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Overwatch |OT3| White, White, Blue, White
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NeoRaider
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I am seeing so much hate online for Mei, and i don't even know why.
I really like her ice wall trolling. And them faces she makes when you are close to her... lmao.
Is anyone else having problems on Xbox also
Can you even log in enough to play around in the Training? Or not at all?
Dead Prince
Banned
what a zinger
A Mei zing.
A Mei zing.
Sleight of Jam
Banned
Okay guys so over at the battle.net forums they're aware of the issue for Xbox and looking into it.
Edit: There's an update message displaying on the login screen now it seems.
Edit: There's an update message displaying on the login screen now it seems.
Thewonandonly
Junior Member
Na it just won't athenticate they are having breaking news that says they are aware
Dead Prince
Banned
maybe more ddos attack. let's just play another game instead
chrominance
Member
So I haven't been following this thread all that closely recently, and maybe I missed somewhere where they disproved this. But why is everyone focusing so much on W/L ratio? I could have sworn that your W/L record, independent of any context, basically meant nothing in the placement matches. i.e. if you play 10 matches and win them all, but they're against shitty teams, you shouldn't suddenly expect to be rank 100 just because you steamrolled everyone, and if you lost all your placement matches you could still be rank 60 if all the teams you played were basically pro teams.
I'm not specifically singling you or this comment out, but people keep asking about W/L records when it comes to figuring out why they have the rank they have, and it feels like either I missed a memo somewhere or everyone else has the wrong idea about how the placement matches are supposed to work. Usually, if it seems like everyone else is wrong, that means I'm the one who's wrong, so if there's a better explanation for how rank is determined I'm totally happy to be 100% wrong here.
Ghost is Bad
Banned
I drop 4 people on the point on last stand 2 point hanamura thinking that we could make it back and contest
then i see junkrat running back to point b.
kill me.
then i see junkrat running back to point b.
kill me.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
fuck everything about competitive mode.
I got POTG as Mei on a losing game with the most delusional Hanzo on the planet. Killing the Zenyatta right beside him as he continues to fire his arrow. I even pepper him with spray, thinking I gave away my position, go back around, and he never stopped aiming at the Payload so I just freeze him and kill him too.
so i introduced this game to my cousin last week and he's already clocked 25 hours... as Genji. No one else.
Should I like say something to encourage to try other characters or should I just let him carry on his merry ways? I guess he does pretty decent with him in any case lol.
Should I like say something to encourage to try other characters or should I just let him carry on his merry ways? I guess he does pretty decent with him in any case lol.
yeehamuffins
Member
Yeah, I just did great with her on my competitive matches. She's very much a character that depends on timing and watching your cooldowns, but as long as you're not the only character willing to charge onto the front lines (ideally you have another tank on your squad to pop bubbles onto), you'll be up to 100% charge and melting fools in no time. I had one match where me and a Lucio were tag-teaming the front lines and it was so damn satisfying.
So, potentially stupid question for folks: do you have to have a headset enabled to hear in-game voice chat from your team? Because if so, I swear that in all the matches I've played solo I've never heard anyone with a headset. Even bought a headset of my own so that I could try to help contribute when I started competitive, but I never heard anyone talking either with or without the headset.
Let him enjoy what he wants
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
When he gets countered hard with Symmetra, Aggressive Torb with nice turret, or Winston, then what?
You'll need to learn Reaper and Tracer then
If they counter, then what
Honestly, I know there are purists that say playing numerous characters is the point of the game. But let your cousin have fun how he wants to have fun. That's the point of any video game. If he wants to branch out, he will on his own time.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
if you solo queue it's just a roll of the dice to see if you can get half way decent team mates.
The Omega Man
Member
KINGofCRA5H
Member
Will I Win A Single Placement Match? My Column:
Yeah, I see Zarya in practically every single game now
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Double tanks has always been very popular. A little bit less reinhardts now at least.
Thug Waffle
Member
has anyone had luck after getting the "lost connection to game server" message? tried hard resetting my Xbox but it didn't work
veloxStrix
Banned
Call me elitist, but nothing has convinced me that anyone who starts the game as Genji or Torbjorn isn't a complete waste of a teamslot. Win rate was 85% before two back to back games with Genji + Torbjorn as our 2 pickups.
Some people tried to double Zarya us. We just double Soldier'd them.
Some people tried to double Zarya us. We just double Soldier'd them.
Ghost is Bad
Banned
ive actually lost points because i only win on king of the hill lol.
this brings tears to my years. symettrallah is so underrated
It currently matches same sized groups and fills the rest with solo players. Neither team is at a disadvantage.
Hooking Pharah during her ult. Icewalling 76, McCree and Reapers ult
Being in turret form as Bastion in a gravity well and sending that pixie haircut to Hell
optimus8936
Banned
How about deflecting them with Genjis, killing them in the process? So good.
Dimitri LH
Member
Xbox is back up for anyone wondering.
And I'm in love with her on PS4. She's perfect for solo queue.
Sony, please, release this stupid patch already...
It doesn't do that all of the time. If MMR has trouble finding same sized groups, then it starts adding solo players. Just today, we saw Seagull's group get paired up with a bunch of solo players.
LucidMomentum
Member
No, that's exactly why I've been wondering.
Dota 2 only takes win / loss into account for MMR in ranked matches, outside of calibration. During calibration it's different, but Valve won't tell us how (outside of bugs that they report being fixed due to abuses like the patch where hero damage played a heavy role in your calibration MMR)
Now Overwatch is telling us it's not just your Win/Loss that counts for MMR, but they don't tell us anything beyond that. So I've been asking as a curiosity, really. Just confirming that it's not just W/L that counts for the initial calibration.
Dota 2 also has an MMR cap for calibration, and I'm wondering if OW does too. My brother didn't recalibrate with the new feature Valve added because he's 4K MMR and he can only max out at 4.5K MMR, so it's not worth it for him to play 10 matches to calibrate unless he gets more than the 250 or so MMR he'd get if he won every match outside of calibration.
For me, I'm a 2K player so I recalibrated and gained about 400 MMR, even after going 6-4 for my new calibration matches. But it shows your team's average MMR in the pick phase and I was for the last half of those matches playing with 3 and 4K players, which was like night and day from my 2K matches.
I'm just a huge stats nerd. I wish Valve and Blizzard would document this stuff for us, but I know that means it'll get abused / MinMaxed. So we kind of have to find it out ourselves.
Permanently A
Junior Member
Oh yeah? Strange I got 56 and had identical record, 7-3
I didn't play particularly good or anything either. Would really be interested in knowing how they calculate this stuff
Yep gets to a problem at the highest MMR but for the majority of people complaining about groups this isn't an issue.
It depends on the number of KOTH games you had in your placements, they are bugged and worth less.
Same, she's my most played and I was not expecting that when I bought the game. I was thinking Reinhardt, who is up there, but he can't carry like Zarya can.
I think you have to go into audio settings and turn team voice chat on. There's another setting for party chat.
Myself, I just use Discord, and I assume that's what everyone else is doing.
We will know for sure how wide spread this problem really is soon enough, since Competitive Mode doesn't hide the fact that you're in a pre made team. I'm sure if there is an issue, Blizzard will try to fix it in Season 2.
Same, feels bad man
Quick Play is now there to dick around with heroes you aren't familiar with or experiment with unconventional strategies. If you want to tryhard, play competitive.
optimus8936
Banned
Just ran into a torb who glitched a turret into a building on Dorado and basically ruined us. Absolute bullshit.
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