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[supermetfreud]

Solo QP? Or did you mean comp?

Solo QP. I think what's killing me is that the matchmaking thinks I can carry people who are just starting out because of my level when in reality I'm a very, very average player.

 

[Vault Dweller 111]

I mean, taste and all, but i always thought this looked terrible.

Its fucking hideous

 

[Snacks the sober sea lion]

I am not a fan of that Zarya skin. Glowing blue hair doesn't really fit with Overwatch.

And that it is going to sound really stupid when this game goes the way of TF2.

 

[Jellie]

Is it just bugged?

Also am i right in thinking that a close up barrage is one of the few things trancendance can't heal through? Had a graviton barrage combo last night that seemed to have killed everyone even though i was transcending.

Ana grenade? Maybe their team also contributed and out damaged the heal together?

 

[ramyeon]

Probably been said before but where the fuck is my Thunder Guard Skin

Tone it down alittle and give me the skin with the new ability effects!

Please, no.

This is terrible.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Ana grenade? Maybe their team also contributed and out damaged the heal together?

I don't remember an ana, but could be.

Just looking at the numbers and it's 40 damage per rocket and 30 rockets per second so it is possible i think?

 

[Laws00]

I guess Free to play started on Xbox as im downloading it now. I don't know about PS4

 

[Rad-]

Good games Nuno Pinto and Optimus. Though that Route 66 loss triggered me.

 

[Data West]

Please, no.

This is terrible.

so it fits with every other zarya skin

 

[optimus8936]

Good games Nuno Pinto and Optimus. Though that Route 66 loss triggered me.

GGs! Those last two KOTH games had me crying tears of joy with those beautiful team comps.

 

[Tovarisc]

so it fits with every other zarya skin

Summer Games skins for her stand out quite a bit by being actually decent.

 

[Antiwhippy]

I dunno, I like zarya's default look. Love me some pink hair though.

Olympic zarya is pretty good also.

 

[Nephix]

So this just happened

And they got so tilted we actually won the match somehow lol

 

[IKizzLE]

The Solo Q gods have been looking favorably on me.
Less than 100 points away from Master!!

 

[ramyeon]

so it fits with every other zarya skin

Her default look and recolours are fine (Midnight is great), her Siberian one and recolour are just okay and the Summer Games ones are neat.

Only really awful Zarya skin is the Punk ones. She doesn't suffer from having terrible skins, she just doesn't have any really stand out ones.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

The Solo Q gods have been looking favorably on me.
Less than 100 points away from Master!!

Solo Q and Master? wow not bad.

 

[Nuno Pinto]

Good games Nuno Pinto and Optimus. Though that Route 66 loss triggered me.

Yup, today was a good day, thank you. But that f*cking game... can't believe what happened. If the Junkrat had picked a Reinhardt we would have won easily, it wasn't even a complete checkpoint ffs. Next time I'm going Bastion lol.

GGs! Those last two KOTH games had me crying tears of joy with those beautiful team comps.

Yup, those were very solid wins. Sorry you had to switch to Zarya from Reaper on Ilios, but I really suck as a tank, unlike you. Thx for the bubble shields!

Also, ggs Jellie and the other guys on QP. Right now I don't feel 100% confident with 3 tanks/3 supports, Zenyatta/Ana have to be extremely efficient at picking targets from a distance. The bastion/pharah were extremely annoying.

 

[IKizzLE]

Solo Q and Master? wow not bad.

Well, primarily in 2 or 3 man groups. But I've been streaking in solo Q lately and moving quicker than I have in any of my previous groups.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

So this just happened

And they got so tilted we actually won the match somehow lol

Amazing.

 

[optimus8936]

Yup, today was a good day, thank you. But that f*cking game... can't believe what happened. If the Junkrat had picked a Reinhardt we would have won easily, it wasn't even a complete checkpoint ffs. Next time I'm going Bastion lol.



Yup, those were very solid wins. Sorry you had to switch to Zarya from Reaper on Ilios, but I really suck as a tank, unlike you. Thx for the bubble shields!

Also, ggs Jellie and the other guys on QP. Right now I don't feel 100% confident with 3 tanks/3 supports, Zenyatta/Ana have to be extremely efficient at picking targets from a distance. The bastion/pharah were extremely annoying.

Nah, it's cool, I had a great game as Zarya there anyways, so it all works out

 

[Izayoi]

All of my friends placed high silver/low gold and pretty soon I'm not going to be able to play with them... 😢

Maybe I should just throw the match for a few games? I'd feel bad...

At least my wife is almost plat.

 

[Ramirez]

The Solo Q gods have been looking favorably on me.
Less than 100 points away from Master!!

And you said I was lucky with solo que, lol.

 

[Gorillaz]

don't know who said it earlier but now I have to agree

these dudes that jump straight to junk rat at the jump usually never carry their weight in kills I realized this a week or so ago for the first time

 

[Plywood]

When you go through a teammate's teleporter

When you go through the teleporter and it's facing the wrong way

 

[Antiwhippy]

Is junkrat the new hanzo?

 

[antitrop]

I finally got good with Zarya. Took a long time and she's been one of my weakest characters that I've been actually interested in playing, so feels good.

Is junkrat the new hanzo?

I'll always be happy to have a Junkrat on my team.

I've run into far more useful ones than bad ones. If he's useless, it's probably the rest of the team's fault for not taking advantage of the insane DPS he's doing. Usually happens when there are two flanking DPSs like Reaper and Genji along with him and Junkrat is left to try to clear off the objective by himself. Yeah, he can't do that, but it's not his fault. It's one of the other DPS's fault for not being a character that can follow-up.

Everyone wants to play the lone wolf and then complains when the rest of the team isn't taking care of the objective. People want to do what they see on pro streams, but I find normal players work better when everyone just groups up.

Junkrat exists to punish and discourage the other team from grouping up. Rip-Tire is invaluable for getting to those healers in the back line. The sound of Junkrat ulting is like the Jaws theme to healers.

 

[BaraSailey]

Trying to get a team going for competitive on PS4 if anyone is up for it. My PSN's the same as my username, so just add me if you've got a slot or want to team up

 

[Pachimari]

To me, Zarya is the character with the worst design but it's not bad by any means. That said, do Blizzard plan on giving away or selling the Summer Games loot, and to introduce Lucio Ball again? I didn't get to try anything out during Summer Games.

 

[Kysen]

The decision I made to only queue after 11:30pm has paid dividends for getting out of the early season doldrums. Gained 200 rating today and the quality of matches is so much better.

 

[Vault Dweller 111]

Last nights great success has me feeling over confident. At 3240, now I feel like I can get master.

 

[antitrop]

To me, Zarya is the character with the worst design but it's not bad by any means.

You mean aesthetically? I would agree with that. Kit-wise? I don't.

 

[ramyeon]

To me, Zarya is the character with the worst design but it's not bad by any means. That said, do Blizzard plan on giving away or selling the Summer Games loot, and to introduce Lucio Ball again? I didn't get to try anything out during Summer Games.

Summer Games stuff will be back next Summer.

 

[Terareflection]

Do the console gamers here just use a standard ps4 controller?

Also how do the console gamers here aim? Do you use mostly the left or right stick?

 

[finalflame]

Does everyone here just use a standard ps4 controller?

Nah, I use M+KB (PC).

Spoiler

 

[Terareflection]

Nah, I use M+KB (PC).

Spoiler

lol, well of course I am talking about ps4 people.

 

[antitrop]

Do the console gamers here just use a standard ps4 controller?

Also how do the console gamers here aim? Do you use mostly the left or right stick?

If I'm shooting at someone moving side to side, left stick, otherwise right stick.

I use a PS4 controller with XB1 analog sticks.

 

[optimus8936]

Do the console gamers here just use a standard ps4 controller?

Also how do the console gamers here aim? Do you use mostly the left or right stick?

I use the standard and the right stick.

 

[Ertai]

At 2500ish rank, this is just the absolute worst.

We have lost so many games in overtime now it's just ridiculous. Dying seconds and people just stop playing and get killed and we throw away a perfectly controlled match just like that. We even lost a King's Row match because we drew, enemy team had 1 minute to capture the payload and they did so in overtime and managed to push it almost to the end. I'm getting so, so frustrated with this shit it's just not fun anymore.

I mean, i win some as well but the ones that i do lose are just so, so unneeded because it's always shit like this. It's just not needed.

 

[ramyeon]

At 2500ish rank, this is just the absolute worst.

We have lost so many games in overtime now it's just ridiculous. Dying seconds and people just stop playing and get killed and we throw away a perfectly controlled match just like that. We even lost a King's Row match because we drew, enemy team had 1 minute to capture the payload and they did so in overtime and managed to push it almost to the end. I'm getting so, so frustrated with this shit it's just not fun anymore

I finally got to Platinum 2500 last night and then had 3 games in a row with people leaving mid way. We were winning all those games before people left and then got stomped afterwards.

Back to the 2300s now.

 

[Antiwhippy]

I finally got good with Zarya. Took a long time and she's been one of my weakest characters that I've been actually interested in playing, so feels good.



I'll always be happy to have a Junkrat on my team.

I've run into far more useful ones than bad ones. If he's useless, it's probably the rest of the team's fault for not taking advantage of the insane DPS he's doing. Usually happens when there are two flanking DPSs like Reaper and Genji along with him and Junkrat is left to try to clear off the objective by himself. Yeah, he can't do that, but it's not his fault. It's one of the other DPS's fault for not being a character that can follow-up.

Everyone wants to play the lone wolf and then complains when the rest of the team isn't taking care of the objective. People want to do what they see on pro streams, but I find normal players work better when everyone just groups up.

Junkrat exists to punish and discourage the other team from grouping up. Rip-Tire is invaluable for getting to those healers in the back line. The sound of Junkrat ulting is like the Jaws theme to healers.

I'm happy to have him on defense, it's just that from my experience playing with junkrats on attack is that his values are greatly diminished when the other team doesn't actually have to go through the chokepoint grenade spam that he excels at.

Junkrats on attack can't even lay on enough dps in my experience.

 

[optimus8936]

I'm happy to have him on defense, it's just that from my experience playing with junkrats on attack is that his values greatly diminished when the other team doesn't actually have to go through the chokepoint grenade spam that he excels at.

Junkrats on attack can't even lay on enough dps in my experience.

Yeah, if you want a spam hero on offense, Hanzo does it much better than Junk.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Also he loses really badly to any entrenched mid range dps. Especially hitscan. I made an attack junkrat's life hell as soldier.

Also soldier is back to being my defense dps of choice, especially on maps where you can hold the high ground.

 

[antitrop]

Also he loses really badly to any entrenched mid range dps. Especially hitscan. I made an attack junkrat's life hell as soldier.

Also soldier is back to being my defense dps of choice, especially on maps where you can hold the high ground.

Soldier is the most underrated DPS. McCree may be better in the hands of a pro, but Competitive isn't MLG. Most people who play McCree would just do more damage with Soldier, but noooooooooooooooooooo

 

[Plesiades]

Blizzard should implement a small quiz if you want to play competitive.

1. When you're defending... what happens if you stand next to the payload or inside the capture point?

a) You contest it.
b) Nothing. I can stand where I want and shoot the bad guys :^)

Spoiler

The Thunder Guard skin is terrible

 

[xaosslug]

so tired of quitters. Solo q will be the death of my interest in comp.-__-

Blizzard should implement a scarlet letter sort of marker in peeps' career profile under 'how many games left' so peeps can know!

 

[Antiwhippy]

Soldier is the most underrated DPS. McCree may be better in the hands of a pro, but Competitive isn't MLG. Most people who play McCree would just do more damage with Soldier, but noooooooooooooooooooo

Yeah I really want to bring my mccree to competitive, but I don't fully trust myself/solo q teams so I'll go soldier for self-sustain and also being more forgiving.

 

[HiiiLife]

Really wish games nowadays would just do what Halo 3 did and let you party up immediately post game.

"Press X to lobby up" or some shit. That was so easy when you played with cool randoms on 360 and you just automatically search after together as a team after countdown timer was finished.

 

[Ertai]

Blizzard should implement a small quiz if you want to play competitive.

1. When you're defending... what happens if you stand next to the payload or inside the capture point?

a) You contest it.
b) Nothing. I can stand where I want and shoot the bad guys :^)

Spoiler

The Thunder Guard skin is terrible

I've also seen so many games where they have a Reinhardt on the payload which moves and we have a Reinhardt away from the payload. He just stands there and doesnt move at all and lets the other team gain ground. Contesting? What does that do?

 

[exYle]

A few days ago I was part of a GAF competitive train and we had the most clutch match on King's Row - all the way to Round 4 with us on defense for the last round. I couldn't find a way to put footage from this match into my edited videos, but at the same time, I couldn't let this insanity go un-immortalized. So I just uploaded it directly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbLyqBsGDUs

Featuring Fatal_X_Fate as the GOAT Mercy

 

[MarioHead3]

A few days ago I was part of a GAF competitive train and we had the most clutch match on King's Row - all the way to Round 4 with us on defense for the last round. I couldn't find a way to put footage from this match into my edited videos, but at the same time, I couldn't let this insanity go un-immortalized. So I just uploaded it directly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbLyqBsGDUs

Featuring Fatal_X_Fate as the GOAT Mercy

Was this the one where half of the enemy the team disconnected?