Yesterday was rough at first. My first 5 games or so were full of people already angry and unwilling to try to work together. Later in the evening it got better. Played DVA a bit as I was getting annoyed not with what reaper was doing to me but with what he was doing to my team.
New Reaper is like old Reaper, except for Roadhog. DPS shouldnât be engaging him in close quarters and should wreck him with headshots, his head is pretty easy to target in most skins. Also heâs slow as hell so good movement by Tracer and Genji should wreck him. However when playing with randoms, just at him down with Dva.
I love the new map.
I donât know whatâs weirder to see in silvers (not on a team): a plat medal or a plat and gold border.
Diamonds with a 40% win rate that only play Hanzo.
I just donât get how you can play a game for over 1900 hours and still not be very good at it.
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I just donât get how you can play a game for over 1900 hours and still not be very good at it.
[/quote]That is the experience most people have with most things.
Iâve got about 1000 hours into counterstrike between source and global offensive and Iâm still garbage at it.
And thatâs what makes fighting games so infuriating. In team game you can get lucky wins through your team and you have someone else to blame when you lose. In 1v1 game you see much more directly how much you suck even after all the time you spend if you fail to get better.
This is why I love broodwar. I played that at 9 years old and was a D on ICCup. I worked and worked and five or six years later B+. Then starcraft 2 comes out. I am a god among men. I decide who lives and dies. I am the machine.
Ya know, until I got to masters, Then all of a sudden itâs a game again. I managed grandmasters in season one but my interest has waned over the years. Much like my keyboards with their wear on the 4 and s and d keys
I donât care how much it was abused, can we please bring back âavoid playerâ?
Did they ever explain why CTF was removed? That was like my go-to.
Aaand itâs back. I swear it was still gone when I checked yesterday.
Soldier, in comp: âHey guys, just want to let you know that I have a high ping, like 300. The only way I can avoid disconnects is tethering through my phone.â
That sounds like a preemptive excuse for when they fail to take down annoying PharaMercy-pair. I should try to use that sometime.
Dumbass DPS: âMercy wasnât healing anyone!â
Me: âI have 8.6K healing in under 4 minutes.â
Meanwhile the tanks have the gold and silver elim medals.
A losing streak last night brought me from low gold to mid silver and I fucking canât stand it here.
This is a prime indicator that the tanks arenât actually shielding the DPS: When the DPS think they arenât getting healed, tanks are taking elims, and healers are working OT. Either that or they are walking into bullets, which⌠they do sometimes.
If Iâm remembering right, the tanks were holding the choke, and the DPS were dying to whatever trickled through.
Unrelated, people need to stop making shit up and assuming itâs universal, irrefutable knowledge: âNever start through the open part in Liajiang: Gardens, everyone knows that (said in a whiny voice after the team pushed that way)â, âDonât play Rein, heâs useless nowâ.
People fucking love heuristics, even bad ones. To be fair, the problem often isnât with the heuristic itself, but with the fact that youâve got two or more completely divergent strategies competing with each other at once. You can win tons of games saying ânever do Xâ or âalways do Yâ if youâre at least on the same page. And thatâs my heuristic of the day.
This happened today. Iâve been playing a lot of the 3v3 lockout. I want to play more CTF but most matches I get in as soon as thereâs one flag cap at least one person on the losing team starts throwing.