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Kharzette

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There's not much going on right now. The tourney stuff starts around the first of next month.

Apparently there's no roster locks at all. You can just steal the best players if you have the big money.
 
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Kharzette

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Well it has been a few days of matches. I missed bits but watched around half of the Japanese region.

The observers are good, but the overall production is a bit strange. Odd choice of colours and fonts. Sometimes ingame events will flash stuff up on the screen TEAM KILL etc.

I thought commentary was going to be the strong point. The first match I watched was the old Wolf and Achillios team that I rate very highly. Today is Achillios and some guy I've never heard of that can barely speak english.

The latter seasons of the league tried this as well. Breaking up the duos and mixing in the new diversity hires. Didn't work out very well. Gradually as the seasons wore on the greats got slowly replaced. Now and then there were some surprises; I really liked the Lemonkiwi + Legday duo, but most were big downgrades.

Too early to say if I'd recommend it. Korea starts this weekend. I'm hoping Avril is there.

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Edit2: Korea hath begun. Falcon vs Runaway with Wolf and Achillios live in the WDG arena. Yes, recommended.

One great thing about all of this is that co-streaming is allowed. If you don't like commentary just turn on the stream of someone you like.
 
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Kharzette

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Well the Korean weekend is over. I think a grand total of 8ish heroes were played and every match was a 3-0. Almost as bad as the start of the F1 season.
 

TomServo

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Well the Korean weekend is over. I think a grand total of 8ish heroes were played and every match was a 3-0. Almost as bad as the start of the F1 season.
Out of curiosity who is the target audience of your series of posts in this thread?
 
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Cybsled

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People who might be interested. I was carrying the Fallout76 thread for a bit lol
 
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I do enjoy the game. I play with my teenager and we are having fun. Last DPS patch was really great IMO. There is not really any equivalent on the market.

Not a fan of the design of the new character. Her kit is really fun to play. The opposite to the last character they released. Mauga's design and personality was fun but his kit is kinda uninspiring and easy to play.
 
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Cybsled

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Wouldn’t that technically be Bastion and Zenyata? They’re robots

Edit: unless it is some dumb binary code joke lol
 
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Kharzette

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The midyear lan event is on, from Dallas:



2 hours gone and the match hasn't even started :emoji_laughing:

Some kind of network problem. The stream has been glitching out now and then too.
 
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Mr_Bungle

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Rein seems in a bad place right now, from the scrims I watched.
I feel like the main appeal of Rein being a very decisive tank was neutered from the start. Nerfed charge pins, the nerfed fire strike damage (although having 2 gives me mixed feelings) and the lack of a back up tank definitely makes the hero look less appealing.
 

Kharzette

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Yea I'm curious if any of the tournaments will go back to 6v6. I haven't tried it, but tanks are way stronger than they used to be so dunno how it will work.
 

Araxen

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The esport league won't be able to go back to 6v6 unless blizzard goes all in on it and makes changes to all the tanks. They will all have to be re-tuned.

Rein has a 60% win rate on ladder. It'll be interesting if they nerf him. More than likely they will. D'Va is most definitely getting a nerf next week. Winston might get some nerfs, but nobody really complains about him so he might not get any.

The entire issue with being the only tank is all the pressure if on you. 6 v 6 was much better. I only play tank anymore is if I get it when I do my 3 RQ's for the daily. I used to Q for all three roles all the time now but not anymore. Playing tank is awful right now.
 
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