I hype myself almost everyday to play overwatch when I get off work, but literally every time I have gone to play recently…I can’t play more than 2-3 games before getting frustrated and logging off. I don’t know if it’s me or what…I love this game, but something really needs to be done to keep some of the playerbase around. Anyone else experienced this?
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Stop caring. Don’t try to take every match serious, it’s probably even bad for your health. Take it easy and just chill from time to time. Play other Heroes, Arcade, just something to relax. ^^
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Sometimes that happens to me, but I usually just do some casual mode like mystery FFA or something.
You just have to not take it seriously and not have results oriented thinking. That makes the game a lot more enjoyable.
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I feel the exact same way. I’m not burnt out or anything (haven’t been able to play much) but then again, I haven’t been able to be good at any of the characters or have fun doing literally anything in life. I want to die.
What all the other dudes here said ^^ Stop caring, like stop giving a single f in every match. I took Overwatch really serious for around half a year, my youtube front page was full of news, tutorials, impossible pro plays and what not, i trained my aim, tried to study maps, you know, the full program
And boi did it felt good. For maybe the first month or two. After that, i got frustrated more and more, teams that didnt care, competetive games that were so onesided that you sometimes couldnt even leave spawn and what not. The game just continued to be worse and worse every day until I wasnt able to play the game for more than 15 minutes because i would hit levels of tilt i didnt think were possible.
Then Brig was released and all my training on snipers, Cree, Tracer and Rein were suddenly irrelevant. At her launch she was stupidly OP, Bronze Brig vs Master Tracer and the Brig won. Rein would get stunned through his shield, snipers were useless against her because of her personal shield, it was horrible to play. Suddenly i had no impact at all. I picked up Moira and tried my best but it just wasnt fun.
I disliked that everything i worked for was suddenly irrelevant and you could climb easier with just picking up bring, training her for like 5 hours straight and you could hit mid Dia starting from Silver.
I stopped playing the game for around a month and then picked it up again, this time without giving a single f in a game. Throwing games was suddenly really funny, picking throwpicks was fun too, like, old Sym, it was glorious. I had a bit of fun again, not more than two hours but a bit ^^
I guess if you cant defeat em, join em. Those guys you dispise because they dont care if they win or loose? Thats me now. I wanna have fun. And if my fun costs you your fun, so be it. Do the same, stop caring and just tryna have fun
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IKR, OP. Had a long streak of miserable losses on a couple of days right after another, and been on a break since then. Sucks when you’re continuously matched up with throwers, smurfs or remarkably better players on their main accounts. It’s a walk out of spawn only to die again -simulator.
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Thats not a good sim my man.
I would rather play CMS2018, grind my way through 50k XP to finally unlock a welding machine and be able to rebuild cars… Eventho it is boring on its on and best had with some series or anime on the side and takes decades to do. And its repetetive. And its boring. Did i mention its repetetive?
Still a better sim that yours.
Thanks all for the input - I mean I can take it seriously, but not like I used to and not once have I ever flamed at a teammate (seriously one of the most laid back care free person you will meet). It’s just like I will log on to play feeling excited after a long day and 3-4 games in - I’m burnt out and get the urge to get off the game (win or lose). I really enjoy this game and have put tons of hours into it…I don’t know if I’m burnt out or what.
@Faris - I’ve been in rough spots, but please don’t ever feel this way. It will get better I promise.
I dont feel the hype the game had when i get off work to i mostly hype to play rdr
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I remember that feel. I used to do 2 to 3 hours a day min in Overwatch then after enough bad nerfs to various characters I played I eventually lost the interest and drive. OW is entirely casual for me now.
I’ve gone back to playing WoW more. Leveling up my character fam and getting pretty new rides xD
It’s okay to have ebbs and flows in how excited you are to play the game, or on what kind of attention span you have for it when you do play. It’s just a game—you don’t owe it any set amount of time. If it’s not actively fun and relaxing for you, then there’s no point in forcing yourself to keep playing. Come back when you feel like it, for as long as you feel like, and you will enjoy it a lot more (and probably therefore perform better) when you do.
My ability to play these days relies heavily on my ability to not care, and extensive use of the avoid button.
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I don’t really get frustrated in Overwatch the vast majority of the time. If playing a video game gets you angry within a match or two, you either need to take a longer break from the game or take a look at how you react to things in general.
My only complaint with the game is how it matches premade groups. I totally understand wanting to stick 6 stacks with other 6 stacks, but if I’m playing with myself (~700 levels of experience, my SO (~550 levels of experience), someone with ~120 levels of experience, and 3 people legitimately under level 30 who are not smurfs, I’m sorry but our opponent shouldn’t be a 6 stack of levels 500-1200 like it almost always is. I know level is just time played and not rank, but even if someone has naturally good aim, they still need time to learn the ins and outs of the game, and a level 900 is going to have that down a lot better than the level 20s on my team. I mostly just accept that we’re not going to be winning at that point and stop worrying about it though.
Know what you mean. I have hardly even played this year, and been on break since the start of lunar new year-event. I love the characters, and I would love to play them. But Im just not having fun in game. I dont enjoy it, I just get more pissed off. Every match is either you stomping the opponent or opponent stomping you. Smurfs and throwers on pretty much every match.
Im waiting for archives, so I can just play PvE missions with couple of friends. But if Anniversary does not bring anything huge, Im afraid my days on OW and on Blizzard games overall will be counted.
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