Overwatch

uncle_rufus · 8 Jun 2016 at 11:04

I've not encountered many dodgy net-code issues, having a very low ping myself, but perhaps I've been lucky and not ended up connecting to anyone with a very high ping

The hitbox thing just confirms what I already thought - that aspect has clearly been balanced around console players who would rarely be able to land headshots with the snipers on their controllers otherwise... However didn't Blizzard say that they are planning to balance the console and PC versions of the game separately? In which case I could see them shrinking the hit-boxes on PC if it's what people want

chris-82 · 8 Jun 2016 at 11:07

meldarthx said:
that's also down to the terrible net coding - if you have a low ping you can be head shotted etc by someone with a high ping; the servers allow this.....its so damn annoying to die 3 seconds later when you're out of site of everyone because of net coding.....

I've seen this happen quite a bit in my killcams.

VincentHanna · 8 Jun 2016 at 11:19

People still have high pings?

PixelChef · 8 Jun 2016 at 11:46

ColdAsIce said:
I wish I didn't see this video

Quite stupid really, one of the few reasons Overwatch can't currently be taken seriously as a competitive game.

Kipz · 8 Jun 2016 at 12:37

PixelChef said:
Quite stupid really, one of the few reasons Overwatch can't currently be taken seriously as a competitive game.

Disagree here,

Everyone is playing with the same advantages/disadvantages. I do agree it needs nerfing but it's a level playing field for Hanzo Vs Hanzo for example.

VincentHanna · 8 Jun 2016 at 13:04

I'm always at a disadvantage compared to most, because I use an Xbox One controller.

Hanzo and Windowmaker are ruled out straight away.

tlrBeta · 8 Jun 2016 at 13:17

I personally haven't found it that bad, all games have lag compensation, this is why you're dead after "appearing" behind the wall.

For those who want to know more about netcode, a good breakdown here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/3u5kfg/everything_you_need_to_know_about_tick_rate/

VincentHanna · 8 Jun 2016 at 13:20

They introduced 60 tick rate servers. You have to setup a custom game and only 0.8% of players use them.

Kainz · 8 Jun 2016 at 13:22

Had a hilarious game yesterday. Jumped into a Quick Play expecting a usual loss because I seem to be paired with clowns most of the time. On this occasion though everyone had gone Winston! So I joined in and we ran amok on that Japanese map. Had a good laugh mass cattle prodding the enemy

Bloomfield · 8 Jun 2016 at 13:33

VincentHanna said:
They introduced 60 tick rate servers. You have to setup a custom game and only 0.8% of players use them.

Yep, there are issues with the 60 up and down (compared to the current 60 up and 20 down that we have on quick match) servers though, they want more people to do custom games using the option so that they can fix all the issues.

They said that if they enabled the option right now 20% of people wouldn't be able to play at all.

I've heard people like Seagull saying that the 60 tick servers just crash half the time when you make it, so even comp games aren't necessarily using 60 tick atm.

Evilsod · 8 Jun 2016 at 16:57

Kainz said:
Had a hilarious game yesterday. Jumped into a Quick Play expecting a usual loss because I seem to be paired with clowns most of the time. On this occasion though everyone had gone Winston! So I joined in and we ran amok on that Japanese map. Had a good laugh mass cattle prodding the enemy

Had a game a week or 2 ago where the enemy team tried that on Route 66 (except 1 was Mercy).

Didn't work particularly well and they all swapped to something different by the time we started pushing to the final point.

What do people think about the new 'Random' brawl? Had a quick game last night... I'm undecided. Luck of the draw gave me Symmetra twice in a row on offence, and at 1 point the enemy team had 2 Pharah, a Junkrat, Mei, Soldier and Reinhardt, we had 2 Luccio. The self-heal and spam was unreal.

roysters · 8 Jun 2016 at 17:34

random brawl??? did i miss something? i played last night... didnt see that?

AndyCr15 · 8 Jun 2016 at 18:43

Is there any benefit/reason for the voting for players at the end of the game?

I don't quite understand how people choose. Some guy had loads of self healing and got pretty much all of the votes, while I had the highest objective time (or something similar) and got nothing

Also, what is the point of the rating a game at the top too?

uncle_rufus · 8 Jun 2016 at 18:52

Voting for players is supposed to be a way of acknowledging someone who played well, but in general people rarely vote for anyone not on their own team and there's no reward for doing it so a lot don't bother...

Rating the game I always figured was just for Blizz to use in their own statistics, e.g. "we found players rated 60% of games which had multiple of the same hero on one or the other team badly - do we need to consider restricting it to maximum of 1 hero per team" type of things...

TheBrooder · 8 Jun 2016 at 19:49

EDIT: Nevermind, it worked.

Woogie · 9 Jun 2016 at 08:04

AndyCr15 said:
Is there any benefit/reason for the voting for players at the end of the game?

I don't quite understand how people choose. Some guy had loads of self healing and got pretty much all of the votes, while I had the highest objective time (or something similar) and got nothing

Also, what is the point of the rating a game at the top too?

In general I tend to always vote for anyone with healing (Not self healing) as healers are usually lacking in these kinds of games

krooton · 9 Jun 2016 at 08:51

I did get MvP last night with my first attempt at Zenyatta, he's actually pretty damn fun!

And a sweet play of the game with Phara on Route 66 when I got a quadra environmental kill with my E

I must say, I'm enjoying this way more than I thought I would, given I'm not the biggest fan of FPS.

Biggler · 9 Jun 2016 at 09:52

Woogie said:
In general I tend to always vote for anyone with healing (Not self healing) as healers are usually lacking in these kinds of games

I'd vote for healer and tanks almost all the time, unless there was a particularly amazing play of the game and I was able to vote for them.

valkia · 9 Jun 2016 at 10:49

So, I got something pretty cool

Bloomfield · 9 Jun 2016 at 11:49

Biggler said:
I'd vote for healer and tanks almost all the time, unless there was a particularly amazing play of the game and I was able to vote for them.

I only ever vote for a healer that's on my team, when it isn't me, which most of the time it is, so I just don't bother voting in 90% of matches.