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Overwatch 2’s Lifeweaver Is Getting A Control Rework And Healing Buff Soon
Overwatch 2‘s newest hero, Lifeweaver, quickly became popular with fans for his design and his place in Overwatch lore, but many players have found him awkward to play in actual gameplay. Now, two sets of updates are being planned for Lifeweaver–the first a control scheme rework, and the second a set of balance-related changes.
The control rework aims to make Lifeweaver feel a little less clunky to play, and will come into play next week. To cut down on clunky time spent swapping between Healing Blossom and Thorn Volley as primary weapons, Thorn Volley will now be Lifeweaver’s alt fire. The auto-reload time on Thorn Volley will be slowed a bit to compensate for the change.
Petal Platform will be replacing Rejuvenating Dash as ability 1, and is cancellable with the same button. Rejuvenating Dash in turn will be changed over to Lifeweaver’s double jump, similar to Hanzo’s Lunge.
Dead by Daylight healing time brought back to normal after player feedback
After some feedback from Dead by Daylight players over a change that meant it took longer to heal, Behaviour Interactive has changed it back to the original length.
Before anything heads out on to the main Dead by Daylight servers, Behaviour Interactive typically tests things on the Public Test Build (PTB). The Tools of Torment Mid-Chapter recently arrived on the PTB, and it introduced a change that increased the base healing time from 16 seconds to 24 seconds, which quickly proved to be controversial. In a blog post, Behaviour noted that it knows changing something like this is “a very touchy subject, so we kept an extra close eye on this change to see how it would play out.”
“After reviewing player feedback, we found that many of you agreed that the speed which you heal others was already in a good spot prior to the update,” Behaviour continued. “This change also had knock-on effects elsewhere in the game, making effects like Mangled and Hemorrhage stronger and making ‘slugging’ (leaving Survivors in the dying state) even more effective. Therefore, we have reverted the base healing time to 16 seconds.”
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Grandpa’s Tales of APPALACHIAN WITCHES, MAGIC, & FOLK HEALING
An Appalachia man describes some of the strange stories that he heard while growing up in the mountains. Tales of witches and other magical occurrences told to him by his Grandpa.
I recently received the following account:
“I have heard you talk about your family folk healing background on your YouTube channel. I thought that I’d share some of the stories that my Grandpa used to tell me.
My dad’s side of the family is Appalachian Mountain folk from North Carolina. All great storytellers. I grew up listening to tales of witches in the mountains and magical things they’d experienced.
Now, when I was young my dad would cut my hair. He’d scoop it up and then go over to the woods. I never questioned why this was until one day my youngest brother got his first haircut. As usual, when my dad was done he’d scoop up the hair like he always did. My Grandpa was there at the time and he would say to make sure to bury it. Dad nodded and went out into the woods. I asked about it and Grandpa said that witches can use your hair to cast spells on you. He said that you’ve got to go out when no one can see you, dig a hole, and bury it. Otherwise, the witches will use it to curse you. Grandpa was surprised that my dad never explained how to tell if a witch made a curse out of your hair. He explains that witches can put spells on bits of human hair to make a person sick or to make them do things occasionally. This will result in a hairball. He describes it as a big tangled wad of hair that just appears from thin air wherever you are.
It sounds crazy, I know. But Grandpa calls my older cousin over to stay with us at the time. He says to my cousin to tell this young lad about the time that you found a hairball. He says that one morning when he was at the breakfast table talking to his brother they were sitting there across from each other when a big wad of hair materialized out of thin air. They watched it appear right in front of their eyes as it floated over like a tumbleweed toward my cousin. He jumped out of his chair. Those ‘witch balls’ can burn your skin he told me. He grabbed a pair of tongs and plucked it out of the air, careful not to touch it. Then he tossed it in the fire. I asked him if anything ever happened after that. He said no. I asked if he had ever been burned by one of those hairballs and he said no but his friend had apparently.
His friend was on his farm one day when he heard a cow in the woods. He was thinking that one of his cows escaped so he went over to bring it back. He followed the sound until he came to a small clearing but there was no cow. Then a bunch of witch balls appear and encircled him. He knew what they were immediately and he took off running. He ran into a few more on his way out and the next day his face, arms, and neck were covered in big burns.
My Grandpa told me to be careful about my hair after that and from then onward I always made sure dad buried my hair if he cut it. I know that it’s probably not a true story or at least there’s some other explanation for it but I still do it myself, you know, just in case he was telling the truth.
There was something else that my Grandpa would talk about. There’s something that happens before some people die. They call it ‘The Knocking.’ Before someone died they’d hear tapping at the front door. The tapping always stopped as soon as someone went to check on it. The next day somebody in that house would be dead. Sometimes only the person who was about to die would hear it, but usually, multiple people would hear it. Apparently, it happened to someone in my family.
One of dad’s cousins was outside with a bunch of friends and family when they all heard someone pounding on the front door of the house. They looked and nobody was there. They figured that maybe one of the kids had gone inside and was playing around, so they got back to talking. Then the pounding started again and my dad’s cousin went over to tell the kids to stop messing around, but nobody was there. He closed the door and began walking toward everybody in the yard when the knocking started again. Again, nobody was there. My Grandpa said everyone got spooked because they all knew that this meant a death in the family would occur. The very next day my dad’s cousin was found dead in his bed with no apparent cause of death.
One more tale my Grandpa would tell. When my dad was growing up there was some woman named Miss Ada who everybody knew was a ‘good witch.’ If people were sick or needed help removing a curse they’d go to Miss Ada.
Grandpa sent dad to Miss Ada’s house one day to help her chop wood. He worked up a sweat and Miss Ada asked if dad would like some milk. He said sure and followed her inside. She checked the fridge but there was nothing in it. She says that she must have run out. She asked dad to help her with something really quick and she’ll get him some milk. Miss Ada grabs a little towel and dad follows her outside. She has this big bundle of sticks tied up next to the house. She grabs the bundle, lays it on a stump, and then covers it with the towel. She asks, ‘Can you chop these sticks for me?’ My dad obliges, only when he brings the axe down the sticks don’t break. Miss Ada removes the towel and lo and behold the bundle of sticks is fine. There’s no damage whatsoever. She then grabs a big pail and sets it at her feet. She takes the towel that she used to cover the bundle of sticks and squeezes. As she rings it out a huge amount of milk comes pouring out of it. She fills up the entire bucket and pours two glasses of fresh milk. My dad takes a sip nervously, then he chugs the entire thing. My dad said it was the sweetest glass of milk that he had ever drunk.” MN
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How to heal in Scorn and recharge your healing tool
If you’re unsure how to heal in Scorn, you’re going to have a bad time. While Scorn does give you a weapon to defend yourself, in true first-person survival horror game fashion, it doesn’t mean you’re less susceptible to taking damage yourself. In fact, dispatching enemies requires you to get up close and personal, making you more vulnerable in the process.
Scorn delivers information to you almost entirely through its environment, including when it comes to the the first puzzle in Scorn and its saw or scoop decision, so we don’t blame you if you’ve already taken a few knocks and don’t know how to heal. If you’re worried about your chances of survival, you’ll be pleased to know there is a way. You can press ‘E’ to heal in Scorn, but whether or not this will heal you depends on whether you’ve actually acquired the ability to heal yet. Read on to find out when you can expect to pick up your healing tool, and how to recharge it once depleted.
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