[Blizzard] Overwatch

[JasonPastman]

Until you play this game there is not comprehend able way to cognize how good it is.  Everything from simple player interactions, team cohesion, strategy, personal association with characters, style, etc... Just from playing it during the beta weekend, I have really fallen in love with it.  Hay though, I hear you guys.  If i hadn't played it I would think it just some lame TF2 clone.  But, I tell you, It's something special.

[Vibe]

Release date: May 24th

Open beta will be up for a couple of days in the early May (for everyone).

[Radament]

this man deserves a bukkakke (not you Vibe  )

[Kafein]

This guy makes (without even noticing, kinda) a good point about opening up multiplayer games gradually. There has never been a day one server outage on the release date of DOTA2 because there really wasn't any release day for DOTA2. More like a release year.

[Leshma]

[Vibe]

Those who prepurchased before April 29th can already play the beta. For everyone else the Open Beta begins on May 5th:

ALL ACCESS: The all access portion of the Open Beta will begin on all supported platforms May 5 at 01:00 a.m. CEST. All players will be able to play for FREE during this period; no sign-up or code required.


I've played two matches so far and the game has the typical blizzard quality and smoothness to it. Was fun.

[Banok]

thats cool because I'd like to try it, but I don't think I will buy it. 

[saccizord]

I don't see myself buying it (they dun fucked up with the price in my region, too steep), but I love TF2 so I'll happily download it and try a few matches

[Vibe]

Game is now open for everyone to try until Sunday.

[Xant]

So is it good? Seems a bit gimmicky.

[Vibe]

So is it good? Seems a bit gimmicky.

Gimmicky how?

Yeah for me it's really good and pretty much living up to the hype that was accumulating in me for the past few months. I'm actually surprised it lived up to it, I was worried it wouldn't and that I misjudged (read: overrated) the game through videos.

It has the typical Blizzard game polish, runs smooth, looks fantastic, moving and shooting feels great. There's a bunch of heroes (some that play very differently than others), team compositions, maps and gamemodes to keep it interesting for a long time. The high skill cap and teamplay potential is there. So I have zero complaints so far. Ranked/competitive mode is coming after launch since they're overhauling it a bit since it received somewhat negative feedback in beta.

CS:GO being my last shooter I can say it's a breath of fresh air for the bullets to fly where crosshair is and that I can move and shoot at the same time. Pharah is orgasm for me as a former Quake 3 player.

I would honestly recommend to just try it now that you can. All my friends that tried the game were satisfied with it.

I would also QFT this:

Until you play this game there is not comprehend able way to cognize how good it is.  Everything from simple player interactions, team cohesion, strategy, personal association with characters, style, etc... Just from playing it during the beta weekend, I have really fallen in love with it.  Hay though, I hear you guys.  If i hadn't played it I would think it just some lame TF2 clone.  But, I tell you, It's something special.

[Xant]

Gimmicky because mixing in skillbased FPS with special abilites á la Dota 2 seems, well, gimmicky. But I'm downloading it, we'll see.

[Xant]

Pretty entertaining so far. The smooth gameplay makes up for a lot.

Genji is pretty awesome, reminds me of Scout gameplay from tF2.

I mean, damn, he even seems a bit OP right now. Great ranged attack, can deflect attacks coming at him, superb mobility, etc.

[Vibe]

Gimmicky because mixing in skillbased FPS with special abilites á la Dota 2 seems, well, gimmicky. But I'm downloading it, we'll see.

Yeah I can see why you would think so but abilities seem fairly decently balanced, a lot of them require to be aimed or have some sort of aiming/positioning skill anyway. Ults can be heard from a mile, giving enough time to react appropriately to it, so it's not like it's just 'press ult to win'. I think abilities is what makes Overwatch go beyond shooters such as TF2 and only makes the game better.

[Xant]

More I play it, the more I like it. Seems pretty well balanced, and characters are very distinct.