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Overwatch |OT4| You Want A Good Genji, But You Need The Bad Hanzo
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orthodoxy1095
Banned
Forerunner
Member
Went 4-4 today and finally broke 55. I'm making progress slowly but surely.
Hmm I wonder if we were in the same matches, wasn't by chance a double Bastion the last round was there?
Vault Dweller 111
Member
Is competitive actually supposed to be a ranking of personal skill? That is laughable. It doesn't make a damn bit of difference if I have four gold medals and it's a loss. Why is it not possible to not lose/gain rank on a loss?
Actually this makes no sense, whats the point of seasons then? Especially when its realeased as a buggy mess?
orthodoxy1095
Banned
ok cool. i might finally play it this week. was busy with ZTD.
Jesus christ playing competitive is gonna make me break the screen. My teammates are a bunch of idiots. I had to turn on my mic and tell them why the fuck do we need two hanzos and two lucios (I was lucio first and then one of them picked him in the second round) on a control map. This is on PS4.
We did win though. So far I have 2 losses and 3 wins with those 3 being a streak.
We did win though. So far I have 2 losses and 3 wins with those 3 being a streak.
I don't recall a double Bastion but maybe that happened near the end of the last round and I just didn't notice. If there was a "terrible" in the lobby there's an ok chance it was me if you're playing on PC.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Spontaneous art will always be my favorite.My top contribution as Mercy.
I love MOBAs. Played both League and Dota 2.
I don't know if this is just because this is the new state of consoles, but there's just a lack of communication that seems new.
For all the shit that online games get for toxic communities and conversations, I managed to have some good experiences over the years. When I was starting League and Dota, strangers helped me make and learn my picks. When I played Planetside 2, I met a nice group, became part of an outfit and got tons of great feedback and such. I remember playing Battlefield Bad Company 1 and 2 and hearing fairly regular and fairly helpful communication/updates over the audio chat.
Here? Radio silence. Everywhere. It's awful. No one talks, and everyone seems to ignore me if I bother to say anything.
I thought I read in the game menu that placements reset each season.
Fallout Phoenix
Member
sigh
Ever since Lockdown was fixed I've been on a massive Capture defense losing streak. Every game mode I'm fine but when I get maps with that objective everything goes south real quick.
Ever since Lockdown was fixed I've been on a massive Capture defense losing streak. Every game mode I'm fine but when I get maps with that objective everything goes south real quick.
Experienced a bunch of toxic players today, usually things are pretty civil. It's kind of funny when the guy complaining the team sucks did nothing remarkable the whole game, and I know at least on person other than him wasn't totally useless because I'm sitting on gold medals and POTM. Actually, that game in particular it was actually pretty close in the end. We lost in sudden death.
Had another game where a guy got pissed at us for "not going on the point" that had 2 turrets and a Bastion on inside corners, as well as a good Zenyata and Reinhardt locking down the defense, and a Pharah on the prowl for anyone getting close. I felt like our team was playing pretty good overall, all things considered, we were just struggling to push past a strong defensive team. We won in the end, after a last strong push that wiped most of their team.
Had a few cases of players swearing back and forth in chat. Usually it's not like this, from my experience. First time I've reported somebody, kept calling people "fucking retards".
Had another game where a guy got pissed at us for "not going on the point" that had 2 turrets and a Bastion on inside corners, as well as a good Zenyata and Reinhardt locking down the defense, and a Pharah on the prowl for anyone getting close. I felt like our team was playing pretty good overall, all things considered, we were just struggling to push past a strong defensive team. We won in the end, after a last strong push that wiped most of their team.
Had a few cases of players swearing back and forth in chat. Usually it's not like this, from my experience. First time I've reported somebody, kept calling people "fucking retards".
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
If it takes Blizzard a few seasons to work the kinks out of competitive, how much of the player base will have moved on by then I wonder. Even in mid to late June, there were plenty of folks here saying that they were getting bored and putting OW on the back burner until competitive. If competitive takes 2-3 seasons to get to the point where things are pretty okay, I wonder how the player base will look by then. As it stands now, it seems to be leaving a bad taste in most people's mouths. Is Blizzard running the risk of irreparably damaging the game's reputation with the state of competitive / people's opinions of it?
Same. I never liked it, but now I REALLY do not like it.
veloxStrix
Banned
I kinda wish this game had more modes. Now that Comp is out, I really enjoy playing Comp maps and modes. But when I go back to fluff around in Quick Play, it all feels wrong.
I want Capture the Flag. And Team Doubles. Make it happen, Blizzbois.
I want Capture the Flag. And Team Doubles. Make it happen, Blizzbois.
I almost think a capture the Doomfist could work. One player carries the doomfist giving them a new set of abilities and a fixed hp. Then you have to escort that player back or some shit like that.
Depends, with holiday games if there's still major issues for season 2, I think thats it. I know personally with DQ7 FF15 and some others games, I most likely will get fed up with this if they dont knuckle down on things.
Its not like Destiny where you actually get new weapons and raids as bait. The only thing that cones close would be new characters. We'll see if they realease characters as a reaction to players leaving by how buggy or messy they are on release I guess.
The faithful will be there like all games however they really need to get a grip on alot of this before fall. Idk PC but on console they are up against a BF1 Titanfall 2 and a new CoD. That's just shooters. Some of the talk about what's coming down the pipeline isn't reassuring.
AnotherNils
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Both teams delivered the payload. Defense was the weaker position. Further evidenced by the fact we got it within a few feet of the destination in overtime. We would not have fared better on defense.
It always pleases me when they try (along with D. Va's defense matrix)All these Genjis trying to reflect Symmetra's beams
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This games matchmaking is gonna give me an aneurysm. Leave ranked to do some quickplay so we can stress less, we get matched up with some team that, when looking at their ratings, clearly outmatches us. And when we lose to them twice in a row what happens? We get put against them for two more attempts. Here's a hint for matchmaking: If the team that's supposed to win does so on offense and defense, it's time to reinstance the losing team. Not subject them to some Pharah aimbot that is making them regret they were ever born.
Edit: I'll try and upload the ranked GAF v GAF match tomorrow. I apologize beforehand that my gameplay is not very good.
I'll be honest a lot of times it's just habit. And then a realization right after that I messed up.
Dead Prince
Banned
when youre sober enough to play rank before bed. 
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
I've never used Battle.net except to meet up with a friend in Diablo 3. So all the friends on the list are IRL and online peeps that I've played OW.
10 friends. 8 of them have been offline for more than a week.
Me, personally? I was singing this game's praises from the rooftops on week one and two. I was having so much damn fun.
But like I've bitched about earlier - the community and matchmaking, mixed with the lack of content and shit progression system - has definitely soured my opinion.
I can see myself keeping it installed and hopping on for an hour or so every week or two. But if you had asked me a few weeks ago, I would have told you I could see myself playing OW almost exclusively for the rest of the year.
So yes, I think the population is going to drop pretty severely - and that's a surprise to me, because I didn't feel that way at all just a short while ago.
MarioHead3
Banned
I seriously don't understand why people get so heated with this game. Maybe it's because I've only had like 3 hours of sleep in the last 24 hours, but playing tonight I just couldn't bring myself to get legitimately upset at a video game while the rest of my team was rapidly losing their sanity.
I think this sums up my feelings.
Like, maybe play something else if you're getting that angry? Raging usually only makes you play worse, and at best just makes the rest of the team uncomfortable.
I think this sums up my feelings.
Like, maybe play something else if you're getting that angry? Raging usually only makes you play worse, and at best just makes the rest of the team uncomfortable.
finalflame
Member
Finally met some good people in a PUG, grouped up, and we fucking steamrolled everything. Went from 36 to 40 in 1.5 hours. What a fucking difference it makes playing with players who are, for the most part, not retarded (we were running a 4-man group).
What heroes are you using? :\
I rage at the game a fair amount, but never with a headset or anything that goes to other people. I don't really have the right to shit on someone else's day, regardless of how much I hate their useless Genji play. I vent into the OT winds and that's a solid system. It's pretty gross to rage at people in the game.
Forerunner
Member
MarioHead3
Banned
I'd just recommend looking up some character/map tutorials. That was what helped me get a bit better. The game really doesn't do a great job of teaching you how to play.
But also, just play a lot and you'll likely get better.
Dead Prince
Banned
omg. didn't want to go into suddent death on route 66. had to switch from soldier to tracer at the final point. got that rank baby.
Nobody ever gits gud. Gitting gud is a state of mind.
greendomo's ghost
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Hanzo is my most played character...does that make me a bad person?
KINGofCRA5H
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HEY
WHO CHANGED THE TITLE
depends how much you play other characters.
WHO CHANGED THE TITLE
this one is good too though
depends how much you play other characters.
CybernatonEvolution
Member
Finally met some good people in a PUG, grouped up, and we fucking steamrolled everything. Went from 36 to 40 in 1.5 hours. What a fucking difference it makes playing with players who are, for the most part, not retarded (we were running a 4-man group).
RIP. Finally.
finalflame
Member
Depends, are you playing competitive and entirely incompetent with him/unwilling to change when you're not contributing at all to your team?
Yes.
Do you play a good Hanzo and if he's not working out you switch?
No.
I like playing Roadhog and Reaper mostly. Today I got into Zenyatta and I enjoyed him too.
Is that the fucker who can throw me off the edge? Fuck that guy.Play Lucio
I don't mind sucking as much as losing. Just hate seeing "Defeat" come across my screen all the time. Seems like most of the people don't want to actually play the objectives and just run around like chickens with their heads cut off.
Considering the announcement trailer, I'm surprised this isn't a thing yet.
finalflame
Member
Both extremely useful and almost always a good fit for any comp. Focus on getting good at them. I run Hog or Reaper 90% of the time unless the team needs something else.
There's an exceedingly high chance.
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