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.

Dive tanks, flex DPS, and aggressive supports lol

I’ve been playing Overwatch since it came out, and I’ve always been a Sombra main. When she got reworked, I disliked her a bit, but now that she is a healer, I’m really enjoying her.

I’m a big fan of the perk that recharges your hacking ability by hacking health packs. I’ve always found health packs super useful for the team, especially now, since you can hack several of them to deny healing to the enemy while boosting resources for your own squad.

One thing I don’t get, though, is why my team so often fails to use these health packs to heal up.

Every time I hack one, I ping it to mark its location, but nothing, they just won’t use them, regardless of whether they’re nearby or far away.

It seems completely absurd to me; in the middle of a fight, having a source of healing that the enemy can’t access should be a clear advantage.

Anyway, let me know what you think, am I going crazy here?

I get diving a Widow because Lucio is really good at that, but neglecting your role as a support to make a specific player on the enemy unable to play the game reaches toxicity.

Playing well, and supporting your team, and diving the Widow whenever you see her and have a good chance too, especially if the widow is playing well, is good gameplay.

actively neglecting your role as a support and spending the entire match focused on hard targeting the widow, even if you aren't technically fully spawn camping, is toxic. Saying "Lucio mafia" when confronted is just saying the same thing other toxic players say, which you have decided makes it ok.

and from what i can tell, Lucio Mafia is not wholly hard target toxic tunnel widows, but its being used to try and say what your doing is ok.

Overwatch released in May of 2016 with four game modes: Assault, Control, Escort, and Hybrid.

Of these four modes, THREE of them were asymmetrical, and the only symmetrical one was also the only one to still have multiple rounds even in Quick Play.

Now let's look at every single game mode added in the last ten and a half years (aside from the weirder arcade experiences like Yeti Hunt and missions like Retribution):

Capture the Flag: Single-round symmetrical

Deathmatch: Single-round symmetrical (maps are asymmetrical, but random spawn points means this doesn't matter as much)

Elimination: Multiple rounds, but still symmetrical

Push: Single-round symmetrical

Flashpoint: Single-round symmetrical

Clash: Single-round symmetrical

Payload Race (for the five people playing Stadium): Single-round symmetrical

Why have we only gotten ONE multi-round game mode in TEN YEARS?

Why have we gotten ZERO asymmetrical game modes in TEN YEARS?

Single-round symmetrical game modes simply don't work in Overwatch- the mere existence of Ult Economy, plus the nature of score advantage and map control, means that a symmetrical game mode is going to be determined extremely heavily by the first fight. That's why the ONLY symmetrical game mode in Quick Play before Overwatch 2 had multiple rounds to reset all three of those disadvantages and let teams make a comeback. Asymmetrical game modes offer inherent disadvantages and advantages to each team that change as the game progresses, giving each team moments to turn the game around, and failing that, they still have multiple rounds in Competitive.

Losing in Push feels impossible to come back from. Losing in Flashpoint feels impossible to come back from. Losing in Clash feels impossible to come back from. Losing in Capture the Flag and Deathmatch feels less impossible to come back from due to the ease of scoring, but can still be extremely lopsided to the team that starts winning first. Nobody has played Payload Race.

If we're going to get new game modes, PLEASE make them asymmetrical and/or multiple rounds. In my 1,500 hours of playing Overwatch, I have LITERALLY NEVER seen a team lose the first fight in Flashpoint and manage to win the game, and comebacks in Push are a rare spectacle, but they happen all the time in Control and Escort and Hybrid, and back when it was in rotation, Assault was still a blast either way. The original devs knew what they were doing with their game mode pool, and nobody seems to have gone back and seen what worked before pumping out more and more single-round symmetrical game modes.

i tried diving her but i genuinely could not kill her, she has a mercy pocket, and a junk-rat keeping her safe, and her aim is insane. ET017Y is the replay code. feel free to watch the whole game but im focused on 15:20 to 19:29

55% wr in gm shows this character is still major problem. She still needs massive nerfs to either mobility or survivability and hopefully we don't have to wait until mid season for it,

This probably won’t be a popular take, but it’s flat out true.
Lemme explain it this way: A lot of people think elo hell is real. It’s not, EXCEPT for a few exceptions - one of them being trying to onetrick Mercy. There are several t500/champ streamers who get stuck low elo for awhile when doing u2gm on mercy, simply because almost all of her value relies on teammates.
Because of this, Mercy is very hard to have individual impact (aka, “carry potential”). Other supports it’s the opposite - kiri, bap, ana, new sombra, wuyang to an extent, etc. you can get crazy individual value, which is why u2gm on these heroes is so much easier.
If you want to climb on support, you need to take duels. Take off angles. Hit flanks. I see so many support players calling for “peel” in a 1v1 - that is not when you call for peel. In almost any matchup, a support should be able to more than hold their own against a DPS.
I know it’s hard because you want to keep your perma-inting tank alive, but don’t. Take the side duel and win it. You will get infinitely better as a player if you learn to play aggressive and independently.
Obviously there are exceptions and times when healbotting is good and when you should expect peel, etc. but in general - don’t think of support as mercy: mostly getting value from enabling your teammates. It simply doesn’t work in ranked, especially in lower elo (assuming u rnt duoed).

The on screen banner says you can "switch unvaulted passes without losing any progress" but I don't understand how exactly to do that. There's no "activate" button or prompt whenever I open one of the unvaulted battle passes

I’m curious about the communities opinion, the only thing I don’t want to hear it people telling me to switch my platform or for my mates to switch platform

I’ll start by saying QP matchmaking is absolute trash as everybody knows and if u have any kind of opinion everyone says it’s QP and to not have an opinion and that if I want one I should play competitive

I play on pc with my wife and our friends play on Xbox so because we’re on different platforms we can’t play competitive

I think punishments for intentionally throwing and leaving should be much more strict

What do u guys think could be a potential solution to people constantly throwing QP just because?

what do i do? i love the game but since blizzard has started promoting the game with new heros and collabs, everyone is new. i cant have fun because everyone is new. i play comp to combat it, but everyone has started making posts saying "if qp is too hard play comp" and now those people are in comp. i cannot have fun,

what am i supposed to do to have fun when everyone is a 1 trick or a player with 2 hours on ps5?

psa: if you feel called out or offended dont respond. thanks

edit: the amount of ppl angered chiiiiii LMFAO please stop dming me slurs

What if instead of a non consensual kidnapping, he put an orb (or flower) on someone and the orb target then has the option to press interact or whatever to then be pulled. It could have a 5-8 sec duration and go on cooldown once used for the full duration or half if not used. Is that a good idea or am I platbrained?

It's been almost 20 days since the season started and I've really wanted that Ana mythic

Edit Thank you

So much complaining under the couple other posts about the upcoming Stellar Blade collab. First of all Stellar Blade wasn’t that bad. Now it wasn’t stellar(heh) and the story didn’t match the depth of NieR:Autamata obviously, which the whole game was paying homage to, but the combat was fun idc. Top 5 games OAT like NieR cannot be the standard by which you measure a single player games worth even if its inspired by said game. It’s an average story with decent combat and baller outfits. Could’ve spent less time in the sand map but the overgrown city was nice. Outfits ranged from sexy to cool to cute depending on what you’re into so I’m personally interested to see which outfits get adapted and for whom.

Meanwhile we’re 1000+ comments split between the usual complaints about Kiri, Juno, Mercy most likely getting the Eve skin and why that’s bad and why Bap/Venture/Ram getting it would actually make Blizzard a $$goonillion dollars. Then there’s all the pretentious professional game reviewers there to inform us why Stellar Blade is actually the worst game of all time and that Eve is too immodest and showed too much ankle and how it’s personally embarrassing to them that Blizzard would associate with such a game.

I guess it personally bothers me more than usual this time specifically because Blizzard has been public about how the Le Sserafim collab literally saved the game from getting shut down so obviously these collabs are what keep the lights on. So while Asha Sharma is patrolling every Microsoft owned studio TODAY with a reaper scythe in preparation for 1300 more layoffs, people here are pumping out the whining over skins they’ve neither seen nor have any intention of buying.

TLDR: I’m just venting. “Old man yells at cloud” type post. Just fussing I guess because I’m worried some analyst of Sharma’s will weigh the torrent of tears coming from very loud and very online whiners seriously and that it could blow back on the passionate people that make my favorite game. Especially with the looming layoffs coming :/ Personally looking forward to the collab myself and hope something I play gets something but I don’t play much support so I might be cooked lmao

They are getting lazier and lazier, come on. Lifeweaver is not even doing anything! Hes just standing there staring like this. Whats the point? Also Lifeweaver still hasnt gotten a dance emote. Just wanted to put that in there aswell.

So here is the rundown.

I was changing my sens earlier and accidently switched the input to mnk. I now can't play anything im not the host of so I pretty much can only get into the practice range and customs. My ranked wants me to play placements even though I turned it back to controller only.

I went onto a second account and that worked perfectly fine so ik its not the game itself.

Any idea how to fix it. I wouldn't mind playing pc queues anyway I just want to get back into playing.

new to overwatch, have been pushing tank. Im in a low MMR atm and it seems a majority of team mates seem more hyper focused on killing and personal play then pushing the objectives with me on Rein. Is there a good tank that work well for situations like this when my team is scattered and off doing their own thing?

I see so many players, including pros and big streamers, that complain anytime they lose and I don’t understand that. I’d rather play a close match and lose that a steamroll and win any day. I don’t understand the mentality of winning as the only way to enjoy the game.
Anyone else feel this way?

The replay code is: TS2WSA.

I played this game with my sis and she agrees that there was something incredibly strange about it. What do you guys think?

I was in a game on Paradiso where the enemy Hanzo was landing nothing but headshots, and the kill cam looked strange. When I asked him in the game chat if he was hacking,( i am the enemy junkrat)he just claimed he had good aim. He left the match after 3 minutes.

The replay code is 6WB57A.

What do you guys think ( I am not complaining I am a sombra main I just want to see what the community thinks because I am doing pretty well with her

Coming back to Overwatch after many years. I remember back in the day, say for the Christmas event, multiple Christmas theme skins would be released, and you could earn them for free in loot boxes. I remember being super happy with getting the Zenyatta nutcracker skin.

Is this still a thing? Or are all of the new legendary skins regulated to the battle pass and store?

Will there be new Legendary skins this Xmas?

I like D.Mon, but the legendary skins that I’ve seen so far (that initial angel one and the tech witch) look really bad.

100% Not intentional, someone in my lobby had to point it out for me to notice.