It can be practice, but not mechanical practice… QP should be the stange of Teamplay practice, counter practice,
If one wants to learn to play a hero better in Quick Play… fine. but there is one thing:
Teamwork > Mechanical.
If you happen to be able to play the hero you want to get better with without throwing off your comp by being the damn 5th DPS, then go for it… if it means you’ll just constantly run in and die it’s not effective practise anyway, so just go play a hero the team needs in that situation, this will likely be less frustrating, more useful and actually makes you a better player as a whole instead of a selfish ***hole.
4 Likes
I stopped getting mad at people for “its just qp” because I get that there is no practice mode…so that’s on blizz technically (it’s terrible for practice btw)…can it be annoying? Sure…but that does not mean the game has to be “unfun”
I’m still trying to win the matches in qp…like I will absolutely flex if it’s that bad…I just stopped making that the only goal…I get way more fun out of playing whatever character I happen to be playing well than out of winning the match…do we get rolled from time to time?..yep…but that would happen in comp every now and then too (when I played comp)
The game is way more fun if you just stop making the win the only determining factor on you having fun…
Play a new character…go for achievements…play arcade…
MAKE THE GAME FUN FOR YOURSELF…
Agreed. This is why Overwatch is essentially the only PvP game I play any more - because playing my favourite characters well is as fun as (if not more so than) winning the match. As long as I know my input made a difference, I’ll gladly take a loss and still enjoy the game.
It annoys me when Quick Play is regarded as “training” for the “real” game mode of Competitive. Again - not all of us play or care about Competitive. Quick Play isn’t some throwaway game mode where people just goof around and throw matches. It IS the game for a lot of us, and it absolutely CAN be fun to play if you go into it with the right mindset.
In my experience QP is an unbalanced and unorganized mess. I would go as far as to say that not only is it unsuitable for practicing, it even makes you develop bad habits that you shouldn’t do in comp.
If people are enjoying that game mode or they feel like there is something they can practice there then I guess good for them. I definitely don’t have the patience for it.
That’s part of what makes it fun, though. Highly-organise, highly-competitive environments where simple mistakes are punished hard have the effect of heavily restricting what’s viable. In Quick Play, most heroes are viable, even for the mere mortals among us who don’t have godlike aim. Hell, I’ve made Bastion work on not a few occasions, at least when my team can refrain from whining about my hero picks.
For those reasons, though, I doubt it makes for a very good practice environment. You can get away with some silliness in Quick Play that I don’t think would work in a more serious environment.
1 Like
no, thats been brought up so many time before and the answer is still the same; whatever toxicity is in qp will just find its way over to your unranked mode and probably just as fast. i might as well play attack sym in your unranked mode since if i lose or even leave, then nothing is going to happen to me. i dont lose sr and even if it bans me, there is still no loss …
1 Like
I do not care.
but still try to write a full essay about it ?LOL???
What???
4 Likes
You weren’t blessed with any brightness.
3 Likes
Hate to break it to you but QP is still a team game. Most of Overwatch is actually a team game. If you really want to practice heroes without caring then there’s custom games and arcade. I don’t care if you don’t want to play those, as much as you don’t care about those of us who want to play Quick Play as a team. Competitive Play is fine for some, except there’s an SR metric and the games are far longer than QP… so not everyone will want to play Competitive Play simply because some deem QP as a brawl mode.
Thankfully a long overdue LFG system is coming soon so that should put an end to most of the misery caused by some players who don’t care about QP being a team game mode.
4 Likes
Yeah, I understand. And I don’t think there is anything wrong with playing whatever you like. I’m just saying that I don’t think it’s the right place to practice and it’s just not for everyone. (The main reason I don’t like QP is because I actually like playing support or tank but it’s usually a pain if my team has five dps lol.)
1 Like
There is another thread right now in the forums, complaining for the penalities you get when you screw around in QP.
Penalities for leaving, throwing, and so on.
Do you guys dont get it? you can have all the opinions in this world about how to “use QP correctly”, but in the end Blizzard punishes (rightfully) people for the same reasons they get punished in Comp.
Penalities for leaving, throwing, and so on.
Nobody can ask for a full meta team or ask for too much switching, but in the end it’s a game mode designed for those who do not have a premade team and those who don’t want the pressure of comp. Its not your god**mn practice range.
Choose the hero you like, but commit to the win, don’ throw and don’t leave.
1 Like
Exactly.
How will you train a DPS hero without healers and tanks to heal and open space for you.
That’s the thing.
95% of players in QP wants to train DPS characters and that’s why its mostly 5-6 dps teams.
So in the end you just don’t improve anything on the hero you’re training.
“Oh but who said you need tanks or healers to win a game???”
Yeah right, go play QP with a 6 DPS team of 6 random players to see if you can win against a team with tanks and healers. It may happen if the enemy team has a 6 dps team too or they are very bad at the game, but it’s just very very rare.
But well, it’s QP i guess.
If people like getting stomped, i just avoid a teammate, quit the match and go look for another
1 Like
And yet, here is this post.
2 Likes
(Proceeds to write a huge block of text about it depite how much they “do not care”)
5 Likes
Just create Quick Play-A, Quick Play-B & Comp.
“A” is for people that wanna practice, learn the basics of a Hero against real people or just screw around as a lot of people are saying here. They’d be playing against same minded people.
“B” is for people that want to play to win and form some sort of semblance of a functioning team. Maybe best for players with more experience.
“Comp.” can be for people that care about a ranking system, bragging rights and don’t mind people being bossy & blaming their teammates for losses, and cutting and running at the first sign of trouble etc.
All of these should have an optional que system, teammate rating system and unlimited avoid or block teammate function so like minded people can play with each other.
Obviously all of these options can be sabotaged but at least this would give us another choice and I would think it would be easy to add one more selection box in the Play area.
Just my thoughts.
I agree with the OP. I play QP to level and get some time in on a hero before I hit comp. Or to just chill.
Thing is, I pretty much only play Tank or Healer in comp.
I play QP to play DPS or whatever I want to play. Period. I don’t play DPS in comp often because my skill in Support and Tank is at a higher level than my DPS. I’m not going to play QP to continue practicing what I already excel at.
Firstly, I don’t care that you don’t care.
Secondly, you shouldn’t be in QP if you’re not trying to win (that includes trying to build a decent team comp, not just trying your hardest on Widow).
Lastly, QP is no place for practice because you’ll almost never be in a similar situation to a real competitive match. The only practice for comp is comp. Play new heroes there and accept that you might lose a few as a result of it until you’re at the level where you can fully contribute. If you just want mechanical practice, play against bots, start a custom game, or use the practice range.
I think people would just turn that mode into practice mode. The thought process would be, “Oh, good! Now I can practice Widow there and I’ll have a good team comp to help me do that.”, and then they’ll get there and find that all five other people are also trying to practice dps.
You are the reason smurfs exist. My SR level is too much higher than my friends’, so I can’t play comp with them. The only real mode we can play together is QP. People on my QP team with your philosophy mean that I either, A.) have to try to heal a bunch of random dps (and my friend trying to tank for them) that won’t try to build a real comp, or B.) Make a smurf so I can play comp at my friends’ level. You did it.