Ryuuga Wagatekiwo Kurau - The Overwatch Thread

Bastions are cruel motherfuckers. Had a five Bastion one Reinhardt team on King's Row once. My first time playing Genji, actually. Got good use out of deflecting, but my attepts at flanking were. Eh. There was a stack of three Bastions hiding behind their Reinhardt, and I worked my way behind them and ulted... and got shredded by the fourth Bastion sitting ten feet behind the clump. Whoops.

 

The only time I sat my happy ass on the payload as Bastion was when a team yesterday went all McCree with one Zarya and one Zenyatta. :| The gloves were off then, all dirty play was fair.

But no Blizz, he totally needed to be able to snipe across the field like 76. That is definitely the answer to this problem, and not tweaking 76. Yep.

 

Did very poorly most of the morning, but I had a few wins. Last game went very well and god damn did I do well as Ana for once. I got off this REALLY WELL TIMED ult on our Roadhog. Who then went off on his. Kept his ass alive and also managed to get some of other dudes patched up in the mean time. It really felt nice to be able to sit back and make sure my people were alive.

God damn is Ana a beast with single target heals though. Like I had this loss earlier, but we had kind of staved it off somewhat because I was able to create the Bastion that would not die. The unkillable hell Bastion. Unfortunately a Tracer snuck up on me and ended our reign of terror losing the game.

 

I am driven mad by people who just run off or jump into weird places and then scream I NEED HEALING. I am also driven mad by teams that just...do not work together at all? Most of the loses were because most people were off doing whatever the fuck. And by the time that's happened and everyone's off sync with respawning there is just really nothing that can be done. Because then you enter into the charge of well everyone but one person is dead but I will rush in and die anyway. And there's nothing to be done so you do it too because fuck it I guess. One of these I just stood there and let a Reinhardt wail on Ana. Just end the old lady's suffering, Reinhardt. Please.

 

UGH during the McCree Game Of Hell, we had a Reaper join halfway in and stand behind a pile of boxes, WITH MOST OF HIS HP STILL, and spam the Need Healing! button. Never moved. Never helped kill people. He is a Reaper, he has so much mobility and available self healing.

He went into chat to bitch about it at our Ana after about two minutes of this shit, and since I was turreted into a corner and waiting for people to come, I just. Ripped into him. Because I've played Reaper, and the Rule Of Flankers is that if you're a flanker, you find your own damn health packs. Especially if the healer is busy like, keeping the tank up because the opposite team has FOUR GODDAMN MCCREES. Especially if you're tucked into a far off corner that is guaranteed death for any healer that tries to bolt across the Murder Field to get to you.

 

Reapers are the bane of my existence healing wise.

Pharah's are kind of maddening too because they really like to just pop off and leave me on the ground staring and being like honey no you are not in my line of sight I can do nothing now?

 

I get so into the mindset of 'nohealz' that sometimes it genuinely confuses me when I get heals as Pharah. Because ???? HOW DID YOU FIND ME IM UP MOM.

 

MOTHER IS VERY FUCKING DETERMINED TO SHOOT YOUR ASS, CHILD.

Also I am just so...happy that Ana speaks Arabic? Like insanely happy. I was so sad that Pharah didn't. She'll say what is basically a salaam in English, but no Arabic from her. So it is lovely hearing Ana go moshtakera and ahlan and WARIUM UTAK.

 

She does? That's great! (I haven't played Overwatch so IDK what everyone's lines are but it always seemed unfair that most of them can ult in their native tongue but Pharah.)

eta: ok there are some others that don't, like D.va and Lucio and Reinhardt.

 

Torbjorn ults in English for the enemy team too, and so does Lucio. Which kind of sucks? I'd really like to see Lucio's lines updated to include Portuguese, and it'd be nice if Pharah got some more lines in Arabic. Even if it is fun to scream JUSTICE RAINS FROM ABOVE when you trap some poor fucking Mercy in a corner.

 

Yeap! It's all accurate to the Musri dialect they'd be speaking too.

 

That's fucking my OTP right there. "Oh dear I am so German and a doctor as all Germans and doctors are and I am in a corner?" "JUSTICE RAINS FROM ABOVE" "oh no. death is hot."

 

Oh cool! I heard the voice clip for that but since I'm still not very good at Arabic I couldn't tell how accurate it was.

Though now I'm wondering - most of the Granny Ana stuff has been stuff that I think of as typical for American grannies, and want to know if there are any granny traits she should have.

 

Arab granny traits? Well, she drinks tea so she's got that shit on lock down. She's also a sassy shit, so she's Egyptianing right too. I see comics and stuff that are like Ana does these American granny things and I am like no. NO. WHERE IS MY ANA BEING LIKE HABIBI YOU NEED TO EAT MORE YOU ARE TOO THIN. WHERE? "Do you want some tea, dear?" "No." "Oh what are you talking about of course you do".

Where is my Arab food game. They are on par with Mexicans in the food game. Do you know how well fed I was in Arabic classes. Insanely. I would arrive and the grannies would be like oh we brought cake and tea.

Other things I've learned about and heard of that are typical apparently are being very fussy. Ridiculously fussy. Fussy and prone to matchmaking. Dad? Dad is fun. Mom though. MOM IS NOT. MOM GETS ON YOU AND IS LIKE YO NO YOU STOP THIS SHIT.

There is also this. Hand thing they do when they are going to bring the beat down. All Arab moms apparently know about it. It is a thing they do. I don't know how to describe the Arab mom hand thing. Just that it apparently fills people with unending dread.

Also the chancla jokes would actually be very fitting with her, because throwing shoes as a sign of upset is just a cultural thing. And for parents to do in particular. I heard lots of jokes about moms throwing whatever they could get their hands on at you or like specific slippers for this purpose.

 

People who have lines in their non-English languages: D.Va, Hanzo, Genji, Widowmaker, Mei, Mercy*, Ana, Zarya.
People who don't: Lucio, Pharah, Symmetra, Reinhardt, Torbjorn, Reaper, Roadhog (assuming people are correct about him being Maori).
Would definitely be nice to see them get some added!

*Mercy seems to be speaking Standard German rather than Swiss Standard German, but I don't know enough about the differences to be sure. She's definitely not speaking Swiss German, because I can understand her.

 

All Bastion teams are Chaotic Evil.

 

Oh my god that sounds horrible.

 

What was worse? It was in competitive. I LOST A RANK.

 

oh my gods

 

Whoa, what? Shouldn't competitive have teams locked to a single of a character? (Or was this before the patch, because lemme tell you, that's bullshit and prob part of why they did it.)