Overwatch

[imginy]

Honestly I'm just thinking of turning chat off at this point. I just don't understand this toxic subculture in Gold Tier at all.

You have so little time to discuss tactics/ pick heroes its infuriating that people waste the time.

The two worst examples are;

• Team members reporting + blocking you when you are winning
• Team members waiting until the last second to pick a hero and then complaining about team composition as we run out the door

Oh yes so true the guys that report and complain while winning are unbelievable.

Hey instead of turning off voice all together try turning it down I did and it's much more pleasant.

 

[imginy]

I am loving this game I just got it for christmas and already got around 200 hours, played it not stop over the holdiay and now back at work been getting up at 4am to get some games in before I start.

 

[Firejack]

Oh yes so true the guys that report and complain while winning are unbelievable....

I've no idea how to handle these people. Just played another game with a really mouthy Soldier 76 with pocket Mercy.

Picking heroes for 2nd round, having won the first, when,
Soldier 76: Zarya or ******* Roadhog repick Rein
Roadhog: lol you repick
(Last player to choose picks Reinhardt)
Soldier 76: 3 tanks, moron!
Roadhog: report
Soldier 76: beep beep beep beep you all



We won anyway. No clue why he felt the need to be so aggressive. Just ruined a good victory

 

[imginy]

I've no idea how to handle these people. Just played another game with a really mouthy Soldier 76 with pocket Mercy.

Picking heroes for 2nd round, having won the first, when,
Soldier 76: Zarya or ******* Roadhog repick Rein
Roadhog: lol you repick
(Last player to choose picks Reinhardt)
Soldier 76: 3 tanks, moron!
Roadhog: report
Soldier 76: beep beep beep beep you all



We won anyway. No clue why he felt the need to be so aggressive. Just ruined a good victory

This made me laugh a lot, it seems much funnier reading it out of the game

 

[jaws104]

I play offense or support and tbh getting pretty fed up with roadhog, I was never keen on the hook mechanic but since the patch he oneshots them all pretty much 100% of the time.

Unless your close to max hook range it's next to impossible to dodge. Most decent roadhogs play around corners, poking out to grab hooks

There is no direct counter, a good tracer can solo him in isolation but in practice he's at the front lines with the team. Reaper is supposedly a counter but has to dodge a hook or somehow sneak up on him (loudest hero in the game). DVA looses every time now since her nerf.

Soldier can kill him from range quite easily but the hog needs to be a long way from cover.

People will argue 'teamwork' but if you have to make it a 2v1 to deal with him then it means he's a must pick or your essentially playing 6v5.

Basically a typical game with roadhog on the opposing team means making sure your not in his immediate vicinty every six seconds or your going back to spawn. It's not enjoyable and needs addressing.

 

[dl8860]

Looking for a new game to play, is it still a good time to buy this? Wouldn't be too late to the party?

 

[imginy]

Looking for a new game to play, is it still a good time to buy this? Wouldn't be too late to the party?

I just got the game for Christmas and it's been great and definitely my favourite shooter of all time the only regret is not buying it sooner. There is still massive amount of players online and you can get a rank match in under a minute anytime day or night and it's all on servers so 20ms ping every game.

I have put 200 hours in since Christmas

 

[imginy]

I play offense or support and tbh getting pretty fed up with roadhog, I was never keen on the hook mechanic but since the patch he oneshots them all pretty much 100% of the time.

Unless your close to max hook range it's next to impossible to dodge. Most decent roadhogs play around corners, poking out to grab hooks

There is no direct counter, a good tracer can solo him in isolation but in practice he's at the front lines with the team. Reaper is supposedly a counter but has to dodge a hook or somehow sneak up on him (loudest hero in the game). DVA looses every time now since her nerf.

Soldier can kill him from range quite easily but the hog needs to be a long way from cover.

People will argue 'teamwork' but if you have to make it a 2v1 to deal with him then it means he's a must pick or your essentially playing 6v5.

Basically a typical game with roadhog on the opposing team means making sure your not in his immediate vicinty every six seconds or your going back to spawn. It's not enjoyable and needs addressing.

As for counters you have reinhard with his shield in nearly every match which he can't hook through and even if he does get a hook on rein he will be eating a charge and a few slaps with the hammer. You also have symmetra who is my main anytime you see hook coming you can throw out a barrier to deflect it saving you or nearby team mates plus in a 1v1 sym beats hog and builds full ult. Then there is also zarya who can barrier her self to deflect hook or if she gets hooked can barrier and walk away without taking damage plus if zarya see team mate get hooked she can barrier to save them. Also thing to remember with dva is that even if roadhog hooks and kills her mech she stills lives on and very hard for hog to finish her off.

IMO Without that decent hook roadhog would be completely useless so I can't see that ever getting nerfed.

 

[HeX]

I've no idea how to handle these people. Just played another game with a really mouthy Soldier 76 with pocket Mercy.

Picking heroes for 2nd round, having won the first, when,
Soldier 76: Zarya or ******* Roadhog repick Rein
Roadhog: lol you repick
(Last player to choose picks Reinhardt)
Soldier 76: 3 tanks, moron!
Roadhog: report
Soldier 76: beep beep beep beep you all



We won anyway. No clue why he felt the need to be so aggressive. Just ruined a good victory

Had a group like this last night. In a competitive match no less.

Me and another random, and a premade group of 4. The random chooses S76 and the premade goes nuts. Calling them every name under the sun, demanding that they change because their team mate wanted to be Soldier. They ended with:

"Change now or we won't play."

He didn't change (and rightly so!), so they sat in the spawn the entire game and threw the match.

Honestly don't know what they were trying to achieve other than tank everyones rank.

 

[agnes]

Had a group like this last night. In a competitive match no less.

Me and another random, and a premade group of 4. The random chooses S76 and the premade goes nuts. Calling them every name under the sun, demanding that they change because their team mate wanted to be Soldier. They ended with:

"Change now or we won't play."

He didn't change (and rightly so!), so they sat in the spawn the entire game and threw the match.

Honestly don't know what they were trying to achieve other than tank everyones rank.

They need to implement an option to avoid playing with teams. Like a solo mode, where you ONLY play with solos

 

[chilipeppersc]

They need to implement an option to avoid playing with teams. Like a solo mode, where you ONLY play with solos

Wow that would be heaven. If the game is so popular then all of this crying that queue times would be too long is rubbish, at least it would be fine for those in bronze to platinum. Diamond up would have issue's, or maybe they wouldn't, who knows. I think blizzard are too afraid to try it.

The queue system now is crap, I'd rather wait for a game for a minute or 2 than the crap it is now

 

[agnes]

Wow that would be heaven. If the game is so popular then all of this crying that queue times would be too long is rubbish, at least it would be fine for those in bronze to platinum. Diamond up would have issue's, or maybe they wouldn't, who knows. I think blizzard are too afraid to try it.

The queue system now is crap, I'd rather wait for a game for a minute or 2 than the crap it is now

I try to avoid playing anything but arcade mode simply as I can't be bothered with the toxic teams and players. People just lose sight that it's a game, it's entertainment. Not law.

 

[dl8860]

I just got the game for Christmas and it's been great and definitely my favourite shooter of all time the only regret is not buying it sooner. There is still massive amount of players online and you can get a rank match in under a minute anytime day or night and it's all on servers so 20ms ping every game.

I have put 200 hours in since Christmas

sold

 

[uncle_rufus]

They need to implement an option to avoid playing with teams. Like a solo mode, where you ONLY play with solos

The queue system now is crap, I'd rather wait for a game for a minute or 2 than the crap it is now

I don't think the problem is so much the matching small groups with solo players (although it would be an interesting change) but the way the SR win/loss streaks work - this is largely paraphrased from the good "Your Overwatch" video on it from a day or so ago...

The problem is at the moment the streaks play too big a role... say you play 10 games, and win 70% of them... It will give you waaaaaaay more SR if that is distributed like this:

W - W - W - W - W - W - W - L - L - L

Than if it's distributed like this:

W - W - L - W - W - L - W - W - L - W

Despite the wins/losses being the same... the colossal win streak in the first example will provide a huge amount of SR whereas the second one barely any since the win "streaks" barely ever get off the ground...

That's what contributes to people being such mixed skill levels at some ranges - people get thrown up and down 100s and 100s of SR over the course of an evening, hence the inconsistency...

The proposal in the video was to just take away streaks... it would get rid of crushing downward losing streaks (and good-feeling winning streaks) and make climbing slower, but a 70% win rate would guarantee that you climb, and it wouldn't be up to luck so much

 

[jaws104]

As for counters you have reinhard with his shield in nearly every match which he can't hook through and even if he does get a hook on rein he will be eating a charge and a few slaps with the hammer. You also have symmetra who is my main anytime you see hook coming you can throw out a barrier to deflect it saving you or nearby team mates plus in a 1v1 sym beats hog and builds full ult. Then there is also zarya who can barrier her self to deflect hook or if she gets hooked can barrier and walk away without taking damage plus if zarya see team mate get hooked she can barrier to save them. Also thing to remember with dva is that even if roadhog hooks and kills her mech she stills lives on and very hard for hog to finish her off.

IMO Without that decent hook roadhog would be completely useless so I can't see that ever getting nerfed.

I agree he would be useless without it, but it's much more than decent and needs nerfing.

Zarya has 8 sec c/d on her team bubble vs roadhogs 6 so it's not a direct counter, I play quite a bit of Zarya and if she gets hooked before barrier she's not bubbling before taking shotgun the face and retreating

Yes if you have a team behind Rein shield it nullifies him, same as it nullifies every other hero. If both teams have Reinhardts as you say the net effect is 0, simply a delay until shields break. Also Roadhog and Widow are the only two characters in the game that can deliberately kill full hp heroes during the firestrike animation...so there's that.

symmetra popping a barrier (again 10 seconds vs 6 btw) rushing him and doing a dance, ok... but tbh that is currently the second most broken character in overwatch

EDIT :: Anna was actually his best counter as she could put him to sleep all day, deny healing and in most cases was not OHK by the hook. But the patch 'fixed' that

 

[imginy]

Zarya has 8 sec c/d on her team bubble vs roadhogs 6 so it's not a direct counter, I play quite a bit of Zarya and if she gets hooked before barrier she's not bubbling before taking shotgun the face and retreating

When road hog is about just simply save your bubbles until roadhog uses his hook on you or your team mate this would make his hook useless.

That's what I do with sym when hogs about

 

[imginy]

I got to diamond rank yesterday mainly just using symmetra

 

[prjwebb]

When road hog is about just simply save your bubbles until roadhog uses his hook on you or your team mate this would make his hook useless.

That's what I do with sym when hogs about

roadhog can spin 90 degrees after hooking now, break zarya shield with his shot and the victim is placing nicely in front of the whole team to destroy.
You can easily overcome the zarya shields.

You really have to just play behind rein shield and play around his cool downs.

 

[imginy]

roadhog can spin 90 degrees after hooking now, break zarya shield with his shot and the victim is placing nicely in front of the whole team to destroy.
You can easily overcome the zarya shields.

You really have to just play behind rein shield and play around his cool downs.

Well I ideally you would bubble up before the hook hits you then hook just gets deflected.
That's what I do with sym.

 

[AdladUK]

God damn I forgot how toxic Overwatch players are. I've been playing Titanfall 2 and just came back to do ranking for season 3... Holy crap, it feels like every single game there's someone telling the entire team how to play and raging when they don't follow his/her every instruction. Even had someone start complaining after we'd won! It's nuts. People take this game wayyy too seriously for some reason