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Information

Streams: Twitch | overwatchleague.com | MLG.tv

Schedules: Official | Liquipedia | Over.gg | GosuGamers

Changes from Stage 1.

Format

Group Play matches will be 4 Game Sets. The map order is as follows:

Playoff matches are best-of-five (Bo5).

Schedule

Stage 2 Week 1 will run Wednesday February 28th - Saturday March 3rd.

Stage 2 match start times will run as follows:

Broadcast Talent

Overwatch League Teams

Matches & Results

DISCLAIMER: Times are approximate and are subject to change and/or delay.

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Tl;dr: don't demand nerfs to fun supports that can defend themselves better from flankers when people barely want to go healer as it is.

Learning how Brigitte works has been fun. She's functionally a paladin which is right up my alley. And her kit screams "anti flanker back line bodyguard" which is badly needed in this "OMG why wont dive meta die" meta.

But much like Moira, a support that can defend themselves has gotten that very special subset of our community moaning and crying that she's too powerful or "does too much."

That's right boys and girls let's talk about the "supports are too powerful" whining.

It boggles my mind, when we have so few people willing to go Main tanks let alone healers, that we have people crying and salting up over a healer that can, GASP, defend themselves and isn't a free kill to their l33t MLG Ganjo or Tracer flanking!

it's hilarious but also annoying that I'm already seeing flanker players crying about a hero WHO WAS JUST ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY as being "too strong" just because her kit directly counters their "flank from behind and wreck their backline" style of play.

Between that and the near endless "Moira OP" threads on the Blizz forums, along with checking their profiles and seeing that a good 80% of the whine threads ARE from DPS Mains (the rest being Ana mains who, admittedly aren't feeling the meta love atm) I have to wonder: how can you complain about never having a healer when you're constantly demanding all the healer's to be nerfed into helpless heal bots? How is that kind of playstyle "fun" for people who want to heal?

We're seeing a great change in how support heroes operate with Moira and Brigitte bringing a lot more to the table than just healing and praying to God one of their teammates turns around gets that flanker off of them., and most importantly being FUN and APPEALING to players who maybe weren't all that keen on support heroes before.

So please, consider the ramifications of demanding nerfs for supports the next time you're complaining that nobody wants to go healer in your games.

As seen on the Overwatch website here Brigitte's age has been reduced as Michael Chu alluded it would be yesterday

Playing at the pro level? Anti dive support. Defends herself, and her heal pack can keep an ally from being picked off early. This also works in a dive comp, as she's able to spread her healing among the mobile heroes, as well as keep up a far off dps

Low skill? She's super easy to play, doesn't require much aim and her healing is simple.

More skilled? You can use her shield bash to get away or get to interesting spots, not to mention those sick rocket flail shots

Playing comp? Her utility works well on practically any comp. She has a tool for all situations

Playing quickplay and nobody cares? She works as both a healer AND a tank on those pesky 5 dps comps.

Want to have a wildly powerful push? Want to defend the point and your whole team to keep them alive? Her ult does it all

Want to dps, but your team needs a healer? Not to worry, her healing is automatic

There were holes in niches that the game had no heroes to fill, and with one hero, they somehow managed to fill most of them.

Really impressive on blizzard's part

Blizzard,

First and foremost, Brigitte is amazing! Her kit has the perfect amount of utility and she will be really refreshing to the meta.

With that out of the way.... Please Please PLEASE let her golden weapon skin extend to her shield as well! I know this would be a precedent for shield heroes (i.e. Reinhart's non-gold shield), but Brigette has more physical material on her shield, where Rein's is mostly hard light.

I can't wait to see all of her cosmetic items. You've made a lot of support and tank mains alike happy this week. Thanks for the hard work!

Tad bit of clarification: Gold Flail (obviously)..... and Gold Shield = ONLY metal components, not the hard light (blue) aspects of the barrier.

Thanks for the upvotes and visibility!

Dear Overwatch subreddit,

I am a high school student in Ontario, Canada, and for a computer science project, we are tasked with contacting someone outside of Canada in the computer science field to ask some questions about what their job entails. I'm hopeful that maybe developers from my favourite games may respond

If somebody from the Overwatch team, or anybody working in the computer science field, could answer these questions, I would be ecstatic.

1. What does a typical work day look for you? What responsibilities or roles do you take on? Do you get to play games on the job?

2. How do you think your work impacts the environment (positive, negative)? What is being done at Blizzard, or your job/company specifically, to help preserve the environment?

3. What was your academic background? What did you do before working at your company? How did you get your job at your company?

The project also requires proof that you work in the computer science industry.

Thank you so much for your time.

Yours truly,

A hopeful high school student

Information

Streams: Twitch | overwatchleague.com | MLG.tv

Schedules: Official | Liquipedia | Over.gg | GosuGamers

Changes from Stage 1.

Format

Group Play matches will be 4 Game Sets. The map order is as follows:

Playoff matches are best-of-five (Bo5).

Schedule

Stage 2 Week 1 will run Wednesday February 28th - Saturday March 3rd.

Stage 2 match start times will run as follows:

Broadcast Talent

Overwatch League Teams

Matches & Results

DISCLAIMER: Times are approximate and are subject to change and/or delay.

This thread will be replacing the Season 8 LFG thread pinned on the sidebar under RESOURCES.

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Welcome to Season 9!

Season 9 begins Wednesday February 28th starting at 4 PM PST and will run for approximately 2 months.

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In addition to these 5 major details, feel free to include anything else that might be relevant- such as whether you want to play with a specific age group, newcomers only, casually or as professionally as possible.

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We will be removing all LFG-related posts outside of this one and redirecting them here.

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Got questions? Feedback? Abuse? Message the moderators if you need anything from them. Have fun! Good luck in Season 9!

Nowadays, it is commonplace to charge for new, additional content. I just wanted to express my gratitude towards Blizzard for not doing this with Overwatch, keeping everyone on an equal playing field.

In the actual build of the PTR you can now see the ult progress of your teammates. Pretty nice to be honest.

https://imgur.com/a/8ykmB

Taken from a YouTube comment by Flynn Hatton, thought it was amazing and deserved to be shared!

Edit: Mexican Music. I apologize.

https://imgur.com/a/4Q48H

It's confirmed bois

• Ana sniper
• Brigitte tank
• Lucio flanker
• Mercy main healer
• Moira DPS
• Zenyatta DPS

Sounds like it's time to have some fun with 6-stack in QP.

https://i.imgur.com/1scjeKW.jpg

In high resolution, thanks to some neural network black magic fuckery. One of the most badass shots I've seen in these kind of videos

https://imgur.com/a/JXYeu

With the arrival of brigitte, papa torb got himself some visual upgrades, for a second, these appear around the person and in their perspective aswell.

More than just having equal numbers (13, 13, and Bastion), I'm just very impressed with what Blizzard has done with this cast of Heroes. It oftentimes seems like female characters in games are an afterthought - or overly sexualized stereotypes.
I've always been drawn to badass, developed female characters, and I'm happy that Blizzard has been so great on this front. Especially with the diversity of body representation (Mei, Ana, Zarya) and occupation (female engineers, gamers, scientists, soldiers). Blizz has clearly made an effort here in creating relatable, developed female characters largely not based on tropes, and I appreciate that. I wish more devs followed their lead.