Bare with me. This idea came to me out of nowhere. Instead of using the microphone to complain about how other players suck, or to complain about how other players are not focusing down who you want them to focus down, or to complain about some sort of crap that is bothering you, what if you use the microphone to help communicate.

I don't know about you, but communication and complaining are not the same thing. Complaining to the team that nobody is killing the flanker it's not effective communication. Perhaps we did not know that there was a flanker back there.

Here's a scenario: there's an enemy venture Ducking up our supports.

Do you A) complain how the team isn't doing their job, yet the payload is not moving and the tank is on the front lines while the DPS are supporting him?

B) let the team know that there is adventure harassing our supports?

I don't know, maybe im stupid for thinking of this. If we're a DPS and I not only knew my support needed help, but I also knew which hero I was going to be dealing with, Id be much more able to help our team.

I know it's a far stretch from just being a mouth breather the entire match if it's going your way and then finally using your microphone when it's not going your way. The microphone is just to be there as an accessory to those who watch you play the game. I just figured there might be a better use for.

What do u think, characters like genji and hanzo feel less fun now

My main used to be M4 DPS… now stuck at plat 4 since rank reset and these games are very very sweaty. Most of my games are yeah, previous master / gm players that are now in plat / low diamond for whatever reason… instead of actual plat 2 players. I play my main characters that i’m good at and hardly win…? I know for a fact I am better than this rank.

I made a smurf to see if I was in some weird elo trap… with the rule that I play heroes that I am bad at… widow, junk, Cassidy… I am now a higher rank on my smurf and can more than hold my own, hell, even carry on these heroes that I am bad at? If I played my main heroes on the smurf I would absolutely stomp so why on my main account, for the same rank, do I have to sweat my brains out on my main heroes to to even win a simple plat game? Vice versa.. if I played Junk on my main account that’s plat 2 I would get my head stomped in? So why is there such a big disparity between 2 accounts of the same rank?

This isn’t some small sample size either. Smurf plat is actual plat and my main ‘plat’ is full of ex master and gm players. Visual rank is a myth

TLDR: I am higher rank on my smurf than my main, despite playing heroes I am bad at.

I personnaly hate Widowmaker and Ash cause they can easily kill me.

does anyone know what this bronze arrow above my current rank on the left means? i haven't seen it before so I'm, curious

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I play Junker Queen. And I struggle the most facing Zaria, Winston, Ball and sometimes a good Orisa.

I usually play an aggressive game as Junker Queen. Though I been known to use cover too when facing some of them. They are my toughest tanks to face off

We won the first round fairly easy but lost the next two rounds and the dps duo blamed me for the loss saying I wasn't peeling enough (tracer killed us) and that I was just standing in the choke, however I thought I played ok and was just lacking some follow up on my plays.

Tips on how to be more proactive and when to peel would be appreciated (Gold 3 lobby).

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Just increasing the total white health of Tanks has the side effect of inflating Ultimate generation of Damage and Support. It also encourages Support players to do nothing but heal their Tank, which can be a little tedious. If the health of Tanks is easier to top off, it gives Support players more room to look at other players.

tl;dr: I think the upcoming Armor changes will have a positive impact, at least for Tank and Support players.

"I do say stuff like 'fk,' 'dumas,' 'sht.' Also, I do this thing where if the enemy team types 'ez,' I write back 'NO MY FRIEDN UR MOM WAS EZIER.' I occasionally teabag but I genuinely think it's not enough to get suspended, or is it? The only thing I know is that I get disconnected a lot from matches because of internet drops. ( I only play qp because I get disconnected) so which one is it?

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Replay Code: E1B3TE

This game lasted about 34 minutes and I joined at the 27 minute mark (I am the Ashe if it’s not clear in the replay). Both my teammates and the players on the opposite team were in an absolute stalemate and they both refused to progress. No one (except me) was firing shots at all until they came after me for trying to progress the game. Someone on the opposite team even had the audacity to ask in the chat for POTG and somehow my TEAMMATES SAID YES. I didn’t leave the game because I didn’t know if a replay would be saved for a left game (at one point I go afk for a second to google this; didn’t find an answer), and the game eventually came to an end with the other team winning [unfortunately].

I haven’t kept up with competitive ow since OWL, where are all the players now? Players such as pine, surefour, carpe, etc. Did most of the original players retire from overwatch?

We know they're getting an ice cream vendor one, but what would you like to see? Also add ideas for Mauga, since he also has a lack of skins

I'm 2 days into overwach 2 I'm level 37 in the battle pass and I'm wondering do I have enough time to atleast get to level 78 in the battle pass

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I see posts talking about how she’s super overtuned, and that anyone can pick her up and do good on her.

Is this actually true?

I’m rank #37 on dps and I need to try extremely hard and be hyper aware when I’m playing her, because I’ll just feed if I mistime a play or don’t 2 clip somebody.

How have other ranks felt about her? I agree that her pick rate in T500 is super high, but she’s a high skill ceiling character who is going to be played by the highest skilled group.

I want to protect myself from the rampant false reports and resulting account suspensions which are handed off to an automated appeals system which never works out. (A common practice is to report people for communication abuse if they play in a way you dislike, since this category of report is more likely to be actioned). Does anyone have any knowledge/theories about how an account action threshold is reached? I imagine it should be either:

1. You get reported in x% of games = action. This means you could reduce your chances of being actioned by playing more games where you are not reported to "dilute" the reports away.

2. The threshold is in terms of # of reports / unit time. For example, reported ~20 times in a week = action. This means that, sadly, you could reduce your chances of being actioned by just playing less.

In either case, it's clear that the best approach is to turn text and voice chat off, even though I have seen people warned for communication abuse despite doing just that. The hope is that you could at least use that information for an appeal, should a suspension occur.

Does anyone have any information about this? I was thinking it may be option 1, since I have heard that certain players who are OTPs or have unconventional playstyles avoid bans by playing a decent chunk of quickplay or vs AI games where people are less likely to report.

In addition, I wonder if endorsement level has anything to do with protecting against bans.

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I love the Overwatch community.

(I was asked to post this at the end of the game so here we are)

I get it…

The one-shot may never come back.

I have made my peace even though I disagree with the direction of it vehemently. Regardless, Dragon needs some rework and here’s my suggestion.

1. The Dragon:

Can we at least toggle dragon ON AND OFF like we do Sonic Arrow and ALSO control the speed of the dragon based off how much we charge/nock our bow?

Just imagine, I press “Q” and toggle dragon on to my arrow. I use primary fire like normal to release it. If i want to release the Dragon slow, I simply click primary fire. If I want FULL SPEED Dragon, I release Dragon as a FULLY charged arrow. The speed of the Dragon will vary based off WHEN I release the arrow.

Also, if you’re not going to increase damage output of the Dragon, can you decrease the opponent’s movement by 20%-25% if they’re within a 3meter radius of it…at least?? I’m not asking the dragon to suck them in like Zarya’s grav (although, that would be pretty OP, but the only OP i want is a ONE SHOT HEAD shot (which you probably won’t give back…sigh), I don’t need Dragon to be OP because…well… the Player wielding HANZO is to be OP. I digress).

1. Storm Arrow

IF you’re NOT going to bring back our ONE SHOT, then Storm Arrow should have a RESET with EVERY KILL just like Genji’s Dash. It’s fitting for only the Shimada’s to have such an ability.

I don’t care about your damage output nerfs/buffs. I don’t care about one shot (anymore).

I care about bringing back HANZO’S DEFENSE, which you RIPPED away from him.

EVERY DPS Hero has some sort of defensive ability whether it be self healing, deflect, a form of immortality, or evasiveness.

HANZO’s defense WAS HIS OFFENSE. And that manifested in the form of his ONE SHOT.

To compensate for ruining Hanzo’s defense, I truly believe resetting his Storm Arrow with EVERY kill is fair and balanced.

When seen on the field, Hanzo is to be FEARED, but the true fear comes from the Player who is able to WEILD Hanzo appropriately.

To Overwatch Developers:

if you care so much about “balance”, then make these changes.

Sincerely,

Hanzo (Bro)

Just in on the r/helldivers subreddit and in this post people are comparing helldiver’s recent negative reviews to Overwatch’s. And all through the comments people are saying “yeah and that game is still ass so it deserves the negative reviews. In fact you should go leave another negative review just for the hell of it.”

And I don’t understand why? Like honestly the game is fun, no? What prompts ow2’s 18% positive review score?

I've been an on and off again player since around 2017 when my friends stopped playing the game as much, and having been a mostly mercy main (bc i really struggle to aim decently in OW and i play on console) and rein main.

I've enjoyed sombra a lot since she came out(even if i sucked), and shes been my semi main for when i played dps, but after playing her mirrorwatch version i have to say, i think its an insanely fun version of her kit, i'd love to be able to choose that over her normal kit in regular OW, bc i like the shields her hacks give and her ult is nice in those "oh shit" moments, especially if you dont have lucio on your team.

I've never been a great sombra, and never utilized her as she should with sneaking in behind and taking out supports, but this new kit feels great, i can still sneak around to poke at supports but i feel so much more comfortable giving the tank or supports a shield when they are being attacked....

I know there will probably be people who disagree, but i think sombra's new kit should be available to her in regular OW modes. I'd certainly be willing to play her a lot more if that was the case.

Any time I duo with someone in QP, we end up losing the vast majority of our matches, about 90%, because it repeatedly pits us against groups of 4-5 that coordinate, play really well together and utterly stomp us with not contest.

I can tell as well, because when I play solo nobody coordinates like this and if I invite any of them to a group it says they're already in one.
I just don't understand this. Clearly there's some kind of system in place to put groups against groups, but why is it ONLY against stacks? Is nobody playing just duos? What is going on?

Any time I play with someone else, we both always get super frustrated and worn out after about 5 or 6 matches and have to stop playing, which never happens when we play by ourselves. The absolute most we ever win is once or twice. It's utterly draining.

Does this happen to anyone else? I'm close to just going full solo and never grouping up with anyone ever again, since the experience is AWFUL.

Kind of how in R6S you can see a characters pick rate, can you see that for overwatch? I tend to see either Moira or Sombra each match and it’s really annoying, I want to see how common each character is.

So I started playing Overwatch pretty recently. I really came to like playing tank and especially Sigma. Now I had this one game where I felt like I couldn't really do much as Sigma, since after a while the enemies switched their characters to Ramattra, Genji, Mei, Ana and Moira. So I felt the need to switch to another tank. However I didn't really know to which tank to switch and I also don't really play other tanks. So I have the questions:

1. Would it have been better to stay as Sigma or was switching the right decision
2. Since I probably also should try other tanks do you have any recommendations as to what I should try?
3. And are these characters just really good against Sigma or was me having a hard time more a lack of skill.

Also if you generally have tips about playing tank I would appreciate them.

I've started to play OW2 a couple of weeks and unlocked ranked game two days ago. I'm main sup and I play Mercy, Kiriko and sometimes Moira and I consider myself a good support player for the time I'm playing the game.

So I started the 10 qualification matches for ranked and did pretty well, 8 wins and 2 looses, played consistently and got silver 4. So far so good.The problem started after this. I've literally lost every single match after that, 11 so far. I'm still playing the same I did before but suddenly I can't win a single match. I know it's kinda cliche to blame the teammates but wouldn't that be the case? I keep feeling my team is drastically worse than the enemy's in almost every match. Is this game matchmaking this broken? I have to hard carry every single match if I want to climb? I'm honestly disappointed cause I really though it would take some more time to be sucked into the elo hell.

I thinking about stop playing cause there's no fun in keep giving all of you, play consistently and keep loosong every match. Which is sad cause the game is actually really fun. What I'm missing here? Or it is really this painful to climb in this game?

Thanks in advance for any sincere help

Time to do this with the ow sub :) I'm no expert at game design, but I love designing changes and balances (in my head) that could make games more interesting! If you're not having fun as a certain character or think they could use more viability, suggest them here! My submission would be lifeweaver! His healing output is in a really weird spot, and thought his burst is very nice, the charge time really sucks, and his overall hps is bad. The charge time should be reduced (by 15%?). Additionally, I have two possible reworks to his basic heal: 1). His heal can provide up to 40 over health (decays after a few seconds has passed) on teammates who are already at full health. Or 2). A fully charged (or further charged?) heal "primes" an ally with an orbiting blossom for 3-5 seconds, which automatically heals them once they are missing 80 health or at a decreased effectiveness when the duration ends. Both of those reworks give him more leeway in terms of supporting his team before a major interaction. Lifeweavers skill ceiling is dependent on reaction time and parry/kill denial, but it could also be increased with the potential to prepare his allies effectively.