Well said, kind of how I feel about it.
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That's what the quick play queue is for. In WoW, there's a random battleground and a rated battleground and you can't just queue into the rated battleground solo.
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Thank fuck, control maps are a complete waste of time right now.
2W6L as Lucio/Mercy, 1W5L with offensive heroes. I'm doing terrible in comp lol
Doing better than me at least. I guess I'll just never play as a support ever!
People paid the same price for a game and not allowed to play in ranked to get content because they are solo? This isn't WoW nor a MMO and shouldn't apply this logic here.
If Blizzard wanted solo players to play Competitive Mode, then they should've had two separate modes - One for solo and another for groups. Yes, it means longer queue times but it fixes the issue of having randoms vs. a pre made team.
Are people not responding are just responding like idiots?
Brawndo Addict
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What content? It's all the same maps/modes/characters.
Even in WoW your "Raid Finder" group is not the same as a regular raid because it assumes everyone is playing solo and thus, they have to tune the difficulty and mechanics way down. Similarly, playing Overwatch competitively requires more organization than 6 solo players who don't talk to one another and never change heroes.
I don't think they should prevent solo players from queuing, but you shouldn't be able to play ranked without a mic and joining the voice chat. If you're playing competitive without a mic then you're inherently playing in a noncompetitive way which defeats the whole purpose of the mode.
They have to allow solo queue for all modes. It makes no sense otherwise. Oh now you want a requirement of mic and voice chat too? That's cute. Look, none of that is going to filter out bad players who don't give a fuck. It'll just punish players who do give a fuck but want to join a game and play with decent people but might not have a mic or want to voice chat.
GwyndolinCinder
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Surprised by the amount of people here, who have never played a moba.
PenguinPoacher
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How do you lose hours of progress in one game? That is actually impossible.
For real?
Dylan Sexbang
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Console patch is live on Xbone- McCree can suck it.
GwyndolinCinder
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KOTH is broken and rage quitters on enemy team. We were getting pixels for wins, then we lost one payload map and lost it all.
TurboLibre
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Yep. Don't think I've had a response yet when I try to chat and group up the team or throw out a different strategy other than running into the grinder one by one.
I don't know what that flag under my portrait is though. Everyones is purple with a number, or purple with a dash. I have a white one with a gold emblem on it.
How do you queue with 5 people?
Gentle Rodriguez
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If it's anything like Dota, you won't be able to.
optimus8936
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Dead Prince
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approval... more like sony just wants to keep the mccree in there as long as they can /s
CybernatonEvolution
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That icon is your rank/PTR. It is a dash if you haven't finished the placement test, and a gold icon if you are a top 500 player in PTR. The gold icon is bugged currently, as it occasionally appears instead of a dash or your actual rank that appears on your profile or the ranked pic that displays your score.
I think the matchmaking should segregate solos and duos from groups of 6 but if Dota's any indication, one naturally becomes "real man's MMR" and the other is "mmr for babbies", because you can get carried in a 5-man but you have to carry yourself in solo queue.
Interfectum
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How is approval still a thing on these consoles? So dumb.
styl3s
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Maybe the nerf will come with the competitive patch.
optimus8936
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Blizzard said torb nerf would be late July, so it probably won't be with competitive.
Seems that way.
Went 10-0 on my placements yesterday. I ended up lower then I thought probably because I was healer half the games (which i heard nets you lower points) and also because half the matches were KotH. But after going 10-0 on placements with around 2-3 gold medals each time and i ended up with rank 55. Most of my crew is 50-58 and we were facing a bunch of 55+ teams as well.
Hope they fix the KotH point bug because overall i played 13 matches and won 12. But that one loss was on an assault/escore flip the coin we got defense we got fucked map. So i ended up going down to rank 54. Kind lame you lose almost a whole rank from that one loss.
ohwell. my team is dominating and its nice. I want to say the only reason we lost that one match was because a couple of us didnt realize that the coin flip means they only got to cap the first point. A couple of us picked based on the whole map when they just came in and wiped to the first point and won. all good though.
Hope they fix the KotH point bug because overall i played 13 matches and won 12. But that one loss was on an assault/escore flip the coin we got defense we got fucked map. So i ended up going down to rank 54. Kind lame you lose almost a whole rank from that one loss.
ohwell. my team is dominating and its nice. I want to say the only reason we lost that one match was because a couple of us didnt realize that the coin flip means they only got to cap the first point. A couple of us picked based on the whole map when they just came in and wiped to the first point and won. all good though.
styl3s
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Looks like i won't bother with console competitive till late july then.
If you are smart, then you'd know to only play competitive with a full group, since the Multi Torb strategy isn't as viable in group play. Solo players are SOL though until the nerf comes out.
It would be best to wait for the next season then. Season 1 ends in August, and we don't know if the nerf will fix Multi Torb.
More Fun To Compute
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Kill him.
GitarooMan
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Hook him
Shake Appeal
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Soldier 76 is a pretty good counter to Soldier 76, imo.
It's dangerous to go alone, take this;
Stand behind reinhardts shield or group with support and shoot him.
Forerunner
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So far so good, 16-7 in comp. Ive been doing it solo still. I did have one game were I teammate up with a friend. Shes 36, so considerably lower than me (Im at 54). The mm did somewhat decent job getting even teams that game, I kind of rolled over the other team lol. I had +17k damage and +40 kills that game. I love the smell of pulse munitions in the morning!
Only 284 more wins to go!
Only 284 more wins to go!
I don't know. PileofBodies seems pretty appropriate for Reaper.
Also sounds like a metal band.
yeehamuffins
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After a bad run on my first 6 matches (2-4) just decided to play out my last four in solo queue to see how it fell... and got 4 straight wins. Granted, one was due to 3 of the enemies leaving at the start of the match, but still. Got a newfound respect for Zarya after playing her on Attack in most of the matches, she's a damn beast when you've got a team that's not hiding behind cover and is willing to stick their noses out to let you pop a shield on them.
Initial placement 54. Higher than I expected.
Initial placement 54. Higher than I expected.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
I'm shocked no ones down "Let the Bodies hit the Floor!" Montage with Death Blossoms
I play Reaper too, thank fuck I'm not on there, did get some GAFfers to jab my way when I got POTG as Reaper as GraveRobberX >_>;
LucidMomentum
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What was your W/L? I got 50 with a 7/3, so I'm wondering how or if it scales with W/L ratio as a base, then adds personal efforts / team contribution to the MMR calibration.
Nice! You wouldn't happen to know how many KotH / Payload maps you played, would you?
I'm curious to see how much maps skew MMR as well.
Ideally if we could get like 4-5 people to do their placement matches, noting win and loss order, and what maps and roles they played, as well as medals earned we could spreadsheet it up and maybe have a decent idea of what seems to matter most for MMR.
But that's me being a nerd. Better to just play and enjoy the slightly more competitive bracket instead of worrying about numbers.
I am curious to see if there's an upper limit to calibration, like if someone could theoretically calibrate at 70 or if it's capped to say 58.
divisionbyzorro
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I still like spamming "I need healing" and quietly moping around the ready room before a match when I play Reaper.
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