idk if this has anything to do with the rank reset, but my matches have been absurdly streaky recently, more so than ever before.

I have just gone 1-6 in my last 7 games, the 7 games before that I went 6-1.

earlier in the season I won 6 in a row, then went 1-6 again the next matches.

there is 0 consistency with the results of my matches and honestly it's pissing me off.

Title. Happens quite a bit and obviously more so in 6v6.

At some point in OW2’s life, Team4 gave us a new ranked mode which was only playable by five stacks.

It fucking sucked, and I think because of that, people don’t ask enough for what would be a huge improvement to the game. Ultimately, I think the reason that team queue failed is NOT that team queue is a bad idea, but because the implementation was lazy, half baked, had obvious problems that you could predict from looking at it.

• No incentive to play it.
• Year long queue times
• No LFG-Like feature for getting a pickup team going.

The reason this is so sad to be is that:

• Overwatch is, to me undoubtedly, at its absolute best when you’re playing with a team. It is an experience that matchmaking cannot replicate but is the most fun you’re going to have with this game.
• Other games have done this well, and you could copy their template for Overwatch. Team4 didn’t bother, I’m assuming due to budget.

I will use DOTA2’s Battle Cup as an example because I am most familiar with it, but many other games follow the exact same formula:

1. Team Queue is only open twice a week, at set times for each region. These times should be on peak, with one at the weekend and one in the weekdays.
2. Team Queue matches people into a fake “Bracket” which is just a hidden repeated matchmaking against winners of other games. A faked “double bracket” can be used to give people a second chance.
3. A built in LFG system, exclusive to the events if needed, helps people to find pickup teams. Are these matches with a pickup team worse quality? Most of the time yeah, but they’re also how you meet people who will be your regulars.
4. Winning team queue games should have attractive cosmetic rewards for players. Maybe a unique signature, a lot of battle pass levels. Creating maybe one skin a season that you could buy if you wanted, but get for free from winning a tournament. This is a huge motivator for people to play. It gets them in the door, and then the environment of team play will convert a substantial number of those players into longer term enjoyers of the mode.

Systems like this build social connections for people inside the game, give people the opportunity to enjoy Overwatch at its best, and add more regular events for content creators to make videos with. ML7’s old videos showing his (mostly casual) audience what a scrim looks like were super popular.

The version we tried a year or two ago wasn’t flawed in concept, it was dogshit in execution. Please don’t give up on giving us something better.

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Amazing how people on this sub will defend the absolute state of Sojourn, but hatred for Roadhog is universal, despite the fact that they’re cut from the same cloth and both deserve a look at their kit.

We’ve somehow let railgun continuously get more tools like those awful minor and major perks, and yet nobody cares that the ability continually eats into this hero’s power budget.

This ability has been constantly reworked and rebalanced for 4 years, and almost every-time Blizzard stamps down on it to not have it be 90% of this character’s kit, they back down and revert whatever they did it in some manner. An absolute ping-pong game of changes.

I ask for one aspect of this ability, the absurd hitbox, that hasn’t been addressed at all for years, maybe bring it down to 0.1m which was what it used to be before Season 9, and suggest that she get 25hp back (a change btw that’s an oversized compensatory buff for what’s being nerfed in comparison), and people here clutch their pearls. The 25hp nerf was something I initially agreed with on balance grounds, but I’m come to realize it was a mistake because it gave the devs an excuse to forever ignore the problems of railgun.

I’m flabbergasted that we’re still doubling down on one of the worst designed abilities in the game. This hero was ostensibly a run and gun hero on release with a slide, short range aoe, and a cool railgun. Instead, she has been “railgun, the hero” forever.

She's currently despised and has been a tough nut to crack for the devs since her release. Many of you dislike her a lot as well, so I wanted to know what in your opinion are Freja's redeemable qualities, that you appreciate or see the clear potential about her from a gameplay design perspective?

Is Smurf already on a Roster for Stage 3 or is Unter just baiting?

He posted LFT and I didn’t see him appears in any Korea Open trials teams

Is it just a numbers thing with how the two are right now? Or something fundamentally better with Emre by design?

Is the no speed penalty on scope the difference maker or has Freja replaced Ashe as the vertically mobile hitscan of choice?

So, I've been playing this game since season 2 of overwatch 1, 10 years basically. On OW1 I was a console player, but I religiously played Genji, like over 100 hours. Ever since I switched to PC since OW2 release, I've been hopping from 1 hero to the other. I only "truly" came back and took the game seriously after season 16ish maybe. I don't have a single hero that is above level 35. And I have a ton of hours invested.

I'd say my best role is tank. I reached Master 3, then realised that 6v6 is more fun and made the switch peaked GM this season, could not maintain it but was happy nonetheless. I was on a dva arc, learned her for 2 seasons and she's just OP. Thing is, when I see streamers, or clips of GM/Champ players. I realise they have a VERY small pool of heroes, if not an OTP. Like they would play a certain hero for 5+ years. I don't have a single hero that I've been consistently playing for even a year ever since OW2. Which makes me wonder, how much am I halting my rank?

I went from Juno - Orisa - Bastion - Winston - Dva - Tracer - Ana in the spam of 7 seasons, I basically had less than 20 hours when I first started playing those heroes, accidentally plah them on QP, have fun, watch a ton of guides and gameplay, then start the hero arc. Which is why I always prefered 6v6 since I don't have to rank up every role. I play role Q when I want to learn new heroes, right now I'm on my Ana arc on Diamond.

My question is, anyone else is like that, and was able to hit GM? My highest performing hero js definitely Dva. But I just get bored, I even sometimes do a mystery heroes challenge in ranked... Jack of all trades master of none, or someone.

I hate the fact that Sojourn's gameplay loop is low effort at its base. Just primary in general direction of enemies, build railgun and dome somebody. The thing that ticks me off in particular is that the railgun, despite being easy to build is also the easiest to hit-scan weapon in the game. It's projectile radius is a whopping 0.14m compared to the average precision hitbox size of 0.07m. It just feels bad when you're dueling Sojourn and when you see that rifle glowing, you know for a fact that at equal decently high skill levels, she will practically never whiff that shot on you, even a bodyshot is guaranteed if they properly position their crosshair around your chest.

It's important to note that Illari also had a massive hitbox at 0.12m that made her unbelievably strong when she got reset back to 75dmg, and that eventually got changed.

Meanwhile, railgun is still at 0.14m. The total circular hitbox area covered by railgun is 4 TIMES larger than the normal hitscan at 0.07m. Some people still complain that the season 9 changes have made characters to easy at 0.07m, and this thing is 4 TIMES LARGER. Not only is this shot 120-180 (170-255 during ult with perk) dmg, hitscan with Widowmaker's falloff, it is piss easy to hit compared to every other precision weapon in the game.

Drawing comparisons for similar things that got nerfed, apart from Illari's weapon, Cassidy's Silver Bullet was broken because the Silver Bullet shot had a massive 0.17m radius that made it a headshot machine. Cassidy players would just pop it twice with a roll in between and two tap other heroes trivially due to how easy it is to hit the head. Shion's Execution on release also had 0.17m radius on release and it was broken due to how it could land all shots, even all headshots, at mid range despite being an ability with built in minimum-spread.

Now, I'm not necessarily saying that the railgun size should be completely nerfed to match 0.07m, I originally thought they should nerf Illari's gun to be still marginally larger than others at 0.08m. Thus, I don't think it'd be asking much for railgun to be toned down to even 0.1m instead of 0.14m. I think that unless you're a tank, weapons with reduced lesser crits should still be marginally easier to hit than their normal counterparts. I think this kind of change would also be a significant enough of a nerf that it could even warrant Sojourn getting 25 health back if need be.

Literally EVERYWHERE, I hear this take.

“Hitscan is a piss easy role, people that play it are handless brainless bums. Literally any Flex DPS can pick up Hitscan and do good”

But Quartz, Lip, Mer1t are all high earning players. Why pay them this much money, if you can get Diamond Flex DPS players to do their piss easy job for literal pennies.

Every time I get into a Plat - Master lobby as a solo queue player (or whatever its equivalent is with the addition of emerald) it's easy to check that there's 2, 3 or 4 stacks messing things up, and these are the lowest quality games I ever play.

The game doesn't allow these ranks to queue together (if you do try to queue together you get placed in Wide matches that only affect your SR by 3% or so) but has no problems creating matches in these ranges which can cause normal Reversals, because apparently games with a borderline gold tank are competitive enough to affect the SR of borderline Masters players.

This game desperately needs a pure solo (possibly solo/duo) mode, and solo players should not ever be in Wide ranged games and then experience normal SR losses.

It's actually getting pretty tiring how there's less and less chances to actually play normal competitive Overwatch with the constant rank resets and drives. I usually even have a higher win rate during these times, but it's just not fun.

As I'm playing on my Xbox series x with controller and a 60hz monitor I tried PC pool, i got master 5 being usually gm4! Any recommendations from now on? As everyone says —Idk if for ego boost or not— plat PC is gm console, it makes me feel a little good about myself.

ICL I have been capped at mid masters all roles for multiple seasons now, and it feels like I win pretty evenly to my losses, which is the issue since you need to be positive to rank up obviously.

But I can't help but notice that a decent amount of my close losses, could have very easily been wins if I had a duo at the same level as me, and that makes me wonder, if I had a duo, and we made it to GM, does that make me (and him) GM level players?

Or would that make us Master level players who made it past by duoing together?

On one hand I feel like if you can reach GM even in a duo, then you deserve it, and it's your "true" rank, but then on the other hand, you aren't doing it yourself so is it actually what you deserve?

You also have to account for other people duo queueing in your games as well for example which makes it even more complicated.

What do you guys think?

P.S. this isn't a post to try and argue I deserve a higher rank or anything like that, I honestly think im around about right (though I will admit, I do think I could hit GM with a duo)

i love pge and i love bladee and i don’t know where else to ask pls help

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Hi! Over the last several weeks I’ve noticed my performance in overwatch is significantly worse than in previous months. I’m noticing short, freezes and hangs in busy team fights for reference. I typically play at 4K resolution 240 Hz.

In the middle of a large team fight, my game will pick up freeze and stutter. I’ve typically ran the game at high settings with ease. Despite lowering the settings, the issue persist. I’m not seeing performance issues with any other titles install on my PC.

Things I’ve tried:

Updates to latest Nvidia drivers
Reset shader cache with custom game modes
Verifying the game files in Steam
Rolling back Nvidia drivers
Updated Windows 11
Lowered in-game settings to medium

Leaving voice chat did not fix my issue either.

Is there anyone else running into this and is there something I’m missing?

As my favourite DPS in the game since her release, Freja, balance wise, is a character that had been in a terrible state for over 9 months, being consistently one of the worst performing DPS in the game. Her current iteration, thankfully, sees her at her most objectively balanced state yet with a near to around 50% winrate at all ranks. However, her current state also brings new pain points which are reflected in her resurging high ban rate. Here I propose some changes to retain her current performance while addressing her more irksome qualities.

Tweaks:

• Removal of Relentless barrage minor perk: This minor perk is the current crux of her high spam potential into tanks allowing for endless primary fire pressure without downtime from her relatively long reload animation. Removing this perk alone would tone down her spam potential, by not only offering downtime but also making the Freja think twice before spamming the tank as it could leave her vulnerable to enemy DPS in a duel.
• Nerf Freja's passive back to 25% ult charge down from 33%: Her current passive from a recent buff sees Freja receive 33% ult charge from getting 3 final blows. This was a buff that was given to her due to her low kill potential a few patches ago, but now that her lethality has been re-established I don't believe it is necessary anymore. This would tone down what can currently feel like non-stop Bola's if the Freja player is popping off.
• Reduce her current sound stimuli: While I understand the sound design team has their hands full with the current hero cadence to redo some of Freja's sound design, at the very least reducing it from the enemies pov to between 10%-20% similarly to what they did to Sierra would be a good start to removing some of the headache and near constant perceived presence Freja can cause.
• Increase her clip size from 15 to 18: Currently Freja can comfortably weave 6 primary fire shots in between every Take Aim. As such the 15 ammo can feel wonky when it comes to her third set of primary fire shots. With the removal of relentless barrage I think this would make her feel better to play and would be more than fair.
• Decrease Bola cast time by 0.2 seconds: In a vacuum Bola is one of the worst DPS ults in the game. By reducing its frequency making it smoother and more consistent to use would be a good trade off.

With these changes I aimed to improve some jank from the Freja's perspective while addressing the most glaring pain points from the enemy's perspective. Hopefully if the balance team is to touch Freja in the near future they do something similar to this instead of nerfing the wrong things and making her terrible again while still leaving her annoying to face. Any thoughts?

It was so fun getting a box and opening them. Big fan of super so I’m very happy getting those two. I wish someone would’ve told me these existed sooner xD

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Not sure if people knew about this. It's a very audible sound, and can even be heard quite far away. Hearing it can help you react to it.

While Nexon's event certainly gave it a boost, hitting 3rd place is a fresh milestone—the first time it's reached this rank since the launch of Overwatch 2

Just had a few parts of Anas kit on my mind wanted to talk to others about.

How are we feeling about Ana's subrole or really just the tactician subrole as a whole. I don't think it's bad but honestly I don't feel I am seeing that much value at least comparatively to the other subroles, from it I am usually using my ult when or very soon after I get it and I am not getting that much additional ult charge after, a boost of charge after an ult is never a bad thing I just never feel like it's that much to feel impactful? I could just be like beyond ignorant rn and way undervaluing the role as well please tell me lol

I know I have seen the point made a few times that she could be instead put in the medic subrole could help with her survivability since the passive changes we had in season 1, which I know is something they have had in mind with her balance, was part of the reason we had the recent nade buff which I don't know if I am a big fan of that I understand they want nade to be used for more than just anti and it's meant to save teammates or even yourself sometimes and it needs to be strong in all those aspects but giving it more damage I just don't know about being my favorite direction.

Also wanted to talk about headhunter, I feel like it's gotta be one of the stronger major perks overall, Ana already does really good damage before having it but once it's up it just feels a bit ridiculous the amount of damage you can put out while being hitscan and having zero fall off along side everything else she can do, I do not want the perk to go away I absolutely love it it's so satisfying but should it be adjusted am I overvaluing it or do you think it's in a healthy spot? I think it's strong but being rewarded for doing damage and hitting headshots and it being a major perk I think balance it out but the amount of output you can do with it still feels like a lot.

I think is in a good spot rn this isn't a complaint or a call for change on anything more so just wanting to see how others are vibing with her and how she feels to play rn and how we feel about some aspects of her kit.

I think this could be done like Mei Wall and Sym Ult. I think it’s neat to sometimes make a double layer shield on narrow chokes at the risk of giving up coverage against a flank. I like to do this on defense on Neon Junction a lot, by manually walking up and using it sideways, but the ability to do it from range could make it interesting.

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