox upon casting (if not immediate). This leads to allies either inside you or closely behind you (not visible in your FOV) to interact with the grenade and have it burst instantly, many grenades will be wasted in this fashion. It can also make it difficult/impossible to heal front liners if there are other teammates in the way. Allowing Biotic Grenade to pass through allies (like sleep dart) would allow for far more flexibility when using grenades, whether it be to anti-heal the enemy, or to heal an ally tucked in an awkward position. Great Ana players would be heavily rewarded by this change alone, the increase of nade flexibility would lead to many more clutch moments, offensive or defensive. While Ana could be buffed in many different ways (damage, reload speed, attack speed, etc) I feel these two changes are interesting and refreshing and would really offer Ana players more flexibility in their playstyles. I would love to hear what other high level Ana players think of these changes. submitted by /u/OverunderTV [link] [comments]

List of abilities which make you drop the flag with new Capture The Flag rules (sorted by hero) Posted: 07 Feb 2018 11:18 AM PST This is a list of every ability which give you 'invulnerability or great mobility' and hence makes you drop the flag with the new Capture the Flag rules. Doomfist - Seismic Slam - Rocket Punch - Meteor Strike Genji - Swift Strike Pharah - Jump Jet Reaper - Shadow Step - Wraith Form Soldier:76 - Sprint Sombra - Translocator - Stealth Tracer - Blink - Recall Mei - Cryo-freeze Widowmaker - Grappling Hook D.Va - Boosters Reinhardt - Charge Winston - Jump Pack Mercy - Valkyrie edit: - Guardian Angel Moira - Fade Zenyatta - Transcendence (This is according to the 'Mobility and Invulnerability Abilities Drop Flag' rule in custom games and may change for the event) submitted by /u/Sol_the_EPIC [link] [comments]

Come with me Brother! Posted: 07 Feb 2018 03:32 AM PST submitted by /u/RisingDawn7 [link] [comments]

EZ shots, I know, but this was the game that got me to diamond. So, I'm happy. Posted: 07 Feb 2018 12:36 PM PST submitted by /u/daxa52 [link] [comments]

Put down the wall, Mei! Crap! Wait... did I just? Jeff? Posted: 07 Feb 2018 10:27 AM PST submitted by /u/Chiuy [link] [comments]

Blizz plz. Allow me to illustrate how Blizzard World would truly operate. (Love the map btw!) Posted: 07 Feb 2018 07:55 AM PST submitted by /u/redheadwes [link] [comments]

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