So how are your games going lately? [megathread]

[CDCSyrup]

It's been absolutely amazing, although that may just be me because I went through hell to be able to play this game.

Like seriously, downloaded the game on my computer "you need a 64 bit operating system" so I couldn't play it because my computer can't run a 64 bit operating system. I didn't have any next gen consoles. However, I had been graduating Middle School that month, so I got enough money to purchase a console.

My 30 year old, jobless, cousin comes upstairs and tells my mom about bundles. FACK. So as I was going to order the thing my mom is like "YA NEED A BUNDLE THEY IS TAKIN OUR MONEY!" I pick The Division bundle and it isn't in stock. I didn't know this until 2 weeks after I said that's the bundle I wanted. The game has been out for a month now.

At this time, my mom breaks up with her boyfriend and finds love in a man named Stephen. Stephen. Is. Awesome.

I'm going to meet him that night and we go out with my mom for dinner. I go back to his car and there is a gift inside. Stephen tells me to open it. And so I did and it was an Xbox One with a copy of Overwatch: Origins Edition. "O EM G" I exclaim. Seriously, the dude hadn't even met me yet.

But it wasn't over. I'm setting up the console (2 hours because I needed to find my Microsoft account that nobody uses) and I put the disc in (2 hour installation process) Finally! BUT NO! It asks if I actually own the game, no. I don't own the disc that is inside you mr. Xbox One! After kicking multiple holes through the box that my Xbox One came inside I go to take the game out. The eject button doesn't work. I HAVE TO TAKE A PAPERCLIP AND PUT IT THROUGH A HOLE IN MY XBOX AND MANUALLY PUSH IT OUT. I put it back in, the game starts up.

It was finally over.

I'm level 27 now, I've played a few competitive matches as my one, my only, Reinhardt. I got enough coins to unlock the Bloodhardt skin today, and it's amazing. I started off playing a lot of Torbjorn and moved to Soldier: 76. But I really like Reinhardt, I REALLY do.

I don't know about you guys, but I can't STAND Ana. Everyone has been playing as her because she's new, but as a support character, she's horrible. At least from what I've seen, most Ana's have been trying to play her like an offense class. Also her character is quite boring, nothing interesting besides the fact that she's Pharah's mom.

EHCK. Other than that, it's been a blast.

[ThatsOurEric]

Dropped to 38 and the game REFUSES to let me get near my old rank again. :/

Also, good lord, so. many. leavers. I feel bad for the other team when it happens to them,
cause god damn do I hate it when it happens to me.

[Kelimbror]

Hit 56 and it's like the game is laughing at me while shitting on me. Haven't had a good match since then. Got knocked down to 53 just to prove I should hate the game. It's like it wants me to quit, but I won't let it tell me what to do!

[Deleted]

This patch has destroyed pharah. disappointing.

[Deleted]

I'm fucking furious with this matchmaking system. I was at 68, when i won games i got around 20-30% to the next rating even with gold medals, clutch plays, potg and whatnot (because who knows what blizzard takes into account for rating changes right) Now, when I lost a game I lost a fucking rating or more (even as the fucking underdog), down to 62 as i'm writing this. Yesterday I got fed up to the point where I won't touch this game for a while. I lost 3 games to coinflip (yay for fucking defense on hollywood) and got put into games (soloqueue) against fucking tviq (86), kryw(85) and another 84 playing as a 3stack. Then a game after that I get put up against Nil (84) and some other dude he played with who was 80+ as well. meanwhile the highest on my team in both cases was fucking 75. Ofc we get completely wrecked as shit and I lost a whole fucking rating in both cases with my team being underdog by around 5 ratings in both cases. I mean what the fuck is this godforsaken matchmaking. After the match against tviq i went onto his stream while waiting to queue again. He found a match after 2 fucking minutes and got sorted against a team that was underdog by 6 points compared to his team. Yeah GG blizzard, better not make people wait a whole fucking 5 minutes to get a somewhat even match. Nah let the pros just steamroll over everyone and THEN better make sure they lose a goddamn rating, cause hey, why not.
The whole "time > everything else" in the matchmaking formula is goddamn cancer atm. The only way I can climb is by playing as a 6stack and even there we get retarded games with 5+ difference in team rating (both ways). The guys I usually play with are fed up with it as well by now and some stopped playing due to the unbalanced mm system in competitive. It's fucking sad, as is the fact that they won't release the formula of how the rating adjustments are calculated. Because we got a whole level up by beating someone who was an underdog to us by 4 lvls and then beat someone as the underdog and get like 20% (and it doesn't matter if we dominate them completely or win in coin flip) the system is utter bullshit atm.

Rant over

[Mordin Solus]

I'm fucking furious with this matchmaking system. I was at 68, when i won games i got around 20-30% to the next rating even with gold medals, clutch plays, potg and whatnot (because who knows what blizzard takes into account for rating changes right) Now, when I lost a game I lost a fucking rating or more (even as the fucking underdog), down to 62 as i'm writing this. Yesterday I got fed up to the point where I won't touch this game for a while. I lost 3 games to coinflip (yay for fucking defense on hollywood) and got put into games (soloqueue) against fucking tviq (86), kryw(85) and another 84 playing as a 3stack. Then a game after that I get put up against Nil (84) and some other dude he played with who was 80+ as well. meanwhile the highest on my team in both cases was fucking 75. Ofc we get completely wrecked as shit and I lost a whole fucking rating in both cases with my team being underdog by around 5 ratings in both cases. I mean what the fuck is this godforsaken matchmaking. After the match against tviq i went onto his stream while waiting to queue again. He found a match after 2 fucking minutes and got sorted against a team that was underdog by 6 points compared to his team. Yeah GG blizzard, better not make people wait a whole fucking 5 minutes to get a somewhat even match. Nah let the pros just steamroll over everyone and THEN better make sure they lose a goddamn rating, cause hey, why not.
The whole "time > everything else" in the matchmaking formula is goddamn cancer atm. The only way I can climb is by playing as a 6stack and even there we get retarded games with 5+ difference in team rating (both ways). The guys I usually play with are fed up with it as well by now and some stopped playing due to the unbalanced mm system in competitive. It's fucking sad, as is the fact that they won't release the formula of how the rating adjustments are calculated. Because we got a whole level up by beating someone who was an underdog to us by 4 lvls and then beat someone as the underdog and get like 20% (and it doesn't matter if we dominate them completely or win in coin flip) the system is utter bullshit atm.

Rant over

when i stated the same thing last week in another post, people told me i was exagerating stuff when i told them i fought against people 15 ranks above when i was 64. guess i'm stilll making that shit up then :P

[Deleted]

I'm having an odd time at the moment. I put about 30 hours into QP before switching to competitive more or less exclusively. At the time, I was used to playing a whole bunch of characters, but a few hours into competitive made me specialise more and more as tank/support due to dps heroes ruining any hope of a decent team comp (I'm ranked in the mid-40's). 42 hours later, 12 of which was spent exclusively as Reinhardt and a decent proportion spent on other tanks or support, I feel so out of practice with defense/offense characters that it feels detrimental switching to them even if it's to counter.

I've switched back to QP for a couple of nights to boost my tracer/genji skills but goddamn, it's a shit show. It's a good job I'm not playing to win because it looks like nobody else on my team is either 9 out of 10 games.

[Zelendria]

Especially since competitive was added QM is just a practise area.
I'll play anything in comp to win, and usually last pick, but if I'm joining a QM it's to practise something. So what my team picks makes absolutely no difference to what I'm about to pick. If I'm joining with the intention of practising McCree, and someone is insta locking McCree there will be two of them in a minute.

[anon5123]

I can actually play Zenyatta now that he doesn't die in 2 hits from anything.

Feels good, man.

[DeadmanWalking]

I think they need to up the punishment for leavers of matches. You may not be winning but be a big boy and just see it out. Maybe a 15 min queue bad would work. Maybe an auto loss of a rank, maybe both. I'm not talking DC, I am talking Escape, -> leave game -> are you sure? -> yes.

[CDCSyrup]

Today has sucked for me, 0-7. 0 - 7. EHCK!!!

[Slant]

Be on fire 90% of the game as Lucio, no problem. Get gold in healing + objective time, no problem. Losing an entire rank after a lost game in one go, no problem. Bust your ass off to win the next game, get 10% of a rank. Yeah, fuck this...

[ati87]

Up to rank 50, started from rank 42 and got as low as 37 at some point.

Honestly biggest change has been that I started playing more tanks and specifically more D.VA since the patch hit. Pre patch I ended up usually going Lucio or Soldier/Reaper and do well enough with a good team but every match that I had a decent team I got 3 crappy teams the next match.

[Sevyvia]

Most Mercy's whine when they're playing cat and mouse with Tracer and Genji for half the game and no one helps. There is nothing more frustrating to flying to an ally, dance around them with Tracer on your heels and watch them(ally) waddle off into the sunset. It frustrates me to no freaking end.

Though I wouldn't have used the word whine, this is pretty much what I meant a few pages back. I don't think any half-decent Mercy expects to be babysat. Part of playing her is to be effective while still avoiding the people going for you. But there will come times when the situation calls for someone to help. And even when you fly to them, sometimes even when you fly to a group of them, no one does a thing. And then they wonder why we didn't take the point after their Mercy heals, buffs and resses, while I'm running back. After playing cat and mouse with a rotating cast of 3-4 enemy heroes for 30 seconds beforehand.

[Qrio]

Quite surprisingly I enjoy the game a lot so far. I've never actually liked FPS games, but Overwatch is fun and I'm spending more & more time lately playing it compared to the (usual) WoW I've been playing for the last decade.

I also believe a system needs to be put in place for leavers (not DCs, just leavers) to punish them harshly so they think twice before doing so. Basically destroys the match for the particular team, unless: a) they get their shit together and outclass the opponents quite substantially or b) the opposing team gets cocky, loses team spirit and starts going for stupid plays, which in turn goes into a demoralizing loss. Also really hate players that just don't care. Yesterday I had a kid stop playing in round 2 (attack round) because he was doing quite badly as Widow on defense and we asked him to swap to something more useful and help us out (we only needed to capture point A for a win). His response? "Screw you, I'm not going to bother, you demoralized me. I'll punish you for criticizing me", picked Torbjorn and stayed in the base.

Mostly playing Lucio (9 games out of 10), Soldier, Junkrat (when needed) or worst case - Winston/Roadhog. Lower brackets actually don't represent the potential Overwatch has. If a player judges their experience solely on that, it'll be a mxed bag - between the lack of teamwork, leavers, people playing solo, not communicating and just plain acting as kids it's not a pleasant experience. Higher brackets though this changes and turns Overwatch into a much more pleasant game.

[Deleted]

Im not playing it at all, i bought it because of all the hype but i was dissapointed in it, honestly wish i could have just returned it but i really want the wings for diablo 3

For competitive shooter games i prefer CS:GO , no game can really beat the team play and individual skill of that game.

Overwatch i just a fancy looking TF2 basically, it has some different heroes and stuff ofc but overall i dont think Overwatch is better then TF2

[Tenris]

Currently rank 58 really enjoying playing the game, especially the one hero limit in competitive that was such a good call. Currently sat at 54.5% winrate in quick play too. I wish Blizz would finally decide what they want to do with Mcree, every single patch he gets an update of some sort.

[Zelendria]

He's edging more towards his description of being an anti flanker. Right click is hopefully worth using again which is good because the ability is fun to use, but still won't decimate tanks. All the while without being OP or horrific outside of close range.
Anyone used him since?

[Airlick]

Getting more and more sick of the game. I'm thinking I'll be dropping it very soon if I don't decide to find a premade instead. It's literally unplayable. I was at 58 rating 3 days ago. Now I'm at 51, and that's after crawling up from 49. Every time (literally every time, except of extremely rare situations when I stop giving a single fuck about the game and just go AFK or start running around the map Benny Hill style, when there's not a 00,01% chance of winning, usually when my team has a quitter or a troll) I play DPS, I top damage. Every time I play support, I top healing - talking obviously about dual healer situations, not when I'm solo healing. Hell, I usually end up gold or silver damage as tanks. I don't get PotG very often, since I don't really play flash heroes like Genji or Reaper.

This is still not enough to carry my teams enough to get to a high enough rating where I would be an average part of the team, not far-above average. I have seen absolutely no difference in skill level between 58 and 49 rating. People are equally useless. Picking stupid heroes, refusing to adapt, flaming, quitting... they do it all. This is really getting on my nerves already and I stopped feeling any sort of satisfaction when I win games. I just know that the outcome was decided before the game even loaded. Either my team or the other team would be composed of absolutely worthless idiots who will pose zero threat to the opponents. I just don't know what to do at this point, but it really does feel that it's a choice between finding a premade and quitting the game. I might break my screen at some point if I keep playing solo. The worst part is that I actually think I played much worse when I hit 58 rating than when I was dropping to 49. It just didn't matter what I did in my games, there would always be something that ruined them, or I would get carried no matter what I did when I dropped too far. This system is just bullshit.

[Jester Joe]

I'm honestly curious as to how many people here play on the console, because this might just be anecdotal, but from my experience, on the PC while there was trash talking at some points, everyone at least tried to pick a balanced team (as in, if we have no healers yet, last person will pick a healer), yet I watched my friend play on the PS4 and literally every single match would have like 2-3 McCrees/Soldiers on defense, no healers or tank, people just spam picking their character as like a "I have them picked pick another" type of thing.

And then to top it off, of course the PS4 has no chat option aside from mics, so even the little communication the PC has is gone completely.