u/CassadagaValley

No point in them dropping a few balance changes and not using this time to also test out some bigger mode revamps and features.

Hero Ban

Grab it from regular comp and use it in Stadium. I guarantee you Freja and Pharah will be banned in 9/10 games and the mode will be better for it. Hell, I'll exclusively play Stadium if I never have to play against either of those two again. I'm fully assuming that the majority of bans will be flyers in general, since they're by far the most annoying and frustrating aspect of Stadium.

Between Round Swaps

I know the point of Stadium is that it shouldn't matter who you pick at the beginning of the game, you can change your build around to adapt to any situation, except that's only true for some characters. There's plenty of characters that only have one viable build, and if the other team happens to counter it, your team is stuck with a deadweight.

Might as well allow character swapping in-between rounds. You can balance it by getting the team average score, if you're below that average and you swap you get a small cash boost to help you keep up with the game, if you're above the average score, you get a small cash reduction. That way the top players per team aren't just switching to solo counter every round, they'll lose cash every attempt.

Reduce Competitive to 5 Rounds

I prefer Stadium to regular OW but 7 rounds does drag. Games can end up taking 20-30 minutes which is really bad when it comes to Blizzard's dogshit servers. The chances of someone DC'ing in any game is like 10%, and the longer a game goes the higher the chance someone DCs and it's straight up not worth playing if you're on minute 29 in a round 7 game just for a teammate to DC and you get hit with a full loss.

Add Mystery Heroes

Might as well add a QP fun mode for people to practice heroes. Have it randomize after every round, set it to 50k cash every round so people can just jump into mid-point builds.

Require people to play 10 rounds of QP or Mystery Heroes before Comp each season

People seem to straight up refuse to touch QP, and they'll jump right into Comp for their first ever game. There needs to be some sort of guard to stop people from going into comp blind, getting steamrolled and flamed by the team, and then complaining about Stadium being too confusing and mean.

Block new heroes from Comp for X amount of time

I'd personally say 2 weeks. Every time a new hero was added people went straight to competitive to practice and they'd be absolutely awful. Block a new hero from being active in comp so that if someone wants to play them, they can do it in QP. That also gives the devs a couple weeks to balance since every new hero has been either way OP or downright terrible.

Alternate new heroes with hero reworks

Nearly every hero they've added to Stadium kinda makes the mode worse. Pharah, Freja, JPC, Vendetta was a guaranteed loss for like two full seasons, etc. Personally, I think they should add a new hero one season, then the following season drop a few major hero reworks for the ones that are basically useless, or ones that need more than one viable build. More heroes isn't necessarily better, especially when they're broken for months at a time.

Have an actual skill based matchmaking

Might have to rework the tiers, and this is more of a personal complaint. Too many people in competitive are terrible but they play 10 hours a day every single day and then spam chat about being a Top 500 player just to finish the game dead last in score across both teams.

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Coming away, I think the hero ban would be the one thing that needs to be added above everything else. Based on how Blizzard seemingly added increasingly annoying heroes to this mode to sabotage it, I wouldn't be surprised that if they ever did add some more heroes, it'll be something fucking awful like Wrecking Ball and Sombra.

Edit: They can also change nothing and the mode can continue to die, like so many people apparently want (or they can't read, one of the two).

Hello, I've been messing around with an unarmed fighter at level 5. The character is great for role play but the damage output during encounters is pretty terrible.

Wasn't sure if anyone had a working build to increase damage output beyond the 1d8 + 5/str or any items that help with it.

I used it for a oneshot that was half on pirate ships so it worked well for dropkicking people off the side of the ships, but actual fighting was just putting out like 5-7 damage per hit which was outclassed by just about everyone else.

10 of my last 13 All-Star games, at least one of my teammates was a fucking rookie with only a few hours in stadium. Never a rookie on the other team.

If I'm already getting dogshit teammates in this tier why not just reset all the ranks so at least some of the games the other team gets a rookie?

I can't do anything when every game one person on my team is 20k+ lower than the next lowest person.

Edit: I seem to have made a few losers pissy because they want to play comp but they're terrible and people tell them that.

I swear this is like 90% of my comp games. Did this replace the Moira meta? When I play Moira I still wipe the floor with the other team though so it's not like they nerfed her. Is it just because those two can fly around and people are sick of playing hitscan so they have more freedom?

It's annoying as shit because they can just reposition across the map at will when you hit them.

I'm looking at both the Steam Workshop tab for everything, and the ones I'm already subscribed to. Clicking a map opens the popup with the options of Subscribe! and Download/Open!

Neither seem to do anything, aside from tell me "DOWNLOADING, PLEASE WAIT!" with no changes. It's every map right now, including small ones that are only 1MB.

I also tried subscribing to maps in Steam directly, same issue.

Edit, uninstalling and reinstalling seems to have fixed it

I always forget to pick up something at Kroger before I head to a buddy's place and I end up reluctantly getting a case of cider or seltzer at the Valero on Howard for like twice as much as it should be. I was looking at Google Maps and there's nothing in Decatur for either a basic foot mart/store or a liquor store outside of "gourmet premium" options.

I just wanted a quick stop to pick up my basic-ass friend some Trulys.

I've been using CoK for D&D maps on a website I'm building, to get a good amount of usable map for D&D though I have to manually export different areas of the map then stitch them together.

Is it possible in the future for an option that allows for auto exporting multiple images for easier stitching?

If I'm looking at a town center, I go to export, there's an option for "export images surrounding view" which will bring export images for the area surround I'm looking at, same resolution and scale. And a possible secondary option for "how many tiles away: X" Where you can export a second, third, etc. layer of tiles emanating away from what you're currently looking at?

Jumping the gun and looking around at apartments in/around Buffalo (coming from Atlanta, WNY native tho) for early next year and I was aiming to keep rent around $1,500-$1,700.

Looking at Zillow, there's regular apartment buildings that have studios or one bedrooms with 500-700sqft for about that much or entire floors that are 3-4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2000 sqft for the same cost but that's just way too much space for me (single dude) and I already know that's going to be a ridiculous utility bill to keep warm in the winter.

Is there something going on where the middle ground between these two types of options just doesn't really exist?

Side note, why do so many places list their paid and shared laundry room/facility as an "in-unit" washer/dryer?

Here's me so you know I'm not that WoW guy from South Park

Looking to join into a casual D&D group, nothing hardcore or super serious. Most of my experience is just level 5 one shots. I have a couple buddies + 1 of their girlfriends that also like to play.

We have a DM once a month but they're out in Fairburn so hoping to find someone closer to the Kirkwood/Decatur/EAV area.

I've looked around the ATLRPG group but they seem to mostly play things D&D-adjacent or other TTRPGs and I/we're just looking for plain ol' D&D.

We're all film/TV people, pretty nerdy (anime heavy), and involved in fitness so a few words to just show we're normal and not going to creep out any games since that does seem like a worry.

I've mostly seen CRC I listed as the entry level position, but also Clinical Research Assistant as the true entry level position. I was going to go through the GCP course and IPPCR and look at hopping into the world of clinical research but now I'm not sure what I should be looking for on job boards or with Emory postings (which has CRC I roles but not assistant ones).

I'm considering moving from accounts payable to medical coding/billing using the Emory program. Hoping someone in the area has experience with this and can advise on how the entry level field looks. I'd aim for the CBCS and CPC.

Are there issues integrating 3rd party things into the free version? Specifically, this prism effect. It's the only 3rd party thing I need for a short film, everything else I can do just fine with the base free version. After Effects doesn't have a prism effect either so going 3rd party seems to be my only option.

Bit of a left field thing here, context, from Buffalo then moved to Atlanta in 2015 for film/TV (plenty of video editing on the side), wanting to gtfo of Atlanta and go to some mid sized city rather than something like NYC/Jersey.

Places like Albany (and Buffalo) are big enough for the film adjacent industries like marking and advertising without having the horror show stuff in large cities.

I'd like to apply to some stuff in Albany, and probably get apartment recs if it goes through, but I have no idea what to look for in your guys' city.

Wasn't sure where to look for this, I'm a 2nd Assistant in the accounting department down in Atlanta, which is unfortunately pretty dead. NYC and NJ are seemingly desperate for accounting people though, since my local is now offering free training to people up there who want to move from normal accounting to film accounting.

Everywhere wants locals only though, no distant hires, no remote work, nothing except someone in the area.

Didn't know if there's a set up in NYC or Jersey city just for short term housing for film people. We don't get paid enough to cover rent with two apartments so I can't just get a second apartment up there.

This post is mostly for anyone else who googles for this. A fake person named Timothy Roosevelt has been contacting people offering them careers with the company, fully remote, above average pay, etc.

GK-Software is a real company and they are aware of this scam and have reported it already.

You'll get an email with a Google Doc with interview questions, no actual phone call, you won't speak to anyone else aside from Timothy.

Eventually you'll be selected, hired, etc. and he'll tell you the company is sending a payment up front for you to purchase equipment. I'm assuming this is the scam part, you don't get money but you're told to purchase equipment from a "company accredited vendor" with the vendor either being fake or the money just going to the scam account.

Timothy Roosevelt from GK-Software (GK Software for any SEO help) is a scam.