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Had a go last night with a full 6 on the PTR using the new comp role queue... the six of us already naturally play 2-2-2 so roles were easy to work out. We got absolutely ruined in every game - I put it down to a combination of not knowing how to play as, or deal with, Sigma, who was giving us a lot of trouble and seems OP (he may not be but sure feels it)... and also coming up against a pseudo-triple tank comp (Orisa Hog + Mei effectively acting as tank #3)
Interestingly after 3/5 games were done the game suddenly wouldn't let some of us queue in our group in specific roles - I guess the game already has some idea of what SR/MMR you will have for each role, and as we lost matches in our respective roles our group and individual SR/MMR drifted... The game first told our 2 dps players that they couldn't queue as support any longer (so maybe their unaffected support MMR was too high) and then eventually started saying one of our support players couldn't queue as support (perhaps their MMR was too low) and they had to switch with one of our tanks for the last 2 matches...
I expected the worst after 5 severe beatings but still placed about 2800 on tank, which is pretty much exactly the same rank I've always been
Interestingly after 3/5 games were done the game suddenly wouldn't let some of us queue in our group in specific roles - I guess the game already has some idea of what SR/MMR you will have for each role, and as we lost matches in our respective roles our group and individual SR/MMR drifted... The game first told our 2 dps players that they couldn't queue as support any longer (so maybe their unaffected support MMR was too high) and then eventually started saying one of our support players couldn't queue as support (perhaps their MMR was too low) and they had to switch with one of our tanks for the last 2 matches...
I expected the worst after 5 severe beatings but still placed about 2800 on tank, which is pretty much exactly the same rank I've always been
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Blizzard said the SR on the PTR would would be all over the place at the start as it is still being tuned. People in my games have said they are losing or gaining up to 150SR after games. I've been gaining 60-70 SR and losing 50-60SR on Tanks and support. When it hits live as seaosn 18 it is still in beta so expect the same wild variances. But season 18 is only 2 weeks long.
Placing 2800 is still really good
I'd be happy with 5 loses and not losing serious amounts of SR.
Placing 2800 is still really good
I'd be happy with 5 loses and not losing serious amounts of SR.
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Blizzard said the SR on the PTR would would be all over the place at the start as it is still being tuned. People in my games have said they are losing or gaining up to 150SR after games. I've been gaining 60-70 SR and losing 50-60SR on Tanks and support. When it hits live as seaosn 18 it is still in beta so expect the same wild variances. But season 18 is only 2 weeks long.
Placing 2800 is still really good
Yeah I'm happy enough with the SR I got, I main tank most of the time so would have hoped that my tank SR would be close to what it is on my account now, and it is... I expect if I do my support/dps placements I will be a bit lower than that (hopefully still gold or above)...
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You might be surprised. I'm also a tank main (mostly) and I hold around 2900 with a peak at nearly 310 on live (placed 2950 on PTR as expected). my DPS placements were 2750 and my support was 3162 (climbed to 3225). I reckon as a tank player you have all the game sense/knowledge locked down. Just click heads as DPS. EZ mode!
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You might be surprised. I'm also a tank main (mostly) and I hold around 2900 with a peak at nearly 310 on live (placed 2950 on PTR as expected). my DPS placements were 2750 and my support was 3162 (climbed to 3225). I reckon as a tank player you have all the game sense/knowledge locked down. Just click heads as DPS. EZ mode!
Sadly I can't hitscan to save my in-game life... I'm much more of a projectile fan (or other things that don't require precision aiming)... Support I tend to do okay provided I keep the role in mind... will be interesting to see what I get
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Yeah, I'm an alright McCree but a very average DPS player. Reaper is where it's at and I'm going to try and get good with Mei too for the cheese.
Good luck with your DPS/support placements
Reaper is my DPS main nowadays, so the new meta suits me... only issue right now is the other 4 instalock DPS picks in every game! I haven't been on PTR recently, so need to start using role-lock! Also looking forward to role-lock for games when I play tank... will be nice to always have 2 healers!
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I haven't touch Li
I cant even play regular overwatch at the moment. Role lock/Q has spoiled it for me. Just so much better for many reasons, especially the ones you mention.
I cant even play regular overwatch at the moment. Role lock/Q has spoiled it for me. Just so much better for many reasons, especially the ones you mention.
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So I did my support placements on PTR last night... interestingly seems to show that the game must have some sort of idea where it wants to put you based on I guess your existing stats for the different roles?
Tank - lost all 5 games, placed 2700 ish
Support - won 4 games and drew 1, placed 2480
The games went pretty well too, I played Moira in most of them; low deaths, gold healing in every game with what seemed like a reasonably high amount of healing... tried to focus on keeping the team up instead of getting carried away chasing kills
Interesting stuff!
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So I did my support placements on PTR last night... interestingly seems to show that the game must have some sort of idea where it wants to put you based on I guess your existing stats for the different roles?
Tank - lost all 5 games, placed 2700 ish
Support - won 4 games and drew 1, placed 2480
The games went pretty well too, I played Moira in most of them; low deaths, gold healing in every game with what seemed like a reasonably high amount of healing... tried to focus on keeping the team up instead of getting carried away chasing kills
Interesting stuff!
Good job, 1 win away from plat!
They have apparently been tracking role MMR for the last 12 months ready for the new system. Jeff gave this information in a live stream with Seagul.
Overwatch central did an summary/info vid on it recently
https://youtu.be/7QuAH-kbKE4
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Ah that's cool... I think it makes sense then as I pretty much never play support in comp so it won't have had very much to go on (then again, wouldn't that make my 4 wins out of 5 seem more significant? who knows!) Will do my dps ones over the weekend and see what I get there
I'm still really enjoying playing as brig on the PTR. She's changed so much but I prefer her new style of play to the old one. Enjoying playing rein too but I'm around 2450 on tank and 3100 as support, and I find the games so much better when I'm playing support. It's all over the place when playing at the lower SR. Even the basics around sticking together are all over the place.
Get ya self into diamond then win loss is same every game.
Easier said than done though, I tried getting back into game but struggling to gain any sr. Seems impossible for me to carry the team right now, the characters I play well (brig/lucio/rein/monkey/mercy) have a been nerfed too much for me to carry **** team mates to victory.
Currently stuck around 2500, going to grind it out this week see if I can make diamond before season ends.
Can't see my rank moving much it's just win one lose one.
Hopefully I will like new brig, I did try on ptr once but her shield was bugging out and I was getting killed even with shield up.
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Good luck on your grind @imginy seems like everyone on live as given up after the 222 role lock/Q was announced.
You're a good Mei, and she seems to be the new meta... worth considering.