Overwatch

My placements were as miserable as yours @Jetsetlemming, two quitters, few ppl that just spewed hate and wouldn't switch. Got my rank at ~2730 which was last season 2960.

Felt like a shitty situation but for some odd reason I managed to climb back to diamond in one evening. Something's changed in the SR reward system, felt like I was awarded twice as more from wins than from losses.

Even yesterday I climbed 30 SR from 3 wins and 3 losses. Last season the difference would have been less than 10 SR from 50% win ratio.

Quote from SotaPoika

8 hours ago, SotaPoika said: What SR did you get after those placement matches and what did you end your last season with?

I was at 2800 last season. Ranked 2160 after placement.

Lost 7, 1 draw and 2 wins. Ended at 2700 ish last season and placed 2460. So i am happy. Had so many trolls on my placement matches. This one tracer kept running around but not shooting. Only using her ult. So we lost by alot.

Played three losing rounds in a row, all three had the same guy accusing everyone who killed him of hacking. Did all the good teammates leave for the PTR or something?

I played a match today where I played Reinhardt and at the end had the most eliminations on my team. Have a guess which team lost.

I had a bunch of quitters too. In one case we had our last pick be genji when we needed support then we still managed to win 2-0 rounds in illios then the same genji DROPS OUT. BWAAAAAAAA

It's like there's a DDOS going on, except instead of just internet connection requests it's a bunch of shitty players.

On my placements, it went 6W-3L-1T and I got 3330, when last season I was 3500. Now I'm 3200. I like how I'm matched with people who have DDOS in their brain.

Quote from FrieChamp

7 hours ago, FrieChamp said: I played a match today where I played Reinhardt and at the end had the most eliminations on my team. Have a guess which team lost.

...Hmmm DPS players and snipers who can't get picks

Quote from MikeGon

7 hours ago, MikeGon said: ...Hmmm DPS players and snipers who can't get picks

If I don't instalock Hanzo and spent the entire match dying over and over to Pharah, I will forfeit my Honor

My god. Played my last 4 games last night. 3 of them had 4+ dps on my team. Only 2 of my placement matches didn't have people leave midgame or less than 4 dps's.

Final SR after my placement : 1430 (down from 2300).

This is gonna be bruuuuuuuutal trying to dig myself out of this hole.

Oh I wish Blizzky would do something about trolls and griefers. So many smurfs playing Hanjob/Widow/Ginju/Sombrero-only accounts and throwing the match if asked to switch.

Played my first 4 placement matches last night and lost them all.

So many players who just solo one character and complain about the team setup whilst playing a character which probably isn't suited to the map.

Had a guy playing Rein who would charge in alone whilst we were all dead, use his ult and die, and then complain saying he had a lack of backup.

It's really infuriating. Placement matches are always shit and I seems to always get the trolls/stubborn/brain dead people on my team

Quote from Beck

1 hour ago, Beck said: Played my first 4 placement matches last night and lost them all.

So many players who just solo one character and complain about the team setup whilst playing a character which probably isn't suited to the map.

Had a guy playing Rein who would charge in alone whilst we were all dead, use his ult and die, and then complain saying he had a lack of backup.

It's really infuriating. Placement matches are always shit and I seems to always get the trolls/stubborn/brain dead people on my team

Don't worry about them too much. At the worst, you are placed ~300SR lower than you last Season Final SR.

Quote from Beck

On 3/16/2017 at 5:47 AM, Beck said: Played my first 4 placement matches last night and lost them all.

So many players who just solo one character and complain about the team setup whilst playing a character which probably isn't suited to the map.

Had a guy playing Rein who would charge in alone whilst we were all dead, use his ult and die, and then complain saying he had a lack of backup.

It's really infuriating. Placement matches are always shit and I seems to always get the trolls/stubborn/brain dead people on my team

People who refuse to work with their team are so frustrating. I've discovered that basically the only solution to these people is to break from good practices and instead work with them, essentially babysitting them, to try to keep their dumb ass alive. For example, if your team has a ~pro genji~ who keeps jumping into the middle of the enemy team, dying, and then raging at his team, playing Zenyatta is practically essential, both because you can put your Orb of Harmony on his useless ass and hope he lives long enough to scratch somebody, and because you double as a backup dps. Having a Genji on your team significantly reduces the value of Ana simply by existing as somebody you can't actually shoot to heal, because even when he needs it he'll keep double jumping and dodging around you while spamming the heal request button.

Big new PTR patch with a rework of Lucio. His aura radius is reduced from 30m to 10m, but now it's visible to him and his team, and his heal and speed boost are both buffed 50%. He gets a free 30% speed increase while wall riding, plus an extra boost when he jumps off a wall. Finally, his projectiles are a bit faster. Tested it a bit, and it feels extremely different to play, but potentially satisfying? That boost when jumping off a wall means, as far as I've found, you can no longer ride around an outside corner, because you're pushed away from the structure, however since it stacks with amp it up, you can do crazy shit like jump over the wall around point A in Eichenwald when respawning as a defender.

Also, Eichenwald now has an extra corridor connecting the health pack room on the left of the bridge choke (from defender's view) to the little tiny tunnel there on the left, meaning a Mei wall can no longer fully block that choke. However, that tunnel is a crazy kill room for scatters and grenades.

Edit: Also your progress towards capping a point on 2CP maps are counted as tie-breakers now, which means if you get completely shut down on point A on attack, the previously defending team will instantly win the game by touching the point uncontested. Caught everybody by surprise both times I saw it happen.

designers trying to balance this game

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I have a feeling, PTR is a mirror-build from DEV, when this kind of stuff gets overlooked almost constantly:

We are extremely open-minded about releasing a map editor for Overwatch someday. But because Overwatch was made with a brand new engine, this is not a small task or one which can happen any time soon. We have this on our long-term road map and believe heavily in user-made content. But there are many challenges ahead of us and it will be a very long road before our editor can be made available to the public.

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/over…3537194#post-15

The dream is alive.