Remember the classic POTG where Torb would die and get a 5K from his turret while the camera focused on his dead body?

@didacd9679

3 ай бұрын

My first POG was me lost in volskaya while the turret killed like 4 people

@charKT-7461

2 ай бұрын

ah yes, the 600-hp armored machine gun rocket launcher level 3 turret

@Nyxol001

Ай бұрын

I always hammered a dpray on a wall, like thanks. Just in case I would Get potg

Only Overwatch 1 players remember how terrifying it was to play against a Bastion camping on the objective.

@invariantmono

6 ай бұрын

I was that bastion player. It was fun to just make people disappear.

@silhouette9699

5 ай бұрын

​​​@@invariantmonoIt was fun to watch those Bastions disappear when you play Genji

@invariantmono

5 ай бұрын

@@silhouette9699 there’s something called not shooting lol

@Fujiisamaa

5 ай бұрын

it was all fun and games till they ulted your ass

@leonardoaniballi3711

4 ай бұрын

Bro the bastion and torb on the moving panels on Volskaya

Watching old OW1 vids makes me wish i had been able to play it at release (I didnt play until 2018). It looks so goofy and fun

@47OX

7 ай бұрын

It was pure chaos. Playing with the option of mirror friendly picks was crazy, while Blizzard kept swearing that would never change, lmao Imagine setting up defence and 6 Winstons come up jumping on you

@tlmcarjustarandomduck3981

7 ай бұрын

@@47OXcreativity wasn’t allowed apparently, wish it was better balanced so the role lock wasn’t a thing

@jasonjohnston4766

7 ай бұрын

I didn’t start until about a year ago I feel like I missed the good days but I still love Overwatch

@whoizrez

7 ай бұрын

@@tlmcarjustarandomduck3981 yea once they introduced role queue and tried to go hard on the competitive esports shit, the game took its biggest hit in the fun department

@47OX

7 ай бұрын

@@tlmcarjustarandomduck3981 I am not talking about role lock, I am talking about 6 Winstons, 6 Soldiers, 6 Torbj...

These clips are truly astonishing. Especially where the Rein got spooked by Junks bombs and turned around and started swinging at them not knowing what hurt him. And the ulting genji not being able to kill baby dva was special too.

@piusdoe8984

7 ай бұрын

Yes.7rs ago. People playing overwatch the first time

@Monkeylighthouse

6 ай бұрын

@@piusdoe8984yea but come on even back then people weren’t that bad

@mryellow6918

5 ай бұрын

​@@piusdoe8984 Thats not a valid excuse. You dont play a new game and because its new loose all concept of how and what a game is.

I was a lucio player from the first time I played in the beta, all the way until I stopped playing in 2019. That Lucio video honestly did sum up how it was to play him in the early days. People were asking why he wasn't wallriding, but Lucio 1.0 wallriding was a complete PAIN in the butt to use. You could pretty much get just as much value from walking around next to your other support healing and peeling as you could if you were a "god" wallrider. Wallriding didn't give insane speedboosts, you couldn't jump on the same surface multiple times in a row, and for a very long time the only thing high elo players did better than low elo ones was their ability to sit in the skybox on heal and stay in LOS of their team without dying. I do recommend anyone to go look at the stages of wallriding in Overwatch 1, it's pretty neat to see.

@ComptonEMT

7 ай бұрын

Was coming to say just this. Good Wall riding in those days was akin to being good at ball tech now. Additionally, he did more hps then than he does now. It seems ridiculous to say "stay on heal" in today's game... But it actually did something then.

@BlooBoi23

7 ай бұрын

I think you could ride the same wall you just had to 180. I find myself still doing that today

@MrSpitfire2008

7 ай бұрын

If I remember correctly, back in the day when he ulted he had to physically hit the ground for it to go off, so like if he ulted in a grav he would be stuck in the animation

@marcoricci3936

6 ай бұрын

​@@MrSpitfire2008 no, now you need to phisically touch the ground for the ulti to pop up, before you didn't need to

@NoctuaOW

4 ай бұрын

​@@marcoricci3936 wrong. Sigma flux

To this day I still remember one competitive game I had where this dude had a complete meltdown and screaming fit over the fact that I was playing Junkrat on Hanamura attack. Less than a month later they merged the two damage categories.

@asonofliberty3662

7 ай бұрын

Sounds like a typical overwatch player

@lionheart343LOL

7 ай бұрын

omg I remember that people getting mad at playing offence heroes or defence and vice versa

@TheRedCap30

7 ай бұрын

​@@lionheart343LOLyeah or whenever you picked two snipers lmao

@fatherpleasereturn2088

7 ай бұрын

@@TheRedCap30”too many snipers” the character select screen said

@MrZebanHai

7 ай бұрын

Or the 5 DPS and 1 mercy comp, rofl.

Also remember that old Torb couldn't toss his turret places. He basically had to put it at his feet or climb up somewhere like a spider monkey to put it in a clever space. ALSO also remember that ult charge didn't instantly deplete when you pressed Q. If you quickly died when using ult, there was a good chance you'd keep 50-75% of it if not all of it. Heck. McCree back then could cancel his ult and keep 50% of it. Sometimes I'd just use it to scare people off.

@Real_MisterSir

7 ай бұрын

Remember the good ol strat on Anubis to get a Mei to wall you up to the left side high ground spot to put down the turret lol. Or sym tp up there. People were always baffled at how the turret got in that place. Old OW people were really amazed at the smallest things xD

@blackm4niac

7 ай бұрын

not just to scare people off, but pros used it as an insta reload. Fan the Hammer, roll, Fan the Hammer, Ult, insta cancel Fan the Hammer.

@CopShowGuy

7 ай бұрын

@@blackm4niac A lot of high level players still use it for that XD

@ShadowLady1

7 ай бұрын

​@CopShowGuy that's all it's good for rn,reloading

I miss hanamura, anubis, and volskaya. I hope they rework these maps. Especially hanamura it's so beautiful

@TalosAcephalos

5 ай бұрын

Volskaya was so goddamn fun

@yorimz8807

5 ай бұрын

Hanamura is getting reworked. Its not Hanaoka for the gamemode clash.

@markhosaka1821

5 ай бұрын

@wardoesshit2253 the problem with these maps is the 2nd point. It's almost impossible for the attacking team to infiltrate

@chrisbourquin5771

2 ай бұрын

that aged well

That rein getting hit by Junk's entire Martyrdom, before spinning around and swinging in panic is peak game journalism

The genji one was by far the most accurate because as you can see he would use blade without any damage or nano boost and would just die. Nothing has changed.

@asonofliberty3662

7 ай бұрын

Except modern Genjis will actually hit something with blade then die (0 kills). he just popped a blade in a corner then got fucked. Back then support wasn’t near as strong and nano did not exist. It’s like a basketball player in their prime versus when they are 80 years old, except the prime player in this case has a lobotomy (that’s the procedure to become a game journalist)

@ShadowLady1

7 ай бұрын

Genji in early overwatch was actually really good

“The speed is more of a situational thing” flats dies from wheezing too hard 😂

@cloutmaster5035

6 ай бұрын

He was laughing at the fkn tracer falling off 😭

In some ways, old Torb was more of a "support" than old Symmetra

@j0kerclash289

7 ай бұрын

Not at all. Sym gave armour just like Torb did, but she also had the teleporter, which pretty much functioned like a weaker mercy ress applied to the whole team every time they died, and if you weren't getting value out of that, she also had the shield generator which gave in an incredibly high range an extra 75 shield health to your whole team for as long as it was alive for, which is insane. The only drawback was that she took up the slot of a healer, but the amount of supportive value she gave was way higher than torb.

@Emuney12

7 ай бұрын

@@j0kerclash289 I'm not talking old Sym, I'm talking old, old Sym (2016) which is what these vids refer to. Making me go "um achksually" before work but a few things: Back then, role queue wasnt a thing so you could go wild with whatever "comp" you wanted (thus goats became a thing) so she never "took a slot off a healer" Sym didn't give 25 armor, it was 25 shield. Torb gave armor. I still hold belief that armor is still better because you're much safer with it for fights even if it has to be reapplied (assuming you survived) Teleporter was useful, yes, but it only had 6 uses total and still destroyable so mileage varied. And that was her ult...so bummer if a Tracer found it. Saying "weaker Mercy ress" is a huge understatement. Meanwhile, Lucio speed boost still provided the same utility while also offering more. Also teleporter usually became another tool for trolling but that's besides the point. Shield generator didn't come until way later. It was after her first rework. Again, I'm just referring to early times. What I was jokingly getting at in the beginning was that Torb was able to provide better hp while essentially enabling another dps teammate: his turret. Sym had turrets too but her turrets were 1hp each. They weren't reapairable nor did they ever get buffed to levels 2 or 3. Imagine being a pocket mercy to an aimbot teammate, that was kinda what his kit was like early on.

@polar6066

7 ай бұрын

​@@j0kerclash289shield gen was more of a character than "support" symm lmao. symm had to fill an ult charge bit to summon the ACTUAL support

I used to work at IGN. Sadly the only Overwatch content i was allowed to make was Echo's release video. Which was fun because i got a friend on the video who is an ex pro. Probably the most reliable piece of overwatch content IGN ever uploaded. As i and 2 other people in the entire office at the time played the game. And none of us were very good lol so it was cool to get a great player on and talk on a video for IGN. However im sure it did poorly. And after that the switch review came out......uh. i wish theyd let me take that one. But oh well.

@SJaigamo

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service

Sym was single-handedly the reason why the role is called support and not healer 😂

I wish they’d showcase hero level on the UI now , people have been on the GRIND to get like level 100+ it would be cool to see in game more

This was so nostalgic, the maps, Torbs turret, i'm forever support main but i looooved playing Doom back in the day, he's so fun!

@justinpennington6680

3 ай бұрын

It's so sad, for awhile he was the only character that kept me playing the game he was so unique and to this day i've still not found any character in a game that scratches that itch. Tank doom is just a glorified winston or ball.

The doom one brought me back, especially with the Terry crews comment I forgot about that

You should react to old Overwatch Ult tier lists. I’ll never forget the oddities of Symm’s ult, or old Molten core

@nailinthefashion

7 ай бұрын

I miss shield gen sssoooooo much. I would go on long missions hunting it as Sombra and feel alive

@bambampewpew32

7 ай бұрын

​@@nailinthefashion lmao I miss it too but just cause it was cool and fun and unique to me

I really liked the fact that Symmetra could choose between placing a TP or a Shield generator (yes that was not the case at release I know). You had a choice to make and it gave the character more depth, they should add this kind of mechanic again where you can have several ults and can choose which one to use at any given time.

@daveykinqy

7 ай бұрын

Honestly that would be a sick idea for a new character in ow2

No way you end on the cliffhanger of old Sym.

funny enough, at 26:05 the extra 25 shield was from an old symmetra ability, as the shield barrier ult she had gave either 50 or 75 shield i believe

Everyone always says Hanamura is the only map that should come back from 2CP, but Anubis would be nice to have too, as a like Flashpoint or a Control Point map

I miss gathering scrap. I've always wished overload had the scrap mechanic, and if you used 3 scraps you get +25 armor on your next overload or something. I just thought it was such a unique and fun mechanic

@xDjembex

7 ай бұрын

They've just been gradually removing the little unique, fun stuff over time. It's unfortunate.

@nonipplenoah6179

7 ай бұрын

yeah looking at old torb he looked a lot more fun tbh obviously lvl 3 turret was a bit much but seeing it again would be cool (hella nerfed tho) actually might make me play torb if they make his turret different and made his gun less spam reliant

@nailinthefashion

7 ай бұрын

If I'm remembering right they removed it bc it made your Torb feed too much trying to gather the bits mid fight LOL similar to Reaper's souls

@nailinthefashion

7 ай бұрын

I loved him as a support who isn't a support btw. Giving people armor instead of healing felt so metal, licherally metal, so I liked his daughter too even tho they ruin the game massively

@asimplewizard

7 ай бұрын

@@xDjembex what else are you talking about?

Yo if they release like early build ow1 just for the fun of it i would definitely play it

Yes, the sym orbs are very slow, but remember that she had a 120 dps autoaim left click and the moving shield to add on to that. The right click were more of a zoning/ spam ability anyway in combination with her turrets a decent hold for chokes

I saw how someone's dog slipped on a banana he looked sad. Now im sad.

@DriftHunter34

7 ай бұрын

:(

@AlienBeny

7 ай бұрын

:(

@mister_meme3608

7 ай бұрын

:(

@LordDrake29

7 ай бұрын

:(

@elliotfranklin8090

7 ай бұрын

:(

I still remember my first game of overwatch. I was on Hollywood and at the chock was 6 torb turrets just mowing my team down. Man how the time has changed

@gentlemansquarrel190

22 күн бұрын

One of my favorite games was when we had 6 soldier 76s surfing the payload on kings row, staggering our biotic fields so it was always down. Went the whole way without stopping and I never laughed so hard that it actually worked. “Soldier 76!” Everytime we got a kill

Biggest thing that went unnoticed for these videos is when they died using ult they kept it (and also the insanely fast ult charges)

I played on a Overwatch competitive team in 2016. I loved that game but ended up gradually playlist less and less after a couple years. So, when I recently started playing again it was crazy to see how much some things have changed. It's especially funny however when I tell my friends what Overwatch 1 was like, and their complete confusion and shock when I say that Mercy used to be able to res an entire team. Although I kinda miss it, I definitely think they made some good changes. And sometimes it's even more fun (role que is a godsend ngl) Anyways, thanks for the awesome video man! It was some great nostalgia, and I now have a great example to show my friends on how insane OG Overwatch was XD

I was always annoyed when people complained about defense heroes on attack, or attack heroes on defense... They weren't labeled based on the game mode, it was the play style! You can defend an area while you're attacking, and you can attack an area while you're defending. Considering how hard it was for people to understand that, it was probably a good idea they lumped everyone into "Damage".

Even slowing down the bastion kill was faster than ow2 ttk

Man, when the game released I didn't think they would have the guts to combine the roles.

2CP was pure torture, and of coarse I always got it every other round lol

@aalesksi

7 ай бұрын

real

@masift1494

7 ай бұрын

There are still delusional people out there that think it's a good gamemode

@-cactus.raven-

7 ай бұрын

@@masift1494not good per se, but you gotta admit the highs were fuckin high,,,,, and the lows so damn low. Honestly it WAS fun at times, just not later on

@bambampewpew32

7 ай бұрын

​@@masift1494 I just don't complain about everything, I enjoyed the fun videogame lmfao

@godzillaenthusiast9687

7 ай бұрын

@@-cactus.raven- did you play tank? That shit was never fun, win or lose

I feel like such an OW boomer, I'm sitting here going "ahhh the good ol days".

@Real_MisterSir

7 ай бұрын

"These young kids today don't understand the hardships we had to go through back in our youth, hunting Mercy before she could rez, Fighting off nanoblade for 8 whole seconds, Symmetra turning everyone into tanks.. the whole lot"

watching this video makes me feel 20+ years older

First year of Overwatch was basically just one massive Bronze lobby lol. Nobody knew how to play, how characters worked, what synergies were, how fine mechanics could leverage hero potential.. nothing. People just be goofing around dying to Torb turrets and such, getting scared when the enemy Genji had a legendary skin, or fearing the team wipe fights where no one was quite sure if they saw a Mercy hiding anywhere close by...

I’ve been waiting for this vid. I love having flats in the background to spit on ow2 topics

Damn...defense role. Haven't seen that in a long time. I'm such a OW Boomer. Sym Shield Generator, Hook 1.0, Reaper collecting souls, Scatter Arrow. Man...the good 'ol days.

16:42 he's not just standing there... he is trying to move but cuz he's in mei ult and with shield up thats before the patch where slows only do either your strongest or enemy strongest so they just couldn't move

@asonofliberty3662

7 ай бұрын

….. if that’s the case he still is just standing there. Not. Doing. Anything. Doesn’t even bother to put his shield down and try to move.

@somedude4087

7 ай бұрын

@@asonofliberty3662 if not counting the freeze forcing him to put it down

This makes overwatch look like an absolutely different game. An ancient one.

man watching this gave me the feelgooods like nothing else

I forgot that being stunned or killed out of an ult wound not mean anything as it would refund

“You begin to forget the things you should remember”

Man. Doomfist with 250 hp. Rocket punch going 30 METERS. 250 damage from punch. (nobody misses this) UPPERCUT. 6 pellets that do 11 damage each instead of 11 bullets we have now. (This also wasn’t missed) Punch hitbox the size of the moon (Nobody liked this either) Aerial slam and ground slam. Aerial slam going UPWARDS. Slam sucking people in. COMBOS WERE A THING. Rollouts and Diags haven’t been invented yet. Inner circle of Meteor strike was wide enough to actually kill things. And then we got Brandito, Chipsa, and Quake who were the pioneers of Doomfist rollouts. Zbra wasn’t even a thing back then.

@-cactus.raven-

7 ай бұрын

Brandito,,,, I remember learning doomfist from his videos

People forget that Lucios wall ride was super janky back in the and didn't give any speed bost so like it's understandable the journalist didn't really use it because there wasn't as much utility in wall riding. Also wallride would not go around walls so like saving yourself required some tech jumping up.

18:00 the W S strafing I can't 😂😂😂

14:47 that was THREE ultimates to kill a roadhog.

"her light gun does damage from range" Wow 9/10 tip. Thanks guys, her gun shoots and does damage.

Cant believe I first played overwatch 7 years ago miss this old ow

I still want the old level 3 Torb turret back. That thing could knock out entire teams if given half a chance. I'm still in the habit of jumping when I look straight down to place a turret. Plus stacking armor packs in a corner for your team? Priceless. Most of you don't know OG strats like "Planet of the Apes" and the old Sym map-edge trolls. Or the rangeless McCree (Cassidy) who could headshot you from literally across the map. Beyblade. And good lord some of the things you'd see OG Rein players start to do. Old as it makes me feel, I gotta say it: In a lot of ways those were the days. @Flats You remember threading the old firestrike through like single pixel gaps and angles to secure that +30% ult charge. ahaha man...

These videos were SO nostalgic. I have been okaying since OW1 Beta and boy lemme tell you how WILD that game was!

Honestly I still use this as a guide for hero picking because it makes sense 😂

Holy shit this reminded me of the ptsd playing this on release and wailing on rein for days and days to ever do anything since we were indeed all bots and just sat at the end of one hallway shooting the blue shield in front of us

As a Zenyatta main, the Doomfist guide triggered some severe PTSD for me lol.

I remember the week before overwatch 2 came out coming back to overwatch 1 and playing it every day, it was so fun

Had completely forgotten there was a defense roll at one point...

I wasn’t around to play back then, but the entire armor packs and being to upgrade your turrets sounds like something that would be cool today

NOOO THE FIRST SLAM. Like I was breathless that man German engineered the only possible way to miss everyone somehow. 😂😭

Old ui and borders were in-arguably so much better looking. Say what you want about 5v5 or whatever other changes they make. But this was a mistake to change and get rid of. Just another progression/self achievement taken away from us

the gameplay footage is hysterical

I was there gandolf, 3000 years ago, fr i wish i could go back to those days

Omfg the sym right click

I have a distinct memory from OW1 where my team was defending 1st point Hanamura. I was on Mercy, and we had a Torb. Torb would make sure I always had an armor pack near me, and if I rotated, he would go 'Mercy, armor pack.' in VC and it is a memory I think about from time to time 😭

18:30 Notice how the Genji gets rolled and still has ult, those were some of the days of all time lol

@20:56 "Guys we need some Genji footage" - "I have some but it doxes my friend because I have Real ID enabled" - "Yes, let's use that. Fuck that Jeremy Madrillejos guy."

The doomfist hero guide not even talking about his slam, upper cut shoot shoot fist out combo is just, peak journalism

@Freesliterature

3 ай бұрын

I mean to be fair casuals had no clue about the combos on release (including me and I went on to be a doom main)

The Doomfist guide was my fav

I would love to go back in time and hone my new skills on old ow.

13:46 Big Slam!

I only play the last year of OW1 so I def missed a lot but it honestly looks so fun

31:20 bruh the noise sent me 😭😭😭

Old torb💔 God, those were the days. Such funny memories getting POTG with that fucker. Good times….

The nostalgia is so big it's literally crushing me.

I feel like playing since the beginning gave me a leg up on Torb... Because even though I don't build up turrets the same way, I still have a very good knack of where it up put a turret. So it just is the biggest pain in the butt and very hard to kill.

When original comp was no limits and it was 4 Sims 2 mercy. Setting up the car wash with autoaim 120dps i believe it was at launch full charge. Plus mercy boost

Back in 2016, the turret was the best player on any given team. We kinda say it as a joke now, but it was a fact at the time.

Original torb ult today wouldn’t be bad with the current turret throw ability. Especially with characters like mauga and soldurn existing.

OMG haha I used to love popping Molting Core as old Torb and then the POTG is just me running from spawn while my level 3 turret gets a teamkill! haha

We used to get so many potgs with torb in spawn.

Every one of the old heroes had a very defined role, and it all worked. Maps were designed specifically with certain heroes in mind, and every hero in mind. These days it feel so shallow. Overwatch 1 was my favorite game for those first couple of years + beta.

Let's go I've been waiting for this video since I saw the yt shorts

The good old days. Everyone is leagues better at the game now but people actually had fun back then and comboing ults was the name of the game

Now, I'm later into Overwatch since my first playing was on the Switch, but I do miss old Rein. 2k, 1.6k shield. Something about blocking all that damage is so satisfying. Now I can blink and my shield is gone. I'm basically holding up a piece of wet paper saying "please don't shoot me!"

God i miss using Torbs old ult at the Volskaya platforms

Remembering this is insane.

flats didnt mention it but roadhog also had to stand still to use his breather

Sometimes I think maybe they should bring back the roll. Only to just split up passives only to split up passives between the DPS characters it wouldn't really effect role que

I miss turret + Bastion behind Orisa shield, behind Rein.

Hundar, the guy that said dont be a dick is Brett. He was apart of cowchop and now muscle party

I remember all those "10 Things You Didn't Know About Overwatch's Development" from back when 2016 was the modern day. Wild.

I wanna see his reaction to the Symm one

I'm getting very nostalgic. Now i want Bastion with a barrier back.

The kid gazing at Doom's fist: "whoa, this could take down skyscrapers!" Fast forward to today's GeriatricFist 😂😂😂😅

I didnt even know they removed the cone when aiming doomfists slam cause I literally haven't played him since he came out cause I never liked his playstyle, why did they remove it, how do you know the radius?

"Your default should be heal." Flats fucking dies

Man, I forgot when Overwatch 1 had the Defense role

I really miss OW1 balance before OW2 outside of Flashbang and Molten core. I really like the concept of Magnet Grenade. But old Molten Core would be really good with his Overload IMO. Torbjorn could be overloading for such a long time if he used Overload and Molten core after each other. I think he would be an absolute menace. Plus I miss Lvl 3 turrets, those were badass.

@bambampewpew32

7 ай бұрын

I miss overwatch right before ow2 :(

I wish they would make a retro overwatch event where they reset everything back to launch values just for the nostalgia.

I was 11 when these vids were made, that’s crazy

I was really hyped about the bastion or the sym one😢