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Went 7-3 in my placement games, I'm in 80+ percentile in my stats for the characters I played, been placed in Silver! Cmon! I know they said people might get placed lower but that's totally deflating, I doubt I will get out of Silver due to the sheer randomness of competitive matchmaking.
 
Placement makes no difference. I ended season at 2980, start new season at 2908 lost first .watch then won next three with huge rank jumps and now sit at 3024. Point is I won 8-10 placement matcbes, not that medals mean much but just as a guide I was always gold in my area, whether it was healing, damage or elims but I still lost points. Made it up quickly but honestly just felt 10 placement matches where a waste of time.
 
Beasty said:
Went 7-3 in my placement games, I'm in 80+ percentile in my stats for the characters I played, been placed in Silver! Cmon! I know they said people might get placed lower but that's totally deflating, I doubt I will get out of Silver due to the sheer randomness of competitive matchmaking.
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If you're good enough to get out of silver you will get out of silver with enough games
 
Sin_Chase said:
Hating the new Soldier, he is too powerful. Too much damage, even when solo and not being Mercy buffed. He is in every single game and melting tanks.
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Depends on the tanks surely? D.va and Rein both do a reasonable job of making it harder for him...

The SR earned/lost *seems* a little better (early days yet though) - tonight I won 1 lost 1 (SoloQ), the game we won I was Pharah and did well (3 golds, barely died, good damage etc.) and the game we lost I switched to fill support as we had 2 other stubborn dps players... so played as Ana on attack and Lucio on defense and did a reasonable job - lots of healing, quite a few kills considering and plenty of assists as Ana... Gained ~50 SR for the win and lost ~20 SR for the loss... seems fair considering I played well (I think) in both games
 
Sin_Chase said:
Hating the new Soldier, he is too powerful. Too much damage, even when solo and not being Mercy buffed. He is in every single game and melting tanks.
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I agree to a point but to be fair a good pharah or widow still destroys a decent soldier thanks to the bullet spread and rocket speed of soldier. But I will agree against all tanks soldier seems far to powerful considering his previous role in a team.
 
Sin_Chase said:
Cancer placement matches, total, 100%, unadulterated scrubs.
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I was 2496 (ha ha, so close) high last season, so not terrible. Not great, but not terrible. I try and fill. I try and stick together. I try and play the objective.

Went to do my placements, couldn't queue with any friends because they were grouped with people too high ranked to do placements with. Solo queued.

Honestly the least enjoyable matches I've had in ages. Generally it was me, a random and a 4-man versus a 2/4 or 3/3 split.

A couple of games were stomps (enemy team just completely steamrolled us). I asked the enemy team at the end of one where they placed last season and they all said "high diamond", so kind of to be expected if they were all much better than us. At least those were quick. One of them was a widowmaker who basically just didn't miss (nothing dodgy in replays, just very good placement and accuracy) but none of our DPS would consider swapping to a counterpick, just ran in and got HS again and again. I even got called out for not healing someone who got 1-shot by a scoped headshot. While I was dead.

Had one that we won because we pushed well and grouped up on attack, and the enemy had someone quit at the start of their attack when we held off their first push and they couldn't recover. Felt bad for them, but it was good play by us as well so not unreasonable.

I then got set with a group of 4 who all went DPS, including widow and hanzo, on all three rounds of a KotH. Did not reply to text chat, and did not join group voice chat. I asked the 5th guy if he wanted to tank or heal and I'd do the other and he informed me that what he wanted was for me to put his penis in my mouth. And then called me gay.

In that match, over three rounds as solo-heal Ana (so completely focussed on healing, no DPS) I had gold elims and gold objective elims just from people accidentally walking in front of me while I was healing. I think it was 3 total elims in the first map. I don't know how it's even possible to get that low as a team.

I think I'm 1 win, 5 losses so far.

Perhaps I am over-valuing my own skill as I suspect most people do (a few of you have played with me, was I that bad?) but I honestly just got depressed by the halfwits I was paired with. People spamming "group up", then running in as a 4-some while both healers waited to respawn.

Currently expecting to place at ~1200 SR if I'm lucky:(

Someone suggested that I deliberately throw the remaining placement matches, to get really low rank and get a load of easy wins to start ranking up, but then I'd feel bad for the other players in the placement matches.

On the plus side, brawl rotation is still fun, 1v1 is a great challenge and quick play is still there.

Has anyone played the "we're all soldiers now" brawl on a KOTH map? It's carnage. The "all pharah or mercy" one is painful though. 15+ minutes to cap a point.
 
Mockingbird said:
Currently expecting to place at ~1200 SR if I'm lucky:(

Someone suggested that I deliberately throw the remaining placement matches, to get really low rank and get a load of easy wins to start ranking up, but then I'd feel bad for the other players in the placement matches.
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Nah don't throw - remember for a lot of people the placements haven't really had much of an impact on their rank - many people losing most of their placement games and then ended up almost exactly the same rank as they finished S2 on... and even if that turns out not to be the case for you I would have thought the higher you start the better - gives you access to (hopefully) more competent team-mates the higher you are. (More competent opponents too but at least the games will be more likely fun + close that way)
 
stuck at 3200 now.. always win 2-3 lose 3-2 not bad as i was placed at 2455..

didnt play much season 2 but really liking s3!
 
Nice run followed by a very frustrating game. We had everything right on paper - the old 2-2-2 on KOTH. Rein, Mcree, Phara, Zen, Roadhog and Lucio (me). I felt like I was the only one doing anything and this was reflected on the 4 gold medals I got at the end. Just seemed no one wanted to go for the capture point.
 
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