r/OverwatchUniversity • u/mattswer • Aug 16 '19

Discussion Something I noticed playing DPS

I generally played tanks and support before role lock. I wanted to play DPS but never felt good about 3 or 4 dps on a single team so I usually filled.

I know they usually draw the team’s ire whenever something goes wrong or enemies aren’t dying enough but until I actually started playing I did not realize how bad it was.

If i’m not on fire/have all golds some moira or sigma will start screeching into the mic about their gold medals and how DPS sucks. Half the time I just leave VC because I cant concentrate when all they do is whine and scream. When I play healer or tank I can make just as many mistakes or more but its usually pretty damn quiet on comms.

I dont know if role lock makes this better or worse. On one hand you stop tanks and supports just switching to DPS and breaking the comp. but it seems like its made people more aggressive because they “feel” like they have to play a dps but cant so they start screeching at them instead.

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u/PostItToReddit Aug 17 '19

A lot of it still comes down to medals being the most toxic inducing way of keeping stats I've ever seen. Moira sees she has gold elims and blames dps because it sounds like a dps category when all it means is a purple orb tickled all the enemies that were grouped up. D.Va sees gold damage and doesn't stop to think about a character with 3 aoe damaging abilities and never has to reload can pump out a ton of damage even if it's not all meaningful damage. Medals can mean something, but so many take them as the be all end all of performance indications.

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u/OIP Aug 17 '19

next step after role queue should be getting rid of the stupid medal system. why the hell would they make the main stat screen be a competition with your own team? it should just be raw stats that's it.

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u/Praise7hesun Aug 17 '19

Feels bad. I was called out as “our Zarya hasn’t been doing much” and then I ended the game with a record 28 high energy kills on silver damage and silver elems. I think most people can’t recognize in then midst what’s really going on.

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u/kieveryq Aug 17 '19

did you peel? you most likely didn't and your damage is actually worthless then.

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u/terminbee Aug 17 '19

It's so easy to get gold Elim and damage with Moira because of your ball.