Overwatch

I quite like, when someone says 'I think we need a healer' to respond with. 'Cool, which are you best with?' or 'Sounds good, go for it' or something along those lines.
 
Happy to report I'm finally climbing the ranks :)... Having pretty much bounced back and forth between 48 and 50 (placed 48) I've climbed to 53 in the last day or two...

My girlfriend and I play together usually with me as Zen and her as Lucio, which works out great as we're sat right next to each other so can communicate effectively without flooding the in-game comms and co-ordinate our Ults properly (so we don't both Ult to counter something where one Ult would have been enough)... It's great - and you can nearly always get the hero picks because supports are so unloved. Feels like we make a good difference to most teams :)
 
Infuriating comp game where nobody in my team was targeting the enemy Mercy.

I was Lucio, and there's not much you can do when she is floating around the map but Reaper or Roadhog could have dealt with her easily.

They won, I asked at the end of the match how many times she was killed in about 5 minutes - zero! Argggh
 
It's awesome when the other team come in for a big push so we drop a Lucio Ult, and then you can feel that they will wait until that's expired before suddenly launching a bunch more of their ults - right into a Zen ult :D

I think both Zen and Lucio (particularly Zen) are great healers to play because you feel like you're able to contribute to the team damage in a more direct way (than Mercy, where you sometimes get stuck with a not-quite-so good team but are largely helpless)
 
100% not solo queing again.

gone from 53 to 42 in the last week.....................

So fed up with people leaving games / idiots playing as widowmaker on tight maps that require no snipers etc.
 
booyaka said:
100% not solo queing again.

gone from 53 to 42 in the last week.....................

So fed up with people leaving games / idiots playing as widowmaker on tight maps that require no snipers etc.
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This is why I only queue with 1 or two of my friends or solo. It keeps the ranks in upper 50's and low 60s. (I'm rank 62-64).

Generally speaking people don't just leave as getting from 60 to 61 can take 4 wins in a row sometimes. Although we do have our fair share of ragers.

Also people are happy to go support. It's annoying when I got to rank 64 as a attack/tank and have to support low rank 52s who refuse to go for a decent comp and then end up getting fairly slaughtered by rank 60 attackers.
 
It's absolutely insane how much difference your (and your team's) attitude makes... Not exclusive to Overwatch of course, but like any team game where each player is so significant it decides games time and time again...

Recently I've been trying to focus on learning to ignore and deal with raging/salty players better, and it makes a huge difference. It's not just about avoiding getting tilted yourself by someone having a go at you, but also avoiding making a situation that doesn't involve you worse (props to the missus here, who is clearly leagues ahead of me in terms of general social awareness, and pointed much of this out)

Here's an example... was playing in a game the other night, right out the gate after picking heroes, a guy on our team pipes up "omfg, widow, rly?" then "gg then, I guess you want to lose"... The guy playing widow didn't say anything or react in any way, but having a player on our team being so hostile before the match had even started was irritating to me, so I said something like "you know what's a great way to get people to do what you want? yelling at them like a jerk"... In my mind I thought what I said wasn't particularly hostile; I was sticking up for my fellow team mate, trying to bring some perspective and justice to the game, putting this guy in his place, what a hero!

The guy's reaction was to completely lose it and go off on one for the rest of the match (now directed at me)... he said "now I will make us lose because of your ****-talking" and proceeded to intentionally sabotage any chances we had. End result - we lost (of course), everyone's time wasted, I was even more annoyed than I was to begin with (and it probably spilled over to the next game where I'd have played worse as well). The labored point I'm trying to make here is not to get drawn into these things, whether it's directed at you or not. If I'd just said nothing our widow player might have turned out to be competent and the other guy might have just gotten on with it as well (maybe we'd have won, who knows)
 
Yeah I just tend to ignore them these days. Had a guy yesterday moaning at me for not healing him enough on Zenyatta, started asking how much I healed that round etc :p Then other people on the team moaning at a guy playing Widow or getting at the guy playing Genji for not taking out Bastion. I just right click -> block.

Really enjoying Lucioball though! Got a nice skin for Zarya.
 
Totally agree with you two, uncle_rufus and filbby, I now try to mute people like that immediately as you just end up getting frustrated yourself.
 
I mean yeah picking widow isnt a reason to rage, but when your team picks widow, 2 hanzos and 2 ana its gonna be a bad game. I've started just leaving before it even starts when this happens as a way to not get angry about it. Comp mode is generally much better but you still get some plain idiots like 3 flankers attacking last point on anubis, absolute waste of time
 
I'm the opposite to you guys. When I queue with friends it's sort of a resignation, like "oh well I guess I'll regain this rank I'm about to lose later when I soloq". I've had most success soloq'ing when it comes to gaining ranks.
 
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