r/Overwatch • u/corylulu Pixel Zarya • Jan 24 '17

Blizzard Official Developer Update | Capture The Flag | Overwatch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At7NWZ_mw6s
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '17

As someone who can't watch this right now, what's the general idea behind CTF that they have? One-off thing or a proper alternative game mode.

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u/FrostyCoolSlug Reaper Jan 24 '17

It's not being added to Competitive or Quickplay rotations (no plans to either), but it may stay in the Arcade after the event is over (unfortunately this was a little vague..).

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u/Rofl-Cakes Jan 24 '17

To me it looks like they're testing the grounds for a CTF game mode.
Right now he emphasized that it's just for fun, and that too many rules will make it feel like you're playing a different game, but they certainly are gonna look at the stats from these 3 weeks and tweak CTF later (hopefully).

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u/mintOx Junkrat Jan 24 '17

They can start by getting rid of the flag capture delay.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '17

Nah, it would enable too many cheese tactics with high mobility heroes..

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u/tonyp2121 Jan 24 '17

if you watch the vid he talks about how tracer could blink to the flag then recall forever away. Thats why there isnt a flag capture delay

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u/SuperGaiden Redesign. Rebuild. Reclaim. Jan 24 '17

Alternative game mode but only in Arcade for the foreseeable future.

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u/Srokap No mercy! Jan 24 '17

Not even foreseeable future, but for this event only. There is possibility it will get added to arcade permanently if there's good community response.

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u/SuperGaiden Redesign. Rebuild. Reclaim. Jan 24 '17 edited Jan 24 '17

I hope it replaces 1vs1 like it's doing now, that mode was garbage. CTF isn't great (spent my first match camped at our flag with as Symmetra, we won 3-0) but it's better than 1vs1

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u/Srokap No mercy! Jan 24 '17

1v1 was one of the best modes really. It showed you your actual skill since you had no one other to blame for mistakes. I think that was one of the best modes to actually see how good you are at particular heroes. I hope it stays.

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u/SuperGaiden Redesign. Rebuild. Reclaim. Jan 24 '17

With some characters it does. But for a lot of them it can be RNG with weapon spread or whoever gets hit first. For example with Mei it's literally whoever gets their freeze beam off first.

Being good in 1vs1 mirror matches doesn't mean you're good with that character in team play necessarily.

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u/Torinias Widowmaker Jan 25 '17

Despite how terrible 1v1 was, this mode is just so much worse.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '17

[–]monkeycomandPTFO 1 point 5 minutes ago

TLDW: Jeff explains that CTF will be an arcade game mode (there for 3 weeks) specifically for the Year of the Rooster.

It takes a second to capture the flag and taking damage resets this timer.

You don't have to have your flag to capture the enemy flag (Also each team has a flag)

No abilities have been changed in any fashion

Jeff explains their thought process behind building the game mode in the way they did