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I'm ready go tonight. There's a party, alright. We don't need the raisin for joy, oh yeah. Tick down to midnight.
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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:18 am

John Layfield wrote:This undermines the serious lore that Overwatch is known and respected the world over for.
funny you should mention

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Thu Jun 28, 2018 5:03 pm

oh man this is looking good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PHf48wQVx0

watch to the end

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Falcon Critical » Fri Jun 29, 2018 9:21 pm

That ending was pretty great! Definitely a character that seems fun to play though likely to have a high skill requirement to be effective.

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Sat Jun 30, 2018 11:08 am

It looks like he'll require a different kind of mechanical skill compared to the norm for Overwatch, too. I wonder if current tank/flex players will adapt to that easily or not. Maybe he'll end up being more of a bridge into the tank class for other folks, like Bri kinda is for supports.

The fanart wing of the OW community is still the best. (At least until the cosplay wing figures out how to approach this lil' guy.)

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Mon Jul 09, 2018 1:51 pm

Looks like that Pink Mercy skin (+ related t-shirts and streamer donations) raised about $12.7 million for the BCRF.

http://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/21931801

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Wed Jul 11, 2018 8:03 pm

My ideal underdog scenario ain't looking good.

https://twitter.com/overwatchleague/sta ... 9233193984

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Fri Aug 10, 2018 6:56 pm

I've been sleeping on OWL expansion team news and rumours.

Confirmed by Blizzard: Atlanta, Guangzhou
Unconfirmed but reported by ESPN: Paris
Strongly rumoured: Toronto :can

Toronto being the first Canadian OWL team means I'll gladly continue to rep the Dragons. :pac

Up to six slots appear to be in play, but that's also just a rumour, they could just expand with three or four.

I wonder if Guangzhou would have the same problems as Shanghai.

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by John Layfield » Sat Aug 11, 2018 2:21 am

I guess the numbers must work out for them to expand like this /and/ go ahead with their "actually play in those cities" plans.

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Sat Aug 11, 2018 9:59 am

Seems that way, and that's after adding the reported $20M franchise startup fee, too. (See: why teams like Philly are owned by Comcast.) (Just in case you were looking for a raisin to root against Philly. :pac )

That said I think they're doing one more season at the Blizzard Arena in LA before going to the city system. The logistics of that probably totally need the extra time to work out considering the travel distances.

Chances are that'll completely change how the schedules work. It's easy for the Dragons to commute across LA to face a New York team or whatever also currently chilling in LA, but how they're gonna make that workable in a couple years, I dunno. Some teams might just not play each other some years.

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Sun Aug 12, 2018 2:44 pm

People keep giving xQc chances and he keeps being xQc.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/0 ... sive-chat/

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by John Layfield » Sun Aug 12, 2018 3:04 pm

Well, you see, heated gaming mo... (oh he said it was in good fun?) i mean, he's just having bantz with people he knows knows its not seri... (oh he half-heartedly apologised for if he offended opponents?) well... uh... at least he wasn't raci... (oh he spammed emotes commonly used in that way by racist trolls?)

He's got a lot of twitch followers though so I declare this a YOUTHFUL MISTAKE and xQc is officially fit to MAKE BLIZZARD MONEY

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Mon Aug 20, 2018 12:33 pm

https://twitter.com/ShanghaiDragons/sta ... 0050938880

Looking forward to seeing what she can do on a team that isn't the Dragons, up against an Eastern Division all-star team composed mainly of, uh, NYXL dudes. Welp.

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by cybersix » Mon Aug 20, 2018 5:56 pm

Ballin'.

with regards to xqc can he please not represent our country. please.

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Wed Aug 22, 2018 2:30 pm

:can

New short!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7j2d6YCQbg

New map!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieSpPxaNyJQ

It's gonna be control, which is good, 'cause we're doing pretty well on payload/hybrids, I think. Probably already on the PTR so maybe I should actually install that thing sometime. Also on the PTR... Mystery Deathmatch, apparently? I feel like that's something I wished for aloud on stream once. That would definitely get me rolling FFA more often.

I've barely played at all during this event so I guess I should really get in there and grind out a skin or two.

e: from the short,

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not what I expected from an ExoSquad reboot but I'll take it

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Falcon Critical » Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:22 pm

They're no Egg Gang to be sure.

I do enjoy how Blizzard leaned into the Gremlin D.VA persona. Was her backstory always Pacific Rim?

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:40 pm

Yeah, pretty much. I think the deal there is the only remaining operational Omnium is somewhere undersea off the coast of Korea where no one can get to it, so they're still under regular threat from the Omnics it keeps spitting out. Plus I guess Korea's conventional military is toast, and Overwatch is disbanded, so all they really got left is this one (?) Meka division staffed at least partially by former civilians recruited from high-skill fields (D.Va herself and esports.)

It's a great goofy setup to tell a kaiju story within the bigger overall story, now I guess with slight sentai trappings what with a colour-coded squad and all that. Blizzard's done a pretty good job developing Overwatch as a platform for almost every comic book thing imaginable.

I joked on Twitter than what we need now is a spinoff game featuring D.Va's squad a la Ace Combat or Zone of the Enders, and maybe if I keep making that joke it'll eventually happen for real.

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Sat Aug 25, 2018 2:27 pm

All-Star Weekend starts in half an hour, or just in time for me to get somewhat near a computer, maybe.

https://overwatchleague.com/en-us/

Kicking off with Lucioball featuring Meko/Ark/Poko (Atlantic) vs. Geguri/Fate/Fissure (Pacific) and then some more skills challenges and Arcade stuff. The actual All-Star game is tomorrow.

This'll be the first appearance of the hamster in OWL play, even if it doesn't really count. First use of Symmetra as well thanks to the Mystery Heroes RNG. :pac

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by cybersix » Sun Aug 26, 2018 9:00 am

As long as one of the MEKA squad people doesn't get eaten by another.

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Tue Aug 28, 2018 1:10 pm

They're doing the thing again for the stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbtFY3hBxRw

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/22380666

You better believe I'm gonna collect all those sprays.

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by cybersix » Wed Aug 29, 2018 1:25 am

D.Va is best girl

guess i'll be leaving my computer on running twitch all day

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Wed Aug 29, 2018 2:05 am

not gonna lie I was looking at that earlier and found myself wondering which size best lines up with my weird lanky sorta male-shaped human frame

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Falcon Critical » Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:23 pm

The Bunny Hoodies are v cute, I would totes go in on that.

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Re: [Overwatch] Del/C6/John vs. OWL

Post by Delthazar » Thu Aug 30, 2018 12:13 pm

cybersix wrote:
Wed Aug 29, 2018 1:25 am
guess i'll be leaving my computer on running twitch all day
watching today's streamer Fran tear shit up as Ana in Deathmatch, first place finishes, POTGs, great way to feel like an old man

played a few hours yesterday to get the d.va stuff and a few last minute summer event boxes, realized pretty quickly that I have no clue what I'm doing with Wrecking Ball, or the new Symmetra, and I guess Sombra was rebuilt at some point too, yikes