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Orisa is something this game needed desperately. She may not be a true anchor tank like Rein but she serves an important purpose on control and escort maps. Her ult is amazing, its like every player having a Mercy boost at the same time, and thus it helps teams power through choke points and the final push on maps that generally are dominated by the defending team like Hanamura. I always forget to record these things when I'm having too much fun, I had a 25 player kill streak with D.Va the other night and didn't record that either -_-;. I played with a few friends tonight and of course Orisa is currently a popular pick. I went match after match of watching the other team get her alt and some idiot not using her right on my team. Unless myself or one of my friends had a chance to pick her, I never saw her ult on my team. Orisa has the best single target weapon of any tank. She has the best range and highest DPS for a tank. When she shoots, she is as slow as D.Va, but without the luxury of a quick escape and endless ammo. But as a tank she can pressure Phara, Widow, and Bastion. I really like this character. Shes not good for every situation, but she is needed for just as many if not more. I was playing as her on Kings Row, we got the payload to the most difficult turn near the end and struggled for a while. I got my alt, dropped it, threw my shield in front of it and we dominated and pushed it in with ease. I was really impressed. The barrel is a powerful ult, but its very vulnerable because it has to have LOS on players to work. Its not like Symmetra's shield generator that can be stashed in a corner. Even with Orisa's shield in front of it, you have to make sure flankers cant get to it... or in my case in another match, Junkrat, in which I took the other team's barrel out. A different match on Hanamura was my favorite though. My friend was Orisa and I was Lucio.... Hanamura is a nightmare to capture point B. The other team is always going to go with Bastion and/or Symmetra. The hallway to the spawn is shorter than most maps letting the defending team run back to it for a quick HP top off. You damn near need a team kill to cap. Anyways, we coordinated our alts, and I spammed the group up button and ult notification, surprisingly everyone grouped up on me and I hit the sound barrier and speed boost. We charged in and my friend dropped the barrel and shield and we crushed them. Team Kill, we win. This is probably why Lucio's AoE's are getting nerfed soon. Him and Orisa is a pretty powerful combo. The new changes to Sombra are subtle but amazing. More access to hack and trans-locator is what she needed. I played her a few rounds and wreaked havoc on the other teams healers. And the fact that Junkrat doesn't hurt himself with his own bombs now is amazing. I can now lure people into small rooms and end them every time. You can be even more reckless now, which matches the character. Ole Junks is a nightmare for Orisa, shes big and can't get away, plus she requires accuracy so spamming jump makes it hard for her to hit him. Since D.Va doesn't have aim, and Roadhog can just hook, they don't have much issue with him like Rein and Orisa. Oh and thankfully they nerfed Bastion again. that 30% less damage in turret mode was unacceptable.

They are the same studio that made Mob Psycho 100, I'll def be watching it.

Ok, second look. I figured out what's been bugging me a bit. 1: While the facial animations are ok enough for talking, it's the EYES that are off. Either the character is constantly blinking or NOT blinking. Plus, the eyeballs never stay steady, they jump around a lot. I don't know if that's fixable in a patch, hopefully it is. It is distracting right now, but hopefully I'll get used to it. Though, it is rather sad that the facial animation is BETTER in ME3. Not sure why they would step back for that, but if it is patchable, I'm willing to wait it out. The body animations are on par with ME3, so I'm rather used to them by now. 2: The VA is only half good. What I mean by that is many VAs do a good job, including FemRyder. (don't know about male Ryder yet) But many others are just....bad. Poor pacing, very stilted and stiff. I don't know if it's bad direction or just not good VAs. I lean towards bad direction because one of those that doesn't sound good is the VA for Liara T'Soni, and she's great in the first trilogy. (no, she's not in it, but you run across a few logs sent to one of the other characters) That's more distracting than the facial animations for me. With all that being said, the story is very good, I'm totally invested in my Ryder, so looking forward to seeing where it goes from here! Unfortunatly, real life is getting in my way with that pesky 'job' and 'school' that I'm signed up for. Damn you, RL! As for combat, I still suck at aiming, but I'm getting better! Don't like how they handle cover, hoping I can get the hang of it since it's not a good idea to stand there and let bad guys unload a clip on you while you're trying to hit them! Tactical cloak is still the best power ever. Of all time. Being able to sneak up on bad guys and drop them before they can return fire is very satisfying. Still getting used the HUD as well, but that's not unusual for me. It always takes me a while to really get the hang of where to look for my information I need. Overall, combat so far is fine, interested to see what the new powers can do. *evillaughalaKrankor*