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Sparrowhawk
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This is like half the games I play lol. Someone always has to try to MLG noscope as Widow or Ana on attack.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Depends really. Sometimes (most times really) it's better to follow your DPS/tank and support them in a team fight even if they do expand beyond the payload, because if you win the teamfight (sometimes in a better positioning than where the payload is atm), you buy time to push the payload as they are respawning. Meanwhile if you don't support them in the fight, they will most likely lose and you get forced off the payload anyway.
Sparrowhawk
Member
Better than healers solely pushing the payload and not healing haha.
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Banned
Had a weird match on Gibraltar where the enemy just kind of forgot about the payload, they were sitting up top poking at us and time expired without them even noticing. Lucky, because we didn't even push it to the first point.
The longer the game is out, the higher the chance of that happening. At least from my experience of other online multiplayer games.
MarioHead3
Banned
My group of friends quit back to Dota so I have no pre-made anymore
You have hundreds of friends here.
My group of friends quit back to Dota so I have no pre-made anymore
My friends all play on PS4, but I play on PC. :x
Eu or Na?
Australia.
NeoRaider
Member
I have many ppl from GAF on the list but they are barely inviting. (Some of them are on NA servers i guess)
And usually when i enter the game, ppl are already in the middle of the match and i don't want to bother them.
I wish i had friend or two to play Competitive with because playing solo queue 80% of the time can be frustrating and so bad. Many times it's ok tho. but some ppl are just too much.
And usually when i enter the game, ppl are already in the middle of the match and i don't want to bother them.
I wish i had friend or two to play Competitive with because playing solo queue 80% of the time can be frustrating and so bad. Many times it's ok tho. but some ppl are just too much.
xChildOfHatex
Member
Hey guys, I'm new to the game. Just started playing Ranked/Competitive. It's slightly frustrating playing with randoms, so how do I go about joining the Discord server?
I saw in the first post "Quote to see" but I'm sorry it didn't make any sense to me. My apologies.
I saw in the first post "Quote to see" but I'm sorry it didn't make any sense to me. My apologies.
xChildOfHatex
Member
Thank you very much. Just want to know one more thing. I'm not a very good fps player. Got ranked at 1600, so are there people here who'd be fine playing with someone of middling skills?
Well, in comp probably not from my group. I know a few of us wouldn't mind bringing you into QP to learn and just hang out, but we wouldn't be able to queue comp cause SR limit.
xChildOfHatex
Member
QP is fine too. Even playing QP solo is like trying to bring down a wall by bashing your head against it. No one wants to play healer or tank apparently.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Got grouped up as a solo with 2 premades groups.
4 of them went hanzo/junkrat/mei/bastion.
Thinking to myself "Ah fuck"
Other guy left. Match cancelled.
Thank christ.
Being teamed up with premades is honestly just as much of a gamble as pure solo Qs.
4 of them went hanzo/junkrat/mei/bastion.
Thinking to myself "Ah fuck"
Other guy left. Match cancelled.
Thank christ.
Being teamed up with premades is honestly just as much of a gamble as pure solo Qs.
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Banned
I played with a Bastion earlier who wrecked the enemy team. Made me kind of nostalgic.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
A person name RonPaul2020 maining Dva.
MarioHead3
Banned
Political humor always flies right over my head.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Yay, another ana potg!
Just lifesaver though, but whatever. Also healed 31% of the damage on the assholes of my team because I was pretty much solo healing most of the time yet I only got 1 vote.
Just lifesaver though, but whatever. Also healed 31% of the damage on the assholes of my team because I was pretty much solo healing most of the time yet I only got 1 vote.
Nuno Pinto
Member
It's like he was caught in the middle of two kamehameha and survived.
Earthpainting
Member
I've been playing almost nothing but Mystery Heroes since the Arcade opened up. Taking people's character-choices away makes the matches a lot more relaxed and easy-going. I wish the randomisation was a little more intelligent though. Sometimes the attacking or defending team gets unlucky a bunch of times in a row, making it impossible for them to have any momentum. Trying to avoid duplicate picks would also be welcome, since they are really common.
Kaffeemann
Banned
I'd like to add in not to ignore his alt fire. If you're coming around a corner towards a choke point, unleashing his alt on an unsuspecting Mei or Junkrat will land more kills than you think. Also, I've gotten so many kills this way as soon as the spawn door opens on attack, usually a spam Junkrat
Good points.
I noticed that I almost never use his alt fire. Should definitely work on this.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Someone named DeportSombra playing Dva.
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xChildOfHatex
Member
How do you even remember these randoms' names? I forget them as soon as the match is over, even if they were toxic assholes during the match. I do remember someone called Genji, who was playing... you guessed it Genji. He got into a row with some other dude on the team and they started comparing their highest eliminations records and shitting on each other's play. I was playing Lucio (I think) and trying to keep these two jerkoffs alive while they were too busy trying to one up each other.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Because I'm playing with them right now.
I just needed to kill time in between waiting for the matches to start.
Also I find it weird how american politics somehow entered australian servers.
And they somehow all main Dva.
I just needed to kill time in between waiting for the matches to start.
Also I find it weird how american politics somehow entered australian servers.
And they somehow all main Dva.
MarioHead3
Banned
When you see a man named BootyJazz, you never forget that shit.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Also had a pretty decent ana night I'd say.
Now you might think "god you're dying a lot", but I've been working on a theory I have about ana this season.
It's that ana is really good at enabling a lot of shitty plays.
Reinhardt or tanks in general charging in at a numbers disadvantage? Follow them, biotic grenade, sleep dart someone, enemy can't heal, your tanks can't die, so you generally win out.
DPS overextending.like crazy? Follow them, biotic grenade, sleep dart someone, enemy can't heal, your DPS can't die, so you generally win out.
It's been working out more often than not. It means I often die because I'm in shitty positioning (which I still must work on honestly), but usually if my team wins the fight it's worth it.
Which is why I'm not as sympathetic to healers who stay glued to the payload 24/7 and whine that their team isn't but you know what, your job isn't to support the payload, it's to support the team, and if your support can help your team win the teamfight generally means a free push on the payload. So even if your team is making shitty plays it's better to follow along and turn it into a good one. More often than not the support not doing so is what makes it a shitty play.
Though of course my theory could go to shit any day due to the lucky draw that is solo Q.
Also I still need to learn how to lay on more damage consistently.
Now you might think "god you're dying a lot", but I've been working on a theory I have about ana this season.
It's that ana is really good at enabling a lot of shitty plays.
Reinhardt or tanks in general charging in at a numbers disadvantage? Follow them, biotic grenade, sleep dart someone, enemy can't heal, your tanks can't die, so you generally win out.
DPS overextending.like crazy? Follow them, biotic grenade, sleep dart someone, enemy can't heal, your DPS can't die, so you generally win out.
It's been working out more often than not. It means I often die because I'm in shitty positioning (which I still must work on honestly), but usually if my team wins the fight it's worth it.
Which is why I'm not as sympathetic to healers who stay glued to the payload 24/7 and whine that their team isn't but you know what, your job isn't to support the payload, it's to support the team, and if your support can help your team win the teamfight generally means a free push on the payload. So even if your team is making shitty plays it's better to follow along and turn it into a good one. More often than not the support not doing so is what makes it a shitty play.
Though of course my theory could go to shit any day due to the lucky draw that is solo Q.
Also I still need to learn how to lay on more damage consistently.
MarioHead3
Banned
Isn't that kinda what every healer is designed to do to a certain extent? The ideal situation would be taking so little damage that a healer is unnecessary. Of course, that's probably not even remotely feasible for a human to pull off regularly, but all that matters to me is being technically correct.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Yeah, I think so, I just find her kit hilariously overpowered in that sense.
Like pubs are real bad at dealing with anti-heal. They generally don't have another ana to do a counter grenade (playing against another ana is where I have the most difficulty), and their lucio usually don't think to speedboost to disengage. So that really stupid rein charge that should result in a reinhardt death 9 times out of 10 might result in them losing 3 people just from a swinging rein that just won't die. Like half the time I ult is to make sure our reinhardt doesn't die for nothing.
Biotic grenade is so good though, seriously.
Probably going to work less as I go to higher elos, but hopefully by then I don't actually have to try to follow along really stupid plays.
Also getting better at not panicking when I'm sleep darting ulting soldiers.
divisionbyzorro
Member
I finished up my 9th placement game last night; currently 6-2-1 in placements. I had some amazing supports on my team last night; I went 70-6 as D.va on Volskaya with 4 golds and POTG, and I felt really bad that the game didn't give more credit to our Ana who kept me alive in some crazy situations.
New D.va is nuts, by the way. I've been picking her whenever I can, and she just wrecks. That 100HP buff was way too damn much.
New D.va is nuts, by the way. I've been picking her whenever I can, and she just wrecks. That 100HP buff was way too damn much.
Raijin_Cain
Member
I have to say playing as support when your team sucks makes the game really boring.
I tried playing comp last night. First game. Played as Lucio. My team was utter crap.
I tried the heal best I could but, my God, my team sucked.
SO it was just me trying not to die and time passing.
I stopped after that first match.
I tried playing comp last night. First game. Played as Lucio. My team was utter crap.
I tried the heal best I could but, my God, my team sucked.
SO it was just me trying not to die and time passing.
I stopped after that first match.
divisionbyzorro
Member
That's the Lucio problem. He's so good that he's a must-have, but he's boring as hell to actually play.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
And with his healing nerf he's even shittier if you want to play as a healer to keep people alive.
Speed is ace though.
I've pretty much dropped lucio in favour of ana because of this, and also because ana is a crapton fun to play. I'd thought I'd move onto DVa because she was my main but a)people are instalocking DVa all the time and b)I'm super into playing ana nowadays.
Speed is ace though.
I've pretty much dropped lucio in favour of ana because of this, and also because ana is a crapton fun to play. I'd thought I'd move onto DVa because she was my main but a)people are instalocking DVa all the time and b)I'm super into playing ana nowadays.
xChildOfHatex
Member
This happens when you solo Q all the time. I would know coz that's how i always play and my SR has only gone down since I played my placement games.
Ana is worth it for the Ultimate alone. Drop it on a guy who actually knows how to play Soldier and he can just annihilate the entire opposing team except for the tanks. I'm not really a very good shot, so I rarely play as snipers but with Ana, it's actually easier to heal, so it works out.
DVa is actually the only Tank I can play with any sort of competence. She's a lot of fun to play, but god damn do you need to remember where all the Health Packs in the map are placed, coz when you're zipping around disrupting the enemy team, you can sometimes end up with terrible positioning.
I also love playing Zenyatta, but due to my terrible W/L, I somehow feel like I play a terrible Zenyatta no matter how much I enjoy it.
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