Combination of both, most likely. Tilted by a loss streak and then just stop playing Comp for a few weeks and decay even further.
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Combination of both, most likely. Tilted by a loss streak and then just stop playing Comp for a few weeks and decay even further.
just come back to PS4 and play QP/Arcade with me. it's fun.
DevilDog
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Because you're not as skilled as you think you are. That or the team always breaks apart.
Ghost is Bad
Banned
ouch
Nocturnowl
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Woo, a Sombra PotG, now Ana is the only character to elude me in this department.
Hey I might as well find another goal seeing that I ain't dipping into this competitive season.
And at last my loot boxes heralded joy, Sun Wukong Winston is mine, though now I have to drop the Yeti for a bit. Gee you wait ages for Winston skins then two great ones come along within a month of each other.
Hey I might as well find another goal seeing that I ain't dipping into this competitive season.
And at last my loot boxes heralded joy, Sun Wukong Winston is mine, though now I have to drop the Yeti for a bit. Gee you wait ages for Winston skins then two great ones come along within a month of each other.
Ghost is Bad
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i should practice mccree again.
I practice him in qp but no one in comp plays like they would in qp so whats the point
Stupid Mercy should have gone with torb to complement sym.
I practice him in qp but no one in comp plays like they would in qp so whats the point
just practice your aiming.
All we ask as Mercy is that whoever we damage boost makes the map red with the blood of our enemies.
yellow submarine
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How is the matchmaking on Xbox One for other people? I find my group of ~20 rank people being grouped with 100/88/90 ranked people very often. Is this because we're winning too many of our games?
PS: We only play quick play, we aren't about that competitive life
PS: We only play quick play, we aren't about that competitive life
Ghost is Bad
Banned
just play soldier after nerfs :^)
i think PS4 list is in a different tab or section in that list if it's the same as before.
clockworkinyou
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Then by your logic, since it's balanced and working as it should, everyone is not as skilled as they think they are.
Or the team always breaks apart.
That makes total sense.
Jk
Not srs.
Stormhammer
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can anyone carry me through comp thx ♥
DevilDog
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You don't know what everyone thinks, so of course you're joking.
TheLetdown
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When the Overwatch thread takes that sharp left into solipsism.
CheDominik
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PS4 ranked I don' remember the exact ratings but it was eithr high gold or low plat.
We were attacking on king's row and the team comp was: Reinhardt(me), Sombra,Bastion, Hanzo, Symmetra, Pharah.
Have a guess how that match went.....
it was a complete blowout win. I was screaming internally after seeing the character select screen, but I guess you never know...
Sure, send me a friend request. PSN=GAF name
We were attacking on king's row and the team comp was: Reinhardt(me), Sombra,Bastion, Hanzo, Symmetra, Pharah.
Have a guess how that match went.....
it was a complete blowout win. I was screaming internally after seeing the character select screen, but I guess you never know...
Finding a team while in placement matches is hard work.
Anyone in desperate need for an unranked healer?
(PS4, I should have said)
Sure, send me a friend request. PSN=GAF name
clockworkinyou
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I think you're confused
LumpOfCole
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For solo queuing, it really does feel that lucky or unlucky streaks are the only way to gain or lose any significant SR after 'equalizing' to your effectively true rank after 30-40 matches in a season.
That being said, the quality of matches at around 3100 SR is way better than most matches below 2700 SR. There is definitely a player quality threshold that makes me dread the unlucky loss streaks which seems to only be corrected by a lucky win streak to balance it out.
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Saying all that, when it comes purely to W/L ratio and not SR, it's a good thing that it eventually equalizes to about 50/50. This is the pure math of it all. The system sticks a player eventually in a skill range (placements are 10 games, but it really takes at least 30 or 40 games for the equalizing to give a player an accurate SR placement and range), and they're supposed to come out to 50/50 there. Otherwise the player would be going up in SR forever or down in SR forever.
This is just statistics and it means at least one part of the system is working as it should. If a player is always winning 60/40 or 70/30 and staying in the same skill range (effectively meaning that there are players on the opposite side of the spectrum winning 40/60 or 30/70), then the SR system wouldn't be doing its job as you'd either be always fighting higher skilled or lower skills players on average.
Stomps and steamrolls happen at all levels frequently, just the type of game it is.
They can match you by skill, but they can't force that Widow to change. ;P
Newtype-001
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Teams that are just so passive irk me alot like we have a 1 or 2 man advantage just go instead they're just chilling at gate or choke inching forward.
Well atleast i made it back to 3.3k after falling to 2.9.
Second time ive had to climb back up after falling to 2.9k this season lol
Well atleast i made it back to 3.3k after falling to 2.9.
Second time ive had to climb back up after falling to 2.9k this season lol
LucidMomentum
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Man I hope I fall up to 2.9k lol.
Dice
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Worse than bad picks is your whole team repeatedly staggering into 5v1 or 6v1 situations and absolutely refusing to group up first. Even when I was Zen with my ultimate ready so we could make a proper grouped approach, and telling them that, they just kept trying to move in from different angles but only one at a time, dying one at a time. Then when it was our turn to defend, the other team just came in and took what they wanted like we weren't even there. I was trying to figure out how my team is so incredibly bad. Maybe I should have picked Pharah to make up for the damage they apparently weren't doing, but I kept so many of them alive as they refused to ever take cover when health was low that I don't think that would have worked.
I'll keep running my placement matches to at least (hopefully) shorten search times, but if this is just what the game is, I'm not sure it's worth it. FPS is the most crowded genre so there are many good alternatives.
I mean you're expecting perfection out of every match, it isn't going to happen. Even at the highest ranks, people will still spam group up, and you'll see people go off and do their own thing. You'll run into people who have no idea how to combo ults, people who won't play heals or tank, etc.
No different than any other game, they all have their idiots.
Most annoying thing is when the person staggering and getting killed then starts spamming group up after they just died and the team is on their way back. Then the whole team either has to wait awhile or they also just trickle in, but at this point if you start also saying group up it'll probably be ignored since the other guy is spamming it.
And it's amazing how many GMs/top 500s I see on streams just be some of the worst of the playerbase when it comes to not swapping characters. Team composition is so important, when someone gets stubborn and you have to warp your own team around them it's a disaster.
I need a "get off fucking Hanzo" emote.
Stormhammer
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yeah.. I think I got to around 2.8k in season 2, then season 3 hit and it put me around 2k after placements. got to 2.3k and since i can't reliably group with friends i'm stuck with solo queue and now hover around 2k and probably will forever
Woo-Fu
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If you really think about it Blizzard couldn't come close to enforcing 50/50 without having a very good idea of both individual and team ratings. That tells me that their rating system works even if some people don't like it.
I made it into plat from gold this season entirely solo-queuing, btw, so it is possible. That was 15 hours of Zenyatta and an hour or two on a few other characters. I think Zenyatta is incredibly effective once you've got the aim/timing down since you can kill anybody faster than they or their healers expect them to get killed. Discord orb followed by consecutive headshots kills non-tanks practically instantly short of a biotic grenade hitting during the combo.
I made it into plat from gold this season entirely solo-queuing, btw, so it is possible. That was 15 hours of Zenyatta and an hour or two on a few other characters. I think Zenyatta is incredibly effective once you've got the aim/timing down since you can kill anybody faster than they or their healers expect them to get killed. Discord orb followed by consecutive headshots kills non-tanks practically instantly short of a biotic grenade hitting during the combo.
The higher ranks are just idiots with better aim.
Roxkis_ii
Banned
For the best competitive experience, I find having a 3 stack is necessary, or a 2 stack at the very least. The people matchmaking group you with can be so random, so it's comforting to know you atleast have 2 other people on your team that are trying as hard as yourself and provide positive feedback.
It's the only way I got out of bronze, which is crazy since I can sometimes carry games in silver.
It's the only way I got out of bronze, which is crazy since I can sometimes carry games in silver.
Ive seen some really amazing players in bronze, and i dont think they are smurfs.
therealist
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Had a game on Dorado last night where we were literally 4 meters away from getting point A, but the whole team decided to ABANDON the payload so they can go find the teleporter instead of just staying and capturing that point. Of course, they all die cause all of the enemy players spawned there.
That allowed the defending team to reset and successfully defend point A for the rest of the game.
That allowed the defending team to reset and successfully defend point A for the rest of the game.
Hellwarden
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This probably speaks to my bitterness concerning the lack of event skins I've gotten, but I gotta ask.
Do people like sprays?
Because I'm level 50, and I never even bothered learning how to actually use them.
Do people like sprays?
Because I'm level 50, and I never even bothered learning how to actually use them.
Some sprays are amusing. I remember where my spray hotkey is, but not my emote hotkey.
If it makes you feel better, I don't have any event skins either.
Some are funny but they're essentially filler toale gettimg skins more difficult.
Ghost is Bad
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get used to seeing them in your lootboxes. its all downhill from here.
I was mildly excited when a box I opened yesterday had a gold drop.
The gold drop was... just gold. Like 500 simoleons or whatever the fuck the game uses.
Fix-It Felix. Jr.
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I love continuously covering up someones spray with my own while waiting in the spawn. Some people get unreasonably upset over that, which amuses me.
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