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aaronjumper · 25-01-2019 2:12pm

Drunk DPS Moira meta begins. I'm in.

TitianGerm · 25-01-2019 2:20pm

nix wrote: »

now if your damage is high also, then Bravo :P:pac:

Then your been a ****ty team player and not healing your team.

raze_them_all_ · 25-01-2019 2:22pm

Moira is probably the easiest to get kills with. Throw out a purple orb into a grav and they all count as your kills despite minimum damage on your part

Canis Lupus · 25-01-2019 2:34pm

nix wrote: »

Moira just leeches kills, easy to get crazy amount of kills with her, now if your damage is high also, then Bravo :P:pac:

Whoah whoah whoah, no need to be jelly.

aaronjumper · 25-01-2019 5:33pm

Mickeroo · 25-01-2019 9:42pm

Officially the best use of that meme I've seen.

TitianGerm · 25-01-2019 9:47pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Officially the best use of that meme I've seen.

Was watching a Unit Lost video on a Diamond level Moira and I thought he was going to to flip the desk over because he kept using damage orbs and it was annoying him so much :pac:

fixXxer · 28-01-2019 10:03am

So these changes.

Maybe the game will settle down but had a few games last night that just ended up DPS Vs DPS and me standing their on my own with my Rein shield like a fool.

The reaper changes are not quite as bad as I thought but **** he can be hard to kill. We had a reaper drop in to a group of us and despite pinging headshot at him he managed to ultimate through three characters and severely damage a fourth.

I played a few games as him and Roadhog is even more delicious which is a shame as he's a handy tank to have around with such DPS heavy teams.

Anima · 28-01-2019 7:01pm

The reaper change is too much. If he's getting some support as well as his own healing, he's damn near impossible to kill unless the team focuses him which of course, doesn't always happen.

IvoryTower · 10-02-2019 9:03pm

Forgot to play on my main for a bit and it decayed to 3k so I've jacked all attempts at try hard and I'm now a full time ****e tracer on the smurf. Arguably the most fun character to play I would say.

Actually looking forward to s2 of owl, hope to watch more of it now that dafran is in it

Sight808 · 11-02-2019 8:57am

IvoryTower wrote: »

Forgot to play on my main for a bit and it decayed to 3k so I've jacked all attempts at try hard and I'm now a full time ****e tracer on the smurf. Arguably the most fun character to play I would say.

Actually looking forward to s2 of owl, hope to watch more of it now that dafran is in it

I've barely touched ranked since placements. When I do play I just load up qp w/ find group function. It's basically the same as ranked.

Trying Apex legends atm, tired of OW.

I always miss owl, find it un-watchable

fixXxer · 11-02-2019 9:09am

Game feels pretty unfun since the reaper and armor changes. I usually play Tank or Support and am getting deleted as soon as a decent Reaper shows up. Games end up being 5 DPS spread all over the place.

TerrorFirmer · 14-02-2019 10:34pm

Is it just me, or are people who admit to smurf accounts kinda low?

"Oh, I just want to try this other character".

Yeah, that's what QP is for. If you're so precious that you feel frightened at the thought of not playing well in comp with that character, just play a little more QP with them, what's the issue?

By making a smurf account, obviously you're gonna wreck people, doesn't matter if you've never played that character, your game and map sense, as well as understanding of whatever character, goes a long way.

I just think it's really, really crappy sportsmanship.....

IvoryTower · 15-02-2019 12:53am

I play tracer on my smurf all season, I'm low plat, that's where I should be as tracer so it's not really an issue unless I switch to torb which would put me in diamond(not a big difference between plat and low diamond anyway tbh). I also use this account to play wirh my friends who are silver, otherwise gap would be too much.

Maybe it is low, hard to care really, i just want to enjoy playing games wirh my m8s, we don't take it very seriously but much prefer comp over qp. Need to feel like it matters if you win, in qp you're just getting hang of characters

tltr - yes it probably is bad sportsmanship but people are always going to play with their mates

IvoryTower · 16-02-2019 10:09pm

Lads dafran plays first match ever in owl as torb and kicks ass, what an entrance lol

raze_them_all_ · 16-02-2019 10:27pm

IvoryTower wrote: »

Lads dafran plays first match ever in owl as torb and kicks ass, what an entrance lol

He is probably the best non Korean dps tbh. Look at his zarya tracer soldier torb. He is a god and immediately shut up a lot of he can't do pro play

IvoryTower · 17-02-2019 11:44am

Finding it much easier to follow games this year, not sure if they've improved it or just got used to it. I notice if I start playing with my phone etc you quickly lose track of what's happening. Was particularly easy when dafran was playing cause you're watching out for him. I might try the player cam if he has any matches at a reasonable time

TerrorFirmer · 20-02-2019 10:45pm

****, just lost 10 games in a row in comp. So frustrating, especially when I had 9 blue cards for healing out of the 10 games.

TerrorFirmer · 20-02-2019 11:58pm

Now 15....I don't understand at all!! Usually it's win/lose 50/50. The last game I did 15k healing in 8 minutes....ugh. I've gone from plat to low gold in one night.

Mickeroo · 21-02-2019 12:01am

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Now 15....I don't understand at all!! Usually it's win/lose 50/50. The last game I did 15k healing in 8 minutes....ugh. I've gone from plat to low gold in one night.

Yikes. Generally it's best to stop playing if you lose two or three in a row i find.

TerrorFirmer · 21-02-2019 1:38am

Mickeroo wrote: »

Yikes. Generally it's best to stop playing if you lose two or three in a row i find.

Heading now towards 20 losses in a row. Honestly cannot understand it. Almost blue card healing in every game.

Normally high gold/low plat consistently....now heading towards silver.

TitianGerm · 21-02-2019 8:30am

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Heading now towards 20 losses in a row. Honestly cannot understand it. Almost blue card healing in every game.

Normally high gold/low plat consistently....now heading towards silver.

I had the same at the start of the season. Constantly getting 10k+ healing but no wins in 10 or 12 games. Haven't played since, no one wanted to work together.

Mickeroo · 21-02-2019 9:49am

Sometimes having really high healing is actually a bad sign as it means your team mates are taking a lot of damage and probably feeding.

A streak like that is why I have two accounts :pac:

IvoryTower · 21-02-2019 10:07am

Agreed, 2-3 losses on my main and it's account switching time.

Anima · 21-02-2019 10:55am

Which is another reason why you're probably losing. You have diamond/gold players with new accounts playing in lower ranks than they should be. There seems to be a lot of that. The last day I was in a 2.5k game with a silver and unranked player. Both of which were dominating.

IvoryTower · 21-02-2019 11:22am

More people have multiple accounts than don't I would say, it makes sense to me. All the pros/streamers also do.

off the top of my head

pros
its free on console to set one up
It makes the game more enjoyable being able to have an account that's a bit less stressful to play with
you can play with your friends if they have a slightly lower sr
you can use it to practice characters that you think are ready for comp
you can finally get to play dps
90% less tilt
if your team pick 4 dps well then you can just join them cause yolo

cons
people abuse it and play their main, im guilty of that sometimes when playing with group of friends, i try to avoid rein/moira/torb for the most part
some legit smurfs out there, eg: masters player with a silver account massaging his ego
sportsmanship - I guess in the ideal world nobody would have a second account, but it is the way it is, I'm not sure how many people would still play the game if you told them they couldnt play with their mates in comp

IMO for the most part people use it like everything else, an excuse as to why they're not ranking up. I have 1000s of hours at this stage and the only problem with me ranking up is i need to get better. But i'm not really worried about ranking up I just enjoy playing, i get slightly better naturally just by playing for fun a lot

Anima · 21-02-2019 11:38am

I don't really care about the game enough to create a second account. I don't even play comp as much as before. The game is so unbalanced now, it's not even fun to play (at least seriously).

It's not as stressful because you don't care if you win or lose on that account. The whole point of the competitive mode is that everyone on the team is trying to win and supposed to be doing what's best for the team. If you have 1-2 guys who are only going to pick a hero they don't normally play and don't care about winning/team composition, it ruins the game.

In CSGO there is this prime feature, you had to tie your phone number to one account to prove this is your main account. I think a similar idea could work here.

Mickeroo · 21-02-2019 11:40am

I care if I win or lose on my second account, I just tend to play different characters to my other account. If I'm having a really bad run on one account it's nice to be able to switch accounts and have a clean slate and more often than not if gets you out of the funk you're in.

fixXxer · 21-02-2019 11:54am

Everyone should set up a second account just to play through the weird wasteland that levels 1-25 are now. Smurfs in with noobs and forever bronze, rare and actually match with 12 players. Bastions out in the open firing at the clouds. Its bizarre.

IvoryTower · 21-02-2019 12:10pm

whats so imbalanced?

I'm not going to argue with those who think everyone should have one account. It's just a difference of opinion. I'm glad I can have a second account to play the likes of tracer on, I would go mad playing my mains in comp over and over, forever flexing to suit everybody else. I've even started to introduce tracer during games on my main as a result of playing her so much on my second account. I done the same with Torb last season and he's now my best player so it does work for me.

WarpAsylum · 21-02-2019 12:30pm

fixxxer wrote: »

Everyone should set up a second account just to play through the weird wasteland that levels 1-25 are now. Smurfs in with noobs and forever bronze, rare and actually match with 12 players. Bastions out in the open firing at the clouds. Its bizarre.

I don't have a smurf but I have started playing comp with mates on PS (I play on Xbox)

They're all bronze and silver. I can queue with the silvers but not the bronzes.

Holy moly, it is a sight to behold.

IvoryTower · 21-02-2019 12:51pm

Even in gold its practically a free for all, games are won by people popping off for the most part, not by any collective teamwork.

WarpAsylum · 21-02-2019 1:16pm

IvoryTower wrote: »

Even in gold its practically a free for all, games are won by people popping off for the most part, not by any collective teamwork.

Absolutely. I pulled a TerrorFirmer on my Xbox account and I'm in Gold elo hell

TerrorFirmer · 21-02-2019 1:28pm

I'm now at 30 straight losses, I cannot for the life of me understand it. I'm still playing exactly the same as I always did in high gold/plat. The lower rank I go, the more healing I end up doing because as someone pointed out, people are taking much more damage.

I've switched to DPS a few times and this is the sort of crap I'm getting. 37% of team damage! And this was a team with 4 DPS, and I wasn't even DPS at the start, I had to switch off Moira because nothing was dying.

IvoryTower · 21-02-2019 1:29pm

WarpAsylum wrote: »

Absolutely. I pulled a TerrorFirmer on my Xbox account and I'm in Gold elo hell

Im on tomorrow night and Sat if you fancy a climb to plat

IvoryTower · 21-02-2019 1:30pm

terrorfirmer, step away from the keyboard lol

I believe they call this full tilt!

WarpAsylum · 21-02-2019 1:37pm

IvoryTower wrote: »

Im on tomorrow night and Sat if you fancy a climb to plat

Sound man, defo!

...maybe some Apex too?

TerrorFirmer · 21-02-2019 1:56pm

IvoryTower wrote: »

terrorfirmer, step away from the keyboard lol

I believe they call this full tilt!

I'm starting to question my sanity. Now at 35 losses.....go and play some quick play, and win most games.

This is the lowest rank I've had since I started playing the game a few seasons ago. Straight fall from 2550 - 1990 in 1 day.

Cannot understand it at all.

IvoryTower · 21-02-2019 1:56pm

WarpAsylum wrote: »

Sound man, defo!

...maybe some Apex too?

I've played about 3 games of apex, ill consider it

TitianGerm · 21-02-2019 2:14pm

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

I'm starting to question my sanity. Now at 35 losses.....go and play some quick play, and win most games.

This is the lowest rank I've had since I started playing the game a few seasons ago. Straight fall from 2550 - 1990 in 1 day.

Cannot understand it at all.

I'm around 1900 after being 2200. If you want to group up let me know and we might be able to get some sort of team comp. Same for anyone else around this rank.

IvoryTower · 21-02-2019 2:26pm

Silver/Gold/Plat for the xboxers

fixXxer · 22-02-2019 2:46pm

I like the new map.

IvoryTower · 22-02-2019 4:47pm

i wonder did terrorfirmer win a game, i played 6 yest, WWLLWW, 3100, would like to get over 3200 in the last 6 days

TerrorFirmer · 22-02-2019 5:37pm

IvoryTower wrote: »

i wonder did terrorfirmer win a game, i played 6 yest, WWLLWW, 3100, would like to get over 3200 in the last 6 days

Well after a straight drop from plat to silver, I had to take a break to focus on finding inner peace of course.

Happy to report I've won 7 games in a row and well back in gold, not happy about that but it's better than finishing at Silver (won't be around to play again until after the season ends).

Still baffled by the whole thing, never experienced anything like it before and hopefully never will. Before this happened I was well used to WLWLWWLL sort of patterns.

Expect a six figure book deal soon "My Descent Into Madness: The TerrorFirmer Overwatch Story"

IvoryTower · 22-02-2019 5:49pm

Good to hear! At least the climb back up will be fun.

penev10 · 23-02-2019 4:42pm

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

I'm now at 30 straight losses,

I feel your pain. I've lost 400SR in the past few weeks. We lost a couple of players from our regular team and even though the new guys are good it just takes a long time to get a 6 stack working again it seems.

IvoryTower · 23-02-2019 7:05pm

I only solo q, youre doing well to able to get a 6 stack together!

raze_them_all_ · 23-02-2019 7:34pm

Played a few games for the first time in a few weeks. Turned it off quickly. People are idiots and not worth playing with compared to apex

IvoryTower · 23-02-2019 8:48pm

I tried fortnite, got stuck into pubg, blops & blackout, played some apex but have battle royal burnout. Class game but just kinda feels like, here we go again, another spin on br

They all come and go, ow the goat tbf. R6 up there

TerrorFirmer · 23-02-2019 10:14pm

I play a bit of Battlefield and Apex as well, but Overwatch has the best longevity of any game I've ever played before. Anyway, won't get to play anymore comp until next season, but at least I managed to get back to mid-gold very easily, not ideal but should be easy to get back to plat next season unless I'm sent another digital plague of locusts.

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