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Top 5 Most Annoying Things In "Overwatch"

Because every rose has its thorn...

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Top 5 Most Annoying Things In "Overwatch"
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If you've been around the Internet, you may have heard about a game called "Overwatch." It's a first-person shooter developed by video game giant Blizzard Entertainment, and it came out two months ago to critical and commercial acclaim. I, personally, feel the game has consumed the major part of my life since its release, thanks to its excellent characters, incredibly stable servers, and extremely addicting gameplay.

Nevertheless, there are always things that annoy us in everything that we love. Sometimes your mom can't stop making that horrible stew you despise, or your girlfriend forces you to watch "The Notebook" every five dates. In "Overwatch," those things are hidden inside the gameplay and the characters, and they can certainly infuriate some players to the point of rage-quitting. Here are the top five of these things that annoy me:

Note: Admittedly, if you haven't played the game or seen other people play extensively, you probably won't understand what I'm talking about. You can still hang around and feel the anger through my words, though. Your choice.

5. McCree's "Flashbang + Fan the Hammer" Combo

I put this one in number five because it was nerfed, but it is still pretty annoying. McCree's famous move where he stuns you with his flashbang grenade and then destroys you with all of the bullets in his revolver has become famous for being one of the fastest and easiest ways of killing Tanks, which proved to be extremely frustrating for players all around, including me.

I can't tell you how many times I was either sniping or capturing a point and suddenly a second later I was lying dead on the floor. Blizzard had to nerf McCree's attack because he was just too powerful, which has made this move of his less and less common, and has made McCree probably the least used Attacker on PS4, of which I can't complain.

4. Mei's Freezing

On the other hand, Mei has not been nerfed. Yeah, Mei, the short Chines girl who builds a giant ice wall at the entrance of your base. Mei has become notorious in internet culture thanks to her frustratingly effective freeze blast, which slows players down and has an incredibly long range, one thing some players don't really take into consideration when approaching her to attack.

This freeze blast has caused both controversy and praise across the Overwatch Community, being blamed for a lot of player deaths and abused by some very savvy players. Her ultimate is very effective too, freezing a small area and everyone inside it, giving way to some sick head shots with Mei's ice spike attack. Her constant freezing harassment has landed Mei a spot on the list, but her internet catchphrase is still too funny to ignore...

3. Symmetra's Goddamn Turrets

I don't know about you, but Symmetra's turrets kind of remind me of the turrets in "Portal 2" – except less deadly, less cute, and far less entertaining. Symmetra herself is a very troubling character; first of all, how do you even pronounce that name?

Is it SYmmetra? syMMEtra? I've heard both, and I really don't know. But also, her role as a Support instead of a Defense Hero is very debatable, me being on the side that she should be with Defense instead of Support, mainly because of those goddamn sentry turrets.

Her turrets are very small and they stick to any surface, so you could literally be killed by a laser ray that's coming from the floor 10 feet away from your character and not even notice. And with Symmetra's ability to place up to six turrets at once, sometimes getting through a single door can be hell on Earth.

Those little turrets drain your life and slow you down in the process, giving the Symmetra player hundreds of kills without her even doing anything. Pair it with her no-aiming laser gun and you got yourself millions of rage-quits all over the world. Goddamn turrets.

2. Lootboxes are full of bullsh*t

So, you worked like a donkey to level up, stayed in matches with teams of n00bs so you could get those sweet extra points you needed, you changed from your best character to a Support because the guy in your team decided it was better to play a third Reaper instead of a healer, and then, finally, you get your lootbox. That box full of goodies like character skins and credits and victory poses that make you look like a badass and give you the right to brag to other players on the internet that you got that sick Reinhardt skin. Except, this never, ever happens.

Lootboxes very rarely contain any character skins or even money, deciding to instead award you with voice lines, sprays or profile icons that absolutely nobody cares about. You don't care what your characters say or spray, and certainly don't care what your teammates or enemies say or spray, so why focus SO much on these?

And Blizzard has the guts to allow repeats, so you can literally get a box full of sprays that you already own, and get awarded five miserable credits for each. I once actually got a lootbox with four sprays: two of them repeated, and the other two for characters I don't even use. Great job, Blizzard. Way to reward your dedicated players.

1. Junkrat

Nothing in particular, just Junkrat. Or Spamrat, like I usually call him.

"Hey, you! Want a character whose basic functions is to spam grenades all over the map and get Play of the Game with an impossibly unbalanced exploding tire?!" This must have been what Blizzard asked the testers when they designed Junkrat, seeing that these are the only things he does.

I despise this character so, so much, for many reasons. I'm tired of being eliminated by a grenade that was fired into the air and happened to ricochet from a wall to my face. It's also very frustrating when you kill Junkrat with a melee and die like an idiot thanks to the grenades he drops every time he dies.

His Rip-Tire is broken, too, killing Tanks with a single blow and being able to dodge rockets and bullets. I actually tried to plau Junkrat, to see if I could find any fun in grenade-spamming, but I just couldn't. Precision and coordinated attacks are my thing, not firing at the general direction of the enemy and waiting for a poor Zenyatta to die in the chaos.

Go to hell, Spamrat.

Peace out.

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