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Us vs. Them: Overwatch

Trucks are hauling our gear off to beautiful Los Angeles so let's all gather round and play some Overwatch.

Jun. 10 2016

Cast: Jeff, Brad, Vinny, Dan, Jason, Austin

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Overwatch

Episode Notes:

The always amazing Fobwashed spectated our custom matches which you can watch on his twitch channel:

https://www.twitch.tv/fobwashed/v/71686842

https://www.twitch.tv/fobwashed/v/71693039

https://www.twitch.tv/fobwashed/v/71704625

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@mems1224 said:

Maybe it's just me but spawn camping at the start of a defensive round is just about the dumbest thing you can do

It really is, you will get picked off no matter what because they can heal anyway and lose the first objective really fast. I understand the whole " i want to be in the fight" but all you do is giving up a valuable chokepoint.

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@fobwashed: Interesting hearing about how Danny and Will got into the matches. Thanks for helping Giant Bomb arrange this stream man!

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That match on Hanamura where they got that crazy overtime win right after that crushing kill from Junkrat just before, such a rollercoaster of emotions. Reminds me of this legendary match from Daily Dota:

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I go back and watch this from time to time whenever I want to feel pumped up.

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It's a shame the opposition used such shitty anti-fun tactics, not very enjoyable to watch.

Can't you change custom game settings to stop them stacking heroes like that?

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It's a shame the opposition used such shitty anti-fun tactics, not very enjoyable to watch.

Can't you change custom game settings to stop them stacking heroes like that?

You could but that's kinda lame too.

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I don't know who they were playing against on Route66 but shame on you.

Seriously, you got the chance to play with the giantbomb team and you go for double bastion double (or was it tripple) mercy? Just why?

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@assirra: preeeetty much yea. Most 1st control points have a chokepoint before that, so it's better to stack up there instead of going for the cheap kills first on players who will respawn a couple of meters away while you need to walk the whole map on respawn. It also gives your Symmetra time to set up and get her teleporter ult safely. I kinda gave up going Symmetra on the 1st control point because most people charge in when on defense anyway which leaves me surrounded with no time to set up a teleporter.

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Hell yes!

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And then they never played Overwatch again.

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Honestly I hope they had some fun doing this. It's hard to have fun if you invest too much in it and just keep getting bodied. (speaking from a lot of experience)

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Jeff : " Wait you get 0 exp for custom games? What the fuck are we doing?"

Huh.. Guess Jeff still cares about those loot boxes.

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These Daily Dotas have gotten wierd since it entered season 2.

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Cool, will watch this later. Watched a bit of it until my battery died.

One thing i noticed was that Giantbomb seems to misunderstand that teamwork doesn't necessarily have to be the same as clumping up together and verbally trying to line up ults.

That one Pharah ult destroyed the team with ease and the combo between Vinny & Dan's ults never happened because the whole idea simply took way too long to coordinate.

It's often more useful to play your character the way it functions best for that character and coordinate your plans for the near future. Let a Tracer run around freely, let a pharah soar in the skies and let a Reinhart protect Bastion.

That said, i think it's pretty cool that they did some multiplayer with the community. Thanks for the stream. :)

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Their studiogear is in a truck.

Libertanan overwatch!

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@assirra said:

I don't know who they were playing against on Route66 but shame on you.

Seriously, you got the chance to play with the giantbomb team and you go for double bastion double (or was it tripple) mercy? Just why?

Because Danny and Will Smith were on the team, I think.

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Oh man, if Blizzard somehow managed to license out a Rocketeer skin for Pharah I would probably only play as her.

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Wait, where is the UPF?

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Wait, where is the UPF?

this was in its place, the production gear was all getting boxed up for e3.

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hilariously dunked xD

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they needed a crispy on their team to help them out ..

He wouldn't have saved them.

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Aww man, this was a bummer to watch.

Losing match after match like this always sucks. Anyway, I actually would like to see more of this. Jeff playing pubs was fun to watch.

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This video was so much fun! 25:30 was amazing where Vinny charges in and slams someone then Brad kills everyone with his ult. If I could rate this video five stars I would.

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Jeff with an excellent Westside Connection reference in this video haha

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Some of those team comps were lame, going all bastion/mercy when you know the guys are trying to put on an entertaining stream sucks. Watching them run into a wall is no fun. Thought Danny would have more fun with it then that.

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Damn, I was surprised just how crushed the team got, thought they would get a few.

It's a shame the opposition used such shitty anti-fun tactics, not very enjoyable to watch.

Can't you change custom game settings to stop them stacking heroes like that?

I never understand this, they played 3 tracers/3 roadhogs for example, how is that anti-fun? And 2 bastions is also silly, and EXTREMELY easy to counter. The crew just really don't know the game. Should they instead just pick crap heroes to let the crew win?

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'I'm gonna take my shirt off' - Jeff Gerstmann

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@jordost said:
@efesell said:
@mendia said:

those teams with matt and danny had the most anti-fun team composition ever

Yeah it was kind of a shame to see the custom matches go into that immediately. Oops All Meis was a fun goof but triple Tracer triple Roadhog just seemed boring.

The 2 Bastion, Reinhardt, 2 Mercy combo killed the stream for me. theres no fun in watching the guys run against an impenetrable wall of fuck you

The majority of the community is clamoring for 1 or 2-person limits on characters, but the eSports pros disagree with 'play better'.

I'm having the same experience with stacked teams, and this stream just proves it to me. Overwatch will become as inaccessible for new players as DOTA if it stays like this.

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Vinny should turn the kill feed on in the options. It should really be on as default.

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Mei tip. Blocking a team out of a spot with a wall is great, but even greater is letting one person through and blocking out the rest of the team. Generally leads to an easy kill.

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