Posts by grapen

  • Overwatch

    Overall I'm enjoying season 2 so far. The placements were chaotic, but that was to be expected. Since I was curious about the systen, I had a look at the profiles of my opponents and team mates. I saw everything from fresh 25's to SR 40's to top 500's from precious seasons. Games were lopsided 9/10 times. I ended up 4-1-5, a pretty bad run.

    I was initially placed at 2700, but I've climbed to 2960 since. Games are still very lopsided until people reach their proper skill rating. I sometimes get current top 500's in my games, but I also get that I would say are gold level players who lucked out in their placements and are on their way down.

    It is what it is, but i think things will settle soon.

  • Overwatch

    Quote from AlexM

    13 hours ago, AlexM said: I just saw someone actually get a basket in the waiting room. I never thought I'd see the day

    If you're playing Zarya, stand up and aim two mm below the rim, you'll make it every time :)

    Don't know where to aim on other characters, depends on their model height.

  • Overwatch

    Beginning to loathe premades. When I'm in a full solo stack games are amazing. When I'm with 3/4/5 premades they refuse to communicate and spout ridiculous claims such as "bad dps" despite having 20-30k damage in a short game. So oblivious it hurts the intellect. If there's anything I'd like to see changed, it's default to team voice for everyone. Or just full out solo queue.

  • Overwatch

    Quote from Jetsetlemming

    44 minutes ago, Jetsetlemming said: how about fun

    Fun is subjective, I don't like qp or brawl due to their super casual nature. I can endure them when there are semi rare cosmerics to be gained, other than that there is nothing to gain or fun about stomping a torbjörn stack imo.

  • [CS:GO] de_scepter (WIP)

    Details and textures are coming along fairly well. Added this honey-like color to the palette so as to more clearly differentiate the main A-path from the B-path for T's. Pillars and doorframe use temporary textures. I think this scene needs some black marble and mahogny furniture next. Doing everything I can to sell it as something WAY different than cbble. Skilled players should enjoy bunny-hopping from T-spawn to mid.

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  • Overwatch

    Quote from Taylor

    14 minutes ago, Taylor said: There are reports on PTR that, because supports still get less rank than everyone else and there are now rank restrictions on teams, people who play together exclusively are finding themselves unable to team up anymore after placements.

    See my rant on the previous page :D

    Quite certain that Jeff and the team will come to their senses as this is pure anti-fun.

  • Overwatch

    Quote from Vaya

    1 hour ago, Vaya said: I'd totally pay to watch a full length overwatch movie. IN IMAX.

    I'd pay for that as well. Pretty sure my wife would like to see it also, and she doesn't care for games one bit.

    Quote from Jetsetlemming

    7 hours ago, Jetsetlemming said: lmao, so it is. These icons are so poorly designed! Silver, Plat, and Diamond all look way too similar, and it took an annoying amount of work to actually find the icons all next to each other to compare. Next to each other I can see how they develop in complexity, but in a tiny little quarter inch box on my screen next to a screen name and without context they might as well be identical.

    Agree. The SC2 icons do a much better job at showing what is what.

  • Overwatch

    On another note, reports regarding the new restrictions to group play have started coming in. Due to the nature of the algorithm, in that individual stats matter, some players who have played together through all 10 placement matchers are uneligible to continute playing together for their 11th game.

    Not going to sugarcoat it, this is the most bullshit game design I've seen in a long time, and might just lead to me uninstalling the game should it not be reverted. I don't see how this has been thought through at all. You can't stop smurfs wrecking lower tier games, what's going to happen instead is that people will reach a tier that they are content with to secure the season awards, such as diamond/master/gm, then they'll tank their account so that they can play with their friends anyway. Or buy another account. Now you've made the situation worse. At least the gold+diamond duo queue would have tried to win for their teammates.

    Allowing friends to play together should be prioritized before peoples entitlement to play against opponents with a number that matches their own. Not like they will anyway since smurfs can't be stopped. I solo queue a lot, but I have friends who play occasioanally as well. I don't give a shit if I face a SR 80 player in my SR 70 game, I'll try my best to wreck him anyway. It's in challenge you grow.

  • Overwatch

    Quote from Taylor

    10 minutes ago, Taylor said: For all the talk of competitive points the system seems relatively stingy. If 60 represents the top 6% of players then having 65 as the "get this or you wasted months getting annoyed by competitive mode" target seems really steep. 22 of these guns exist and they are the main reason the rank and file are playing.

    CP carry over between seasons though. 200 CP at 60 is a fair chunk already and 120 CP at 56 is not bad either. You also get CP from wins (and soon ties).

  • Overwatch

    Quote from Bastion

    27 minutes ago, Bastion said: Should've elaborated but I was too dealing with hammer, so frustrations were intense.

    Here are my main issues :P

    • Limitation on grouping with friends, sucked in cs:go so it'll likely suck here.
    • Increasing the skill range to 5000, what?
    • decrease of 50 skill points each day you are inactive
    1. Yeah I'm not conviced they're doing the right thing here.
    2. This is just to make certain players not feel as bad when they lose an entire rank or gain a sliver of a rank. Basically inflation. The main focus for most people will be your tier anyway, not your MMR/ELO.
    3. Only applies if you haven't played for a week and you're in diamond, master or grand master. You stop decaying at the bottom of diamond.

  • Overwatch

    Quote from Bastion

    8 minutes ago, Bastion said: Listening to the update, disliking a lot of what is being said there.

    Elaborate? The only thing I'm concerned about is the new rather harsh limitation on playing with friends.

  • Overwatch

    Quote from (HP)

    2 hours ago, (HP) said: Some changes coming to Competitive.

    PS. I'm still at level 63, omfg getting to 65 is a fucking undertaking. When you get to this level, you know these people mean business.

    You can do it! I hit 70 so I'm giving it some rest for now. Looking forward to the SC2 tier system, will be fun to see if I can break into master league next season.

  • FINAL FANTASY XV

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    Majestic. Then we come along and omnislash all that shit because we gota hit lvl 99.

  • Overwatch

    Mercy is fine as it is, it's just that discord orb is INSANE, and that Lucio's boost is very helpful when deathballing into a point, especially in pugs. I'm at 68 now and every match is a meta fest, but I'm OK with that. I have to say I love that the meta is 2 dps, 2 supp and 2 tank. Yeah it can use some tweaking, and it will, but I hope 2/2/2 stays.