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Shoot stuff and things.

I played the open beta. I found it fun, but not worth money.

• Has graphics reminiscent of Sanctum 2 - (2013 game).

I had been playing for a few days before bothering to take notes, so a lot of my first impression stuff is lost.

• A lot of the scene-switching is way too fast.

  • Such as voting for a person. What does this do, anyway?
  • It's additionally annoying to have something switched out to a black load screen.
• Bastion's turret form is disgustingly overpowered. Hell, he's generally overpowered since he can also heal (out of combat)
• Torbjorn's shotgun is also overpowered.
• Junkrat is crazy.

• Versus AI's difficult settings have brutal aimbot improvements and no human quality to them.

  • Sometimes it's just impossible to win a map.
• The Korean ice character breaks the fourth wall. =)
• Maps are fairly interesting, though everything is a gauntlet.

• The statistics got stuck after my first few games.

  • Which is odd since it keeps track of my best for each statistic. I guess just that stats screen is bugged.
• The replays don't last between game restarts.
• I like that consecutive maps are attack and then defend (or the reverse) on the same map.
• The superpower-usage audio is repetitive.
• The computers saying "gg" is terribly disingenuous.

• Playing pure single-character teams is fun

  • A team of all Junkrats is all manner of hilarious.
  • A team of Lucios is interesting.
  • A team of the Zenyattas guys is abusive.
• With all the unlockables and shit, I'd think this game would be free-to-play.
• I think AIs are placed with players. It appears that teams are made up of as little as three players sometimes.
• The thing where you can free play while waiting is a fucking pain in the ass waste of time with no reward. It might be interesting if I weren't yanked out of it without warning.
• There are cliffs. Fuck cliffs.
• Overtime doesn't last long enough to be meaningful.
• Is Lucio supposed to be Canadian? He mentions hockey at one point.
• As Roadhog, I gripped someone, and then Reinhardt did his charge and my chain got pulled with him. After the enemy got smashed into a wall my grip pulled him.
• Messages have a cooldown, which is nice.

• Some characters simply can't get a play of the day without everyone else sucking. They can't pull off a massive single moment, instead shining in many little bits. Support have serious issues getting recognition.