9/19/2023 0 Comments Devil daggers lore![]() ![]() Strafing madly from behind my team’s frontline, I lob ricocheting bombs off of walls, behind cover, and into the enemy team, each ballistic ringing like an alarm clock before exploding. On my last death, I swap characters to Junkrat, the peg-legged Australian demolitions expert, and leap into the fray just outside our saferoom. But now that they were bottlenecking to their victory condition, I needed to change it up. I don’t think I landed a single headshot that game fortunately, her weapon has a semiautomatic alternate fire and I was managing to contribute something. Up till that point I had been playing Widowmaker, a Femme Nikita sniper, to abysmal effect. The payload had pushed its way to about 10 metres from our spawn point, a sort of interior hangar bay area with lots of nooks and hallways for the attacking team to strike from. ![]() I was on the defending team, and we weren’t doing particularly well. The setting is Route 66, a Nevada desert-themed payload map, in which the attacking team needs to stand near a vehicle - the payload - in order to inch it toward the finish line across the map’s main highway, while the defending team assails them from the mine tunnels, cliffsides, and Spaghetti Western-style buildings adjacent to keep them off the thing. My first Play of the Game may not necessarily be impressive, but it offers an accurate snapshot of Overwatch’s obvious appeal. In short, it is everything it’s been cracked up to be. My Blizzard odyssey continues with this weekend’s Overwatch open beta. ![]()
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