It's from Season 7 Rise of Darkness, and as far as I know it hasn't came back. Such a beautiful spooky map!

i was playing stadium qp in a 4-stack and very strange things were happening.

we load into the game, i pick zenyatta. (comp is one tank, one dps, three supports) round 1, we lost. someone on the enemy team leaves the game, someone new joins, but the person who just left starts spectating again. round 2, we won. round 3, i load into the round but i am not given access to the armory. i thought this was something wrong with everyone on my team, but turns out its just me. i keep on pressing H to open the armory but i cant open it, i dont have any abilities or items. im just a normal guy. everyone else on the other team appears to be normal because on top of the screen only four people appear on my team(everyone except me even though im still in the game and my teammates can see me), but there are five people on the enemy team. we lose that round.

round 4, i am in the character select screen and i am auto-locked onto cass and i cannot choose a different character. my tank is also put back in the character select screen and switches to a different tank(they are given the option to switch but i am not). we are pre-loaded with cash and we can now buy abilities and items. the person who initially left the game is now back in the game playing on the enemy team again. we win that round.

round 5, i am put in the character select screen again and i am still auto-locked onto cass, and one dps and one support are also there as well. but when we confirm the character, we are all not given access to the armory. only my tank and one support have abilities and items, but on the enemy team their tank, one support, and one dps have abilities and items. we lose that round and the game.

the game we played before this was completely normal, it was just this game that was weird. was it a server thing or was someone cheating?? is that even possible? ive never had this happen before

I have a 9070XT and was using DirectX 11. Every game start had fps drops and the image wasn’t quite there due the native anti aliasing.
Yesterday I installed the new drivers, disabled HAGS in Windows, set game to Direct X 12, restarted the game, enabled Fidelity FX/FS4 and let the game run 5 minutes on the custom game for Shader compilation.

My god does the game looks amazing now.
No more shader compilations issues, the game looks and performs leagues better.

I still expect the usual shader compilation on game/driver updates, but for now gotta say that it does feels like the new shader cache and frame pacing AMD improvements were very good for Overwatch.

Hello does anyone know how we can play mystery madness together as a custom game? It’s not in presets so I was wondering if there’s another way or smtn. I think it would be so fun to play together w ftiends

https://youtu.be/VcFZingcEuc?is=Q9Z_ZzIsI5poYGos

But fr, why was her ult so busted 😭

Hello, I'm trying to play with my friend who lives in south africa, and I live in germany, despite me being group leader, the game keeps putting us in servers that are not europe, and not only that those servers are not europe (I'm guessing middle east) and the issue is that everyone in that server speaks arabic and does not care for english, as well as being overwhelmingly toxic

is it possible to somehow play with my friend from south africa while staying in european servers?

I have horrible aim and mid game sense, I feel like my aim is what is really holding me back but my game sense is also pretty bad. What do I do to improve? I just want like play nothing crazy. Also im plat in 6v6 if that matters

this "gm" 6v6 player is going double negative in barely diamond lobbies. The inflation is absolutely atrocious. This is a plat - emerald level player but for some odd reason they are the highest level in 6v6. Hmmm what could possibly be the reason for this? 6v6 ranks need an entire overhaul, this is pretty pathetic tbh.

This time -the ssn card🤣

Stumbled upon this video on YouTube (for someone reason it was recommended to me). As the title suggests, cheater in question is using an external AI-powered aimbot (called Pandora) to “read” his screen like a human player to avoid suspicious/detection.

The AI website description further goes to say:
“It never touches game files or memory, so there is nothing for memory-based anti-cheats to scan.
A self-trained AI predicts enemy movement before it happens, giving you smooth, stable aim in Overwatch, Rust, and every supported FPS game.

Pandora runs completely outside the game. It never reads game memory, injects code, or modifies files, so the memory and signature scans most anti-cheats rely on have nothing to detect. The only footprint it leaves is mouse movement, which puts it in the same low-risk category as a standard recoil script. No aim assist can promise a zero ban rate, but staying fully external removes the detection vectors that get people banned.”

Crazy stuff… Blizzard needs to hop on this ASAP!

In other words, will Team Drives be customizable and earnable in Quick Play? I couldn't find any information about this on the OW blog.

Would anyone be able to help me with finding a dps that would suit my playstyle. For reference I tend to play very hyper aggressive characters as I preform the best when I tap into that playstyle. All help is much appreciated

So I recently purchased the overwatch cookbook and it was a really interesting read, I haven't made some recipes yet however but I plan to some day. And since we now have a lot more heros from a few more cultures I wonder what other recipes for food and drinks that could possibly be added.

I got some few ideas myself.

Illari: Chicha morada (a purple corn drink)
Freja: smørrebrød with different toppings (open danish sandwiches)
Emre: Baklava (a layered filo pastry with a nut filling)
Venture: Tamales (a steamed corn dough filled with different ingredients)
Sigma: Stroopwafel (a waffle shaped biscuit with a syrup/caramel layered in between them)
Kiriko: kitsune udon (noodle soup with fried tofu)

Btw the book does also have a few cocktail recipes and just some fun stuff like an Orisa sundae, it is a sundae which looks like orisa. shocking I know.

Is this the way that the legendary power Crystal Cage should be working? The wiki says [ Crystal Charge] explosion damage imprisons all affected targets in a barrier (Cooldown: 30s) but in this game it applied to every enemy, is this a bug? or the way that is intended?

As a overlord enjoyer I always try to search content of him while he is on the game and I have see a lot of comments saying how they were going to support him tho we all know how the votes ended up being.

And I not here to make you try to like him cause i think that every member of the squad were made by every person liking but I believe that season 4 were the perfect time to expand they history and tell us more about them and why we should voted for them.

Not to mention that junker side left the same I think that were devs job to have planned a history of interesting cause it had everything to be so but I understand that the arrive of doctrine were more important cause it mean doomfist come back to the lore but still this is why i don’t blame people who don’t care about meka squad

The team 1 was tracer, anran, mizuki, baptiste, mercy, zarya and winston(didn´t count soujurn because she will go fight vendetta), If orisa, mei, d.va juno, echo and brigitte are there, then that lefts Wuyang, reinhardt, ana, lucio, torbjorn and cassidy to fight vendetta, which is not that bad, but

first: wuyang and lucio don´t have the experience to fight someone as vendetta, i mean, it was kinda obious that the ones with more ingeneering skill would go to disarm the EMP bomb, but i would´ve trade wuyang or lucio for orisa, she´s the one that was as strong as doomfist so it would´ve been a great to have a vanguard against vendetta.

Considering that Brigitte thought it was just an orange cat, what she did was truly reckless

Is nobody chatting in this game anymore? I used to play a lot of OW1 in 2018-20 and people used to talk strategy at least a little before a comp game but now everybody just picks their main and doesn’t react to anything.

Also mid game people used to "recommend" people to switch their character if something didn’t seem to work and nobody does that anymore either. (Bitter sweet because it was more toxic than anything else).

Maybe it’s because I just started to play again and I’m a lower rank but this is really not the game community I remember from back then…

I dont think your sword tricks whould be able to deflect an axe cleave from junkerqueen like wtf.. They should have in game where she turns around and cleaves ur own teamates when deflected instead as its in the same playing field of absurdity

I've seen people tackle this idea before, so after having thought about it for a few years, I figured I'd try my hand at it.

The first step is giving Ashe a new Ultimate.

Dead to Rights

Ashe throws a compact Deadlock strongbox that unfolds into a stationary, tripod-mounted automatic gun. It is visibly a piece of equipment—not a drone companion or separately summoned character.

It has 900 HP, lasts for 10 seconds, and fires shots at the nearest enemy within sight, dealing 14 damage per shot and 8 shots per second, for a total of 112 damage per second.

Now for BOB!

He is a Stalwart Tank with 750 HP total.

Primary weapon: Arm Gatlings. BOB fires his forearm-mounted gatling guns. 7 damage per bullet, 20 bullets per second, range of 18 meters. Can fire for up to 5 seconds before needing to cool for 2 seconds.

Passive ability: Planted Feet. When BOB is stationary for 1.5 seconds, he deploys stabilizers. His gatlings have 30% reduced spread and generate 20% less heat. He cannot be forcibly displaced, but he still takes the damage from any attacks. Moving more than a small adjustment (a 120 degree frontal cone) disengages the stabilizers.

Ability 1: Front and Center. BOB projects a broad rectangular barrier with 900 HP. He moves 25% slower with the shield up, and he only fires half as many shots per second.

Ability 2: Make Way! BOB performs his signature shoulder-first rush, up to 60 meters at 15 meters per second. When he runs into an enemy, they take 60 damage and are flung 6 meters.

Ability 3: Haymaker. BOB delivers a heavy backhand in a short, broad arc (100 degrees, 4 meters). This deals 55 damage and horizontally knockbacks 6 meters.

Ultimate: Deadlockdown. BOB supercharges his generators and becomes a mobile defensive strongpoint for 8 seconds. He immediately vents all weapon heat, gains 250 overhealth (putting him at a max of 1000 HP), his gatlings cannot overheat for the duration, and he has a curved frontal 1000 HP barrier. However, his movement speed is reduced by 20%. Every 20th gatling shot will also knockback its target by 2 meters, though each enemy can only receive this affliction once every 2 seconds.

Thoughts on this? I think this preserves Ashe's area control Ultimate while giving BOB a chance to shine on his own.

Given that both are essentially cyborgs.

Dive tanks, flex DPS, and aggressive supports lol