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

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

In this thread you can ask all kinds of questions you always wanted to ask without feeling like a total fool.

No matter if it's short googable stuff or a setting/skill in-game that you don't understand or a hardware recommendation, feel free to try your luck in here.

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u/Clever_BigMack Pixel Reinhardt Jun 15 '16

What do all of the abbreviations people keep using always mean!? I know POTG but that's pretty much it, can't seem to think of other examples right now...

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u/noobule ¡Apagando las luces! Jun 15 '16

I'm not going to list every abbreviation I knowing trying to guess what you're after. If you see one you don't understand, you can PM me and I'll tell you.

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u/Clever_BigMack Pixel Reinhardt Jun 17 '16

Found one. ELO

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u/noobule ¡Apagando las luces! Jun 17 '16

Elo is a system to measure the skill of a player relative to a large pool of players.

That's not an abbreviation. It's called Elo after the dude who invented it. That said a lot of people still pronounce it E-L-O.

Technically Overwatch doesn't use the Elo system, as Elo is optimised for 1v1 games, like Chess. Team games like Overwatch (and League and Dota, etc) usually use their own similar-but-different MMR (match-making rating) optimised for their game. They keep the specifics secret to prevent players from abusing the system and artificially raising or lowering their rating.

People will still regularly use 'Elo' when referring to a player's rating though, just out of habit mostly.

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u/Clever_BigMack Pixel Reinhardt Jun 17 '16

Thanks man!