Overwatch Discussion Thread

[Zoidberg747]

Just like any game, people will try to enforce a meta before they are confident in winning.

I refuse to play competitive after my placements. We played as a 3 and 1 of us ended up at 54, me 57 and another 60.

How does that work? All went 8 wins 2 losses playing against the same teams, surely we should be equal?

Nah not in this game, the champion you play receives different MMR so our friend who solely played dps and torj (assists much) got the most MMR (60) me and my other friend who played a mix of dps tank and healer got owned with 57 and 54 respectively.

I play D'va mostly so I wonder what criteria grants most MMR. Not knowing details like this put me off ranked. Also apparently mercy grants awful points her scaling is busted, so thats annoying.

They base it not only on the results of your matches but on your individual performance as well. What they do is they compare your stats with a character to the average stats of the playerbase on that character on that map. So if you were playing healer on say Hanamura, it would compare the amount of healing you did to the amount of healing that was average on Hanamura and place you accordingly.

That system sounds good in theory until you realize that healers only have high healing if their team isn't doing well. If their team stomps then no one needs healing and your rating will suffer. Same with tanking, if your team stomps they aren't being damaged and you won't have much damage blocked.

 

[LiangHuBBB]

I love how some ppl just leave during one match and then the last KO match starts with two less players in my team, wow GG

 

[Zionix]

They base it not only on the results of your matches but on your individual performance as well. What they do is they compare your stats with a character to the average stats of the playerbase on that character on that map. So if you were playing healer on say Hanamura, it would compare the amount of healing you did to the amount of healing that was average on Hanamura and place you accordingly.

That system sounds good in theory until you realize that healers only have high healing if their team isn't doing well. If their team stomps then no one needs healing and your rating will suffer. Same with tanking, if your team stomps they aren't being damaged and you won't have much damage blocked.

It makes no sense to have this though, I might do 4k damage or 26k depending on how long the game goes. Also shooting into a reinhardts shield massively inflates dps numbers same with mei walls, which has no correlation with skill.

 

[Gesture Required Ahead]

Still haven't tried it since the people I play with are being lazy, hopefully we'll play today though

Yea nvm. I just got rekt 4 games straight where twice my team quit on me and the other 2 times there was a dude who was just afk and the rest of the team went Tracer only

 

[14K]

It makes no sense to have this though, I might do 4k damage or 26k depending on how long the game goes. Also shooting into a reinhardts shield massively inflates dps numbers same with mei walls, which has no correlation with skill.

the system is very far from perfect, i did my placement matchs with friends that are not exactly fantastic at the game, but they wanted to do it with me and i was happy to go along and help them out a bit, so needless to say we lost a great deal of them, all in good fun ofc... even tho i performed well i still lost said matchs which the system then presided to rank me at 45...

Well i dont play at a 45 rank lvl, so then with my actual team we destroyed every match until i was at around 56 57 cant remember... even considerably man handling rank 62s and above... So your rank doesnt really show your skill lvl.

 

[TotteryManx]

Yesterday evening I was able to group up with a full team. It was amazing. I ranked up several times. Being in a group can make all the difference in the world when you communicate and work together.

 

[CrimsonShadow]

Been playing really well in Competitive, and still losing most of the games. Guess it's just been a run of bad luck, but I've been placed low and finish almost every lost game with Gold elims, gold objective kills, and a couple silvers.

As of now I'm averaging 3 medals a game and about 2:1 K/D, 9000-10,000 damage a game (while losing), only person using the mic, trying to get the team to coordinate, grouping up instead of running in, switching heroes to play what the team needs, and holding objectives.

Will be happy to make it out of this ELO hell up to where people actually try to play the game correctly :O

 

[bdizzle2700]

 

[LiangHuBBB]

lol

 

[dennycascade]

Look at the names for Erron Black's 12 and 121 strings... What a coincidence...

 

[HanSolo]

Ranked is just awful. The amount of toxic bads, afkers, etc. Is just silly. Not to mention no communication. it's 2016 and we still don't know how to play objectives in competitive games. League of legends all over again for me.

 

[Creepy00]

I must be getting really lucky as I have yet to experience any of that. But, you are right almost no one use their mics to communicate when solo queing at least on Ps4.

 

[14K]

Anyone here managed to pass 60 ranking on pc so far?

 

[LiangHuBBB]

Recently I started grinding games with reaper and wow this hero is amazingly strong. I am going on 8+ kill streaks all the time by teleporting myself behind enemy's lines and playing hit & run, Im not a fan of his super though, but reaper is hella fun and seems like top tier lol

 

[14K]

Recently I started grinding games with reaper and wow this hero is amazingly strong. I am going on 8+ kill streaks all the time by teleporting myself behind enemy's lines and playing hit & run, Im not a fan of his super though, but reaper is hella fun and seems like top tier lol

With the recent nerfs to Mccree and Widow, Roadhog and Reaper are the new rising top tiers...

 

[HeroesNZ]

Solo/Duo queue rank 64 boyz

 

[CrimsonShadow]

Recently I started grinding games with reaper and wow this hero is amazingly strong. I am going on 8+ kill streaks all the time by teleporting myself behind enemy's lines and playing hit & run, Im not a fan of his super though, but reaper is hella fun and seems like top tier lol

Mannnn, don't like his super? He def. has one of the most effective supers in the game, haha.

 

[LiangHuBBB]

Mannnn, don't like his super? He def. has one of the most effective supers in the game, haha.

then Im using it at the wrong times, need to get more used to his super while grinding games.

 

[Tokiwartoothxdk]

when did the widow/mcree nerf hit console? im ecstatic that they actually did it.

 

[KHTC Takgillo]

when did the widow/mcree nerf hit console? im ecstatic that they actually did it.

a week or 2 ago I think I want them to make Mcree great again widow is fine though

 

[Yoaks]

 

[Tokiwartoothxdk]

a week or 2 ago I think I want them to make Mcree great again widow is fine though

mcrees grenade could probably be put up to a full second (up from 0.7) but that may be a little too much

 

[14K]

Solo/Duo queue rank 64 boyz

On Console Heroes?

 

[B. Shazzy]

On Console Heroes?

He's a fraud. I carried him for 75% of his placements matches and all he did was hide behind me giving healz while I did all the work as Hanzo

 

[14K]

He's a fraud. I carried him for 75% of his placements matches and all he did was hide behind me giving healz while I did all the work as Hanzo

lol but we are talking about Console right?