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ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 7:12 pm #168897

Bottom post of the previous page:

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK MY FACE

EndgamerAzari · Fri Apr 15, 2016 8:06 pm

Those of you who've played, who do you like so far? I played Lúcio and Pharah the most, with a side of Roadhog and Widowmaker.

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 1:51 am #168962

McCree, Zarya, and Tracer

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 1:55 am #168964

I got in too, Soldier 76 is a cool guy

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 3:05 am #168977

Soldier 76 is pretty fun.

I only played a few matchs when the weekend beta started before I went to bed since the servers were very ""stressed"" meaning matches would rarely load and often crash.

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 4:56 pm #169081

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 5:28 pm #169087

If its any consolation the weekend beta ends in about ten hours, so plenty of people will be left with a virtual version of blue balls soon.

Aloraydrel · Post by **Aloraydrel** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 5:45 pm #169088

Been playing it all this morning and its pretty gud

Bluespace · Post by **Bluespace** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 5:59 pm #169091

I am buying this soon.
I am very sweaty and can't wait.

srifenbyxp · Post by **srifenbyxp** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 11:06 pm #169125

I just wana fug tracer

(Kind of NSFW)

Spoiler:

CrunchyCHEEZIT · Sun Apr 17, 2016 5:50 am

From what I have seen from gameplay, Torbjorn, Zenyatta, Bastion and Genji look fun af.

I seem to have a fetish for robots and cybernetics.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Sun Apr 17, 2016 8:33 am #169190

My current desktop. Centered, not tiled or stretched.

I think I've said it a million times already but I want to play as McCree so bad.

CrunchyCHEEZIT · Sun Apr 17, 2016 3:06 pm

ITS HIGH NOON

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Sun Apr 17, 2016 4:02 pm #169247

>>>>tracer and genji mains

IcePacks · Post by **IcePacks** » Sun Apr 17, 2016 8:04 pm #169316

tried this yesterday

in a wild, completely unprecedented twist that i would've laughed my ass off at in 2014 i enjoyed battleborn more

sue me

CrunchyCHEEZIT · Sun Apr 17, 2016 11:12 pm

how dare you dislike a game that I like

this is an outrage

No, but uh, Battleborn looks pretty cool as well. Definitely something I'll look into later; but I prefer Overwatch atm

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Sun Apr 17, 2016 11:48 pm #169375

The way battleborn looks screams korean knock-off to me. I can't do it. The whole aesthetic just looks like a cellphone game. Everything has been phoned in so hard.

Just fucking look at this. Really soak in this character design.

There's bad graphics, and then there's bad graphical design. This is the latter.
It's the same complaint that keeps me out of most MOBAs. The character designs in every game I see just look like generic shit made for people with low expectations.

...and that's what initially drew me to Overwatch. Here's one of those style games everyone loves, but the characters actually look like someone took a risk and gave them a design. Instead of just toe'ing the line on "shit 14 year olds like to play as".

Valve gets a nod for TF2 for going so hardcore on ultra-generic designs that they actually became iconic. They simultaneously crawled under the limbo bar of design and raised it so high people will forever be copying their archetypes of "big strong guy" "fast guy" "solider man" etc.

Here's a game you can play to test if your designs are generic and shitty: google image search a character from Battleborn and see how many so-similar-you-have-to-look-twice designs come up. Now do that with an Overwatch character.

ColonicAcid · Sun Apr 17, 2016 11:58 pm

>>>korean knockoff

씨발놈 its made by gearbox....

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:26 am #169383

ColonicAcid wrote:>>>korean knockoff

씨발놈 its made by gearbox....

Known for such original games as

Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Borderlands Legends
Tale from the Borderlands

..and that one super fucking awful Aliens: Colonial Marines game.

Truly a bastion of creativity.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 6:45 am #169473

Oh this game.

Are the women characters still voiced by shrill cockney women?
Like nails on a chalk board

Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 7:28 am #169479

TotalBiscuit gave this game pretty high praise at the end of 2015, naming it and Undertale as being the two best games of the year. Is it still good?

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 7:49 am #169484

CrunchyCHEEZIT wrote:ITS HIGH NOON

STEP RIGHT UP

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 7:54 am #169489

Luke Cox wrote:TotalBiscuit gave this game pretty high praise at the end of 2015, naming it and Undertale as being the two best games of the year. Is it still good?

It's not even out yet.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 7:57 am #169491

I watched a stream of someone playing as Tracer

She actually sounds like a girl I'd be able to just hang out with and have a good time
Not like the chav-witch I expected from reading this thread

Incomptinence · Mon Apr 18, 2016 9:09 am

An0n3 wrote:
It's not even out yet.

Youtube super star, move the entire game release schedule forward months just for you and your "viral marketing".

Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 9:41 am #169503

An0n3 wrote:
Luke Cox wrote:TotalBiscuit gave this game pretty high praise at the end of 2015, naming it and Undertale as being the two best games of the year. Is it still good?
It's not even out yet.

No, but it's very nearly complete. At least, done enough to get an impression of whether it's good or shit.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 9:49 am #169504

I know Totalbiscuit is kind of retarded but when someone says something is the best something of a year, normally that means it came out that year.

TankNut · Post by **TankNut** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 9:54 am #169505

Luke Cox wrote:
An0n3 wrote:
Luke Cox wrote:TotalBiscuit gave this game pretty high praise at the end of 2015, naming it and Undertale as being the two best games of the year. Is it still good?
It's not even out yet.
No, but it's very nearly complete. At least, done enough to get an impression of whether it's good or shit.

I've had the chance to play it for an hour or so (Friend let me borrow his account to see how well it ran on my laptop) and it's definitely solid. I didn't look at the progression system but based on gameplay footage it looks like it does the job nicely.

CrunchyCHEEZIT · Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:57 am

Apparently alot of the new "plebs" that joined this weekend were immediatly dunked on by higher-leveled, more experience players.

One of my bigger fears is that, when the full game comes out (or atleast during the open beta) and progression is reset, there will be a hidden layer of super-experienced players who will dunk your ass, even though they look as if they are level 1. This doesn't look like a fighting game, where mashing buttons and screaming can pull out a win against someone who's been practicing for years.

Either way, I am still gonna wing it and hope I don't get fucked in the ass when this comes out.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:58 am #169509

There's progress in Overwatch? I had no idea.

What can you unlock or earn?

TankNut · Post by **TankNut** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:38 am #169511

An0n3 wrote:There's progress in Overwatch? I had no idea.

What can you unlock or earn?

I was referring to the skins and various other bits like sprays and victory poses. It's not progression in the traditional sense but it gives you something to work towards.

Incomptinence · Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:22 pm

The new players were obviously intimidated by the rad skins of the old guard and collapsed into a rout.

Drynwyn · Post by **Drynwyn** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 1:33 pm #169523

CrunchyCHEEZIT wrote:Apparently alot of the new "plebs" that joined this weekend were immediatly dunked on by higher-leveled, more experience players.

One of my bigger fears is that, when the full game comes out (or atleast during the open beta) and progression is reset, there will be a hidden layer of super-experienced players who will dunk your ass, even though they look as if they are level 1. This doesn't look like a fighting game, where mashing buttons and screaming can pull out a win against someone who's been practicing for years.

Either way, I am still gonna wing it and hope I don't get fucked in the ass when this comes out.

This is exactly what is going to happen, I think. Should settle after a week or two as new players trickle in- if Blizzard does a big marketing push they could avoid it entirely but that's looking unlikely.

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 1:36 pm #169524

CrunchyCHEEZIT wrote: This doesn't look like a fighting game, where mashing buttons and screaming can pull out a win against someone who's been practicing for years.

???
But that doesn't happen lol?
An experience player will destroy any player that doesn't understand the basics of fightan games and just spams.

This is basically any multiplayer game, if you've played for a long time you won't lose against a new player unless you massively impair yourself.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:42 pm #169559

Sometimes novice players win fighting games against more experienced players because of sheer randomness and lack of thought process.

A big part of high-level fightan mens is anticipating your opponent and countering it. When your opponent is a chicken with its head cut off, you get so thrown out of your meta and comfort zone it can lead to some really weird losses. You just don't expect someone to be so stupid as to throw random unsafe moves, or just leap around doing nothing but roundhouse kicking. If you don't snap out of your regular thought process and dumb your game down back to "just keep throwing DP's at him" you can get rocked.

Eg. I won my first match against this guy in a Tekken tournament once that way. I was really new to the game, and was just doing the moves I thought looked cool. Combos that weren't really combos, but looked like combos to me. Lots of fluid sweeps and cool throws. Just the moves I liked to use, but that's all I knew. I kicked the shit out of him that first match and he turned and just stared at me confused as fuck. Then he wised up and kicked the shit out of me the next two matches and won the round. He went on to win the tournament, I scrubbed out in my next round and was done (coincidentally the guy who kicked my ass that round got second place in the tournament, thanks for the worst seed ever!).

Super Aggro Crag · Mon Apr 18, 2016 4:06 pm

An0n3 wrote:
ColonicAcid wrote:>>>korean knockoff

씨발놈 its made by gearbox....
Known for such original games as

Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Borderlands Legends
Tale from the Borderlands

..and that one super fucking awful Aliens: Colonial Marines game.

Truly a bastion of creativity.

dont forget they made Duke Nukem Forever and Half Life: Opposite Force

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 6:53 pm #169611

An0n3 wrote:Sometimes novice players win fighting games against more experienced players because of sheer randomness and lack of thought process.

A big part of high-level fightan mens is anticipating your opponent and countering it. When your opponent is a chicken with its head cut off, you get so thrown out of your meta and comfort zone it can lead to some really weird losses. You just don't expect someone to be so stupid as to throw random unsafe moves, or just leap around doing nothing but roundhouse kicking. If you don't snap out of your regular thought process and dumb your game down back to "just keep throwing DP's at him" you can get rocked.

Eg. I won my first match against this guy in a Tekken tournament once that way. I was really new to the game, and was just doing the moves I thought looked cool. Combos that weren't really combos, but looked like combos to me. Lots of fluid sweeps and cool throws. Just the moves I liked to use, but that's all I knew. I kicked the shit out of him that first match and he turned and just stared at me confused as fuck. Then he wised up and kicked the shit out of me the next two matches and won the round. He went on to win the tournament, I scrubbed out in my next round and was done (coincidentally the guy who kicked my ass that round got second place in the tournament, thanks for the worst seed ever!).

Yes but a good player isn't good because he understands the game fundamentally at some times. He's good because he understands the game consistently,.

IcePacks · Post by **IcePacks** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 7:35 pm #169623

honestly i went into this expecting overwatch to be superior, but that's probably because my first impression of battleborn was a god-awful reveal trailer and some halfhearted interest along the way

i suck at twitch shooters, overwatch is a twitch shooter

i was a borderlands fanboy, battleborn is borderlands with a fairly diverse cast and less diablo-esque loot, which i honestly don't care for anyways, and some surprisingly fun multiplayer

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Mon May 02, 2016 6:59 pm #173096

TODAY IS THE DAY

4 MORE HOURs.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Mon May 02, 2016 8:58 pm #173128

ColonicAcid wrote:
An0n3 wrote:Sometimes novice players win fighting games against more experienced players because of sheer randomness and lack of thought process.

A big part of high-level fightan mens is anticipating your opponent and countering it. When your opponent is a chicken with its head cut off, you get so thrown out of your meta and comfort zone it can lead to some really weird losses. You just don't expect someone to be so stupid as to throw random unsafe moves, or just leap around doing nothing but roundhouse kicking. If you don't snap out of your regular thought process and dumb your game down back to "just keep throwing DP's at him" you can get rocked.

Eg. I won my first match against this guy in a Tekken tournament once that way. I was really new to the game, and was just doing the moves I thought looked cool. Combos that weren't really combos, but looked like combos to me. Lots of fluid sweeps and cool throws. Just the moves I liked to use, but that's all I knew. I kicked the shit out of him that first match and he turned and just stared at me confused as fuck. Then he wised up and kicked the shit out of me the next two matches and won the round. He went on to win the tournament, I scrubbed out in my next round and was done (coincidentally the guy who kicked my ass that round got second place in the tournament, thanks for the worst seed ever!).
Yes but a good player isn't good because he understands the game fundamentally at some times. He's good because he understands the game consistently,.

Don't forget that being Good can sometimes cause ego and complacency, which can lead to mistakes that an inexperienced player can stumble into taking advantage of.

Drynwyn · Post by **Drynwyn** » Mon May 02, 2016 9:06 pm #173132

ThanatosRa wrote:
ColonicAcid wrote:
An0n3 wrote:Sometimes novice players win fighting games against more experienced players because of sheer randomness and lack of thought process.

A big part of high-level fightan mens is anticipating your opponent and countering it. When your opponent is a chicken with its head cut off, you get so thrown out of your meta and comfort zone it can lead to some really weird losses. You just don't expect someone to be so stupid as to throw random unsafe moves, or just leap around doing nothing but roundhouse kicking. If you don't snap out of your regular thought process and dumb your game down back to "just keep throwing DP's at him" you can get rocked.

Eg. I won my first match against this guy in a Tekken tournament once that way. I was really new to the game, and was just doing the moves I thought looked cool. Combos that weren't really combos, but looked like combos to me. Lots of fluid sweeps and cool throws. Just the moves I liked to use, but that's all I knew. I kicked the shit out of him that first match and he turned and just stared at me confused as fuck. Then he wised up and kicked the shit out of me the next two matches and won the round. He went on to win the tournament, I scrubbed out in my next round and was done (coincidentally the guy who kicked my ass that round got second place in the tournament, thanks for the worst seed ever!).
Yes but a good player isn't good because he understands the game fundamentally at some times. He's good because he understands the game consistently,.
Don't forget that being Good can sometimes cause ego and complacency, which can lead to mistakes that an inexperienced player can stumble into taking advantage of.

There's a relevant passage from Playing To Win, a book on high-level competitive video games:

Another very interesting property is “beginner’s luck.” Notice that a beginner Akira in this situation [blocking an enemy's rising attack and having the option of a throw, or a delayed attack] will go for the throw, since that works on other beginners who haven’t learned to throw escape. The beginner Akira will never land the throw on an intermediate player, though, since the intermediate player knows to always throw escape. But strangely, the beginner will sometimes land the throw on the expert because the expert is aware of the whole guessing game and might block rather than throw escape. Of course, the expert will soon learn that the beginner is, in fact, a beginner and then he’ll be able to yomi [anticipate] almost every move.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon May 02, 2016 10:41 pm #173162

One of the only times I got genuinely salty playing a fighting game was while playing some Garou casually.
We would hang out just playing the classic "winner stays" rotation until they got through everyone then would pass it all around again.

I was on fire just trashing everyone in my playgroup that evening. It was pretty ridiculous.
Somebody's girlfriend who was there just to be annoying and hang off of everyone was going on about how dumb fighting games were, how we were all just mashing buttons, etc. etc. etc.

To prove her point she jumped into the rotation, and won a match against me. Not even a whole set, just a match.
...and she spikes the controller down and starts talking a ton of shit and I have never wanted to just reach up and belt someone across the face, knock their fucking teeth right out of their skull. Over a single set at casuals.

It all worked out. I kept my cool, everyone kinda shrugged her off and just went back to playing while she went back to complaining. People who know me sometimes still bring it up when they really want to piss me right the fuck off. "Hey remember that time so-and-so TOTALLY BLEW YOU OUT?!"

ColonicAcid · Mon May 02, 2016 10:43 pm

An0n3 wrote: "Hey remember that time so-and-so TOTALLY BLEW YOU OUT?!"

H-hey buddy are we talking about the same story here...

It was your friends girlfriend jeez.

Skorvold · Post by **Skorvold** » Mon May 02, 2016 10:57 pm #173168

A friend of mine used to bring his woman to tabletop night. It was consistently awful.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon May 02, 2016 10:59 pm #173169

What can I say? Someone coming in with such a shitty attitude and then being poor sport about it really got me, and for everyone who was there it was monumental.

Her gender and such had nothing to do with it. Just having someone there for a night that was explicitly to play FIGHTAN GAEMS pout around about how much they dislike the banner activity, then proceed to commit a bunch of faux pais and act like a shit about it. Like come the fuck onnnnnnnnnnnn.

Skorvold · Post by **Skorvold** » Mon May 02, 2016 11:03 pm #173170

Could be worse, she could have pretended to like it but really hate it.
Shit, bringing any uninterested 3rd party to group events ends up fucking awful, if they liked it/were liked enough to begin with they would have been invited there themselves.

EndgamerAzari · Tue May 03, 2016 1:12 am

Streaming it now:

http://www.hitbox.tv/endgamerazari

EDIT: Never mind, got logged out and couldn't log back in, stopping for now.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Tue May 03, 2016 4:11 am #173255

Honestly? I dig it. I've been playing a little bit being a total shitlord on Junkrat.

dezzmont · Post by **dezzmont** » Tue May 03, 2016 4:16 am #173257

Love the pulp adventure meets hardsuit cyberpunk thing it has going. It is neat seeing a non-gritty scifi setting for a change and it does make you feel like you are really globetrotting about.

I like D.VA. She can really make those MLG clutch plays with her knockback, the self destruct, and the fact that when she dies she can keep fighting and maybe take out someone from a flank who wasn't expecting it. I once got a 12 kill streak on her mostly through being really agressive in the mech and then just getting to the side of the fight when I die or ducking under Reinhart's shield when it blows up.

ColonicAcid · Tue May 03, 2016 11:13 am

roadhog is THE shit guys.

peoplearestrange · Tue May 03, 2016 3:42 pm

Is this the open/close beta rn? Or actual release? If its open beta I def want to try it, hows to get in? If its closed, well crud, I guess I'll wait.
I'm kinda interested, but Im also kinda broke right now.

Unrelated, anyone in the UK wanna buy some stuff?