Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Are the PC servers meant to be down or is it just me?
edit: nvm, just me.
edit: nvm, just me.
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MarioHead3
Banned
Seems like it's mostly for the people that haven't played comp yet, and also kinda just something to break up the seasons.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Also really, do people expect big flactuations in personal skill after just 1 week?
MarioHead3
Banned
I think people just don't know how placements work.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I think it's just a little test of "are you an entirely different person from last season or just mostly the same?"
Ghostbound
Member
I placed a little lower than I would have liked due to some unlucky games, but was easily able to climb back up to where I left off last season (~3600).
MarioHead3
Banned
Seems like it's not even that and it's barely doing anything regardless of how you perform.
Apparently Taimou was streaming himself while primarily practicing Genji. He says he's going to be playing projectile DPS as well as other flex roles from now on. Mickie staying with Envy into Vegas too.
I'm/ not a huge fan of Taimou's personality but I think he's being really smart here.
I'm/ not a huge fan of Taimou's personality but I think he's being really smart here.
Raijin_Cain
Member
Ok, being a noob had some help from ISOM and WyndStriker (dont know if those are their GAF names) and managed to get 6 wins, 3 losses and 1 draw if I remember correctly.
Got 2427.
You need 3000 for a golden gun right? Dont know if I can reach that high.
Got 2427.
You need 3000 for a golden gun right? Dont know if I can reach that high.
What you got is SR.
The 3000 needed for the gun is CP, you get 10 for every win in ranked plus a certain amount in the end of the season, it varies according to your tier.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I was somehow outhealing mercy as zen even before I popped any trancendance (and I didn't pop it for awhile because the other team was baaaaaaaaad).
Lmao.
Lmao.
Raijin_Cain
Member
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
I feel like I see the sane confusion in any game with a ranking system.
Getting the same rank as you ended season 2 after your Season 3 placements makes perfect sense no? Your not going to be anywhat better at the game after the off season week?
I think people just struggle to accept in most cases they aren't as good at games as they like to think. And when their ranks don't reflect their own self inflated sense of skill they complain and whine.
This isn't directed at anyone here, just something I've noticed since the Halo 2 days of ranking systems and all the others over the years.
Getting the same rank as you ended season 2 after your Season 3 placements makes perfect sense no? Your not going to be anywhat better at the game after the off season week?
I think people just struggle to accept in most cases they aren't as good at games as they like to think. And when their ranks don't reflect their own self inflated sense of skill they complain and whine.
This isn't directed at anyone here, just something I've noticed since the Halo 2 days of ranking systems and all the others over the years.
MarioHead3
Banned
It has more to do with the fact that the game shows your winrate across your placement matches as though it means something when it really doesn't. Moonmoon won like 2 matches and placed immediately in grandmaster, while some people won nearly all of them and placed in gold or silver.
But I think some people may be under the impression that it's supposed to a complete reset or something. It's really just more of a formality than anything else.
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
You are right though. I'd assume the win rate bring front and center is because it's an easy statistic to understand.
But there's so many variables beyond how many games you win. It all depends entirely on the skills of your teammates and your opponents on each and every game.
Those two games he won could've been against a really high ranked team and the skills of the teammates could have been much lower, thus making those wins "more valuable" than a closely matched pair of teams.
I see the complaints with competitive being "toxic" now.
Did the 10 qualifying rounds last night and pulled worse teams than I've gotten in almost any quick play. Not as far as individual skill levels but in terms of people just freelancing and not playing to the objective. Not what I expected at all.
Then this morning I played a competitive king of the hill game and one dude wouldn't shut up about how we needed more DPS and the person playing Sombra should change off of Sombra to give us more DPS. He was playing Mei.
Other than bitching about other people's picks absolutely zero dialogue too. Other than the occasional "killed you like a n*".
Goddamn humanity, why you gotta be like this?
Did the 10 qualifying rounds last night and pulled worse teams than I've gotten in almost any quick play. Not as far as individual skill levels but in terms of people just freelancing and not playing to the objective. Not what I expected at all.
Then this morning I played a competitive king of the hill game and one dude wouldn't shut up about how we needed more DPS and the person playing Sombra should change off of Sombra to give us more DPS. He was playing Mei.
Other than bitching about other people's picks absolutely zero dialogue too. Other than the occasional "killed you like a n*".
Goddamn humanity, why you gotta be like this?
Paltheos
Member
Dunno what you guys are talking about. Like last season, I placed fairly lower than my final ranking (which is around where I usually played). In season 2 I was placed at ~2250, peaked short of ~2800, and finished at ~2550. This season I was placed at ~2350 and am anticipating climbing higher. I think the ranking is still busted and punishes healers. Ah well.
I played a couple, crazy games with Zarya. My first one (Lijang) was nuts. I got 50 elims, 22k damage, and had 45% average energy through the game... and we lost. Felt bad. Not long after I got another KotH on Nepal and my team managed to come back from an 0-2 deficit. I got 63 elims that game, competing with the Dva on our team who squirelled the gold away at 64.
I played a couple, crazy games with Zarya. My first one (Lijang) was nuts. I got 50 elims, 22k damage, and had 45% average energy through the game... and we lost. Felt bad. Not long after I got another KotH on Nepal and my team managed to come back from an 0-2 deficit. I got 63 elims that game, competing with the Dva on our team who squirelled the gold away at 64.
I went 7-3 playing as Reinhardt against almost all Platinum and some Diamond players. It places me in LOW Platinum, with an even lower SR than last season. Can't really explain that one.
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Banned
Servers seem to be down for me on PS4.
LifEndz
Member
Same. Time to force myself through Mocking Jay part 1.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Yep, 6-4 but barely made it past gold.
Probably where I'm truly am if I'm being honest, though I wonder if playing some really shitty games as soldier brought me down. Like, don't force me to DPS if it's not mei lmao.
I felt like I played some truly good ana games though.
Bumbletron
Member
Everyone is placing generally a tier below where they were last season. I believe they said it's because they don't want people placing higher than they should be, and if they keep playing, they should rise to their actual level after some time.
I don't think so. I think it's more gold players at least from what I've seen heard that are starting much lower than last season.
I think for plat and above everyone's sr has remained the same.
Out of our 5 stack yesterday 4 of us placed near or above their ending sr from last season. The four of us were plat/diamond. The gold in our team got placed in silver.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Still, low gold I may be, my ana stats pretty much doubled this season (small sample size, but you know), so I'm happy that I at least showed some improvements.
I guess I'll be waiting a bit longer, then.
It might be because the majority of the last season players are gold/plat, so the most radical SR changes are happening to this group.
ArgyleReptile
Banned
So what you're saying is I can join competitive without a headset and not feel guilty?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
There was an insane amount of torb tonight..
They don't really seem like trolling though.
They don't really seem like trolling though.
Ive noticed a lot of torb as well and don't think a single team that had him won though lol
MarioHead3
Banned
Well, he did get buffed.
I've played both past 2 seasons on solo queue with no headset.
MarioHead3
Banned
According to some people here, you're a terrible person and should not be allowed to breed.
I played primarily support and tank, did not play any competitive last season, went 4-6 and got a 1822 rank. I could definitely have played better, hurt myself trying to play the meta and taking Ana when I'm much better with Zen, didn't anticipate the immediate bump in competitive players ability to not shoot Zarya's bubble, etc.. However, I also basically carried my teams to three of the four wins with a Rein damage block card of one 16,000 on a defense map, a Zenyatta 49% kill involvement with four medals, two golds, and a D.Va round with a 16 kill streak, 32 total kills (gold medal there and damage, silver on objective kills) and won play of the game with her. The other win I had a solid Roadhog with 11:6 k:d, gold medal on healing somehow, and gold on objective time.
Lot of Torb in my games. 4-5 of the 6 losses if I recall had him. Once had an attack map with him, Hanzo, Junkrat, and Sombra all on my team.
ArgyleReptile
Banned
Good enough for me. *Boots up Overwatch*
But I bet they had a lot of fun...
iosa
Member
So I was playing Reinhardt yesterday on Mysteries Heroes and I charged out of spawn to get back to the battle.
What a surprise when I saw that I killed a Sombra with that charge
On an unrelated note I'll be building my first gaming PC this weekend (my laptop just died) so I'll probably make the jump from PS4
What a surprise when I saw that I killed a Sombra with that charge
On an unrelated note I'll be building my first gaming PC this weekend (my laptop just died) so I'll probably make the jump from PS4
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
So I was playing Reinhardt yesterday on Mysteries Heroes and I charged out of spawn to get back to the battle.
What a surprise when I saw that I killed a Sombra with that charge
On an unrelated note I'll be building my first gaming PC this weekend (my laptop just died) so I'll probably make the jump from PS4
Funny, I did the same thing in a competitive round last night when trying to boost back to the control center during overtime.
Psychoward
Banned
Not really, it exists for a reason. Obviously it's not the only important thing but it is a factor. We had a Junkrat last night who kept feeding Zarya charge and he refused to switch off even though every time I encountered Zarya she had 100 charge.
Overwatch is a game with distinct, unique heroes and hard counters so obviously a meta is going to be prevalent across all skill levels.
Psychoward
Banned
Oh no I wasn't giving you shit for it, I was just confused why someone with so little hours in the game would like it enough to make an icon out of one of the characters ya know. Switching over makes sense tho
So even though I spent most of the season near diamond I'm gonna get the rank that the last two days of season 2 gave me after countless cancer games with people throwing. GG, Blizzard, makes complete sense. I can't wait to climb from almost gold again. So pumped for my placement games.
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