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roysters said:
lol! ohhhhh. Apologies. So they made a mistake on a mistake! cool. Looking forward to that.
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I'm looking forward to all the competent players joining ranked games so I can win more Quick Play matches. PUGs will be so much more fun with 5 Hanzos / Widowmakers and me trying to keep them healed while they dance around the rooftops. Oh wait .... deja vu :)
 
Mei can't carry a team 1v6 because she doesn't do enough damage. The only time that might work is if the other team is totally incompetent and goes in 1 at a time.

Love playing her and 1v1 she has the potential to win vs almost anyone bar tanks (unless they seriously screw up). My reactions are a bit off sometimes with the cryo stasis and ice wall (1 day I hope to Cryo a Mcree's flashbang + fan, unfreeze and kill him :p). Against a team though she can't do much without assistance. She needs distractions to enable skirmishes and she doesn't have the damage output to follow up on her ult even if she gets a 6man freeze.
 
Kainz said:
Two quick plays earlier. I keep landing in teams full of muppets - one team had hanzo's, and genjis's. Needless to say I tried every class to try and help. Then I quit, and landed in a team full of black widows. Got frustrated and went to do player vs AI.
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Welcome to team based FPS games.

I used to play a fair bit of TF2 but same thing there, teams full of snipers/spies and muppets. Team stacking too seemed to be all the rage, especially spawn camping.
 
Sometimes you just have to swap characters to go for the win. Attack as Mei on (forgot the map... 2 capture points, starts with an open area by a refinery and ends in a factory). We took the first point almost smoothly, bloody Mercy revive messed us up a bit and the Mcree had an annoying habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time ><

2 minutes to go and we weren't having much luck breaking the final point. Reinhardt blocking for Mcree and Hanzo with a Bastion and Tolbjorn around also was a problem... could never quite make the push work. Swapped to Junkrat. Got the ultimate combo off with 30 seconds to go, Pharah launches a Barrage and they all snap to her and take her out, then get distracted by the Winston who leapt around the side... all the while ignoring the tire rolling towards them. Took out 4 of them and then Tolbjorns turret.
They couldn't get back fast enough to block the cap we were on it so fast.
 
Evilsod said:
(1 day I hope to Cryo a Mcree's flashbang + fan, unfreeze and kill him :p).
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Not as hard as you think, I've done it a few times. 90% of Mccree's are the same. They always take 1 or 2 shots then grenade. I wait about 1 second after engaging then freeze, works pretty well.

Although I don't know if Mei's freeze has a delay or a start up animation, or if it's because of the low tick rate but I find it can be unresponsive. Some things I know for a fact I've reacted to, but my freeze doesn't go off. Kinda frustrating.
 
Kainz said:
Two quick plays earlier. I keep landing in teams full of muppets - one team had hanzo's, and genjis's. Needless to say I tried every class to try and help. Then I quit, and landed in a team full of black widows. Got frustrated and went to do player vs AI.
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You sure you weren't playing the Hanzo vs Genji Hanamura map that's currently active?
 
Had a fun night last night... Was running a Mei + Zarya combo with one of my mates online and that works quite well... being able to give Mei a powerful shield every 5-6 seconds especially when she's such a target for the other team meant my damage was through the roof and we absolutely melted people... Once Zarya's damage gets to 100 it's crazy how fast you take people down - the 150HP heroes just die almost instantly...

Also had a game defending on Route 66 where we were getting badly stomped, first two points were capped in barely a minute each, then the tougher 3rd point we defended for a good 6 minutes of the 8 minutes they had left on the clock, but it looked like they were going to get the better of us... We had just barely scraped through their latest big push with the cart virtually capped but both teams had taken heavy casualties... I think we'd have lost except for the last minute decision to switch out for 2 Winstons, a Mercy and a Lucio... The other team clearly weren't expecting it and their final push was a complete failure... Goes to show how effective switching can be
 
Just hit over 40,000 views on my Widowmaker tutorial video, been posting quite a lot of Overwatch tips and tricks and it's started to do pretty well since the game released.
 
One thing on Widowmaker - I think her close range is too powerful. I've had her best me 1 on 1 in quite a few situations now.

People always talk about game imbalance, but I do think that on PC with snap mouse-aiming that is one of the few characters who is slightly over powered.

She can do 130dps for 3 seconds at close range. That's enough to deal with half the roster.
 
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VincentHanna said:
One thing on Widowmaker - I think her close range is too powerful. I've had her best me 1 on 1 in quite a few situations now.
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As what classes? I find anytime I get close enough to an enemy Widow for her to need to switch to the assault rifle she's dead before she gets through the first clip... The only exception being when she is able to grapple away to somewhere I can't get to...

Can also confirm any times I try to play as Widow and get rushed by someone it seems like I have a very low survival rate (but I don't play Widow much because the sniping is both boring and not challenging compared to a lot of the other classes, so that's probably just a case of me sucking)
 
I never play as Widowmaker or Hanzo because

A) I use a controller (!) and therefore wouldn't be effective against Mouse and keyboard players
B) Sniper classes in any game don't interest me

I have a lot more fun playing as other characters, and there are a lot of ways to shut her down with a co-ordinated team.

The problem is that co-ordinated team on Quickplay public games is mostly very difficult.

I do like having a Widowmaker on my team, because her recon ability is very useful I just think compared to Hanzo (the only other sniper) she is a bit overpowered.
 
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