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Overwatch New Hero "Echo" Revealed
- Thread starter NeoRaider
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Yeah i dont see them reverting it back unfortunately but i do think it would be the right thing to do for the health of the game. I know too many people who left and wont come back die to queue times
Echo already has a karaoke line:
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EDIT: Our new voice actress. Welcome to the family:
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Meanwhile Lucio has had a freestyle recorded in the game since 1893 and they refuse to give it to him as a karaoke line hahahahahahaha he's a dj hahahahahahahahaha.
EDIT: Our new voice actress. Welcome to the family:
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Game was a million times more frustrating to play before role queue. Removing it would most likely keep me from playing it anymore.
I still staunchly believe that every iota of Echo's character design is antithetical to a DPS hero.
in the DPS universe, of course
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Man xqc and other deadshit streamers have made people fucking stupid.
Echo is way too overpowered right now. She can take out tanks in a second with a combo and her ultimate is insanely OP. Not sure what Jeff is thinking.
Um i hate xqc but sure ok. Totally a reasonable comment that isnt at all the type of thing you would see from the person/audience you yourself brought up.
Very unbalanced hero. Can 3-1-2 or 2-1-3 and use also ult.
Everyone want play her. Now in ranked that's just grow up the time queue.
What Blizzard thinking seriously ?
Everyone want play her. Now in ranked that's just grow up the time queue.
What Blizzard thinking seriously ?
I couldn't tell you if I could.
This character is a dud, if you ask me.
My bad. What I meant to say, it WAS his old Ultimate voice line.
Oh that's why they ruin the fun, relatively balanced and perfectly fine 2-2-2 and try to introduce 3 dps which bring the game back to headless chicken individual DPS duels... the new hero is of course a fucking DPS.
Once they introduce 3 dps queue, which is almost inevitable at this point, I am either out of the game or join the fray by playing dps hog, dps zarya or dps fake-soldier.
Once they introduce 3 dps queue, which is almost inevitable at this point, I am either out of the game or join the fray by playing dps hog, dps zarya or dps fake-soldier.
Role lock is annoying when I just want to play DPS but it's nice to have the security of a solid comp if I'm playing support. Getting rid of it would just cater the game more to DPS players which isn't really what people seem to want at the moment.
That joke wasn't that funny to begin with, and it hasn't aged all that well.
People's dismissal of this as a valid complaint is never not obnoxious.
I play(ed, really don't play anymore thanks to this) the overwhelming majority of my time, 90%+, as a support/tank player. Sometimes, I also would like to play DPS, which before role queue was as simple as flexing off or just rolling one at start when I wanted, but I can't do that anymore, because queue times are 20 fucking minutes long when I have time to play the game.
It's an active detriment to the game, laughing or telling people "just play support/tank" is not an answer because you're just perpetuating it by making people who want to flex sometimes SOL because they can't even get into a match. And all the OW team can do now, when times are the worst they've ever been, is to make them even worse. If you're going to go to a 3-1-2 queue then just eliminate role queuing to begin with because times will just get worse and worse.
OP
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Her cosmetics are up on PTR.
Skins: https://streamable.com/cuu6p
The rest: https://streamable.com/xxqw7
Butterfly >>>>>>>>
Skins: https://streamable.com/cuu6p
The rest: https://streamable.com/xxqw7
Butterfly >>>>>>>>
The Mecha/Gundam inspired skins look cool. I'll probably get that.
Echo update is live, will be the last hero for Overwatch
NEW HERO: ECHO (DAMAGE)
Echo is an evolutionary robot created by Dr. Mina Liao and programmed with a rapidly adapting artificial intelligence, versatile enough to fill multiple battlefield combat roles. Having joined up with the Overwatch team to defend Paris against the Null Sector incursion, Echo is seeing action as a full-fledged member of Overwatch for the first time. Echo fires three shots (Tri-Shot) at once, in a triangle pattern. Echo fires a volley of Sticky Bombs that detonates after a delay. Echo uses Flight to surge forward quickly, then can fly freely to avoid danger or maneuver to a more strategic location. Using Focusing Beam, Echo channels a beam for a few seconds, dealing very high damage to targets with less than half health, including barriers. With Duplicate, Echo targets an enemy hero and clones them, gaining all of their abilities and potentially changing a team fight in an instant.
GENERAL UPDATES
New Feature: Training Partner
Within the Practice Range, use the Training Partner Spawner to create a bot of any hero on which you can test your abilities.
General
COMPETITIVE UPDATES
The new Competitive Open Queue will be available in the Arcade for roughly 4 weeks. This mode will use standard Competitive Play rules, including hero pools, but will have no role restrictions or role queues.
HERO UPDATES
Tracer
Blink
BUG FIXES
General
Maps
Blizzard World
Havana
Hollywood
Heroes
Moira
Mei
Tracer
Workshop
NEW HERO: ECHO (DAMAGE)
Echo is an evolutionary robot created by Dr. Mina Liao and programmed with a rapidly adapting artificial intelligence, versatile enough to fill multiple battlefield combat roles. Having joined up with the Overwatch team to defend Paris against the Null Sector incursion, Echo is seeing action as a full-fledged member of Overwatch for the first time. Echo fires three shots (Tri-Shot) at once, in a triangle pattern. Echo fires a volley of Sticky Bombs that detonates after a delay. Echo uses Flight to surge forward quickly, then can fly freely to avoid danger or maneuver to a more strategic location. Using Focusing Beam, Echo channels a beam for a few seconds, dealing very high damage to targets with less than half health, including barriers. With Duplicate, Echo targets an enemy hero and clones them, gaining all of their abilities and potentially changing a team fight in an instant.
GENERAL UPDATES
New Feature: Training Partner
Within the Practice Range, use the Training Partner Spawner to create a bot of any hero on which you can test your abilities.
General
- The Overwatch team has opened servers in a new datacenter to improve the gaming experience for players in the Middle East. Servers will be available beginning April 14, 2020
- Added a "Patch Notes" button on the main menu and within the options menu. Selecting this button will open a web browser with the latest available game updates
COMPETITIVE UPDATES
The new Competitive Open Queue will be available in the Arcade for roughly 4 weeks. This mode will use standard Competitive Play rules, including hero pools, but will have no role restrictions or role queues.
HERO UPDATES
Tracer
Blink
- Improved the accuracy of Tracer's blink movement such that Tracer will more likely end up where the crosshair is pointing
- Tracer will now blink around and over obstacles more easily to move towards the crosshair location. For example, if you aim alongside the corner of a wall, Tracer will blink past the corner
- Tracer cannot blink through a space where she otherwise cannot fit normally
- Tracer cannot blink over an obstacle which she otherwise cannot jump over normally, with the jump originating from Tracer's height at the start of the blink movement
BUG FIXES
General
- Fixed an issue preventing switching to the next hero when team spectating D.Va in Custom Games
- Fixed an issue preventing Team FFA settings and some Hero settings from being pasted back into Custom Game Settings via copy-paste
- Fixed a bug that could cause voice lines from opposing teams to be heard at Hero Select screens on certain maps
- Fixed a bug where knockbacks were not working correctly if the target was moving down a ramp
- Alt+Tab now will cancel saving a highlight, instead of causing problems with playback
- Fixed an issue where support players were getting incorrect credit for some plays, when determining the play of the game
Maps
Blizzard World
- Fixed a bug that allowed players to stand in an unintended location between the first and second point
- Fixed a bug that caused Sombra's translocator to float when thrown in certain spots
- Fixed a bug that could cause players can get stuck between the scooter and wall
Havana
- Fixed a bug that could cause players to get stuck on some bushes
Hollywood
- The capture area for the first capture point no longer extends outside of the visual capture boundary
- Fixed a bug that could cause players to get stuck between a wall, plant, and tree
Heroes
Moira
- Fixed a bug that prevented Moira's Fade icon from appearing disabled when she is stunned
Mei
- Fixed a bug where an already frozen enemy getting hit by Blizzard would cause the frozen visual effect to end too early
Tracer
- Fixed a bug where the Pulse Bomb's "Stuck" message would sometimes appear on the wrong target
Workshop
- Fixed an issue preventing Big Message and Small Message from displaying messages in Practice Range
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They got rid of Map pools starting today, all maps are in rotation except for Paris and Horizon.
OMG, that is literally the best thing that could have happened. Almost makes up for introducing Hammond.
This is only for comp, right? I played Paris in quickplay earlier.
Thanks. I'm looking forward to the reworks, though I personally never had any trouble with these maps in particular. I think Anubis defence is a lot more problematic, and Volskaya is really boring. Any defence really xD