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1upsuper

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I have a pretty high tolerance for playing with randoms and their occasional questionable choices, but I really wish the chat wheel had an option that just says "Please place yourself next to the payload/on the point." It's baffling how often teammates will walk around or stay on their perch when the payload is so close to them and just let it reach its destination. Of course, it's partially my fault for dying in those last moments sometimes, so.
 

Jiraiza

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Man, when is McCree getting his dumb Fan nerfed? It's retarded how fast he destroys me as Reinhardt, doesn't help that he's a completely braindead character, too.
 
What's there to get the hang of? You aim vaguely in the direction of who you want dead and press three buttons.

I think it's usually that I wait too long to do it and die before I can get a fan off, or I forget what the flashbang range is, or even I might forget which button does what and die before I remember. I really don't play a lot of McCree, partially because I'm so used to thinking of him as NOT A TEAM PLAYER that I avoid picking him unless I'm sure it won't hurt my team too much. Usually it's when the other team is destroying us with tanks, and we need a tank buster.
 

ISOM

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Man I had a great game with Hanzo then a poor game then an Ok game. It seems to be the story with him lol. And people think he needs to be nerfed...
 

ElyrionX

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The thing about matchmaking now is that your Elo score is hidden so there's very little incentive to be playing your best every match. But then, introducing an open Elo scoring system (which is what I imagine ranked will be) will likely bring a lot of toxicity into the game and so far, matches (and the community in general) have been pretty casual and easy-going.
 

Belgorim

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The matchmaking system ensures that the play experience is even across the board for most players. So if you're an average gamer solo-queuing, expect your win-rate to be 48-52% over the long run. Even if you're playing as a group, your win-rate will not rise materially above this unless you are pro-level or something.
That's just basic mmr. If you play bad on purpose you might still hover around 50% but your mmr drops so your team mates start getting even worse and so will your opponents.

It's a good way to never improve.
 

grimmiq

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Sounds like you need Genji and D.Va players. :p

Do deflected shots go through Bastion's Shields or just plink off them? Randoms don't listen to anyone most of the time, so to get them to focus fire for the like 8 seconds of D.Va's block to try and down the shield + baston + turret I'm now sure how that works.

They had a bastion + turret +tor behind a Reinhardt shield in 2 corners of the objective.
 

Sorral

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I don't know why so many people complain about McCree. Just don't play at high noon.

You joke, but to some extent I agree. If you see one, don't get too close and make him waste his flash. There was one who was good on him while I was on Roadhog, but I managed to kill him several times by healing right when I'm off flash and still surviving his second Fan, after which I would use the hook and kill him. He actually switched to Reaper in the second half to get at me, teabagging from both of us and all.

On Genji, if you play it right, McCree becomes sort of laughable. Of course a good McCree should know how to deal with a Genji, but I'm finding that to be pretty rare.
 

Data West

coaches in the WNBA
Kinda crazy to me that Mei's m2 doesn't suffer from dropoff and does far more damage than Tobjorn's m1.

His m1 fall off doesn't really seem necessary at all
 

Data West

coaches in the WNBA
I want a 'Hide non-Command text' option in Quick Play solo queue

because no one says anything of import outside of Voice Commands anyways. And it's just all toxic garbage for anyoen using [All] or [Team]
 

ultrazilla

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So my team just went up against a team of five Torbjorn and basically we were massacred with all the turrets they had set up. Playing as Reinhardt my shield barrier was eaten alive in seconds flat from all the turrets set up near the cart we had to escort. My team seemed shell shocked and didn't know how to take the turrets out. I could only provide a few seconds of cover with my barrier as well. That was bad. :/

LiK-That was probably you I played. :/ My name in game is Kaijuseijin. That was a straight up old school beat down.
 

Blizzard

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Laughing so hard. Won as all Tor
I had 4-5 Tor's on my team. :( We of course got rolled on payroll defense, and lost with like 30 seconds to go.

I had 5 gold medals as Mei near the end, and a 4-freeze for the achievement, and STILL didn't even get POTG. I think one other person voted for me.

*edit* Also, level 38 now...1 legendary, and still lacking 35 coins to buy a legendary. If I don't get enough by level 40 it'll be pretty silly.
 

Moonlight

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Consistently get the gold for objective time and consistently the one moving the payload yet no one ever bothers to commend me at the end of a match. I don't get it. I just had a match where I was 2:30 minutes on the payload and some people would rather vote for the Hanzo who killed some dudes. Not even the most dudes, since I got the gold medal for eliminations too.

It's not a big deal but I hope people respect playing the objective more one of these days.
 
I am actually kinda looking forward to the McCree nerf. His my most played and this may get rid of all the unsavoury players giving us a bad name.

They need to make it so 1) Unable to melt a Reinhart in a roll combo, bit too strong. 2) Maybe make the flash bang only work if you hit the other player, I've been practicing that, lol.

Starting to practice Zenyatta at the moment.
 

Blizzard

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Consistently get the gold for objective time and consistently the one moving the payload yet no one ever bothers to commend me at the end of a match. I don't get it. I just had a match where I was 2:30 minutes on the payload and some people would rather vote for the Hanzo who killed some dudes. Not even the most dudes, since I got the gold medal for eliminations too.

It's not a big deal but I hope people respect playing the objective more one of these days.
Who are you playing as?
 

Sarek

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There's nothing worse than having a poor Symmetra player on your team. You really have to work hard to make her a valuable member of the team, and some people are just totally clueless with her

I've been of those useless Symmetras. Been trying all the classes at least for couple matches to see which ones I like and Symmetra to me felt like the hardest class to be even half-decent with.
 

Spinluck

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I hate that, but I feel like some people don't understand the significance of gold medals. I've routinely seen 4-5 gold medal cards get passed over in favor of damage blocked or some other nonsense in the post-game vote

Had a 5 medal match with Tracer on a payload Defend but was out voted by a Torn getting a bunch of turret kills. It really sucks.

Also, who else out there vastly prefers Tracer on defense rather than offense?

I enjoy flanking super deep and just straight up disrupting the opposing team. If you have a good team, you'll net a ton of kills because you'll catch them with depleted health. Nothing like taking out the healer, and having half the team try to chase you and kill you only to be led into a Junkrat ult.

I take back what I said about Tracer's ult, while I still think it's on the weak side. It's an amazing situational tool. In my 5 gold medal game I think I had like 11 eliminations with it.
 
Question to everyone:

Who's your worst character? Not least favourite, but actually worst.

Mine would be Hanzo or Widowmaker. Not my style really and the bow I find really hard to time hits on moving targets.

I've never played Dva or zenyatta yet but I plan to soon.

Pharah is by far my worst, People who have seen it probably imagines that someone with no hands is playing her.

Every time I jump I die. I do shit for damage (Pretty much 0 body shots). If I do survive more than 2 seconds in the sky I veer left and right wildly instead of adjusting altitude. I melee IN THE AIR after each shot.
 
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