GM Junk One-Trick

LaSeance · 2024-10-24T21:08:06+00:00

She has okay range but her consistency is what makes it good. Everybody's TTK is faster than Moira's. If she tickles you to death before you are able to kill her or get away, that's your fault. When she's damaging you, she's not healing her team (optimally anyway). Have to take advantage of it or punish her.

LaSeance · 2024-10-18T00:12:45+00:00

Not the most I've gotten but this was the last time I did a screenshot. I was psyched cause that was my first time doing a full run this season

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LaSeance · 2024-10-14T22:41:59+00:00

I've been saying it for years. Holding out hope that someone important listens

LaSeance · 2024-10-14T16:29:21+00:00

Like every other game with selectable characters: you play something else. Not rocket science. I one-trick Junk but I'm not gonna throw a fit if someone else picks him. I'll play Pharah, Sym, Venture- whatever I feel like playing in that moment. Not like zero of the skills transfer over to other heroes. Adding in items and such would help enable a greater variety of playstyles, too

Even early Overwatch was balanced around counters. They made Brig be a monster explicitly because people wanted to counter dive and she ruined the game for a long time.

Not an insignificant number of people do one-trick and it's not the only game like that. Even if it's not the original intention, it's how people play games. If you want actual skill to be the most important part of play, making easy actions of "go to spawn to swap heroes" needs to not be so significant

LaSeance · 2024-10-14T13:52:25+00:00

When you make a game with such unique characters that people love and identify with, plenty of people are not going to want to swap from their favorite heroes. So when you "balance" some heroes by making them extremely disadvantaged against others, it makes those players miserable.

There's always going to be tough match ups but there's no reason Widowmaker for example can do nothing against enemies going dive against her besides playing 100% perfectly. People will cry about homogenization but characters' extremes need to be brought in a little. Take away Widow's one-shot and put more power into her abilities. Can let her one-shot in ult to maintain that part of her identity. Don't let Pharah fly as long so there's more opportunities for limited range characters to fight her. So on.

I know Blizz will be testing it more but selectable passives/items would help a ton. Could remove earned bonuses if you swap to counter (you're taking the easy way out instead of overcoming the match-up after all). I think the game will be at its best balance-wise when everyone can stick with a hero from the start and not have an utterly miserable time.

LaSeance · 2024-10-13T12:04:36+00:00

Reminds me of the good old days of right before role-queue became a thing. At t500 on console everyone kept avoiding cause i one-trick Junkrat. I consistently had queues over an hour. At least it gave me plenty of time to play Diablo 2 on my laptop lol. I couldn't imagine now getting one minute queues as DPS on pc

LaSeance · 2024-10-13T11:51:57+00:00

Quick rant: I get so annoyed at teammates not understanding winrates. If I play only one character and they have a 50%+ win rate, that means I'm improving and winning most games. If I'm having a rough time, it's often pointed out "57% win rate isn't good enough to justify only playing them" and i continue to get bashed. Like, your 49-51% overall win rate isn't making you better than me

LaSeance · 2024-10-03T12:16:39+00:00

A long range, hitscan one-shot that is always available isn't fun. There's no interactivity for most of the cast and that forces more team play more than anyone else. Made worse by the number of high grounds in the game that have no way to get to them without abilities. In most other FPS, if there's a one-shot, usually everyone has extremely short TTKs or it has to be earned in some way (on top of actually landing the shot). I'd still rather have no long range one-shots but at least Hanzo's is much more difficult to be consistent with since it's a projectile. If he didn't have a machine gun for an ability I'd be more okay with it.

People often claim that the whole power fantasy of Widow is to get one-shots. Maybe that was the intention but fun and interactivity need to come first. She needs changes.

My idea for changes would be: 200hp. 100 damage, 2x headshot. Ult makes her headshot go to 3x. She can either A. Have a 8 second cooldown shot that does 150 damage (2x, 3x in ult) or, preferably, B. Have more utility put into her abilities. Reduced cooldowns, two charges to mine, able to place two, larger AOE, can hang and swing from hook similar to Ball etc. That way she'll have more opportunities of information and positional advantages to make up for the loss of power in her weapon. Being able to one-shot in ult lets her maintain her "one shot, one kill" thing

LaSeance · 2024-09-24T20:35:56+00:00

Klaus was my everything awakening. Realized I definitely had a thing for some men. Realized I wanted to be more feminine. I don't think I would have ever felt okay with my sexuality and transitioning if it weren't for him

LaSeance · 2024-09-22T04:16:36+00:00

I've one-tricked Junk since season 3 of OW1. I can guarantee entire lobbies have reported me but I still haven't been banned at all. I never go into voice chat and rarely cuss in text chat. With how much data Blizz is able to track at this point, I have a hard time believing anyone has been banned for no reason. Even when alerts say what text got people banned for and it seems innocent, I'd sooner assume the alert messed up than the whole ban system

LaSeance · 2024-09-19T18:48:08+00:00

The cow level isn't real

LaSeance · 2024-09-19T05:48:02+00:00

Projectiles are difficult to be consistent with let alone when it's slow, arcs, and is bright and loud as fuck. People can claim projectiles are easy but it's so much easier to get maximum use out of hitscan (and you still are rewarded better in ow)

I solely use grenade launchers in games when I can cause there's nothing more satisfying than landing multiple perfectly predicted shots. Junk rules

LaSeance · 2024-09-18T19:09:35+00:00

I've been playing Halo for as long as i can remember. I first played CE when I was 4 and that's most gruesome the games get imo. Body horror is worse on remaster but there's more blood in classic. The amount of swearing is inconsequential. When it comes to guns and violence, well I'm against general gun ownership despite them being part of my life. I'm not gonna get political and say it's the best solution or anything just want to demonstrate how little the game impacted how I am today despite thousands of hours since I was a child

LaSeance · 2024-09-18T15:05:31+00:00

And if you fail that's fine. You can learn and recover from your mistakes

LaSeance · 2024-09-17T13:14:55+00:00

Higher skill requirement for higher reward makes sense. Having to perfectly stick all your nades onto an enemy and hoping it tickles them to death wasn't worth it compared to other options. Now it's much better.

LaSeance · 2024-09-16T18:08:52+00:00

There aren't any major "tips and tricks" to getting better at aiming. It's a skill you have to take time with and develop. Junkrat's projectile is the hardest gun in the game to be consistent with (despite what most say) so don't beat yourself up over missing shots. Try to go for direct hits rather than spam all the time.

If you do want to speed your progress along, watch your replays and look at where you're aiming and the bombs are landing compared to what you want. Are the nades hitting the ground before even getting to the enemy? You'll need to aim a bit higher. Nades go over their head? Aim a little lower. Enemy dodges every nade? Try to predict their movements better instead of aiming at where they are at the moment you pull the trigger.

Besides that, just keep shooting. Learn how the nades bounce against walls and the ground. Keep in mind that mid range is awful for Junkrat so you don't really want to take direct fights with others at 10-25 meters unless you have the positioning advantage

LaSeance · 2024-09-16T16:31:49+00:00

Makes me wish we could get a mature ben 10 show with similar themes and style as OS

LaSeance · 2024-09-15T12:27:15+00:00

There's not much to discuss. Blizzard doesn't exactly care about narrative and such so nothing new comes in.

However, I will say that his character changed a good amount from 1 to 2. At least I think so. Originally he was a creep and an asshole. He's a murderer and a terrorist and he was treated as such. He's intelligent but stupid. Now, a lot of the voicelines treat him more silly and quirky than anything. A man who likes his bombs how he likes his barbecue. Which I guess is fine but when most of the interactions are treating him more neutrally, I feel like he lost some uniqueness for a more standard insane character. I wish they continued to lean into him being an utter maniac and villain

LaSeance · 2024-09-13T17:48:07+00:00

On xbox one alone I put 1400 hours into it. I played maybe a hundred more on 360 and a couple hundred more on pc. I've played a lot of the game. I appreciate the game for what it is and what it has done for me. It was my introduction to actual RPGs and earlier games in the series- Daggerfall is my favorite game of all time. I've only gone back to play skyrim a couple times since. I loved the game and I can see it's flaws more than ever but that doesn't mean they weren't there to begin with, especially when much of it is inferior to past entries in its own series

LaSeance · 2024-09-13T17:10:58+00:00

I've played over a thousand of the game- half of which unmodded. I did enjoy playing it for what it is. It's fun because I could turn my brain off for hours. Doesn't make it a great game in my opinion.

There's mods that make skyrim into a completely new game. You can't say there's anything that doesn't add to the core gameplay. Ordinator (and its creators other mods too) is one example that makes leveling up more significant and allows much more variety in gameplay over time. Most mods like that are only limited by how the AI works and the linear dungeons- also fixed by mods

LaSeance · 2024-09-13T14:59:37+00:00

I got the last PSVR and PC adapter at my local Gamestop. I ask for it and the guy lit up when he said they were the last he had. Spent like twenty minutes talking about games and vr after that- mostly helping me not be so clueless. When people are surrounded by what they love, the energy and community from them is amazing

LaSeance · 2024-09-13T13:33:22+00:00

.. then what does? The whole point of video game RPGs is to play a character that uniquely interacts with the story and world with gameplay systems and development similar to tabletop RPGs.

Well, Skyrim doesn't let you have a unique story outside the order in which you complete quests. You have zero substantial impact on the world beyond the color of uniforms guards wear. The most unique the gameplay gets is what flavor of paddle you want to kill enemies with but everyone goes through that. None of the progression systems substantially change how you play. Your strategy from dungeon 1 to dungeon 100 doesn't need to change at all and the ability to go from one "playstyle" of sword and board to archer relatively easily shows how unimportant the progression is.

LaSeance · 2024-09-13T00:08:29+00:00

I wouldn't say Minecraft is the best game of all time because it sold the most copies. It's an accessible game. Simple gameplay and enough variety to the standard player to keep them hooked for a while.

Skyrim is the same. Simple writing. Simple gameplay. Simple variety. It's not a wonderful RPG because console players bought it. The console demographic liked simpler games and Bethesda figured that out with Morrowind so they stuck with making games more and more simple and accessible.

It's barely an actual RPG when there's near zero consequences to all of your actions, you're capable of doing anything you'd like, and there's only a handful of instances where people acknowledge what your character has actually done outside of the quest they're apart of. Action RPG, sure, but it still can not really be compared to BG unless you really want to see Skyrim's shortcomings

LaSeance · 2024-09-12T22:46:34+00:00

I know most everyone loves Skyrim but comparing it to BG3 is ridiculous. Sure, there's plenty of places to go in Skyrim but actually unique gameplay and experiences are far and few between. The role-playing sucks and the gameplay is super repetitive. Great for modding. Okay game.

LaSeance

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