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Generic Dreadhead

SolvableKnave wrote: »

Aren't there penalties in place in competitive to attempt to counteract this?

I think doing it repeatedly on PS4 results in a 30 minute lockout from Comp only. Doesn't go far enough at all

Grayditch wrote: »

Pretty dumb to leave on point B on Anubus anyway. Probably the easiest point in the game to defend.

In that example I meant we had defended point A successfully, was a bit different to my over-arching point, hence the confusion, my bad.

Was just humble bragging about the 5v6 success attacking A

SolvableKnave

I'm about a third of the way though lvl 24. Was slightly hampered last night in a few games with being teamed up with complete morons. Everyone picking an attack class or Widowmaker so I was going with Reinhardt (especially when attacking ToA or Hanamura). We made it to point A on ToA once, and then it just became a massacre. People dieing and then running back in solo, not waiting for backup. Id wait just before the gates for help, shield up, and they just run through the shield and sacrifice themselves. Really frustrating.

Hanamura I switched between Mei and Bastion, but with a combination of a really good opposing team, and a really bad defending team, we where steamrolled in no time at all. Had it been a case of the group I was with being decent and getting steamrolled by the good team, hats off, GG, I hope i never play against you 6 again, but when there is no cohesion on your side, doesn't really matter how good the opposing team is.

I will say though, that of all the solo quick play teams I've been paired with, last night was the first time where I actually noticed how gormless some people can be. Guess I've just been lucky in that respect.

On the upside, gave Widowmaker a serious go too, and my best game was on the Gribalter escort map, on attack. 18 critical headshots. Was quite pleased with myself. Really need to learn the good vantage points, and to stay back from the fight.

Generic Dreadhead

That being said, when I see 1 person leave, then part of me thinks maybe if the other 4 of my team mates leave now, the other team will have pity on me and let me get "The Floor is Lava" :pac:

Generic Dreadhead

SolvableKnave wrote: »

I'm about a third of the way though lvl 24. Was slightly hampered last night in a few games with being teamed up with complete morons. Everyone picking an attack class or Widowmaker

This is consistent problem with Randoms and I see it a LOT in the Sub-Comp-lvl50 Solo groups too. Apparently above level 50, players have more cop on and play the Team Game.

so I was going with Reinhardt (especially when attacking ToA or Hanamura). We made it to point A on ToA once, and then it just became a massacre. People dieing and then running back in solo, not waiting for backup. Id wait just before the gates for help, shield up, and they just run through the shield and sacrifice themselves. Really frustrating.

You may have seen messages from me (to my 5 comp team mates) in Chat when I'm off mic specifically addressing this issue. Feeding Kills in Point B for 8 straight minutes is Zero craic. If you chain like 3 or 4 ultimates, you win

Often you have like 6 minutes to get your s**t together, people just get impatient. You only need to Cap the Zone once ing 6 minutes, why not make a coordinated effort? -_-

Hanamura I switched between Mei and Bastion, but with a combination of a really good opposing team, and a really bad defending team, we where steamrolled in no time at all. Had it been a case of the group I was with being decent and getting steamrolled by the good team, hats off, GG, I hope i never play against you 6 again, but when there is no cohesion on your side, doesn't really matter how good the opposing team is.

Aggressive Bastion can be a good "Zone Clearer", did it myself last night on Llyang Towers. Got SLAUGHTERED on our 1st push, changed to Bastion, set up all sneaky like looking at the objective and went ham on the other team.

Thing is, once you're found out, best just use your Ult and change. Hope that it gives your Team mates the window to grab the point.

I will say though, that of all the solo quick play teams I've been paired with, last night was the first time where I actually noticed how gormless some people can be. Guess I've just been lucky in that respect.

Aggressive Ana on KotH you say? Lemme just shoot you a quick message to give you the oppurtunity to change and not be a total tosser given I can see you have 4 MINUTES PLAYED AS HER AND THIS IS COMPETITIVE. WTF!!!!!!

On the upside, gave Widowmaker a serious go too, and my best game was on the Gribalter escort map, on attack. 18 critical headshots. Was quite pleased with myself. Really need to learn the good vantage points, and to stay back from the fight.

She's good on Hybrid maps attacking (Hollywood, Kings Row), that's the only time I'll pick her, I'm not a good shot with her. But also good on Payload if you have a good team ACTUALLY PUSHING the payload.

The amount of games where I'm just there on my own on the Payload and all my team mates are ahead of me and I'm crawling along :pac:



Competitive in a group is good. But honestly, I think after the weekend I'm not going doing it on a headset if I have to listen to negativity. I've learned that from Destiny.

FAR too much s**t talking, tilting, moaning, saltiness and stuff sometimes. Absolutely zero help. I mean I'm all for the odd "f**k you Mei you f**king little f**ker" and so forth but hearing about how some players have "Something dodgy going on" for like 15 mins .... ugh screw that

The way I look at Comp is, it's season 1.

I go in there expecting to lose, a win is a pleasant surprise.
I try to learn as much as possible from the opposing team. Be it individual good players or team comps or strats and see if I can copy/implement it myself.

Sometimes it works a treat. Found a good use of Symmeta setting up Microwave room on ToA and having a Roadhog just constantly meat shielding that entrance and hooking people in so they get fried :pac: All from watching some top tier Roadhog wreck me like 6 times in a previous match. People who disable Kill-Cam don't know what lessons they are missing

There's also some good comps I've worked out for other maps/modes but they only work if 1) you are Lucky and other team doesn't realise early enough and can't counter, 2) The 6 of you actually know how to play the 6 characters.

Winston+Rheinheart & 3xSoldier76+Lucio on Attack on Route 66 for example. Wipe them and start changing out the Soldiers after you Die/Use your Ult

Links234

Reinhardt can be amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WERY1vjDqEE

aaronjumper

Links234 wrote: »

Reinhardt can be amazing

He is also good fun to play as.

Korvanica

IGN: barvanica#2786

Feel free to add for some games, on a few times a week.

Edit: PC

Pickpocket

For some reason it's taken me until now to realise that I can use the Spotify app for my background music.

I landed a headshot earlier just as Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi laid down that scorching 'Iron Man' riff from their second album, Paranoid.

I cried a little.

tok9

PC Stealth patch

I imagine these changes will come to console too. Ana has already received a nice buff and McCree looks to be a little more balanced now.

Generic Dreadhead

A sneaky trick you can use on Volskaya Industries

https://ud.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4uofrj/so_i_heard_you_want_to_avoid_meis_ice_wall_on/

Shiminay

Did everyone not already know this? Lucio, Widowmaker, D'va and Reaper (and arguably Pharah, Mercy and Junk Rat too) are all about exploiting alternative routes around maps, it's your job to fall off the edge of the world many times against the AI to discover which of these might be viable

D.va shouldn't be able to block Reinhardt's projectile. It has an enormous cooldown and can be dodged easily. Tapping right-click is far too easy.

Maximus Alexander

D.va can do what she wants. You leave D.va alone!

WarZoneBrother

Anyone interested in having a few games tonight for bonus XP add me on PS4 cartman91 ... Will most likely be playing for most of the night anyways... Currently level 16 trying to get to 25 so I can play some ranked...

TitianGerm

Is the Friends list bugged? I was playing tonight and it was showing 2 others on my friends list playing but they didn't show up on the Social tab in the main menu.

Also got my first 20 kill streak with Torbourn tonight

A Neurotic

emmetkenny wrote:

Also got my first 20 kill streak with Torbourn tonight

Got one with D.Va on Hanamura yesterday. Such a great game.

TitianGerm

A Neurotic wrote: »

Got one with D.Va on Hanamura yesterday. Such a great game.

Yea I'm really enjoying it. Glad I splashed out now

Generic Dreadhead

emmetkenny wrote: »

Is the Friends list bugged? I was playing tonight and it was showing 2 others on my friends list playing but they didn't show up on the Social tab in the main menu.

Also got my first 20 kill streak with Torbourn tonight

Yeah, the social screen is a mess. And even if you are both online, sometimes you cannot see each other (happens regularly between some of us on PS4), often times restarting the game helps.

Still chasing that trophy myself. Often getting 18 or eliminations and dying :pac:

TitianGerm

Cormac... wrote: »

Yeah, the social screen is a mess. And even if you are both online, sometimes you cannot see each other (happens regularly between some of us on PS4), often times restarting the game helps.

Still chasing that trophy myself. Often getting 18 or eliminations and dying :pac:

Went on a good few streaks yesterday. Got a 15 or 16 as Winston.

Only my third time playing as him

Mickeroo

Got the 20 streak the other night myself in ranked play as Torbjorn, sat on top of the payload on Gibralter with my turret, a Bastion and a Reinhardt who knew what he was doing. Don't think the payload stopped once. Even with the nerf Torbjorn is still very effective.

Grayditch

He's still very much usable alright. I decided to go with him on Lijong Tower Control Center and leave a turret up on the high ledge yesterday.

Playing at skill level 60 games there's no way I should have been allowed to leave it there for the whole match.

Cina

God, it's just so bleedin' good. Best online FPS I've played in a very, very long time.

J. Marston

Defending Numbani with 3 Genjis on my team. Must have lost that game in record time.

Maximus Alexander

J. Marston wrote: »

Defending Numbani with 3 Genjis on my team. Must have lost that game in record time.

I dunno man, I raise you my Volskaya game last night. Symettra, Mercy, Lucio, Roadhog and Genji on defense. I was looking at it thinking "I don't know who I could pick to improve this situation". You'd scarce time to realise the map had loaded before it was over.

Generic Dreadhead

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

I dunno man, I raise you my Volskaya game last night. Symettra, Mercy, Lucio, Roadhog and Genji on defense. I was looking at it thinking "I don't know who I could pick to improve this situation". You'd scarce time to realise the map had loaded before it was over.

Should have picked Ana

Xenji

Overwatch has wrecked literally my thumbs, never happened with another game and it might be a sign to take a break, but the addiction seems to be well entrenched in me.

SolvableKnave

Xenji wrote: »

Overwatch has wrecked literally my thumbs, never happened with another game and it might be a sign to take a break, but the addiction seems to be well entrenched in me.

If your not careful, you may end up like this:

Grayditch

Went from Skill Level 63 to down to 59 up to 64. Hardly anybody leaves these Lvl 58+ games. They're almost all fought to the death. Even when 2-0 down on a point capture.

Generic Dreadhead

If you're in a group and one of you is comp rank 40 and another is comp rank 50 and you win, do you both get an equal amount of Rank increase?

Mickeroo

Cormac... wrote: »

If you're in a group and one of you is comp rank 40 and another is comp rank 50 and you win, do you both get an equal amount of Rank increase?

I think it depends more on the ranks of the other team than your team mate's. I've noticed there's an "Underdog Bonus" if the average rank of the opposition team is a good bit higher than your team's average rank.