Yes to the collisions. Applies to both enemy and allies. Most evidently when a tank is blocking a tiny door and everyone is scrambling to get the health pack behind him before he gets it.

When you run into someone, you will push them slightly to move around them.

I didn't realize D.Va had so many problems until this update came out. I rarely visit the Blizzard forums but everyone is kicking up a storm about how much D.Va sucks.

Link: http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/t...44914371?page=1

I guess I shouldn't main D.Va so often, no wonder kept getting rekt. I didn't even realise she has the biggest headshot box in the game

The ranking thing is just accumulated score for playing a character based on all the stats that are accumulated. I don't know much about that but if you had no life/work you can easily reach the top ranking even if you truly suck at the game.

What I don't agree with is the importance of the KDR. I always think it is better to maintain a higher kill than death. A dead player is useless to the team and it is especially damaging to this game in escort modes. The 10 secs it takes to respawn and the 10 more secs it takes to get back into position is so damaging that if at any point the opponent is able to take out >2 people, you practically lose half the zone.

Also when I see someone with a D>K ratio, I can safely assume this guy is a kamikaze freak who chases those low HP guys all round the map and gets trapped in the middle of a massive firefight with 2.1hp left. I can understand the low kills for the tanks but when I see an attack character with a 1:1 KDR, I know he's not going to be much help in a prolonged fight which you always see at the end of escort maps.

Knowing when to die and dying for no reason are 2 different things.

The stats also show how much you heal and your objective time. If you're majoring in those 2, I sure hope the person looking at your stats know how to switch to the relevant hero's stats.

It's pretty easy to get a medal for staying with the objective/healing. I myself am pretty bad at killing too but I like to stick close to the objective cause it heals and the enemy comes on their own so I can try to pick them off and have a little survivability.

But yeah, if they only see your base stats and determine how good/bad you are at the game then they're doing it wrong. I always look at the highest stat then switch to the relevant hero to see how good that player is with his chosen character.

You can't really compare this game to TF2. It's a totally different animal altogether. Granted I don't have much experience in TF2 due to my slow ass Streamyx last time but with the amount of time I spent with it, the only similarities that I can see are the game modes.

Character wise, none of them plays like TF2. If you try to play this game with the same mindset of TF2, I think you'll be a little more than disappointed.

The turret in Overwatch is so fast I can't even get a few hits off it using Tracer without taking a shot. Its almost instantaneous when it rotates to the target.

The only visual cue you get is a line showing where it is aiming at. If you see this line, its probably you. Your best bet is to get a tough character to distract it while you whack it from the back.

Usually D.Va is good for this as she can get in close with little or no damage and shoot it at point blank range.

No but I have something weirder. Sometimes when I eject from the Meka, the screen turns black and stays that way. When it comes back i'm already dead.

And there are times when the game ends, it goes to a black screen and stays that way permanently. I can't even leave the match. Have to restart the game.

The friend list is in the "Social" option in the game. Make sure you are launching the game in the Americas server. Most of the players here are in Americas.

I got cancer too but was healed by playing with people here. After playing with LYN group, joining rando's really give me cancer. Chance of winning is damn near 0%.

Anyone going to try for the 36 win streak?

Don't underestimate the LYN team. They're pretty good when compared to the random teams I've played with so far. Sometimes it's messy but when they're in the zone, you know you got a good team with you.

Sign me up for another session doctor.

6GB. You must be referring to the system requirements in the Blizzard site. The game is not that big.

Go to this link and scroll down to the Origin's Edition portion of the page:
https://us.battle.net/shop/en/product/overwatch-origins

You get all those additional stuff from the Origins edition, mostly in game things for other Blizzard games.

The standard version does not come with those.

Roadhog's chain is unbelievably hit scan. Thats why it's so damn effective.

Zenyatta's orbs and main attack are bullet travel.

Yes you're correct about the projectile thing. Actually the term projectile is used to describe a game bullet that does not immediately hit a target.

More accurately, the term projectile used for this purpose is wrong. There is no exact opposite of hit scan so the word projectile is used. Back in the old days, projectiles referred to anything that comes out of a gun that can be seen.

It's around the Unreal Tournament time when the term projectile was first used to describe a non hitscan weapon. When TF2 came out, this term exploded and has been in use ever since. It's one of those things that is wrong but because everyone says it, it becomes correct.

Thats why I just kept using the term bullet travel. I've been trying to avoid using the word projectile because technically, everything is a projectile.

I've been looking for one too but I have not found a specific video/doc/link/etc that states all the types as of yet.

Those that I have found out so far are from videos and Blizzard forums. Some of the videos on Youtube have Blizzard executives talking about the gameplay mechanics and they do mention a little of some characters.

Some of them are from professional gaming competitions where the commentator says it sometimes. You can watch the recent one where Cloud9 vs Luminosity. Thats where I found out Roadhog's stupid hook is actually hit scan.

In Genji/Mercy/Zenyatta's case, I saw a video from Overwatch Central stating that it is indeed bullet travel type.

Same shit connection today. Lowest ping I got is 200 ms. Left and rejoined so many games until I got the leavers penalty. Not even once I got a good connection.

Yes it's counted as a loss in your statistics.

About this, I am not sure if that's how the Blizzard servers work. Yesterday I played a game with someone in JB in a group.

Both of us are using Unifi and since we're in the same group, I would assume that we are joining to the same server. Strangely enough, my ping was around 198 and his was around 20.

Unless this game is absolutely bonkers about joining multiple servers to load up one session, I am not sure how can this even happen.

I think I'll switch to the Asian servers too if this keeps up. Lucky Odin Sphere Leifthrasir is coming out tomorrow. I really feel like abandoning this game now.

Not sure if Unifi is the one causing the problem. I actually did test it out using tethering from uMobile. It gives the same results as Unifi. What pisses me off is I am able to get low ping for some games then when the game is over and we are transitioning to the next map, suddenly the ping shoots up to 200+ for some of us while another few still have low ping. It's so weird.

There is a reason on the OW forums by some tech guy that supposedly goes, there is not enough players of the same rank to match with so it searches for players in other regions. Something to do with the match making but its still weird when we're in a group.

Happens on both Unifi and uMobile. The only similarities I see from both is that the name starts with U. eh...