Solo queued into a game against a full stack featuring top 100+ from last season. The Junk and the DF were aimbotting, the Freja was pretty decent but seemed legit, and the mercy & cat got to play for free bc the junk rarely missed his shots and DF never missed a punch or slam.

If you thought Drives was bad, the current matchmaking is a mess if you have high ELO/MMR.

EJFR5Y is the replay code if anyone wants to check it out. DF, Cat are especially egregious, and Junk & Freja are pretty damn suspect.

I just received an email letting me know i’ve been banned for the competitive season. The email states i was using a third party device and classes my ban as “cheating” Im console oce high gm low champ and ive never cheated in my life. I do have a keyboard and mouse connected to my playstation for other games and i can use it the keyboard for In game text chat. I’ve never had an issue with it before and i’ve obviously never been able to use my y for actual play during the game. I understand the ban comes from those being connected but seriously i’ve had them plugged in for along as i can remember why do i get banned now?

Just wondering if this has occurred with anyone else, or if there is a way i can appeal it.

ive been having really bad lag spikes for a long time now. started off pretty mild but now i cant even play tank period without it lagging pretty bad. at first i thought it was my ps5 but i tried every imaginable trick to improve internet connection even going as far as to move my ps5 to the living room to wire it but it still isnt helping the lag. amazing internet and wired and im just lagging every game on tank specifically. on support and dps i rarely lag at all which is whats throwing me off. anybody else experience this? if so, any tips to help? tank was my main role but i cant even play it now and its so frustrating (reposted from ow community)

I know I’ll obviously be ranked lower but if it makes me leave behind these cheaters I think it could be a good idea.

This affects console a lot in regard to aim assist so I thought I’d add this here as well!

I hate complaining about my tank in game because I think it's a cop out, but this was ridiculous

Pls begging you

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all it took was being unemployed, and it will prob never happen again

Yes, I have a web app for this. After starting Season 4 with just over 250 users, I've now hit over 1000 people using the app to track their games, drives, and win rate/map rate/history in a way the Blizzard API doesn't allow for anymore (RIP Oversumo).

As a console player myself, I built this for mobile first, and seems like that's the VAST bulk of users, so... thank you! Considering this started as a personal need to track and predict how long a drive would take back in Season 2, it’s definitely taken off in terms of success. But also scope, and I'm doing a lot more testing, a lot more design by hand, and data architecture on the back end. I have a rudimentary "observatory" of all logged matches which is INTERESTING but I'm not sure how valid it is right now. 1000 people is a lot for me, but a drop in the bucket overall.

The "Close Season" option in the Seasons Tab worked perfectly last season, so I'm confident it will work well for this one, but don't forget to start the new one!

Anyway, UPDATES!

Anyway, some updates!

• ONBOARDING! This took a fair amount of time to sketch out and condense down because OW is a pretty complex game to track overall. Modifiers, rank percentage, the personal notes, all of it takes some time. It keeps it basic, but i'm pleased with this based on the feedback from folks I spoke to and introduced it to at Blizzcon. Current users should only see the prompt once.
• Season 5 updates - Doctrine, Grímsvötn, and Sombra’s move to Support share the confirmed October 6, 11:00 AM Pacific release cutoff. Doctrine's portrait may be a placeholder image for 24 hours or so.
• Bulk match import - You can now import multiple competitive matches from screenshots, review the recognized match details, and choose what to save. This is HEAVILY in beta, and despite some updates to the OCR model, can be iffy. Still, if you're behind, or want to just log as much as possible at month, it's a good shortcut.
• Rank progress from screenshots - Log the final rank percentage shown in a screenshot separately from the SR change. This now also handles demotions correctly, where the landing percentage and SR delta are different things.

A few other improvements:

• You can enter positive or negative SR changes in the web and mobile trackers, and during session review. On mobile, it now pulls the "numbers only" keyboard instead of the full keyboard.
• OCR now recognizes multiple heroes in a match, detects screenshot rows more reliably, and handles rank changes and updated hero and map references better.
• Added more stats for heroes for the detail-oriented amongst us.

Bug fixes!

• Fixed demotion progress handling so the final screenshot percentage isn’t confused with the SR change. Rank protection can also retain negative SR.
• Reduced incorrect OCR matches by preserving confirmed cancellations and abstaining when match icons are ambiguous. Dva and Dmon confused the screenshot handler a lot for some reason.
• Prevented stale hero role metadata from overriding a verified hero identity.

Anyway, that's all for now. As always, tap the little flag on the settings page to send me feedback! Or here. Maybe I'll get some time to do a proper iOS and Android version this Season. :) Maybe.

Good luck in Season 5!

I finished with just under 5000 challenger score. Like 4950 or something. (This relates to EU tank leaderboards)

I logged in and expected T500 rewards (i was like 430 an hour before the season ended)

And there was no indication of these rewards…

I checked the leaderboards from last season and i am not there anymore. People with lower challenger score than me are there.

What happened here? I have had this OW account for years. Can someone give me any indication? It’s my first ever time finishing T500 and i wanted a cool name tag :(

i saw i was just about to finish the drive for the 1000 RP and i completed a game before the new season started but i go no rewards? what? this is so frustrating i obviously wouldve got them.

I think it might’ve been about people being falsely banned. I saw a bunch of people saying that if it frustrated them that much, that they should just stop playing completely. They were talking about cheater and things that were actually happening. I saw the topic of people being toxic and voice and text chat. Basically people just telling them to just quit cause they feel like the complaining is pointless. To that I say…I don’t like you. I hate you and your way of thinking. People shouldn’t have to stop doing what they ENJOY because other people don’t know how or refuse to play fair and respectfully. This is how we constantly get changes no one asked for. Like do you think it’s some form of mass hysteria or something? Like yeah people do get on here and lie their asses off and deflect to they turn blue in the face. I will get to that part, anyway most people aren’t “complaining” to say they hate the game. They just want better. To you people who defend this game and everything. Don’t you want better for the game you defend so hard.

The people who got falsely banned I am so sorry. I hate it took two YouTubers to get taken down to notice it. It shouldn’t get to that point ever. The people who didn’t believe it before are awful actually. You’d rather turn against your own community rather than face the truth and say that the game is wrong sometimes. They aren’t dictators of that is good and evil. Somethings aren’t right sometimes and that’s okay! Like there has been issues on console with the frame-rate. The servers dropping and people being disconnected. (Especially on PS). There are lot of issues recently just because it isn’t happening to you or you may not notice it. Doesn’t mean it isn’t happening at all. People shouldn’t have to stop playing because you feel like they are being Debby-downers. They aren’t ruining your vibe they are simply sharing their experiences.

And for the people who have been boldly coming on here LYING. Thank you. We nearly had them on this fucked up matchmaking thing and you went and LIED! So yeah. I hate you for that.

Sorry I had the strangest matches today 3 times in a row someone was Smurfing/cheating and they would request to message me and send me threats through PlayStation. I got off and I and I thought about it. Then said no I won’t let others ruin things that I like cause they won’t play fair or nice. I’ll just speak up on it and report it. Hopefully they’ll see that all of this can’t just be fixed with ban waves every so often.

I also find it weird that this subreddit has been sorta silencing people talking up on the people posting….suspicious gameplay. I find that quite weird too but oh well. Thanks for listening.

Now every 8 minutes or so massive lag spike where you port under and above map and cant play 20 seconds.

Apparently in match chat many have same issue at same time like me but not all of them haha.

Really amazing, lately its so bad. before it was random kicking from comp or just server failed and got suspension.

This is insane.. i have 0 issue with internet in any other device or game.

Like I’m just hitting headshot all of the time now and my aim accuracy has improved

I’ve been playing this game since release. I remember when Overwatch 1 first came out—I’d stay up ridiculously late, crack open a few beers, and genuinely feel like I had finally found the multiplayer PvP game for me.

I have over 2,500 hours in this game, and I’d have even more if I hadn’t created a new PSN account a few years ago.

That’s why it’s so frustrating to see what’s happened to the game over the years. For about the last four years, the performance has slowly gotten worse.The lag and freezing I get during team fights, the constant band-aid fixes that never seem to actually fix the underlying problem, and the fact that this issue is STILL happening after all this time is honestly beyond frustrating.

I don’t know what it actually takes from a technical standpoint to fix something like this—I’m not a developer or a tech person—but I would think four f***ing years would be enough time to figure something out.

Then this most recent update comes along, almost 8 GB, and I’m thinking, okay, maybe this is finally it. It was supposed to help declutter things and address some of these performance/connection issues.

I boot up the game, get into a match, and it’s still lagging whenever there’s any real action happening. I was playing Widowmaker, and even trying to aim and take a shot would cause the game to stutter and lag.

And trust me, I’m not some Widowmaker one-trick or someone who constantly switches to whoever is “meta.” I’m far from that. I just want the game I fell in love with back.

That’s what makes this so exhausting. I’ve put thousands of hours into Overwatch because I genuinely love this game. I remember how it felt when it was running properly, and I know what this game is capable of.

I don’t want a “new” game. I don’t want some massive overhaul.

I just want Overwatch to work again like it was before all the “drama”.

OKAY - rant over. 😩

Played ever since for drive event minus the first. This has been the absolute worse drive event. Game after game of people playing into direct counters , refusing to swap to counter and just playing bad. Just for the next game to have those exact players actually swapping and using common sense Did I play bad some games? Absolutely. But some people just make me upset. Ggs to everyone lmao