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[QUOTE=SuperDuprKyle;52306012]If you think roadhog needs a nerf you're terrible at this video game[/QUOTE] Does this means that I'll suddenly become bad at the video game if I say yes to your question?

If I had a nickel for every time I try to use a panic Riptire and all it winds up doing is eating my ult. As in the Ult disappears the second the animation plays, but the tire doesn't spawn for a few seconds. Choice design; really making Junkrat a prime pick :ok:

[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52305225][t]https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/megasxlr/images/f/f0/Megas_Debut.png/revision/latest?cb=20170506124113[/t] ?[/QUOTE] Hahaha! I dig it! The inspiration actually came from this interview with Jen Cohn where she mentions she owns pair of platform boots with flames on them. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WmpymI-AFk[/media] Boots come at around 23:17 She actually saw my initial sketch of the skin, and loved it! I'm awaiting her reaction for this new updated version!

I am so done with this game. For the last 2 weeks I've been finishing matches with either 4 golds or 2 golds and 2 silvers. My last match I finished with the 2/2 but I had gold damage and silver eliminations - AS MERCY. (and gold healing obvs) Yet I still constantly lose. What did I do in life to get matches with people that play like they've never played Overwatch before? Half the time I'm convinced my teammates don't even have hands. I'm so tempted to uninstall and just be done with it.

[QUOTE=Wickerman123;52306245]I am so done with this game. For the last 2 weeks I've been finishing matches with either 4 golds or 2 golds and 2 silvers. My last match I finished with the 2/2 but I had gold damage and silver eliminations - AS MERCY. (and gold healing obvs) Yet I still constantly lose. What did I do in life to get matches with people that play like they've never played Overwatch before? Half the time I'm convinced my teammates don't even have hands. I'm so tempted to uninstall and just be done with it.[/QUOTE] i wish i could actually quit but i like the idea of a team based shooter too much to do so. TF2 is fucking dead and left to rot by valve, and overwatch is the closest thing that comes close to being in the same catergory. [editline]2nd June 2017[/editline] i also sold literally everything in my backpack when i quit TF2 and made like $100 so

Daily reminder that tf2 is still consistently in the top 4 highest concurrent players on steam and it's ridiculous to call it dead

[QUOTE=MissingGlitch;52305049]I would buy $50 worth of lootboxes if we could get a mode where sniper heroes and Genji are not allowed.[/QUOTE] I mean you actually can though, that's what custom games are for

Have you played recently? It's trash and the players are trash. -snip- Just realised overbuff only counts for quickplay or current competitive season, my bad. I don't play Zarya [I]every[/I] match because unlike 90% of my teammates I know that sometimes you need to switch, but hopefully this sums up why I'm mad. [t]https://puu.sh/w9cLG/31b38b38d8.png[/t]

[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;52306285]Daily reminder that tf2 is still consistently in the top 4 highest concurrent players on steam and it's ridiculous to call it dead[/QUOTE] when i say "dead" i dont mean in player count. when was the last time valve added anything meaningful to it outside of hats? the only thing ive heard is a competitive mode that somehow was made to be worse than overwatch's. valve dropped adding TF2 content in favor of the bigger cash cows (CS:GO and DOTA) [editline]2nd June 2017[/editline] they also had something special going with MvM, which was a way better PvE mode than overwatch could ever hope to do. but again they dropped the ball and havent added anything to it since two cities. i used to admin a MvM server that had tons of community maps and would get lots of people. it was the most fun in TF2 i had in years, and im sure some additional official MvM updates would have been great too.

Lost a game because we had a bastion on koth. Despite our team working hard to play around him, he continuously refused to play around our barriers and didn't use voice comms. Why are people like this?

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;52305566] just because roadhog has a higher pickrate doesn't mean he's op. perhaps you should be looking at winrate too? dva has a higher winrate than roadhog despite roadhog being an easy to play hero. please explain that.[/QUOTE] Lets actually think about this. If a hero has a high pickrate they tend to be in mirror matches. Mirror matches, 1 one both team 1 win 1 lose. 50%. D.Va had a huge pickrate when she was busted in season 3. That certainly wasn't balanced. Gee I wonder about this, I'm sure D.va was "fun" when she was busted too. Her winrate was lower then. Lesser picks get higher winrates typically. Unless you're going to tell me you think Symmetra is OP. I'm also sure Ana, Lucio, and S76 are "fun" despite being the undisputed most powerful heroes of their catagories. [QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;52305662] But yeah the reason why roadhog is picked so much is because he's fun to play. Notice all the filters Oizen used. "Most picked tank heros played this month on PC on quickplay and competitive games as Grandmaster skill level" [img]http://i.imgur.com/6WH2qpN.png[/img] If you set it with those same filters only, but to show competitive games only, it will show a completely different picture. Roadhog is picked less in competitive because he's more of a fun hero instead of a functional hero, and he's a solo hero that requires little teamwork to be optimal. obligatory only people registered on overbuff are tracked by overbuff[/QUOTE] I don't see how the picture is heavily filters pick gm, pick comp pick tanks This isn't a lot of filters, What do you want? He's high when you set the catagories to all/all maybe he's fun because he's easy and by far the best climb hero? The post I was replying to stated he didn't have a dominant presence in competitive. That is clearly not the case no matter how you cut it.

[QUOTE=redBadger;52306328]Why are people like this?[/QUOTE] The ridiculous notion that "I paid $50 so I can shit around however I want!"

Shouldn't it makes sense that the placements and comp be three kinds of fucked by the fact that the playerbase was just hugely increased by the anniversary sale?

[QUOTE=Oizen;52306359]Lets actually think about this. If a hero has a high pickrate they tend to be in mirror matches. Mirror matches, 1 one both team 1 win 1 lose. 50%. [/quote] And what are the chances for a mirror match to happen with roadhog when roadhog has a 7% pickrate per person? [QUOTE=Oizen;52306359]Lesser picks get higher winrates typically. Unless you're going to tell me you think Symmetra is OP.[/quote] No? Symmetra is a very situational hero and grandmasters know when to pick her so she gets a high winrate. [t]http://i.imgur.com/NRKsPcT.png[/t] Btw your Symmetra example is the only example out of the lower picked heros that has a high winrate. [QUOTE=Oizen;52306359]D.Va had a huge pickrate when she was busted in season 3. That certainly wasn't balanced. Gee I wonder about this, I'm sure D.va was "fun" when she was busted too. Her winrate was lower then.[/quote] [QUOTE=Oizen;52306359]I'm also sure Ana, Lucio, and S76 are "fun" despite being the undisputed most powerful heroes of their catagories.[/quote] lol i'm not talking about ana, lucio, and soldier 76's, dva's balance. do you think that "But yeah the reason why roadhog is picked so much is because he's fun to play." means "Heros with high pickrates are picked because they are fun to play." [QUOTE=Oizen;52306359]I don't see how the picture is heavily filters pick gm, pick comp pick tanks This isn't a lot of filters, What do you want? He's high when you set the catagories to all/all[/quote] I wasn't pointing out the amount of filters, but the quality of your filters. You didn't filter gamemode type (quickplay, competitive) and as a result it skewed the data in your favor. People play Quickplay to have fun. People play competitive if they take things more seriously and picking heros that actually do things. [QUOTE=Oizen;52306359]maybe he's fun because he's easy and by far the best climb hero? The post I was replying to stated he didn't have a dominant presence in competitive. That is clearly not the case no matter how you cut it.[/QUOTE] Roadhog has a place in competitive however reinhardt has a higher winrate and pick rate than roadhog so any argument about "roadhog is op because he's picked a lot" is rendered moot if it hasn't been rendered moot by "a third party software that tracks stats with an uncertain accuracy is silly to use, and pickrate and winrate mean very little when it comes to the strength of the hero since there are so many other factors involved"

I like how the randomization in Mystery Hero is anything but. I'm really enjoying double Widowmaker on offense while the game forces me to play Tracer 3 times across 5 deaths.

[QUOTE=Doom14;52306731]I like how the randomization in Mystery Hero is anything but. I'm really enjoying double Widowmaker on offense while the game forces me to play Tracer 3 times across 5 deaths.[/QUOTE] It keeps forcing me to play Ana and Torbjorn and I'm really getting sick of it

[QUOTE=Oizen;52303834]If I go Widow to fight Pharah, this ends in a dead Pharah If I go Winston to fight Genji, this ends in a dead Genji If I go Zarya to fight D.Va, this ends in a dead D.Va[/QUOTE] Pharah yeah but the other two aren't hard counters.

[QUOTE=MissingGlitch;52305049]I would buy $50 worth of lootboxes if we could get a mode where sniper heroes and Genji are not allowed.[/QUOTE] :toxx:?

[QUOTE=Altimor;52306917]Pharah yeah but the other two aren't hard counters.[/QUOTE] I dunno about that. If D.va shoots Zarya's barrier, Zarya will kill D.va before she can escape. If D.va projects defense matrix, Zarya can pierce it and kill D.va. If D.va is within range, Zarya's beam will hit her no matter how much she zips around with the boost. Even if D.va manages to get away in time with low health, Zarya can launch a graviton shot at her and finish off her mech at range. Also, the black hole will not only trap her mech, but when D.va pops out, will trap her too. There is no way to escape or survive 1v1 against Zarya if she has her ult ready and has good aim. D.va's DPS simply isn't high enough to retaliate effectively, even if Zarya's barrier is down while they're both holding M1. Unless I'm missing something, Zarya is a pretty hard counter to all of D.va's tools.

[QUOTE=Everything;52306957]I dunno about that. If D.va shoots Zarya's barrier, Zarya will kill D.va before she can escape. If D.va projects defense matrix, Zarya can pierce it and kill D.va. If D.va is within range, Zarya's beam will hit her no matter how much she zips around with the boost. Even if D.va manages to get away in time with low health, Zarya can launch a graviton shot at her and finish off her mech at range. Also, the black hole will not only trap her mech, but when D.va pops out, will trap her too. There is no way to escape or survive 1v1 against Zarya if she has her ult ready and has good aim. D.va's DPS simply isn't high enough to retaliate effectively, even if Zarya's barrier is down while they're both holding M1. Unless I'm missing something, Zarya is a pretty hard counter to all of D.va's tools.[/QUOTE] The thing is that while zarya is a good counter, she doesn't do that much damage. D.va can pretty easily escape her in any circumstance. And graviton doesn't counter d.va, d.va counters graviton. D.va's right click eats it easily.

Got some recordings for y'all [video=youtube;MD5--ZHEGpk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD5--ZHEGpk&feature=youtu.be[/video] [video=youtube;UodelOuy_7o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UodelOuy_7o&feature=youtu.be[/video] [video=youtube;lUFveNgAjx0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUFveNgAjx0&feature=youtu.be[/video] I got bored

[QUOTE=Everything;52306957]I dunno about that. If D.va shoots Zarya's barrier, Zarya will kill D.va before she can escape. If D.va projects defense matrix, Zarya can pierce it and kill D.va. If D.va is within range, Zarya's beam will hit her no matter how much she zips around with the boost. Even if D.va manages to get away in time with low health, Zarya can launch a graviton shot at her and finish off her mech at range. Also, the black hole will not only trap her mech, but when D.va pops out, will trap her too. There is no way to escape or survive 1v1 against Zarya if she has her ult ready and has good aim. D.va's DPS simply isn't high enough to retaliate effectively, even if Zarya's barrier is down while they're both holding M1. Unless I'm missing something, Zarya is a pretty hard counter to all of D.va's tools.[/QUOTE] But there is no reason for them to ever 1v1 unless they're both the last alive.

... How the heck did I place 94 points away from gold? I only bought the game a week ago. :pwn:

Every fucking CTF game our group is matched against fucking master+ ranked players. 2+ People with 3500-4200 SR every fucking game on the enemy team. I'm not a master player, neither is anyone else in our 4 person group. Fuck you Jeff, change the matchmaking you prick. [editline]3rd June 2017[/editline] Either that or literal level 8-10 super-aiming smurfs.

I don't think arcade actually has its own skill based matchmaking. It's just a free-for-all on all the people that are waiting in queue.

Speaking of queue, solo queue when? It's getting old going into a match, having maybe a group of 2 on your team while the enemy has a stack of 4+. I just wanna play alone sometimes without the matchmaking dicking me around. And I don't particularly care if that group is around the same skill level because them having communication vs a team of randoms pretty much trumps the rest

I only play in 6 stacks

[QUOTE=MissingGlitch;52307328]I don't think arcade actually has its own skill based matchmaking. It's just a free-for-all on all the people that are waiting in queue.[/QUOTE] With mystery heroes I'm seeing roughly the same matchmaking quality I see in quickplay. I don't really touch any of the other arcade modes though so I can't speak for those.

Trying to become a better support, had a pretty nuts round during placements and decided to upload it. If anyone plays Mercy mind skimming the video and offering any advice that might help? [sp]Aside from stop playing the console version ;_;[/sp] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLss7gnZR_k[/media] Starts near the tail end of the enemy teams round. We just barely got to the end on ours and then we got steam rolled pretty bad.

[QUOTE=Oizen;52306359] I don't see how the picture is heavily filters pick gm, pick comp pick tanks This isn't a lot of filters, What do you want? He's high when you set the catagories to all/all maybe he's fun because he's easy and by far the best climb hero? The post I was replying to stated he didn't have a dominant presence in competitive. That is clearly not the case no matter how you cut it.[/QUOTE] "I didn't heavily filter my picture, I just removed 75% of the heroes" And he does not have a "dominant" presence in competitive anyway, at any tier. 5th most picked in GM and 4th in Master, every other tier he's 5th or lower, so how you came to the conclusion that this was "clearly the case" is beyond me. And regardless, professional stats are the ones that should matter for balancing, as I said. If you start factoring in competitive stats you'd be nerfing Symmetra who has a 60% winrate in GM