Is Efi the 24th Hero?!

SOOO! We have got some more news on what might possibly be the 24th Overwatch hero and her name is Efi Oladele! Released today was an interview of Efi, where numerous questions were answered by her! Now, why would Blizzard release this random content? Well, she must be someone right??! What we know from Efi based on the interview is that she's from Numbani, just like Doomfist, and she's an inventor who's also 11 years of age.

Efi Oladele

So there she is, I have to say I love the character design for her, when I first saw the picture I thought she was a princess, but that's just me. According to the interview, she likes to build drones, and they did chores and helped around the house. She also said that she wanted to make the world a better place, hinting at the fact that she might be a hero! Thing is, she's 11, not sure she can fight at that age, kinda don't want to see a little girl die on the battlefield either. So in order to have her fight, maybe she will have some whack invention robot to help her. Like she said:

"I want to create things that make our lives better. And someday, my dream is to build something that can keep us safe, like the new OR15s! I think that would be great."

She wants to make the world a better place, which kinds of gives me her ideas for battle. She'll have a huge robot to help defend her, and maybe drones as her ult! Oh man, it all sounds too good in my head. Now another question that I have: What the heck is an OR15?! Obviously it's not her invention because she says, "Like the OR15s." So she's reffering to them as something that she wants to create one day, possibly similiar to whatever helps her in battle. On another note, the origins of Numbani; we all know very well that it is a peaceful environment for Omnics and humans to live in harmony, so a robot out of Numbani is expected from out Numbanian Efi! But still no idea on the OR15s, never heard of them before. I'm stumped guys. I'm going to have to do more asking around and reasearch on all the kinds of robots in Overwatch, or I can wait, but it's going to take too long! I'm not sure when they're going to release the new hero, but that little interview has hyped the Overwatch community!! I can't wait! I'm going to say though, Little Efi is super adorbs! And I cannot wait to see her role in Overwatch!

Doomfist? Or no Doomfist?

The idea of Doomfist is dying out around the whole Overwatch community as Jeff Kaplan (Game Director) has unleashed some juicy information for us to make our own theories of the new 24th hero. We saw the Doomfist in the payload of Nubani, we've seen posters and all kinds of new clues, and even that Terry Crews was playing his voice! There's no other hero to think of then Doomfist, until yesterday when Kaplan sent out  a bit of a hint that more heroes were coming out, and "24 is not who you think it is." Well, lets be honest, all of us thought that Doomfist was the next hero of Overwatch, and that's to be expected due to all the leads Blizzard was giving to us. Now that we have another lead that the new hero isn't Doomfist, then who the heck is it? Well we have other heroes that Blizzard could be working on such as Leal, Soundquake, Athena, and others. Guys, has anyone seen the art on Overwatch, there re TONS of unfamiliar characters that we haven't seen in gameplay yet.

This guy, Leal was one of the founders of Overwatch, and could possibly be the 24th character since we haven't seen him in the game yet considering all the other founders are in the game.

We have Soundquake, who was mentioned in the short video where the kid in the orange totally mentions Soundquake. Soundquake sounds like a pretty cool name. Might be a tank, like Doomfist wouldv'e been a tank. It would be cool to have a new tank, we only have 5, but then we only have 4 support characters. So a support or tank character would be the ideal image. We did recieve Ana not too long ago as support, but again, we only have 4.

There is Athena, who is the voice of Overwatch that you hear when you win, loose, enter a board, or 'Attack commencing in 30 seconds'. If that didn't help you know who I am talking about, she's Winston's AI that helps him do the amazing. In one of the overwatch pictures we do see a female robot, well we see alot of unfamiliar faces in that picture, but Athena stands out, because she's not faded away in the background, we can actually see her. She might be a new support? I'm not sure. Anyways, in all the official Overwatch art, there are new faces that we haven't seen in gameplay, so there are numerous of possibilities of all kinds of new characters that I cannot wait to see.







Again, the possibilities are so great, and Kaplan said they're working on a plethera of new heroes, so yes, there's going to be the New 24th! But there is also going to be a 25th, and 26th! There's going to be a bunch of new heroes, and am I excited!! Tell me your theories on the new hero! I want to know!!

Overwatch: Bastion PTR

If he wasn't annoying to you before, well he's about to get really ugly in this new update!!! It's time for the big buff for Bastion, the cute and lovable robot that everyone hates, atleast I do. Walking into a room and brutally getting shot down by a merciless Bastion is the worst. Getting mauled while he's in recon mode is totally embarrassing. And his horrific ult that kills everyone around him is just annoying. If you thought Bastion was OP, he's getting worse. For some reason, the developers had this crazy Idea to buff him in the most insane ways! In my opinion, Bastion was perfectly fine to me, now he's kinda better. I just got done playing some whack PTR modes, and man these people are creative with their board making.

Here we have Bastion's info from Overwatch web:


Sentry:

• Bullet spread increased by 50 percent
• Deploy time decreased from 1.5 seconds to 1.0 second
• Bullet spread is always at maximum (it no longer increases as the weapon is fired)
• Magazine size increased from 200 to 300
• Headshot damage multiplier has been removed
• No longer deals critical damage

Recon:

• Bullet spread decreased by 25 percent
• Magazine size increased from 20 to 25

Self-Repair:

• Can now be used while moving
• Now bound to secondary fire (formerly Ability 2)
• No longer interrupted by taking damage
• A new resource meter has been added that deplete while Self-Repair is active and recharges when not in use

Tank:

• No longer grants bonus armor

Bastion has a new passive: Ironclad

• Bastion takes 35% less damage while in Sentry or Tank configuration

'Doo woo?' No Bastion, you're not cute anymore

Things that were hella different with Bastion; Well let's see, we have a Soldier 76 gun now, quicker getting into turret mode, and of course everyone's heard of the walking and healing yourself. I mean, if a Mei tries to take you down, all ya gotta do is heal yourself every now and then while she's freezing you then shoot her with that gun of yours. You pretty much have taken her down. Any weak gun will not take him out and that was before the buff, now, it's less likely. I find the buff a little too big, and in all honesty, Bastion isn't a defense character anymore, he can freaking kill in recon mode, so, get ready to to get shot down by this giant. 

!You're in the big leagues now!

All I did was walk around and shoot down my enemies, and not to mention, if he didn't heal himself with his ult activated, he does in PTR. I'm not sure if he did before thousgh. Me not being a Bastion main wouldn't know, but I did heal myself as I was in my ult blasting everyone's limbs off. I say, don't get too close to the edge with the new Bastion, nor do you want to come in contact with too much of Reaper or Mcree. Stay away from the explosives, and heal yourself to the max now :)!!

Overwatch: New Skins!

Blizzard has added a couple of new skins for Overwatch for the Chinese New Year: The year of the Rooster! Now I believe there were leaks yesterday on the topic, but I stayed away from them so I could enjoy it in the game. I definitly have seen DVA's and Mei's new skins, and lemme tell you, DVA's mech is decked out in some awesome colors. I will now pull up screenshots.

So you get a lootbox which is decorated for the event: 

Looking pretty explosive there. We have the bright red with the gold, I'm liking it alot, and when I opened it, I also liked it alot. I don't know if everyone got the same thing I did, so I'm not going to say what's inside for the sake of not spoiling the surprise.

ANYWAYS, let us now view the skins!

ANA

Loving the colors and not to mention her mask! She looks like someone carefully
threw paint on her! And her sniperrifle is kinda cute, haha.

BASTION

Even though I find Bastion very annoying in gameplay, I love this look for him.
I am going to get this skin!!! One of my favorite. The red looks so good on him, and his lil' rooster!

DVA

DVA's Mech is decked out in some awesome colors!
I love the way it's looking! DVA herself looks like cotton candy though!

JUNKRAT

Oh man! This is another one of my favorite skins!
I love it! He looks like he's ready to go on explosives!

MEI CHANG'E

I LOVE the new look, finally, something good looking on her.
She is beautiful! I'm defintly getting this skin for her.

MEI LUNA

Mei #2 looks awesome, although I love her first outfit.
She is actually stunning in this one though. She's so pretty.

MERCY

I'm not a big fan of the Mercy skin, but I do like the patterns.
Mercy mains, I hope you like.

REINHARDT

This looks so epic!!! I actually want this one so bad! His necklace to his arm plates,
to the dark purple, and gold. I'm getting this for sure!!

ROADHOG

PIGHOG! Haha! He's got a nice design for his hook!

SYMMETRA

She is looking like an elegant rose, I love the gold,
and the sassiness that goes with it.

TRACER

One of my absolute favorites!!
I love the rose patterns on the side of her leg and the black out looks totally badass!

ZENYATTA

MY gosh! This has got to be my favorite skin for Zenyatta.
He's a snazzy looiking king with some vibrant colors!

WINSTON

The Wukong!! King Kong? I'm not sure what's going on with the facepaint,
but I'm liking it overall!

Out of all the character's new skins, Reinhardt is my absolute favorite. I'm no Reinhardt main, but when I achieve that skin, I will play him a lot more just to show it off. Mei is looking beautiful than ever, and Tracer's got the badass blackout. I will most likely get most of the skins but the ones I really want are of course Reinhardt, Tracer, Mei Chang'e and Luna, Zenyatta, Bastion, DVA and Junkrat! That's most of them, I know, but they made some amazing skins for the Chinese New Year, and there's even some sayings and new animations for them all. I can't wait to get them all!!

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!

Cockadoodledoo!

Overwatch: More to the Hook

Roadhog, Ana and Sombra's New Tweaks

SO!! We just experienced a major event with Blizzard and them highly nerfing some of everyone's favorite characters in Overwatch. I'm guessing they saw that some of their fans caused an uproar and did some a couple of tweaking with Ana, Sombra and Roadhog. Here's what we have from the web.

Roadhog's Hook:

• Added some more line of sight checks towards the left/right of a potential hook target. This means it should be easier to hook someone who is sticking halfway out of a doorway, or behind a thin pole, etc. These checks are also used for the persistent line of sight check, so if a hook target moves behind a slim object like a stump or a lightpole, they won't be released anymore.
• Hooked targets are now slowed heavily while they are stunned, even if they are in the air. This means if someone is strafe jumping away from you and you land a hook, they are a lot less likely to slide out of line on sight, breaking the hook.

• Fixed a bug that could allow you to hook someone and pull them behind you if you spun around before the hook landed.

Now, this all means that the hook will now grapple people that are sticking out of a doorway or behind a tree or pole. So basically if you see them, they well be hooked. That's more fair, thank goodness. Also no more, "Hookin' 180 Drop Off", meaning hooking someone then immediatly throwing them off a cliff, that was so annoying, and trollish. Haha, glad they fixed that. So Roadhog's hook is way more fair, he's not too bad now.

Ana:

• Biotic Grenade duration reduced from 5s to 4s

Honestly, another minor change for Ana, I think we can all say this. She's barely getting hit, which is the way I like it. I love Ana and don't want to see the old grandma get changed too much to where she's completly useless, like another spider we know...I MEAN sniper.

Sombra:

• Hack cooldown reduced from 12s to 8s

Mah girl Sombra is rising up! I'm glad they decided to buff her. So we're hacking people even faster now that the cool down has made a drastic change from 12s to 8s. I honestly cannot wait to hack everyone on the battlefield, then turn invisible and let my team finish it off. Sombra was my main since she was introduced some time ago, now she's becoming even better. Everyone who looked down on Sombra, well, watch your backs and don't get hacked!

I'm happy to say that these new changes left me satisfied. They're looking amazing, and I hope alot of you were excited with them as well! I can't wait to play with the update. Leave your opinions on the new content below!

Overwatch: NERF THIS!! Well They Did

Yuppers, Blizzrd heard DVA's taunt and not only has she been nerfed, but few other characters have been dragged into the situation. Along with the ever so jubilant DVA, we have Roadhog and Ana who have also lost some advantages with their gameplay. According to Blizzard, nothing has come out yet on the consoles except PC, and it's only PTR (Public Test Region), so some tweeks will be happening with everything to make it look good. So let's start with DVA's nerfs:
Her health has increased from 200 to 400, yah she's gonna need that because lemme tell you something...
HER ARMOR IS TOATLLY RUINED NOW!! Well, not really, it's just going to be harder to be a tank, and, yeah being de-meched is going to increase in DVA players. No more endlessly plowing through people with your guns. I say use her Defence Matrix to the max, because again, a decrease from 400 to 200 doesn't seem like too much, but it is. So be prepared to have metal peices of destroyed DVA mechs litter the play grounds. That's the big thing everyone's griping about on DVA's behalf, but in general, she asked for it.

Next up is Ana: The old faithful grandma who has the eyes of a hawk, and occasionally will offer you a cup of tea. Ana's nerf isnt the worst, I mean, c'mon, just a few points off her biotic grenade. It's been decreased by 50%, which isn't much at all! The grenade is still really good, just not crazy good anymore, which is a good balance to her character anyways. Some people think that she needed to be nerfed more, but I think she's still a work in progress. Now to the saltiest pool in Overwatch history, Roadhog's nerf:
No more being dragged out of nowhere and being shotdown. No more being swung around corners without even seeing what hoocked you in the first place. No more...of Roadhog's amazing kills. Well, it's going to be so unlikely that the hook will even work anymore. It's totally sensitive now. I mean come on Blizzard, the rope hits one thing and the grapple is lost. This gives Tracer a chance! Nah, but seriously, I saw some of the PTR footage of Roadhog's hook, and grabbing Lucio behind a tree was impossible, which is reasonable, but it's going to be so frustrating now to hook anything with Roadhog. It's going to be so precise and realistic to where I'm going to be pulling my hair out. Alot of people are excited about his hook change, some are saying that it's fair now and Roadhog needed this nerf. But in all honestly, I wonder how he will come back with these massive changes. My opinion is that it's going to be seriously frustrating playing Roadhog now, and if you do decide to use his hook, you better have freaking sniper abilities. I personally love watching Roadhog play, the adrenalin through him hooking everyone and shooting them right after always ran through my veins. I have to say deep down I kind of thought it was unfair, but, I don't know, I hope the masters at Roadhog will keep playing him like they usually do, and be even better with him with the update. Don't lose hope roadhog players!! Come back with a stronger grapple!! Hook em' just right!!
So with all the nerfs, we have 1 buff, and that's my favorite character, Sombra:
She has a faster hack! We needed this! I needed it! So anyone realize how slow she was when she suprised people and it would take her a while to do anything else like shoot, or hack after coming out of being invisible? 'Que tal.' *gets shot* No more of that! Time for a fast hack of 0.8 seconds instead of 1 second. Man, I can't wait to hack everyone! So instead of hacking 5 people in 5 seconds, I can hack 5 people in 4 seconds. It's a higher advantage of being hacked. Yes, I know it's ever so annoying to get hacked and loose all of your abilities, but I honestly cannot wait to hack everyone in my sights, well a good amount of people before I die. This is going to be one heck of a ride for the people who will be effected by the change. But, if you were discouraged or sad by some of your character's changes, I say, don't give up. Instead, take this update as a chance to get better! And if you were positivly effected by the update, well, take it easy on DVA's mech.

Share your opinions below on the new nerfs/buffs. I'd be more than happy to hear them!

The Last of Us: But Wait, there's More!

I'm gonna say now, I am a huge fan of The Last of Us, loved every second of the bloody, emotional, game. If you don't know what The Last of Us is, then you're missing out on a well put together stress of apocalyptic, exploration, first person survival shooter-puzzle horror game. I don't know if I got those genres right, but that's what it felt like to me. If you haven't played the game and want to, (I highly reccommend it) then stop right here and go play, because here comes some major SPOILERS!!:

It was cute

Anyways, this will contain all the gaming content including Left Behind, yay...also the new trailer for The Last of Us II. IM SO PUMPED!! Naughty Dog did an amazing job with the story, and I gotta say, I appreciated the graphics. The game starts in Austin Texas where the infected are spreading the virus from door to door. Joel, a father to Sarah and an older brother to Tommy, was higly inpacted by the sudden events. On the way to a safe zone, Sarah was shot by some soldier, not killed by the infected, but shot by a soldier..humans, I swear. The emotion of the game starts when Sarah dies in Joel's arms, I didn't just tear up, I cried. The mix of the sad music and seeing a dad cry made me cry, and I'm not a crier.

^The Emotion Starts Here^

Joel took his daughter's death hard as the game advances. We can see his nostalgia of him missing Sarah mix in with him escorting Ellie (the cure to the virus), to the Fireflies, (a group of military people). Ellie is a 14 year old girl who's never been outside, has bad language, (who cares in the apocalyspe anways), and is very rebellious, but she has a big heart. She's lost all of the people she's cared about including her best friend Riley who is introduced in the DLC, Left Behind. Now she and Joel work together to get to the fireflies so she can become an anitidote to the rapid virus that's infecting the whole world. When we first meet Ellie, she's rebellious, annoying, rude, she's kind of a bitch that you want to knock out at times, but Joel never did, he has a high rate of tolerance, he can deal with the brat. So yeah, when they first meet, they can't stand each other, but the character development in this game will make you think that they have been an amazing family since day one. I think the bond between Ellie and Joel is unbreakable. One way we can see their father/daughter relationship is when Ellie is hacking David's (guy who kidnapped her for killing his men) face off. Joel recovers from a fatal wound and runs to rescue her, when he finds her brutally murdering the poor cannibal. He then pulls her off of the now dead David, and consoles her. Joel holds her and calls her 'Baby girl', That moment had all the fans in tears. Well, me atleast, and again, I am not a crier.

Im not crying, YOU ARE!

Naughty Dog's intentions for the first game was to develope and establish the father/daughter bond between Joel and Ellie, and man did they do a great job with that task.
Throughout the story, we're picking up bricks and mosltavs, wooden planks and occasionally a torch gun to plow through the many infected and annoying clickers, and even some bloaters. We're bashing in heads and blasting off limbs with our shotty, blood splattering everywhere through the process. We're shivving and stomping and punching and scoping and throwing nail bombs, the action never stops! Joel will do anything to get to his destination, he's just that badass. The reason I love Joel as a character is simply his badassness, his perserverance, his persistancy and care for Ellie. He plucked her right out of the Firefly HQ and shot Marlene twice, one bullet in the gut and one straight through her head. Joel is a fearless man with a mindset to get to where he's going. The only thing he fears is the loss of Ellie, and the drive of keeping her safe is just enough to get him through the treachorous days of the apocalyspe.

Ahh yess, the adrenalin

So if you're a fan of Tlou, then you might of heard of the Tlou 2, which has got me so hype right now!!!! I've watched theories, and the trailer a countless number of times. I'm so hyped, I actually cannot wait. So lets discuss, but before, if you havent seen the trailer, go to Youtube and watch it NOW! Ok, back now? Were you amazed? Did anyone get nostalgic? I sure did, I teared up. Anyways, I watched it a couple of times, (More than 12 times). So the trailer starts with various scenes of the beautiful, but eerie environment of the 5 year later continutions of the terrible apocalyspe. There were a couple of scenes of the first few seconds that I wanna pay attention to, first:

Infected Bear Claws?

We have a tree with 3 visible scratches imbeded into the side, and according to IGN's theory, they say that the infection mutated even further. Also notice the spores on the tree, (The tiny white dots) so maybe the virus did mutate, the infected have become a lot stronger and can scratch through trees (Wolverine anyone?), but also, I was thinking maybe the animals could have been infected too. Anyone recall that movie called "I am Legend", with Will Smith? Well, remember the mutated dogs? Maybe it happened in the game. A huge bear got a whif of the lovely spores, and BAM! You have a mutated zombie bear ready to kill everything in its way. If they do bring new types of infected to the game, well I am more than excited to see what they will be. But that's just one of my theories. Another picture that I paid close attention to, and everyone else I hope was:

Yup, indeed, the Fireflies. So the Fireflies have bases all over the US, and obviously the setting of the trailer is in one of the Fireflies bases. I am Captain Obvious. Anyways, as the screen goes black, and cast Naughty Dog's amazing logo on the screen, we cut to a shaky hand with scars and blood. The hand then gets in control of itself before stroking the guitar. If we're smart, we can conclude that it is Ellie, now knowing how to play a guitar and assuming it was Joel who taught her. That theory is from when Joel had told her that if they get out of transferring her to the Fireflies alive, he would teach her how to play. Obviosly he did teach her. Refferencing to IGN's pair of eyes again, they say that the mutation of the infection could be effecting Ellie, and that's why she has shaky hands. If the infection did mutate, she could turn. I hope it doesn't make Ellie turn, but instead make her even stronger to the virus. Yo, if Ellie turns, I will riot. Anyways, another scene I have inspected was the bit eon her neck:

That one single tear though

Oh gosh, what bit her...I'm worried, maybe it was a mutated infected if the theories are correct. If so, Ellie for sure has the mutated infenction running through her veins, but over all, she looks alright, but the bite looks fairly new. After a few seconds of amazing singing from Ellie, we veer away to a bloody hand. Assuming that Ellie killed that guy, we can see why she's kind of cut up. In that scene, we can also  see a sihlouette of a person! Who can it be???
Well, if you guessed Joel, you're correct. Now I have mixed feelings on the theories of Joel. I don't want to believe anything I hear on Joel for the new game.

Angel much?

So the popular fan's theory of Joel's character is that he is indeed dead. Gosh I hope you all are wrong. Even IGN thinks it is true, it's just a theory though. Anyways I don't think he's dead at all, we're just possibly gonna be playing as Ellie, she's the main character now, Joel is alright guys...no worries right? Ok there are several reasons people think he's dead, well one reason: The Fireflies were after Ellie, and probably killed him in the process of trying to get her. Another reason; he enters the trailer behind a bright light, is this an angel refference? We also don't see his face at all, and if you pay even more attention, we see his clothes don't have a single scratch, tear, burn, rip, blood, or anything! Looks like Joel took his clothes to the cleaners! Also his skin is nice and clean too. Even his leather shoes are shined. This is in contrast to Ellie's appearence. She is cut up, and there's blood dripping from her face, and her clothes are stained from battles, and her shoes are dirty. Why isn't Joel equivelant? Well folks, truth may be, Joel might just be a figure of Ellie's imagination. And what makes it even more true, is Joel never asked if Ellie was alright, like it's normal for dead people to be in the house. I don't know, maybe after 5 years it is, but it's all just a bit off. Ellie responds to Joel in anger saying she will "Find them and kill them all." Who is she killing? What did they do to her that made her so mad and seek vengance? Well theory, Fireflies is who she's gonna kill, and the only thing I can think that made her that mad, is that they killed the only person she cared about, Joel.

Oh man, the hate in her eyes are real guys. She means business. Honestly maybe she isn't even talking about the Fireflies, she's possibly talking about the infected, or something else. No, it's more than likely the Fireflies, I'm just trying to convince myself that Joel is still alive in this one. If he dies I will riot. But, if it to be true, then I will give Naughty Dog a chance to see what else they have in store for the game without Joel. To make this treachorous theory even more convincing, we can see Ellie is wearing a familiar shirt; again, IGN has made an amazing point. It is a small detail in the trailer, but it could lead to the thought that Ellie is indeed in her own mind.

She is so taken over by the events of her loved one's dying that in her visions, she's wearing Riley's shirt, and 'talking' to Joel. I'm denying all of these theories on Joel's death by the way, but it seems like it could be true guys. I hope not. I know a new year just begun, but, I cannot wait till 2018 for this game. I'm itching to be in the apocalyspe emotional adventure again. This game has done wonders on me, made me feel some type of emotion I thought I couldn't feel from video games. And to tell you guys the truth, I am not an apocalyspe fan, but this game makes me want to see more of it's kind. So yes, I will watch The Walking Dead. Haha, anyways, I am more than over hyped for this game, and man am I ready to get into it again.

HERE are the links to the videos if you need them:

TLOU Teens React (For those who don't want to play, here's their playlist, they're also playing tlou 2 soon, here's their reaction to the new trailer)

TLOU 2 Trailer

IGN's Breakdown

Tlou 'Left Behind'

Through the Valley