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Training bots not updated

Am i the only one annoyed that the training bots in practice range don't seem to have gotten the updated health revamp from s9?

2 Comments
2024/03/17
15:26 UTC

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Sombra doesn't need 250 health

I am here today to talk about the interaction between Hanzo and Sombra. Before everybody gets mad, please hear me out. I am not here just to hate on Sombra, I love both characters and play a fair amount of both. I would suggest a hanzo change but let's be honest, that is unlikely to actually happen.

Since the season 9 changes, Sombra feels unbeatable if she is diving hanzo. Prior to season 9, the matchup seemed pretty fair overall. Sombra could lockout most of hanzo's avenues for counterplay (wallclimb, dash, storm arrow) however, hanzo did have one ace-in-the-hole, his one shot potential. Even then, in my experience, Somba still won that matchup 75-90% of the time, assuming you weren't directly behind Hanzo.

Now that Sombra has more health, the possibility of hanzo surviving that dive is much lower unless sombra is missing health (unlikely unless said sombra is braindead or unlucky) or you are lucky enough to be helped by a teammate. My suggested change is simply to reduce Sombra's health by at least 10 to make the interaction less one-sided. I don't think losing 10 health would meaningfully impact the rest of sombras play, and it would allow meaningful counterplay that would require skill to pull off on hanzo's part, which would be pretty fair IMO.

I would love to know if:

  1. I am being completely unreasonable somehow
  2. If I am wrong and missing 10 health would somehow massively impact how Sombra's playstyle.
  3. If there is some other avenue of counterplay I am just not seeing (I am human and I am dumb)

Sincerely, a frustrated Hanzo and Sombra player.

6 Comments
2024/03/17
15:22 UTC

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i would like some insight on this issue.

im sorry for this type of repeated post but this is my last resort and i dont know what to do anymore and its genuinely taking a toll on me. i started playing ow right before season 1 started and i have poured 520h in this game. i peaked at gold 3 dps and been stuck since then. now, in season 9 i have lost so so so much that im 18% away from being silver 2. all my friends manage to go up and im just being left behind. i always join comms and try calling out, i have watched NUMEROUS guides and streams on heroes and general tips. i warm up on qp, do aim trainer etc. i play cass (50h), genji (55h) soldier, bastion, pharah, sojourn whatever. its depressing at this point and i just dont know what to do. this is just a cry for help.

TLDR- trashcan cant go up in silly game and asking for help

2 Comments
2024/03/17
15:18 UTC

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The new rank has had exactly the opposite effect than planned

I had a look at the top 500 and all the players in my lobbies (I'm currently on Diamond 1, used to be high master or GM). What I have noticed, however, is that the rank levels have somehow shifted 1 complete rank down. Currently there are a handful of Ultimate players and Top 500 already starts in the High Masters area. I'm aware that Ultimate has only been out for a short time, but the goal of this new rank should be to move the ranks up or not?

Playing in Diamond at the moment also absolutely sucks, as the SR reset means that many GM/Master but also real Diamond players are in Diamond. In other words, ranked as a solo player feels like a coin flip.

5 Comments
2024/03/17
15:08 UTC

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How can I defend and prove my innocence during a ban appeal?

Hey everyone, been playing since ow1 beta, I play almost every day and I never got a ban or suspension, I almost never talk in chat and when I do it's at the end of a match to say "well done guys" to my team only, I don't use cheats, I don't perform poorly in matches on purpose.

Well since the new season started I began doing competitive matches to get the jade skin, the other times I played comp before was to get a gold weapon skin back when it came out in ow1.

This is where my problems started occuring, after a few days of comp I received a 2 week silence, where I could play but not chat it other players. I felt this a bit strange since I know i'm not breaking any rules, but since I don't talk anyway I just continued playing without thinking much of it.

After my silence was lifted, I made extra sure that my behaviour was in line so I don't risk any suspesions or bans because I like the game so much I don't want to be banned from it.

Well a couple of days after getting my silence lifted I received 2 warnings when I logged in one day saying that several players have reported me and that my behaviour was not acceptable. Now i'm starting to ged mad at this, because I know i'm doing nothing wrong and I'm receive this kind of warning, still, I keep playing while well behaving, no spam, no cheats, no tbag, no swearing, no abusive chats, just do my best in every game.

I last played on march 14 in the afternoon, and when I log in to play march 15 in the afternoon I notice that my account is banned for 2 weeks, with the ban filled at 8 something am of march 15th.

This is completely unaceptable and the only thing I can see that is happening is that in some competitive games that my team is losing someone must report me from time to time, and since i'm mostly playing competitive mode now, these reports must be adding up and it is triggering the report system.

I want to know what can I do to defend myself? I appeal the bans and they straight up give me an automated message, I have no means of proving my innoncence since I don't record games, but I know that when the 2 week ban is over and I play normally the same is going to happen and I'm getting a longer ban and I don't want that.

I've researched the internet and I noticed that in the past 2 or 3 months a lot of people are suffering from the same problem as I do now, and while i'm sure some of them did in fact do something against the rules and are just pretending that don't, I really believe that many players are getting false bans due to this automated system.

So what i'm asking is, has something like this happened to you? Were you able to get your account back after appealing a ban? Will I just have to stop playing competive mode to avoid this again? Is there any way to live chat a blizzard employee from customer service?

Thanks for reading

3 Comments
2024/03/17
15:05 UTC

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My best monkey game

I just went crazy popping off this game.

12 Comments
2024/03/17
14:52 UTC

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Anyone got sound bites of Mauga's voice lines/battle lines?

Not sure if this is the right place to ask about this but figured I'd ask: Anyone got a place or file I can nab of Mauga's voicelines across the game? The meme potential for a lot of what he says is out of this world lmao

2 Comments
2024/03/17
14:49 UTC

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I drew mercy for a friend!

She looks really different in my style!

1 Comment
2024/03/17
14:43 UTC

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Pc comp pool using console?

Trying to play with pc friends using console Im able to use kbm but unable to play in their comp pool. Any way to get around this?

5 Comments
2024/03/17
14:27 UTC

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You guys notice sometime someone dying doesn't have voices(dying sounds) after mid season update?

1 Comment
2024/03/17
13:46 UTC

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My first 5K - KiriVisor

1 Comment
2024/03/17
13:44 UTC

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Is there a way to earn legacy competitive points?

I am literally 170 points away from unlocking a gold gun but there doesn't seem to be a way to earn them.

8 Comments
2024/03/17
13:39 UTC

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When did cosmetics become so expensive?

I played OW year one pretty religously, and wasn't afraid to drop $25-$30 on some lootboxes when a good event dropped. The free boxes you got for playing meant that I could usually get the few skins I wanted.

I came back for OW2 but didn't play it long enough to really want to drop any more money on it so I didn't really check out the store. But recently I saw the Bebop skins, and being a huge fan, was willing to come back and play with them.

But they are so expensive! Pretty sure this skin bundle is the same price I paid for OW when it launched. Has OW2 always been like this or is it just this bundle?

A shame, I really wanted to play with the skins. Guess it's back to single player games again lol

21 Comments
2024/03/17
13:36 UTC

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Overwatch heroes strength tier list

In S, Reaper,Doomfist,Mauga and Ramattra are stronger than Genji and Cassidy

12 Comments
2024/03/17
13:25 UTC

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Do maps still change the time of day

Just wondering bc I feel like I haven’t seen any maps change the time anymore especially to the time where it’s like golden hour or maybe I’m just so used to it I don’t notice it but I swear I never see it anymore

7 Comments
2024/03/17
13:22 UTC

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Pls bring back hanzo 1 shot. 🙏

I play overwatch for six years now. And I always have been a hanzo main. All those years of practice are useless now. I really hate overwatch for this. Thanks for making hanzo boring. I will never play the game again if you won’t bring it back. One shot was rewarding and in fact not spamming. You had to be able to predict where your opponent was going. Fucking useless now that the change is made to 2 shot. I’m really really angry at overwatch for this. This is really creating a problem that doesn’t exists in all those years of overwatch history.

11 Comments
2024/03/17
12:59 UTC

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how do i unfortunate get rid of this?? nothing i search up on google help or even gets related to this issue, ive had it for very long too tbh. i couldnt screenshot in time so i tried to replicate...

he only thing that helped me with this error was a blue ethernet cable, but now that cable turns off the internet for some reason, pls i wanna get rid of this forever, nothing i do did anything, i never see this happening to anyone else either?????? and tbh its prob something with the servers game, because when i play valorant it never do something similar (but valorant is boring imo so i dont like play it too often..), plssss heelp =(

why the other post was even removed......

6 Comments
2024/03/17
12:46 UTC

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I'd never heard of Cowboy Bebop before the crossover and OMG IT'S SO GOOD.

The marketing DIRECTLY worked on me, I know I know, but still, what an absolute gem of a show, I feel like I've massively missed out by never watching it before.

I'm not a huge anime person (before this it was literally just Death Note and Yugioh, and even in the latter I was way more into the card game than the anime...) but y'know what convinced me to watch it the most?

Putting the theme song on the overwatch title screen. How could anyone NOT want to watch something with that much style to it?

10/10 to the marketing team for doing this crossover. Rare Blizzard W.

(Still not buying a £40 skin pack tho, not that much of a clown.)

70 Comments
2024/03/17
12:15 UTC

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Why does Mauga not have a Cute and Pixel spray?

I've only just noticed this when checking my achievements, is there a reason for it or were the devs just lazy?

2 Comments
2024/03/17
12:12 UTC

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For some reason the game is giving me 1% gain after winning despite my last season rank M2.

When I win i get 5-10% and when I lose 25%. Despite the rank difference is D4-2 range.

I cant get out of diamond. Anyone got that issue ?.

https://preview.redd.it/i78bca7swvoc1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3967fe5d3ce3f495c44cca1377ad0e20eedf0d09

4 Comments
2024/03/17
12:03 UTC

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I miss winstonball

Back when Winstonball was a thing I fell inlove with it instantly, within the short 2 weeks or so it was available I managed to play almost 200 games and landed an 80% win rate with 196 games played and 156 games won. Now that the gamemode is gone and hasnt been around for a while Ive lost my will to play overwatch as regular QP/Comp just doesnt satisfy me anymore. If only there was a winstonball competitive, i would be grinding that all day every day until I was top 10.

my winston volleyball stats.

1 Comment
2024/03/17
11:58 UTC

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Mystery heros shouldnt take away your ult chaarge

Im playing a bit of mystery heros currently as its the only mode that makes me play heros id never play otherwise. But one glaring issue of the mode is that every time you die it resets your ult charge back to the minimum 15%. The problem is that you dont decide to pay with your ult charge to play a character that will do great against an opponent thats popping of, it gets forced upon you on death, which in turn means that if the enemy team is currently on a roll, neither you nor your mates can build up momentum or put a stop to theirs. Its basicaly a rich get richer system. Oh, your team is rolling the enemy team? Dont worry, you can keep building your ults so you can keep this up more easily. Oh, your team is getting rolled? Better hope you get characters you are good with which also dont get fucked by the enemy teams heros. Gl hf.

If theyd remove the ult cost upon dying it would only make the mode better.

9 Comments
2024/03/17
11:30 UTC

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Bug, where I can't see the progress towards 100 comp points

It says 0/0 games. Ive tried closing game, closing computer and trying different accounts, it still stays the same

2 Comments
2024/03/17
11:16 UTC

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Is it possible to claim gifts even if the account is suspended

my friend wants to gift me the battle pass but we want to make sure if battle.net will let me claim it or not, They have suspended me for a month for getting raid reported or whatever its called and now I can't purchase the battle pass, I need help!

11 Comments
2024/03/17
11:04 UTC

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Widow Change?

I know some Widowmaker veterans will get upset but we all agree instant one-shots with no reaction time to counter is not healthy for the game. It shouldn't exist in a game like Overwatch. Roadhog, DPS Doomfist, Hanzo, Sojourn, Junkrat they all got their changes around this but for some reason they are too afraid to apply to Widow.

Please keep in mind, this post is not to discuss whether Widow should keep her instant one-shot. Let's say, it was already decided to get rid of her one-shot. How would you feel if the change was implemented in this format?

  • Headshot multiplier nerfed from 2.5x to 2x
  • Headshots now apply poisoned stasus effect (15 damage per second for 5 seconds)
  • Grappling Hook has now 2 charges and a free spider-gwen skin is added :)

Effect of the changes on scoped headshot damage - charge rates:

  • 150 dmg: 45% -> 120 + 75
  • 200 dmg: 63% -> 160 + 75
  • 250 dmg: 82% -> 200 + 75
  • 300 dmg: 100% -> 240 + 75

My Thoughts: This will make Widow still one-shot a large pool of heroes, not instantly but after 1 second. It will create a healthy reaction time for the enemy to answer. It will increase overall dps as she can quick scope shot to apply poison to people and she will gain her ult faster. She will have very interesting plays to do with double grappling hook as well.

What do you guys think?

16 Comments
2024/03/17
10:49 UTC

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What is something that should be a given but people don't seem to get?

For me its a team completely being tunnel vision ignoring their supports getting dived then wondering why nobody is healing them. When i play any other roll i always try to support my team no matter the role as much as you believe you have to solo carry every match sometimes just helping your teammates out instead of playing a solo game can gain you so many benefits.

48 Comments
2024/03/17
10:49 UTC

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