So, the closed beta officially ended today, and we've all gone to "Onlywatch" status. I did have some really fun games yesterday though.
In one, I joined up with a group of people, but I was late, so I was just sitting there spectating their game. However, if anyone ever leaves the game, a spectator is instantly brought in as a backfill. So, I'm just chilling and watching the people play on Nepal (King of the Hill) when all of a sudden I'm at the character select screen. "Oh, god... who do I choose!? Who do I choose!?" I ended up going with Pharah (girl with the rocket launcher and jetpack) as they had the tank and healer roles filled well enough. Sweet mother of God, the enemy team was
not prepared for what I wrought! I don't know if they just kind of forgot that I was there or something, but I was taking out people left and right... including the enemy's Pharah!
The second fun map was also on Nepal when we decided to have fun and run what's commonly called the "Cancer Comp", which is comprised of 2x Lucio (healer), 2x Winston (tank) and 2x Tracer (DPS). It was a little rough at first, but once we got into the groove, the enemy couldn't touch us. Of course, it helps that I either didn't die or only died once. Tracer's biggest benefit is being able to annoy the enemy and take out stragglers, so you've got to stay alive.
The third fun map was when I played Roadhog on Hollywood as defense. The team never even captured the first point as we kept them locked down tight. The best part is that I never died the entire time!
The only bad part is that I forgot to record any of these matches. :\ I just need to get in the habit of recording them all and deleting the boring/not fun ones. But I did record two Hanamura defense maps yesterday... in one, I was playing as
Roadhog and the other was
Zenyatta. The Zenyatta one was a bit messier than I would've liked, but apart from a single instance of overextending (and paying for it), the Roadhog one went pretty well (if you ignore the somewhat poor hooking).
You can only watch so much without being able to play the game. It gets boring. Most people stream the games they play, not the games they don't.
I donno... I watched the game a lot when I didn't have beta access. :\