Overwatch Beta is live!

[Ashtot]

I've been playing on PS4 and it's fun! I'm loving Mercy. Been playing with Justin, Thunder, Meg-Mog, and her bf.

If anyone wants to add me my PSN ID is Vrisnem.

Mercy is also my favourite!

- - - Post Merge - - -

I did a match where all four players on my team used Reaper. Funny at first, but it didn't take long before everyone realized getting our asses kicked wasn't that funny.

I seem to do best with D.va and Pharrah, but there aren't a ton of characters I dislike using (although I can't hit **** with Lucio)

I love having Pharrah on my team because I can synergize well with Mercy. She flies away and I can follow her.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Also my Battletag is Ashtot#1537

 

[Kapriznyy]

Hnnngh the character designs are so good ;_; Haven't checked if it's an open or closed beta. If it's the former I'll definitely have to give it a shot, because I've been salivating over the designs for what feels like forever now.

 

[DarkDesertFox]

Hnnngh the character designs are so good ;_; Haven't checked if it's an open or closed beta. If it's the former I'll definitely have to give it a shot, because I've been salivating over the designs for what feels like forever now.

The classes are also really unique. Considering how many different characters that are in the game, it's incredible they're able to make each character different from the next. I also love how many levels we get to see in the beta. They're giving us a whole variety rather than just a couple. I wish I could play with more people on TBT, but it seems there's a lot of PS4 owners here. I do own a PS4. I just don't pay for the PS+ membership. I've been an Xbox person ever since I got the 360.

 

[Tao]

i wish it was cross platform

I think it would be cool if it were cross platform between PS4 and Xbone since there won't be much/any difference between those versions, but not PC.

Hnnngh the character designs are so good ;_; Haven't checked if it's an open or closed beta. If it's the former I'll definitely have to give it a shot, because I've been salivating over the designs for what feels like forever now.

It's an open beta, anybody can join.

But yea, I love the designs. I love the art style as well, it feels really CGI 'Disney', like Wreck-It-Ralph or Big hero 6.

 

[radical6]

mei is super fun, so is symmetra, too bad symmetra isnt that good at shooting imo, takes too long to charge and i die pretty quickly close range.

im kallie #11395
play on america

 

[DarkDesertFox]

My friend told me the beta doesn't require a PSN + membership so if anyone wanted to play I'm on now.

 

[Kuroh]

Overwatch is a lot of fun so far!! I've been playing it on the Xbox One and love to play as Genji, Hanzo, and Reaper the most~ Man, all of the character designs are so nice and it's really great too how all of their play styles are completely unique from one another

 

[DarkDesertFox]

Kind of annoying how Bastion gets the best kill cams in like 80% of the games I play.

 

[radical6]

bastions annoying but genji usually handles him, but i agree its boring watching him just activate his ult and kill some people

 

[Horus]

Bastions and Meis make me want to die

 

[Tao]

Kind of annoying how Bastion gets the best kill cams in like 80% of the games I play.

Yea...

It also kinda annoys me that the only thing they show are 'kill cams' (at least from what I've seen), especially since a few characters are almost incapable of performing well enough offensively to ever outdo somebody else in a match (unless, ya'know, everybody else really sucks). I mean, the game is focused on more than just 'who got the most kills', so where are the highlights showing an awesome performance a Mercy player did, quickly healing multiple characters at critical health back to 100% and practically winning the match? Or where somebody playing as D.Va used defense matrix at a perfect time to soak up tons of damage whilst her team wasted them? Heck, maybe even just acknowledging that one player almost single handedly defended an objective and won the game.

But no, we need to see Bastion do that friggin' turret thing again...



I should mention, highlights for healing actually 'do' exist since I looked in the highlight panel on the main menu and to my surprise I had/have one for Mercy...But it seems like kills 'always' take priority to be shown at the end of a match, even if the highest 'combo' in a game was a double kill.

 

[Acruoxil]

Clocked 14 hours in the game so far. It's too much of a blast to play, sadly I'll be out of town for a couple days starting tomorrow so I won't be able to play anymore of it until the game comes out.

Still maining Widowmaker, but I play varied heroes depending on the map and if I'm attacking/defending. Usually I use something like Tracer to flank the enemy while escorting so that my team can push forward while the enemy heroes respawn and return to the battle.

Yea...

It also kinda annoys me that the only thing they show are 'kill cams', especially since a few characters are almost incapable of performing well enough offensively to ever outdo somebody else in a match (unless, ya'know, everybody else really sucks). I mean, the game is focused on more than just 'who got the most kills', so where are the highlights showing an awesome performance a Mercy player did, quickly healing multiple characters at critical health back to 100% and practically winning the match? Or where somebody playing as D.Va used defense matrix at a perfect time to soak up tons of damage whilst her team wasted them? Heck, maybe even just acknowledging that one player almost single handedly defended an objective and won the game.

But no, we need to see Bastion do that friggin' turret thing again...



I should mention, highlights for healing actually 'do' exist since I looked in the highlight panel on the main menu and to my surprise I had/have one for Mercy...But it seems like kills 'always' take priority to be shown at the end of a match, even if the highest 'combo' in a game was a double kill.

That's not true, I've seen highlights for literally every character except support heroes(Lucio, Mercy and the Z ball one), but you get to vote for their healing which is equally appreciated(I've got like 9 votes for my Mercy healing which is pretty cool haha). I've actually seen only two play of the game of Widowmaker though, and both were mine lmao.

I'll be on for about 10 hours, my PSN is dilutesheer if you wanna play

 

[radical6]

i want a mercy potg, i got an epic but not potg. ever. cmon mercys highlight intros are way too good to pass up. i swear every ****ing bastion player who gets a potg has that birdwatching intro

 

[Yeosin]

I see, and have received, many mercy/symmetra play of the games for my ressurections/turret pentas lol.

 

[Curry]

So here are my thoughts on it. I like it, a lot, but I think it's over-hyped. When I first started it, I immediately thought of TF2. I loved TF2 though, and through my first few games I thought it was just okay. Not great, not bad. However, after playing multiple days and many games now, it's a fun game. Still over hyped, but I will definitely be buying it.

 

[Yeosin]

So here are my thoughts on it. I like it, a lot, but I think it's over-hyped. When I first started it, I immediately thought of TF2. I loved TF2 though, and through my first few games I thought it was just okay. Not great, not bad. However, after playing multiple days and many games now, it's a fun game. Still over hyped, but I will definitely be buying it.

I do agree with almost everything said here, especially on the overhype part. It's for sure a great game and is most positively hyped up to the extreme.
I think part of that is the fact that is was so exclusive for so long in closed beta.

 

[DarkDesertFox]

I don't think it's overhyped. It's meeting a lot of expectation for people and even exceeding them for some.

 

[Curry]

I don't think it's overhyped. It's meeting a lot of expectation for people and even exceeding them for some.

The biggest problem I have with it is that there were only two game modes. A/D and KotH. I'd like to see something else, like maybe a general TDM type game mode, or especially something like Arena in TF2. It's a beta, so I wasn't expecting a huge selection, but I hope the full release has more game modes. As far as actual gameplay, the heroes seem mostly balanced with a few minor exceptions and it's a very fun game to play. Again, a very good game, it's still over hyped though.

 

[DarkDesertFox]

The biggest problem I have with it is that there were only two game modes. A/D and KotH. I'd like to see something else, like maybe a general TDM type game mode, or especially something like Arena in TF2. It's a beta, so I wasn't expecting a huge selection, but I hope the full release has more game modes. As far as actual gameplay, the heroes seem mostly balanced with a few minor exceptions and it's a very fun game to play. Again, a very good game, it's still over hyped though.

They're working on a competitive mode that was removed from the closed beta to make sure that when it's released it will be great. The director also said, "We're also working on a TON of post-launch features and content. It's going to be a pretty amazing summer." From the sound of that it looks like we can expect a good amount of additional content to be released this summer as well.

Also, I read that Tracer had a pose removed because a good amount of the community complained it was sexual:

Spoiler: Removed Pose

I actually like the one it was replaced with better.

Spoiler: Replaced Pose

 

[ellarella]

only one more day left of playing, fam

Also, I read that Tracer had a pose removed because a good amount of the community complained it was sexual:

i got a bit perplexed when i saw that widowmaker had a pose that looks almost 100% like it (it's called "over the shoulder")