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Bolow posted:Here's a thought if you're pissing off your team frequently enough to be mass reported and banned maybe take the loving hint The last time this happened Blizzard removed an entire system to cater to them. I guess if they were the top symmetra in the world, this might happen here!
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The game immediately after I hit level 51 I got into a group where everyone else's level was 150+. I know skill and level aren't exactly tied but uh there's still something to be said for experience and I felt like a bumbling child waddling against giants making huge plays on both teams. It was insane. I saw a Widowmaker who could actually hit headshots and a Bastion who changed positions. I think I've finally started seeing Overwatch players.
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Jul 16, 2016 23:39
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FatSamurai posted:The game immediately after I hit level 51 I got into a group where everyone else's level was 150+. If this was on the live servers there's the possibility that players you're up against are higher than your skill level, because a lot of players are playing on the PTR now and there's not a lot of matches to go around. It could also be a sign that your MMR has moved up and you've stepped into the semi-big leagues, in which case congratulations.
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Jul 16, 2016 23:41
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Meanwhile, my every interaction with competitive is essentially miserable. After winning only four placement matches I haven't won a single actual competitive match and they've all basically been slogs against the inevitable. I have no idea why the matchmaking is so terrible when it works so well for Quick Play, and also when it seems to work okay for other people?
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Jul 16, 2016 23:45
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Rand Brittain posted:Meanwhile, my every interaction with competitive is essentially miserable. After winning only four placement matches I haven't won a single actual competitive match and they've all basically been slogs against the inevitable. Just keep losing long enough until your rank matches your skill. I'm a bad player at rank 37. After reaching that rank my loss:win ratio has been steady at about 50%.
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Jul 17, 2016 00:03
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Just keep losing long enough until your rank matches your skill. I'm a bad player at rank 37. After reaching that rank my loss:win ratio has been steady at about 50%. I feel like I'm just going to hope that Season 2 works out better because I'm really not into the idea of losing badly over and over again until I fall to the correct rank of incompetence. Especially not if I have to repeat it every couple of months.
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Jul 17, 2016 00:05
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Well presumably the same thing already happened to you in quick play, it was just invisible.
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Jul 17, 2016 00:06
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Sindai posted:Well presumably the same thing already happened to you in quick play, it was just invisible. And painless, yeah.
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Jul 17, 2016 00:08
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Will there be placement matches for every season or only for new players?
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Jul 17, 2016 00:11
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Will there be placement matches for every season or only for new players? I think each season will be a clean slate rank-wise.
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Jul 17, 2016 00:15
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How long is a season?
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Jul 17, 2016 00:30
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Supercar Gautier posted:I think each season will be a clean slate rank-wise. I'm sure it won't, they tried that with Hearthstone and people bitched constantly until they changed it. It'll probably normalize ranks back towards the center somewhat, but it won't be a total clean slate. Plus it wasn't a clean slate to begin with, IIRC it takes your quick play rank into account even in the initial placement. Canemacar posted:How long is a season? A little under three months. (There's a grace period between seasons for some reason.)
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Jul 17, 2016 00:30
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Okay, I tried again and got career bests on Zenyatta in every category and my teammates praised me for being amazing, so I guess everything is correct and fine.
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Jul 17, 2016 00:32
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I'm sure it won't, they tried that with Hearthstone and people bitched constantly until they changed it. It'll probably normalize ranks back towards the center somewhat, but it won't be a total clean slate. Well, the game notes your highest rank for the current season, and it rewards you at the end for it, so it'd be pretty wonky if you could just get a high rank once and then receive the same reward every season thereafter without necessarily even playing.
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Jul 17, 2016 00:40
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Supercar Gautier posted:Well, the game notes your highest rank for the current season, and it rewards you at the end for it, so it'd be pretty wonky if you could just get a high rank once and then receive the same reward every season thereafter without necessarily even playing. Tuxedo Catfish posted:It'll probably normalize ranks back towards the center somewhat And if you say "well it's still weird to give someone a lesser but still significant reward without even necessarily playing," then, again, that's what Hearthstone does.
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Jul 17, 2016 00:43
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One more thing to note: to receive the participation spray for this season, you have to play your placement matches. I would therefore guess that to receive the season 2 spray, you will have to play season 2's placement matches, meaning they will exist, meaning they will assign you a placement rank, which will not be the same as your old rank.
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Jul 17, 2016 00:47
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placement matches should place you in a wider range of ranks
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Jul 17, 2016 00:49
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Been trying more Reinhardt and having some success, but jesus. Mei just shuts Reinhardt right the gently caress down.
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Jul 17, 2016 00:54
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FatSamurai posted:The game immediately after I hit level 51 I got into a group where everyone else's level was 150+. One reason that QP feels more balanced than Comp is that QP rebalances between rounds and some of that rebalance persists between matches (if one team stomps, you'll often see an enemy moved to your team, and multiple team members will persist between matches, eg). So QP might initially be unbalanced but after a couple games each session, you'll settle into relatively even matchups. Comp feels lovely because those balance adjustments only happen between matches and if you're still misclassified after a match or two you're going to keep getting unbalanced poo poo.
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Jul 17, 2016 01:20
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every time I play zenyatta in pub matches I seem to be the only guy on the point playing him like a tank
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Bolow posted:Here's a thought if you're pissing off your team frequently enough to be mass reported and banned maybe take the loving hint Putting this power in the hands of players is a bad idea if it's true.
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MUSCULAR BEAVER posted:every time I play zenyatta in pub matches I seem to be the only guy on the point playing him like a tank Reinhart standing on the payload alone while Bastion and two Widows take offensive sniping perches a mile behind, Reaper solo-dives the other team and Pharah plays Duck Hunt with their snipers and loses. Pubbieoverwatch.jpg.
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Verranicus posted:Putting this power in the hands of players is a bad idea if it's true. Counterpoint, Don't be a shithead and make teleporters that lead off cliffs in competitive games like the dipshit who got banned 
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Jul 17, 2016 02:16
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There's a bunch more unused voice files someone found, and from what I can tell, a few of them MAYBE hint at at least two maps? https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4t5vrc/after_seeing_the_thread_yesterday_about_voice/ There's several voice lines about some castle(???) and a few voice lines mentioning the moon. Specifically Winston going "to the moon and back!" and "now that's a moon shot!". So I think at the very least we'll be getting some castle (I guess specific to Reinhardt?) and the moon. I wonder what the moon map would be considering it's taken over by a bunch of angry gorillas
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Jul 17, 2016 02:21
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So, how does progress on the PTR relate to the live servers? I started on the PTR a few days ago and saw my level and unlocks were synced (at first anyway)
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Jul 17, 2016 02:25
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Macaluso posted:. I wonder what the moon map would be considering it's taken over by a bunch of angry gorillas What
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Jul 17, 2016 02:26
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The PTR grabs a snapshot of your live server profile to use, but it's only one-way. Nothing you do on PTR will affect your live profile/stats/unlocks.
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verbal enema posted:What Look at Mr. Doesn't-know-the-lore over here  quote:But his (Winston's) life was thrown into chaos when the other gorillas led an uprising, killed the mission scientists, and claimed the colony for their own. Taking on the name of his beloved human caretaker, Winston built a makeshift rocket and escaped to Earth. There he found a new home with Overwatch, an organization that represented everything he had come to admire about humanity. Winston was finally able to live up to the heroic ideal that had been instilled in him.
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Unlucky7 posted:So, how does progress on the PTR relate to the live servers? I started on the PTR a few days ago and saw my level and unlocks were synced (at first anyway) It's a different server, it doesn't carry over at all. When you first start the PTR it snapshots your profile.
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Bolow posted:Counterpoint, Don't be a shithead and make teleporters that lead off cliffs in competitive games like the dipshit who got banned If you think people will only report legit trolling and not just people picking characters they don't like or out of spite entirely you're naive as gently caress.
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Verranicus posted:If you think people will only report legit trolling and not just people picking characters they don't like or out of spite entirely you're naive as gently caress. If the system truly works like that guy says it does, then people using the report button to avoid people better than them is going to make things really stupid.
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Jul 17, 2016 02:36
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Once again, a reason to bring back the "Avoid This Player" option.
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Best change they could make to this game is adding a "Too Many Flankers" tooltip on character select imo. Toss Genji/Tracer/Reaper/Pharah in there and have it show up when you reach 3 of em. Hell, I'd prefer it if the game started complaining about too many flankers when you have a mere 2 so that people won't go second flanker unless they're sure it's a good idea, but that may be pushing it.
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Papercut posted:If the system truly works like that guy says it does, then people using the report button to avoid people better than them is going to make things really stupid. I'm probably more paranoid than most because of the hate I get for doing offensive Torb (even when we win), I know I'm not breaking any rules but if it's automated..
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Vargs posted:Best change they could make to this game is adding a "Too Many Flankers" tooltip on character select imo. Toss Genji/Tracer/Reaper/Pharah in there and have it show up when you reach 3 of em. Hell, I'd prefer it if the game started complaining about too many flankers when you have a mere 2 so that people won't go second flanker unless they're sure it's a good idea, but that may be pushing it. Problem is that the people who slam pick Genji will use this to yell at you when you pick eg Pharah on a map where you really need a Pharah, especially if you wait to pick until you see what everyone else picks and then fill in with her.
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Macaluso posted:Look at Mr. Doesn't-know-the-lore over here Hell yeah gorilla uprising
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I honestly didn't expect that I'd get into competitive, but boy, the 3 instalock Ana players on every team who bitch after every loss (and they always lose) made that transition a lot easier.
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Vargs posted:Best change they could make to this game is adding a "Too Many Flankers" tooltip on character select imo. Toss Genji/Tracer/Reaper/Pharah in there and have it show up when you reach 3 of em. Hell, I'd prefer it if the game started complaining about too many flankers when you have a mere 2 so that people won't go second flanker unless they're sure it's a good idea, but that may be pushing it.
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verbal enema posted:Hell yeah gorilla uprising You sound like a gorilla after 2 drinks, buddy.
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Verranicus posted:You sound like a gorilla after 2 drinks, buddy. That's waaaay after 2 drinks. Y'all play with me when I'm like 1/2 a 5th deep
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