Is it me, or has QP gone completely to crap??? The last few nights it has been nothing but the same. Healers won’t heal, dps not doing damage/kills, tanks not tanking, and on purpose, not because of new players. When you ask someone to change, say a dps that’s 0-7/1-9, and the favorite comeback is its QP, or go play ranked. Nothing wrong with learning a new character, but lets be honest, the majority of the people that play today, are either older OW1 players, or old players on new accounts, so its not like “everyone” is learning a new character. When you’re hurting the team and even the other team is calling it out, why not switch to help. Seems to be a systemic issue where people/teams come into a game to purposely do this, or just intentional throwing.
This used to be my favorite game for years now, but I’m honestly waiting on Marvel’s to come out because there’s way to many people intentionally joining games to throw and bait for toxicity.
What’s the purpose to try anymore? Most games it doesn’t matter since you have atleast one person soft throwing. Alt accounts everywhere. Cheaters common in most sessions. Like what is the purpose?
There’s a few ways to learn a character without hurting the gameplay of others. You can go the training area, missions, hero mastery, plenty of options to learn other characters. Don’t get me wrong, I’m fine with someone learning, if they actually try. The biggest problem for me, is when people join, especially when its more than one, to just throw and disrupt the whole game. You try to report it, but nothing ever happens.
QP matchmaking works, but not every time. There are stomps here and there, but I notice matchmaking is placing people with 1500hrs, diamond ranks and stuff in my games, so it’s OK, people kinda know how to play.
I wonder if personal stats play a significant role these days. After getting decent damage and elims for few matches, I noticed that players I’m matched with were getting a bit more sweaty.
i didnt know learning a new character meant feeding your brains out
i wish matchmaking still worked like that, at least trying hard was fun when the lobby had better players than you in it.
now i rarely get anyone better than me in game unless theyre some dps smurf who doesnt care about both teams having fun.
If things are not going a certain way for people. They throw the proverbial vehicle into Neutral and let it coast.
The whole “move over if you dont like the way things are going and let someone else in line” ordeal is gone. It makes for stagnant matches.
I mean literally its so obvious that they really forced this problem on us, that it is too obvious when everyone just stops what they are doing after the first fight is lost. The scoreboard is dominated by the enemy team 5 to 1 and people just begin to re-spawn and run into the enemy as fast as they can, just to burn up the clock until time runs out.
Its now called “Over Spawn” or “Throw-ver-watch” because whats the point to playing an unwinnable match.
Maybe if there was some actual mechanics shifts that allowed for catch-ups against poorly matched teams that shifted it… or… or better yet!
They actually balance teams.
no more of this mixing solos with premade duos or trios. or allowing for FREE ACCOUNT creation. tired of it. its time they take the flood gate and at least mitigate free accounts.
Until this. happens. This game is not going anywhere.
We all need to advocate here that this game needs to cost 40-60 dollars PER account and that they randomly do NOT announce it if they do this. Just all of the sudden go live and tell the world “no more free accounts”.
I’m ngl, terrible supports are what kills this game the most for me in QP. I play QP the most because I want short matches, but the supports are just absolutely horrendous. It’s one reason I play supp so often and hate playing dps. Dps I have a 99% chance to have supports that completely ignore me and am forced to play someone with self sustain. Support at least I can support myself.
And no, before the other support mains come clutching their pearls at the thought of someone in their role taking any criticism, it’s not bad positioning. I’m talking majority of games being right beside my supports who completely ignore me.
Dps’ing while I’m dying right next to them is entirely too common. It happens A LOT. Like almost every game. Happened just now in a game I played where a mccree was, for some reason, at our spawn doors at the beginning of a match. I ping him, we kind of ring around the rosey a column, I have him at half health, both of my supports turn around and just shoot at him. 0 healing. I get grenaded and die. Never got healed that entire game, but I did watch them DPS and I just swapped to mei to heal myself.
I seriously hate majority of supports in QP so much I almost want to just play comp to get away from them a little bit.
ETA: I can handle bad tanks/dps, because it is what it is, but there is something particularly infuriating about standing directly beside people who could help prevent your death and they just don’t even react to the visual or audio stimuli. On the rare occasion I get someone with a smidge of game/common sense, I want to shower them with kisses and endorsements because it seems so rare.
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