ChopperByrne wrote:

I'd love to play Widow more, but I always feel like I'm being a detriment to the team, as I'm fairly useless with her at the moment.

But those 300 damage headshots...

S'all good in quick play, and those headshots are bloody beautiful!

Try some headshot practice in custom game, Chopper. Load up a level, select skirmish, set all of the opposition to Ana, and turn headshots only on. Ana can't headshot you and she moves more like a real person than any of the other AI characters. I don't do it as often as I should, but when I do it's usually with McCree.

Okay, I had a comp game earlier that was exactly the kinda game Tiger's mentioned. Crazy line-up and next to no teamwork. Thankfully it was the only bad game of the eight I played, the rest were great fun and I'm still buzzing from the final win on Dorado.

Ended up loosing one more than I won overall and dropped 30 rank but got some lovely comp points towards something shiny so s'all good.

I think I'm properly off quick play though. Played a bit earlier and despite being in a group with a bunch of lovely folk I just couldn't find much enjoyment in the gameplay. I'd rather play mystery heroes. Or even no limits. Srsly.

Sorry Tiger, in Paris for a few nights!...

Come back. I need carrying! Fucking wretched run of form, still.

Going to play Smite instead. Or only play Bastion/Dps.

I tried to get Tiger to get it on PS4 back in the early days, it's gotta be a decent price pre-owned right now

Played a bit more comp with Tred and the gang last night. Quality games all round and we won more than we lost, woulda won one more but for a silly tactical mistake but hey, that's how it goes.

Seems I'm bleeding rank. After hitting my season high a week after placement I've gradually dropped by 100 over the last 3 weeks or so. No spectacular crashes like last season (and I know others have had a much worse runs) just the odd night of one loss more than a win or finishing evens, which of course means a very small rank drop.

The games are great for the most part though, vastly superior to anything quick play has to offer. I just can't climb. At all. Fingers crossed for better results in the new year.

I really wanna get into comp with the PS4 guys.

Comp's been tough the last few days with the fine bunch of chaps that are Prankster, Tred, Basil, and SlimJim. Brilliant, but tough. Lost a few earlier and dropped into gold, got back out, dropped back in, got back out, dropped back in, got back out and called it a night.

Had an amazing game with D.Va on Numbani amongst it all (had to have a break from Soldier), 4 gold medals from the off and kept em throughout. I didn't even mind when it ended in a draw. Good plays all round.

Anyhoo, feels good to finally commit to a season of competitive after playing mostly quick play til now. I've already played more of s3 than I did in either of the previous seasons and finally got my first golden gun out of it. The random mess of quick play has completely lost its appeal, if I wanna stress-free game I'll happily jump into one of the arcade modes instead. Just nothing on Ecopoint Antarctica, at least til they fix the problems with Mei accessing unintended parts of the map. Though it makes a difference from Reaper I suppose...

'Kay so we got the new map, Oasis, last night and it's bloody gorgeous. Srsly, the designers knocked this one outa the park, all three of the control areas are almost to pretty to fight on! When I first heard about the jump pad I was hoping for a few of them spread over the three areas with Quake style soaring and aerial kills, but we just got the one in one area and it's a nowt but a lil boost up. S'all good though, it works and is so much better than those bloody lifts on Hollywood. And yeah playing in the traffic isn't gonna get old any time soon.



The few games I had late on the new brawl were a bit of a mess though, with teams being a mix of first time gawkers and explorers and tryhards who'd orientated themselves in custom games. Hopefully it'll be better tonight and we'll get more of an idea of how to work the areas. Can already see Pharah working well here.

Nice win streak there, Nexx! And yeah Oasis is in comp rotation so it's well worth loading up a custom game with someone else and maybe playing a bit of the brawl.

I'm all Oasis'ed out after playing a stupid amount of the brawl tonight. Much respect to Prankster, Petey, and the crew for putting up with the horrors we faced for so long. It definitely feels different to any other control map, open yet with so many architectural features to disguise your approach. And Pharah does indeed work well here from what I've seen.

Someone has left my team in 6/8 last solo queue games I've played. Nearly down to Gold now.

Nobody plays as a team. Fucking fucking twatty game. Won't even be able to play soon. Going on a mission to fix this tonight.

Haha!

Seems like you're having an even tougher time with comp than I am at the moment, Tiger. Sucks. 

Big fan of the current PTR changes though, the slight Ana and D.Va nerfs should hopefully see more peeps running line-up's that aren't full of bloody tanks. Gotta say, I see Hog's Hook 2.0 as a serious buff though. Bullshit hooks were only ever an occasional thing for me, once a game maybe, but pulling someone into a random position where they couldn't be one-shotted was common. Especially Ana and Hanzo. Love the new multiple emote and spray options as well!

Jumping on about 10pm. Won't be offended if you want to dodge my presence atm, Nexx!

stormyskiesahead wrote:

I'm so enamoured with this bloody game that I'm srsly considering shelling out on a gaming laptop (nothing too crazy money, was looking at one of these. Any other suggestions would be welcome). As easy as it is to get games on PS4 right now I just know that'll change over time, and I reckon this'll have a phenomenally long life on PC. Would play both platforms as long as there's still life in the PS4 version, my friends on PSN are too lovely a bunch to even think about leaving.

That laptop should do you for 60fps if you lower some settings to high/medium, though if I were you I would wait a little bit for some laptops with the GTX 1050 GPU to come out, as the newer pascal architecture is absolutley miles ahead of the previous gen in the mobile form factor.

http://www.techradar.com/news/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1050-and-1050-ti-laptops-supercharge-budget-gaming