Overwatch New Competitive Play System Detailed

VertPin said:
already lost interest in the game but it can be some fun with friends for a few rounds.

overall meh, regret spending the $60. good to see blizzard pumping out free dlc though.
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It's AMAZING with friends, but they all seem to have vanished.

Is there a GAF Overwatch Discord channel I can connect to so I can find more people to M̶e̶i̶ play with?
 
I don't know. The community is already pretty crummy a lot of the time, and it will just be ramped up in this mode.

Plus I don't want people who only pick McCree and Widowmaker whining when I pick Genji or Zenyatta.
 
MMR shaming always happens, there is no way to avoid that, my long experience with League of Legends made that clear for me. What you can do is fight excessive toxicity and actually enforce the game rules to create a good community within the game.

From the video it seems that you will only see the MMR of players in your competitive match, with a division system your tier would be always at display, even at casual play.
 
Skins you say....., looks like I'm going pro boys.
 
JDVideoGames7 said:
Well, sometimes people start to become so obsessed with unlockable in game items that they care more about them then the actual game, so much so that getting rare items becomes their primary reason to play the game.
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Well, yeah but it's not like they'll need to do some minigame shit to get them, it's just an incentive to play ranked and climb the ladder.
 
JDVideoGames7 said:
Well, sometimes people start to become so obsessed with unlockable in game items that they care more about them then the actual game, so much so that getting rare items becomes their primary reason to play the game.
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They will get it by winning games of Overwatch.

There is some toxic bragging potential, but it shouldn't mess with the game much.
 
"Look at all these non-golden shitlords on my team."
 
Chairmanchuck said:
You already have that now...

I had someone call someone else a cocksucker, motherfucker team etc. today.
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That's true, but that shit behavior only happens a little ways into a match, presumably when the asshole spouting shit is on the losing team.

The detrimental thing here would be to show your team at a disadvantage before the game even starts, resulting in toxic behavior before the game even starts, and that's a different (and shittier) beast than the current toxic shit that gets spewed today.
 
Overwatch has pretty comprehensive prefer/avoid/block/report tools, and people should use them. I report every single person who harasses over chat.
 
Shake Appeal said:
Because that's what people want to see in a competitive mode.
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I get that people want to show off that they're Global Elite and what not but Blizzard has already gone as far as to get rid of the traditional scoreboard. Not showing your MMR to other people doesn't seem like such a leap, especially when they have things like cosmetic rewards for playing ranked.
 
Shake Appeal said:
Overwatch has pretty comprehensive prefer/avoid/block/report tools, and people should use them. I report every single person who harasses over chat.
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The Avoid system is pretty broken from my experience or works differently than what the name implies. I keep getting matched with Avoided players very often and so are countless others on the Battle.net forums. I wish they'd fix it.
 
KarmaCow said:
I get that people want to show off that they're Global Elite and what not but Blizzard has already gone as far as to get rid of the traditional scoreboard. Not showing your MMR to other people doesn't seem like such a leap, especially when they have things like cosmetic rewards for playing ranked.
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It's only going to be in competitive for people who want it. If you don't play competitive, nothing will change.
 
He said competitive play is how you get the golden weapons first. There will still be shitlords with golden weapons.
 
They could start by making it so that only one person per a team can play a character. I'm incerdibly sick of 6x torjborn or Bastions, or 4 Torj/bastions with 2 Reinharts etc.

I'm not sure why they refuse to do this.
 
Stone Ocean said:
Playing against shit like double Winston is hardly fun
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Depends on what hero you are playing :P

But ranked sound pretty good so far. Except that they don't implement stopwatch and still insist on their sudden death system.
 
If you watch the video, they address hero stacking.

Quick play will allow you to be whoever you want (eg Mei dream team), and competitive play will be a bit more serious
 
Urgh. Do not want cosmetic (or any) rewards for competitive. The community is toxic as shit already and there is no stakes AT ALL right now. I do not want to have to play competitive with people crying about their epeens and forcing their competitive meta builds on the team and then raging (either at our own team for a loss or the other team raging at our win).

And they go through the effort of not showing another players k/d ratio or healing done etc in the normal mode, you just see their level and now they want to show your skill ranking so you can have elitist pricks talk down to you because you're slightly below them? NO THANKYOU.

As much as it sucks and is frustrating to high hell to have Hanzo and Widow on attack with no healer (forcing you to heal yet again) and people not playing the objective, I'd rather deal with that than the constant abuse and pressure from competitive dick heads.
 
Zomba13 said:
Urgh. Do not want cosmetic (or any) rewards for competitive. The community is toxic as shit already and there is no stakes AT ALL right now. I do not want to have to play competitive with people crying about their epeens and forcing their competitive meta builds on the team and then raging (either at our own team for a loss or the other team raging at our win).

And they go through the effort of not showing another players k/d ratio or healing done etc in the normal mode, you just see their level and now they want to show your skill ranking so you can have elitist pricks talk down to you because you're slightly below them? NO THANKYOU.

As much as it sucks and is frustrating to high hell to have Hanzo and Widow on attack with no healer (forcing you to heal yet again) and people not playing the objective, I'd rather deal with that than the constant abuse and pressure from competitive dick heads.
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You're being a dick yourself, not all competitive players are assholes.
 
I was looking forward to competitive play before, but the chance for more cosmetics has me on board even more now. Can't wait!

Also interested in how they're changing up Assault. I don't have too much trouble most of the time, but I'm guessing attacking will become a whole lot more obnoxious when you're always facing at least a semi-coordinated defence.
 
St3v3 said:
You're being a dick yourself, not all competitive players are assholes.
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Of course, like how not all Overwatch players are the type to only play Hanzo on attack and never touch an objective. But competitive makes people care even more about winning/losing and people seem to care way too much already in the Quick Play mode where that doens't matter at all. People in Quick Play are already dickish enough there more often than not you have at least one asshole per game. Competitive modes have a higher amount of people caring about their stats which lead to more shit talking when you lose or when you percive your loss to be the fault of a certain player (or when you feel you lost because someone on the other team is using a cheap or unfair playstyle).

It's why I can't play MOBAs with random people because it's just a completely unpleasant experience and I don't touch ranked in most team things because people care too much.
 
Are they going to force people to play both attack and defence?

And I guess this mode kills the chance of us ever getting player hosted servers.
 
i like:
assault more back and forth instead of heavily dependent on one big teamfight
sudden death on same map as you were already playing
visible 1-100 skill rating to start the match, visible premade vs solo. too often people complain about matchmaking being unfair or going against premades but i think that this happens rarely.

intriguing:
sounds like if you participate a minimal amount in competitive, you'll get sprays and player icons, and if you are a highly skilled player you'll unlock golden weapons faster than other players. but, on top of that kaplan mentioned some exclusive cosmetic rewards that only the highest skilled players can get. wonder what that is!?!

SpacePirate Ridley said:
I think the word Particitpation is the important one in that sentence.
If everyone get a cool new thing only for competing some time, I would be very happy, against only the top 3 players or team getting this stuff.
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in the video he says there will be "exclusive other cosmetic rewards that only the highest skill players can get that nobody else can get" -- so you better GIT GUD if you want them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAOaXSVZVTM&feature=youtu.be&t=662
 
racketpunch said:
They're banned in current competitive leagues. Players say it lessens character diversity which I totally agree with.
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wait, really? What leagues ban hero stacking? I thought the consensus among pros was that they wanted hero stacking available and it would just solve itself?
 
Really happy to hear about the changes to the assault maps. Anubis and Volskaya are an absolute bitch and a half to try and attack their second control points.
 
Cels said:
i like:
assault more back and forth instead of heavily dependent on one big teamfight
sudden death on same map as you were already playing
visible 1-100 skill rating to start the match, visible premade vs solo. too often people complain about matchmaking being unfair or going against premades but i think that this happens rarely.

intriguing:
sounds like if you participate a minimal amount in competitive, you'll get sprays and player icons, and if you are a highly skilled player you'll unlock golden weapons faster than other players. but, on top of that kaplan mentioned some exclusive cosmetic rewards that only the highest skilled players can get. wonder what that is!?!
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Probably some exclusive skin that can only be earned through ranked placement.
 
I kind of like how they will display your skill level during a match. While playing with a group, it'll be helpful to know beforehand if you're facing another group and what their skill levels are.
 
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