In the Lab this week Andres & Rob are doing a Overwatch console mega show! We brought back Top500 PS4 player CS and Omnic Meta Webmaster Switch to the show to break down consoles, stats, meta, and news!

News & Blue Posts:

• Game Night -- Oct. 27 Admin/Community Run Game Night
• Omnic Meta: (Homepage)
  • PC Korean Meta S6 - Oct.13
  • The Bottom Line: ...Ana has 25% more usage in Korea, despite ceding incredible ground to Mercy - who is being played on average 30% less.  In other words, Korean players still have not completely taken to Mercy as the consensus 100% pick as NA/EU has.
•  Oceanic Server Issue fixed (Blue Post)
• Can We get back Team Death Match? (Blue Post)
  • Only 5 slots for Arcade for the short/medium term
• Ultimate interruptions changed!
  • Ultimate Categories: Cast-time, Transformation, Channelled
• Console Genji Bug: A Genji slash bug has made it to live on both consoles. This means that Genji can perform an extra slash during his ult activation animation, resulting in a very quick kill if he ults near an enemy. There appears to be a host of patch problems that have affected console only. (FIXED NOW!)
• Official Patch Notes Oct 18:
• Omnic Meta Comparison
• Before: Oct. 5 Mercy
  • Valkyrie - No longer resets the GA cool down.
  • Valkyrie doubles resurrection range from 5m to 10m.
• After: Oct. 12 Mercy:
  • GA - Players can now glide past a targeted ally using the jump key
  • GA - Cooldown no longer resets when Resurrect is activated
  • Valkyrie range back to 5m & grants a new charge of Rez that dissipates after Valk ends
  • Valkyrie no longer gives a 10s Rez cooldown
• Lucio Speed boost while jumping off a wall back to 65% bonus speed

Topics for discussion

• Special Console Stats
• Reporting feature on console
• Hero Pick Rates & Differences
• Console Button Mapping
• Sensitivity & Reticle - Revisited
• Ways to improve (Emails & Discord Questions)

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Andres: Twitter, audioblender.studio, soundcloud
CS: Twitch
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