Thursday, November 19, 2015

Pre-order now available

Pre-order Overwatch is now available with 3 different price points.

  • Overwatch price at $39.99
    • Pre-purchase Bonus: Noire Skin for Widowmaker
    • 21 Extraordinary Heroes: Choose your hero from a diverse cast of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, and oddities. 
    • Iconic Environments: Fight on futuristic battlefields around the globe: the cobbled streets of King’s Row in London; the mysterious Temple of Anubis; Numbani, where human and omnic live in harmony, and more…

  • Overwatch Origins Edition price at $59.99
    • Pre-purchase Bonus: Noire Skin for Widowmaker
    • 21 Extraordinary Heroes: Choose your hero from a diverse cast of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, and oddities. 
    • Iconic Environments: Fight on futuristic battlefields around the globe: the cobbled streets of King’s Row in London; the mysterious Temple of Anubis; Numbani, where human and omnic live in harmony, and more… 
    • 5 Origin Skins: Overgrown Bastion, Security Chief Pharah, Strike-Commander Morrison, Blackwatch Reyes, and Slipstream Tracer.
    • In-game Goodies
      • Tracer Hero
      • Baby Winston Pet
      • Overwatch Card Back
      • Mercy’s Wings
      • Player Portraits Tracer, Reaper, Pharah, Winston, Bastion, and Soldier: 76

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  • Overwatch Collectors Edition price at $129.99

    • Pre-purchase Bonus: Noire Skin for Widowmaker
    • 21 Extraordinary Heroes: Choose your hero from a diverse cast of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, and oddities. 
    • Iconic Environments: Fight on futuristic battlefields around the globe: the cobbled streets of King’s Row in London; the mysterious Temple of Anubis; Numbani, where human and omnic live in harmony, and more… 
    • 5 Origin Skins: Overgrown Bastion, Security Chief Pharah, Strike-Commander Morrison, Blackwatch Reyes, and Slipstream Tracer.
    • In-game Goodies
      • Tracer Hero
      • Baby Winston Pet
      • Overwatch Card Back
      • Mercy’s Wings
      • Player Portraits Tracer, Reaper, Pharah, Winston, Bastion, and Soldier: 76
    • Soldier: 76 Statue: Overwatch’s former Strike-Commander stands tall once again, on your desk. This premium-grade statue measures 12.8” in height.
    • Overwatch Visual Sourcebook: Dive into the world of Overwatch with in-depth illustrations and information about the game's heroes, locations, and story.
    • Overwatch Soundtrack: Enjoy the music of the future with this immersive soundtrack.
    • Overwatch Collectors Edition Retail Box

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Genji guide

Genji - Role Offense


Character abilities include the following:
  • Shuriken - throws 3 projectiles in quick succession either directly or in a wider spread.
  • Deflect - uses his sword to redirect incoming projectiles back towards the attacker.
  • Swift Strike - charges forward with katana in hand, if passed thru a enemy they will get hit with a dot bleed effect.  If enemies die while using this ability, it can be instantly used again.
  • Dragonblade (Ultimate Ability) - delivers killing strikes to any targets within his swords range.
Daopa's guide and personal take on this character:
Primary task for offensive role character is to scout, harass, press the objectives and deal high damage to enemies. 

Genji's hit points is currently set to 200 and a melee option is available which is a knife slash attack.  

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Mei guide

Mei - Role Defense


Character abilities include the following:
  • Endothermic Blaster - short range stream of frost that damages, slows and freezes enemies in place. Also able to switch to medium range mode shooting icicle projectiles.
  • Cryo-Freeze - surrounds yourself with thick blocks of ice that enables self healing and ignores damage but disables movement and use of abilities.
  • Ice Wall - creates huge ice wall that blocks line of sight, prevents movement and attacks
  • Blizzard (Ultimate Ability) - deploys a drone that creates a blizzard which will do aoe damage, slow down enemies, and freeze opponents solid if they linger in the effected area.
Daopa's guide and personal take on this character:
Main task for defensive role character is to guard locations / objectives, create choke points and establish a front. 

Mei's hit points is currently set to 250 and a melee option is available which is a left punch attack.  

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

D. Va guide

D. Va - Role Tank


Character abilities include the following:
  • Fusion Cannons - short range cannons that deal high damage with no reload, while active movement is slowed.
  • Boosters - launches the mech into the air carrying her forward, can be used to knock enemies back on hit.
  • Defense Matrix - a projected targeting array that shoots incoming projectiles out of the air.
  • Self-Destruct - ejects from mech and sets power reactor to explode dealing massive aoe damage to nearby enemies.
Daopa's guide and personal take on this character:
Main task for tank role character is to protect your team, disrupt enemies and lead the charge. 

D. Va's hit points is currently set to 500 in mech and 150 out of mech.