Overwatch

Biggler · 5 May 2016 at 09:58

Musty Pie said:
I HATE junkrat players with a passion.

bomb spam mental. Its the one thing i wish they balanced better.

So you're saying I should try junkrat

He's probably one of the few I haven't tried yet

McGray · 5 May 2016 at 09:59

Lodjik said:
I haven't got the most up to date Service Pack. Never been a problem for anything else ever.

I'm not updating just to play this game.

Translation = I have a pirated version of Windows.

valkia · 5 May 2016 at 09:59

Musty Pie said:
I HATE junkrat players with a passion.

bomb spam mental. Its the one thing i wish they balanced better.

Take a Pharah, problem solved

booyaka · 5 May 2016 at 10:04

McGray said:
Translation = I have a pirated version of Windows.

haha - I didn't want to say that but that's EXACTLY what I was thinking!

ChrisJSY · 5 May 2016 at 10:39

McGray said:
Translation = I have a pirated version of Windows.

Which you can still update, so no.
However yeah people need to update at some point, if they're on 32bit still....wow.

uncle_rufus · 5 May 2016 at 11:14

Installed the Beta this morning, sadly only had time to do the tutorial before I had to go to work (it hurts!!!)

Looking forward to having a bash this evening and then more over the weekend. I'm guessing like with their other titles it's pretty much only available through Battle.net? So £45... could be worth it, we'll have to see

The talk about switching classes to counter sounds a lot like TF2 so I think I shouldn't have a problem there... (Plenty of TF2 games where one team just don't "get it" and sit there with 5 spies and 6 snipers and then wonder why they aren't getting on so well)

the_wu · 5 May 2016 at 11:20

uncle_rufus said:
I'm guessing like with their other titles it's pretty much only available through Battle.net? So £45... could be worth it, we'll have to see

cdkeys were selling for £26, just checked, back up to £29.99. But you can get 5% off.

Tobes · 5 May 2016 at 11:33

So how long do I have to wait for people to start playing objective gaming rather than deathmatch?

Squink · 5 May 2016 at 11:35

Is the general consensus that this new IP could run successfully for a few years? Blizzard are very good at keeping their products going.

Edit - what I'm trying to ask is whether the game looks good enough to be a keeper or whether it'll get boring after a few weeks.

jubei · 5 May 2016 at 11:37

uncle_rufus said:
Installed the Beta this morning, sadly only had time to do the tutorial before I had to go to work (it hurts!!!)

Looking forward to having a bash this evening and then more over the weekend. I'm guessing like with their other titles it's pretty much only available through Battle.net? So £45... could be worth it, we'll have to see

The talk about switching classes to counter sounds a lot like TF2 so I think I shouldn't have a problem there... (Plenty of TF2 games where one team just don't "get it" and sit there with 5 spies and 6 snipers and then wonder why they aren't getting on so well)

If you don't like to trust key sites with your battlenet purchases (no reason not to i have sc2 and diablo expansions from one) you can also buy from the rainforest or high street game shop. Its 35.99 for the origins edition from those places so saves you a tenner.

Biggler · 5 May 2016 at 11:43

Tobes said:
So how long do I have to wait for people to start playing objective gaming rather than deathmatch?

I don't think we're going to see much of a difference in beta. There might be a lot of players just treating it as a demo and messing around.

And even when the game's released that's probably not going to change until there's ranked play unfortunately.

agnes · 5 May 2016 at 11:45

I'm happy with the deathmatch approach at the moment, I just want to feel the games mechanics and get to grips with it.

I'm 90% sure I'll be buying.

David Bisset · 5 May 2016 at 11:50

Biggler said:
I don't think we're going to see much of a difference in beta. There might be a lot of players just treating it as a demo and messing around.

And even when the game's released that's probably not going to change until there's ranked play unfortunately.

They took out ranked play?

Biggler · 5 May 2016 at 12:02

David Bisset said:
They took out ranked play?

Jeff Kaplan said:
We worked extremely hard to get Competitive Play in the game for Closed Beta. We’ve been reading feedback from the community and taking it all to heart. As a result, we’ve temporarily disabled Competitive Play for Open Beta so that we can rework the system and make it better.

Our plan is to bring back a newly re-designed version of Competitive Play sometime after Overwatch launches.

Source - http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20743634851

dakaiez · 5 May 2016 at 12:12

Anyone want to play through beta or getting it at launch add me and i'll be up for grouping up.

dakaiez#2416

Bloomfield · 5 May 2016 at 12:28

Biggler said:
Source - http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20743634851

That's awesome. The competitive mode was one of the main things that put me off the game since it was basically Hearthstone's ranking system, only they made it even less competitive.

If they're actually going to change it to a proper ranked mode that's great.

valkia · 5 May 2016 at 12:39

Playing in a tournament on Friday, the Overwatch discord organised one. Think it has around 250 players

Vtec9k · 5 May 2016 at 12:40

Will be on tonight for a blast! Vtec9k#2693

AStaley · 5 May 2016 at 13:14

Have this pre-ordered, but can't decide if I want to play the beta or keep it as a totally fresh experience for when it is released in a couple of weeks time. Game looks like so much fun.

Projeqts · 5 May 2016 at 13:16

First time playing the game today, and I'm really surprised. Didn't have much hope for it, but will definitely be purchasing this one now. Great fun.