Berserking Guts
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Are there any good youtube channels on hero/map specific strategies that I could use?
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THe_DeiCiDe
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Send me a FR and we'll duo later. Just don't drop to silver lulz.
Yeah man, getting to platinum again (let alone getting to diamond) is an impossibility. Especially because the disparity between SR lost when I lose and SR gained when I win is even higher. I'll probably just play on my alt account lol.
Lmao, it's almost liberating though. It's like I'm taking out all my frustrations on myself--I'm not good enough to soloQ but Im too proud to admit it so I keep going.
I've just been playing my best and not dying too much. So far I've won more than lost in solo and duo and actually reached season high twice. Guess it'll be a grind until you get people in games that are legit trying to win.
I was with killdatninja in duo last night and someone on our team left. We still won cuz the randoms didn't give up. What a game.
THe_DeiCiDe
Member
Take it from someone who plays solo all the time, its random as fuck. If you're not lucky to get flexible players you're gonna take the L no matter what.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Having a weird issue lately where the game randomly throws out a melee attack when I am clicking left mouse button to fire. Happens a lot on McCree, Tracer, and Widow. It's driving me crazy. I have nearly 700 hours in this game and I'm definitely not fat fingering lol.. Had no issues until the latest patch.
Anyone else run into this?
Anyone else run into this?
GGs dude! The fact that we both got placed 200SR above how we ended the last one shows how much of a shit show S5 was.
Carl-Sagan
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Skyline maybe?
Dead Prince
Banned
GrandHarrier
Member
Zenyatta and Mercy mostly.
Berserking Guts
Member
Yeah, they need to stop that until the three are roughly equal
Highlight of the day: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/LTF Yager/video/35880338
Nuno Pinto
Member
lmao that hog ult
He did prevent the rein from touching the point so at least there's that.
Karsticles
Member
The issue isn't that there are too many DPS heroes or that the "gains" aren't as good (otherwise Quick Play would have a bunch of healers), but that being a healer just isn't as fun for most people as shooting people in a first person shooter. When Reinhardt was one of the game's best characters, my teams often argued about who has to play him, and it's because you spend a huge portion of your match semi-AFK pacing back and forth looking at everyone else having fun through a blue-tinted window.
If Blizzard wants people to play healers more, then they will go the Paladins route and make them able to kill people reliably. Healer vs. DPS should not be a foregone conclusion, and a story like "I killed a Soldier with Ana!" shouldn't be a surprise. Healers and tanks should be able to kill things roughly as well as DPS can. When this is true, people will stop complaining about playing either role (when a DPS is "forced" to switch to a healer by the team, they almost always pick Zenyatta).
If character are differentiated by role-utility instead of damage capacity, the game enters a more interesting and balanced state. Players switch off of the healer role because they die. Why do they need to switch? Because they feel powerless. Empower them, and they will just respawn and try again.
Darryl M R
Member
So is Genji out of meta now?
Yeah GG's, that Rein clip was too funny. He literally flew over my shoulder and got you! Madness.
Berserking Guts
Member
Hanzo and Ana. We've already lost.
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Lost both points in under a minute. Fuck it. Why bother.
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Lost both points in under a minute. Fuck it. Why bother.
We can go a year and some change until the next dps hero
Game desperately needs to shake up the healer characters.
Berserking Guts
Member
Eh I'm done. I don't have the patience for this game or the dumb asses that play. I've never played a game that's pissed me off as much as OW and it's just not worth it. OW is addictive but I hate it. So I'm deleting it and making room for Titanfall and Yakuza Kiwami. Thank you and fuck you blizzard.
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blanchot
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i wish i could carry on this game like i can on counter strike. i think that is why it's so frustrating. you're relying on your team mates to play their roles as well as you. and when they don't, the whole team comp unravels. i am a very, very chilled person but this game summons anger from me i never knew i had.
I don't mind unconventional when it works and have enjoyed the armor layering especially on Eichenwalde defense for example.
Carl-Sagan
Member
Not a problem. Lemme know if you find any other channels.
TheThinWhiteDuke
Member
And they are so happy for that Healing Orb. Like they stutter in place for a second. "What is this strange thing that appears to be healing me?"
I love my Torbs and their "fuck you, flankers" turrets.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Digital Savior
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Finished my placements 5-5. Got placed at a new career high. Previous high was 2499 back a few seasons ago. Finished last season at like 2431. Got placed at around 2531. Felt pretty good. Not sure if placements were based on MMR or because I didn't play with my friends.
Incendiary
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waitwhat42
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Dead Prince
Banned
its not that bad.
also overtrack broken? it's recording my games as losses when it was actually won.
rackham
Banned
Just had my easiest win of the season on Gibralter map. Was Soldier 76. Opposing team didn't even make it to the first checkpoint. Destroyed them on offense. Feels bad cause one of their team mates left at some point but fuck it. It's happened to me more times than I can count this season.
The ranking system SUCKS and I'm sure that's news to no one. Why am I going down in rank when one of my team mates leave the match near the beginning? Then we have to sit there and play the game for 10-15 minutes almost definitely losing anyways.
For fucks sake just disable SR loss when that happens Blizzard. Fuck you.
The ranking system SUCKS and I'm sure that's news to no one. Why am I going down in rank when one of my team mates leave the match near the beginning? Then we have to sit there and play the game for 10-15 minutes almost definitely losing anyways.
For fucks sake just disable SR loss when that happens Blizzard. Fuck you.
Around this level now with my alt. You've basically got to play a role that lets your teammates live through their mistakes. Zarya or Winston bubbles, Lucio on heals most of the time, Symm shield gen, Rein or Orisa shields, etc.
Of course, you also need to be doing damage and getting elims when possible. At this level you see a lot of people who, especially on console, think of the game more like Call of Duty than a team game. If they keep dying repeatedly, wins will be infrequent.
Also, same as at any level, you're going to get lucky and unlucky. Sometimes you'll end up with people who should be ranked much higher, and other times with people much lower. Filling the gap from the lower skill players is difficult at any level.
rackham
Banned
I usually use the "Group Up" speak when I need people on the point to move that shit faster and I see them near but not on the point.
The more annoying thing is when assholes spam "I NEED HEALING"
Bitch, the healers can see that you're low on health. It doesn't do anything but annoy people when you spam it. And if you care about healing so much, play a fucking healer. So fucking terrible in the beginning when everyone picks something that's not a healer and you have that one shit lord who keeps spamming "I NEED HEALING" instead of playing a healer.
If you play it backwards, it says "Join me in the frozen ninth circle of hell"
TheThinWhiteDuke
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The game telling you you don't belong is when the SR is consistently out of balance for a win compared to a loss, either way.
I'm about where you are, SR-wise, and am bracketed between 2100-2450 if I want equal SR gains and losses.
TheThinWhiteDuke
Member
Just had my easiest win of the season on Gibralter map. Was Soldier 76. Opposing team didn't even make it to the first checkpoint. Destroyed them on offense. Feels bad cause one of their team mates left at some point but fuck it. It's happened to me more times than I can count this season.
The ranking system SUCKS and I'm sure that's news to no one. Why am I going down in rank when one of my team mates leave the match near the beginning? Then we have to sit there and play the game for 10-15 minutes almost definitely losing anyways.
For fucks sake just disable SR loss when that happens Blizzard. Fuck you.
Blizz's motives are good here, even if the actual experience is shit: they want to prevent, at all costs, teams ganging up on one player if they're losing and bullying them into quitting so no one else loses SR.
Red Arremer
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Yes there has been word. There likely won't be any further rewards. Jeff Kaplan said they're regretting ever putting rewards into competitive.
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