Find “your” time of day mines is early morning especially when all the kids are or somewhere in the process of getting ready for school i.e. not on overwatch.
Remember “The curse of 99” in ow2 it’s the 4-less then 3 curse. If you go 4-0/2 I know it’s tempting especially with how good games have felt BUT STOP PLAYING! The 4-0 curse is biggest warning sign in the game.
Remember to drop them avoids.
Don’t play end of season games, whatever you end at about 2 weeks before end of season Im sorry but thats your rank till the next season.
Controversial but stay in coms, you don’t have to say a damn thing and if someone acts a fool mute them immediately. You cannot be outta vs and complain about your teammates. The matchmaker looks at stats so if your dva has never hit a bomb im her life inform her your gonna help break whatever shield or tell her to bomb BEFORE emp (emp bomb only worked really well in ow1 this is just a example). A lot if high ranked players laugh at lower ranked players skills but if your absolutely positively sure it’s a teammate issue and your not using the one thing that would actually give you some sort of control over that, that is 100% a you problem so you might think your good but you better get “as Good” as all the other players who don’t need vc and have reached gm.
I dont understand how some people are still struggling to climb. Ranks have become so inflated and if you’re still struggling maybe it’s because you shouldn’t be climbing anyway.
Literally all the reasons I listed, also on console or ranks aren’t as inflated as yalls.
If you play end of season you lose, if you play during the weekends you lose.
Plus a lot of people have imagined this false ideology that its soooo much easier to climb in ow2. “It is easier in the sensebthat there isn’t a second tank” < that is it that is where this sentence stops.
During my climb from plat to masters, I had to beat a 4 stack damaged boosted widow sojourn player who went at least 35+ each game I faced her and I only beat her because I have amazing shot calling skills, and my bap is legendary.
Not to mention every other break neck I had to win on top of the ones where people aren’t in voice.
The way people talk makes it seem like you can just go screw off to Timbuktu too and win… Do you have good aim? Good communication skills? Do you have a diverse hero roster
I was gold on tank and you know how I got to diamond? WITH JUNKERQUEEN DURING HOG ORISA KIRIKO META.
That’s why those 2 sentiments always contridict each other “It’s so easy to climb in ow2” and “why am I not climbing/you don’t deserve to climb”
You still have to ya know play the game to climb yes you can’t just be playing respawn simulator every game and make your way to gm, you can’t heal bot either.
In ow1 you had a second tank who could stop flanks right? But now there not there so if you go on the flank as kiriko… It’s not like you don’t have to hit your kunai and know when to leave and suzu and all that.
Oh I ignored during these things for so long because I simply enjoyed playing overwatch. I played on the weekends, I played during end of season whenever I was on a winning streak I always wanted to keep going.
The 4-0 curse will screw you over more then anything, because yes you probably are a good player, you probably already have “Gotten better” but for some reason no matter what you do under any circumstances that will turn into a 5-7 real quick.
What your talking about would literally just be you boosting your skills to a gm level (which even then all of this would make that easier). If you already play with gm skills your already above all this a gm is the best of the best which means you can climb with the worst of the worst teammates on any day, at any time under any conditions.
i always wondered about this hypothesis. do kids have faster reflexes? im an old guy and yea i dont think my reflexes are what they use to be but maybe i have a bit more sense then when i was young… i think lol
Whoops I put skill instead of school awkward… But nah kids usually… Aren’t that good at the game like the really young ones. Tho I’d say teens are decent enough if not pretty good actually. They can also just be ya know really cringe.(You go into some of these streamers chats and you’ll know what Im talking about they still find trolling funny and all that). The younger kids it’s just you get like 3 options A. There annoying B. They can’t follow instructions (tho the ones who can are pretty amazing). Or C. There outta vc entirely basically just going in and feeding and kiinndda just doing there own thing.
i remember beating ghosts and goblins with 1 life way back in the day and ninja gaiden (original nes) on 1 life
i dont think there is no way i can do that if i tried nowadays. maybe if i played the game continously for a long time and practice but i also think kids have something older people dont have. wonderment and wanting to learn. at my age all i want to do is relax lol
Keep mind if you stop play comp for some days, even you win 5 times in a row. You will not rankup (and will have small chance to receive a rank decay after 5 wins). Idk if this is a bug or not. If i stop play about 7 days or more, even winning all matches after i return i cannot rankup. The game keep me on same rank or just receive a rank decay (even after consecutive wins)
The competitive system attempt to force you playing always for some reason.
Because your thinking about a error this isn’t a constant a “error” is something players have no priority or change over rank inflation simply happened because of the ranks being boosted do to a outside source. However what actually matters still is the overall skill of the player. I didn’t get a single boost from the inflation as well since I am on console (I don’t think any if us did tbh besides like maybe 2 people).
If someones climbed from silver to masters and there overwatch 2 profile matches that means they have simply played the game and won enough to where there own skills got them there. Ignoring outside influences like when ranks bugged and mmr changes.
Also I literally just followed these steps which is everything I did in ow1 I played on weekends, didn’t camp my rank, and would keep grinding even on losing streaks. Hence why I climbed so easily with jq during hog orisa kiriko meta. I just stopped doing this stuff.
All of these steps you have to keep in mind don’t really factor in your own skill heck even GM players hate weekend games (Im watching muma on a 5 game lose streak right now).
Like me going from plat to masters only means something if you assume I got the rank boost… We didn’t get it on console you actually still had to play the game to reach your rank, it’s not like the enemy team just rolled over and died and I didn’t have multiple evenly matched games or games where I was clearly outmatched.
What you inferring means we would have to buy pass how the actual game works which dosen’t work.
Also if I play without coms youd 100% think Im a silver player.
Idk where you’ve read that console players aren’t boosted but as far as I am aware, the rank system is the exact same. Climbing is so much easier and requires far less wins.
No it doesn’t. It means the MM isn’t harsh enough when they lose, and is too generous when they win.
^ this this is why it feels easier.
I’ll explain that overwatch 2 simply allows you to lose “Mid way” which means unlike ow1 where you had to win DIRECTLY back to back, in ow2 you can actually lose 1 or 2 games and still start the boost process… But like if your constantly going 5-2/1 then whats the use in keeping you in a lower rank?
The first thing you mentioned isn’t even what I’m talking im, Im saying I didn’t skip any ranks or go up my mmr has Always directly marched my sr.
the rank inflation thing has me wondering if they messed with the SR. now that its hidden maybe its every 250 sr gets you a new rank. i think it was 500 before
before it was 1500 and below is bronze
1500-2000 silver
2000-2500 gold
maybe they changed that … so it could be now its
1000 and below bronze
1000-1250 silver
1250-1500 gold and so forth
maybe? dont have a clue tho or they could have increased the SR GAIN and not touched the sr requirements for rank?
It’s because it literally is easier. NO ONE climbs from Silver/Gold/Plat to Masters in the space or 2-3 seasons. And it’s worth noting the majority of these people (maybe even yourself) were HARDSTUCK metal ranks in OW1. You don’t go from being hardstuck and then suddenly you become 3 ranks better at the same time a new matchmaking system comes out. Climbing is easier, people are 2-3 ranks above their actual rank and so if anyone still can’t climb then it’s not about luck, it’s about them not deserving to climb.
It’s still relatively the same I did some looking into it. It’s actually not as strong as people think truth is your wins add up. People just forget there previous scorecards. Every single time I start going negative I rank down and everytime I go positive I rank up (% varries). Other people whos wins and loses are scattered all over don’t realize that they have a crap ton of Ws saved up (hence why you can climb with a negative scorecard).
This process resets after 15 loses but if you keep winning you’ll keep climbing, but losing streaks are punished HEAVILY.
You do realize everything I just said abuses the ranking system. You could be absolutely right however Your so stuck in your ego you can’t see that im also right. You do realize everything I said favors me winning? In a system that heavily rewards winning.
Let me explain it to you. In ow1 say you were 2499 but you kept winning and substantially losing games. You’d no longer get the boost as well as dropping.
In ow2 when you go 4-0 your best bet is to stop playing that way when you win the next game not only will you get the boost you just avoided a losing streak.
And even then without doing this I’ve dropped back to diamond 2. Decided to do some weekend games. But if you know how to abuse the system and only play at peak times and stack your wins you’ll climb
This is not entirely correct. Despite what the “Overwatch is dead” people are peddling, we got a huge influx of new players. While they are learning the game, they are losing to older, experienced players, who are moving up in the ranks. The old Bronze players move up by beating the new ones and become Silvers; the old Silvers beat the new ones and move to Gold and many of the old Golds surf up to Plat on this wave, and so on, and so forth. The old Silvers didn’t suddenly become better than the new ones; they were better to begin with, without any help from the iniquitous machinations of the digital matchmaking overlord.
It’s weird really. Am I masters or am I gold or am I diamond or am I plat. These are all ranks i’m hardstuck at across multiple accounts.
My main account is hardstuck plat rn, even though it was masters for 3 seasons. I literally cannot win on it sometimes but if you look at the scoreboard it’s so clear i’m not meant to be in the lobbies. Everyone will have like 11/12 deaths and you’ll see me with 0-3. A third of my matches a barely die. I got sick of this so I made an alt and i’m hardstuck masters on support for it. So which is my rank?
I almost always lose all the close games we have. Usually we will have a clear win and I will think to myself if X does this on our team we will win, if Y does this we will lose. Usually it’s peeking when the enemy team is withdrawing to regroup for a final push (I always ping to fall back and people never listen).
One game in particular we were stomping in push and got it to their spawn at the start. Then in the last 10 seconds of overtime it is around our sides first checkpoint (just before it) and we wipe their team. I start typing, ‘DO NOT PUSH THE ROBOT IF THEY TOUCH IT THEY GET OVERTIME AND COULD WIN’. Team ignores me and pushes robot (it gets to mid) they have a tracer who just touches it by half a second. We somehow lost like 6 fights in a row. All of this was preventable.
Now just yesterday I had a game where we were winning but the enemy team had a final push. We obviously lost a fight at the start of overtime and I was out. I then watched (mei) as our Mercy, Brig and Monkey trickled in wasting ults 1 by 1. Needless to say we lost. Just before this I said don’t ult we aren’t grouped.
I rarely ever have bad games. I know if i’m playing bad. I mainly play support, but when i’m on tank I usually feel the same level of helplessness but for different reasons.
It also doesn’t help that i’m solo queue so i’m more likely to get deadweight. I’ve actually noticed having a team of all randoms usually results in a win. Same with having a duo. But whenever I have a 3 or 4 stack (especially 4 stack) most of the time they are like 2 ranks below and play terribly, lose and then flame the people not in their stack).
OW1 would’ve been a million times better than comp OW2 if we just had a scoreboard. That’s it.
Ahh so I’m not the only one, yeah this is one way I climbed as well I remember playing on a Friday and it was just stack… After stack … After stack… They never join voice chat and there always terrible the reason for this is because coms and how they ignore the other player.
For example mercys won’t come/damage boost me on jq unless I tell them.
In a stack they will literally just stay attached to whoever there with no matter what.
I also got a stack to join vouce before on parisio and my good when I heard them give coms “Is this what stacks coms sound like my god no wonder everyone loses with stacks on there team” “oh but every game is winnable” my guy the coms from stacks LITERALLY turn it into a 1 v 5. The stuff they say you’ll just be like “huh why would we do that? Isn’t that immediate death?” And you just watch as they die 1v1. Not playing at the times stacks or on (and yes finding a duo) if your skills are actually good or even just decent enough is virtually a Guarenteed way to boost your sr. All the stuff I said here would help as well, but If I had to choose between playing on the weekends and never seeing a single stack again on my team in my life I’d choose option 2.
