Something wrong with potg

[Nilinor]

The play of the game I liked most was watching as our mercy killed 3 people, got her 99-100% ult, activated and rezzed 4 people to cap a point.

It was pretty damn sexy.

But for every 1 of those, there are 10 that are like "eh..."

[Jester Joe]

There's a lot more than just damage/killing blows going into potg calculations. Stopping ults nets you a massive amount of "points" towards it. Not to mention that doing so later in the game, or on the objective is also worth more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef1tKJaK-yU does a better job of explaining it than I did

Yep, this is why Bastion killing himself during his ult can net him PotG, because it's considered a "Shutdown" (Usually it will tell you near the bottom of the screen what kind of PotG it is).
https://gfycat.com/LegitimateDistantFulmar

[Tharkkun]

Most people fail to see the descriptive text on potg like these. It was probably labeled as a shutdown on the intro screen.

I've never noticed that. I'll have to look for the text tonight.

[Jester Joe]

I've never noticed that. I'll have to look for the text tonight.

If you look at the short video I posted, you'll see it at the very start, around Bastion's waist area.

[DOUBLEXBAUGH]

My best/worst is I was Torb with a full scrap bar and a Reinhardt kept knocking me into a corner while I spammed armor packs to keep me alive. My turret took part in 4 kills including the Reinhardt, but it was just me staring at a wall getting beat on lol

[xerus]

I've never noticed that. I'll have to look for the text tonight.

Only the non standard ones have them and they are fairly rare. There are things like sharpshooter, shutdown, lifesaver, etc. Most people never seem to notice the type on these and start ranting in chat.

[jackofwind]

Before I read this thread I thought play of the game only showed YOUR personal play of the game I guess I've just gotten every single play of the game since launch?

huehuehuehue

[Tharkkun]

Only the non standard ones have them and they are fairly rare. There are things like sharpshooter, shutdown, lifesaver, etc. Most people never seem to notice the type on these and start ranting in chat.

Yeah I played 7 games last night and didn't notice it once so it must be very rare.

[Adam Jensen]

PotG and Highlights are very often ludicrous or underwhelming.

When its Torb, nine times out of ten, he's scratching his ass while his turret is making offscreen kills. And I've had plenty of highlights/PotG where its just like one or two kills and there were better plays elsewhere.

Like I was watching one of my Tracer highlights and it was me stickying one guy. One death from a sticky. Wow. Not.

[Kalmakk]

I think the game needs to figure out a way to rank shield absorb damage higher. Had a potg yesterday when i was on reinhardt that a pharah got for pressing Q and killing 2 people. What it didnt factor in is that 4 people were hiding behind my shield for it and survived because of it. Charged and killed the Pharah after, too.

I know Jeff as said they're working internally on ways to improve the POTG algorithm, and find better ways to present them (Aardvark toblerone I'm looking at you) so fingers crossed.

[FelPlague]

Bonus points=
Ult shutdown
kills as a support
kills on a objective
killstreak shutdowns
killing somone who is about to kill a ally


also you get more "points" towards play of the game near the end, as the end of a match is where its more important then the start

and play of the games can be

Lots of damage done
Ult shutdowns
Point defence
killing people from far away
saving somone from death by healing them, or killing the person about to kill them


so sometimes it seems shitty but you may not know

for example your examples maybe they killed somone who was shooting a low health ally, or about to use their ults, or had massive kill streaks, or were on objectives


3 kills of people who are on killstreaks about to capture the final point as a mercy= more likely to get PotG then 5 kills at the start of a game by a bastion

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I don't think it's broken. Stupid PotG tend to happen in games where nothing interesting occurs, which you do see occasionally.

Lately all my PotG except one have been really dumb shit. Like, dumb enough that I appologise to everyone when it plays.

I got one two days ago for just randomly spraying bullets as Bastion

(me)

I killed two people in the play, although I think one was McCree doing his ult. I also hit some buildings, [reload] the post in front of me, tickled another player [reload], the waiting payload, and probably my own teammates [reload] if there was friendly fire. I'm not sure if the other team thought I was just terrible and blind, or some kind of supervillian just cackling maniacally while I rained bullets in all directions, but it definitely was an embarrassing thing to get caught on PotG.

We absolutely stomped them, though,and it was a short match with no team kills because they were just running into us to die one by one over and over again. So, I guess my two kills in a row was the most exciting thing that happened that game.

And yeah, as other people said, if you interrupt ults or do some kind of environmental damage (knocking people off world, etc), the game values it higher for PotG.

not as embaressing as me getting a 6 player kill on the final point, me last person alive, molten cored, where my turret got all the kills, well i miss every single shot on them :P i got ripped so hard "36 shots and you couldent land one!?"

[Darththeo]

My first PotG was as Symmetra and I literally died and watched my turrets kill three people. It was funny.

I don't think much of the play of the game, unless it isn't either stupidly boring/bland. I saw a Genji play of the game where he killed just two people with his regular attacks.

[Temp name]

Yep, this is why Bastion killing himself during his ult can net him PotG, because it's considered a "Shutdown" (Usually it will tell you near the bottom of the screen what kind of PotG it is).
https://gfycat.com/LegitimateDistantFulmar

Oh that is amazing!

[Charge me Doctor]

There's a lot more than just damage/killing blows going into potg calculations. Stopping ults nets you a massive amount of "points" towards it. Not to mention that doing so later in the game, or on the objective is also worth more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef1tKJaK-yU does a better job of explaining it than I did

Agree. There was potg of me, literally running circles around payload from enemy team, holding overtime, waiting for my team to respawn as 5 winstons (yeah, defenders advantage is seriously OPed, being able to switch into shit like that while overtime is running is ridiculous). Then everyone went "omg wtf was that potg lol"

On the other hand - i've got potg as Zenyatta for shutting down Mccree ult and Phara ult in short succession. Literally, as i threw discord orb at Phara, she flies into the air, pops ult, gets two headshots and dies. In a split second i hear Mccree ult, discord him, and he dies in a second,

[Battlebeard]

I don't think you should be able to get POTG with your ultimate active.

Feels like 99% of all POTG is either Junkrat or Hanzo wiping the other team with their ultimates.

[Jessicka]

I don't think you should be able to get POTG with your ultimate active.

Feels like 99% of all POTG is either Junkrat or Hanzo wiping the other team with their ultimates.

If that were the case, then 99% would be Torbjorn either lying dead or running around aimlessly, or Bastion. Would those really be an improvement?

[Temp name]

If that were the case, then 99% would be Torbjorn either lying dead or running around aimlessly, or Bastion. Would those really be an improvement?

I think they just need to overhaul the entire system. Watching a Bastion hold left-click for 3 seconds isn't very fun, watching a Torbjörn be dead and get 3 kills isn't fun, watching Hanzo use ult and run behind a wall, getting 4 kills isn't fun.

Then again, getting an automated system to pick "fun to watch" moments would be stupidly hard and I'm not sure it's worth all the work they'd have to put in to make it work, even if I'd very much like it if they did.

[Jessicka]

I think they just need to overhaul the entire system. Watching a Bastion hold left-click for 3 seconds isn't very fun, watching a Torbjörn be dead and get 3 kills isn't fun, watching Hanzo use ult and run behind a wall, getting 4 kills isn't fun.

Then again, getting an automated system to pick "fun to watch" moments would be stupidly hard and I'm not sure it's worth all the work they'd have to put in to make it work, even if I'd very much like it if they did.

It's true, although let's be honest, some are also well worth the watch. I'm quite sure they'll refine it down the line.

[Temp name]

It's true, although let's be honest, some are also well worth the watch. I'm quite sure they'll refine it down the line.

There are of course some that are pretty nice to watch (Tracer doing a nice stick) but most aren't when they're ults

[Eldonia]

I've had a few PoTG's in the last few days that didn't make any sense. Bastion on top of a payload not shooting just looking around got it once. Everyone was very confused on that one. I guess for Objective time maybe? It was weird. I had a torb play of the game where it started with me respawning and then my turret died without killing anyone. It was a PoTG for the dwarf shuffle I guess. I have been noticing more non-ult PoTG's over the last week though, maybe something changed behind the scenes there?