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[Data West]

meis slow was definitely gone on pc

i was walking away from one as winston at normal speed and suddenly froze out of nowhere

 

[rulerk1]

i feel lost if i cant play Zarya. I think ive become a one trick lol

 

[LiK]

For real, outside of like Anne and antitrop, our weird little PS4 OW family owns this thread, but our discussion here is often commenting on how our games went. We do very little theory crafting, and I think we could stand to do some more.

Batman has a good point regarding our inability to react, because what usually happens is the team will ask only one person to switch because the comp is 'mostly' working. The issue is that no one knows who should swap, and it's even more confusing and debilitating if multiple swaps have to occur because a crucial tank, DPS, or support has to change. So maybe instead of floundering with singular changes, the moment a comp stops working for us we switch paradigms entirely and choose different roles for everyone. Like, some straight up, tryhard, "TEAM, WOLFSTRIKE FORMATION AROOO" shit.

So for example, we try a typical dive comp, and it's not working. Someone makes the call to go to deathball, and then everyone immediately knows which hero to change to.

What is everyone's hero pool, and who's in our regular groups? We gotta figure that out first. Off the top of my head (correct me if I'm wrong):

- Buttchin: Genji, Zenyatta, Rein, Sombra
- Batman: Tracer, Lucio, Zarya
- ND: Rein, Zen, Torb, Soldier, Genji
- Ultima: Mercy, Pharah
- Lik: Junkrat, D.Va, Soldier, Lucio
- Owzers: Rein, Mercy, Orisa, Winston
- Komaru: ...Hanzo?
- Scrub
- Phazon
- Cappa

(I couldn't remember who some of you guys played, and forgive me if I forgot anyone)

I also main Zen but haven't had the need to do it since everyone lets me play Soldier and Junk.

 

[Data West]

Quick Play becoming 5 DPS mandatory 'i'm gonna carry dude' is making me not want to play the game anymore.

like i'm fucking sick of it. I mostly play quick play because thats how I played TF2 and I don't like the time investment involved in comp. I like QP because its... quick. I go into one game and pick Reinhardt after everyone else intalocks genji, widow, mccree, 76 like they ALWAYS do. The last person picks Ana. The enemy team has Mercy AND Zenyatta. The enemy team having 2 supports and mine only having 1 being a pretty normal thing at this point. The Ana ragequits after her first death. Replacement comes in, HANZO AT YOUR SERVICE. So now we have no healer. We take the first point because I fucking killed the Mercy, Zarya and Mcree that were over extended with an earthshatter. Still no point b and the ONLY reason we got point A was because of the long walk back. There was no way we were going to take point B ov Volskaya with all their sustain and all our DPS and me as the sole tank.

So after about the third try, I just switched to Sombra. Fuck it at this point. I'm tired of trying to fix it so everyone else can 'have fun' while I'm stuck with this shit because no one wants to play the team based game like its a team based game. Just because its quick play doesn't mean it stops being a team based game. And this happens CONSTANTLY this whole last weekend has been full of situations like this Only difference is I switched to healer before to try to make it work like a fucking team. But I give up, selfish people don't want to be flexible then why the fuck should I? Like I said, its the mode I play most and the community is ruining it for me and ruining the game for me with that.

 

[Rickenslacker]

i feel lost if i cant play Zarya. I think ive become a one trick lol

Zarya is best pony.

Quick Play becoming 5 DPS mandatory 'i'm gonna carry dude' is making me not want to play the game anymore.

I feel ya. With how composition-dependent the game is, and being that it is an FPS at its core and you can't fault that people want to just run 'n' shoot, it becomes a real drag. It's why I really can't play Overwatch outside of comp, and if I'm just looking for a quick anytime anything goes match, I start up Siege.

 

[Chance]

Quick Play becoming 5 DPS mandatory 'i'm gonna carry dude' is making me not want to play the game anymore.

like i'm fucking sick of it. I mostly play quick play because thats how I played TF2 and I don't like the time investment involved in comp. I like QP because its... quick. I go into one game and pick Reinhardt after everyone else intalocks genji, widow, mccree, 76 like they ALWAYS do. The last person picks Ana. The enemy team has Mercy AND Zenyatta. The enemy team having 2 supports and mine only having 1 being a pretty normal thing at this point. The Ana ragequits after her first death. Replacement comes in, HANZO AT YOUR SERVICE. So now we have no healer. We take the first point because I fucking killed the Mercy, Zarya and Mcree that were over extended with an earthshatter. Still no point b and the ONLY reason we got point A was because of the long walk back. There was no way we were going to take point B ov Volskaya with all their sustain and all our DPS and me as the sole tank.

So after about the third try, I just switched to Sombra. Fuck it at this point. I'm tired of trying to fix it so everyone else can 'have fun' while I'm stuck with this shit because no one wants to play the team based game like its a team based game. Just because its quick play doesn't mean it stops being a team based game. And this happens CONSTANTLY this whole last weekend has been full of situations like this Only difference is I switched to healer before to try to make it work like a fucking team. But I give up, selfish people don't want to be flexible then why the fuck should I? Like I said, its the mode I play most and the community is ruining it for me and ruining the game for me with that.

I just flex for 2/3 of my games so I don't feel guilty instalocking Tracer on Hanamura/Lijiang/Ilios/Numbani. The rest of the games I'll quietly heal and silently stew about the fact that NO ONE IS SWITCHING TO PHARAH TO FUCK UP THIS JUNKRAT WHO'S BEEN ON FIRE ALL MATCH y'know what? Fine - fine, I'll do it. There, he's dead. Was that hard? No. I DON'T EVEN PLAY PHARAH.

 

[LiK]

Hehe. Been practicing McCree in QP and he's fun. Got a lot better with him now. My alt for hitscan if a random insta-locks Soldier and we have enemy Pharah problems.

 

[Chance]

Hehe. Been practicing McCree in QP and he's fun. Got a lot better with him now. My alt for hitscan if a random insta-locks Soldier and we have enemy Pharah problems.

I really should practice McCree but I hate that he has no outs once he's used his flashbang. If you end up in a bad position, you're just dead.

Tracer is so much more forgiving, imo, and I can still give Pharah problems - even if I can't like, terrify her.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

She is back.

 

[LucidMomentum]

She is back.

I...

...I'm not sure how to feel about this.

 

[antitrop]

Lmao, people who try hard and rage in freaking quickplay are the worst fucking people.

I always double check my portrait to make sure I didn't accidentally queue for Comp when that happens. I have little patience for ragers in Comp even, but QP is just like... what are you doing with your life

 

[TheThinWhiteDuke]

The amount of Lucios who think they can 1v1 my DPS heroes post patch is downright adorable.

And there's no hesitation, they just dive right in to 1v1 the worst matchups. It's like the update flipped the "I have become Death, Destroyer of Worlds" switch in their brains.

 

[Terareflection]

I really should practice McCree but I hate that he has no outs once he's used his flashbang. If you end up in a bad position, you're just dead.

Tracer is so much more forgiving, imo, and I can still give Pharah problems - even if I can't like, terrify her.

Your out is good aim. Get those headshots loser.

 

[Big Nikus]

Servers seem down for me (EU).

 

[N7.Angel]

And there's no hesitation, they just dive right in to 1v1 the worst matchups. It's like the update flipped the "I have become Death, Destroyer of Worlds" switch in their brains.

it's blizzard balance, they never had any game balance, this one won't change the fact but post Lucio boost, they were pretty close.

 

[Data West]

And there's no hesitation, they just dive right in to 1v1 the worst matchups. It's like the update flipped the "I have become Death, Destroyer of Worlds" switch in their brains.

Dunno. I never had issues with Genji or Tracer as Lucio before the update. If anything it's the opposite experience for me, I get a lot of Genjis that think I'm an easy pick as Lucio and wind up dead. I'll handle anything without a stun or burst damage

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Servers seem down for me (EU).

Works fine here.

 

[LiK]

Killing Genjis and Tracers without flashbang is damn satisfying. Totally got the aiming down for McCree now.

 

[killdatninja]

Ill be on maybe. Gotta cut off at 9 central.

LOL watching a replay from yesterday's game on your youtube...

https://youtu.be/S-u0zAF07bU?t=1m30s

I shouldn't have emoted...

Also, was that the same game where the instalock hanzo randomly thanked us for being nice and told us he would actually try with a different character? I'm still not 100% sure why he thanked us...

 

[Satch]

I was in a duel with another genji and then his mercy came to heal him... and then my Ana tried to "pocket" me but i saw every shot whizz past me and then genji killed me

I couldnt even be mad, it was like a cartoon

 

[Big Nikus]

Works fine here.

Hmm, still can't connect. Must be an issue on my end. I'm gonna reboot and see.

 

[Cheat Code]

The new update has triggered like 3 times for me now.

 

[Incendiary]

What is everyone's hero pool, and who's in our regular groups? We gotta figure that out first. Off the top of my head (correct me if I'm wrong):

- Buttchin: Genji, Zenyatta, Rein, Sombra
- Batman: Tracer, Lucio, Zarya
- ND: Rein, Zen, Torb, Soldier, Genji
- Ultima: Mercy, Pharah
- Lik: Junkrat, D.Va, Soldier, Lucio
- Owzers: Rein, Mercy, Orisa, Winston
- Komaru: ...Hanzo?
- Scrub
- Phazon
- Cappa

(I couldn't remember who some of you guys played, and forgive me if I forgot anyone)

I don't actually think we've played together. But I still wanna frowny face.

 

[HelloNewman]

Got every skin from the event except Talon Widowmaker and that new Mercy outfit.

 

[antitrop]

Got every skin from the event except Talon Widowmaker and that new Mercy outfit.

I just need Tracer and Widow.

 

[Chance]

I just need Tracer and Widow.

Tracer's is goin' straight into the closet once Uprising's over. It's no Rose.

 

[TWrecks310]

For real, outside of like Anne and antitrop, our weird little PS4 OW family owns this thread, but our discussion here is often commenting on how our games went. We do very little theory crafting, and I think we could stand to do some more.

Batman has a good point regarding our inability to react, because what usually happens is the team will ask only one person to switch because the comp is 'mostly' working. The issue is that no one knows who should swap, and it's even more confusing and debilitating if multiple swaps have to occur because a crucial tank, DPS, or support has to change. So maybe instead of floundering with singular changes, the moment a comp stops working for us we switch paradigms entirely and choose different roles for everyone. Like, some straight up, tryhard, "TEAM, WOLFSTRIKE FORMATION AROOO" shit.

So for example, we try a typical dive comp, and it's not working. Someone makes the call to go to deathball, and then everyone immediately knows which hero to change to.

What is everyone's hero pool, and who's in our regular groups? We gotta figure that out first. Off the top of my head (correct me if I'm wrong):

- Buttchin: Genji, Zenyatta, Rein, Sombra
- Batman: Tracer, Lucio, Zarya
- ND: Rein, Zen, Torb, Soldier, Genji
- Ultima: Mercy, Pharah
- Lik: Junkrat, D.Va, Soldier, Lucio
- Owzers: Rein, Mercy, Orisa, Winston
- Komaru: ...Hanzo?
- Scrub
- Phazon
- Cappa

(I couldn't remember who some of you guys played, and forgive me if I forgot anyone)

I'm not on this but I'm adding myself because I'm going to force my way into the PS4 OW family if it kills me lol

According to Overbuff my 5 best heroes are...
-Tracer
-Mercy
-Roadhog
-Zarya
-Soldier: 76

There's other heroes I can play but those are probably the ones I'm most comfortable with.

 

[antitrop]

Tracer's is goin' straight into the closet once Uprising's over. It's no Rose.

I don't even play Tracer, but I like Rose better, too.

 

[Data West]

Tracer's is goin' straight into the closet

winky face

 

[Nuno Pinto]

Disconnected from the game, I didn't even get the symbols, game was perfectly fine and I got immediately kicked out.

Can't even enter the game now, just stays on the "entering game..." screen. Everything's fine with my net, guess it's a problem with my region.

 

[Chance]

winky face

...just got that.

 

[exYle]

I'm not on this but I'm adding myself because I'm going to force my way into the PS4 OW family if it kills me lol

According to Overbuff my 5 best heroes are...
-Tracer
-Mercy
-Roadhog
-Zarya
-Soldier: 76

There's other heroes I can play but those are probably the ones I'm most comfortable with.

That's a really useful pool

Once we raise ourselves like 700 SR lol

 

[hypernima]

Disconnected from the game, I didn't even get the symbols, game was perfectly fine and I got immediately kicked out.

Can't even enter the game now, just stays on the "entering game..." screen. Everything's fine with my net, guess it's a problem with my region.

We got curbstomped. It was pretty bad.

 

[Vault Dweller 111]

Disconnected from the game, I didn't even get the symbols, game was perfectly fine and I got immediately kicked out.

Can't even enter the game now, just stays on the "entering game..." screen. Everything's fine with my net, guess it's a problem with my region.

Oh well. 2-1 we got off but will be back on in a couple hours.

 

[TWrecks310]

That's a really useful pool

Once we raise ourselves like 700 SR lol

Whenever I end up playing with you guys I'm only going to play Genji though.

Mada Mada

 

[Owzers]

We got curbstomped. It was pretty bad.

We just needed one alt to turn things around.

 

[Dead Prince]

lol 4 people from the other team probably forgot them were in comp. once one person left. they started to leave leaving two players who stayed until the end of the match.

 

[LiK]

Whenever I end up playing with you guys I'm only going to play Genji though.

Mada Mada

We need a good Genji, tbh.

 

[TWrecks310]

We need a good Genji, tbh.

I'm going to primarily be playing him on my smurf! So it's not an unrealistic thing to happen in the future.

I have no idea where I'm at now with him though because I have played a total of maybe 5 games on him collectively in competitive and haven't played him at all this season.

 

[Jellie]

We need a good Genji, tbh.

You've found the genji I've been telling you and ultima you need.

 

[Nuno Pinto]

Oh well. 2-1 we got off but will be back on in a couple hours.

We got curbstomped. It was pretty bad.

Ok this game is fucking dumb!

I didn't lose any SR for leaving our game. There was no "rejoin game" option on the menu screen when I was finally able to enter the game. Instead I clicked join group in one of you guys player icon and the game put me in a comp match full of randoms, also on route 66.

We lost to an attack bastion because no one picked a counter, a team full of retards like usual with randoms.

Guess they really wanted me to lose that SR lol

Edit:

That Lucio though

 

[killdatninja]

I'm going to primarily be playing him on my smurf! So it's not an unrealistic thing to happen in the future.

I have no idea where I'm at now with him though because I have played a total of maybe 5 games on him collectively in competitive and haven't played him at all this season.

Let us know your smurf then! You'll level up way quicker in a group anyway.

Sometimes you'll see the group playing QP for a bit anyway... especially since Ultima is refusing to play 6 stacks anymore!

 

[TWrecks310]

Let us know your smurf then! You'll level up way quicker in a group anyway.

Sometimes you'll see the group playing QP for a bit anyway... especially since Ultima is refusing to play 6 stacks anymore!

My PSN Name is RankingWrecked, anyone can send me a friend request if they would like. You can also send me a friend request to my regular account TWrecks310 if you want.

If any of you guys are grouping up for quick play I'm down, I can't play competitive yet because I'm not level 25 yet lol

 

[LiK]

Haha, Sty's video about the new Zarya HOTS skin is funny.

https://youtu.be/sMNr1vd_seY

 

[Vault Dweller 111]

That Lucio though

Lucio... I know that name..

 

[exYle]

We need a good Genji, tbh.

Rude

 

[Nuno Pinto]

Lucio... I know that name..

http://data.whicdn.com/images/39102540/large.gif[IMG][/QUOTE]

lol

You were doing great as hog, sorry for saying that we needed a d.va but we didn't have anyone to contest the higher ground there and we were being melted from above. The random wasn't helping our problems too :\

Honestly playing this game soloq just made me realize again of how much fun the games are when we have a big stack, if we are willing to change characters. Even omicronpro that doesn't play bastion had a killer game with him just doing target practice since they didn't have anyone to counter him... there's no need to be a pro at the characters to be able to exploit the enemy team's weaknesses when they are obvious like this.

 

[Vault Dweller 111]

lol

You were doing great as hog, sorry for saying that we needed a d.va but we didn't have anyone to contest the higher ground there and we were being melted from above. The random wasn't helping our problems too :\

Honestly playing this game soloq just made me realize again of how much fun the games are when we have a big stack, if we are willing to change characters. Even omicronpro that doesn't play bastion had a killer game with him just doing target practice since they didn't have anyone to counter him... there's no need to be a pro at the characters to be able to exploit the enemy team's weaknesses when they are obvious like this.

The second I went Dva you got disconnected, it kind of worked but was 5v6.

 

[Incendiary]

lol

You were doing great as hog, sorry for saying that we needed a d.va but we didn't have anyone to contest the higher ground there and we were being melted from above. The random wasn't helping our problems too :

Honestly playing this game soloq just made me realize again of how much fun the games are when we have a big stack, if we are willing to change characters. Even omicronpro that doesn't play bastion had a killer game with him just doing target practice since they didn't have anyone to counter him... there's no need to be a pro at the characters to be able to exploit the enemy team's weaknesses when they are obvious like this.

Yeah I've honestly stopped playing in solo queue because it's more fun to have a stack and be able to switch up strategies on the fly and try out different setups. As opposed to "oh I guess I'm solo healing for five DPS again."

 

[Dead Prince]

click Comp.

see the Rejoin Match but game never loads up. lose connection to the server.

log back in and get a 10 minute suspension. GG Blizzard.

and it wasn't the first game i played too. i already played 2 games before.