I’m a pretty new player and have been enjoying the game quite a bit. But I noticed certain characters have “blue hp” in addition to the white hp in their health bar. I’ve been playing sigma and he would be an example. As well as a few of the healers (specifically the one who shoots orbs). Is there a difference with the health? It feels pretty much the same as I’ve been playing, but idk why they’d change the color then.

From lurking here I've seen people ask and answer which heroes are best for learning the game, and which heroes are best for climbing/carry potential. Theres also the route of just picking favorites.

To ask the inverse, are there any heroes that you feel like may be poor choices when trying to learn overwatch? It could be that they stunt learning in some way, or are way better suited to someone whos already has a great grasp on the game, or the core concepts are less clear with them in some way, etc.

Hi! I'm looking for tips for my partner who is getting into Overwatch because we are finally a two PC household and he got excited about the lore and the hype!

His experience: He has never played an FPS before, let alone a hero shooter or a team shooter. He plays retro video games on his Gamecube or Nintendo games on the switch.

I have been playing FPS since I was like 10 and I've been playing OVW since launch. I have a neurological condition which causes my hands to shake and the signal from my brain is essentially too slow to reach my hands in any meaningful way, so I live in silver/gold because I lack sufficient reflexes. Otherwise, I like to think I have good game sense and team sense and knowledge of all the characters and their mechanics.

I've started him on Rein because I feel like his kit will be easiest to translate from something like Smash Bros. I am essentially coaching him through games and playing support or DPS to back him up. He's a great sport about it :)

I know Rein can be risky because people become dependent on shield, but he knows that if he doesn't play corners he'll die horrendous. I've also given him homework to watch player guides like Flats (older) Rein play, Emongg VOD reviews, and OWL clips and plays.

My question for you all is what you might recommend? Translating from games like SSB and Metroid is definitely difficult but he's already getting into the hang of the pace and hero specific skills.

Thanks so much for reading all that! Looking forward to the responses!!!!

These two things send entirely different messages, and we have no control over which one is said when we choose "group up."

It's very frustrating when you're shouting to your team to group up and they think you're saying, "I'm coming up behind you!"

I don't know when, why or how this decision was made, but please, please, please undo it.

I tried to do my own research here before resulting to posting on Reddit but either my googling skills are just that bad or nobody's really asking this question which would be kind of surprising kind of surprising.

The question being is that when taking the two orb perk, is the reduction in healing only if you have both orbs out or does it reduce the healing of the orbs regardless of whether or not you have both out?

I tried to test it in the practice range but honestly I couldn't tell a difference visually. Not without a way to see them side by side.