Overwatch, It Isn't New Anymore

[Moridam]

Double post:

Overwatch Twitter just dropped some info on the new hero it seems. A healing sniper class.

https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/st...36158624215040

whatever it turns out to be, if we get a new healer i just hope they give it symmetra's spot in the support roster and move her off to defense.

[Tokitoki]

Seems pretty straight-forward to me to be a healing class that uses the sniper rifle for long range, precise heals, but will likely get a "virus" or "poison" type shot as well. Probably a DoT similar to Widow's bug thing if I had to guess.

[tyven]

Seems pretty straight-forward to me to be a healing class that uses the sniper rifle for long range, precise heals, but will likely get a "virus" or "poison" type shot as well. Probably a DoT similar to Widow's bug thing if I had to guess.

fo sho. primary will shoot HoTs secondary will shoot Dots.

[Wulfgang]

After I finish these placement matches I may go back to Quick Play to see if I can get more time in on heroes I haven't really tried yet. Need to get used to other characters so I can try to counter/not fail so hard.

I've been trying to get more matches in quick play to work on my Zarya game, but after playing almost 100% of comp matches as Mercy/Lucio with 20+ different people at this point, I get spam invited almost any time I log into PSN, even if I'm not on Overwatch. Was trying to watch a movie last night on Amazon PS app and finally had to set my online mode to offline. #firstworldproblems

I also really don't like playing with certain people as well. I always have a good time with our BG crew and a handful of others, but if you have a cumulative total of less than 2 hours on support, do not fucking tell me how to play support or complain about not getting heals when I'm running back from spawn for the 7th time because no one has any awareness of the Tracers/Genjis/Reapers that have been stalking me the entire game.

[Malithar]

Was trying to watch a movie last night on Amazon PS app and finally had to set my online mode to offline. #firstworldproblems

I also really don't like playing with certain people as well. I always have a good time with our BG crew and a handful of others, but if you have a cumulative total of less than 2 hours on support, do not fucking tell me how to play support or complain about not getting heals when I'm running back from spawn for the 7th time because no one has any awareness of the Tracers/Genjis/Reapers that have been stalking me the entire game.

So that's where you were last night. D: We had the semi-typical group going last night, I bitched for heals for the first time in a long time. D: Who needs heals or a tank when you've got 2x Reapers though right?

Feels like as competitive sets in more, we're running into a lot of groups that are good about swapping to flanking heroes that can distract us at/near our spawn and keep us off of the point after they beat us on the initial push. Why defend the point when you can just force the team to trickle in damaged and get destroyed by one or two guarding the point? Definitely doesn't work on every map though.

[Wulfgang]

Yeah, I had played for comp for like 4 hours earlier that day; I also have a lot of trouble playing it right before sleep (just gets my blood racing) and I had a 4 AM ET conference call this morning with an investor in Germany.

And Jeff Kaplan just responded to the primary comp complaint about leavers screwing the winning team; sounds like a fix will come very soon:

Winners Punished for Enemy leavers - This needs to be fixed like today. You get punished if someone rage quits on the enemy team. The winners shouldn't be punished cause it really is impossible to climb when someone on the enemy team rage quits and you get no rating as the winner. Then when you lose you get shrekt. How this got past the devs I have no idea. Punishing the winning team it's absurd. People will get banned "eventually" is not a good excuse people are so spiteful they will quit just so you get nothing for winning I've seen it happen. This has to be top of the list with sudden death gone as well. THEN at least competitive will be somewhat bearable

We have a fix coming for this. Hopefully today. Worst case, this week.

We definitely don't want people getting shrekt.

[Seravi Edalborez]

I also really don't like playing with certain people as well. I always have a good time with our BG crew and a handful of others, but if you have a cumulative total of less than 2 hours on support, do not fucking tell me how to play support or complain about not getting heals when I'm running back from spawn for the 7th time because no one has any awareness of the Tracers/Genjis/Reapers that have been stalking me the entire game.

I feel you on this. Even in pub quickplay if someone spams the "I need healing" call when I'm obviously not there, or they're running away from me, I will switch right off to Soldier or whatever. If losing is inevitable I'd at least like a "personal" victory.

Maybe a few more lootboxes of dupes and I can be the real demon Mercy :3

[Prothescar]

Yeah having people spam "I need healing!" when they JUST SAW ME get killed by a guy that they let in close to me without helping me at all pisses me off to no end

[Tokitoki]

Did better than I thought despite going 5-5 on placement matches. Ended up with at 50. Got stomped again during my first match of the day. My team just could not do a damn thing, never died together so resurrect was useless (I was Mercy), and continued to just run in single file to get blasted.

Oh well. Going to do Quick Play so I don't get salty.

[Karbuncle]

Yeah having people spam "I need healing!" when they JUST SAW ME get killed by a guy that they let in close to me without helping me at all pisses me off to no end

I've had that happen, and I'm to the point where I'm not taking any crap anymore as a healer class. I get healing is important but when you get these type of belligerent pricks who think they're the only ones on the team who need a heal, or worse yet, as you've mentioned, when you're dead cause they don't understand how to kill a flanker yet spam for heals like I'm simply not doing my job as i wait for my respawn timer, I'm going to stand up for myself and tell them to fuck off or heal themselves.

Also, I have to ask cause I'm not sure. Does the game sometimes auto-enter a "I need healing" command when you get low low on HP? I feel like my char has spit out i need healing a few times and I didn't do anything, could have been me miss-pressing Z cause i think its bound to that.

[Shenrien]

:/ something has to be done about this rank up rank down system. You get severely punished for a loss but for a win you get like nothing. Won 7 matches got 1 rank up, lost twice and lost 2 ranks.

[Tokitoki]

It can auto send he I need healing! chat thing. I think it's mostly tanks.

I also fat finger it sometimes and don't mean to hit it.

[Malithar]

Also, I have to ask cause I'm not sure. Does the game sometimes auto-enter a "I need healing" command when you get low low on HP? I feel like my char has spit out i need healing a few times and I didn't do anything, could have been me miss-pressing Z cause i think its bound to that.

I've seen it some, as Toki said usually on tanks. It's not the same line though. And at least on console, the emote/vocal wheel seems glitchy. There's been plenty of times that I do voice (bottom left) and something else goes off like healing (top right) or emote (top middle). Might just be something with the analog stick going back to the center and going a hair in the other direction.

[Moridam]

sometimes i inadvertently spam voice lines because i am rage-punching my keyboard

lately, this tends to happen on one of the many frequent matches where i get thrust into the autism lobby, which contains at least one to two players, usually on my team, who don't actually play and instead just spam the shout channel the whole match

i don't know what i did to be banished to matchmaking hell but boy does it really kill my desire to keep playing this game

[Corrderio]

whatever it turns out to be, if we get a new healer i just hope they give it symmetra's spot in the support roster and move her off to defense.

This so much.

[Malithar]

i don't know what i did to be banished to matchmaking hell but boy does it really kill my desire to keep playing this game

One of the better youtubers covering Overwatch has a pretty interesting vid he put out today that touches on exactly what you're experiencing.



Essentially, he points out that with how MMR and competitive rank are done at the moment, you can find yourself stuck in lower tiers where people don't quite take the game seriously. You'll have leavers, griefers, toxicity (honestly that never really goes away), etc. Worst of all, unless you get into a full pre-made 6 man, you'll really stuck and have no other options except to keep banging your head against the wall, in all likelihood never progressing out of the rut.

[Corrderio]

I wonder how bad my ranking will be when I don't do competitive in over a week.

I'll be back Tuesday and available all day if anyone wants to hit me up for a game. Starting to get back into the game since my XIV cycle now is spamming Expert Roulette and capping tomestones.

[Tokitoki]

Had a match last night where I was put in with a group of 5. They started yelling my name into voice chat for the first couple minutes. Afterwards they asked if I wanted to "join our clan if you're any good." I said no, because duh, and they came back "too bad we were only kidding anyway. you're terrible lolololol" in voice chat.

Was Roadhog the whole game and got 5 medals, 3 golds (elims, damage, objective kills). GG guys. Going to start trying out Zarya more.

[Seravi Edalborez]

I have never been on the same team as a good Widow on PS4. It seems like they only exist to give us wall-sight once a match and die to tunnel vision.

Also head-desking hard when friendly Hanzo throws up radar arrow while Widow ult is clearly active

[Tokitoki]

Inferior aim with controller, etc.?