phew, looking forward to another GAF train tonigth with MarioHead and friends if they're on.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Overwatch |OT4| You Want A Good Genji, But You Need The Bad Hanzo
- Thread starter GraveRobberX
- Start date
- Status
phew, looking forward to another GAF train tonigth with MarioHead and friends if they're on.
xaosslug
Member
shit! Looks like I'll only be getting 120 and I only have 91, rn and I'm down to 49... I gotta get to 60, somehow! -__-
Where did you read competitive points reset? It looks like you keep them.
yea, i think just rank resets.
Dead Prince
Banned
my aim is like my reading. i replied as if you meant rank (lvl)
oh god. let me continue to soloQ to rank 65.
seems fine. one instant gold weapon. altho not sure why they stopped giving them out past 65. at least extra 50 every 10 ranks after would make some sense. why bother ranking higher unless you want top 500 for a player icon and spray. lame.
Basically. And top 500 fluctuates hard- I was 400 when I left, now I'm not even top 500 at all, but then once I came back and was, so who knows. Probably going to be like 2500 people at the top 500 points, weirdly enough.
Edit: top 500 kinda sucks besides bragging rights/kinda meh spray and gold icon because you can't even check your rank ups a match, it's really annoying, you just see your rank number, not the bar at all.
120 guaranteed, might try to reach 60 (55 atm, it'll be hard). Not bad.
Woo 65 here. Barely got the 300!
Getting those 300 big ones B)
Also, we up for another GAF grouping tonight, can't wait to carry your butts again
i'll be on tonight.
Ampersands
Member
I think a good solution to dealing with leavers in comp is to minimize the rank loss when your team inevitably loses. And to prevent exploitation, raise the penalty for leavers!
Forerunner
Member
Yes! My highest rank this season was 66. Free weapon brehs and I can save up my +125 for next season.
I guess it's going to have to be easy AI, since the teams I was put on last night were getting shredded by normal AI.
Hush you, you only play one class so all you need us 300 Blizzard Purple Currency
penalty should stack in a way that makes sense. right now it's a 10 min ban from playing it again. but if they keep disconnecting, the time limit should go up every 10 min and finally they get banned. also, when people leave and you win a 5v6 or something, you should get a big bonus in XP. makes no sense why people who stay to win are punished for it.
The leaver issue is if it's not 6x the penalty and you nerf the loss for your team, you run into an issue of..
-we were about to lose, now we don't all lose rank
-a group of 6 has people take turns leaving
etc
It has no safe solution really
Shhh
-we were about to lose, now we don't all lose rank
-a group of 6 has people take turns leaving
etc
It has no safe solution really
Shhh
i think people 75+ should've gotten some loot boxes or something.
If they do that though, there would be six stack groups always using one member to leave just before they win, to boost everyone else. I guess maybe they can use a time multiplier though. Every 30 seconds you play with a man down would add to the multiplier for everyone else maybe?
In 25 boxes, I got Mercy and D.va epic (it looks great), red Zarya and now yellow Lucio. Plus Lucio highlight. I think that's decent, I will reach level 200 soon so I will get a lot more lootboxes until 225 by the end of the event. I only want Mccree's epic and tracer/junkrat highlights.
Ampersands
Member
Well, it may be harsh, but you could penalize the whole group if someone leaves. And minimizing the rank drop would still do things like ruining your winstreak so it's difficult to rank up again. It's not usually groups that have problems with leavers anyway.
Shake Appeal
Member
I hit SR56 last night (before dropping down to 55), so I guess I'm getting 120 purple points.
Need to actually put some time into this if I want to get to 60. Only have ~20 hours in competitive.
Need to actually put some time into this if I want to get to 60. Only have ~20 hours in competitive.
The big thing they need to look at with groups is the smurfing people are doing, it lets you team up with people within 50 ranks which is INSANE given the spread here. Seeing a team of 70, 70 and 40 is pretty blatant, pulling down the average and also leveraging underdog bonuses.
Competitive has soooo many issues it's kinda nuts. Hope season 2 is reworked a ton.
Competitive has soooo many issues it's kinda nuts. Hope season 2 is reworked a ton.
Incendiary
Banned
I'm in the same boat - highest was 59, dropped all the way to 50. Need to make that shit up. PS4 GAFfers, I'm gonna need you tonight/tomorrow! I can make 60 if I believe in myself!
mehrmantrout
Member
Set up a custom game then add AI for the rest of the slots and play about with characters/counters
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Whooooo. Hurrah for being trash and getting 40 CPs.
Yeah, same.
Are there placement matches again, or do I get placed on max rank.... or worst case, I just stay where I am?
Its been a long slog to get out of the 30s since I had one bad night. Im okay, but Im not capable of carrying horrible teams or teams that don't listen or communicate, of which the 30s is full of. Made it back to the low 40s and its a bit less, but I'll have an occasional run thatll put me back to 39 or so. Honesltly think if I were 47 like I started I'd be okay and able to maintain, if not jump to 50s.
I seriously cant take any more games where everyone trickles in alone, doesnt use reinhardts sheild, or wont focus on enemies, so everyone shoots individual people as we get picked off one by one. Or worse, everyone leaves the choke to chase a single tracer, letting the whole team rush the point with ease. Or even WORSE, mei runs up ahead of choke just to throw one annoying wall at people and immediately dies.
OR EVEN WORSE, etc etc.
xaosslug
Member
Wyndstryker
Member
Every season gets new placement matches
There is going to be placement games again but I suspect they keep a base MMR for it and go from there, I don't think you get a clean slate. Actually we never got a clean slate, season 1 used qp MMR and everyone still has a different hidden MMR other than the visible SR. SR is not really your true skill rating after you grinded ranked for a while, it's just rank. I'm not expecting people to get a widely different placements, if you play a group maybe one can get carried a bit, maybe 5-10 difference but you're not going from 40 to 60 from new placements. Seems really unlikely unless you threw the placements completely or got really that much better in 2 months. Can their placement system recognize someone that got a lot better but has an starting MMR of 40 from last season for example? I'm not sure.
Shake Appeal
Member
xaosslug
Member
this was literally me the first few days (weeks? LOL) I had the game! You basically just need to play easy AI and try out dif characters until you feel confident enough to do higher difficulty, and then after that you just jump off the cliff and go QP LIVE! When I first started out I basically 'mained' Torb & Junkrat. I've since branched out loads!
trust me, my first few days playing I was getting stomped by medium difficulty AI, and easy AI was a challenge. -__-
Reminds me that we Gaffers are not casual lol
orthodoxy1095
Banned
I can think of a number of flaws with W/L too though. I don't know what the best solution is.
darkwing-buck
Member
I chuckled.
Kayo Police
Member
I'm more curious to see if season's 2 placement matches will use our previous rankings as a starting point or everyone starts off fresh and it's up to themselves to see where they rise or fall.
Ooooh X-Frame you mind linking this? Would like to read it.
Ooooh X-Frame you mind linking this? Would like to read it.
Well my placement was also fucked up by the fact that half of the games my game crashed due to my old/shitty graphics card (since replaced). I don't think I'd ever get to 60 without some serious practice.
Hope there's a bit more of a chance to reset in between seasons than you're saying, but I guess I'll find out soon enough.
I think it'll be completely reset.
- Status