Tips, Tricks and Secrets

Overwatch is lightning fast game, with deaths happening in an instant, and enemies waiting for you around every corner. It also happens to be riddled with secrets, nods to other games, and other fun things for those players who take a moment to look around.

Below are some tips to not only help out your gameplay, but also point out neat secrets, and hidden objects.

Overwatch is lightning fast game, with deaths happening in an instant, and enemies waiting for you around every corner. It also happens to be riddled with secrets, nods to other games, and other fun things for those players who take a moment to look around.
Below are some tips to not only help out your gameplay, but also point out neat secrets, and hidden objects.

An unspoken fact about the Payload game type, is that standing by the Payload will actually heal you! It's a minor heal, around the same strength as Lucio, but it's very useful for staying in tip top shape as you push the objective forward!

Overtime is Worth Fighting For

Did you run out of time while trying to capture a point? Well, if you're close enough, the game will go into Overtime. So long as one member of your team remains near the objective, the match will not end. During Overtime, it's worth it to be more aggressive, and throw yourself at the objective. If you can stall the game long enough, someone might be able to pull off a crazy Ultimate and save the game, allowing you to win!

Assess Your Needs

One of the big things in Overwatch is character swapping. Anytime you die, be aware of why you did, and if changing your character would benefit both yourself and your team. For instance, if the enemy team keeps annihilating you and your team, perhaps you need more Tanks or Supports. Simply switching your character one time can be enough to turn around your performance, and maybe even save your team!

Supports are the Key to Victory!

Is your team struggling? Check to see if you have a support! They are very powerful, but often overlooked as they tend to sit on the back lines and not get into as much action as the other characters.
Don't think this has to always be the case! Lucio for instance is a great front line support, who can move around quickly, and participate in fights. Zenyatta is another support who can heal, deal decent damage and debuff enemies all at the same time!

A Balanced Team is a Successful Team

When you're picking your characters, take into consideration what Characters are already chosen. A team of all the same character won't do as well as a team that has proper healers, tanks and powerful offensive heroes.

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Overwatch: 20 essential tips and dirty secrets

Blizzard’s acclaimed team-based shooter is delighting millions with its brash visual style and surprising tactical depth. But while there are many online guides drilling down into the specific nuts-and-bolts of each character, some players are still struggling with the fundamentals of this fresh take on the first-person shooter.
So let us take you through some basics, some not-so-basics and some dirty secrets.

1. Health / Armour / Shields

This is one of the first things Overwatch explains, and it’s pretty clear that a lot of players didn’t take it in. We could go into endless depth but it’s important to understand some basics about how the different types of HP operate: health and armour doesn’t regenerate (unless you’re certain support classes), but shields do regenerate. Hence, with the shield-heavy Zarya, the character’s being set up to bait shots with her shields before dropping her barrier to absorb the fire and power-up (which lets the shield regenerate.)

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Much more importantly, having armour as any part of your health pool reduces the damage of incoming fire for as long as it’s there. This is super-effective against high-frequency low-damage weapons, where every shot will be affected, and less so against single-shot big-damage weapons like rockets.
As a practical example take the oft-misunderstood tank D.Va, sometimes seen as a poor alternative to the Reinhardts and Winstons. The whole point of D.Va is that her health pool is disproportionately stacked with armour, and therefore she’s the choice counter for teams attacking with Tracers and Soldier 76. Dash into their vicinity and the shots bounce off you like confetti.

2. Exploit hidden shield effects

To briefly return to the Russian bicep queen, Zarya is built around applying a barrier to herself and teammates, and it has one very special property. The barrier has 200HP but can absorb a single attack greater than that value before disappearing, meaning it has incredible utility against something like Junkrat’s Rip-Tire ultimate or even D.Va’s self-destruct – pop a barrier on yourself and any nearby teammate, and you’ll emerge unscathed from the explosion.

3. Audio cues are practical, not realistic

This is one of the first things Overwatch explains, and it’s pretty clear that a lot of players didn’t take it in. We could go into endless depth but it’s important to understand some basics about how the different types of HP operate: health and armour doesn’t regenerate (unless you’re certain support classes), but shields do regenerate. Hence, with the shield-heavy Zarya, the character’s being set up to bait shots with her shields before dropping her barrier to absorb the fire and power-up (which lets the shield regenerate.)

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Much more importantly, having armour as any part of your health pool reduces the damage of incoming fire for as long as it’s there. This is super-effective against high-frequency low-damage weapons, where every shot will be affected, and less so against single-shot big-damage weapons like rockets.
As a practical example take the oft-misunderstood tank D.Va, sometimes seen as a poor alternative to the Reinhardts and Winstons. The whole point of D.Va is that her health pool is disproportionately stacked with armour, and therefore she’s the choice counter for teams attacking with Tracers and Soldier 76. Dash into their vicinity and the shots bounce off you like confetti.

4. Exploit hidden shield effects

To briefly return to the Russian bicep queen, Zarya is built around applying a barrier to herself and teammates, and it has one very special property. The barrier has 200HP but can absorb a single attack greater than that value before disappearing, meaning it has incredible utility against something like Junkrat’s Rip-Tire ultimate or even D.Va’s self-destruct – pop a barrier on yourself and any nearby teammate, and you’ll emerge unscathed from the explosion.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/06/overwatch-tips-secrets-strategy-blizzard