So how are your games going lately? [megathread]

[Advent]

You need to learn to read then, because nowhere in that post did I say making mistakes
constituted deserving of a ban, nor have I ever.

Eh, I may have exaggerated on part about mistakes. Fair enough, I don't want to hunt down posts to try and prove it, anyway.

The entire point of the game, even fucking JEFF KAPLAN himself, has stated that you actually do NOT
want to just play one hero. That switching comps is the entire point of the game, hence why they never
made it so that once you pick a hero you're stuck with them.

I'd argue that's the Overwatch team grossly overestimating how attached people get to certain play styles than people intentionally going against the point of the game.

Someone who one tricks does no one, especially not their team any favors. Because once that person
gets hard countered, they become an immediate detriment and handicap to the team. So if they lose,
that person was most likely the cause. Immediately picking a hero and then refusing to acquiesce to
your team if they ask nicely for you to swap, is not being a team player. It's being a selfish prick.

I've actually refused to swap to a different hero in comp myself. It's not always being selfish; in fact outside of one tricking (Which is again not even against the rules, Blizzard's inconsistent rules aside) it's often because the people who ask are not asking nicely. They're angry and looking for someone to blame. It's far easier to assign blame to everyone else than it is to check one's ego at the door and do some introspection mid-game. Hell, I've been guilty of it myself before. On the other hand, most of my experience comes from people asking me to swap to a different support hero, from Mercy or Moira/Brigitte to Ana/Lucio or Zen. I cannot play those heroes, and you do not want me being a wet noodle floundering around and doing literally nothing because I can't hit anything. I tried, I can't do it. I imagine others feel the same, and are probably tired of having to hear/see people ask.

Now I don't know why apustus got banned, but if he was doing any of the above, which would mean
not being a team player and being a selfish tool, then yes, said poster deserves the ban. OW is a team
based game. You don't wanna be a team player, then get out and play something else. Simple as that.

I'm not sure this applies, but I always believe that Overwatch competitive should never have released. But since it did, the dev team did both the players and themselves a disservice by not making six-stacks a requirement. I can think of several hot button topics over the years that would have been solved if people played in regular teams. But being a team player doesn't mean bowing to your team because they said so, no one on your team knows your capabilities better than you do. If someone asked me to play something I can't, I'm probably not going to do so because I know what I'm capable of. They don't.

[Kharadin]

It happened just now, silver on dps AND tank. They played so stupid that it was impossible to win. Mccree does high noon and I put up field on baptiste and they just goes out of the field and died instead of staying in it.

Silver's gonna silver.

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On top of the whole not switching because you're better on certain heroes thing, also bear in mind that it's entirely okay just to disagree with whoever thinks you should switch. I can usually tell when I'm making no impact or doing no work and will switch of my own accord if I feel it's appropriate.

I don't see why people in the same SR bracket as me think for some reason that their opinion is more valid than anyone else's in the match, if someone wants me to switch and I don't want to, whelp, guess you're shit out of luck because I'm the one behind this keyboard.

[Freighter]

I'm not sure this applies, but I always believe that Overwatch competitive should never have released. But since it did, the dev team did both the players and themselves a disservice by not making six-stacks a requirement.

The mode would have been dead at launch. Very few have 5 others to play with every time they want to play. I don't want to be confined to specific times when everyone I play with can play and even then, people would be dropping out and we'd be unable to play again. I want to be able to play when I want to, not when others can and want to as a group.

[ThatsOurEric]

You have a very selective memory.

No it's all right there. You clearly must have dementia or some form of Alzheimer's if you don't remember
your flame posts.

It's also interesting that you'd assert it's impossible to climb solo especially as heal/tank and then refuse the advice
of someone who consistently does that "impossible" feat.

In my experience it is, but who is this person you're referring to? You? The only person who has directly offered
advice is you, and considering how toxic you are, it is 100% unwelcome, and because it's coming from you, I
wouldn't believe anything you say.

It's also more interesting that you'd go on, in the same post, to assert a healer is most likely throwing
by picking Brig with no other contextual information.

I know reading isn't your strong suit, and that it must be very hard for you, but nowhere did I say that
playing Brig was the sole reason for the ban, nor did I say playing as that hero merited one. How he
chose to play her, and his attitude in the game and playing her, if negatively and selfishly, yes, merits
a ban.

Furthermore, you completely glossed over Freighter, who also doubted that said poster was banned for just
playing Brig.

I love your posts.

I know, you're mesmerized at the mental gymnastics I run around you.

I wouldn't even take it that far. I can play whatever hero I want, if that means I'm more likely to lose then fuck it, that's on me. OW players need to stop being authoritarian dickwads.

Here's an attitude of someone who has no business playing a team game. ^

I'd argue that's the Overwatch team grossly overestimating how attached people get to certain play styles than people intentionally going against the point of the game.

Okay, I can see that being a fair assessment.

I've actually refused to swap to a different hero in comp myself. It's not always being selfish; in fact outside of one tricking (Which is again not even against the rules, Blizzard's inconsistent rules aside) it's often because the people who ask are not asking nicely. They're angry and looking for someone to blame. It's far easier to assign blame to everyone else than it is to check one's ego at the door and do some introspection mid-game. Hell, I've been guilty of it myself before. On the other hand, most of my experience comes from people asking me to swap to a different support hero, from Mercy or Moira/Brigitte to Ana/Lucio or Zen. I cannot play those heroes, and you do not want me being a wet noodle floundering around and doing literally nothing because I can't hit anything. I tried, I can't do it. I imagine others feel the same, and are probably tired of having to hear/see people ask.

Okay, perhaps saying it is always a selfish act is a bit overzealous. And I can see someone refusing to do so
if asked aggressively by some asshole. And yes, if you're bad with certain heroes, and you're asked if you
could play them, I'd say you should communicate with the team by saying you aren't that good with them.

However, it's still not great to one trick. That really benefits no one and is against the core mechanics of
the game.

I'm not sure this applies, but I always believe that Overwatch competitive should never have released. But since it did, the dev team did both the players and themselves a disservice by not making six-stacks a requirement. I can think of several hot button topics over the years that would have been solved if people played in regular teams. But being a team player doesn't mean bowing to your team because they said so, no one on your team knows your capabilities better than you do. If someone asked me to play something I can't, I'm probably not going to do so because I know what I'm capable of. They don't.

100% agree.

[Kharadin]

In my experience it is, but who is this person you're referring to? You? The only person who has directly offered
advice is you, and considering how toxic you are, it is 100% unwelcome, and because it's coming from you, I
wouldn't believe anything you say.

Of course, because believing me would ruin your lifelong narrative of "I'm not the problem, it's everyone else!".

I know reading isn't your strong suit, and that it must be very hard for you, but nowhere did I say that
playing Brig was the sole reason for the ban, nor did I say playing as that hero merited one. How he
chose to play her, and his attitude in the game and playing her, if negatively and selfishly, yes, merits
a ban.

Indeed, in your opinion you must do exactly what your team asks otherwise you're selfish. Because your team is some omniscient being with perfect understanding of the game and they'd never ask you to do something stupid, right?

mental gymnastics

I'll just leave this here. Mental gymnastics indeed.

Here's an attitude of someone who has no business playing a team game. ^

Don't be upset, remember attitudes like mine help you justify blaming your team for keeping you hardstuck in gold.

[ThatsOurEric]

Of course, because believing me would ruin your lifelong narrative of "I'm not the problem, it's everyone else!".

No you don't understand (as per usual).

No one wants advice from another person who has been nothing short of toxic towards them.

Therego even if you were #1 in Overwatch, because you're toxic, I would never want any advice
from you.

Since you seem so desperate for my attention, be less toxic, and maybe I'll be your friend. How's that?

Indeed, in your opinion you must do exactly what your team asks otherwise you're selfish. Because your team
is some omniscient being with perfect understanding of the game and they'd never ask you to do something stupid,
right?

In most circumstances, it's better to work with the group than to go in with a "my way and to hell with anyone else"
attitude. That's already being detrimental.

No, the team isn't always correct. But I'm mostly talking about instalockers who say, will go Torb on attack in a map
that doesn't favor him, against a comp that heavily counters him, and when asked nicely to pick a different hero,
said player is a selfish prick who doesn't help the team.

I'll just leave this here. Mental gymnastics indeed.

It's best you do, I've embarrassed you enough.

remember attitudes like mine justify keeping people hardstuck

At least you're admitting to being the problem!

[Kharadin]

Since you seem so desperate for my attention, be less toxic, and maybe I'll be your friend. How's that?

Not quite, you're merely making the posts I fundamentally disagree with and thus am compelled to voice such disagreement. Bear in mind I believe your attitude to be far more toxic than the rude words you seem so offended by. But it's okay, I'll stop calling you names and just stick with the disagreement so we might stay a little more on topic.

In most circumstances, it's better to work with the group than to go in with a "my way and to hell with anyone else"
attitude. That's already being detrimental.

Sure, we can agree there. My only gripe being that the moment one person says "x you should switch" usually leads to a bandwagon effect because people want to blame someone. If that happens, I'd sooner dip out of comms than cooperate with asshats, whether or not that contributes to a loss rather than a win is immaterial to me. Fun is more important than the ego of asshats.

At least you're admitting to being the problem!

Mental gymnastics/10

I'm interested in what you meant when you amended that quote of mine though. "Attitudes like mine justify keeping people hardstuck"? So, if you percieve someone as toxic then they should be hardstuck?

[ThatsOurEric]

Sure, we can agree there. My only gripe being that the moment one person says "x you should switch" usually leads to a bandwagon effect because people want to blame someone. If that happens, I'd sooner dip out of comms than cooperate with asshats, whether or not that contributes to a loss rather than a win is immaterial to me. Fun is more important than the ego of asshats.

Unless the entire team goes full jackass on you, it's never okay to throw a game because of one asshole. I've had
teammates shit on someone, only to tell them to shut up and then ask said person nicely if they could, as it would
help out a lot, blah blah blah. If they still don't, well that sucks, but I don't go off on them. Sometimes being asked
nicely works and they do, and lo and behold, the game changed because of it.

[Kharadin]

Unless the entire team goes full jackass on you, it's never okay to throw a game because of one asshole. I've had
teammates shit on someone, only to tell them to shut up and then ask said person nicely if they could, as it would
help out a lot, blah blah blah. If they still don't, well that sucks, but I don't go off on them. Sometimes being asked
nicely works and they do, and lo and behold, the game changed because of it.

Hence my mentioning of the bandwagon occurring. If one person's being an asshole it's an easy mute but if I'm doing work/having impact and several people demand I switch because they don't know how to identify the problems they're having then that's when I dip the fuck out.

Though I don't agree that dropping comms is throwing, more often than not comms isn't being used constructively anyway and if dropping comms means I'm not being pestered incessantly chances are I will perform better, too. If other people are getting tilted because they think I should switch and thus performing poorly themselves, that's on them.

[Advent]

Though I don't agree that dropping comms is throwing, more often than not comms isn't being used constructively anyway and if dropping comms means I'm not being pestered incessantly chances are I will perform better, too. If other people are getting tilted because they think I should switch and thus performing poorly themselves, that's on them.

Yeah, I tried voice chat a few times, and I play worse with it. It's not useful at my rank, and is incredibly distracting. So I don't join anymore; it's not worth making me play worse just to hear people whining. I can whine just fine on my own.

[Freighter]

Yeah, I tried voice chat a few times, and I play worse with it. It's not useful at my rank, and is incredibly distracting. So I don't join anymore; it's not worth making me play worse just to hear people whining. I can whine just fine on my own.

Guess you didn't listen to the soundclip I uploaded some time ago. I got an ulti off on mei but died and people just seemed to ignore it and I was telling them to kill them. Zenyatta on the team starts screaming I was walled off you fucking idiot or something like it on voice.

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

So just did my placements for all 3 roles.

I got:
Damage: 2785
Support: 2558
Tank: 2268

During the old system I would most of the time play support, but maybe I should play dps to get higher ranking?

[Kharadin]

Yeah, I tried voice chat a few times, and I play worse with it. It's not useful at my rank, and is incredibly distracting. So I don't join anymore; it's not worth making me play worse just to hear people whining. I can whine just fine on my own.

Legit. I've found that playing in a duo though that vc for some reason immediately becomes useful most of the time, people start calling and shit. Though this is around 2800SR or so.

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So just did my placements for all 3 roles.

I got:
Damage: 2785
Support: 2558
Tank: 2268

During the old system I would most of the time play support, but maybe I should play dps to get higher ranking?

I have a feeling your off-roles MMR are initialized near your main SR, since the old system didn't look at roles at all it starts you off where it think you might be, so if this is your first foray into role-queue take this all with a grain of salt. My DPS SR started at 2900 and tanked the immediately down to 2000 or so until I'd practiced a little and brought it back up.

[crusadernero]

Im seeing a bigger and bigger trend of people playing tank/healer(mostly tanks) without the intention of being a tank that fits enemy comp. Mainly its both tanks refusing to play any shieldtank whatsoever.

Last game I was in a team like this were the enemy had a junkrat & soldier. Our tanks? Zarya/hog & hamster. Refused to pick shieldtank.

Why? Shield tank is boring. Queue is long as dps, so they pick tank to play "dps tanks", and "relax its just a game".

I get it, its just a game. But in comp? come on, atleast try to adapt to yours and the enemy team.

[Thirza]

Why? Shield tank is boring. Queue is long as dps, so they pick tank to play "dps tanks", and "relax its just a game".

I get it, its just a game. But in comp? come on, atleast try to adapt to yours and the enemy team.

They made sigma's shield feel so clunky, I mean I get it. The no shield shit stops in high masters so better just get used to most tanks being unwilling imo.

2/2/2 is shit, every game feels the same and like a grind, healers are the least impactful they have ever been to a match outcome, the team with the best tank + 1 good DPS wins.
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One tricking Zen on healer role just under GM and people screech and whine about the pick regardless of how well you do, the slightest thing goes wrong they blame you for playing off meta and swear up and down they will avoid you, when they lose to you in the next game, even if you won one one with them before they moan that you were carried.

This community is terrible, it is a hungry piranha swarm with severe insecurity.

[Eapoe]

Things I’ve come to hate:
Seeing Mercy on my team.
Seeing DVa on my team.
Watching my teams Junkrat get out played by the enemy team Junkrat.
Watching the enemy team walk forward thru our tanks shield nonstop as my team can’t seem to kill anything.
Outhealing Moira as Ana or Mercy. Unless you have a lot of flankers this is next to impossible. That or I get some of the worst healers playing with me when I am Moira as I outheal all of them.
Things I still enjoy:
Not seeing 6 damage in comp is okay.

[Eapoe]

Think I’m taking a break for a few weeks. New season is off to a bad start. 1 DC followed by 8 losses and 1 win. Keep getting Genji’s and DVa’s that get hard countered or have no idea how to play. Meanwhile, I get a Torb on my team that walks into the enemy team like he’s playing Rein with shield up and then complains he gets no healing even though we focus him.

[A Princess From Norway]

I hadn't played in a while due to Modern Warfare (which a. i suck at and b. my bf is making me play) released, but i took a break from that to get back to Overwatch for the new season (yay for placing in Gold again). So how have my games being going ? Other then usual "go back to your kitchen" and "show bobs and vegana" (which frankly i have not because Im trans lol), they have been going pretty good! I'm trying Moira finally (and i say finally because i've always been afraid to play ranked with anything but Mercy). I'm getting so many kills with the damage orb it's insane! And i'm topping the healing medals so easier. The only thing i don't enjoy that much is the ult she has but oh well! She is so powerful it's scary sometimes. Im now at 2200 and trying to reach Plat again after so long. Wish me luck lol.

[Natta Lmo]

played my placements... 2738 support... 2941 tank...

[Freighter]

This game is just becoming impossible to play. They need to fix the rating system so there isn't such huge disparate level of skill at the same SR. Rein on my team claims his shield was out(but it wasn't) and thus he was swinging. I knew he had it and called him out on it and he went off on a huge sexist rant at me for it. Checked replay later. Yep, he had the shield but he was swinging and the enemy team got 2 picks due to it and we lost the last fight.

Either he was throwing or he was genuinely so bad that he doesn't notice that his shield is back.