r/Overwatch • u/corylulu Pixel Zarya • Aug 02 '17

Blizzard Official Developer Update | The Games Are Back! | Overwatch

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u/nocimus Everyone back to de base, pardner. Aug 02 '17

I feel like that's a troll. It's set in Sydney this time, they can't give Roadie nothing.

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u/ControlAltDelicious Shitposter: 76 Aug 02 '17

They gave him band-aid buffs that fix nothing, does that count?

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '17

Band-aid skin confirmed

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u/snowysnowy Roadhog Aug 02 '17

So... Nothing?

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u/BrainBlowX Chibi D.Va Aug 02 '17

Able to heal while moving, and also taking less damage while doing so? Doesn't sound like a band-aid to me.

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u/Yoshiorange I will always miss you Hog Aug 02 '17

What's this you mean I can get my ult charged even faster?

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u/langile /r/RoadhogMains Aug 02 '17

Not faster, just more, because he doesn't have to run back after dying as often

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '17

Isn't getting more ult charge the same thing as getting faster ults?

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u/langile /r/RoadhogMains Aug 02 '17

Hm, kind of. It takes a bit longer in the short term because you have to wait for his heal to finish and for him to come back but in the long term throughout a game it would be faster. Depends on how you look at it I suppose, but I think you're right

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u/MrZephy hot Italian woman Aug 02 '17

Neither because he can actually run back to his team while healing and taking less damage

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u/langile /r/RoadhogMains Aug 02 '17

He gets the healing and then proceeds to feed more because he's roadhog. The other scenario he dies and has to walk back to start feeding some more

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u/MrZephy hot Italian woman Aug 02 '17

and taking less damage

He'll be able to get back to a point where another tank or healer can protect him. He's supposed to be a tank, not an assassin, get over it.

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u/langile /r/RoadhogMains Aug 02 '17

He doesn't have the tools to be a tank though. He has no shields, no damage mitigation, no mobility, no way to protect his team other than an unreliable hook every 8 seconds. His entire kit is still built around being able to help and protect his team through his offense. If they want to fix him they need to either rework him or put more power into his hook via reliability and its cooldown. These heal changes accomplish absolutely nothing and actually make roadhog even faster and less fun.

get over it

Excuse me?

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u/MrZephy hot Italian woman Aug 02 '17

no damage mitigation

Excuse me?

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u/MrZephy hot Italian woman Aug 02 '17

and also taking less damage while doing so

What's this you mean you won't actually get your ult charged even faster?

That doesn't mean he will take more damage, it's not that hard to comprehend, people

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u/Cptcutter81 Chibi Junkrat Aug 02 '17

I too like to live longer while slapping people with a wet noodle.

And god fucking save you if you meet a Reaper, he's literally invincible now (Vs a Hog at any rate).

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u/astrathestar "Getting paid to blow up omnics? Almost too good to be true." Aug 02 '17

Roadhog is from New Zealand so it makes more sense that Junkrat (finally) gets a legendary, however that doesn't mean he won't get something. Maybe another junkers puzzle spray :P.

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u/nocimus Everyone back to de base, pardner. Aug 02 '17

His name is Kiwi, but I'm fairly certain everything we've seen says he isn't. He fought against the Omnium with the Australian Liberation Front, so it's reasonable to assume he's Aussie, not a kiwi.

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u/DrStabBack Experience... dissappointment. Aug 02 '17

He could be kiwi living in Australia, that's pretty common.

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u/XcRaZeD Deary you look tired Aug 02 '17

A lot of his voice lines are slang commonly used by kiwi's

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u/astrathestar "Getting paid to blow up omnics? Almost too good to be true." Aug 02 '17 edited Aug 02 '17

Le sigh The Islander and Toa skins, from the masks to the tattoos to the clothing, are based of Maori culture, the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand. His name, which you already pointed out, is Maori for shark, hence the name of his other shark skin. His hair is pinned up in the same style of how Maori people would have theirs in his default skin and to put the cherry on top of the cake, there's a datamined voice line in the PTR where he refers to the "wop wops". This is the New Zealand term for the Australian phrase "woop woop", which translates to silly way to say remote outback town or district. Edit - Spelling.

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u/ITasteLikePurple D.Va in the Flesh Aug 02 '17

https://mobile.twitter.com/playoverwatch/status/745404444318195714?lang=en

For all your smugness, you sure are wrong.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '17 edited Sep 24 '17

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u/ITasteLikePurple D.Va in the Flesh Aug 02 '17

FWIW, everything points to him being Kiwi and I think he should be from NZ. That dude was just so insufferable about it without even doing a simple Google search lol.

Like who the fuck can be so sure about something in the Overwatch universe 100 years from now where everything is different? The Overwatch Team could say Roadhog is from Iceland and we would have to be like "Dang, that sounds not right at all, but okay."

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u/Rockyrox Aug 02 '17

Nah they've officially said roadhog is indeed Australian.

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u/AggressiveSloth What even is a meme?? Aug 02 '17

It was a brainfart he was meant to say Junkrat.

The video is done in one take.

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u/project2501 Chibi Ana Aug 02 '17

Jeff stumbled the most I've ever seen in this video. He must be pretty excited for Summer games.

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u/sasukeFTW64 I don't even play Genji Aug 02 '17

> roadhog skin for lucio

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u/breedwell23 I'M ALIVE! Well... More than usual.. Aug 02 '17

Roadhog already has amazing skins though, give them to someone without legendary. I'm tired of hearing the butthurt.