Thanks a lot for the explanation bud. It's good to know the matchmaking will improve. I figured once I hit rank 25 and can play Competitive mode, the level of competition will even out. It's also difficult and kinda pointless to play as Lucio when your teammates are all scattered around the map. I end up just switching to another class. I assume the teamwork aspect will improve in Competitive mode as well? Cuz like you said, in Quick Play and Arcade people are just picking characters for fun. One game the opposing team had all D'vas lol. There has been some great games where everyone is working together and playing off each other. And that's when it's the most fun.
The matchmaking will become more even/accurate, but keep in mind that it's not always going to be the way one would like. For example, if I'm an awful player with no awareness of positioning and I'm always trying to 1v6 the enemy team only to end up feeding their ults (and all while blaming my team without taking a look at what I could possibly be doing wrong), yes the matchmaking will eventually put me where I belong, but that'll be in bronze among other oblivious players. There'll be no teamwork and no communication other than flaming. Will the matchmaking be better? Oh yeah, it'll be dead-on actually. I just won't like it. And I'll sit there in bronze forever unless I improve enough to carry my way out of that abyss.
That's very interesting. I didn't know there were different levels such as bronze, silver, gold. How exactly does the game determine your appropriate level? Since I'm a noob, I'm sure I make a ton of mistakes that would piss off veteran players but at least I try to play the correct way. I still have so much to learn though since the game is so in-depth. Do you have any websites you can recommend to point me on the right path?
I haven't tried Mercy yet. How are her healing abilities? I know it's pretty widely-regarded that Lucio is the top healer in the game. Although I assume certain situations will be better suited for another character. I believe Lucio is the only healer who can actively heal multiple people around him?
I'm not sure about a matchmaking system that prioritizes win/loss over individual performances. That seems a bit flawed to me. I'm sure in most the games I've lost that I'm likely one of the weakest links on the team. I don't think it's fair to penalize the good players because of how weaker players like myself perform. But if you tell me it levels out in the end, then I believe you. I don't see how that would work, but what do I know lol.The #1 factor in determining your rank is simply whether you win or lose. You could have the game of your life with 40 kills, 37 objective kills, 10,000 healing, 5 minutes objective time and 100% kill participation. But if you lose the match, you're gonna lose rank. Sounds like a shit deal, but there will also be matches where you couldn't land a shot to save your life, yet still won because every other factor somehow fell in your team's favor. This may sound like a volatile system, but because the only constant factor in your matches is you, it eventually all levels out over the course of several dozen/scores of matches. There will be win streaks where you seem unstoppable and losing streaks where you want to quit the game, but, big picture, it all levels out in the long run.
Most of my improvement came from watching YouTubers. I was absolute garbage at the game when I started, so I began looking up character guides and went from there. Here's a screencap of my subscriptions, all OW related.
That's a big list to try to jump right into, so if you only have time for a few, I'd say the most useful ones are OneAmongstMany (particularly his VOD reviews), Skyline, MindFuzz and iostux. Aside from that, I also recommend the Overwatch University subreddit.
And yes, I'm on XB1. GT: Dinotective. Feel free to add me.
Mercy is my least favorite healer in the game for the fact that if she's healing, that's all she can do. She lacks the versatility of Lucio, the damage of Zen and the insane healing of Ana.
Oh and I will add your gamertag for sure. If you don't mind playing with a noob then hopefully you can teach me a thing or two. Also, what is the voting thing about at the end of every games?The #1 factor in determining your rank is simply whether you win or lose. You could have the game of your life with 40 kills, 37 objective kills, 10,000 healing, 5 minutes objective time and 100% kill participation. But if you lose the match, you're gonna lose rank. Sounds like a shit deal, but there will also be matches where you couldn't land a shot to save your life, yet still won because every other factor somehow fell in your team's favor. This may sound like a volatile system, but because the only constant factor in your matches is you, it eventually all levels out over the course of several dozen/scores of matches. There will be win streaks where you seem unstoppable and losing streaks where you want to quit the game, but, big picture, it all levels out in the long run.
Most of my improvement came from watching YouTubers. I was absolute garbage at the game when I started, so I began looking up character guides and went from there. Here's a screencap of my subscriptions, all OW related.
That's a big list to try to jump right into, so if you only have time for a few, I'd say the most useful ones are OneAmongstMany (particularly his VOD reviews), Skyline, MindFuzz and iostux. Aside from that, I also recommend the Overwatch University subreddit.
And yes, I'm on XB1. GT: Dinotective. Feel free to add me.
The idea is that ranking on individual performance would encourage players to do what's best for themselves as opposed to what's best for the team. If I could rank up based mainly on personal performance, I'd pick Junkrat and just focus on spamming shields and barriers to pad my damage stats and never contest Control points because I might risk lowering my K/D ratio. By rewarding only wins, it forces your focus on just that. There'll be matches where you do have people on your team who are only focused on themselves and you'll lose many of those matches. But if you keep doing what you're supposed to do, you will (perhaps slowly but surely) rise in rank while they stagnate or drop and they'll be out of your life soon enough.
Yeah, we can do some QP or Arcade matches for sure. During the week, I only play late night around 10pm pacific. I'm around more on the weekends though.
Well I definitely want to look into using Ana now that I know what she's capable of. I think I used her once of twice but didn't really know what I was doing. Most websites I've been to talked about Lucio being the most popular healer in the game so I kinda stuck with him. I didn't know Lucio was better served as a secondary healer. Honestly, do you think it even matters to have a healer in QP or Arcade games? Or should I just focus on playing a class I like and want to improve on?
