>Gain or lose rank based on wins or loses and not individual performance
So basically I'll never gain any rank because of being on teams full of terribads despite being the best player on the team every round. Fuck this game
>>343694494
Competitive play's broken as shit
>Play literally anything else
Not sure how it is on PC, but it's been pretty hilarious on PS4. Everyone keeps disconnecting. Had this one time where it was 6 of us vs a solo Torb.
story of the day with overwatch's rating mechanics in general
>potg
>they get one kill and spend the rest of the recording staring at a wall
or else
>potg
>its fucking awesome, the entire team is completely wiped out
>player doesnt come up for a vote
and lets not forget
>kick ass
>set what might be a world record for most kills in a single match
>don't come up for the vote
it's whatevs, who cares
>>343695317
>Kings Row attack
>we're almost losing in overtime
>I kill 4 people of the enemy team as Pharah without using my Ult
>thanks to this we're winning the match
>potg is a reaper killing 3 people with his ult at a completely
>you see Mercy reviving those 3 immediately after
>nothing shown had any impact on the match
>>343697364
i wonder if they weigh it against certain characters? I've played as and seen other Pharahs pull off countless full team kills but it rarely seems to make potg
you gotta be creative with your pushes
>its a "teammate picks genji on defense" episode
>>343697813
>mercy revives, and the shitty bastion on offense is useless once more
>>343698006
>dps on defense is a bad thing
uhh....
>>343698019
ive seen so many killer offense bastions
>>343698006
seen some good defense tracers and genjis too. admittedly dependent on having someone else buck up and play the tank or defense since they can't hold ground but they can cut teams down with ease.
>>343697813
>mercy revive
>ult is over
RIP
I tried competitive today. Here's how it went:
Game 1: Player disconnected. Everyone left. Counts as a loss against me.
Game 2: I get 4x gold medals and carry the team. We lose by one point. Counts as a loss against me.
Game 3: I get 4x gold medals and carry the team. We lose by one point. Counts as a loss against me.
Game 4: I get 4x gold medals and carry the team. We lose by one point. Counts as a loss against me.
I quit. Fuck this game mode. I'm tired of being the best player on shitty teams and being punished for being awesome.
after getting placed at rank 64 I stopped.
the coin flip after a tie is absolutely dumb.
>>343698019
>He thinks a sentient mobile turret is useless
>He doesn't know the devastation that is mercy/reinhardt/bastion
Unrelated: why do shitters flock to Reaper and Hanzo? We don't need a fucking Hanzo shitting up the team and missing everyshot until they cheese their ultimate to kill one person.
>>343699015
edgy, not girls
>>343698587
>match 1
>both teams are well organized
>we win a close as fuck match
>get 3 gold medals
>get a tiny bit of rank-progress
>match 2
>get thrown into a team of shitters
>we get completely steamrolled by the enemy
>have 4 gold medals
>lose half a rank
>have no support
>last pick chooses a second genji
>>343694494
>yet again game makers STILL don't spereate Pug vs Pug and Premade vs Premade
>>343698019
>the bastion on offense is bad meme
>>343700438
>Bastion is good meme
>>343700549
He has his place
>>343695317
>Roadhog
>Carry the fucking team
>4 gold medals
>Silver in healing
>Get POTG
>Card shows 63% hook accuracy
>>343694494
of course it isn't based on individual performance you idiot otherwise retards wouldn't worry about winning or playing as a team.
>team member can't be healer because "he doesn't play healer"
I can understand having mains but if you can't play each role decently you have no business playing this game.
Post your best match score from competitive and what character you used
>Zarya
>71 eliminations
>9 deaths
>2000 damage blocked
>Play ranked last night with friend.
>We both play really well, carrying teams, what not.
>Out of the 10 games, we win 7, lose 3, but the 3 lost were down to the sudden death.
>After the 10 placement matches, he gets 54 and I get 56.
How does this shit even work? So, having loads of objective time, 30+ individual kills, etc, means absolutely nothing?
>Lose one game
>Lose a whole rank
>Win a game
>1/10 of the way to the next rank
>>343701179
>Edgelord
>47 Elims
>35 Objective Kills
>3 deaths
>DC'd during last minute of the game which we were about to shut out
>Couldn't rejoin quickly after because they'd already won
I hate this game
If you're good you should be winning. Play the objective and learn to carry, statistically the enemy team's just as likely to be full of shitters as yours, so you're the common element.
>>343695276
Given this is console I take it the solo torb won.
>>343701273
This has been happening to me constantly
>lose two games, one due to a leaver
>lose one full rank each
>win next three games, 2/3 of the way back to where I started
Out of curiosity do you guys see yourself above dota and league players? The whining is almost identical.
>Close game on Hanamura
>Sudden death
>Attacking XDDD
>Hard fought battle but manage to secure the point with 3 teammates on the point and everyone is cheering in comms
>Enemy Mercy respawns, flies back to the first point and presses Q
>We lose
Why is this allowed?
>>343694494
>me ooga
>team booga
>lose
>>343701273
>shitters think they deserve a rank up for beating a team they were favored against
>shitters think they dont deserve to lose a rank for losing to a team they were favored against
>>343701068
You are a fucking moron; OP is talking about how this game rewards solely based on the luck of rolling a non-pleb team versus a pleb team. It's too random because others may have the same rank but such dick compared to your skill level and performance.
>>343702150
instead of cheering in coms you should be telling your team mates to make sure mercy doesnt do that by scouting ahead you fucking casual.
>>343694494
>Caring about your rank when forced 50 exists
Stop being a salty little bitch and go earn those competitive tokens while earning a little extra EXP on the side.
>>343702482
but anon if you aren't so much better than the other team that you can carry your pleb team once every few games then maybe you belong in that rank :^)
>calibrated at 60
>hear stories about how you lose ranks easily and get almost no xp due to leavers
>stick with quick play until they fix this shit
It's more fun playing shitty heroes for fun anyway.
>>343702482
don't play solo then.
Man if you get placed in the wrong MMR, you're going to be trapped until next season unless you can find a good team to play with.
>team mate chooses genji on any map
>>343695276
>mei disconnects
>okay, 5 on 6 isn't so bad and it's not like mei's are anything but shitters anyways
>everyone else follows for no reason
you'd think in ranked people would be willing to at least try to win 5 on 6
I'm rank 59 right now, only lost 3 matches in placements and that's because of dc/quitter or really close matches
>>343700027
>Have no support
>Last player is sitting there waiting for the timer to tick down
>It's at one second and they pick Hanzo
OR
>New game
>Everyone picking their class
>Tank, Support, mix of attack/defense
>Some guy picks a hero that has already been picked
>The other guy doesn't change
>Guy who chose the duplicate hero changes
>Straight to Hanzo.
>everyone on my team sucks but me
Sure thing.
>in placement match
>notice we're losing
>switch to bastion
>VICTORY
>>343702770
why not just play for the rank points? are you scared you cant get back to 60? if you play enough games you will end up at the rank you belong at. i was calibrated at 51 and now im 68 after 153 games played and 95 wins.
>china tower
>team insta-picks Hanzo, Genji, and Torb
>>343703070
Don't act like it doesn't happen. I played a game where rein was the only
Player that seemed to have a brain on our team
>>343702821
what's sad is that casuals actually think like this. same people who couldnt get out of silver/gold in LoL because "my team holds me back".
>>343700228
Yet again stupid consumers don't understand that a team based game is made to be played as a team and not with random people.
Ranking matters in online game only if you're decent and if you play in pug only you're obviously not. If you're just playing to dick around (PUG) why even care about your fucking rank? Just play.
Leave ranking to players who care about it and put effort into playing in a team. You sounds like the typical MMO faggot complaining about best loot being locked behind group content.
Note that I don't even care about Overwatch, but every online multiplayer game always get the same shitty complaints, people blaming their team to justify their horrible rank. Play 1vs1 games like arena shooter, fightan or RTS if you don't want your team to impair you.
>>343702996
Its set up that if someone drops you can leave with no penalty. Why try and win at a disadvantage when you can requeue for free?
>>343703392
it still counts as a loss in placements
Solo queuing is worse than QP
>Hanzo shitter literally every game
>Forced to heal terrible teammates in 90% of games because they refuse to heal
>Toblerones and Symmetras have no idea where they should be placing sentries, game is functionally 5 v 6
>>343702892
Genji is good??
>play quick game
>team plays like idiots and choose stupid heroes
>i tell them to counter them
>"lol it's only nonranked, chill out"
Ranked was such a huge mistake.
>>343703990
But they're right.
>>343703990
the weird thing about ranked is how badly it highlights unbalanced maps/teams
anubis favors defense on point b so much but offense on point a so much it's almost unsuitable for ranked
I started level 49, and I'm down to 46 now. I can manage to get a pre-made of about 3, but can't get anymore than that, and can't pull enough wins out of my ass to rank up. The team still loses because of idiots making "quick play" decisions, like picking shit team comp, or not taking suggestions. For example, we were defending King's Row. One shitter picked Mei, even though they had a Pharah and we clearly would have benefited from a Soldier 76. We almost hold until the last moment, and end up having to defend on Sudden Death. I pick Reinhardt, someone picks Bastion, someone else picks Torbjorn. Okay, cool... I can shield Bastion in the back of the point, Torbjorn can build out of sight of the enemy across from Bastion to cover him... aaaaaaand he ends up building his turret on the second floor of the hotel across by their spawn instead. Fuck me.
>Blizzard once again kills a could-have-been successful game
What else did anyone expect?
>>343703924
>it's a "your team picks Torbjörn, Symmetra, Mei & Hanzo" episode
>every match I played today was a shut-out at first, then they bring it back and it goes into sudden death and they win
FFFFFFUCKING WHY
WHY WHY WHY WHY
FUCK THIS GAME'S "COMPETITIVE" MODE
FUCK THE COMMUNITY
FUCK THE MEMES
>>343695317
>get 4 gold medals
>Card at the end is for being on the objective for 1 minute
>>343704960
Torbjorn is fine on defense. Symmetra too, at least for the teleporter. Pharah+Mercy is so prevalent though, Mei can't do shit, and Hanzo is just a fucking meme at this point.
>>343704382
So it's ok to be stupid as fuck and troll all day?
Die.
>>343705020
You could just not play competitive and accept the fact that you're shit at this game.
>>343705020
>mfw I went from 58 to 52 with each match ending in sudden death with the other team on defense
>The enemy team has a Pharah that's just KILLING us
>I'm the fucking Lucio support
>Ask politely for someone to counter the Pharah, maybe a Soldier 76 would be great
>Almost INSTANTLY our two offensive players switch to both Pharahs.
See now. I have no idea in which fucking UNIVERSE does a Pharah counter another Pharah easily.
We lost by the way. Turns out a Pharah + Zarya duo is pretty strong... against none of their FUCKING counters.
>>343705215
>taking ***quick play**** this seriously
Stay mad
>>343704406
Every map favors offense in general.
Its why high level games all end with sudden death shite after both teams win
>solo queue ranking is borked in a team based gamed
Really don't know what bit about this is surprising to you people. Either play in a 6stack with friends and look at your team ranking, or go play a 1v1 game like a fighter or starcraft if you care about soloing at much.
There is no objective way to define your individual skill in a team based game. The only solution is the one every game uses, which is to suck it up and play hundreds of games until you get to the point where your contribution becomes statistically visible through all the noise.
>>343705491
That still isn't an excuse to play like a fuckwit.
It's a team game you moron. Stop being a selfish little 12 year old.
>>343705623
>just find friends meme
most of the people who play overwatch are cancerous redditors, good luck finding friends there
most friendly, mentally stable people are busy playing better team focused games like CSGO, TF2 or DOTA
>>343705825
>CS:GO
>TF2
What a dumb opinion.
>>343705121
It's not about the individual heroes but this exact team-comp.
I queue with a friend most of the time and I can't even count the amount of matches where the other 4 people picked this exact comp.
most of the time it's the sign for "yup, we gonna lose this one".
>ActiBlizzard game
>Competitive
Name a single fucking game after WC3 that was worthy of being called competitive by ActiBlizzard.
Just leave the competitive stuff it to a real company like Valve.
>>343694494
>Competitive Play
>Can't choose game mode
>koth is gay as fuck
FuckingDropped.jpg
>all friends agree that we bought it for casual no tryhard fun
>don't play competitive
>play for maybe an hour together while drinking a few times per week
all and all I'm pretty happy with my $40 purchase
>>343706093
but Starcraft2 is literally the best competitive game since Starcraft: Broodwar.
My biggest issue with Compi, besides the lack of any reward for doing the best in a team of shittards, and the ugly dc past round 1? enjoy your loss cause they wont be able to rejoin 90% of the time is:
The Sudden Death Mechanic seems really screwy?
>Dorado Map
>Enemy Team beats us, but we get to overtime
>We Attack, and with with 6 minutes left of timer
> SUDDEN DEATH
"But we won by 6 minutes?"
>>343706503
lmao.
I fucking hate any game with any kind of random element like matchmaking because in the end it boils down to slowly grinding your way up with like 55% winrates even when you're far below where you SHOULD be
