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Mickeroo

Do you not get kicked for idling in 3v3 modes?

TitianGerm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Do you not get kicked for idling in 3v3 modes?

I got kicked before from a 3v3 when i ran down to answer the door. Maybe they've changed it though?

fixXxer

Mickeroo wrote: »

Do you not get kicked for idling in 3v3 modes?

I got a group once that basically agreed to make the game last as long as it can go so it would end in a draw. You get more experience the longer the game lasts apparently. They were just walking around the map taking the odd shot and healing until the clock ran out.

Generic Dreadhead

When the white sprays from loot boxes are more important than the actual gameplay eh?

A Neurotic

Generic Dreadhead wrote: »

When the white sprays from loot boxes are more important than the actual gameplay eh?

I'm continually amazed at how the folk on reddit get up in arms about skins and sprays. They're literally just little bits of flavour on top of the gameplay, but people still feel genuinely aggrieved that their favourite character's new skin isn't unique or interesting enough. Or post things like "Ugh these skins, this event sucks". So entitled.

Sight808

Game has been super painful to play the last week and a bit. Can get a decent run going, back to WLLLWLLWLWWLL!

Last team I had were trying, even using mics (the shock of it) but some little german snot kid went from bastion, junk and tracer. Useless picks on nepal against what the enemy comp were running. Our team tried to get on it saying it might work, giving him a change, but it just wouldn't. He went mercy then, "it's ok guys I'm a good mercy". Fine, surely he can't be that bad, it's mercy like.

DIES ALL THE TIME AND DOESNT REZ.

Why does he die? Literally goes into the middle of a rein/winston/reaper/junk fight T_T. By contrast the enemy Mercy is getting 3/4 man rez's, twice in one round which won them the game.

fixXxer

Generic Dreadhead wrote: »

When the white sprays from loot boxes are more important than the actual gameplay eh?

Yeah I don't get it either. I just picked Roadhog and started killing. Lost in the end obviously but at least it was over quicker than waiting for a draw.

Digital Solitude

30k Blocked and 19 Elims as Rein, 4 minutes Objective time, and we played the attacking round 5v6, with 2 minutes left on the clock when we won.

19SR gained.

What do you want from me Blizzard?

papu

Digital Solitude wrote: »

30k Blocked and 19 Elims as Rein, 4 minutes Objective time, and we played the attacking round 5v6, with 2 minutes left on the clock when we won.

19SR gained.

What do you want from me Blizzard?

Yeah it's stupid, and you be guaranteed that a loss is >19SR.. The system feels awfully grindy now.

J. Marston

Got back to 3300 from 3000. If supports weren't getting screwed on SR and the old streak system was still in place, I might have been close to or in Masters again. Had a 7 game winning streak and got 19-24 for every win. You should be getting huge boosts if you manage to get over 5 wins in a row

Dcully

Digital Solitude wrote: »

30k Blocked and 19 Elims as Rein, 4 minutes Objective time, and we played the attacking round 5v6, with 2 minutes left on the clock when we won.

19SR gained.

What do you want from me Blizzard?

That's just crazy.
I haven't played competitive since season one mainly because none of my friends play the game so I don't have a few to form a team plus solo queueing with its the toxic community is a real turn off but I'm tempted to try competitive again.

I don't main any heroes as such as I like to be fairly decent with a good few but I mostly play support.
Genji is the one hero I just cannot master, I got his new skin the other day and tried to get better with him, I thought I did after a few good games now am crap again lol.

Cully#2309 if anyone wants to add me.

J. Marston

Half day, play a few games, matched up with a pair of throwing cúnts twice in a row, 50 SR down. Turn off.

TitianGerm

I'm down to 2400 again. I've forgotten what it feels like to win :pac:

Digital Solitude

Next game is a 3-2 loss in the last round, each game is 100%-99%, 45k blocked, 27 Elimination, 8 minutes on the objective.

25SR loss.

Makes no god damn sense.

TitianGerm

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Next game is a 3-2 loss in the last round, each game is 100%-99%, 45k blocked, 27 Elimination, 8 minutes on the objective.

25SR loss.

Makes no god damn sense.

Blizzard made a change to the assist score a few weeks ago. You now get less on fire time due to the change.

When they calculate your SR Gain they rate you to other people playing your hero at a similar SR. They also compare you to historical results at a similar SR.

Because they changed the way assists are treated the historical data is not comparing like for like now and you appear to have done worse than those past games, hence your not performing as well as expected and gain less SR than previous for a win. 25-29 is a standard amount when you loose.

I must be the only person who ignores the rise/fall per match

Digital Solitude

emmetkenny wrote: »

Blizzard made a change to the assist score a few weeks ago. You now get less on fire time due to the change.

When they calculate your SR Gain they rate you to other people playing your hero at a similar SR. They also compare you to historical results at a similar SR.

Because they changed the way assists are treated the historical data is not comparing like for like now and you appear to have done worse than those past games, hence your not performing as well as expected and gain less SR than previous for a win. 25-29 is a standard amount when you loose.

That's such a pain, I'm playing really well which is the worst part, I'm in low Gold, 2115.

I know 25 is a standard loss but its such a kick in the teeth after 19 gained for the 5v6 win yesterday.

Up 27 after a good Mei game so its not all bad

TitianGerm

Digital Solitude wrote: »

That's such a pain, I'm playing really well which is the worst part, I'm in low Gold, 2115.

I know 25 is a standard loss but its such a kick in the teeth after 19 gained for the 5v6 win yesterday.

Up 27 after a good Mei game so its not all bad

I main Lucio, and I'm only gaining 19-23 per win and losing 25-29 per loss because of the changes.

They say if you play an "unpopular" hero it'll be easier to gain SR because there is less historical data to compare you to.

Digital Solitude

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I must be the only person who ignores the rise/fall per match

I've been saying for a while that ill stop caring about SR as its only stress and annoyance when it doesn't go my way, but I love making numbers bigger

A Neurotic

emmetkenny wrote: »

They say if you play an "unpopular" hero it'll be easier to gain SR because there is less historical data to compare you to.

...BEEN HERE ALL ALONG

TitianGerm

A Neurotic wrote: »

...BEEN HERE ALL ALONG

Orissa might be a better option. You'll get less hate :pac:

K.O.Kiki

Nice Heroes of the Storm short:

More information:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/67jh92/heroes_of_the_storm_nexus_challenge_information/
And D.Va is getting a police-woman skin

fixXxer

emmetkenny wrote: »

Orissa might be a better option. You'll get less hate :pac:

That might explain the sudden increase in Orisa players I've seen. Mostly useless too.

Had some good games last night. Won 3 from 5 but it was a bit soured by being pared with a three stack twice who were T3@M Sn1p3R. Hanzo Ana And Widowmaker on attack AND defense hanging back while the rest of us got overrun repeatedly. Almost makes me wish there was some kind of limit per class when choosing teams.

Digital Solitude

A Neurotic wrote: »

...BEEN HERE ALL ALONG

Who's your main AN?

I'll try stop whinging here so much guys, I realized I do an awful lot of it, I'm normally quite positive.

Mei is pretty uncommon in Gold, might main her a bit more

TitianGerm

fixxxer wrote: »

That might explain the sudden increase in Orisa players I've seen. Mostly useless too.

Had some good games last night. Won 3 from 5 but it was a bit soured by being pared with a three stack twice who were T3@M Sn1p3R. Hanzo Ana And Widowmaker on attack AND defense hanging back while the rest of us got overrun repeatedly. Almost makes me wish there was some kind of limit per class when choosing teams.

We faced an enemy Orissa/Rein combo last night and the Orissa destroyed our Reins barrier. They won every barrier contest because they played so well together.

Ended up been stopped just shot of the end on Eichenwaldt and they made it the whole way.

Sight808

Some lad on Comp had a 4 star gold profile yesterday. over 300+ hours on junk and never topped 2400 sr in any season. Don't expect someone with that amount of time to automatically become a top 500 player but you should be at least climbing every season. Nuts

Generic Dreadhead

Some players are NEVER going to understand Strategy no matter how long they play

Digital Solitude

The GF ended up getting a Team Kill with a D.Va Ult yesterday on Numbani. They still lost the game, but it was the first Sextuple kill I've seen, the kill feed was amazing.

Took me a good 2 or 3 minutes to pick my jaw up.

fixXxer

What was in the 2.11 patch? Game sites blocked in work.

My name is URL

Competitive Play

• On Assault and Assault/Escort Maps, teams now need to capture at least 33% of the objective before the tie-breaking system is activated

BUG FIXES
General

• Fixed a crash that could occur during the end-of-round screen

Arcade

• Fixed a bug that prevented the payload from showing damage until after the escort phase in the Overwatch Uprising brawl
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to get under the payload using certain heroes’ movement abilities in the Overwatch Uprising brawl
• [PC] Fixed a bug that caused the payload’s health bar to interfere with the scoreboard, forcing players to hold down the spacebar to view the scoreboard in the Overwatch Uprising brawl
• Fixed a bug that caused Genji’s “You’ve rescued me again, Dr. Ziegler” voice line to play after being resurrected in the Overwatch Uprising brawl, regardless of which hero performed the resurrection
• Fixed an issue causing the chat window to block the ‘refresh’ button when the Overwatch Uprising leaderboards were open
• [PS4] The “Handle With Care” Achievement now correctly states the payload must remain above 80% health
• [PS4/XB1] The Overwatch Uprising scorecard now correctly tracks stats from Sombra’s Hack
• [PS4/XB1] The Overwatch Uprising scorecard now correctly tracks Ana’s healing stats

Custom Games and Game Browser

• Fixed a bug that prevented the ‘Start Game Mode’ button from appearing when creating a Capture the Flag or Elimination game

Heroes

• Fixed a bug that gave Genji’s Dragonblade ability a slightly increased swing speed while at a higher latency. Dragonblade’s default swing speed has been slightly increased to compensate
• Fixed a bug that prevented Genji’s Dragonblade ability from registering hits correctly
• Fixed a bug to prevent hit effects from being inflicted on D.Va’s human form while piloting the mech
• [PS4/XB1] Fixed a bug causing D.Va’s hair to appear inflexible during her Selfie highlight intro when her Palanquin skin was equipped
• [PS4/XB1] Fixed a bug causing the ice on Pharah’s Frostbite skin to stretch when her Flair emote was activated
• [PS4/XB1] Fixed a bug causing textures to flicker during Roadhog’s Feast highlight intro
• [PS4/XB1] Fixed a bug causing Soldier: 76’s cape to clip during the Push-Ups emote when his Strike Commander Morrison, Daredevil: 76, or Stunt Rider: 76 skin was equipped

Maps

• Fixed a bug causing glass that has been shattered by an explosion to be colored black