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Overwatch |OT6.99999997311%| Game of the Year
- Thread starter ExMachina
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3 gold medals as symmetra on defend on eichwalde then on attack as pharah I destroyed the shield generator and for some reason my teammates couldn't push in. I switched to winston for one last push and for some reason I see our ana fighting a rein instead of healing. I was happy that was a draw.
I decided to do a little stat-tracking. Wanted to see what overall usage for each hero was on a patch per patch basis. Pro tourneys only.
11/21-26: Apex Semis + Dreamhack (Data from winstonslab.com)
12/1-4: Apex Final + Alienware Merry Melee (Data from winstonslab.com)
12/10-13: Winter Premiere Open Play (Data compiled by me)
12/16-19: IEM + MLG Vegas (Data from winstonslab.com)
12/20-23: Apex Season 2 Promo (Data compiled by me)
Notes:
- Average % is calculated by a weighted average, based on the amount of footage from each column. If you're confused the chart is basically saying Lucio was used 94.45% of the time this patch and so on for each character excluding Symmetra who was used 2.74% of the time after her rework.
- Symmetra is still pretty early and teams haven't had time to practice her or have decided to play it safe, mostly the former though. Because the only changes from the Sombra patch to the Symmetra patch was Symmetra herself and a minor change to Zarya's shields, both patches are combined and her usage wasn't counted before her rework, hence the blank spaces.
kinda want to start playing some more with gaffers Have my name in the gaf user id list (fenrirw0lf#1642) how do you guys usually end up playing with each other? Should I just start adding everyone I see on the gaf user id list I signed up for discord should I go through that instead and just start inviting people when I play?
SgtWiggles
Member
Just seen a next level troll. Was Widow/Hanzo all of first round of Anubis and literally didn't get a single kill. Second round I snatch Widow and someone else got Hanzo, so he goes Mercy and just runs around with his Pistol all game.
Not even sure why he did it....he had like 10+ hours as Mei and Soldier, and no time as Widow or Hanzo.
Not even sure why he did it....he had like 10+ hours as Mei and Soldier, and no time as Widow or Hanzo.
god i hate when ppl do stuff like that. It makes no sense. Was this comp tho
Tanking games to drop down low enough to play with his friends. This has happened to me before too. So infuriating.
Most widows are terrible at diamond lol. They get some lucky kills here and there but ultimately don't do much besides tilt everyone.
SgtWiggles
Member
Yup, and they were at their peak rank too. So either throwing for friends or they just really liked trolling
I thought Overwatch was gonna be one of those games I play until the servers shut down or something better comes along, but I feel like the community is gonna kill this game for me. We really need some sort of report feature on console. I'd go to PC but I'd have to start from scratch plus I wouldn't have any of my limited skins
This season has primarily been losses and draws The only reason I still play competitive is really that I like the rule set better. That is aside from the idea that I could get to master, but that dream shatters rather fast. More importantly I already got all the things from the Christmas even and I didn't even buy loot boxes for once.
I've had separate games where I'll get the same 1st and 2nd hero and at least three times on the defending side there's been 3 Widowmakers on my team defending the last point on King's Row.
finalflame
Member
the OW gawds tried to break me today by giving me all 3 KotH maps back-to-back-to-back and up against teams w/ upwards of 100+ point deficit, but I persevered!
KOTH is pretty chill, i'd be upset about getting 2CP 3x in a row.
xaosslug
Member
yeah, a lot of peeps would rather do KotH maps, but I have terrible luck with them. Always grouped w/ peeps that can't seem to kill. So, I dread them. LOL
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
finalflame
Member
Yah, can be super frustrating when your team is able to take the point in the initial team fight, but then loses it at the subsequent fight and just trickles for the rest of the match :/ happens far too often, even when actively trying to get people to coordinate.
My condolences
2CP is becoming more and more the bane of my existence as someone who almost exclusively solo queues. It's so hard to pull off the required coordination to take Point B with randoms.Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
It can be a blessing and a curse. I actually find that I do take point B more often than not, but sometimes you end up on what you think it's a really bad team and think "oh thank god I can probably just get away with a draw".
Wyndstryker
Member
https://youtu.be/o4s1BGAG-Jc
Who needs a sniper when Rein can snipe
Been getting a ton of 2CP today. In solo queue, I've pretty much come to the conclusions that the only way to win is not even losing the first point. Cause the chances of getting the 2nd point are so low. If your team gets the first, do everything to prevent the other team from getting the first.
Who needs a sniper when Rein can snipe
My condolences
Been getting a ton of 2CP today. In solo queue, I've pretty much come to the conclusions that the only way to win is not even losing the first point. Cause the chances of getting the 2nd point are so low. If your team gets the first, do everything to prevent the other team from getting the first.
finalflame
Member
Yah, that's a good way to go about it, assuming your team has the coordination/comp to hold Point A. The other thing that tilts me is when people don't understand the concept of "hey we lost point A, just retreat to B so we can do a full hold" and then we get fucking steamrolled because 2 people are still respawning and we get hammered/staggered 6v4.
Oh, Overwatch.
'gratz bud, what was your placement?
I placed diamond at 3044.
I played Mercy a couple times yesterday and really like her, is she really not viable in competition?
3 or more tanks has become the norm for team comp in Overwatch. If you're running 3 tanks, you have to run Ana for that composition to work. Mercy has some issues, but if you're not running 3 tanks I think she is a fine healer. The issue being that the triple tank comp works so well you better have know what you're doing/have a plan if you're gonna run Mercy into it.
finalflame
Member
Anyone wanna duo queue on PC right now? Currently sitting around 2300 -- trying to get back to/above my placement of 2550.
RespectThySole
Member
Watching Sinatra's stream and this dude is so toxic. It's hilarious.
Shouta
Member
I really need to stop filling out teams in comp and just go DPS. Too many shitty ones and there's not much I can do to change the tide of the game on healer. I had two guys that refused to get off Hanzo or Widowmaker and just didn't do any damage. One of those Hanzos complained when I switched off Zarya because we weren't getting anywhere. All he wanted to do was apparently hit Dragonstrike when I Graviton'd them. Tumbled from 3100 to 2900 because of idiots tonight.
I instalock tank because it's the only thing I'm good at and I've accepted that already.
Can't tonight but I'm plenty free the rest of the weekend, and am in the same ranking area.
finalflame
Member
Sweet, same, free all weekend. Add me up: darkatnight#1407
Psychoward
Banned
is there seriously no way to report players on ps4? had a dude who was clearly afking somehow make it the whole game because his stick was drifting
Garrett Hawke
Member
all you need are two elastic bands - band the sticks together and the character will run in a circle, then band R2 down and the character will always shoot (and automatically reload because of how overwatch works)
Psychoward
Banned
Yeah he was clearly afking because he was just moving really fucking slowly in a weird pattern the entire game
I'd never do that because I'm not human garbage, there's no reason to afk in overwatch besides loot boxes and i'd be worried about messing up my controller durability
Still, weird there wasn't a report option
Not that I know of. There's a lot of people throwing on ps4 this season and there's nothing you can really do about it sadly. From what I hear on PC reporting people doesn't really do anything either.
Had a good run in comp yesterday evening, I played around 7 matches with atleast 4 of those being Nepal, only lost 2 matcehs in total, exclusively played as Lucio. Almost had some guy throw a match because some other dude went Torbjorn on Dorade defense (not the optimal choice in my opinion) so he went Symmetra, in the end after the Torb switched and with some insistence from the team he also changed. Won Dorada in the end since we picked a good comp on attack. On Kings Row we had a player go surprise Bastion on both attack and defense on the final hallway, we actually won the match thanks to that.
Overall some good games with some good players, unfortunately nobody except me did something resembling comms over voice except one guy on one game. I'm just gunna keep calling out where the enemy is even if the don't respond, can't hurt right? Back up to 2729 up from the low 2600. Diamond comes closer yet again
Overall some good games with some good players, unfortunately nobody except me did something resembling comms over voice except one guy on one game. I'm just gunna keep calling out where the enemy is even if the don't respond, can't hurt right? Back up to 2729 up from the low 2600. Diamond comes closer yet again
ToyMachine228
Member
Was working on my placement matches last night and had 5 of 6 matches ruined by quitters. In 3 games my team quickly pushed through to the objective and an opponent quit, cancelling the match. In others one of my own teammates left part way through the game. In one of them, we were about 45 seconds from winning on attack after a good defense. Pretty frustrating.
I'll be on later this morning & throughout the weekend. Please add me to join your quest.
Blues1990#1733
What is the counter for this?
Garrett Hawke
Member
Just had a 500+ player insta lock symmetra in QP then just sit in spawn room for the entire fucking game. I wish you could vote to kick people.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
The traditional Christmas eve dinner stomach bug had curbed my plans for some weekend Overwatch. Good thing probably.
Happy holidays peeps
Happy holidays peeps
When you're soloing through diamond, you're going to need to insta-lock DPS or a flex tank like Zarya/DVA/Road. You can't trust people at that level to do anything right. I'm constantly having Soldiers and McCrees at my level (3800) not being able to shoot a damn Pharah. So I end up pulling double duty as Ana shooting the Pharah and healing my team.
The same as always - Genji. You'll have to get right next to him though and shoot in the back. Every Bastion player will instinctively shoot and die to reflect. Especially, at the level where you see this play. Tracer's Q is always good as well.
Lost 150 SR yesterday night. Was trying to close the night at 2600, was "1 more win" so many times, then snowballed down. Hanzo mains why do you exist and how do you rank up above bronze!?
Had a few good games though. Dorado. We attacked first, only took point A and then almost got it to point B. The team morale wasn't positive. We lost A fairly fast but I was like high ground guys! Me (Dva), soldier and Ana were at the top, shooting down on them. One poor Genji would come up to play with us and run away. Then near the end, they almost started to move the payload, I got behind them, quite a fair bit but still in los and launched my Meka bomb... Boom quad kill. The payload never reached the middle of that road.
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