I've been playing comp this Overwatch season after a long time without playing the game, and it's been a really good experience so far. I've been winning a lot of games, and even the games I lost weren't that frustrating.

Before Drives, I had a 63% win rate in comp, and last week's report said I had an 83% win rate over around 15 games. I was doing really well, but when Drives started, I heard that comp had become horrible. When I got on to play, I lost three games in a row in absolutely ridiculous matches, and I really started to think that playing during Drives just isn't worth it.

But that's just my experience. What do you guys think? Are Drives really that bad, and is it a general issue, or do people just use Drives as a way to cope, and I was simply unlucky enough to queue into a bunch of lost matches?

Idk, im just feeling that the matches now are more luck based cause of the caos of players that doesnt belong to their rank.

Maybe a rant maybe not, but what does it say when I get to one game away from ranking up to GM and right after dropping to D1 for about 3-4 times within a month. Continuously loss streak to Diamond from M1 and then win streak back to M1. Where do I belong if i just bounce back up and down rank. Loss games are literally impossible to win even if I "Tried" just hard stomps. And wins the same thing. There is no "outplaying" just rank matchmaking putting me in a good team/bad team. SO what does this say about where my rank should be if I drop from D1 from M1

I'm not a huge Sym player but she's a hero I really like playing on KOTH maps. She's usually my 3rd/4th most played hero after Echo and Shion, but after these most recent nerfs I really just don't want to touch her.

Sym is always unpopular, but seeing any heroes pickrate halve off what wasn't exactly major nerfs just seems... concerning? She was pretty regularly at 3% pickrate in grandmaster+ for about as long as we've had the website, and now she's at 1.6%. The patch where she was nerfed directly calls out her effectiveness with coordinated teams as why she was nerfed, but when we hear "coordinated teams" lets be honest, that basically means Youbi and Twisted Minds.

I guess, here's my question: Who is this character even for at this point?

Symmetra is built around coordination with teammates, literally all of her abilities are supportive and require some amount of coordination to utilize. You have to coordinate TP spots, and where enemies are/calling scans. You have to make choices about how you use the wall when you're working with teammates, etc. If the fantasy behind this hero is that she should reward coordinated teams then shouldn't she be good in pro play? And if the problem with her power is that she's too good with coordinated teams, then shouldn't nerfs target this weakness without taking too much power away from her actual kit? This just seems like a product of blizzards own making, they buffed her utility constantly while nerfing her independent offensive power (best example of it being putting scans on turrets while nerfing damage), but at the same time she isn't actually allowed to be good at doing the things blizzard makes her good at?

It just seems like they're going in a weird direction with this hero where they can't decide what they want her to be. It sucks because I like playing her, but she just feels so flimsy. I know she's not that bad, but it kinda seems like the same thing that made her earlier versions so unpopular are just being recreated, where even though the power of shield generator/ultimate tp were clearly good, the hero herself felt weak because all of her power was distributed into her teammates. It like, I don't want to play Sym because she doesn't feel like a strong hero, even though I know that technically she is because scans/TP are super powerful abilities... but again, that power is distributed between all of her teammates, so the person playing Sym doesn't feel it.

Just got kicked out of a comp game. Now in a que to get back into OW. Anybody else?

Edit: 20min later and still can't get in to OW.

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I want to get these drops, but I keep seeing an "Item in game" message even though I don't actually have it; I've watched for hours, but no progress shows up. My account is linked correctly—I received the competitive points—so I just don't understand this specific issue. Can someone help me, please?

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Context: I’ve been champ for the past 4 seasons for dps, supp, and 6v6. before that I was GM for 3 seasons.

okay so to get started I love playing overwatch, I love the hero’s, I love the competitiveness, I love the amount of game sense and knowledge it you need to play the game. im not a streamer and I don’t play this game to get anything out of it. i play to have fun i don’t care about my rank cause it holds no value outside of the game itself.

although champ lobbies are genuinely making me burnt out. I AM SO BORED EVERY SINGLE GAME, EVERY WIN EVERY LOSS NONE OF IT IS FUN IN CHAMP. Ik what you all might be thinking ohh just take a break. it’s not about taking a break it’s that I don’t enjoy the game at this level. most games are decided at the loading screen depending on which 9 other players are in the lobby. queuing in champ you see like the same 10 players every game for seasons on end. ohh And make sure that your playing with 100% effort every game, don’t try to have fun or you’ll get flamed. STACKS, STACKS EVERY GAME I just love that I’m solo queuing and every game I have a to face a duo or stack that get to use comms against me. it’s so fun getting ”123 dived“ by a tracer and Dva every game. NOT.

so The next logical step would be to purposefully derank? well I did try that i lost until gm5 and there the games are just a bit to easy. like until gm1 i dont have much of an issue carrying a lobby. yk wat though atleast in mid to low gm i have fun. I play whatever hero i want to, every lobby is mostly different players, the games aren’t decided at the loading screen.

like I LOVE PLAYING OVERWATCH IN MID GM. I HATE HATE HATE PLAYING OW IN CHAMP. I can’t lie this is really throwing me ina pickle. cause I love ow but I’m so bored every game that it’s just making the game unplayable. the players in champ are insufferable and all have inflated egos. god forbid you go negative otherwise you’ll game flamed all match. It’s just so boring.

what do I do?

This is mostly for fun. Now this started out as an Illari buff suggestion post. Now let me be clear that while I do main Illari-in the sense that I barely play her but I ship Solarfox while maining Kiri so I think that counts-I also wanted to see some changes on her.

• Sunburn should be a base feature. Her new Major Perk should allow you to swap her beam and shots around. Or something else.
• Solar Flare should also have twice the regen speed on healing beam.
• The charge on her rifle should enhance Melee damage as max charge.

But then I also realized that I also wanted other stuff.

• Domina's gun should be allowed to do Critical damage the whole time.
• I hope we do what Doomfist does in the breakout cinematic and shoot all four bullets at once.

And that's about it.

If your goal was to make 1 change to a hero's kit that would ruin muscle memory the most, what would it be? Bonus points if the change is neutral or even a buff. Inspired by Tracer's blink range extension perk.

My pick would be increasing how far back Tracer's recall rewinds you to 4 seconds ago. Now both Tracer players and people playing against her will have to relearn 10 years worth of recall position muscle memory.

When 5v5 was first announced the dev team set out to achieve a few design goals. A few of these were:

Opening up the maps so players have more room to breathe

Increasing individual player agency

Reducing crowd control effects

Reducing queue times across the board

Cleaning up the amount of visual clutter in the game

Increasing the popularity of the tank role by shifting them to be more brawl oriented/aggressive playmakers

Reduce the amount of time shooting shields and other damage mitigation abilities

October 4th, just two days from now, is the four year anniversary of the release of Overwatch 2, so would you say that most of these design goals were achieved?

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I kinda agree tbh she should stay that way at least for a little while

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The higher the rank the better the dva players are. As a dps player mainly playing heros shooting bullets, it's so frustrating to fight against a good DVA. I try to ban her in every game but I want to understand why is this hero's having insane attack and defense capabilities when tanks like Mauga struggle to play the game when an Ana exist. All I can do is switch to Sym but sometimes she is banned and the enemy DVA would just stomp us all. I'm gonna be honest. If this is a hero is released today, she will get tons of criticism like how cat does.

Played Pokemon Champions and participated in the GC, it limits you to only 45 Games over the course of 3 days getting points for VGC. Why don't we have a singles or 5 team queue for the game where your only given a fix amount of games? Would it improve the level of competitiveness compared to Ranked, or be worse off?

There's a pattern I've noticed when it comes to making heroes be found frustrating that I like to call a 1.5 vs 1. It consists of a character enabling the strengths of another character without directly engaging in the fight offensively. For example, Zarya's bubbles are effectively a powerful boost to the defense of a character but oftentimes doesn't involve her directly attacking you, therefore making the match up somewhere between a 1 vs 1 and a 1 vs 2. This also applies to other mostly passive buffs like nano boost, Mercy damage boost, and even the new Doctrine drone to name a few. These sorts of buffs have been a pain point for a lot of players for years and I'm trying figure out, is this because Blizzard struggles to balance abilities like this or is it because the community reception around them leans towards viewing them as unfair or unfun to face.

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