Ryuuga Wagatekiwo Kurau - The Overwatch Thread

Let's see how impossible Season 3 is.

 

I hear the ranking system is shite again.

 

What I'm finding again is that the qualification matches are generally 3-4 top tier players grouped up on one side being a steamroller to all the solo queued ppl.

 

Check this shit out!

 

Last night I won 8/10 placement matches with a 6 man, got put at 1923...?

Edit: Another person on our team who had won 7/10 got put at 1200.

 

I just played a comp round where I healed 17k damage, a full half of all my team's damage taken, and I got four upvotes. You ingrates.

 

Just faced a team with a Torbjorn, a Symmetra, and a Bastion being damage boosted by a Mercy. Why do some people hate fun?

 

Guiltily looks away from my favorite All Builders Fuckzone combo.

(Bonus round: Sombra to hack all the nearby healthpacks and Reinhardt to shield from long range projectiles. It's so fucking scummy and yet my heart fills with longing.)

 

To combat this I have friended a shitton of people who demonstratively love me because I will take support off people's hands and do a damn good job at it. I try not to solo queue anymore if I can help it because it really does suck to not get due props for keeping the whole team alive.

 

Also, when will heals be as good for SR as dps. When.

 

Last season, a lot of people saw their ratings drop consistently after ranking; that was certainly my experience and I've heard it repeatedly. I suspect Blizzard realizes that this is a bit disheartening and thus has calibrated the initial ranking down a bit, so people have "room to grow".

 

And people wonder why support mains are so bitchy and mean.

 

The main reason I'm bitchy is that I apparently am a lot more observant than most of my teammates, which leads to situations where I am a Mercy spotting a Mccree up high somewhere about to ambush my tanks and if I stop to do something about it then my tanks get shredded by the dudes poking at our front line. I can't be a battle Mercy, if I'm battling then I'm not doing my fucking job, and I have issues with talking, so like hell I'm going on voice chat. And inevitably, the flankers I saw coming a mile away end up coming for my dumb ass first, and my team can't possibly spare a single second to get the Genji off my ass when there's a D.va hanging round the cart or something. It's so obnoxious to be the only one to see death approaching. It's so obnoxious to be the sole healer and the only one with functioning ears. Fucking hell, people walk loud. It's not hard to tell when people are headed your way, and whom. Bluh.

 

Basically I "battle mercy" if the situation suits it. Some games, you just have lots of time (generally because the opponents aren't playing well) to occasionally flip to blaster and send a few rounds downrange. Sometimes there's an enemy player that keeps jumping at you and dying. Sometimes if no other fuck is willing to run in and actually play I'll do it. Sometimes my team sucks just so goddamn bad that my best decision at any moment is to go for the blaster.

 

Yeah that is the support experience. Being more observant and just hating all things.

Though I will admit that I'm not always. Especially if I am in one of the dumb modes. Sometimes I am stressed and I just want to die pointlessly in mystery match while I listen to podcasts.

 

I can take out a Genji or Tracer who's coming at me alone, and when I'm not about to venture to far into a brawl I'll take potshots at distracted healers and whatever, maybe take out someone important while my team gets back from respawn or something. I'm just wary about leaving people who're getting swarmed, cause experience has taught me if I do that, then they're gonna die and then I'll be on my own to face down half the enemy team. Especially when I'm the only healer. A D.va or a Reinhardt you can just nursemaid through an entire enemy team sometimes, and it's beautiful, but I think they get kinda complacent cause of that, and you end up with dudes who just. Lose their sense of self preservation entirely.

 

I really need there to be a meta about how McCree took his entire look from Clint Eastwood as the man with no name. Because really. Really. What does that mean for his character and what does it imply about what the game is trying to say about him? I'm probably reading too much into a group shooter but I'm halfway through writing the post in my head already and I hope someone else did it so I don't have to.

Edit: because those movies were some of the first westerns where the protagonist wasn't a good guy who avoided killing, and also they were from Italy originally, just tapping in to the American western trend, so like, metatextually that says so much about the character. Please save me from myself.

edit the second: I did a short version of the thing so I can stop perserverating on it and do something today.

 

Ut says that mccree is filled woth a pit of pain and pessimism. Also hed probably love orish myth heroes.

 

yo @sirsparklepants here's some silly McCree comic to balance out The Feels™ :P

 

So far the comp placement matches have been full of lovely, intelligent people.

And then we run into matches like this one, with a McCree who spent so much time typing and berating people on their character choices that they didn't get the damage to ult more than once in five rounds (while the rest of us were ulting 3-5 times a round.)

Yeah dude. We definitely lost because I switched to Mercy. You're right.