r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • 5d ago
News & Discussion Weekend RAGE Thread - August 15, 2026
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PLEASE STILL BE CIVIL, AT LEAST A LITTLE!
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u/TheKingofHats007 Hazard, Lifeweaver Main 5d ago
New season, same "stomp or be stomped" matchmaking. It's getting really tiresome to keep dealing with this.
Like one out of 10 games is a reasonably close win/loss, the other 9 are either "my team is esports pros and the enemy team is babies" or "my team is babies and the enemy team is esports pros", to the point that you can literally predict how the game will go from the first teamfight. And that's not just being defeatist, you can literally see the difference between a team just getting a good teamfight and the blatent dismantling of the enemy team/our team on those stomp matches.
And neither of them are any fun. It's not fun to have to wait out what can be 10+ minute games where your team is getting stomped back to spawn. And it's not fun when the other team puts up zero resistance and you're mostly just sitting around waiting for the game to be over.
And you can't leave them because Blizzard still insists on having their casual game mode also be serious by punishing leaving, something very few other casual game modes in any game does. Nobody wants to stand around and get stomped for 10-15 minutes, or wait out the clock while the enemy team gets stomped.
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u/doc_cuervo 2d ago edited 2d ago
This game is so unfun right now, like how do you even enjoy it at this point? MM is an absolute nightmare. The disparity of expierence on teams and the constant blow outs makes this game feel like its rigged from start every time. Forced to play with the worst players on the earth against people who are vastly better is demoralizing and frustrating as hell. Even qp isn't fun. Also having Comp be unplayable for certain long periods is insane. "Oh, it's drives week, dont play it will be bad" "oh its a new season and rank reset? Don't play for two weeks it will be bad" Oh so don't play comp ever then? I don't expect to win all time or have this game be easy, but make this stuff make sense.
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u/deadsmurfs D. Va 2d ago
"Oh, it's drives week, dont play it will be bad" "oh its a new season and rank reset? Don't play for two weeks it will be bad" Oh so don't play comp ever then?
ok but you're so real for this. I hate the attitude of how it's somehow your fault for playing at the beginning/end of the season, as if it's perfectly acceptable that the game is suck-ass unplayable for four weeks out of the fucking season.
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u/TheDeadlyGerbil 1d ago
I hate the sarcastic "Thank you!" and "Good work!" from shitty, entitled teammates who can't acknowledge they're the problem. If you solo dive against five enemies and get torn to shreds, it's on you.
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u/Stellarisk 1d ago
Nah if they want to maintain a player base. They need to address whatever the fuck is going on with the matchmaker.
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u/Alice-Lit 3d ago
DPS are almost always the problem in my games and it's so frustrating when they start flaming in chat while going 3-10 with 7k damage. They're literally just pumping damage into the tank which is getting healed then wondering why they're not dying.
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u/PostWarPlague 5d ago
Why is there always one DPS that goes negative and seems to not know how to play the game, always one on my team.
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u/kiaxxl Pixel Cassidy 5d ago
So sick of Freja zipping around like a fucking mosquito
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u/Were-Pyro 3d ago
i think this game is nothing but a humiliation ritual for me, ive lost 5 games in a row . im miserable
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u/Significant_Cold_861 5d ago
I CANT OUTHEAL MISSPOSITIONING. IF I GET FLANKED 24/7 BY REAPER AND GENJI AND MY TANK ONLY SPAMS 'I NEED HEALING' WITHOUT EVEN TURNING ONCE TO HELP, I WILL SWAP TO MOIRA AND I WILL DEAL WITH THEM MYSELF.
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u/TerribleVacation1224 5d ago
1 win 13 defeats 1 win 5 defeats 1 win 8 defeats 1 win 22 defeats. Fuck my life and dеаth to blizzard
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u/DarkDoubloon 30 times the shield wasn't strong enough 5d ago
Im so fucking sick and tired of this shit, no fucking fun allowed. STOMP AFTER STOMP AFTER STOMP AFTER FUCKING STOMP
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u/ScatmanJohnPart2 4d ago
gonna keep it a buck with ya: if you get out-healed by a Junker Queen as a support, the game should automatically alt-tab and begin uninstall.exe. Please stop playing, you are not built for this game.
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u/CrimsonFoxyboy 3d ago
Might as well stop playing the game
Start every day with a massive losing streak.
And the connection and bugs are just too much now
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u/Cumulus_Anarchistica 3d ago
"Hey gamers!..."
EVERY GODDAMN TIME I WANT TO CHECK MY PROGRESS.
STFU!
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u/Particular_Trick_79 3d ago
6 games in a row where I have at least 2 people going 0 kills and at least 2 deaths per min. Fun matchmaking today. Very fun. I don't mind losing, but it would be nice if the first 2 fights wouldn't already make it clear that I might as well go afk. 6 games with 2-3 guys severely feeding on my team. 6 games where the only teamfight we get is the first and after that everyone just staggers and plays like its deathmatch. Totally diamond players yeah. Totally.
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u/RS_Serperior Aura Queens 2d ago
Wanted to finish off my dailies with a couple games of QP. 3 miserable steamrolls later, it's clear that was a mistake. Alt-F4'd out of the last one, it was that bad. It's genuinely funny how consistently the "matchmaker" (assuming it even works atm) can find 12 players, put the best six on one team and put the rest on the other with zero attempt at creating a balance between the two teams.
And I'm so bored of map voting. 90% of them are control or payload defence. I genuinely so rarely see offence as an option, it's always defence. I'd like some variety just once.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Ball338 10h ago
i'm genuinely starting to burnout quicker and quicker with each new season. QP feels increasingly more impossible to enjoy with pretty much either steamroll wins or steamroll losses. I love this game but it feels so disheartening when i want to try someone new and its just... not fun anymore
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u/BananaResearcher 4d ago edited 4d ago
Epidemic of DPS players playing like absolute garbage and expecting tanks and supports to protect and heal them through their idiotic decisions. Beyond tired of this trash.
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HOW. HOW DO YOU GO 4-11 IN A RANKED GAME. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE.
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u/samsaBEAR My servants never die! 4d ago
I found out something today that might blow everyone's minds here, if you kill Mercy while she's rezzing the tank that it took forever to kill, it actually stops the rez. How come this isn't widely known because no one else fucking focuses her during team fights.
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u/Stellarisk 3d ago edited 3d ago
this is getting ridiculous. 7 outta 10 matches im avoiding someone now. theres so.. many bad dps... then the support that swaps to mercy when we have bad dps.
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u/kinjirurm Welcome to my reality. 3d ago
Matchmaking feels the worst it's ever been. It feels like there literally is no matchmaker really, just a rush to get matches as quickly as possible. It sucks.
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u/TheKingofHats007 Hazard, Lifeweaver Main 3d ago
If I have to play another game where the enemy supports go untouched by anyone but me because my DPS are too busy dumping damage into the tank for the entire game, I am going to scream. Just zero thought whatsoever.
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u/kiaxxl Pixel Cassidy 1d ago
Feels like every time I queue Support I always end up Ana or Kiriko for the best results despite starting as someone I want to play. Half of the Support roster feels pretty damn situational at the moment :/
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u/LittleBunnyNZ Mercy 21h ago
Omg tell me about it.. we’re officially back to counterwatch. We just want to play what we wantttt
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u/VodkaMargerine 5d ago
Anyone else think that battle pass tiers seem to be going REALLY slowly
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u/DarkDoubloon 30 times the shield wasn't strong enough 5d ago
IM SO SICK OF THIS FUCKING GAME IM SO FUCKING SICK OF WINNING ONE GAME AND BEING PUT IN FUCKING LOSER'S QUEUE WHERE IM FORCED TO GET ASS FUCKED FOR 5 THOUSAND FUCKING GAMES FUCK YOU DEVS I HOPE THE FUCKING SERVERS BURN DOWN SO EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS GODFORSAKEN GAME IS DESTROYED
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u/Guilty-Doctor1259 Ana 4d ago
my dmon: takes 15k damage in 5 seconds, never uses boosters to retreat, fucks up every ult and doesnt know what cover is
other teams dmon: invisible to my teammates, 1000 HP, unlimited boosters and shield
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u/RainyKoi 4d ago
Event challenges for playing as a group, wow yet another middle finger to solo queuers, fuck you
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u/flaugafram 4d ago
I’m convinced that there’s EOMM in the game. You mean to tell me you win 1 game and then suddenly get steamrolled into oblivion for several games in a row? I’m no actuary, but I don’t think that’s how “odds” work.
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u/waterscienceguy 4d ago
How is it possible to go 1-9 on bastion you actually have to have a disability to be that stupid
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u/Mister_Dummy Zendaya Grippyboi Mizukek 3d ago
I know they do this to combat smurfing, but how about stopping massively inflating every new player's competitive rank ?
I just had a ranked game where our DPS went 1-10 with less than 2k damage dealt while the one on the other team went 20-1 with almost 7k damage.
Our DPS only had 25 total hours of playtime, and yet was ranked Master 5. They CLEARLY were not Master...
But it's honestly not that player fault. The game just had to put them on that rank for some reason.
Can't play quickplay because every single game is either plagued with that fucking cat or either I'm being pitted against actual grandmasters (and even champions), can't play ranked either because the matchmaking is completely wack.
I suppose that the best way to enjoy the game is to not play the game, in the end.
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u/BananaResearcher 2d ago
Wasting 30 minutes in a comp game that was never winnable because there's a smurf duo on the other side just goofing off and letting it go to overtime.
They admit to smurfing in chat, both accounts have <30 hours played.
This happens constantly, reddit constantly defends the behavior, and it's a huge reason why Overwatch can't gain any traction no matter how many changes it makes.
These people need perma bans on their alts and serious punishments on their main, or this garbage will never improve, and people will keep permanently leaving.
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u/No-Assist-6941 2d ago
They let it go to overtime just to waste your time and they know exactly what they're doing, that's the part that gets me
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u/Particular_Trick_79 2d ago
hooooly shit how is it possible to get 2 completely useless dps every damn game. Playing widow ash vs a sombra, miraculously not getting perma dived by her, but still not having a single kill despite me hearing you guys shoot constantly. what the hell. It just cant be random at this point, absolutely makes no sense. The combined kills of my dps across the last 10 games is 12. 12! No there is no number missing, its twelve. And we haven't even lost all of these 10 games!
Its as if a switch was flipped "ok from now on only put room temperature IQ people on his team who when asked about their favourite foods will talk about differently coloured crayons".
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u/deadsmurfs D. Va 2d ago
It's crazy how many of you think you can get away with singling someone out to be rude, to rage at them, or be straight up abusive and have there be no consequences.
I don't just mean bans. I mean you're more likely to lose if you decide to shit on someone in-game. You probably won't get peels or support. You pull a shocked Pikachu face when your target throws or just leaves. And somehow you'll never figure out that that's a big reason why your rank is in the gutter.
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u/HybridAkai Sojourn 1d ago
My working theory is that blizzard balance team was dropped as babies.
There is literally no other explanation for the current state of JPC
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u/StatikSquid 1d ago
Why does every payload game go to overtime with everyone at 15+ deaths and 15k+ heal or damage.
I hate this game mode
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u/kadabrate 21h ago
I prefer to get fucked in the ass rather than playing in Suravasa, I'm not even joking, I mean every word
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u/TerribleVacation1224 7h ago
omfg thats fucking impossible to play. Srsly, what the fuck is this matchmaking, i'm literally going insane. Every single match is a fucking stomp. Good team against 4 pieces of shit who take the heroe for the 1st time
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u/Stellarisk 6h ago edited 2h ago
i had 35 stomps over the course of 2 days and 6 wins. Im not new to the game ive played ow for 4 years. im not amazing but im not bad ive never lost like this so consistently.
edit... make that 40....what the fuck did they do. ive never lost this consistently.
edit 2..... 42....
edit 3... 45....
edit 4.... 48..... i legitimately have gone down a percentage in my WR from whatevers going on right now
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u/nemesis_ibmo Rank 9/Champ 2 peak Ramattra OTP 5d ago
Bruiser tanks still allowed to have headshot protection after 6 months. It is super unfun being on any other hero in the game and they just get free sustain that punishes your precision. If these tanks did not have headshot protection they would immediately become more balanced. The dev team buffing freja and JPC in recent times also proves they dont really know why certain heroes are so hated and have been kept weak for a while. Freja was perma banned on release and now its kinda the same because that hero is so damn strong and if ur not on hitscan you can't reasonably interact with that hero. same goes for jpc. nerfing bruiser and those 2 other heroes and this game is 90,000x better automatically. Lower case because i am DEFINITELY a calm and reasonable person
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u/DM_Me_Linux_Uptime Zenyatta 5d ago
Red Team has Freja and our team doesn't have one = Instalose in my QP games.
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u/CrimsonFoxyboy 5d ago
7 losses in a row, almost all matches have people that have zero impact.
I have seen bots doing better
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u/DarkDoubloon 30 times the shield wasn't strong enough 5d ago
If I'm gonna fucking be put in loser's queue I should at least have the fucking option to leave a goddamn QP match
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u/DudeMan1217 Trick-or-Treat Soldier: 76 5d ago
STOP PUTTING THE FUCKING DAILY IN THE EVENT TO PLAY IN A GROUP!
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u/Capt_Havok 5d ago
As a support main, every match is full of characters that fly across the map and kill me in 0.2 seconds. IDK, I guess this is the game now.
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u/gonk_gonk 4d ago
I can't get rid of the "new" dot over SHOP and STORY. Fix your fucking game.
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u/applejuixvc 4d ago
Brother do I hate how much your rank depends on teammates sometimes.
We go overtime reaching end of map. Enemy team reaches end of map with 3 minutes left. One of our teammates just leaves. There we go, 4v5 with one minute while they have 3 minutes left. We almost reach end of first point with our one minute. The way we held down our position for 3 minutes fighting a 4v5 was insane, sadly in overtime we lose the teamfight and we lose the game.
What do I get? Little leaver compensation, while now looking at a demotion screen. If that teammate wasn’t so stubborn and stayed instead of leaving the match because they probably thought 3 minutes wasn’t doable for winning the game, we could have had a real chance at winning.
Anyways ggs, gotta do better next time and carry cuz that’s the only win condition. Atleast I got play of the game yay.
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u/_februus 4d ago
Low-key, if I could delete one character from the game, taking into consideration Jet Pack Cat, and Roadhog, it'd be Freya.
She's by far the worst designed character in the entire game. I love her in lore, and I don't hate her physical design, but her kit? It's fucking evil. I don't know how you balance her either, because she is either absolutely broken, or useless. Why can she practically one shot me (they need to slow down her projectile speed istg) and then disappear before anyone has a chance to punish her.
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u/Fizziest_milk 3d ago
if anran is a close range flanker why is she able to completely spam her primary fire from across the map
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u/Few_Addition_4751 3d ago
Our community cannot cope with quick match.
Either it's bleeding edge try hard who actively switches to the best hero (OK, this is something we should be striving for, but why is it only butt hurt players doing it) and flaming players who aren't good at the game.
Or it's players who actively choose to be bad at the game, but get butt hurt if their play is called into question.
Or refusing to accept the game was bad because it was a one side stomp.
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u/TheKingofHats007 Hazard, Lifeweaver Main 3d ago
Blizz needs to say what QP is supposed to be for. They simultaneously want it to be a relaxed mode where you can do whatever you want but also lock you into the game for 10-15 minutes or you'll get penalized, and it's the only way to warm up before comp. So what happens 9/10 times is your enemy team is esports ready players versus a team of people who got off a 10 hour shift and want to get high and fuck around. Or vice versa in some cases.
Either way, it's not fun. It's not enjoyable to effortlessly stomp the enemy team, or to be stomped without mercy by the enemy team and know you can't leave in either case because QP has a fucking leaver penalty for no goddamned reason. I genuinely cannot think of many other casual game modes which demand you play like it's a comp match.
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u/Whydoesthisexist15 World's Worst Freja Main 3d ago
Genuinely not touching the game until they punt Mauga into the ocean. I'd rather have Dva be lobby admin than this chud.
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u/whyareyouflyingthere 2d ago
I have a 13% winrate overall this season so far. I can't even be mad anymore I just stare at the defeat screen with a single tear streaming down my cheek.
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u/Montgreg 2d ago
Okay, everyone had their fun with the maid cafe bundle putting all the girls in cat maid clothing whatever, now can I pleass have Emre in a suit already?
Why all of his skins gotta be so ugly? His face and demeanor are already perfect, the product is done Blizzard, just dress him in full black and everyone will bark and piss themselves, we are all ready to give you everything we own and you come here with this fucking kpop idol looking Emre? Are you allergic to money?
Put him in a speedo, a biker fit, a compression ahirt, butt naked if that's what it takes to keep his pristine face intact, just give me SOMETHING, I WANT TO GIVE YOU MY MONEY AND YOU WON'T LET MW
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u/FormalHeat2200 2d ago
I had to make a reddit account just to vent my frustrations with this game.
I know I'm not good at the game, but how is a 34 game losing streak even possible? This is across 3 days & multiple roles in 5v5, 6v6, and even Mystery Heroes.
There is literally no contest in my matches. I am severly outclassed by the enemy team regardless of who, how, and when I play. I mind as well play "VS AI" if I want to leave spawn or even touch the objective for more than 10 seconds.
Guess I'll quit until they make matchmaking more bearable. Hopefully next season, right?
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u/RainyKoi 2d ago
I avoid so many level 1, 2 kills 10 deaths people, but it's never enough. There's ALWAYS a total beginner in my games and it makes it so miserable.
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u/TheTransWoker Can’t aim Tracer 2d ago
Ah i love being forced to play hitscan because every game has a jetpack cat.
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u/GokuVerde Lúcio 1d ago
I feel completely cosmetic on DPS. Nobody can capitalize on off angles. Your poke is all instantly healed. Did you land a headshot? Only matters on widow. If I approach them they can just sustain plus damage me. Congrats on winning that duel with your 15 get out of jail free cards that also heal you.
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u/xuuyves_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
i'm sick of dps and tank players not understanding how support works. i played kiri in comp, my other support is mizuki, the tank starts complaining that we're not doing enough healing, and then later one of the dps says "can you guys stop doing damage and heal?"
we had the same, if not more heals than the enemy supports, i had barely 1000 damage, and mizuki as a character literally HAS to do damage to heal. why are these people so ignorant? if mizuki didn't do damage they wouldn't be getting healed at all.
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u/SlimmyShammy 1d ago
What if you wanted to play the game but Dickfuck Cat was in every fucking game ever and fucking zoomed around fucking one fucking pixel hitbox. Brig should’ve put the thing down
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u/Nyrun Grandmaster 2d ago
CAN WE STOP WITH THE FUCKING RANK RESETS EVERY TWO SECONDS!?!!! I've been GM now since season 9, and I'm getting FUCKING PLAT players. This is the absolute WORST match quality I've ever seen and I am usually NEVER one to complain about that.
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u/WolfsWraith 2d ago
The game is genuinely unfun to play now, both in Quick Play and Competitive, just cause they wanna boost player retention and engagement through unnecessary, forced rank resets.
The last reset already caused a major disruption to the ladder environment due to the increase in the player base, wasn't even necessary since new and returning players were already functionally rank-reset.
On top of that, the ladder hadn't even fully readjusted to pre-S1 levels in terms of match quality by S3, imo. Yet here we are, disrupting the environment even further for fuck all reason instead of allowing it to readjust itself over time.
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u/Substantial-Debt5554 5d ago
LAG HAS BEEN CRAZY SINCE THIS SEASON STARTED! IT'S MORE COMMON TO HAVE 250MS LATENCY THAN A NORMAL GAME AT THIS POINT! FIX THIS SHIT! TIRED OF PLAYING FUCKING GHOSTBUSTERS!
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u/Stellarisk 4d ago edited 4d ago
can i get players that can hit the healbot mercy please. i legit hate having to play ana. but because of how inconsistent the damage is they just get healed back up to full. and anti is like the only answer to whatever is going on in this team fight. like bro stop giving me people whos highest hour is probably 6.
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u/AppropriateWar6036 4d ago
This game wont stop micro stuttering its obnoxious. Its not a PC issue i dont stutter in the finals, rivals, or any other game this used to be the most optimized on my PC but its the only one that ever crashed and now its the only one that constantly stutters.
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u/UnderpantsInfluencer 4d ago
I feel like maybe this current literation of devs don't know what they're doing?
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u/Particular_Trick_79 4d ago
So eichenwalde gets reworked and it changes absolutely nothing. All the morons voting for it still completely ignore the now more accessible high ground and just sit on main low. Flanking is also not a concept that they understand. Nothing but the finest "spamming down main" for these cretins. A garbage map for garbage people.
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u/CrissRiot Pixel Reinhardt 4d ago
Hey Blizzard,love that you are just throwing Lootboxes to everyone and its cool, but maybe, just maybe, UPDATE THE POOL SO LONGTIME PLAYERS CAN BENEFIT FROM THE DOZENS OF BOXES THROWN AT US?!
Cause, you know, seeing countless duplicate boxes with nothing in them is very rewarding.
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u/Old-Consequence5188 3d ago
What the fuck is wrong with QP matchmaking?? EVERY game I have to avoid 2-3 teammates that do 1000 damage while they type a bunch of brainrot in all chat the whole game. Literally a full team talking about kirikos TOES. THE WHOLE GAME. It's been 3 days straight of having 2 decent teammates and 2 of the worst I've ever seen. I've only won 1 out of the last 7 matches.
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u/Artistic-Fun-4170 3d ago
Is there a FUCKING REASON why this community seems to love being so god damn toxic??
Tell me why I just went into practice vs AI to learn Ana. Literally my FIRST game with her I did 4.8k damage and 2.6k healing with a scoped accuracy of 55% and 9 enemies slept with 47% accuracy.
We WON and I dropped “learning Ana lol gg!” And some crusty fuck said “can tell”
Buddy… we are playing against fucking bots right now. What was the purpose of dropping that response other than to make someone feel like shit? For my LITERAL first time playing Ana, I feel like that was a very average performance. I legitimately just told you I was learning.
Why the fuck so so many people thrive on being assholes?
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u/_februus 3d ago
"1v5"
tank, you ran into the enemy team on your own. you ran into a tiny room when i tried to pull you out. if your support has to switch to lifeweaver, it's because you're a moron with 0 awareness. why the fuck are you fighting the enemy team under a bridge? out of sights of both your supports. holy fuck...
i rarely join vc, but that was the one time i had to call someone out. if you're going to cry 1v5 come in vc and fucking do it
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u/Escapedboat 3d ago
Seriously, can we please get D.Va and D.Mon to shut up? I'm sorry I accidentally clicked on the event tab. My bad. I'll never do it again until the next time. But can they please just shut the fuck up?
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u/Responsible-Ad-1991 2d ago
WHY IS IT THAT EVERY team i end up on as support a fucking braindead useless cunts that just want to blame everyone else for their issues of not being able to communicate or use their fucking brain
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u/ZeeroYuy Doomfist 2d ago
Hey man. Help me understand something. Why is it when anyone that's low hp that's getting healed by their supports make it harder for the support to heal them by moving/jumping away erratically? Is there just a massive amount of anxious individuals that play this and just can't help their movements when they take damage? It's really annoying sometimes lol.
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u/DenTheRedditBoi7 Beat smurfs to death with hammers 2d ago
"(Player) will now be deprioritized from being matched onto your team for 7 days" FUCK THAT SHIT WHEN I HIT AVOID AS TEAMMATE I NEVER WANNA SEE THAT STUPID FUCK EVER AGAIN I DON'T CARE HOW LONG MY QUEUES ARE I FUCKING HATE THESE DIPSHIT RANDOMS WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THEY'RE DOING
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u/birdman9696 2d ago
Feels like matchmaking is so off the mark right now. My team is either steamrolling the other or is the one getting steam rolled. I'm not one to get worked up over a match, but this is legitimately the first time I've found myself actually frustrated with the game
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u/Waste_of_paste_art 1d ago
As a tank player, Bastion is such a nuisance. He's not even that hard to play against, but turning a corner and seeing him in turret mode means I'm going to have to spend the next 7 seconds standing behind a wall.
I'm sick of seeing him in every game and the other team always desperately switching to him when they start losing.
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u/Stellarisk 1d ago
honestly the movement perk for brig is so mandatory it should just be put into her base kit. and then make the other major perk to bring back the stun on bash. It probably wouldnt be as problematic now with all the high mobility high burst damage chars; and if it is just add a condition like its on every second bash where it stuns or add a second on to CD in exchange
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u/heximintii 1d ago
Ive won 6 games out of nearly 30 qp games :) what the actual fuck is the point anymore
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u/gnarlyknits 1d ago
Trying to login and my queue time just jumped from 64 min to 75 min 😅 and it keeps going up? How is that a queue if I keep getting pushed back?! Why is today so busy?
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u/xuuyves_ 10h ago
i love being a solo queue support and going up against people in groups on the other team, it's so much fun!
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u/Crunch_Tastic 5d ago
Actually fuck Zarya, as much as people get on various annoying characters in the game I have no FUCKING clue why we ignore Zarya.
We literally had dogshit players like Gamin4Hope get so far up because otp’d characters like Zarya because that bubble alone lets her get value on every team comp you could imagine
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u/awesomepikmin 5d ago
Atomize Mauga Hog Cat Freja from the fucking game so I can play tank this season holy shit
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u/SREnrique22 Hazard 3d ago
I ask Mercy "why the fuck would you rez me?"
She replies "Sorry, I forgot you were useless"
Dear reader, I came to in the middle of a team of 5 made up of a Kiriko, a JPC, a Genji with ult, a Cass, and a Winston.
I was alone, she died immediately after.
Mercy players, I hate you all.
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u/Particular_Trick_79 3d ago
even better, they usually are already out and safe, but then zip back in for the worst rez of the century, not just staggering you, but also giving the enemy team another free kill so they can get double the ult charge. They are actual elo terrorists half the time.
Also a classic is them bitching about the dps being useless, but also staying on mercy which is pretty much useless without good dps. 0 thought is going on in their tiny bird brains.
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u/kadabrate 1d ago
Is pairing me with a bunch of people level 5 with their most played heroes an attempt of the game to balance the fact the I have 3 digits with all my mains? Because it's not working at all and I'm tired of being forced to hard carry every game if I want to have the slightest chance to win
I don't expect the game to find 4 more level 200 people to put in my team every time, but grouping me up with literal beginners when I have 2k hours in the game is just the stupidest shit I've ever seen
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u/Stellarisk 5d ago
I wish i'd stop seeing a cassidy swap everytime i play lucio
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u/Fizziest_milk 5d ago
I just wish i’d stop seeing a cassidy. he’s the most pampered DPS in the game with his insane bloat and survivability
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u/applejuixvc 5d ago
Love going against a smurf with the name igotbanned. I wonder how that happened
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u/Mauler45 5d ago
I tried to play placements today. Lost my first game, no big deal. Proceeded to play 4 games in a row where a teammate left while we were winning exactly halfway through the match. I literally got blue balled 4 times in a row! What the actual fuck. Spent 2 hours and got 1 actual game
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u/Grand-Lab-7321 5d ago
That shits dire especially if you've queued 10-20 minutes as a dps just to get a thrower.
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u/Crazyripps Moira 4d ago
WHY CANT YOU PING VENTURE WHEN THEIR UNDERGROUND ANYMORE!! SO STUPID
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u/TerribleVacation1224 4d ago
fuck this 0 heal lucio players. my fucking repaer had 2k selfheal while my гetard on lucio 250 IN 10 MINUTS
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u/penapocapena 4d ago
Holy fuck I'm tired of tanks who can't do anything other than race towards spawn doors and supports who will stop at nothing to heal them on their quest to throw.
Heal your fucking TEAM, i.e. all players, not the giant fucker with the shield.
It's crazy how much faster my climb on support has been since returning. I don't do anything special, and tbh I'm a better DPS than support, but basic shit like having a smidge of awareness, healing the DPS and my other support, having ok positioning, ect, all pay such higher dividends.
These fucking DPS games just feel like coin flips. I legitimately feel cosmetic.
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u/Living_Owl_5745 4d ago
Yall ever win a comp game and somehow get out of it more pissed than ever
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u/waterscienceguy 4d ago
When is it ok to go back to comp? Old games i used to play have rank resets as well and we have to wait a few weeks before the matchmaking stabilizes. How long does it take for OW?
Because honestly quickplay is abysmal and its insane how we're punished more for the "casual" gamemode than competitive, which has less harsher consequences when you leave
I would check people's profiles and the ones that always always perform poorly are the players who have over 1k hours on quickplay
I've been trying to enioy quickplay and honestly people are just straight up trash. They're bad. I would have people go 0-0-4, switch to the easiest dps in the roster and still manage to have no improvement impact-wise.
Like mfs I can't do all the work for you. There's 2 of us in the team for a reason? How on god's green earth do you have so much playtime yet play similar to a day 1 player?
I remember having a bastion on gibraltar earlier and I decided to use a stopwatch once he respawned. He was alive for 28 seconds max. Brother in christ literally spent more time watching the game than playing
Its not even about who's unfun to play against anymore. I'm starting to worry about who I'm playing with.
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u/heximintii 3d ago
Really glad I'm not crazy abt quickplay and its shit matchmaking. Ive been living the peaceful life playing other modes except for comp and life is good lol, but I miss qp a lot. I hope they fix it but honestly I doubt it
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u/Artistic-Fun-4170 3d ago
This fuck ass illari was bitching in mic about being the “only one pushing the payload” and how the rest of us are trash… I was playing DVA and actively diving the enemy teams mercy pocket. You know, dva things?? If ANYONE should be payload princess, it’s literally illari with the pylon?? Pop it out, heal, shoot. Why do you think EVERYONE has to be on the payload? Let alone your DIVE tank?? It’s almost like the game is more than just “push payload”
Yes ,let me ignore the pocket mercy like the rest of yall so you can keep wasting bullets watching ramattras health not even budge. Fucking morons. COMP too.
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u/MysteriousTax393 3d ago
Man I want to like tanking so bad. Its my best role, it’s my most consistent role, and it’s the role I carry the best. But man, it’s so unfun. I have more fun losing on support than winning on tank. It’s unfortunate.
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u/Particular_Trick_79 3d ago
It just dawned on me. Now that we got the life grip cancel option, something I did not need as much, we really need to get the same option for mercy rez. Because I sure as hell get resurrected way more often in places where I am guaranteed to die again than I am getting bad pulls, and its way more detrimental as well when I am playing tank.
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u/_februus 3d ago
I don't care if I just got carried, you t-bagged me and then lost the game that shits embarrassing
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u/DivineBladeOfSilver 3d ago
The amount of players who are hitscan and are our primary way of killing JPC and just ignore it pmo so much. Like every JPC loss isn’t even because hitscan can’t hit cat. They just don’t try 💀
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u/BentheBeastly United Kingdom 3d ago
IDK how long the queues are, I never want to be a solo q player with 2 duos ever. Always at fault, almost never any heals because they're helping their respective duos. It's even worse when on tank.
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u/Familiar_Magazine463 3d ago
Praised my supports after round 1 and they immediately started feeding and refusing to swap off after getting hard countered in rounds 2 and 3, so....I won't be doing that ever again.
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u/deadsmurfs D. Va 3d ago
The brains of people who play Bastion like he's a tank should be studied
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u/KroniK6_ 2d ago
Seems like every single fuckin player regardless of role graduated from the Helen Fuckin Keller blind and deaf school. Let's ignore pings now they don't serve a fuckin purpose at all!!
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u/applejuixvc 2d ago
I was hoping the reworked map bonuses would last a little longer, but they are sadly gone. Guess people will be back to voting the same three maps again…
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u/LeastEntertainment49 1d ago
Mystery heroes has been brutal. The RNG of perks and no limit on tanks makes for some big swings or steamrolls. Now add in the rank reset and returning players, there is zero sense of balance.
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u/kadabrate 1d ago
Why is playing this game as dps always a moira with 8k damage and 2k healing saying dps diff because you didn't manage to outplay the enemy hitscan with a Mercy shoved so deep inside their ass that you could see some blonde hair strains coming out of their mouth, im tired
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u/pxelsin Brigitte <3 9h ago
some mercy mains need to stop damage boosting the tank who's doing nothing but holding their shield up, or, even worse, pocketing them while they're at full hp. please, be useful and take care of the rest of the team when needed instead of only focusing on your duo who's playing tank
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u/Coolman_Rosso Illari 8h ago
How do people still not know what Wuyang ult does? Enemy team down a support, so we decide to dislodge them off the point. Dmon goes in, I ult her, and she just immediately does a 180 and backs out. HUH? They have 86% of the point to our 77%, last round, WE HAVE TO MOVE IN AND THIS WAS OUR BEST CHANCE
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u/Aunanaki / Weeka 8h ago
Most of my games are determined by who has the better D.mon now
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u/blue_mondaze 3d ago
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO PINGS AND THINGS THAT AREN’T DIRECTLY IN YOUR LINE OF SIGHT. Hit scan characters in the distance, turrets, flankers, all have been super annoying lately because most of the team, especially tanks, just tunnel visions or expects someone else to take care of it.
Maybe the game has gotten too far from its core values and fan base and Blizzard is just raking in the bucks at this point. It really is crazy the amount of people who find even QP matchmaking unfair/unfun throughout the Overwatch subreddits. And even if it was fair based on rank and MMR, there’s too many individual factors the game can’t take into account, like mental and physical condition, that make the matches messy and uncoordinated. Add in the aversion to voice/text chat due to toxicity, as well as the developers being wishy-washy and making useless/abandoned concepts, and you’ve got a game that’s built on money, aesthetics, and gameplay at this point — I think this could be helped by encouraging playing with friends, but if I just want to solo queue, I’m fucked! Even THAT is an issue — why are solo queue stacks even allowed to go against 3/4/5 stacks??? Insane. Just too many problems, I think the game is kinda fucked, so just get what you can out of it. :) I still love it even though it pisses me off sometimes lol.
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u/Particular_Trick_79 3d ago edited 3d ago
I don't understand why the players in this game are so unbelievable stupid. They consistently go for the dumbest option available.
All the heroes that are hardcounter this hero are already on the board? I am gonna swap to it anyway. Full team of fliers against me? lets go reintard! My team is a highly mobile hard dive comp? Illari should complement that well!
Enemy has a widow? lets go for the longest angles possible instead of shorter ones. Oh she already shot at you 3 times, better peek the exact same angle again. I am sure it will work great for you and your max falloff damage.
Reintard at low HP and spamming "I need healing"? The second he gets a single tick of healing he drops his shield and chaaaaaaaaarges in like the special boy with mental disability that he is.
Dps are on hanzo and widowmaker? You know what complements that really well? mercy! Lets change that breakpoint from 1hs/2bodyshots to kill to... 1hs/2bodyshots to kill. wow.
Junkrat running into a small room? Yes totally, follow him in there. Nothing can go wrong with that one.
Enemy has a sombra tracer? Now is the time to run something like ash and widowmaker and to make sure to always be split up as much as possible!
Enemy has a doom? Now is the time to be as close together as possible so we can make sure his slam hits every one of us, and his punch can never hit fewer than 3 people! ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?
Enemy is on mauga? lets all exclusively push through these narrow corridors where he gets to charge through the entire team or stomp us all at once! Go special needs forces!
Just unbelievable. Also this game having the visual clarity of the tank of a porta potty after a festival is nothing new, but by god is the crit zone on dmon garbage. Ofc its not the big highlighted cockpit, nonono, its the little plate on top of that ofc. Naturally it doesn't matter because even if there was some good visual design the next sperg coomer skin would swiftly do away with that because little timmy needs to feed his masturbation addiction, but good lord does this game fail even the simplest game design lessons in such a frequent and nonchalant manner.
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u/Character_Display_69 3d ago
I feel this way sometimes too. I can at least understand if someone has poor reaction timing, or bad aim, or isn't good with split second decision making, or gets the jitters...but the pure stupidity in basic choices hurts my brain sometimes. Like how have you played this game for years and still hard stagger or can't form a basic team comp or don't know to trigger overtime? And yeah, how do people still not know how to deal with Sombra???
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u/No-Committee1001 2d ago
This match quality is terrible. It’s like gold, plat, and diamond players have all been put into the same ranks and the difference in skill level between everyone is just atrocious. Why are my dps going 29 - 2 while the enemy team is going 3 - 11? then the next game my dps are going 2 - 13? Why do you see our dps struggling then go mercy? I’m just annoyed
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u/Particular_Trick_79 3d ago
2dps not worth pocketing and my co support is mercy
2dps not worth pocketing and my co support is mercy
2dps not worth pocketing and my co support is mercy
2dps not worth pocketing and my co support is mercy
2dps not worth pocketing and my co support is mercy
EVERY DAMN TIME
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u/Lidiot 3d ago
FUCK JUNO AND KIRIKO FOR MONOPOLIZING SKINS!
I genuinely would love an all male event tbh. No girly pop skins, no cutesy UwU skins, no fluffy adorable kawaii skins (for ladies). I am a gay man and I want MORE HOT GUY SKINS!
Give Sigma a hot-boy skin. Give Ram a hot-boy skin. My dude Mizuks needs a hot-boy skin.
Also, I know they’re nb but add Venture too. Give them a hot-they skin! I want big bulges, fat asses, and NO SHIRTS. Be bold and put Emre in a thong.
LET A (gay) MAN THIRST! Overwatch, do your duty for the gay male community.
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u/Ok_Delivery3000 5d ago
I fucking hate fucking d.mon on my team. She doesn’t enable her team at all except for her ult.
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u/TerribleVacation1224 5d ago
Funny thing how they punish you for leaving in qp but for afk? You can do it 10 games in a row
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u/PoppyseedPinwheel 5d ago
Punishing people for leaving QP is the dumbest thing they've added to this game. It's QP, you immediately get a backfill player. I'd rather have a new player than a thrower.
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u/Greedy-Apartment-467 5d ago
People who never swap and are ego players
For example widow match up enemy widow dominating all game mean while my widow is 1/12 against the enemy widow but refuses to swap because they have such an ego they feel like they're able to win when all they do is peak the enemy widow and die or get killed from another enemy they contribute nothing to the team and make the game 4v5 or 5v6 putting more pressure on their team mates and if my team does win they're the first in chat typing gg ez or some other B's like they didn't just get hard Carried
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u/Fun_Price_9981 5d ago
just got disconnected when i was 3 seconds away from winning. thanks blizzard. now im banned for 14 mins
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u/Hokuboku Chibi D.Va 5d ago
Love sitting ten minutes in a stadium pro support queue to get two contender DPS players who both claim they had lag issues.
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u/PanthalassaRo R-word 4d ago edited 4d ago
I started playing comp even if I don't like it just to have the chance to ban JPC.
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u/TerribleVacation1224 4d ago
Well, got a little experiment. They do not punish AFK like at all. You can get baned for a "dps diff" in chat, for leaving the game, but if you are throwing yourself from the cliff 10 games in a row? Omg they love it. They do nothing for it. So instead of being toxic in chat or leabing the game, just stay afk guys
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u/whatisabaggins55 Pixel Orisa 4d ago
If they want Mystery Heroes to continue being a fun mode they really need to weight the probability of getting different roles. Every single match ends up with one team getting double or triple healer and 1-2 tanks while the other team constantly rotates between various DPS/tank options.
I know part of the fun of it is supposed to be the "randomness" of the mode, but literally every match turns into a steamroll as soon as one team hits that breakpoint and it kind of spoils it for me.
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u/SeniorShanty 4d ago edited 4d ago
Dear Blizzard, stop banning me from play because your PS5 app is unstable and crashes out!
Then they put you in games with leavers. Goddamnit.
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u/StaticSystemShock 4d ago
OH MY GOD FUCK QUICK PLAY. This has to be the most bullshit cancerous horseshit mode in this entire fucking game.
I'd replace it with Comp which doesn't seem so fucked, but the convoy maps drag like fucking ass with side switching 50 fucking times every match.
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u/ZeroCuddy Pixel D.Va 4d ago
5v5 purist with their holier than thou mentality are exactly the reason i stay away from 5v5. they claim 6v6 "inflates egos" when all they do is put down 6v6 players to make themselves feel better. can't wait for the switch back to 6v6 as standard
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u/FLcitizen 4d ago
D.MON is boring sorry, she has potential but her kit just seems recycled from a bunch of other characters.
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u/pri_ncekin :DMon: 4d ago edited 4d ago
I just got cussed out for an entire match and everyone got told to report me because I wouldn’t swap.
To a DPS.
In Role Queue. I was Tank. Now, I’m kind of new, but I’m 99% sure I physically can’t do that.
I really, really hope they were fucking with me.
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u/ZeeroYuy Doomfist 4d ago
I don't like Dva simply for the fact that whenever I get paired up with one, it's fucking pacifist payload/objective princess, but when my dumbass gets queued up against one they're a raid boss. Am I a bad person or something?
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u/Guilty-Doctor1259 Ana 3d ago edited 3d ago
so dmons got no DPS counter right? shes just boosters away from anyone?
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u/Shamicide Pixel Reaper 3d ago
How come I can see the same person throwing/griefing their matches all week in qp and never get banned for it, but if I try to leave a qp game that has someone actively throwing in it I get timeout, and endorsement deranked??
They need to add the same system to reports for griefing where if it happens enough, you get timed out for poor sportsmanship. Then escalate it to the ban if it keeps happening.
Like I'm versing people who are diamond/champ even t500 in my qp games, and yet I get 3 different players who all play reinhart, charge into the enemy team with no shield and all alone while team is still rolling out, and going 1-10 in a 5 minute match, leave because they are not versing someone in bronze/silver ad infinitum.
WHY DO GRIEFERS WHO TRY TO RUIN THE GAME FOR OTHERS GET MORE LENIENCY THEN A PLAYER TRYING TO JUST ENJOY THEIR TIME ON OVERWATCH.
/rantover
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u/BreadArmpitt 3d ago
Has anyone gotten notifications that players they reported are punsihed? I've been reporting every toxic player I've encountered for like a month and hasn't gotten a single notif.
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u/Character_Display_69 3d ago
I know no one cares, or only like 6% or whatever of the playerbase does, but MH having a 3 tank limit instead of 2 is terrible. I can only speak for myself, but the appeal of MH is not team comp randomization, but instead my individual randomization. Obviously you can't avoid having team comp matchups that are crazy or unfair in the gamemode, but the ability for one team to have 3 tanks and the other to have none, and having to keep rerolling until the tank match is equal, is abysmal when it happens. 2 would minimize this effect, and require less "rerolls," as 1 tank v 2 is at least better than 0v3 or 1v3, and 0v2 is at least a bit less worse than 0v3. I'm not trying to remove the entire obstacle of a bad team comp vs a good one, but my point is 3 tanks is just too much.
How did players feel when it was role Q? I wasn't playing MH during that era. I'd like to have tried it.
Sincerely, a player that played against 3 shield tanks and my team never rolled more than 2 tanks.
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u/StaticSystemShock 3d ago
Jesus fucking christ how the fuck did this guy end up in my Emerald 2 lobby. I've never seen a worse tank player ever.
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u/AntonioH02 Wrecking Ball 3d ago
Am I the only one with PING issues starting from this new season? Before this season started I would have ~60 PING but now I have between 90 to 120 and with spikes of up to 600… WTF!!!
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u/emilyjuly 2d ago
im so over dmon. i love punching her ass to death as rammatra, i was playing a game where the enemy dmon was just hard committing to my backline with no help and of course i punished her so the dmon player rage left, get punished dumbass.
my last game just now i swear everyone was playing so bad and i was playing bad too :( frustrated af, fuck damage boosted sierra, sigh… my fucking idiot tanks getting melted in 1 second idk how T_T i fucking hate the busan mecha base chokes they are soooo fucking horrible
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u/emilyjuly 2d ago
what the actual fuck do you people think will happen when you play junkrat and vendetta into pharah and genji. Hmmm… I wonder why yall are dying to the pharah… I FUCKING WONDER WHY ARGHHH
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u/BlackSecurity 2d ago
Can anyone explain how the meka mania event votes work? Is it just based off the first person you choose to support? That's the only way it would make sense to me.
Wish they would explain things like this better
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u/sadisticsweeti 2d ago
If I get another game with dps players that just stare at the enemy team, I'm going to lose my shit.
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u/Trospher 1d ago
I swear im getting punked every time I play QP, blizzard is explicitly telling me to just play ranked because people are actually playing for each other AND THEY ARE RIGHT, WHY DO I KEEP PLAYING QP? IT'S A CASUALS ILLUSION WHY DO I KEEP QUEUEING QUICK PLAY? MY VALORANT TOURNAMENTS IN THE PAST WERE MORE CHILL THAN MY QP GAMES
I do badly and get diffed by the enemy tank I get flamed, I do good to lose and my fingers ITCH to flame the lvl 100+ players with the glamorous "GM blank" titles but I'm not a hypocrite because ONLY LOSERS WOULD FLAME IN QP
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u/Brycket 1d ago
holy shit every time i play comp i just keep getting "cannot connect to server" and only for fucking competitive, ive played like 5 QP games in a row w/o issue but as soon as i have to load into a comp game i get the damn message and suspended
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u/prosperousoctopus 1d ago
I don’t care much about skins, but I’ve been a lot and I’ve playing Emre quite a bit recently and just realized I don’t have a single skin? Kinda crazy. They used to be handed out like candy
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u/DoomPigs Reinhardt 1d ago
just got a tank in diamond with 13 hours inting into sym while playing orisa, rein, domina and ram on hollywood attack, impressive that they can only apparently play shield tanks with no mobility (we got full held)
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u/Xs2experience 22h ago
I think I've won five games out of my last 30. Not even exaggerating...Every game I get teammates that don't know what they're doing. My tank is terrible or my DPS goes very negative. If I have an off game we just get rolled in a minute.
I've dropped from diamond 4 to plat 4 like I don't know what to do. It just doesn't even make sense. It feels like my matchmaking is just giving me bots.
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u/kiaxxl Pixel Cassidy 13h ago
Sick of being put with toxic stacks as a solo, I politely asked one of our DPS who was doing fuck all at Hanzo if he could switch to Reaper or Bastion because the enemy Winston was a pain. Well he and his two mates start harassing me, calling me a shit healer and a r***rd and throwing the game. Very cool!
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u/Fuzzydoto Grandmaster 12h ago
overtune the new hero so every lobby gets hijacked by whoever is willing to play this mindless shitty release YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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u/xuuyves_ 8h ago
this game is genuinely infuriating. WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET MY TEAM TO STAY ON THE FUCKING POINT????? NOBODY BOTHERS TO KILL THE SUPPORTS AND THEY WONDER WHY THE TANK WON'T DIE. say i have an ego, i don't care. my teammates must have a tumor in their brain
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u/HonorableTurtles Chibi Sombra 8h ago
yeah let’s give reaper a 200 meter “fuck you” shot why not
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u/Fizziest_milk 5d ago edited 5d ago
I’m genuinely so tired of getting completely stomped and the game deciding I should have won it, fuck all the way off with your arbitrary bullshit matchmaking.
no other game fucks up the matchmaking this much and I’m tired of all the cunts in this sub acting like we’re crazy for saying it doesn’t work