AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I like Genji but Reaper fucks him up so hard it's funny. I wish the open beta wasn't about to end because I want to play SO MUCH MORE

EDIT: they extended the beta til tomorrow so GAME ON

EDIT EDIT: I got a play of the game as Lucio by airblasting two people off the edge in Beach Town, he's my new fave

Reinhardt'd a Genji straight into his own Reinhardt, just as Genji popped his ult.

I fucking love Reinhardt.

For a first person shooter, I am having a ton of fun. I actually love this game.

I love playing Mercy and any other character that doesn't require aiming.

I like Mccree because he counters annoying characters like tracer and mei really hard.
Soldier 76 is a ton of fun too. Hanzo is boring to me, and widowmaker just seems like a much better pick compared to him in pretty much every case.

Hanzo's a much better offensive pick due to more health, really good area of denial ult, free wallhacks that are really good for spotting sneaky Bastions and he's a much better close range fighter, especially if you get those point blank scatter arrows.

I really need to play more actual combat situations to get a feel for most of these characters, because the test range really doesn't tell you jack about how effective your abilities are.

The thing I don't like about Hanzo is that he has nothing in terms of escape. His wallhacks and scatter arrows are neat, but I find myself picking Widow more just because of her grappling hook allowing for an easy getaway.

Earlier today, my team had two Bastions. I got annoyed that one of them didn't change to another character, so being the passive aggressive dick I am, I changed to Bastion too, to display how we really need more variety in our team.
The rest of the team followed, so we had a team of all Bastions.

And proceeded to win the next five matches in a row.

yeeeeeeeeeeeah he's gonna get nerfed into the ground if this beta is actually a beta and not just a pre-release preview stunt.

Bastion and Mei absolutely fucked my friends and I up every time they had the audacity to merely exist.
A Bastion pocketed by a mercy is an unkillable DPS machine, and Mei has far too many ways to shut down mobility too quickly, which can turn your entire team into a bunch of sitting ducks.
A good, not great but good, Mei on defense wins the game. Period.

Step 1: Pick Hanzo
Step 2: Build ult
Step 3: Throw out ult.
Step 4: Laugh at the Reinhardt, Mercy Bastion combo that's too slow to move out of the way of the big booty dragon, even if he does manage to move, he's still an easy target for Hanzo and friends to finish off

Alternatively, just pick Widowmaker and roflstomp the massive sitting duck.

Alternatively Alternatively, pick Tracer and throw your Time Bomb right onto his booty

Alternatively Alternatively Alternatively, pick Roadhog and hook his booty because hooking him brings him out of Sentry mode and I think McCree's flashbang does the same.

Alternatively Alternatively Alternatively Alternatively, pick Pharah and just use your flight to peek around corners to direct hit him. Each rocket does 150 damage so 2 or 3 will kill him. If the Mercy is a problem either just aim at her or concussive blast her away.

Bastion seems OP at first but he's actually probably the second worst hero in the game because he has no mobility and gets shrekt easily by any class with any semblance of range.

As for Mei, Reaper destroys her since he kills her faster than he can freeze him, and even if he's close to being frozen he can just activate Wraith Form to reset his freeze timer. Same goes for Tracer who can be hard for Mei to well, trace and can recall to gain back all her health and reset freeze timer. Hanzo and Widowmaker can annihilate her from 3 cities away and McCree can give her the ol' one two fuck you.

People have built this much of a meta in the 5 days of open beta?

and the 2 or 3 months of closed beta.

Pulled Deadeye in an odd spot, got a nice reward.

I was playing defense on King's Row as Mercy and we had the cart stopped like five meters from the goal and had only five seconds to go and I thought "we got this." Suddenly Reinhardt bursts out of a side door, ults our entire team (which I don't think I had seen before this moment), and then the other team cleans up our stunned asses and wins the game. Probably one of the more epic ways to lose a game, I wasn't even mad because it was so good.