Lol dude, I just want to assure myself that I'm not an automatic waste of a spot as a Genji, not that I'm the absolute best and that the team couldn't have won without me.
But thank you for the in-depth post!
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Overwatch |OT4| You Want A Good Genji, But You Need The Bad Hanzo
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Lol dude, I just want to assure myself that I'm not an automatic waste of a spot as a Genji, not that I'm the absolute best and that the team couldn't have won without me.
But thank you for the in-depth post!
I think we might be boned tbh. Unless Blizzard is feeling supremely kind.
Dead Prince
Banned
joined game in progress with 2.5 mintues left defending route 66. won the match. feelsgoodman.
Instead of looking at medals, look at it from the perspective of contribution to the dynamic. Are you able to stay alive relatively long as Genji? Are enemy players wasting their time following you around trying to kill you on KotH? Do you often catch enemies by surprise from behind while teammates are engaging them? Does that result in their death? Are you deflecting shots from that camping piece of shit Bastion in the annoying corner? If you're doing at least SOME of these things, you're not a waste of a slot. If you're playing the game with an understanding of the objective of the game, even if you're not a great player you're not a waste of a slot. Every bit helps. If you feel that you're not able to achieve much of those points and you are willing to swap to another character, you're not a waste of a slot.
The Hanzo player who never talks, doesn't listen to anyone on the team, and stands in a corner taking pot shots at the enemy team as they are capturing the point without jumping in to contest even as the rest of the team is running to try and fight for overtime, is a waste of a slot.
Dang. Healers get a lot of love on xbox. Rare to see a healer go without at least 2 votes. Especially for Mercy.
thoseAREmySHOES
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masteroverwatch is showing me at comp level 41. Either the game crucified me when the server crashed (as I was comp level 43, on the edge of 44) or it hasn't updated because the server is messed up.
So you mean every pug Hanzo player ever?
Dead Prince
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weekly brawl is crap. fix this shit blizz
i thought default was a circle with a dot in the center lol. that expands depending hero.
Forerunner
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Yeah, it happened to me last game. We were pretty close to winning on Gibraltar, like less than a checkpoint away. Suddenly there is this huge lag spike for a few seconds and someone on our team disconnects. We end up losing, it sucked.
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
Is it better XP / hour with competitive? I never bothered to crunch the numbers.
thoseAREmySHOES
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Alright, the Xbox One servers came back on, still showing me at 43 - so it's not clear if it counted as a loss, but if it did, it didn't punish me horribly.
Doubt it. Time bonus is higher but you get less win/loss bonuses per hour compared to playing QP. Could be wrong though.
naw, like hanzo has his weird 3 line distance thing, soldier has big ass crosshairs, there are others too. most have the circle and dot
Ugh I spent too much time away from ranked... jump in for the first time in like a week and start off good on a neutral CP as Genji but eventually other team switches to stuff I blow against.
By the time we were down 2-1 I had had enough and had to back out after dying like 8 straight times on 8 different heroes. Frustrating. Not gonna spend like 20-30 minutes on unending unfun stalemates dying over and over. Even in ranked.
By the time we were down 2-1 I had had enough and had to back out after dying like 8 straight times on 8 different heroes. Frustrating. Not gonna spend like 20-30 minutes on unending unfun stalemates dying over and over. Even in ranked.
No idea what just happened. Had a game of Defend/Hollywood and the attacking team took the point super quick. They proceeded to barely escort the car at all, mostly just running into the side alleys and dying. They tried to rally at the last minute with a Zen ult, but they never even made it to the first checkpoint.
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_/¯Dead Prince
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you know the other team comp wasn't good when i picked mccree (i never played with him) and still win on defending lol
did you win botH?
did you win botH?
Not sure how you expect that to be prevented considering you queue into each and every match.
Well on KOTH I usually hang out near the objective and pick off targets that are busy shooting my teammates. I also ding the point for overtime for ages until my team gets back.
Mostly I'm just tired of feeling I have to justify wanting to play one of my favourite characters. I'm not awful.
No the first one no one contested the payload and when we got sudden death no one paid attention to the flankers. The second one a teammate chose Bastion on Attack and did not switch off it so we only got it through the first checkpoint.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
How are final blows calculated? Because i can put 1 pip on a dude as the final blow and it'll still count.
Lots of complaints about that, from the community at large and a bunch of streamers.
I'm funner news:
https://gfycat.com/FastHauntingCockatiel
Good way to end a competitive tie breaker where I was on a tear.
Dead Prince
Banned
gross.
in other news. played my first rank for tonight. killed it on both attack/defense at Volksaya.
S76 is so fun to hold down lmb and track them and let they get sprayed with bullets. lol
got POTM riding on the moving platform. while team was on the point for the win.
but one thing i wonder is do people not look at the whole screen or aware of their surrounding or even have their kill feed up. there was a reaper waiting for our doors to open. it was me and lucio at first but i followed reaper to take him out but he ended up getting me because there was a healthpack where he was going. lucio didn't even come to at least chip him before i died. (i should have killed him tbh but i jumped passed him lol. but anyway. while i was waiting to spawn i had a feeling they didn't kill him.so after i spawned i didn't see him on the kill feed up top. and im like. shit. you guys going to kill him or not. luckily their team didn't do so well. once rein decided to charge into us and missed we killed him. took out symmetra's gun and gunning people down. poor Torb idk how he actually got his ult so quick. but luckily S76 gun can shoot long distance and torb's turrent didn't catch me. took it out quick. the most satisfying thing is s76's helix rocket. it's one of those spray all the bullets until ammo is gone and them shoot the helix for maximum damage.
then we got on defense. thinking they might get this. i figured reaper would actually be coming from the left side because i saw how he played.
so i walked over and there he was trying to sneak in. it was him at first then tracer decided to get in on the action but it was fun taking them out and reaper trying to sneak behind to ult us lol. i don't even think he managed to ult because i didn't hear it go off. they never got point A. so easy win. almost ranked up but tonight was poo in QP so i'm not going to take a chance. playing all these QP makes you understand how people play or learn different things to counter them. like you can predict what they are going to do.
chrominance
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In quick play I'd believe this, but competitive feels different somehow. I like to think that I'm smart enough to do all these things (generalized to other characters as my Genji game is poor), but in competitive I rarely get more than one medal, it's rarely anything but bronze, and we rarely win. I'm clearly not carrying our team and our team keeps losing, therefore I have to assume I am in fact a waste of a slot.
Other team just attacked the first point on Numbani during the tiebreaker (competitive) with five Winstons and a Lucio. Needless to say, none of us could even remotely get back in time to even attempt stopping them.
Tough to fight hard during a match and have the win cheesed in about 10 seconds. Blizz doesn't need to force unique heroes necessarily, but maybe limit it to 2 per team?
Tough to fight hard during a match and have the win cheesed in about 10 seconds. Blizz doesn't need to force unique heroes necessarily, but maybe limit it to 2 per team?
robertlebrone
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This is going to sound bad, but I've gotten back to loving this game w/l/d since I've turned off chat.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Even 2 per team is causing some issues in regards to balance.
http://www.planetoverwatch.org/17-overwatch-tier-list-and-meta-report-the-esl-experiment
Double lucio is just, bleh.
yeehamuffins
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Don't know why I keep doing this to myself. 5 competitive matches in solo tonight, 5 straight losses, down to 46 rank. And as I plunge down I'm sure it's only going to get worse. Nobody on voice chat (except one Reaper repeatedly saying "Don't run ahead on your own, group up!" which tells you the caliber of the teams I'm playing with), and bad picks a-plenty. Going to have to finally find a group or resolve myself to hitting rock bottom soon, I guess.
Incitemaybe
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What. The. Fuck.
I was playing Quick Play with randoms. Our team wins.
Next game I see at least one of the people who had been on my team is on the other team. Normal.
We lose. (I blame the level 20 Torb with hilarious turret placing "ability")
Then the screen 0 to 1 pops up......... Why the fuck am I in a competitive game??????
What? I certainly did not choose competitive at any point.
I was playing Quick Play with randoms. Our team wins.
Next game I see at least one of the people who had been on my team is on the other team. Normal.
We lose. (I blame the level 20 Torb with hilarious turret placing "ability")
Then the screen 0 to 1 pops up......... Why the fuck am I in a competitive game??????
What? I certainly did not choose competitive at any point.
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