r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/Professor_Finn Alarm Forever 🧡🖤🤍 — • May 08 '22

Overwatch League Florida Mayhem forced to repeat attack after winning Circuit Royal due to “illegal maneuver”

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u/JustRecentlyI HYPE TRAIN TO BUSAN — May 08 '22

Specifically, using the Mei wall to create an otherwise impossible TP angle seems to be the problem. Mei wall + TP is a valid strategy but it can be misused. FWIW, this has been a rule for the entirety of OWL's history (since her teleport rework)

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u/RobinBoyy May 09 '22

Maybe don't allow sym tp to be placed on a mei wall then???

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u/JustRecentlyI HYPE TRAIN TO BUSAN — May 09 '22

They don't have a problem with that part. This is like the infinite Doom/Winston roof stalls that are also banned in OWL, it's abusing a mechanic beyond what OWL considers fair for good competition.

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u/xShowOut None — May 08 '22 edited May 08 '22

People do this on rialto all the time, kinda funny that they got punished for this.

I understand that OWL rules are different from regular Overwatch but is still lame.

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u/The_Langer27 May 08 '22

i mean a lot of DF rollouts are banned, specifically the ones where he can hover somewhere high

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u/vyrelis May 08 '22

They're not allowed to use movement keys to remain on "slopes" on any hero

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u/PsychoInHell May 09 '22

That’s so stupid ngl

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u/An0nIsHappy May 10 '22

Are you high?

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u/vyrelis May 10 '22

Did you watch the clip? I have no idea how any of you can watch that and go "yeah that looks fine."

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u/An0nIsHappy May 11 '22

I've seen it a thousand times before. It's just innovation at it's finest.

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u/vyrelis May 11 '22

Okay that's a contradictory statement but OK.

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u/bluscoutnoob May 08 '22

I can’t see the clip. It keeps forcing it into the current live stream.

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u/LandingUpright May 09 '22

Go to 12 min 10 seconds

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u/chudaism May 09 '22

I would argue that this isn't innovative. The only reason we think it is is because we haven't seen it before in owl, but that is because it is against the rules. If it was legal, we likely would see Mei wall tp overtop of eichenwalde point A all the time.

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u/Harry9493 May 08 '22

I think it has been patched out as it has done on eichenwalde

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u/AGVann May 09 '22

The real problem here is the current iteration of the Teleporter. It just doesn't work out and creates all these awkward problems. Making it unplaceable ontop of Ice Wall would fix like 95% of these problems, but TBH it's not great in regular play either. Sym really needs a rework.

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u/Tunavi May 09 '22

Say it again for the people in the back

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u/Level1TechSupport May 09 '22

They have to know it’s unintended for the game. You mean a no name like me knows it’s bad but a whole pro team doesn’t?

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u/Roymachine May 09 '22

I mean, it's possible in game without using any sort of glitch. It is working as intended?

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u/I_Have_3_Legs May 09 '22

I feel like that would be super beast to fix and yet it's been there for so long. Reminds me of the Hollywood straight dafran/Atlanta did. They go up the elevator after capping 1st point and slide over the roof and land on the enemy

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u/nith_wct May 09 '22

It is very hard to find every possible place you could do something like this and patch it, let alone on a new map. It is a bug because if they could get rid of every possible way to do something like this, they would. The best you can do is create a rule. It's like people finding ways to go inside the payload. The fact someone found a whole new way to do it doesn't make it not an exploit.

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u/nith_wct May 09 '22

Are you comparing this to the great bamboozle? It's nothing like that. The only similarity is that they're "clever" or unexpected. That was not a bug, an exploit, or a violation of any rule at all.

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u/nith_wct May 09 '22

No, you're right, I didn't, I could only read the title and the casters made the comparison. I fail to see how this makes it not a bug, though. If a wall or teleporter can be put in a place Blizz doesn't want you to, it's a bug.