He's ridiculously good fun, and now he can't be hurt by his own explosions and has two concussion mines he's in the best place he's ever been!
For starters, he's easiest to use on defense (but can be just as effective on attack once you're comfortable with his abilities) and grenade spam into a choke is legit. A trap and mine placed on a flanking route can wreck sneaky shits, as soon as the trap springs just detonate the mine and no matter where you are on the map you can get an easy kill. Hell, just a random trap dropped on a control point can be incredibly effective. Soon you'll learn to bait heroes with charge/dash abilities and ruin their day with a cheeky trap dropped in their path followed up with the grenade/thrown mine finishing move.
Those concussion mines are fantastic for mobility, get used to rocket jumping with them early on and use them to get to vantage points or for escaping from a fight you can't win. The mines actually allow for up to a triple rocket jump if cooldowns are managed right. They also give you proper two shot combo kill potential on squishies when thrown directly into the face of an enemy following a grenade.
Srsly, an agro Junkrat can be one of the most downright terrifying things in the game. Just watch out for Pharah.
Edit: Oh yeah, his recently buffed ultimate, RIP-Tire, is better than before but still far from being truly great. Try to get up high and drop it on the enemy or send it over buildings (turn "automatically climb walls" on in the options) to attack them from a direction they're not expecting. Usually as soon as people hear it they scatter and hide or just shoot it down.
D.Va's getting a bit of a rework in the PTR right now, it should hit consoles in a couple of weeks and she'll play considerably differently. Less defensive, more aggressive.
Just seen this, was highlights from the recent games in the South Korean APEX series. Well worth a watch for some sickeningly high skill antics.
Unfortunately the uncertainty and confusion surrounding Blizzard's forthcoming multimillion dollar buy-in Overwatch League has pretty much killed what was a healthy and growing grass roots tournament scene here in the west. I hate so much about the League (teams tied to cities, really? Fuck localisation in eSports, even the NA/EU banter is too much) but the sake of the game's future as an eSport Blizz better not fuck it up.
So, the Overwatch segment of the Blizzcon 2017 opening ceremony delivered far more than I expected. A new Hybrid map, a new Support hero, and a Reinhardt cinematic.
Moira seems to be an interesting mix between Mercy, Symettra, and Tracer. Will be interesting to see how she plays, I suspect there'll be plenty of balancing patches for her. Can never have too many support heroes though.
Aye, I tried to get a Quick Play game with her for half an hour with no luck. Had to go No Limits in the end but 5 Moiras on each team was not a good experience.
Spent pretty much all of last night on this with a couple of friends, my first proper session in months. Played my old main Junkrat mostly and had an absolute blast.
I'm done with competitive and all the salt, sweat, and bullshit that go with it though. Give me the easy going fun, messing around, and mild trolling of QP every time.
@Tiger Aye, I used to (although I didn't thrive on comp like many did) but I just stopped enjoying it. When even winning feels more a relief than a triumph you gotta make changes. So I had a break, played other games, then came back fresh and ditched comp.
The love for the game is absolutely still there though, and even after 1000+ hours the minute to minute gameplay is still exciting, surprising, and rewarding.
Compare that to Destiny 2, where I got bored of the Crucible's one note gameplay after about three weeks, and Overwatch ain't doing too bad.
Managed to get Moira a couple of times last night. She's absolutely NOT a solo healer but she does a cracking job in the secondary support role, being fairly well balanced for healz and damage.
She's also really good on chokes with those floaty death balls, add a Junkrat and watch the bodies pile up!
@Oli I've just had a look and it's a right mess. So, you have to go to the normal Overwatch GotY page on the store (it's highlighted in the Popular section) then press down (past Details then past Add-Ons) until you get to the Demo, that's what you want.
I s'pose any game with as many players as OW is bound to have some toxicity, and the PC community definitely seems the worst.
I've played for over 1000 hours on PS4, mainly in groups of friends and keeping to group chat, and I've had a total of three agro messages from other players, but nothing worth reporting.
Mostly it's been really positive, with around thirty people in my friends list coming from playing in groups with them as randoms.