I have a profond hate to the project managers who thought a mmr reset was a good idea. You do not play the game or are stuck at low ELO. You do not understand that different ELO have different ways of playing and what the few people still playing your game want.
I stuck with this game because when people play it properly it’s really fun. But low ELO is just pure chaos, leavers and kids insulting you as soon as you ask for a swap.
I pushed myself to get to diamond and I loved it. I’m now stuck in low to mid plat and I hate it.
Thank you blizzard, that was my rant, for sure to be forgotten in the abyss but it at least gave me a bit of pleasure to inform you of my hatred.
I’m playing support. If people play the game as they are supposed to, I’m very good at it as I can anticipate what they will do and what the other team will do. But when I’m playing with chimpanzees I can’t, they hide in corners instead of going to their healers when low life, they don’t stay with their tank even though they aren’t flankers. They insult / leave when you try to give them advice.
Sounds like a situation where the devs nerfed the healbotting. You still think the support’s job is “healer”. Mercy isn’t good in this meta. You won’t adapt and go to a support that is more proactive.
Instead of helping them secure a kill you stand there while your DPS 1vs2’s the DPS + support on the enemy team who actually put up damage (do you notice the enemy supports putting up way more dmg that you? If so that’s prolly your problem).
You put me in a game on Lucio I’m thinking about helping my team secure the kills. Notice all you talk about is healing your team so that shows your thinking on support to start is just wrong.
Ok, you flip it around the enemy team is making the same dumb mistakes. For example, hanzo poking ahead of his team before the rest of his team respawning can catch up.
I’m gonna speed boost my DVA over there while I ping this guy out of position. I’m going to kick him in the corner with boop and let DVA clean him up. Then I’m gonna top off the DVA before back up arrives for that Hanzo assuming they took any damage.
You on the other hand will wait for your own Hanzo to poke at them and get murdered not at least equalizing the game by punishing the same mistake on the enemy team. Then you’ll cry it’s your Hanzo’s fault which is only half true.
If you aren’t talented and/or practice enough you don’t get the Disneyworld line skip straight to GM unless you pay for a boosted account and then the game will show you quick you don’t belong there.
If that doesn’t appeal to you don’t sign up for competitive and play QP instead.
But how does me stomping people through the majority of ranks before slowing down near my rank help anyone? I’m essentially smurfing at that point… Just so I can play games at my mmr.
OW isn’t the only game everyone plays. It’s incredibly time consuming and tedious if every game we play does this, which they do at this point.
They did the reset because a bunch of boosted OW 1 players were holding ranks they didn’t belong at. And it worked. The match quality is way better now.
Ok, then if you play with a hero that depends on your team to get kills don’t complain when you are at the whims of random teammates successfully doing that for you. Especially when mercy isnt even good in that particular meta.
Role Queue is a meme. Skill variance is all over the place. Open Queue is decent again.
Pro tip, if you’re playing role queue, just slam a hero to practice with and forget about the rank, your win/loss ratio won’t really change so don’t worry about trying to carry.
Yes … I know everybody else has to grind too.
Did you or my other fellow players have implemented the mmr reset ? No, it was Blizzard and that was the title and the point of my OP. Then why are you talking about "everybody else’ ?
“If earning a rank does not appeal to you there’s quickplay.”
I have absolutely 0 pride about “having a rank”. My love is playing while having something to lose, with people of my skill giving their all, hence ranked matches. And I loved those matches when people were playing the game as it’s supposed to be played. As a team, talking on vocal, accepting constructive criticism, etc … All those things I had finally found them (most of the matches) after grinding from gold to diamond a few seasons ago. And now I lost them.
That’s what’s freaking killing me, having to change my gameplay to grind again with morons. I now have to expect my teamates to do dumb sh1t and assist them in it, praying that it works.
@Torbonly
Thanks for the advice, but I already know the chars, this is a team based game. I’d like to play it the way it’s supposed to, otherwise I’d play CoD. So, yes I do care about my win / loss ratio as I’d dearly like to go back to what I’m used to at higher ranks where people play a team based game.
I tried to find a fixed team, but my work schedule is messed up so that’s really hard.