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Komii

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Oct 26, 2017
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Why are there leaver penalties for Quick Play, especially if you leave before the game actually starts?
If you got leaver penalties on qp you are maaaaybe throwing too many games, as you need to leave more than three in a row for them to start leaving a trail of unhappy people with ruined games :)

Or you have bad internet and in that case I'm sorry for you :/

Point is that's way too many games you only do that if you're tilted as hell and thats ruining some kids days and it should be there tbh

Speaking of qp, had a game yesterday where my team's reaper stayed in front of me a whole round because I was on widowmaker, why people do that?
 
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LiK

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Oct 25, 2017
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Interesting. I figured there was no penalty since people leave QP matches like every single game, and they just get replaced anyway. Though I've never actually left and tried to play again. I either lost my internet or just hit exit to desktop.

Also the 50% XP penalty. I forgot about that. Never really quit often enough to see any penalties.
 

killdatninja

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Oct 26, 2017
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Interesting. I figured there was no penalty since people leave QP matches like every single game, and they just get replaced anyway. Though I've never actually left and tried to play again. I either lost my internet or just hit exit to desktop.

You get a warning that doesn't disappear until you complete a few games before you receive a penalty, it hovers right above the chat menu. I think the only time it doesn't care if you leave early is when you're coming in as backfill. There was a time where I was leaving games before the team even assembled and received that warning. I would gladly take the penalty if that means not playing Junkertown and Horizon every other turn (happened to me a few times when Junkertown first released on QP).
 

KarmaCow

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Oct 25, 2017
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A relic from launch when QP was the only mode. They should really turn that shit off for QP.

Yea it's real dumb in light of ranked.

If you got leaver penalties on qp you are maaaaybe throwing too many games, as you need to leave more than three in a row for them to start leaving a trail of unhappy people with ruined games :)

Or you have bad internet and in that case I'm sorry for you :/

Point is that's way too many games you only do that if you're tilted as hell and thats ruining some kids days and it should be there tbh

I left like 5 matches in a row in the setup phase because it was at minimum 4 damage characters (double sniper, doomfist, and some other random hero) each time and I didn't feel like bashing my head against the wall. If It was ranked, them fine I get staying because it just means a 5v6 but in QP, that spot will be filled when I leave. The leaver penalty just makes me give less a shit about playing QP instead of encouraging team play in anyway at all.
 

antitrop

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Oct 25, 2017
12,556
The game will punish you more harshly for leaving after the Select a Hero timer has hit 0. The best time to leave is while everyone is still picking their heroes.
 

Komii

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Oct 26, 2017
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Yea it's real dumb in light of ranked.



I left like 5 matches in a row in the setup phase because it was at minimum 4 damage characters (double sniper, doomfist, and some other random hero) each time and I didn't feel like bashing my head against the wall. If It was ranked, them fine I get staying because it just means a 5v6 but in QP, that spot will be filled when I leave. The leaver penalty just makes me give less a shit about playing QP instead of encouraging team play in anyway at all.
Idk, most of my qp matches start with 4 dps and end with 2/2/2, other team won't have a proper comp and will probably with something sillier than yours, you just need to not tilt on selection screen, if you expect a reasonable composition, QP is the wrong place to find it.

There's this guy in latam psn that always leaves games and insta queue, rejoins the same game, leaves, rejoin, leaves, until the team got stuck on an unwinnable 5v6 situation and he's always in my games, why does he even plays it? People may think it's harmless but when they do it regularly they are just souring someone else's experience because they have no patience, that's why the penalty is there

If these were all at the selection screen yeah, the game is pretty dumb... but idk leaving won't help that much, as long as dps is the "cool kid" job...thats why most of casual players here sorta went to mistery heroes :s

But well if leaving over hero comp on qp is your turf, just take a break until lfg hits next week.
 

optimus8936

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Oct 25, 2017
6,174
I shatter, enemy rein blocks it

Zen behind him still gets stunned, but everyone else is fine.

I can't wait for the Rein fixes we asked for 2 years ago to be fixed in 2022.
 

Sensei

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Oct 25, 2017
6,490
WTF did they do to Hanzo. This character is in every game at platinum rank and getting dragons left and right
 

Chance

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Nov 22, 2017
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Once upon a time there was a Roadhog on Rialto who beat me like a rented mule. All of these deaths are on my own idiotic positioning. Okay well one or two I think it was safe to assume I wouldn't get instantly one-shot by SuperHog, but still - re-watching this footage is pret-ty painful. Like, what was I thinking ignoring the McCree after I was able to rewind out of the hook?

I had blinders on, that's what.

When it got down to OT and he's ulting and my Pharah's ulting I was screaming internally - I WANT IT TO BE MEEEEE! I AM THE ONE WHO KILLS YOUUU!

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MG310

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Oct 25, 2017
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Sorta figured out what was wrong with Avoid as Teammate on PS4 last night. I was getting a PSN error message when I signed in to Overwatch but I would hit okay and was still logged in and could play matches. Didn't notice that it wasn't pulling my friends list or the players I currently had avoided.

Just had to close the application and reopen it and stopped getting the error.
 

Alucrid

Chicken Photographer
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Oct 25, 2017
11,404
always feels good when you log on and get one of those action taken messages
 

Kyuuji

The Favonius Fox
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Nov 8, 2017
31,901
Just picked up the Overwatch art book and holy shit it might just be the best I've seen yet. Character concepts, explanations into the origins of OW the game, environments/locations and their concepts, set pieces, icons and furnishings, skins including the event skins, the events and their sprays and small design elements, character origin stories and the animated shorts, promotional artwork for the game and events.

It's crazy how much is in this, enthralling to look through.
 

Komii

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Oct 26, 2017
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Just picked up the Overwatch art book and holy shit it might just be the best I've seen yet. Character concepts, explanations into the origins of OW the game, environments/locations and their concepts, set pieces, icons and furnishings, skins including the event skins, the events and their sprays and small design elements, character origin stories and the animated shorts, promotional artwork for the game and events.

It's crazy how much is in this, enthralling to look through.
Best expensive artbook I ever bought, they explain everything, it's really great! And the fancy limited edition prints are beautiful ;;
 

Chance

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Nov 22, 2017
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The gold standard for me remains the Okami Official Artworks, but Overwatch's is pretty boss.
 
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EssBeeVee

EssBeeVee

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Oct 25, 2017
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instalocks hanzo. leaves voice chat. doesn't contribute other than build ult charge for the other team. slow to get dragon. does not even have any gold to show.

if youre going to do that just play QP.
 

ISOM

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Nov 6, 2017
2,684
Playing against an attack and defense sym that knows what they're doing is so annoying. I shudder at the changes. Hopefully the character is fun but not too annoying.
 

Salarians

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Oct 25, 2017
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Playing against an attack and defense sym that knows what they're doing is so annoying. I shudder at the changes. Hopefully the character is fun but not too annoying.
nothing Symm3tra can do will be more annoying than having to hear "I'm getting a feeling they have a shield generator" every 30 seconds as Zen while your Tracer/Sombra/D.Va/Junkrat ignore it
 
Oct 28, 2017
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I played a fair bit of TF2 for the first time in ages. That game is.. really unrecognisable from release 11 years ago. Valve added way too much shit to that game.
It made me think about how much I really hope Blizzard calms down with adding characters and reworks at some point. You don't have to constantly add crap to a game.
Get it to a spot where the meta isn't obnoxiously terrible and let the game be.
But the horrible cynic in me says that's not how you sell loot boxes, so it'll never happen.
 

Core

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Oct 30, 2017
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Tf2 isn't that different from release, the cosmetics kinda crapped out the whole art style, and some weapons really shouldn't have been added, but otherwise the game is way more diverse and interesting imo (changes needed to be done some of the original launch decisions were questionable.)
 
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EssBeeVee

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Oct 25, 2017
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gj mercy. lets just let tanks die. i get high energy. they completely stop healing so i can die. then our rein die. good fucking job
 
Oct 28, 2017
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Tf2 isn't that different from release, the cosmetics kinda crapped out the whole art style, and some weapons really shouldn't have been added, but otherwise the game is way more diverse and interesting imo (changes needed to be done some of the original launch decisions were questionable.)
My first game was immediately met with a pyro flying across the map with a jetpack.
At a certain point you're supposed to stop.
 

Core

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Oct 30, 2017
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My first game was immediately met with a pyro flying across the map with a jetpack.
At a certain point you're supposed to stop.
Pyro needs mobility cause they aren't very good at covering range and the jetpack is super underpowered, a game can't exist for over 10 years without changing things, this is why I like hero reworks, deisgns mature with time.
 

softtack

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Oct 27, 2017
5,650
Playing against an attack and defense sym that knows what they're doing is so annoying. I shudder at the changes. Hopefully the character is fun but not too annoying.
She will be less of a nuisance imho. I used to be part of the problem until I got bored of her and moved on. Also, Winston is your friend.

 
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EssBeeVee

EssBeeVee

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Oct 25, 2017
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had a close King's Row Game as Zarya. played very aggressive.
didn't really have much of a combo during attack since we ran moira/zen/brigitte/rein and widow/hanzo/mccree.

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optimus8936

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Oct 25, 2017
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I played a fair bit of TF2 for the first time in ages. That game is.. really unrecognisable from release 11 years ago. Valve added way too much shit to that game.
It made me think about how much I really hope Blizzard calms down with adding characters and reworks at some point. You don't have to constantly add crap to a game.
Get it to a spot where the meta isn't obnoxiously terrible and let the game be.
But the horrible cynic in me says that's not how you sell loot boxes, so it'll never happen.
The best way to make the meta not obnoxiously terrible is by adding more heroes that counter certain strats

The reason dive was the only viable strat for over a year was because there was literally 0 counterplay. Brigitte comes in with some counterplay, and all of a sudden it's no longer played all the time.

but they forgot to make sure Brigitte had counterplay too
Hanzo too
 
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EssBeeVee

EssBeeVee

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Oct 25, 2017
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lol. team couldn't decide who was going to tank/support. because i already locked zen. we were still picking when the timer was at 10s. but i ended up on mercy, and the mercy ended up as dva. we just ran a brigitte/mercy with a rein/dva/reaper/hanzo which worked out well. held it at 87.2% of first point (Blizzard World)

ended up with 50% healing of the team. 11.9K. worked on GA and taking a more defensive approach when there's shit that can hit me in the air or swing at me. glad they didn't realize they should have kept pushing because i was 1 HP. managed to go zero death the whole game.
 

The_Strokes

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Oct 25, 2017
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México
Team decides to try a pirate ship with no main tank, also decides to leave the Tracer player be the one moving the payload.

Please look at how many bodies are on the payload while this is happening.

 

Kirblar

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
30,744
How you know you'll lose a comp game in the first 10 seconds: Someone picks McCree when Hanzo is available.

edit: And random thought- if we're getting a flamethrower hero, Mei's spray change may have come up during testing for it.
 

dr.rocktopus

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Oct 25, 2017
7,250
Does it matter when every week feels like the last week?

Can't wait for LFG. I hope there are measures taken to avoid troll groups though...I've seen some on Xbox's LFG looking specifically for deranking or smurfing or whatever. Hopefully endorsements can stem this.
 

LiK

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Oct 25, 2017
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Does it matter when every week feels like the last week?

Can't wait for LFG. I hope there are measures taken to avoid troll groups though...I've seen some on Xbox's LFG looking specifically for deranking or smurfing or whatever. Hopefully endorsements can stem this.

It's extra bad during the last week. Always.
 

dr.rocktopus

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Oct 25, 2017
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It's extra bad during the last week. Always.

S10 + last week = the Dark Souls of OW comp?

S10 has been bad for me. Definitely some my own fault, I've had some clear mechanical or game sense brain farts I can pick out. But I feel more and more I need to babysit my team. It's...really making me question if it's worth it, more than before.
 

LiK

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Oct 25, 2017
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S10 + last week = the Dark Souls of OW comp?

S10 has been bad for me. Definitely some my own fault, I've had some clear mechanical or game sense brain farts I can pick out. But I feel more and more I need to babysit my team. It's...really making me question if it's worth it.

I gave up caring about Comp now. Won't be a good experience until the LFG system is out or we play as a 6 stack again. Considering most people in my list are barely playing it, I doubt I can play in a full stack anytime soon. Just do the placements and hope for the best.
 
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