Overwatch

[PokerFace]

Can the beat with every character achievement be on any dificulty? If so I think I can get that with hanzo and mcree on easy since I already beat it with 76 (med) and ana (ez)

[Clumsy]

I believe so! I think I got mine on easy. I was just shooting the birds and looking for secrets for 75% of the match. XD

[xRECKONERx]

this game needs better ways to get loot boxes, jfc

[Clumsy]

Yes pls. Or just less than 17,000 sprays to fill them up with.

[PJ.]

Sprayboxes =(\

Honestly that's kinda why I don't play OW that much anymore. Full retail price game with all the psychological abuse of f2p games built right in.

[Clumsy]

It's not so bad because you get currency for duplicates... Except that for commons it's 5 per. Yayyyyy. The occasional epic or legendary skin dupe is nice though.

[Flameaxe]

I will counter, a legendary dupe is probably worse than a common one. You get the excitement of "OH SHIT AN ORANGE" followed by "nah here's 1/6th the price of a legendary"

[Clumsy]

Only 5 more until you get something you actually want!

/sarcasm

[PokerFace]

I agree with Flameaxe

I bought Mercy witch as I had 3000 and wanted it more than Reaper pumpkin. I got mercy with dupe 2 level ups loots later. I'd have gotten them both had I picked the reaper one first. Spent the 300 ealy as I was not suure how much time I'd spend with the update given the tf2 halloween was oncoming. Though since tf2 halloween update is kind trash and buggy I have been playing overwatches update moret

[Jahudo]

I really dont want to spend 3k on witch mercy when sombrero is right around the corner

[TheButtonmen]

buying any skin before novemeber 1st is a bad idea

you might still open it

[PokerFace]

I agree with Flameaxe

I bought Mercy witch as I had 3000 and wanted it more than Reaper pumpkin. I got mercy with dupe 2 level ups loots later. I'd have gotten them both had I picked the reaper one first.

Spent the 300 early as I was not sure how much time I'd spend with the update given the tf2 halloween was oncoming. Though since tf2 halloween update is kinda trash and buggy (again) I have been playing overwatches update more

would not have done it if I had known my schedule at the time. There are rumors all holiday skins will be made unpurchasable after nov1 and not purchasable again until christmas special is going on. Talk of making summer games skins purchasable during christmas season is also going on

[pickemgenius]

placed close to plat(2397) after a 4-4-2(W-L-D) placements.

Only one of those games was a 5v6(even 4v6 for like 3-4 min), and only one with two Chinese players :O

either way not bad for a shitter who essentially played tank/support all 10 games and has had the game for a couple of weeks.

[Clumsy Phoenix]

PokerFace:

The Halloween items are only unlockable or purchasable during the "Overwatch Halloween Terror" event, which ends Nov. 1.

If this event goes well and people respond to it positively, we'll consider applying this model to future events we run.

We're still learning...

Source

[Clumsy]

Wrong account. XD

[PJ.]

Peg so good

[PokerFace]

I made that post before seeing that source. seems rumors were right. Guess I'll have to binge play this weekend to get reaper and 76 skins since thats all I need. I just got promotion so that should lead to 20 quick levels of loots

[Clumsy]

As of today, I have everything that I was really wanting. I am happy. :D I feel like they did a much better job with the special event loot this time around.

[Errantparabola]

THIS IS GOOD STUFF

[PokerFace]

Reminds me of 8-bit megaman themes^

I managed to get all I wanted out of recent loot boxes so I am also good, got all Halloween skins

[Jahudo]

Just in case Sombra's abilities get revealed tomorrow I'm going to try and make a prediction before hand:

Main fire - submachine gun with short to medium range.
Alt fire - same gun fires healing nanobots that are less strong than Ana but can be fired quicker.
Ability 1 - "Spyware" places a small device that will reveal enemies through walls within range until destroyed / triggered.
Ultimate - "Firewall" lay down a rectangular area that stuns enemies who step on it

[PokerFace]

I really like your predictions.

Ability 1 - "Spyware" places a small device that will reveal enemies through walls within range until destroyed / triggered.

Something like this would likely be bound to shift since Symetra's turrets and Hanzo's see through wall arrows are shift. Overwatch seems to like putting slightly simlar skills on the same buttons like how torb's turret is shift and Zaryas/Symetra's teamate shields are shift

Ultimate - "Firewall" lay down a rectangular area that stuns enemies who step on it

I like this idea as well though I think it would better be suited as AoE DoT damage. Like Mei and Dvas ult in that it will provide area denial. BUT without freezing enemies or flat out killing them (burst damage). Instead it will deal low amount of damage over time (or dot damage) to anything in a set area (AOE) Perhaps the size of the area will be determined by where the spyware is

[PokerFace]

Alt fire - same gun fires healing nanobots that are less strong than Ana but can be fired quicker.

I don't think she'll have this. Mercy already fills the role of heals over time and I don't see this ability usurping her of this role

I'd sooner expect a new ability to Mercy as her E to make her more playable than an ability that competes with something she has which would lead to mercy being played less

I think they should give mercy an e ability that lets her do a dash similar to the guardian angel ability, BUT it has a cool down and does not require you are dashing toward some teamate. Basically an escape move since she is most defenseless character in support class

[PokerFace]

Another way they could take Sombra is the make her a stealthy spy like hacker with these abilities:

Movement Ability - Weak Cloak - Can't shoot while using. Shooting would end the cloak. If you bump into someone or they shoot you, you are revealed or person who bumped orr shot you automatically says "A hidden enemy is here"

Hack Ability - You learn % value of an enemies ult or you get simple yes or no on whether your target currently has their ult ready

This character would NOT have any backstab or disguise abilities, bringing those to overwatch would be horrible, I think we all can agree on that

[Clumsy]

My official guess:

Weapon is submachine gun, damage and fire rate somewhat similar to Tracer, just a bit slower and weaker but longer range. 30 bullets in mag.

Shift brings out a turret similar to Symetra's, but instead of firing, acts more like a Hanzo Sonic arrow. Has to be weaker in some form... maybe shoots a little dart that reveals only the first person for like 8 seconds? That's my guess. Turret could be deployed via little gadget gun instead of placed.

E ability "Lockdown". Prevents use of any activated abilities (shift, e, maybe ult) in an area. Keep Bastion in or out of turret mode, prevent Rein charges, Zarya bubbles, Pharah jets, etc.

Ult localized cloak, broken by shooting.