Satisfying Sombra Pick :)

I was so confused when everyone appeared on my platform, but it doesn't show on the clip 😂

<3

Had such a positive game earlier. I was queuing DPS and was in the widow mood. We were attacking first on Rio, and being the sane person I am, I did not autolock widow and instead went for the Reaper choice. I honestly wasn't playing well, it was later in the day and I was tired and all my good plays have been drained out of me at this point. I was seriously behind out other DPS in kills and damage, but we still managed to take the point. I switched to Widow after that, since it's easier to attack as Widow after capping the point. I played a bit better on the character I wanted to play, but I was still behind our other DPS. We pushed the payload almost right up till the end, but we were just shy of the third point.

I thought I was going to get flamed for throwing, and I wouldn't have blamed them, but they didn't flame me at all. In fact they were super nice and everyone was saying 'Gr' and 'Wp' in the chat. Even when it is my fault if we lose a game, it's still not nice to have that thrust in your face, so to see such enthusiasm really made my day. It's not often you get nice players.

I switched between Ashe and Widow on defence, and actually managed to catch up with the other DPS a bit, and we ended up winning the game.

Kindness and praise always does so much more than blaming someone in my opinion. It's called moral for a reason.

This made me giggle

Someone take away my Pinterest privileges...

Why did this make me laugh so much...

Nothing like making the enemy team rage quit!

The most darling Rein ever ♥️

My duo calls lag non consensual movement 😂😂

Push Maps and TS-1

When OW2 came out, it took me a while to adjust to push maps, but over time I got used to them and learned how to play healer well on them. They're now some of my favourite maps to play Mercy on.

BUT what really makes the push maps is obviously TS-1, (I expect a TS-1 pop blizzard!) and his adorable voice lines. Bless his little heart, when the point is being contested for a period of time he'll say something like "conflicting orders" or "please resolve your debate"! He's such an honest to go sweetheart.

Talon forces...

Ok, I'm currently engaged with researching as much as I can about Overwatch Lore ever since the new PVE missions came out because, I just gotta know everything, you know?

I was looking at the Talon wiki page and going through the members and the commanding staff, yada, yada, yada, and I scroll down to the gallery, and I see... an atrocity.

I LOVE the achieves event, right. It's my favourite event since it always came out around my birthday, and PVE is just so fine. I remember playing Retribution when it first came out, and man, where those missions good. The enemies were great, they had unique designs and made combat interesting.

The assassin was my favourite because it nodded to Genji's original design ideas, and found a way to still incorporate it into the game.

Basically, the Talon forces in Retribution and Storm Rising followed as such:

You had your grunts, your standard cannon fodder and really easy to kill. The only thing that irritating about them is the amount of health they gain in Expert and Legendary.

Then you had the enforcers, who had slower attack patterns but did more damage. You gotta be real careful of their attack when it gets to Expert and Legendary, because they can one shot you.

Then there was the sniper, who would spawn in with a small cutscene initially, and then had a tracking laser that followed the person they were targeting. Fairly easy to take out in the Easy - Hard difficulties, and then slightly more difficult in the Expert and Legendary versions. Because, like Widow, Headshots can kill in one shot.

Then there's the assassin, which like I said before, is a nod to some design concepts initially discussed for Genji. The assassin, like the sniper, would initially spawn in a small cutscene when they're first introduced in the mission. Then they would leap from wall to wall, before selecting a target and running across the ground towards them to slash them. Usually, whatever difficulty, it's a one attack, one kill kind of thing, but she's the easiest to avoid and the easiest to kill in my opinion.

Then there was the heavy assault unit. Man, where those things nightmares. Massive hulks of men, with two giant mini guns (or whatever they are) attached to their arms, and giving off a constant stream of fire. People literally designed routes and patterns for the achieves mission so that there was a possible way to destroy these monsters in Expert and Legendary. Not to mention the ungodly amount of them Blizzard throw at you.

Here's a photo for reference :P

So, here I am, looking at this photo reminiscing, because IT'S BEEN THREE YEARS SINCE WE HAD ARCHIEVES BLIZZARD! Then I click onto the next slide and oh God...

What is this travesty?

Who... are you? What happened to the Enforcers? To the Assassin? Why do the grunts look so... flaccid... and why does the Heavy assault look like a bad imitation of Winston? He looks smaller and not as intimidating as well... And the sniper... I could have physically cried when I saw this. The sniper in overwatch 1 was so sick! But now... well... now she looks like a shoddy imitation of Widow.

Petition for the return of Jeff Kaplan? </3

(I feel like I might have gotten too carried away over the Talon enemy models, but then again. Maybe I didn't).

I relate to this comment on a spiritual level 🫠