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  1. Re:"Approacheable FPS" on Blizzard Announces Overwatch, a First-Person Shooter · · Score: 1

    I went to Blizzcon and played Overwatch in it's current state. After five trips through the stupidly long lines, I'm REALLY looking forward to this game.
    - There is no auto-aim
    - No regenerating HP, but there are a few health packs placed around the map. I never felt like there were too many health packs though, in fact, they felt kind of rare to me.
    - You do have infinite ammo, but you still need to reload
    - The weapons didn't generally feel overpowered, but as you take and dish out damage you build up energy for your "ultimate" which is obviously meant to be overpowered.
    - The reticules for weapons do seem a bit big, but I mostly played Farah (rocket launcher), Reaper (dual shotguns), and Reinhardt (huge hammer/melee). I messed around with the sniper character Widowmaker, and the reticule felt a little big for a sniper rifle, too.

    They did a great job of making the current hero lineup, even tank heroes Reinhardt and Winston feel different. Reinhardt felt like a slower, heavier tank that you would use his shield ability to slowly push into enemy lines, where as Winston felt more mobile.

    The game isn't even in beta yet, but the heroes felt pretty balanced. The one exception I felt was Bastion when he's deployed into an immobile turret mode with a front-facing shield. In that mode he can dish out a stupid amount of damage and because of his shield, he can survive for awhile. Whenever I ran into one, I felt it was almost necessary to switch heroes to Farah and use her jetpack/rocket launcher to deal with Bastion. In my opinion they should remove his shield.

  2. Just use commonly searched tech words on Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    I actually just ran into this situation myself.

    I didn't even have a LinkedIn profile until about a month ago when I ran into an ex-coworker who wanted to connect with me. I've been happily employed developing Android apps at my current company since I graduated university about a year and a half ago, but I figured what the heck, I might was well throw my experience up on my profile for shits and giggles.

    Within one week, I was contacted by recruiters at Facebook, Amazon, Google, and a couple lesser-known local companies.

    Really all it comes down to is picking words that get a lot of search hits and shoving them in your profile.