Disconnection has become a daily occurrence in Overwatch. Disconnection in competitive mode, disconnection in fast mode, no matter whether it is a flashback of the client, or a direct return to the waiting interface in competitive mode, Yun Yun has experienced all kinds of weird ways of disconnection .
However, he did not expect such a situation to appear in the game.
All the teams use the same network and computers with the same configuration. From the quarterfinals all the way to the present, the equipment that seems to have no problems has been tested by many teams. The terminal suddenly crashed and had to log in again.
Yun Yun quickly opened the icon on the desktop, quickly entered his account password and clicked to log in, his troubled expression was reflected on the dark background of the client.
Bad luck too.
This happens in almost every Overwatch Cup match, and even the viewers are used to it. Whether it's a game publisher's server failure, or a network problem, it will cause a brief interruption of the game.
Although offline games are rarely suspended due to network disconnection, it doesn't mean that it won't happen.
Everyone was waiting for the game to continue in the commentary warm-up, but DL's profile picture did not light up quickly.
The photographer's lens switched to the game room scene, and Kang Ming could see that AM's current situation was not as simple as returning to the battlefield.
Lin Minyu communicated with the referee who came in, and all the team members focused their eyes on Yun Yun's screen, as if waiting for a result, but soon, Yun Yun stood up.
His young face clearly appeared on the camera, with the anxiety that came out of the screen, even Kang Ming could feel his emotions, and then, the live broadcast room cut into the commentary scene.
"Just after the referee confirmed, the game will restart, and the teams of both sides will return to the waiting hall. It seems that DL still needs a little time to return to the battlefield. In fact, the target point of King's Road is a map that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Just now RTK has successfully won the target point, and the battlefield of the two teams has changed to the alley, but the battle situation is difficult to judge."
After getting a definite answer, the two commentators casually began to analyze the situation on King's Road, citing classics to discuss the importance of street fighting on King's Road.
In the competition room, the atmosphere was a little heavy. Although Yun Yun had logged back into Overwatch, he couldn't join the custom mode anyway. Under such circumstances, the game can only be disbanded and restarted.
The unexpected accident made Yun Yun a little panicky. It was the first time he knew that this game had so many bugs. If there was no pause mechanism, this game would be lost to luck.
"Don't panic, just start playing again. We've taken advantage of it." Lin Minyu had already expected this situation. The offline game is a scene to deal with all kinds of emergencies, not to mention that Overwatch is so easy to get disconnected. game.
"At least I don't think RTK will start with Widowmaker anymore. It's completely meaningless." Liu Sanping felt that ZUM on the opposite side was powerful, but after receiving Yun Yun's reminder, no one would expose themselves to Widowmaker's sniping.
They got together and rethought RTK tactics. There were many reasons for the loss of the King's Road target point. AM had an absolute advantage at the beginning, but Anna fell asleep Peng Xiaozhou first, making them lose their only barrier.
"ZUM is very strong, but his rhythm is obviously different from that of the team." Lu Xiaoan is very keen and can grasp the difference of the enemy. "But the team's protection is too good, we can't catch him."
"The attack speed of RTK is very slow." Yun Yun understood his feelings, "But ZUM is very aggressive. After all, it is from Widowmaker, so it is more output-oriented when attacking."
Their simple discussion ended on the reopened King's Row, and the defense had to go through the long preparation route again. Because they are the suspension side, they can still only use the previous hero configuration, that is, McCree, Reaper, Reinhardt, Zarya, Ana, and Lucio. But RTK is different. They can adjust heroes according to the needs of the battle.
"Then this King's Row, RTK is still the first to attack. This time they didn't pick up Widowmaker, but took out Genji." MAKI followed the OB camera, explaining RTK's intentions, "The combination of McCree and Genji is used to It’s just right for AM. In the case of ensuring the mobility and stability of the team, this combination is more reasonable than McCree and Reaper. Especially Genji of RTK, from their first appearance in the game, no matter which one it is The players are all very good.”
Even though RTK has been fully reorganized, it still cannot stop their enthusiasm for using Genji.
When the attacker rushed into the target point with the voice of the commentary, AM ushered in Genji's crimson shuriken. Even if Genji of RTK was not Toke, he still caused a lot of trouble for AM.
In the absence of the same hero, they can only rely on Yun Yun's McCree. But in front of ZUM, Yunyun's McCree doesn't seem to have much advantage, every shot will be accurately found by Anna's biological grenade.
Yun Yun made a tactical roll to avoid Anna's attack range, and the bloody McCree hid at the corner, which could not prevent the enemy from invading the target point.
"Retreat and come to the store." Lu Xiaoan, who was killed in battle, came out of the defender's respawn room. Seeing the loading progress bar above his head, he understood that there was no benefit in delaying the time, and decisively asked the surviving teammates to transfer.
This decision directly gave up the target point.
AM waited for the RTK's delivery target to advance, and at the moment of passing the arch bridge, the second round of firefights started. At this time, Liu Sanping's death was ready, and Lu Xiaoan's hormone was about to be ready, which could soon stop the RTK from advancing. .
"Go directly to the hormone!" Lu Xiaoan handed over the nano-hormone at the same time as he said these words. Liu Sanping, who had turned into azure blue, jumped into the enemy's battle circle, and the death bloom that harvested the enemy appeared immediately. As a result, what was waiting for him was a A new death.
Liu Sanping yelled: "Been asleep!"
When the nano-hormone Reaper did not appear to kill the screen, AM had already entered a disadvantaged battle situation. Even if he handed over two ultimate skills, he was taken away by RTK.
This scene made MAKI feel very regretful, all kinds of mistakes in the game, the most regrettable thing is to waste the ultimate skill, he said: "The situation of AM is very dangerous now, after all, in terms of the energy of the ultimate move, they have fallen behind a lot. It’s really a pity that the god of death’s big move just now, the idea of using the hormone to increase the power is very good, but it’s a pity that RTK’s Anna anesthesia needle is too accurate, directly wasting two ultimate skills.”
Start's Grim Reaper is quite stealthy when it appears in the crowd. However, choosing to jump off a building and open the zoom when Anna has control skills is inherently risky. Hormone Reaper may be a very good idea when playing against other teams, and AM has also obtained several beautiful clearances with this.
But in front of RTK, it is completely ineffective, because their Anna's predictive ability is no less than XiaoAn's, and the movements of Reaper are still too clumsy in his eyes.
After several consecutive commentaries, Toma has fully grasped the style of the AM team. Their DL is indeed an output position with a deep hero pool, but when he appeared as McCree, the overall strength of the team still fell to XiaoAn's Anna.
Now, Anna, who was predicted by God, has met an even-matched opponent.
"XiaoAn is one of the more powerful Anas I have ever seen. You can see that his anesthesia needles and biological grenades are very accurate in several games. I mean very high, that is, he will always be in you without you realizing it. Time to shoot. These two skills have different flight trajectories and delays, but every time he shoots, he has achieved his goal before you recover. Especially the anesthesia needle, such as the one who slept on Str.7 before Pharah, McCree sleeping on GodR, these two times the OB shots are very obvious, and it is easy to see." Toma's exaggerated performance has been restrained after the game restart, from a crazy AM blowing to normal The tone of the commentary seemed very steady, "Now I find that Anna of RTK, this ZUM, has the same prediction as him, or sometimes, some mistakes made by the AM team may cause ZUM's anesthesia needle and biological grenade More fundamentally, just like Reaper jumping and falling asleep, just now Reinhardt was hit by the banning effect when he swung the hammer, it happened in an instant, and there was no time for everyone to react."
This King's Road has become a competition field for two Annas, and their teammates are constantly adjusting and dying to reduce the chance of being exposed to the enemy Anna's vision.
The two teams advanced all the way to the industrial area in the narrow alleyway. Even though RTK had a slow pace, it was definitely a very fast attack in the process of pushing the cart, and even killed AM's two blockings.
"We can see that McCree in DL is not obsessed with chasing and output. He is more functional, such as protecting Ana, such as assisting teammates to break shields. Most of the time, he relies on marksmanship to kill alone. It is difficult to achieve it under existing conditions. Now DL has entered the passage on the second floor. Judging from his energy, he may want to open up behind the enemy... "
Then, McCree on the OB lens froze and jumped onto the others in an instant.
A white loading progress bar appeared on DL's avatar again, and the familiar pause request appeared in the chat box.
"Pause." Toma looked at the words "Game Paused" on the screen, and felt like McCree just now, who had waited for ten thousand years for the big move and finally seized the opportunity to prepare for the best player in the game, but was disconnected Say goodbye to everything.
He couldn't laugh or cry, and lamented that the disconnection happened too coincidentally, and said: "It seems that there are more accidents today, and DL is disconnected again. Let's enter a commercial and take a break."
Client, flash back.
Looking at the computer screen that returned to the Overwatch interface, Yun Yun felt that his scalp was about to burst. In this game, he has encountered such a situation, but this is an offline game, just like his client is cursed, there are always various accidents.
Now, he must not simply believe that this is just a problem with the client, and directly ask the referee to change the host.
"Rest and rest!" Liu Sanping's tone was not unusual, and he even turned his head to scold Lu Xiaoan, "You must have forgotten to help Yunyun keep safe, you have a big problem."
Lu Xiaoan glanced at him, squeezed his wrist, and said, "Yes, because I thought only you needed the blessing of this unscientific idealism."
Yun Yun gave up his seat to the staff, and it would take longer to replace the host than before. Although I'm sorry for the fighting teammates and the waiting audience, he can't worry about a computer that goes wrong at any time.
He said helplessly: "Next time, you should help me worship the great god of idealism, Lu Xiaoan."
AM paused again, and even Kang Ming felt extremely irritable.
In the Overwatch Cup, it is normal to pause for various situations, but this is the second timeout for the same map, and Yun Yun's computer obviously has a problem. The current situation is very bad, and even he began to feel that the Tep Cup is going to close down, and he has made a lot of scraps.
"What are you doing? I'm going to see if it's a network problem or a computer problem."
Gu Chensheng watched the excitement from the sidelines, and reminded by the way: "The official staff will take care of it. You were useless in the past. You are not a computer repairer."
"It should be an accident." Zhang Ye has experienced these things quite a lot. "There is no condition to establish a separate game server in China, so when the Overwatch client fluctuates, it is normal for such a situation to happen. The game half a month ago There was also a situation where one game was disconnected all night, and finally another day was chosen. Don’t worry about being smart, they can handle it.”
But the spectators came to watch the game. The first timeout was okay, but the second timeout was already emotional. Some sunspots mixed in with the crowd actually brought up the rhythm of "strategic timeout".
After all, every time DL drops offline, it happens to be AM's weak battle situation, and such a coincidence is even more out of the question.
The barrage in the live broadcast room was completely unwatchable. After Kang Ming clicked on the barrage for a while, he was amused by those black fans who sang and reversed the show faithfully.
"AM just doesn't want to lose, RTK will be suspended if you have the ability!" "DL disconnection is definitely a curse of RTK, don't think I don't know that your family has opened an forum!" Kang Ming knew at a glance that it wasn't his fan.
The best way for fans of his family to distinguish is that no matter what the situation is, they must be cute, just like the string of eye exercises with unclear meaning that floated on the screen just now, it is definitely a good thing they did.
Those scolding voices covered by eye exercises spread maliciously in the live broadcast room. Kang Ming could only lament that there are so many popular people. He was really amazed that there were so many narrow-minded people in AM before he won the championship.
Kang Ming raised his hand to turn off the barrage, hoping that AM would not be affected by the disconnection of the game.
The waiting time for the resumption of the game was longer than last time. When the commentator MAKI told the audience to start again, everyone lamented that it was too procrastinated after watching a game for 10,000 years without a winner.
After reopening, AM’s state is obviously not as good as the previous two times. The first time it was able to push into the target point to counterattack RTK, and the second time it was able to hold two rounds in the shopping street. But now, AM is pushed all the way, it seems that even they themselves Don't want to waste time.
The abnormality of the equipment in the game will indeed affect the mentality of the team. It is difficult for AM to move back to the disturbed normality. This round of King's Avenue is still facing the result of defeat.
Even the commentators feel that when AM is attacking, the aggressive momentum has become quite weak. Even if DL hits a beautiful triple kill and XiaoAn's biological grenade assisted Start to clear the field and win the best of the game, this defeat cannot be saved .
When something like this happened in the semi-finals, I can only lament that AM was really unlucky. The game was interrupted twice in a row.
In any case, the semi-finals will continue, with a big score of 1:0, and what awaits them is the loser's draft.
The rhythm of RTK is very suitable for the cart map. If AM wants to win, it must not fight hard.
"Nepal or Ilios?" Lin Minyu asked for opinions from all the staff.
Because of AM's excellent performance in Lijiang Tower, RTK first removed Lijiang Tower when they banned the map before the game. Now, there are only two occupying maps left.
Nepal and Ilios are both occupying points, but their styles and tactical routines are completely different. AM can't say which map has a higher winning rate, but the number of practice times is almost the same—that is, basically no practice.
I'm not particularly good or bad at it, but compared to RTK's comprehensive cart map, the odds of winning with the dot map may be a little higher.
The semi-finals of BO5 will end with at least three wins in five games. If they want to find the weakness of RTK, they only have this chance.
"Nepal," Yun Yun said.
There is not much difference between these two maps for AM, but for RTK, Ilios has more advantages. Yun Yun knows ZUM, his Ana has traveled all over the map, and Ilios is his favorite, even picking up Widowmaker , and relentlessly.
Maps that look similar will always have different details. Yun Yun is much more familiar with Nepal.
"Then for the second map, AM chose Nepal." MAKI looked at Nepal left behind by the three maps on the screen, and began to explain the game. Ana, Lucio, and Reinhardt and Zarya in the front row. Before the reorganization, RTK had always had a very bright Genji player, and just now on King's Road, this Genji player played very well."
"Then it's AM." Toma followed closely, looking at the shot given by the OB, "McCree, Grim Reaper, Reinhardt, Zarya, Ana, Lucio, except for Genji and McCree, the other teams All the same. I find that AM is a team that hasn't played Genji yet, and McCree and Reaper are pretty standard for them."
Even though DL's Hanzo is very powerful, and the fortress he produced is also eye-catching, but more often, AM is McRae appearing on the field, like a subsidiary of a team, and there are not many wonderful performances.
"During the audition, DL took Genji." MAKI obviously knew more about this team than Toma. After Genji, the morale of the whole team became one-sided, and the opponent was caught off guard. Although AM is very good at having Genji in the team, DL is indeed a pretty good player."
When he said these words, DL's impression on people became deeper again. The hero pool already includes Hanzo, Genji, McCree, and Bastion. These regular and unconventional heroes seem to have played their due role in his hands, always in the position of saving the world.
I am used to hunting heroes, but when I look at DL again, McCree feels a bit disappointed. He has not been the best player in the game, and he has not scored consecutive headshots. The expectations of these heroes.
The first map of Nepal is a village. The two teams met on a high platform and exchanged fire through Reinhardt's shield to compete in hard power.
"RTK's Genji rushed into the enemy group and directly found Anna, but AM's XiaoAn moved very well and avoided the attack directly." MAKI recounted the battle situation. When the two teams met for the first time, the intentions of both teams were very obvious.
RTK wanted to kill AM's Ana, and coincidentally, AM agreed with them.
No matter which output position OB cuts to, he will always see the center of sight, always on Anna.
Yun Yun's McCree and ZUM's Anna have always been at odds. He is not afraid of confrontation, but there is always a feeling that McCree is not easy to kill Anna.
With one shot and half blood, it takes two shots to kill Anna, but the teammates' last hits are always a bit slower. It is not good to be unable to end the enemy's life with one shot. Yun Yun can kill ZUM with two shots in a row, but Anna will often avoid the vital points.
On the field, Yun Yun and McRae always performed unsatisfactorily. He didn't take the initiative to chase, he didn't fight alone, and he gave priority to protecting his teammates. It was completely different from the fierce appearance of one against six in the competitive mode.
This is undoubtedly mediocre compared to McCree who kills the enemy with a gunshot headshot, which is why the commentary keeps repeating "compared to Hanzo, it is much inferior."
"Anna's residual blood." Yun Yun took the biological grenade thrown by ZUM to avoid it. The purple prohibition effect on the screen forced him to stop and turn to the target point.
The offensive in the village is not too violent, RTK has already occupied 80%, and the progress of AM has just entered 30%.
Against a team with Genji, Yun Yun's McCree still seemed a little weak. Whether it was caused by ZUM's quick support or Genji's own mobility, Yun Yun was very dissatisfied with this situation.
When he uses McCree, he thinks more than Hanzo. He needs the support of his teammates to complete the goal after shooting. In his opinion, McCree is still too weak. , the difference is far.
After analyzing the video of 08, Yun Yun felt that perhaps it was not McCree who was worse, but himself.
"Southern Genji may be big." Lu Xiaoan said quickly in a calm voice, Yun Yun stopped the bloody Lucio jumping in front of him, took the enemy away with one shot, and then rushed to Lu Xiaoan's location to assist.
The scramble for Nepal was not going well, and AM would always lose its advantage due to various sneak attacks after occupying the target point.
When the small score in this game in Nepal became 0:2, Gu Chensheng gloated and said: "It seems that you can go to the commentary room and get ready to go on stage."
Laur's battle is in the next round, and Kang Ming, who is the commentator, undoubtedly needs to arrive early, and if AM loses this round, it will be just a brand new cart map before the end of the battle, and there will only be more than 20 minutes left at most. Even Gu Chensheng knows that RTK carts are almost invincible.
"I think you are very noisy." Kang Ming has no intention of leaving. Before seeing AM stop in the semi-finals with his own eyes, he will definitely not easily recognize AM's disadvantage.
This team has brought him many surprises, starting from defeating Str.7, it represents endless potential. Maybe they really can't defeat Laur and DeGR, but the opponent is a team like RTK. Until the last second, no one knows at what time and what magical hero configuration AM will use to turn the tide of the battle.
Because, this is Overwatch full of miracles.
defeated.
The huge two words fell on Yun Yun's screen, making him a little dazed.
Just now he was able to enter the point and make the final struggle, but was directly anesthetized by ZUM and fell asleep outside the point. He saw the loss of the game with his own eyes. The despair brought by such a scene cannot be compared with simple death.
The big score was 2:0. In the previous game, it was time for AM to pack up and leave, but now, they have one last chance.
The loser's pick.
This round is a composite occupancy map, Anubis Temple, Hanamura, Volskaya Industrial Zone...
For AM, these maps are simply a disaster. What's even more frightening is that this game has reached the match point. If they lose, they will face them and quit the game.
"Three pictures." Lu Xiaoan's voice was calm and reassuring. No matter in victory or defeat, he would always look like this, "I choose Hanamura."
"Seconded."
"Flower Village."
Lin Minyu told the referee directly, saying: "AM chooses Hanamura."
They don't have more time to think about the defeat in the previous game. Many of the mistakes in Nepal should not have existed. RTK's Genji has caused them great trouble, and the team's core problem has not been resolved until now: they unconditionally trust Genji's tactics, and are afraid of seeing an opponent who draws his sword when there is no Genji.
Yun Yun really felt this. But in the last game in Nepal, he took the lead in clearing Genji several times. AM's morale should not lead to the defeat of Nepal, but RTK's absolute advantage still led to the defeat of the last game.
It can only be said that among all the tactics of RTK, Genji is also the most perfect. Whether it is ZUM's hormone or Zarya's gravity spurt, they will always serve Genji in their family, and then quickly accumulate dragon blades, pull out With a long knife, AM will be wiped out.
If AM wants to win, he must eliminate the Genji on the opposite side, or take out the same Genji.
"We defend." Lin Minyu said, and the battle list on the interface has been changed, "It doesn't matter, RTK is not good at this kind of composite occupancy map."
There were a few laughs on the voice channel. AM was indeed affected by the two disconnections of King's Road. Every time they attacked and retreated, they would be inexplicably afraid that Yun Yun would be disconnected again.
Under such shadows, AM saw the most feared Genji, the defeat of Nepal, although it was unexpected, but it was taken for granted.
Now, the mainframe that Yun Yun had replaced hadn't broken down in two consecutive games. The kind of cautiousness that was pressed down in his heart disappeared completely after losing two consecutive games.
In any case, they are already a semi-finalist in the Tap Cup. In an offline competition, this is an achievement worthy of recognition and boast.
"It's just not reconciled." Lu Xiao'an's voice seemed to carry his usual sarcasm, "RTK is such an annoying team, but it can take us two points."
"But we will win, after all let the second chase the third." Lu Xiaoan said casually, and the atmosphere of the team was revived by Liu Sanping's cheers.
AM does not want to lose to RTK. Those unspeakable pasts are hatred that should not be avoided on the field of competition. They must be crushed with victories in order to get rid of the heavy burden on them.
Liu Sanping said with ease and joy: "Speaking of which, if the audience and commentators judge us 100% as losers, we might be slapped in the face later."
"After all, let the second chase the third." Wu Lisheng said while drinking water.
Peng Xiaozhou moved his right hand and agreed: "Well, let the second chase the third."
Yun Yun has become accustomed to the magical atmosphere of AM, as long as Lu Xiaoan says that he will win, no matter how bad the battle situation is, he will be able to rally.
This is AM's unique self-confidence, like a group of blindly worshiping believers, unswervingly following Lu Xiaoan's footsteps.
"This round must be won." Yun Yun made such an unfounded conclusion for the first time, and made the much-anticipated upset in the hero selection interface. "Because this was my home," he said.
Hanzo's bow lay across the screen, white strings, yellow and white intertwined bow decorations, and his most familiar wolf head appeared on the head of DL. Yun Yun knew the sound of each arrow and the direction where it should appear, even if it was The angle of refraction on the door frame is well known.
The white wolf said: The master of the Shimada family is back.
Yun Yun could hear the sound of Lucio speeding up, let out a cheerful cry, and led the AM members out of the rebirth room quickly. The road defended by Hanamura was long and quiet. They skillfully found their own position and stood under the gate , waiting for the start of this defense.
The daytime in Hanamura was quiet and serene, the carp banner on the high place fluttered with the wind, Yun Yun could see the game hall where the attacker was located through the small window, and the closed gate blocked the group of guests who were about to visit.
And now, he wants to discipline and discipline, his younger brother.