Sad if true. I haven't even played support in comp this season yet, but I really miss playing Zen as he's fun to play. Also because he's my highest win-rate hero.
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Sad if true. I haven't even played support in comp this season yet, but I really miss playing Zen as he's fun to play. Also because he's my highest win-rate hero.
Last night almost killed the game for me. Start with a few QP classic for arcade points that are just me on support plus all dps, no cc on them, no rotations, lose all matches. Roll into regular QP with a weird long string of racists and throwers, lose all matches. Finally after eight losses get one decent team that doesn't require any mutes or reports and get a nice win. Not a great ratio.
Quick play classic or whatever its called in the Arcade menu is the regular quick play as it was before
Oh thank god, I was so confused how anybody would find that shit acceptable lol
It makes for better games overall, but wait times on DPS are killer. They're much more managable on tanks and supports tho.
Had a great CTF Blitz game where me rolling in real fast as Hammond and getting an early cap resulted in someone rage quiting out of the gate. We get more caps in rapid succession and by the time it's 5-0 the opponents have only 3 members left and the game quits due to not enough people.
Slightly annoyed that a dominating performance like that didn't result in a Win, but I kept a recording of it and that's the true reward.
Slightly annoyed that a dominating performance like that didn't result in a Win, but I kept a recording of it and that's the true reward.
Yeah, that sucks. I've had a few comp matches where magic happens and we just steamroll the enemy team onto the point right out of the gate, so people on their team leave and the match cancels. I'm always like "C'mon! A fast win should still be a win!"
I've never actually been into quick play classic in the arcade since 2-2-2 came in, I just assume it's six on six attack characters, why else would you go there?
Honestly i almost never got more than 3 dps characters there, granted, i duo a lot and we try to balance out things, but I can go widow without feeling like people are fucking up the composition o- o
If we end up with 4 dps i just pick a support with damage boost and pray, sometimes it works if they aint playing world of tanks
That actually surprises me a lot, the only times I'm tempted to venture in are when I really need a break from support and tank roles so naturally I figure everyone is like me.
Never even considered world of tanks with the power creep, good god almighty, the absolute hoss war of attrition.
Most of the time that happens because they have someone AFK from the start though.
Oh, that's absolutely something that happens. I'm talking about the situations where all 6 are very much active but get outplayed right away so someone rage quits. It doesn't happen often, but when it does it stings to have the win plucked from you.
It's been as it's always been, if you are a tank/support player and have a friend that's the same, every match is bearable, if you take rounds dpsing you'll hardly get more than 3dps/match. If the enemy teams has no healers you can punish that with strats that are not 2-2-2 too xD
The secret is playing for fun and not minding the strats much cause odds are the enemy team will be as bad as yours ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, it seems like unless I get endorsements every single match I'm gonna drop back to 3.
I've only ever seen level 5 players in quick play. In comp I think it's pretty much impossible to keep up the endorsements because people are more tilted.
Also something seems to be happening imminently... Seagull and Emongg are both streaming and teasing something...
I think it has to be something that's going straight to live (or at least PTR) if Seagull is streaming the game. Not just an announcement of something.
Something is playable today, they signed a few streamers to NDA
Hero pools sounds cool! Though I'd imagine it would be more exciting if they changed every match.
Oh wow. So it's hero bans, but fixed and rotated on a weekly basis. I'm someone who flexes on a bunch of heroes, so it's great for me, but I can imagine one-tricks being super turned off by it.
Also I guess I was wrong about something being playable today!
Also I guess I was wrong about something being playable today!
Like man, I can actually ditch the game for a week when cheese toxic characters and come back when they're banned. Glorious, please make it work
- Experimental card every now and then (basically PTR on live servers, changes to hero balance, game modes and more).
- Get rewards, experience etc. just like normal, so should provide more data for the OW team (PTR was infamous for not getting enough players).
- Not for bugs or stability tests, pure for gameplay changes.
- First experimental card in a few weeks, also for console!
- New balance strategy: faster, more aggressive and targetting the meta.
- Used to focus on stability, now pushing player base more often from the meta.
- Not the same as experimental card changes per se
- Season 21 of competitive: Hero Pools
- Experimental System to prevent players of stagnating on the meta
- ONLY IN COMPETITIVE, QUICKPLAY IS SAFE
- Hero pool rotates weekly. WEEKLY.
- Target is to keep the meta fluid.
- Team is willing to change aspects of this, like time of the pool if needed.
- OWL is excited about this and will implement this system as well (!!!!!!!)
- Huge anti cheat effort, will address this majorly in the next 2 updates
- Big workshop update incoming
- QoL changes incoming (for example: pin replays so it doesn't get deleted ; share replays)
- Major overhaul for Career Profile in Overwatch 2 ; will get a small refresh soonish for OW 1 (sort player icons, finally lol)
Think that about covers it, very exciting stuff.
- Get rewards, experience etc. just like normal, so should provide more data for the OW team (PTR was infamous for not getting enough players).
- Not for bugs or stability tests, pure for gameplay changes.
- First experimental card in a few weeks, also for console!
- New balance strategy: faster, more aggressive and targetting the meta.
- Used to focus on stability, now pushing player base more often from the meta.
- Not the same as experimental card changes per se
- Season 21 of competitive: Hero Pools
- Experimental System to prevent players of stagnating on the meta
- ONLY IN COMPETITIVE, QUICKPLAY IS SAFE
- Hero pool rotates weekly. WEEKLY.
- Target is to keep the meta fluid.
- Team is willing to change aspects of this, like time of the pool if needed.
- OWL is excited about this and will implement this system as well (!!!!!!!)
- Huge anti cheat effort, will address this majorly in the next 2 updates
- Big workshop update incoming
- QoL changes incoming (for example: pin replays so it doesn't get deleted ; share replays)
- Major overhaul for Career Profile in Overwatch 2 ; will get a small refresh soonish for OW 1 (sort player icons, finally lol)
Think that about covers it, very exciting stuff.
Lol, quit what? What is not healthy about what i said?
It's also entirely false because Jeff stated way back in 2016 that he could see them eventually remove heroes from the hero pool. Like, way back when there wasn't even a single hero added (or maybe post Ana) and nothing of this even was up for discussion, the game director already was thinking about stuff like that.
'Goes against what the game is about', lmao.
I'm actually pretty hyped the more I think about it. Weekly rotations will actually get me to play competitive more.
I can go back literally dozens of pages without finding any post suggesting you enjoy this game anymore
Like why are you still around
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