http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k14XJRNsmg

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#3 [00:53]	Mess with the Doc, you get the Glock	Templar Ponyboy	None	0.013	medal	[CLICK]
#4 [01:23]	bet	chipsa	phan10m_g4m1ng	0.012696299999999997	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#5 [01:52]	zonevstheworld clip	zonevstheworld	zonevstheworld	0.0125	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#6 [02:04]	squashed #2	abbyboo	None	0.0117	medal	[CLICK]
#7 [02:16]	flexor	coconutbreaker	coconutbreaker	0.0105	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#8 [02:36]	THANOS	mangunow	fallwithinfire	0.0095	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#9 [03:06]	bosshog how good are you at dva	gogggaaa	alicanfood	0.0045	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#10 [03:24]	unsaltedsalt_ clip	unsaltedsalt_	tenseiow	0.0042	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#11 [03:42]	Chipsa contacting demos through his mouse	chipsa	jfuo	0.0031	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#12 [03:56]	How's that ahh.. little boi	m0xyy	lightwind6	0.0021	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#13 [04:09]	Chipsa said WHAT	chipsa	creepinpython	0.0022	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#14 [04:31]	skippypoppin clip	skippypoppin	gloomshot v2.2	3e-05	abridger v5.5	[CLICK]
#15 [05:24]	six_cyx clip	six_cyx	gloomshot v2.2	3e-05	abridger v5.5	[CLICK]
#16 [06:47]	skippypoppin clip	skippypoppin	gloomshot v2.2	2e-05	abridger v5.5	[CLICK]
#17 [07:32]	Diffed	chipsa	luopl2p	2e-05	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#18 [07:45]	SILVOC	metro	sekuso	2e-05	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#19 [08:03]	OMEGALUL	aceofspadesow	iiandra	2e-05	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#20 [08:26]	emongg clip	emongg	gloomshot v2.2	1e-05	abridger v5.5	[CLICK]
#21 [09:26]	emongg clip	emongg	gloomshot v2.2	1e-05	abridger v5.5	[CLICK]
#22 [10:18]	lhcloudy27 clip	lhcloudy27	gloomshot v2.2	1e-05	abridger v5.5	[CLICK]
#23 [11:41]	emongg clip	emongg	gloomshot v2.2	1e-05	abridger v5.5	[CLICK]

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JUSTICE
Trivia marked with \* are added after the post was made; by either requests or further research.*
Fury

• Used to snipe a Junkrat onetrick streamer called Saejin Cha, and maintained a 100% win rate against him.
• Used to be a DPS main; teammates with Fleta as a DPS duo in one of his old teams.
• Very close friends with Carpe and Jjonak. Due to their incredible talent in their respective roles, this trio is also called the Deathly Hallows.
• Allegedly still on par with high tier pro players on DPS
• Famous for that one play on D'va
• Famous for that another play on D'Va where he ate a nuke-nade (throwing it high into the air with pre-planned angle) thrown by Surefour (clip provided by u/DanielHongFromKr)
• Famous for that another play on D'Va where he ate grav, dragonstrike, denied widow's high ground, stalled cart, all in a single play. (clip also deleted)

Mag

• Bumper is his idol, and a lot of his playstyle is inspired by him.
• Known to decline game and group invites often
• Extremely sharp and critical when analyzing games; digging into every single ability usage and their timings down to milliseconds when trying to find out why he lost certain fights
• Absolutely loves toast; The sound of his toaster can be heard often during his stream
• Looks similar to a Korean songwriter named 용감한형제 (Brave Brothers)
• His name actually comes from McCree, because he thought his name was spelt "Magcree" (as his Korean spelling is Mag-Keu-Ri)
• Really close with SHD's Leejaegon, his old teammate at RunAway, and often snipes Mirage (ex-RunAway, currently streamer) in a duo called "MaJaeGon".

Decay

• One of Mirage's snipers, but one of the few that Mirage is actually scared of
• Close with AimGod, Na1st, HOTBA, and Daemin
• Tries to hide his identity by changing his name often and hiding it during streams, but always gets caught within a few days
• Swears a lot, but rarely does it to anyone in-game
• A coach (Reign) once claimed Decay asked to be benched and then went to play Valorant, but Decay firmly denies this. Ironically, people weren't upset at him even if it was true as he was basically the solo carry of his team at the time
• Known for his excellent mechanical skills and versatility; matches Viol2t's viable hero pool. Also one of the most sought-after players in Fantasy OWL.

JERRY

• The name comes from the Tom and Jerry show which he enjoyed watching when he was younger.(provided by u/Cows_rocks22**
• Previously an offtank player as known B1U5H (Blush) for Team Seven, then changed it to Jerry when he was signed to X6 as a hitscan.**

Ttuba

• The pronunciation of the name is closer to "Du-ba", than "Tuba". Same for Jjonak's double J, this is a sound unique to Korean, where you say the letter while impacting the tip of your tongue to your teeth.
• Known as the good looking one in his team (debated)
• Due to his lackluster performance on Echo during the early Echo meta, him and Profit (with a similar problem) were referred to as the TtuFit Battle (for the title of the worst Echo), but after they significantly improved, the meaning of this name changed to praise them.
• Responds extremely quickly to fan DMs on Instagram, very friendly

Assassin

• Was close with flowerbin (manager, RunAway) as she was the reason he got to compete in the Next Cup in China and showcase his true skills.
• Huge fan of Haksal
• Known for the controversy regarding his signing with Justice and leaving RunAway

BeBe

• Played Sudden Attack (Counter Strike ripoff) at a high level
• Complained about his "namu-wiki" page (Korean wikipedia that covers internet culture in great detail, also the main source of this post) is too short compared to his teammates', and playfully accused them of writing their own page

Closer

• Unfortunately shares the name with another internet celebrity who caused huge controversy, and often mistakenly linked to them
• Really, really good at surfing in Route 66 as Lucio
• 4.18 k/d on Lucio in an entire season (anything close or over 4 is usually suspected to be a smurf or a bot, which makes his natural stats amazing in top500)

I restarted playing after years away from competitive and jumped directly into competitive with NO warm-up. These are the things I learned from a recent climb (and posts from here) that might help newer players and returning ones.
I found a lot of the posts here to be copy-pasted answers that aren't helpful (Just carry harder, Ana Zen DPS carry harder, Post VoD; The issue is you're bad at all these things definitely where you should be, People in high SR do this so don't even try it where you are)
General Things (Playing to win means not getting the glory every game!)
Be humble, it is a hectic game and you may do great things and no one will ever know. I have gotten ego trippy when a counterpart is taking all the praise. Play for the W, not the clout.

1. Open queue is a complete mess at an extremely low-level, I would not recommend playing it unless you can stack your team. It is toxic, racist, elitist, and will likely take you longer than is worth it to climb out of in solo.
2. USE YOUR ULTS! People seem to hold them forever in bronze and silver acting like they don't come back. If your team is even remotely close use it and use it even if it takes out one person. Chaos breeds staggering at a low rank (This is good).
3. There are games you can not win no matter the role. People this low often are new, are rude, are playing on toasters, or a combination of all of these. Practice your mechanics when the steamroll commences. ie, hitting shots as Ana, hacking without getting caught on Sombra, landing hooks on Roadhog.
4. Know where health packs and good hardcover are on every map for each character you like to play. I play like I will not be getting healed or shielded and that mindset is very important until you feel out your team, else you can easily feed.
5. Never target teammates on comms, make general requests if you are knowledgable enough to do so. Ask for shield breaking, ask for backline peel, recommend characters bronze people would potentially play to counter something that is clearly boning you. BE NICE, BE ASSERTIVE but BE VOCAL. Comms help a lot
6. Do callouts from your team's point of view and keep them short and precise, Don't argue, and if you find yourself ready to snap just go silent and finish out the match.
7. Use the avoid teammate to your benefit! If you are mass queueing a single role or are in an open queue, avoid the trolls each day you are playing so they'll be forced on the other team or at least out of your game. I change them daily when I am playing and it works wonders especially in the open queue which has atrocious queue times. You WILL see that one trick machine gun widow again.
8. Having gold medals means NOTHING (Kinda Sorta). Low ranks get stuck on medals but don't use the information well. For any map, if you are gold eliminations and a whole round goes by and your elims are 2 or 3. You and the team aren't confirming kills. This is a team failure so try and facilitate more focus. Healing is a bad metric to gauge your supporting on as those characters add so much more with their kits beyond HP/s.
9. DON'T ONE TRICK! There are games where your favorite character just isn't working against a team. (Winston into Reaper Brig and Torb for instance) Have some other options if it isn't going well and you know you aren't doing well, adapt, and oftentimes it'll be better than getting stomped out.
10. Keep tabs on enemies on your sides and flanks. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they gave up. Play closer to tanks and watch your support partner.

Specifics!
DPS (Easy but omg the queue times) I got the highest in dps the quickest since aim can take you a long way
BREAK SHIELDS They are the Cadbury egg with easy kills and map control being the creme filling
Easiest to climb with if you have an FPS background. If you have goodish aim hitscan characters are solid. Worse aim reaper, torb, and junkrat.
You don't need to flank 24/7, killing from the front as reaper works just as well from the side. Bust tanks and peel divers and you'll get easy SR. Also, either play like you have no healers and get health packs or make your way back to them to get healed. If you die out in no man's land it is your fault, not theirs.
Widow is a trap character... ...unless you are on comms and are getting picks and calling it out. From all my games the only ones that went well had a Widow call out when she got key kills so people would react to it. Otherwise, she adds absolutely nothing to the team other than a distraction that needs to be healed.
Bastion is a selfish pick, as he requires a whole team to not have fun in one spot in hopes of winning. It CAN work but it SUCKS to play around and when it fails it is usually a massive loss.
Tank
Use environmental cover as often as possible. This isn't WoW where you can stand in Fel magic and the druid might keep you up, standing in front of 6 people is probably death, and that's your fault.
Rein, Dva,Ball and Winston. Just because you can get there, doesn't mean you should. REALLY REALLY weigh the end results of you diving the backline or charging into their team. If the likelihood is you end up in the spawn room, don't do it.
Protect the points and payloads. Many tanks queue like they wanted DPS but don't have the patience to wait. You yeeting to their spawn room or holding a choke 15 seconds from the payload stretches healing thin since they are usually the one left on payload. Do they follow you and lose progress or stay behind and let you die? I have had many games where we won with no post-game cards only because their team was playing deathmatch and we were playing the objective.
Support
The one I like the most but the hardest to climb. You are going to run into a lot of bad DPS and Tanks in this range. Pick your pony that you think is competent and facilitate them doing well.
STAY ALIVE! The more you survive the better chance your team has at winning. More than any role a healer and an elusive or competent tank or DPS can stall an INSANELY long time
Watch the kill feed when a round starts, if widow, Hanzo, ashe get kills in the first 25 to 30ish seconds help them out. If not, I more or less ignore them as they're usually in awkward positions to support and make no effort to help you help them. (This is a weird DPS issue where the queue makes people force picks into bad comps, don't mess up your 5 person cohesion to help the lone DPS dying in a 1v1)
Heal botting is sometimes the best option. Baptiste and Moira can often cover up really bad team play. Bap heals really well and can shut down a lot of big ults teams would die to otherwise. Moira can pump out heals like no other and generates ult at an insane clip at the lower levels, which is a game-changing ult when you can mass heal and snipe the enemy healers. DO NOT DPS MOIRA though, if your orb is on cooldown you should probably heal orb.
Zen and Ana If your aim isn't good they can be more harmful than helpful. Most posts here say just big nade or discord DPS zen. If your aim is bad you WILL NOT CLIMB. If you can't stop flankers you will not climb.
Learn Brig. Shut down reapers and Tracers. You probably won't get peel from your DPS or tanks. This solves that. Also quite good on control maps since they tend to be more brawl-centric.
Conclusion
I am bronze/silverish currently and it takes a lot of games to go up (If you average 25SR a win it'll take 120 wins straight to go from 1k to 3k). It is a marathon, not a sprint and there will be snags in the road.
Be aware of the game and what you can control but be realistic in that unless you're some near pro you probably won't rattle off 80% win rates. Play the map and objectives not necessarily the other players. Half the posts from super high SR aren't really relatable because skill and game experience are massively different than the multi-hour grind of progression it really is. Enjoy the growth of going from hovering at 900 to 1100 (That is actual progress on your part.) Like most things in life it takes work

I think Flank TP and Flying Turrets are great.

Flank TP allows for Deathball mobility and Flanks. It allows you to Flank from unexpected angles and locations but what's even better than that, is that it allows your team to flank from behind your enemies. Having half your team tp behind the enemies while half puts pressure from the front, is a solid tactic for winning fights.
On Attack, TPing from cover to cover is great, you can immediately by pass chokes by using the TP. From there you can TP to high ground or behind enemies.
On Defense, you want to use TP to give strong positions to your team and yourself. And you want to create TPs to allow for escape in case you get dove on. The great thing about Newmetra is that now she has an escape against a coordinated dive. But you need to have your TP already in place to do so. Thus it can be beneficial to sometimes throw a defensive TP just as the enemy is pushing through the choke.
On Defense, your TP can be also used as Utility to mobilize your team back on point, but usually only works if you died as well. Unless you are playing Hanamura, where a TP can be used on the right side cliff to shortcut back to point.
On Defense, you can use Turrets like how you did before, but you can also TP them behind enemy lines.
TP and Turrets when combined is very strong cheese. TPing 3 Turrets behind enemy lines is highly likely to secure a kill. On Attack, this cheese should be eaten often.
The Flying aspect of Flying Turrets is only really good when the enemy is distracted otherwise, your turrets are likely to get shut down quickly. Flying Turrets are great to throw if your allies are about to use CC Ults like Grav and Earthshatter, as they help to secure kills.
Baby Dva and heroes with small hitboxes can be hard to hit, so Flying Turrets help with taking out squishy targets.
On Defense, Flying Turrets are good to block off a choke far from point. Like on Anubis Defense, the choke with the sign on it. I often throw 3 Turrets there. Then as enemies break through them, I set up on the door and then on the point, etc.
Anubis, in general, is a great map for Newmetra, as TP allows you to access all areas of the map instantly. It was always a great map for Sym but it's a lot more interesting to play with instant high-ground access
But high ground access is not a make or break for Newmetra since her TP has multiple uses, including escape and Turret cheese.

Great Wall ultimate is decent.

Think of it as a global sword, the key to mastering it is learning how to cut with it.
Use it to cut straight through the middle of your path to the enemy team or point and use your dancing skills to rush forward.
On Defense, you often want to cut the point diagonally (Unless the enemy has snipers, then flat-facing Rein shield like cut is good)
If you just died and your team is fighting on point, learning to cut from across the map is important. So knowing your position from the out-of-sight area far away is important.
Newmetra does not have to memorize all the nooks and crannies of a map to find creative Ult placements but she does have to know the overall map layout in order to cut well with the barrier from long ranges.
Cutting and Dancing around it is the key to mastering the Great Barrier.

Orbs are ok

Nothing much to say here, except that they lost a lot of their utility for more killing potential.

Beam is Trash

The Devs attempted to transfer some of that Utility to Beam however that was a massive fail.
And so the key to mastering the beam is to break your left click button. Jokes.
But seriously, I don't bother with it.
I don't use it at all. It is somuch more efficient to spam orbs and Turrets and be flanking with TP than to waste time trying to charge the beam.
Actually I do have something to say about Newmetra's Orbsand that is - Orbs are good at Mid Range.
At close to mid ranges, they can be good at securing kills. And of course, can be spammed into chokes at longer ranges to get random kills.
So when you consider that orbs cover the mid range well.
The way to fix Symmetra's Primary is not to increase range to make it another mid range tool but to make it powerful at close range and reward the player for aiming it well at close range.
The way to reward the player for aiming it well, is not to make it so that the beam takes ages to charge.
Currently on paper it takes 4 seconds to charge to Lvl3 but when you account for aim that 4 seconds becomes more like 8 seconds.
It is simply too slow of a charge to be of any use.
For the perfect player with 100% accuracy the beam should charge up in 2 seconds so that when average aim is accounted for it is more like 4 seconds.
You might think 2 seconds is too fast but it's actually not since most heroes have enough burst to kill you within those 2 seconds.
For most players they won't be charging in 2 seconds on heroes, they will probably take around 4 seconds. Only the good players will be able to consistently charge the beam somewhere near 2 seconds.
And this way the good player is rewarded for trying to work towards getting closer and closer to the ideal 2 seconds.
Bad players will take more than 4 seconds to get to max charge whereas good players will take less than 4 seconds.
This can even be a statistic in-game that we can use to measure our skill and improvement - how long it took for us to charge our beam on a hero.
Sym player must always think two questions, how can I get beam to charge faster? and how can I stay alive to maximize the lvl3 damage?

Balance of Utility and Power

I think the balance with Symmetra kit has been greatly disrupted with the buff to Orb killing potential and nerf to Primary.
Before, the Orbs were purely for Utlity (for creating long linear channels of disruption) and your Beam was the Primary way you killed things (you levelled it up and went on a rampage or at least attempted to).
Now the Orbs are purely for killing things and offer NO utlity. Whereas the Primary is hot garbage.
The Primary cannot be a utility tool because it will always be better to spam Killer Orbs from backlines, from flanks, etc. It will be always be better to do something else other than to use the Primary as Utility.
So this balance must be restored. The Orbs should be tuned back into Utility fire and the Primary must be tuned back into DPS fire.
Otherwise, you just have redundant pieces in a kit. And the kit loses that element that made it good.
So the Ammo refund on Barriers on the Beam - Utility - is wasted on the Beam, as the Beam is meant to be a high burst damage tool at close range. It should feel more like a Genji Ult, like it used to. Once the beam hits Lvl 3 Sym should be tearing through the enemy team (or trying to).
I think it would be much better to give the Utility back to the Orbs. When Orbs hit a Barrier, they should refund some Ammo.
Or when Orb hits a Barrier your next Orb charges faster.
Or simply, Orb deals double damage to Barriers.
You can't make them pierce Barriers anymore, because they move too fast to be dodged by a shielding Reinhardt.
So some other Utlity must be given to Orbs and the Primary should be given pure DPS treatment.

Hello.
As a duly appointed representative of the International Council of Symmetra Mains, I thought it would be best to shed some light on one of the more complex and subtle aspects of her 3.0 toolkit: the beam. Furthermore, I think most people have the wrong idea about why it is buffed on the PTR.
Now that Blizzard has put Symmetra in charge of Overwatch, I've had to clock in alot more hours and only dabble in this sub, but it seems to me that this board has collectively...sorta...never understood Symmetra, and there hasn't been too strong a discussion about her since her change. Pretty much, most of the posts I see can be classified under the "I don't understand Symmetra but this is why she is broken OP plz nerf Blizzard wtf" or "I dont understand Symmetra but this is why she is crappy and needs buffs". Like I said, I spend more time playing than looking at reddit. I can't say I am on either side of the fence with those posts, but I would definitely say that her ult is now one of the games strongest, and her rework will be regarded as game changing once players start to really figure out her teleporter.
ANYWAYS
The beam is tricky - its situational. The reason people think it sucks so bad is because the ball is now her primary fire, and the beam is her secondary weapon. Basically, you use the beam to run down people, finish them off after a ball, or to melt an entire team if you're lucky enough to get the beam charged and sneak up on the team. It is not a weapon meant to be thrown around right in peoples faces, but instead is meant for ambushes or pushing on people that are at a disadvantage. Most importantly: Symmetras beam is supposed to bully the ever living fuck out of Reinhardt, Orisa, Dva, and Roadhog.
With Reinhardt, Symmetras beam is just long enough to sit outside Reins range and drain his shield, punish him for dropping it, or gain enough charge to push in and melt someone. Seriously, Reinhardt v Symmetra is 100% in Symmetras favor unless the Sym steps too close (at which point shes fucked). Orisa is more of a 50/50 affair, as she has the toolkit to jerk Sym around or mow her down for playing sloppy, BUT a shield that is placed foolishly means a free LvL3 Beam for the boss. This means that outpositioning Orisa is the key. Stand at the side, out of her direct line of sight, and just keep wrecking her shields, charging your beam, and occasionally diving in to DELETE DELETE DELETE. Dva and Roadhog are pretty obvious - charge your beam and hop around them just like the old days. Its not about killing, its about sending a message.
The point is that making her beam longer doesn't really change these dynamics, and I think the real reason they made this change is because of Brigitte (and specifically Brigitte). You see folks: you know you are doing extremely well when the other team begins switching to Winston, Reaper, Pharah, and Brigitte (aka Team "Sick and Tired of Symmetras Bullshit"). All three of those heroes are strong counters to Sym, but ironically her changes have improved her game against Winston and Pharah - she can actually do SOMETHING to escape or even kill them, but Brigitte? There is no escape from Brigitte. You're dead.
Brigitte is seriously the only hero that I almost always run away from. I think that you can bully her at range the same way you can with Reinhardt (using the beam), but the margin for error must be millimeters. Even worse, her shield bash allows her to instantly get closer to you, and once again: there is no escape from Brigitte. Just like Rein, once she is close enough to whack you once, its going to take divine intervention to save you.
This change, while giving her a little help against Reaper and Pharah (and zero help against Winston), allows her to now sit on Brigitte with the beam, and gives her immensely more breathing room to deal with the imminent shield bash that will be used to get inside. Blizzard didn't go "man her beam needs a buff", they went "Man, Brigitte should not be allowed to own Sym like she does".
On behalf of the International Council of Symmetra mains: youre welcome. And remember: the true enemy of humanity, is not teleporting your teammates back from the the spawn area.

For those who are not aware, u/ToasterFire arranged a CK2 succession game with a select number of people from this subreddit; with me being the first to kick this bit of fun off.
You can find more details about the game here, with a list of who will be playing the heirs.
Forgive me for any grammatical errors in the below. This write-up was written up in a bit of a rush.
Anything within brackets '( )' are annotations.
This is the Chronicle of Sigurdr 'Snake-in-the-Eye', Petty King of Sjaelland, in which is contained the record of his yearly fortunes, glories and difficulties.
- 1 January 867 -
King Ivar has pulled me into his attack. I wish my brother well, but I may not be able to assist in his the invasion of Lothian and East Anglia. I wish him well and I hope he kills that bastard King of Northumbria - the bugger murdered my father.
My curious and fussy son, Knud, I shall have you tutored by the Councillors and noblemen, with me as your guardian. May you grow up to be fierce and brave, like your father.
For you, my gluttonous wife. You shall have a divorce. Why should I tolerate your greedy way, on top of you being the daughter of the bastard who murdered my father?! I have my son from you and you are not needed in my life anymore.
I shall be free to fuck who I please!
I shall honour my freedom with a quest to become a greater King! That land across the water has been on my mind since I claimed my father's domain. Bagsecg won't know what's coming for him, but I must wait my time until the invasion is over.
- 1 January 867 -
King Hrane, you bastard! I'll teach you for trying to raid my land! Consider yourself lucky you escaped before my army reached you!
- 26 June 867 -
With my new-found freedom, I found myself looking towards King Hrane's wife, Queen Ingfrid. I met her several times - danced with her, flirted and confessed my love; and managed to bed her.
I cucked you good, Hrane!
- 27 December 867 -
My patience has thinned. Even with one war gone, the other still remains and there is a kingdom waiting for me.
Brothers, join arms, raise your weapons and come with me. We shall claim the kingdom!
- 17 March 869 -
I have received word that my Courtier has given birth to a beautiful girl! With Odin's blessing, I shall name her Summer-Druid and she'll be acknowledged as my daughter.
- 17 October 869 -
Bagsecg, in the name of the gods, you will now be my vassal; and I, Sigurdr will be named King!
Glory to the gods!
- 9 December 869 -
I arranged for Bagsecg to be assassinated. He was a vassal far too powerful to ignore and, thankfully, there was plenty of support for my cause. The bastard drank the poisoned wine, but my plot was revealed. I hope his son doesn't try to get revenge on me.
- 29 January 870 -
The affair with Queen Ingfrid has grown over the months. While I had only intended to tumble with her for fun, my feelings for her have grown. I have chosen her as my lover.
- 01 September 870 -
I arranged to assassinate Bagsecg's son, as he had no heirs to his lands. The plan worked with a hunting 'mishap'. His lands are now in my name.
- 05 November 870 -
The Queen, my lover, has given me another daughter. I shall name her Satanic-Cyanide and she will be acknowledged by me.
- 20 July 873 -
My men have returned from their raid. Some gold was acquired from the forts of west France. A practice run, before we seek the richer lands.
- 20 February 874 -
Thoughts of Life and Death creep into my mind. I summoned my council to help quell these concerns.
(For those who do not play Ck2, this event can lead to your character becoming immortal. I'm only mentioning the relevant parts, for context towards later events)
- 07 March 874 -
I discussed the need to find out about everlasting life with my council. I decided to ask my Chancellor to send out letters to his confidants. Such a subject is a delicate matter and I will not have it handled by my marshal!
- 17 October 874 -
A daughter was born from one of my Courtiers. I named her Anti-Logic. After a period of illness with my son, Knud, I decided to legitmise the girl. My kingdom needs a backup heir.
- 18 May 875 -
My men have returned from a grand raid around the Venice area. We shall celebrate this with a Blot, later in the year, using the prisoners the raiding party captured.
- 20 July 875 -
My Chancellor has found a mystic. A very attractive girl by the name of Idunn. Her beauty pierces my soul and I yearn for her longing presence.
(I'll skip the in-between details about the next triggers, as most will know what they are from googling)
- 22 September 875 -
My time with Idunn could not match any other woman I have met before. Her teachings have given me a fresh perspective on life and given me renewed energy for living. I asked her to be my lover and she said yes.
- 17 March 878 -
My courtier gave me another daughter. I shall name her Ace-Three-TripleTwo-Ni and she will be deemed as legitimate.
- 28 March 878 -
I have done well to meet Idunn's expectations so far, but my latest task has proven to be a challenge. After some time hunting for the tree of time, my men and I found it; but they asked why I should eat apple. I tried to reason with them, for I had little coin in the war chest to bribe them.
- 31 March 878 -
After some negotiation, one of the men climbed the tree to fetch the apple. That bastard! I had his head after he betrayed me and claimed the apple for himself. Idunn, my beloved Idunn. I miss thee...
- 24 July 879 -
My loyal men have returned from Venice. The bounty they provided has brought honor and glory to my kingdom.
- 1 September 879 -
From the coin I have received from the recent raid, and the prestige I have built up from my reign, I have now fulfilled my ambitions. For I, Sigurdr 'Snake-in-the-eye', am now King of Casual
- 31 October 880 -
Hrane, oh Hrane, you cucked fool. No matter how many times you asked, I will deny that I slept with your wife. The fool did not believe me and challenged me to a duel. Ha! He lost and whimpered all the way back home.
Which reminds me. I must see my lovely Queen Ingfrid again. She helps to fill some of the void that Idunn left behind.
- 17 November 884 -
I ordered for a rune stone to be made in my name. It shall proclaim that I had the strength of 10 men.
- 01 February 885 -
Over the last few months, I was able to spend some time with Idunn. I thought she had left me for good, but she explained that that was not the case. Months have passed since I last met her and I feared that I may not hear from her again after the unfortunate death of her first born, our potential son; but today I had received news that she gave birth. The girl shall be named Jptoc, my legitimate daughter.
- 18 August 885 -
I hired a smith to make me a new weapon. For the last few months, he's been hard at work to make my precious sword. The beauty weapon shall be displayed for all to see, in war and during peace.
- 23 February 887 -
I arranged a marriage between Summer-Druid and some Duke in Munster (Northern France). She may help form a small alliance.
- 01 November 887 -
The gods have blessed me. Idunn has given birth to a son! He shall be given an honourable name, Toaster-Fire. Of course, I legitimised him.
- 11 December 887 -
My good friend, Arni the Chancellor, has given me a lovely hunting pupper. I named him, Hunter.
- 10 May 888 -
My pupper has grown into a G O O D B O Y E.
- 15 July 889 -
A few months back, Ingfrid, my lovely Queen lover took me to a getaway. She wanted to escape her poor marriage with that craven fool, Hrane. We tumbled all night long and now she had presented me with another girl. Welcome, Oro, my legitimate daughter. If only I could tell Hrane that he's been cucked again.
With this new child int he world, I remember her mentioned that she lost her title of Queen. The lands have now been claimed by my brother, who now holds the name of 'Ironside'. This is a cause for concern.
- 17 March 890 -
I discovered an unused claim on a small piece of land that should belong to my kingdom. With information acquired. I discovered that my brother is currently at war with someone else. This is the perfect time to start a war.
- 15 May 892 -
The war with my brother was long and hard, but I won. The land is mine. Not only that, the war has done further damage to my brother's kingdom. The former powerhouse is now broken up.
[- 01 August 894 -]
Anti-Logic, my daughter, has given me a lovely pair of twins. I have named them, Smiler-The-Penguin and Teh-Funk.
- 22 December 896 -
My daughter, why? How could you do this?! Plaguing the peasants with nightmares! You foolish girl.
I should never have sent you away from here. I remember her pleading her way out of the claims when she was put before me, but I had to do my duty. She should be thankful that I only branded her.
- 19 August 900 -
I arranged a Betrothal between Toaster-Fire and Teh-Funk. I'm sure they will have a happy marriage.
- 03 May 903 -
My flings with another courtier has produced another girl. I named her Jarvis-Cook and acknowledged her.
- 25 April 904 -
With my brother dead, it was a perfect time to claim a piece of his kingdom. My nephew was too weak to defeat me. After many months of war, he lost and I now hold the claims to Uppland.
- 26 September 904 -
I have a lovely grand-daughter. I named her Jobson-Fiftheen (I am aware of the spelling error, sorry).
- 25 April 905 -
I could not exclude Toaster-Fire from the realm. He is my son and he must be close to his father. I hope to give him some land, when he arrives.
- 07 May 905 -
I have given him Jylland.
- 22 April 910 -
Knud, my son, died from flu. His son, Sigurdr will take my place when I die.
- 11 December 910 -
King Sigurdr I of Casual died of severe stress on 11 December, 910. His grandson, Sigurdr, succeeded to the throne of the Kingdom with a grand ceremony in Travemünde.
Post-Death look at the map. Toaster-Fire has decided to become independent...
Good luck to the next person!
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Any fellow Main tank mains having a less than stellar time in this meta? I find if I go Rein, I’m just being a rectangle man holding shield up against an onslaught of spam. I go Orisa and can slowly push to shield further, just for it be deleted quickly and the team to not be able to take space. I never thought I would miss dive meta.
Edit. I have been playing more Orisa lately after watching EvilToaster. I think she’s the best option if you’re a shield tank. I will be playing more off tank going forward as there is a larger role for them to play, currently, IMHO
Edit 2. I understand Rein isn’t the always go-to. That wasn’t entirely the point of my post. My post was directed more at how the current meta is hard to be a shield tank in, especially on attack. Additionally, I know dive meta wasn’t the greatest, but it at least required some measure of coordination and communication between team members, unlike spam or cheese meta. Yes, some people have made the claim you can still dive with Winston and Dva, but I argue with how popular Hog, Junkrat and even Reaper is becoming, it’s tough to play Winston. To each there own.

Hey 3650 TracePharah/Dva/Ana/Zen player here i have a myriad of things i would like to see changed and or fixed.
Genji:
(in a good spot. just needs some bug fixes)

• his wall climb needs to be tweaked to keep him from not attaching or falling off walls.
  
• the non hit registration on his sword needs to be looked at.
  

Mcree:
(a little weak right now needs to be able to duel other dps better)

• roll cd set to 4 seconds
  
• 2 rolls similar to tracer blinks
  
• roll no longer replenishes ammo
  
• can use roll during ult to move quicker
  

Pharah:
(Pharah is a little hard to deal with. this should tone down her leathality a bit while not making her trash tier)

• reduce direct rocket damage to 100
  
• increase the splash damage to around 50 at max range and scale up slowly from there until at the closest possible its 80
  

increase the radius of the splash damage slightly

• increase rockets ammo to 8
  
• set health to 100 hp/ 100 armor
  

Reaper:
(i actualy belive in the right hands and right senarios reaper can be a god)

• decrease the time it takes for shadow step to allow you to move
  
• increase the soul orb pickup radius to around the size of anas nade
  
• increase wraiths movement speed slightly
  

Soldier:
(i feel somthing needs to be done about his master of all, status. i dont want all of these to be done at the same time just enogh to where he isn't god tier in the hands of an average player compared to the rest of the dps cast.)

• set sprint on a cd like 2 sec (its either sprint or fight, no in between)
  
• Damage interrupts sprint
  
• damage set to 18
  
• Helix damage set to 100
  
• helix speed set to pharah rocket speed
  

Sombra:
(i feel she is actually in a reasonable spot. she just needs some bug fixing)

• make sombra's tp instant with no lingering hitbox
  
• if sombra takes damage while the going invisible animation plays, she doesn't unstealth
  
• make her actually teleport to the spot her god damn translocator is while it flys through the air. Right now she teleport to where it was a second before you tele to it
  

Torbjorn:
(this is to avoid that annoying moment when you can't ult because you don't have a lvl 2 turret already set up) - when ulting automatically upgrade a lvl 1 turret to lvl 2 you would then be able to smack it to lvl3

• turret initial placement/build time reduced to .5 seconds
  
• allies no longer block you from placing your turret
  

Widow:

• remove the ability for someone to remove the effects of the venom mine with a healthpack

Orisa:
(Orisa is still weak as hell. She needs a lot more survivability)

• shield increased to 1000
  
• sheild deploy speed increased
  
• 50 hp/ 350 armor
  
• make her ult 200 armor
  

Reinhardt: (he just needs some of his bugs ironed out)

• make his hammer hitbox the actual swinging hammer and the length of the hammer
  
• fix his ult animation or change the way his ult works
  
• fix charge's weird hitbox bullshit
  

Ana:
(this should bring back her old playstile of looking for the best time and place to land your shots. somtimes on allies and other on enemies)

• Revert her to 80 dmg
  
• set nade at 60%
  
• increase the overtime effect of her bullets like 75 healing/ 80 damage over a 1.2 second period. (right now its nearly instant)
  

Zen:
(small tweek)

• allow him to place discord/healing while charging up a right click
  
• fix the animation bug when you shoot then mele directly after your foot magically teleports in front of your face(this pisses me off more than it should)
  

Symetra:
(should be less bullshit feeling/requide a smigen of skill)

• If your crosshair goes to far away from your target it detaches immediately
  
• if your target breaks los detach immediately
  
• if your target gets out of your range DETACH IMEDIATLY
  

Hog:

• reduce breathers healing to 250
  
• fix his hook staying attached longer than usual
  
• fix his hook not draging players through doorways
  
• fix his hook not attaching to people clearly in your los
  

Hi guys, a lot has been posted around about starting squads in W2, but I should really advertise this take on the game because it's the best I came accross. The original idea on stats is not mine, I just tested several builds from steam players and after so many hours in the game I believe this is the most effective way to start. This custom squad will break the game and make it too easy for the first two difficulties, a bit more challenging in the third level and a good chance for supreme jerk. Also there are some spoilers ahead, so if this is your first time in the game I'd say to not read more, but return to this post after you completed the game once with your ideas, it's more fun this way. Also this build can be open in choices.
The main toons you will need is a Carry, a Leader and a Mule.
Carry. This is your main gun. Will use Assault Rifle and just kill everything, no skills needed, just a hell lot of killing. The starting stats are 4,1,10,1,10,1,1 and level 3 in Assault rifles, level 1 in something melee or handgun and level 2 in some skill of your choice. This player is focused on having a good combat initiative and with these stats this toon is like a moving turrett, will always hit first in the battle and actually has the strength of two toons as the high combat initiative will give it twice the turns of any other. With the trinkets lying around, skill build etc it will only get better and better. You don't really need to focus on skill development or combine any other ability, this toon is made for killing and is more than good at it.
Leader. This toon will be your charisma and skill mule. Zero combat skills but it will make sure that everything runs smoothly in combat with high leadership and also get you the npc's you want with the high CH. So the built is 4,1,3,1,2,10,7 and the skills are lvl1 Leadership, lvl1 Perception, lvl1 Demolitions, lvl1 field medic, lvl1 energy weapons. This character is also a skill mule, meaning that with so many skill points that it gets per level, it will easily max out 7-8 different skill sets. Basically it's useless in combat but your carry will more compensate for this. The drawback for the leader is that you need high CH and your leader cannot be good in combat anyway. Other skills to evolve with this one could be Surgeon, Mechanic Repeair and Weaponsmithing.
Mule. Well this is your strong player for carrying all the stuff. Also with the high strength it can be a good Brawler or melee and heavy weapons users. So the build is 2,1,4,9,10,1,1 lvl3 Brawler (or melee) lvl3 Bruteforce and as you gain levels you can also go couple of other skills. Also it's very good setup for battle so this is your "tank" as well. The brawling damage is good and it can easily flank and dmg targets in cover.
Ok so this is the basic line up. We need one more toon (but I'll go in the end about it). As you can see we don't have a "thief" and we also lack a lot of skills at this point. Well this is where the npc's are coming to play an important role because this build is npc dependant but you are going to use npc's anyway the idea is to just make a build that will cover everything.
So you will get Angie from the start, she is a semi carry (well your carry will outshine Angie soon enough and you won't miss her when she goes). So the trick is to recruit Angie and immediately go to Rail Nomads Camp and get Scotchmo. Scothmo is the best addition to this build, as he will handle all lockpicking and safecracking, but the most important is his luck. You know, luck is maybe one of the most important attributes because it handles all loot you get. Scotchmo will be your looter, digger and box opener. This will guarantee you a good ammount of ammo and money throughout the game so that you don't run out.
So to sum it up, you have Carry, Leader, Mule, Angie and Scotchmo.
My next npc would be Rose. This build is short on skills a little bit but Rose is an Int 10 character and can pretty much cover for a wide range of skills. My preference is also to make her my sniper. Ok I know that nobody likes a geek scientist as a fighter but truth is that Rose will more than contribute with 7-8 maxed out skills and you can also change her clothes and make her more combat effective as the game progresses. So your choice will be to save AG Center too.
Your last toon is relatively open and can define your personal style. You are pretty much covered with everything so just invest where you feel it suits you. Usually at this point I make a semi-carry like Angie so that my combat does not go down when she leaves but not a full on carry because the skills are somewhat short so the stats are 2,1,8,2,10,4,1 and this toon can max out one or two more skills thann your Carry. You can also add a couple of skills we missed like toaster.
About Hard Ass, Kiss Ass, Smart Ass you can put Kiss Ass on your Carry as you have one skill set available there, Hard Ass is on Angie so have one of your skill mules handle it when she leaves and Smart Ass can go your other Skill Mule.
When Angie leaves you, the npc spot is pretty open so you could always pick Ralphy for some of his skills like toaster and animal whisp, but here this spot is pretty open for personal style. By the point Angie leaves you your two skill mules will have covered all the missing skills, so you could look around in available npcs and decide beforehand which one you want.
Have fun!