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Overwatch |OT4| You Want A Good Genji, But You Need The Bad Hanzo
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Agreed. Yes, you're level 26 and you got lucky/carried through your placement matches. Please, by all means, demonstrate your amazing Genji flanking ability while the enemy caps the final point.
The bigger numbers are player levels gained with exp. They don't correlate with skill, only playtime.
Typically when I get healing duty I'll play Lucio first and then when I see everyone dying, not waiting for my heals, not waiting for my amp, not coordinating a strike with my ult I just figure I have no choice but to play Mercy.
Sparrowhawk
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I prefer Safari just because blue is my favorite color.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I've met 300+ lvls ranked under 40.
Sparrowhawk
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Yeah, it can honestly go either way. Sure, it takes some time to learn the nuances of Overwatch, but someone's level doesn't always correspond to how well they can move a cursor over your face and click.
broncobuster
Banned
Tensest game of the day went five rounds, gained four gold medals; something like over 70 objective eliminations, over ten minutes on the objective, etc. Going into overtime, I'm trying my very best to pull through. We managed to pull through and win. Would've been crushing if we lost. Went back to casual matches to cool off.
Same team that managed to get caught in Reaper's ult three times in one round. Reaper wasn't clever about it. Walked in, easily telegraphed, wiped them out. At the time I'm playing Lucio; turned around, went back to the entrance to speed boost my newly revived team forward.
Same team that managed to get caught in Reaper's ult three times in one round. Reaper wasn't clever about it. Walked in, easily telegraphed, wiped them out. At the time I'm playing Lucio; turned around, went back to the entrance to speed boost my newly revived team forward.
Sparrowhawk
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Those games are honestly the best. Like, you know that if you lose you're going to punch a hole in your wall, but winning feels sooo good.
I really need to stop playing solo, and just get a group so I can get my rank back, and then push further. I'm not too comfortable with voice chatting, but I'm willing to do my best if anyone's up for it (PC).
Where is a good place to look for a group online? It doesn't have to be GAF. I play on Asia during evening JST so it's hard to play with people I know online. They're all in a different timezone! And my few IRL friends are either way ahead of me, or way below in ranks (and unranked).
Where is a good place to look for a group online? It doesn't have to be GAF. I play on Asia during evening JST so it's hard to play with people I know online. They're all in a different timezone! And my few IRL friends are either way ahead of me, or way below in ranks (and unranked).
Don Draper's Hat
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Yeah, but I would argue that someone who has played long enough to get to rank 20-odd for a THIRD time and has a competitive rating of 54 will be better than someone who is ranked 49 with a competitive rating of 56.
Edit: Oh, I finally got my first win in about 7 games. Nepal. All but one person on the opposite side quit at the start of the third round. Such bollocks. That one person got POTG though, using Pharrah's ULT in their spawn point. Pretty funny.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
DeSo
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Will have to give that a go next time. Thought the extra spot would be better served by DPS.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Sparrowhawk
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Maybe I need to try it out because I feel like I'll never get that Zen achievement. ._.
I haven't experienced being in groups that focus on being a single hero/herone, but I can see that being a reasonable reason.
I guess that there really isn't any incentive for me to join rank play, unless Blizzard will have new costumes that can only be unlocked through Competitive Mode.
I got it the other day in competitive. Competitive seems to be good for getting a lot of the achievements done, as everyone tends to bunch, and it makes big plays easier.
I ended up getting it with a well-timed Transcendence to counter a Graviton Surge.
Unless you mean the one for the Discord Orb, which I'm still struggling with.
Sparrowhawk
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I don't have either of them, but the Discord one is what I'm afraid of. :/
Also, the amount of salt you get from your TEAMMATES when you lose in Competitive is just sad. You can't win them all, not everyone is MLG. It's not as bad as CS but damn.
I feel you on waiting for skins. I'm not spending any of my gold because I feel like as soon as I do, they're going to add a ton of awesome skins that I wish I'd saved for.
Blame the system ! Players will always use and abuse the cheapest things.
The Torb nerf is coming this month, not sure if that'll change anything.
Sparrowhawk
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It's definitely annoying. It sucks because when dealing with Bastions, you can usually counter with Genji, but Torbjorn's turret has such a slow rate of fire. That auto aim is the killer. Dva's Ult can tear the turrets (and maybe some players) up, maybe a Reinhardt + Pharah?
I don't know if I agree with Blizzard saying that hero stacking is a "core" strategy.
Forerunner
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WTF are these teams?
Also the game before I had a player that started to grief and just went afk the whole match. Obviously we lost, but we all reported him (even players on the other team), so hopefully he gets dealt with.
I hardly got any rank points lol.
Also the game before I had a player that started to grief and just went afk the whole match. Obviously we lost, but we all reported him (even players on the other team), so hopefully he gets dealt with.
Leavers in this game suck so much. We only got 2 points out of 3 on attack, and that was reason enough for someone on our time to leave. This of course started a chain reaction, and before round 2 even started we were then down to just two people. Stuck around till the end and still lost half a rank.
The XP penalty alone clearly isn't harsh enough since people are still constantly leaving the matches.
The XP penalty alone clearly isn't harsh enough since people are still constantly leaving the matches.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Thing is that the penalty also includes keeping them out of games, but it seems that it's still too forgiving of the number of games they can leave on.
Plus they drop rank too.
Yeah... I'm not playing ranked for another week or so. I was placed at 50, am now sitting at 46 because I had 7 (!!!) games in a row with people leaving.
And the "have a leaver then lose" penalty is crazy.
So not risking losing more rank just because leavers haven't been removed from comp yet
And the "have a leaver then lose" penalty is crazy.
So not risking losing more rank just because leavers haven't been removed from comp yet
LumpOfCole
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I don't think this is an economical plan. Over time as boxes are unlocked, you'll save more by letting the game unlock the cheap stuff for you instead of effectively earning less when those items unlock as duplicates and getting 1/5 the value of those unlocks back.
I've been struggling with attack on capture maps (even point A and sudden death) the last couple nights with 4 - 6 player groups, with a team rank in the low to mid 40s. My teams usually don't push in a very organized fashion, our Mercy is constantly taken out by flankers before pushes start, etc.
On console are most full teams coordinating well in ranked? Is there an established console meta for capture maps?
On console are most full teams coordinating well in ranked? Is there an established console meta for capture maps?
LumpOfCole
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I clawed up from rank 43 to finally reach 50 last night. I'm going to sit pretty at 50 until all the leaver / rank fix changes are implemented and stick to quick play in the meantime.
Also people should stop telling me that Mei isn't an attack character. I will ruin payload defenses as Mei.
Also people should stop telling me that Mei isn't an attack character. I will ruin payload defenses as Mei.
Don Draper's Hat
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Yeah... I'm not playing ranked for another week or so. I was placed at 50, am now sitting at 46 because I had 7 (!!!) games in a row with people leaving.
And the "have a leaver then lose" penalty is crazy.
So not risking losing more rank just because leavers haven't been removed from comp yet
It's fucking stupid is what it is. I just had a game where 4 of my team left after we lost the first round on Lijang Tower. It's so stupid. People who quit a game should have to wait an hour before they can play again. If you get disconnected accidentally there's plenty of time to rejoin.
They also need to sort out Sudden Death. 90 seconds to capture that first point on Temple of Anubis is an absolute joke.
Itaremustbedangeres
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This happens to me on pc as well. Might be due to my gpu being 6 years old now, because after roughly 10-30 seconds everyone starts popping up :/
That is not always the case. On multiple occasion, I have had people in my group get DC'd and they couldn't rejoin in time due to Blizzard's servers screwing up.
It's why the time bank system they have for season 2 is just as bad in my opinion, still going to lead to long ass games. I just want two rounds, defend and attack, and whoever sets the fastest time wins, simple.
Dead Prince
Banned
i just woke up. i meant to click QP but i'm in comp #RIP
at least it's Lijiang Tower
at least it's Lijiang Tower
The only problem with Stopwatch Rules is that it favors certain comps over others. That's probably the main reason Blizzard refuses to implement them.
Dead Prince
Banned
edgy af. paying reaper with the name DeadPrince. #RIP
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