In the Lab today we are going to discuss a TON of the changes that are now live on the servers for console and PC, some big news coming for Lucio mains, and balance philosophy discussion for what we think Blizzard can do for the game.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• Game Night Giveaway for Patrons BEGINS
• Monthly Game Night -- March 31
• Blizzcon 2017 Tickets on Apr. 5 @7pm PDT and Apr. 8 @10am PDT

PTR Update:

• Assault & Hybrid Tiebreakers
• General
  • Lores and backstories added to Hero browser
  • Custom Game settings can now be saved as a preset from the game’s details page
  • Eichenwalde now has a new route to the right side of the the Attacker’s View of the point.
• Lucio

News & Blue Posts:

• Orisa LIVE. 1 Week for QP before Comp
• Official Patch Notes: Link
• Reference Links: Orisa Origins!

Sponsor Thanks to our Diamond Patrons:

• RcCrispy: https://www.twitch.tv/rccrispy
• Magic: twitter.com/aBitLikeMagic
• Ben W., MILK, Zampano, Cody K, IceWeasel & Mikey
• New Patrons this week (4 NEW):
  • Sketchy Nonsense (Diamond)
  • Travis S
  • Matai M
  • Cody J

Omnic Lab Links:

*Twitter, Facebook, Patreon
*Discord: discord.me/omniclab
*Email: [email protected]
*Website: http://www.omniclab.com
*iTunes, Google Play Music, Youtube
*Twitch, RSS, MERCH
*Full Extended Show Notes
Rob: Twitter, Twitch, Hearthstone Podcast - Velen’s Chosen
Andres: Twitter

In the Lab today we are going to discuss a TON of the changes that are now live on the servers for console and PC, some big news coming for Lucio mains, and balance philosophy discussion for what we think Blizzard can do for the game. *Website: http://www.omniclab.com *Discord: discord.me/omniclab *Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/omniclab *Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/omniclab *Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/omniclab

In the Lab today we have a special guest, Jeff “Little Menace” to help us out on our Going Deep show on Mercy! He is a top 500 and GM regular Mercy player and support main! We also want to cover a few adjustments we saw right after last week’s show to the PTR!

Going Deep Mercy ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• Game Night Giveaway for Patrons BEGINS
• Monthly Game Night -- March 31

News & Blue Posts:

• Orisa launches on Live April 21st: Source
• Top 500 Leaderboard available!
• Jeff Kaplan Reddit AMA
• PTR Update

Sponsor Thanks to Diamond Patrons:

• RcCrispy: https://www.twitch.tv/rccrispy
• Magic: twitter.com/aBitLikeMagic
• Ben W., MILK, Zampano, Cody K, IceWeasel & Mikey
• New Patrons this week (4 NEW): Brett B, Kevin L, David T, Cody R

Omnic Lab Links:

*Twitter, Facebook, Patreon
*Discord: discord.me/omniclab
*Email: [email protected]
*Website: http://www.omniclab.com
*iTunes, Google Play Music, Youtube
*Twitch, RSS, MERCH
*Full Extended Show Notes

Little_Menace: Twitter, Twitch, Youtube
Rob: Twitter, Twitch, Hearthstone Podcast - Velen’s Chosen
Andres: Twitter

 

In the Lab today we have a special guest, Jeff “Little Menace” to help us out on our Going Deep show on Mercy! He is a top 500 and GM regular Mercy player and support main! We also want to cover a few adjustments we saw right after last week’s show to the PTR! *Website: http://www.omniclab.com *Discord: discord.me/omniclab *Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/omniclab *Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/omniclab *Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/omniclab

Short clip of CS's telling us about the console specific meta impacts since the Bastion and turrets change hit live, we got him to report with an update. This is a quickie for you guys, so get ready for the rapid fire episode!

Omnic Lab Links:
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After we forgot to include the short clip of CS's telling us about the console specific meta impacts since the Bastion and turrets change hit live, we got him to report with an update. This is a quickie for you guys, so get ready for the rapid fire episode! *Website: http://www.omniclab.com *Discord: discord.me/omniclab *Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/omniclab *Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/omniclab *Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/omniclab

In the Lab today we have a discussion on our first impressions of Orisa the new hero to be introduced to Overwatch and yet another PTR round-up changes coming to Live soon! We have an update for you console folks on some of the console-specific changes from our man CS at the end so be sure not to miss it!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• Game Night Giveaway for Patrons BEGINS
• Monthly Game Night -- March 31
• CS is now PC Master Race
• New Patreon Goals for Blizzcon

Orisa:

• Initial thoughts? (appearance)
• Abilities: http://overwatch.gamepedia.com/Orisa
• Strengths? Weaknesses?
• What do we think her roles is going to be?

 

News & Blue Posts:

• Kaplan responds to Bastion backlash
• Scott Mercher on S3 Rank Distribution and S4 Matchmaking
• Mercer responds to S4 Placements feeling bad
• Overwatch League Road Show
• Live Patch Update
• PTR Update
• FUTURE PTR

Reference Links:

• Heroes Never Die Podcast
• Soft Genji Counters from Tempo Storm

Sponsor Thanks to our Diamond Patrons:

• RcCrispy: https://www.twitch.tv/rccrispy
• Magic: twitter.com/aBitLikeMagic
• Svornair: www.twitch.tv/Svornair
• Ben W., MILK, Zampano, IceWeasel & Mikey

Also thanks to our New Patrons this Week

• New Patrons this week (13 NEW):
• DIAMOND: Cody K.
  • David L. -- Grant E. -- Justin V. -- Quincy K.
  • Julian W. -- Charles M. -- James D. -- Mark K.
  • Bob The Builder -- Timothy P. -- Alfred S. -- Prybe

Omnic Lab Links:

*Twitter, Facebook, Patreon
*Discord: discord.me/omniclab
*Email: [email protected]
*Website: http://www.omniclab.com
*iTunes, Google Play Music, Youtube
*Twitch, RSS, MERCH
*Full Extended Show Notes

*Rob here: Twitter, Twitch, Hearthstone Podcast - Velen’s Chosen
*Andres here: Twitter

In the Lab today we have a discussion on our first impressions of Orisa the new hero to be introduced to Overwatch and yet another PTR round-up changes coming to Live soon! We have an update for you console folks on some of the console-specific changes from our man CS at the end so be sure not to miss it! *Website: http://www.omniclab.com *Discord: discord.me/omniclab *Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/omniclab *Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/omniclab *Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/omniclab

In the Lab today we have FLAME with us to talk about reviewing your own progress! We are going to chat about what to look for when you watch your own VODs and what to look for when pros play to improve your own game!

Special Sponsor Thanks to our Diamond level scientists:

• RcCrispy
  • https://twitter.com/CrispyRcer
  • https://www.twitch.tv/rccrispy
• Magic: twitter.com/aBitLikeMagic Psych0: 
  • https://twitter.com/finger_guns_pew
  • Gold Grouping - Psych0#11356
• Svornair:
  • www.twitch.tv/Svornair
• Ben W., MILK, IceWeasel & Mikey
• New Patrons this week (5 New):
  • Alex M - Gold
  • James H. - Plat
  • BigC4tw - Gold
  • Brienna K - Gold
  • Rayder H. - Diamond

 

Reference Links:

*Switchfox’s Hero Appearance Rate
PC Report: https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/5wliob/pc_competitive_ladder_end_of_season_meta_report_s3/?st=IZSI2PGQ&sh=338cfa0d
Console Report: https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/5wps0n/console_competitive_ladder_end_of_season_meta/?st=IZSI4EUW&sh=07af39a5
*The Cavalry: An Overwatch Podcast: http://thecavalryshow.libsyn.com/  

 

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*Full Extended Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/144EsgTeuRVQBJLXwd6ToBHtOp0lEcHl9tQ_pIgmT18A/edit?usp=sharing

Rob here:
*Twitter: https://twitter.com/notrob
*Plays.TV: http://plays.tv/u/notrob
*Twitch: http://twitch.tv/notrobmay
*Hearthstone Podcast - Velen’s Chosen: www.velenschosen.com

And Andres here:
*Twitter: https://twitter.com/IplaiGames
*Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/omniclab

And Flame here:
*Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattr0d
*Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/flame
*YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/flame617

In the Lab today we have FLAME with us to talk about reviewing your own progress! We are going to chat about what to look for when you watch your own VODs and what to look for when pros play to improve your own game! *Website: http://www.omniclab.com *Discord: discord.me/omniclab *Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/omniclab *Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/omniclab *Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/omniclab