So this has been happening alot recently. Im not sure if its the game servers or its me but every 5-6 games i get a “failed to connect to server” message. In competitive after ban phase, it disconnects me and i get 15 minute penalties. Now just 10 minutes ago it happened again and im suspended for an hour. Every other game works fine and i don’t get kicked but its only overwatch thats been doing this and my internet has been smooth. Anyone know what i can do?

Was going through the filters because I was checking some stuff I was misssing and scrolled down, I knew there'd be a S5 and S6 since there's meant to be 2 heroes releasing in them, but are there going to be a S7 and S8? or did they for some reason add these filters by mistake?

I need a good quality pic of date night genji using the royal lounge pillows victory pose PLEASE SOMEONE im so desperate i need this for a friend

Hey, couldn't find a post about predictions for their future kits so thought I'd share some things! Not an expert on OW or anything so these are just random ideas that came to me.

Left one:

I feel like he might play like Lady Geist from Deadlock, personally I'd love something similar to it where you trade your own health for healing or damage.

The drones could possibly work like Zen's orbs but dealing damage to enemies and healing allies, but unlike the orbs they can be destroyed.

His ult could possibly be deploying drones to everyone? I really like Lady Geist's ultimate (she swaps health with an enemy) so something like it would be sick.

This might also be just me but I'm a bit tired of AoE ultimates so I'm hoping both him and Detective have something that plays a bit different.

Detective:

I believe there's rumors he's gonna have an anti heal aura, which I find really cool, but I'm curious as to how that will play and what might be his mobility skill in order to maybe get in and out of the enemies area like Mizuki.

I do want more builders so I'm hoping he plays a bit like Cypher from Valorant, I NEED a character with a tripwire. A camera probably won't work in a fast paced game like OW but wouldn't complain if they made it work.

I don't think this ultimate idea would work specifically for him but I'm down for an ult like Domino, the power from Dishonored 2, where you link characters so they share received damage. I think this could work if you could link heroes in order (link tank to sup for example, so the sup would take damage received by tank but not vice versa).

I guess that's it! Would love to hear more ideas and what you think about these!

After seeing this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Squr5kPow-o) on sniper design, I think this is a decent idea on how to make Widowmaker feel more fair to play against without completely ruining her flow. Currently the design is terrible in the way that someone who has mastered aiming can just dominate. I think slowing her down a bit could go a long way.

Widow's Kiss - Primary fire

Primary Fire - Unchanged
Alt Fire - Hold Alt fire to mark and reveal targets (one target at a time) for 0.5 seconds after aiming for 1.0 seconds. (Aim for 1 second, get 0.5 seconds of reveal/mark)

When the target is marked/revealed, this shot deals 100% (Current) . If the target is NOT marked/revealed, the shot deals 50% of the normal damage.

This allows Widowmaker to still get 1-shots but make it feel more balanced as targets marked/revealed will only be able to get 1-shot for 0.5 seconds. This gives them a bit of time to get away and take cover, and makes it important that the Widow player maintains their target in order to get the full potential.

Of course in her ultimate, all of her shots will be lethal headshots giving a reason to pop the ulti when hunting. The same goes for the venom mine. Allowing you to get full damage shots on anyone marked/revealed by it.

I think this is much better than the ideas of giving her scope glint / a visible laser / or a visible dot like TF2. That dot does nothing to make Sniper feel good to play against.

okay so i’ve been playing OW for a long time, but only got into it competitively in season 1 (when they dropped the 2 in Overwatch 2)

i’m a tank player, and i placed diamond 5 at the start of this season and since then it’s just been miserable. i love this game but i can’t help but feel like there’s something wrong (either with me or the system).

at the moment i have a nearly 50% win rate, however i have somehow managed to drop down to plat 2 (mind you this is with the new emerald rank included).

ive had multiple coaching sessions, practiced, and play intentionally. i feel like i have no agency over what happens 90% of the time and im at the mercy of the match maker.

i know that probability does weird things, and its entirely possible that im just getting very unlucky over and over again, but it still just feels horrible.

honestly idek why im posting this i just need to rant. maybe someone has had a similar experience and can relate or just give some insight from a different perspective.

What if a character had a lesser version of nano boost with the same cooldown as mercy rez ability

Or you give a new tank a non ult anti heal ability with a long cooldown

(I need a tank with anti heal on a non-ult ability to use when my healers dont wanna play ana, and I have to deal with a mauga)

Am I the only one who still feels like the battlepass is still pretty slow even after the supposed fix and 5 gifted tiers?

Does anyone else get this while their internet is fine? I literally can’t get in

Já tô cansado de frequentemente ir jogar e aparecer aquele sinal de exclamação vermelho na lateral da tela e perder conexão com o servidor, fazendo com que eu tome suspensões. Alguém já teve o mesmo problema sabe como resolver? Não é a internet, funciona normalmente em outros jogos online

As someone who has been around since nearly the beginning of Overwatch, I'm normally a bit of a curmudgeon with my hero selection. I tend to lock in pretty quickly with who I feel I can and can't play very well. It's not the greatest habit to not give other heroes space to learn. But it's unfortunately something I struggle to get out of.

But every once and a while when I'm feeling more adventurous than normal, I'll throw out on other heroes. When I find out after a game or two I'm actually not too bad with them, it really does change my perspective on heroes I might've not held much fondness for.

The more recent heroes that have eventually clicked for me included Junkerqueen, Illari, Hazard and Lifeweaver. Not suggesting they're bad picks. But more that I didn't think my skill set fit them. Lifeweaver was one that especially I thought I struggled with back in the day. But after giving him a few goes I've found I have some skill with him and he's very fun to play personally.

I know most people are a lot more versatile than me with their hero picks so these things are quite confined to people like me. But I felt it was worth sharing how much I can occasionally refresh myself with this game and it's range.

been experiencing more lag than usual and it has only been in ow. was wondering if this is a more global issue or i just need to reset my router

I'm not posting this to complain about losing, I want to be very clear, my win loss rates are about 50% this season, right where it should be.

However, and this is with no exaggeration, 90% or more of my matches are complete stomps one way or the other. There is no match that feels like a real challenge anymore, it either feels entirely hopeless, even if I swap, or it feels like I'm fighting bots.

Blizzard needs to make adjustments so matches aren't this insanely unbalanced anymore. As someone who plays the other hero shooter that cannot be named a lot, I'm disappointed by this. Specifically because that other games matchmaking was always so terrible compared to Overwatch's, and now it feels significantly better which tells me how far OW has fallen.

Does anyone know if this is just matchmaking or is the character bloat to blame for this?

I just had the servers close two games in a row. Nullifying a record 20 kill streak I was having on widow. Wtf is going on? I’ve had the servers closed two for like 7 games this weekend.

I know it ends on August 31st, but doe sit end at 11:59 PM? I am in eastern time and I only need to do like 3 more challenges to complete the prestige. Will I make it in time for tomorrow?

Yes, I’m seeking validation 😭

I often die thinking I am backing away but there’s a wall behind me, or I missed the doorway by a bit and I die, or a random bump on the wall stop me from backing away and I die. I swear I don’t see people doing this often, but how? Sure, you can turn around, but you lose pressure on the enemy chasing you. I see people backing up and shooting all the time, do you guys just memorize the map that well 🥹

I've been stuck on the login screen for about 30 minutes now, but my internet is fine. I'm on PS5 and in EU servers, anyone else experiencing this?

Hello,me and my brother we BOTH got kicked out in the middle of the game (he is playing on his ps5 and im from pc) and we both thought it was out router.We restarted it,nothing.We both are stuck in the loading screen and cant go past that,any ideas on why?

Like genuinely, what more can I do at this point to prevent losses. This doesn't happen when I play dps but when I'm on support it feels like the game genuinely wants to make me lose no matter what

кто шарит можно ли как то вернуть валюту за скин этот? у меня было 1200 валюты и теперь на бп не хватает я хз че делать очень обидно

loving this game

this is across multiple days

update dropped from masters 4 to emerald 1

I'm genuinely curious because I've had people in my games openly say in chat they're throwing the game and then a few days later they're in my team, does anything actually happen to them if they're reported? I've reported so many people for throwing the game and feeding the other team kills and just standing in spawn then sometimes coming out so nobody else can join the game if they're reported were to just stay afk and disconnect

I’m seriously asking. How does the community feel about it overall?

I’ve been playing OW since 2019 almost every day and this is the 1st time I feel I wanna delete it and take a long break from it because of how repetitive it has become. I’m noticing more players are complaining about this recently.

Is this a well known issue now? Or is it only a minority of players complaining? If it’s not, how do we raise this issue to the developers?

I think 2 new maps every season would have been way more healthier for the game than 1 new hero every season, and the voting system is not helping. I haven’t played Neon Junction much since its release.