For those who aren't reading it, here are some Nerf Now!! strips about the game. Also, for context: Angie and Jane debuted in the strip as female versions of TF2 characters, with Angie being an Engineer and Jane being a Soldier. Later on both of them moved out of the TF2 universe to become regulars in the comic itself, and evolved as characters. But those are their origins, and since they can't go back to their old jobs in TF2, they've landed work with Blizzard doing behind the scenes stuff at Overwatch.
Putting these here means that everybody will get all the jokes, a couple of which went over my head since I don't have the game yet.
reaper's significantly more embarrassing when you realize he's not a young adult doing all this. he's like, in his forties. reaper is basically billy corgan.
I continue to maintain that Reaper is no more ridiculous than Soldier 76.
Eh, I can see where you're coming from, but Soldier 76 is basically just a way for people who're more familiar with Call of Duty or Halo to get into the game (his "Biotic Field" even lets him mimic hiding away for a few seconds to regain all your health) so it makes sense he'd basically just be that guy. (Plus he has that one skin which is so ridiculous and wonderful it actually made me play him once.)
Reaper, on the other hand, is just unironically Spawn or something.
I'm sorry I just find it very complain-y and like, profoundly unfunny.
He does like Overwatch, if that's any consolation. It's just that one character who's got a case of sour grapes because she wasn't able to actually fly when she was a Soldier in TF2.
really I have the same problem with NerfNow that I do with something like Penny Arcade, none of the characters are really likable, the jokes are not jokes, and most of the strikes at humor are centered around whether or not you agree with whatever the author is saying, which can be any number of things, but by the time I finally got annoyed enough with the strip to stop reading it, was mostly complaining about Hearthstone.
the problem is compounded by people treating NerfNow strips as Biting Commentary instead of, you know, webcomic strips.
I understand. It isn't for everybody, after all, and I didn't realize it was actually irritating anybody. I don't want to do that, so I'll stop sharing the strips in this thread.
I know that I can't ever expect there to be a sale with discounts as big as Steam's on Battle.net, but I may just buy it eventually. Either after Blizzard reduces the price because "Well, it's been a year now," or when there's a Christmas sale. (I bought the first two parts of Starcraft II during the last Christmas sale, even though they're still in my backlog.)
Even though I ended up going back on my word, I'd still be a little surprised if this doesn't go free to play eventually. (Frankly, it bothers me that a game that's not free-to-play still has a microtransaction model involved, but that's been true since at least 2012 with Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode, and there it actually affected the gameplay.)
Microtransactions don't bother me if the game gives me game-money for completing missions or challenges or whatever, and if I can use that to buy stuff instead of real money. (I shudder to think how much real money I'd have spent by now if I'd chosen to pay for all the ME3 multiplayer crates I've opened with my credit card instead of the reward money I earned in-game. Definitely more than I'd paid for the game itself and all the DLC, that's for sure...)
So I just started using McCree and honestly I'm enjoying him. I really want to get good with Tracer because I like her, but it just hasn't clicked for me. McCree's stun-fan-roll-fan, on the other hand, is an instant winner, even if I don't like his lack of mobility. (And I literally carried a game with his ultimate by killing everyone on the capture point at once.)
I also impressed someone by killing an enemy just with the flashbang. I didn't expect it either.
Aside from that, I'm getting increasingly frustrated with Roadhog because it seems like no matter what I can't beat him on my own. I was playing Reinhardt and I just charged him straight off a cliff, sending us both to our dooms, just because it was better than the alternative of trying to slug it out with him. What the hell, how do you deal with this guy. (Snipers, I guess. Or teamwork? But that seems impossible in this game where people think the guy with the barrier is just shouting "Form up on me!" for his health.)
Roadhog is kind of considered one of the kings of the game right now, yeah. His combo has pretty good range and one-shots half the cast, and his alternate fire is kind of insane if you can hit with it. He has his weaknessess though.
Pharah is...kind of a pseudo counter. The important thing is to disengage before entering his hook range (15m). Outside of that range, Pharah can just pepper him with rockets, but is dead meat the second she enters.
Zarya is probably one of the more straight counters I've seen. People cannot be grabbed by the hog if one of her shields are on them, and if somebody does get hooked she has plenty of time to drop a shield on them and nullify almost all the damage from his combo.
To an extent, Reaper is also a counter. As long as he gets the drop on Roadhog, Reaper can do an insane amount of damage to him and kill him in probably about 2 seconds. This in addition to the fact that at 250 health, Reaper can usually survive the hook combo if it lands.
While I've not been playing the game just yet, I've done plenty of reading on the wiki. I noticed that a lot of people's interactions with Pharah involved them talking about their positive feelings toward her late mother...
...who turned out not to be dead after all, and is now in the game. So are people still saying the same stuff, e.g. "Your mother was a hero to me. To all of us," even when Ana is like five feet away?
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Microtransactions don't bother me if the game gives me game-money for completing missions or challenges or whatever, and if I can use that to buy stuff instead of real money. (I shudder to think how much real money I'd have spent by now if I'd chosen to pay for all the ME3 multiplayer crates I've opened with my credit card instead of the reward money I earned in-game. Definitely more than I'd paid for the game itself and all the DLC, that's for sure...)