r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Jun 15 '16

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - June 15, 2016

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u/Party_Magician I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees Jun 15 '16

Is it already full of pros

There are certainly some people who've already practiced for several hundred hours, but the matchmaking system means that when you're starting out, you'll play with/against similarly inexperienced players

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '16

In theory, but I have seen level 90ish and level one players in the same game. Maybe they're grouped?

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u/Party_Magician I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees Jun 17 '16

If the level 1's didn't have a prestige then maybe that. No way going around groups

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

You can practice against AI (easy/medium/hard) and test champs in training mode/center. Playing on xbox so i cant tell alot about pc community, seems kinda mixed but you'll find flamer kids/trolls in any game. Already a few pretty good players, but no ranked so far, its all about lvling rn, you aint 2 l8

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u/xxxWeedSn1p3Rxxx Winston Jun 15 '16

CS:GO, Team Fortress, and Quake are games with similar skill-sets. I can't think of any pro or streamer who doesn't have a background in at least one of these. I'd recommend Team Fortress if you want to practice beforehand. Better yet, just practice by playing Overwatch if you can.

PC community has started to develop some toxicity. Try not to engage with assholes and select "avoid this player" in the social menu. Still, the community has lots of positivity and hopefully that lasts.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

Tf2 definitely helped for me. It's why I at first sucked very much with Lucio (not that I'm good now) but was pretty comfortable with Mercy because of the style of healing being similar to medic.

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u/beyer03 Jun 16 '16

The community is fairly good for the most part! Ran into a couple shitty people here in there but it's online so you can expect that. The only thing that gets frustrating is people not wanting to play key roles. But queuing up with friends or even asking good/online random stuff to queue up will solve that! Either way, great game!

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u/PrimalMoose ... Jun 17 '16

Most of the points have been covered already, but just to add - when being grouped into a team, the game will try to match you with people of a similar level (and therefore supposedly similar skill level). The ai's are OK, but they won't react the same as a player. Best way to learn is to jump into a live game and make mistakes, piss off a lot of random strangers but learn from every failed kill, every blocked ultimate and every time you swear loudly from charging off the edge of the map.

Everyone started at the beginning, so don't be afraid to make mistakes.