you’re level 1600+ and still in silver, am I supposed to play better and try my hardest when this is always said, should I just disable text and voice so it doesn’t even come up if I possibly play worse when I read/hear about it, I’ve come across so many toxic players this low amount of SR and now I just hit bronze for my 3rd Season with several throwers every other game, not only that but smurfs who talk toxic like mid and end game even typing in chat instead of playing the game, muting one does nothing because more come later on…
the last game I played, was with this toxic player that was playing dps, telling everyone we all suck and should kill ourselves just because we couldn’t capture both points on Anubis while I was solo healing most of the round, they decided to target and flame me immensely then comes the gripe about me being high level in silver, then they decided to flame everyone in the team but still mainly targeting me for pointing out “why be toxic to our team as if we are going to play better”, lastly they use the words “hard to carry 5 players by myself”, they kept rushing to the point as dps, Soldier and Reaper they had chosen all game, kept saying get on point, not grouping up basically feeding and blaming everyone else, an enemy Pharah that was overwhelming the team that the dps apparently couldn’t handle even the toxic player
I personally keep a positive mindset in every game and try to keep the peace but people tend to target me for speaking out this way, what’s the point in being positive when the people just want to get a rise out of you, sometimes I mute them sometimes I don’t, it’s crucial to have team communication in a game but this game pretty much says maybe we shouldn’t with some individuals that should just be muted all entirely, because they disrupt the game overall
I solo Queue as a Main Healer: Mercy most of my games even often have to solo heal but still get so much hate from my team(s), is this how Overwatch is now, toxic everywhere I go, with no chance of a positive insight, makes me question now, why I kept playing in all Competitive Seasons of Overwatch when I probably should have quit since Season 2
part of the rules I can’t name the person, but then again there’s way too many people to have to name that this kind of behavior is all to known for
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To be honest I have the same critisism when I queue in a plat game with a friend and someone has thousands of hours makings noob mistakes, its confusing to say the least as by this time you’d think people would be able to climb. I thought that taking 3 yrs and 500 hrs to master was me taking too long.
If it has been this long and you are still in bronze you gotta change something. You said you mained Mercy, I did when I was gold. She needs a lot of babysitting if you don’t have great positioning so maybe try a support that can take care of themselves.
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Yes
It isn’t. I don’t use comms in masters and actually turned it off entirely. Even when they were on, 90% of my games didn’t have comms anyway. If it’s not useful in masters it is especially not useful in silver.
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Yep. Do it and the game will become another thing. So quiet. So peaceful…
Nah. I’ve watched lots of streamers that mute comms because it’s full of people screaming.
The thing is. This streamers used to play DPS or Roadhog. So, or are healed or have a healing ability.
The best thing that you could do is change your main to a DPS until high Gold. Then go back to Mercy/healers.
You can see that Mercy is my second most used hero in the game, but I stopped picking her on comp because at the time, in high Silver low Gold, it was impossible to use.
You can’t heal a teammate on a 1v3+, and when they all start to die and run on a line from the spawn to the point, on an endlessly 1v6, you can do even less as a healer.
Or you can play as Mercy on QP, that’s what I do.
Anyone who’s shaming based on level or hours played is just looking for a scapegoat or straight up trolling. I bet most of it happens when your team isn’t doing well. Although sometimes it happens in the spawn room and in those cases they’re just looking for a way to tilt their team - trolling.
It doesn’t matter how many hours you have. If you’re silver, you’re silver. If you’re happy playing in silver then who has any right to tell you that you should have climbed higher by now? If people don’t want to play with a high level silver player maybe they should git gud and just climb out of that rank.
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People tilt. Mute this person it’s an online video game where you have the control to completely delete any communication with this individual. Report and avoid throwers, mute toxic gamers, move on.
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If you don’t join voice you have 0 right to complain about anything and anyone.
If someone is abusive mute them, but not even listening, or making an effort in a team based game is soft throwing.
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I never do as I play in triple Bronze and team play consists of throwing out insults, getting to the point first or collectively ignoring sym turrets frying everybody on the point with a POTG of said turrets afterwards.
Everything below OWL is NOT competitive but qp in another form. So have fun as whatever you play.
Voice chat is practically useless
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Says nobody that’s any good in this game.
Like all those baddies in GM lol
Yeah, those guys on the OWL stage just mute each other.
We actually have a toxicity problem, and people need to report toxic behavior, not opt out of a critical element of a team game because people are frequently jerks.
Communication is obviously not useless, but it has to be quality to have a positive effect. Someone using voice may confuse, annoy, or anger their teammates. Multiple players in voice may bicker. Playing in total silence can easily be more effective.
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If you are that high level in low elo it shows you that you have an inability to learn.
people usually suggest to go dps should I go dps when we already have 3dps? I sacrifice my choices on what to play to have a decent comp or so that people would rather have, dps is always chosen too many times and more than not I’ve seen way too many 3-4-5 dps selections when I sometimes solo heal having that issue, being high level in silver doesn’t bother me, it’s that I have to deal with the team comps that people show they don’t care about the game and I have to suffer through that feeling and know we’re probably going to lose added onto that are leavers which are normal because life happens, power outages ect. can’t control that, but throwers are a common thing in lower tiers as well, one person has a bad day and they decide to be toxic and throw, so by me playing healer all the time trying to keep my team alive, has nothing to do about learning when I’m with 5 randoms who may or may not want to win the game or know how to play or play the game properly, I have no control over that, you get what you get and at the luck of the draw well I’m not so lucky to climb as Mercy
the first time you do your placement matches, you’re near where you already were before them, meaning the only thing you can do to climb is to win games, but that’s hard with these difficult circumstances, placement matches are pretty much useless after the SR was already chosen because not much changes
I’m genuinely surprised people still make these kinds of rant posts, basically ‘I played a game today and a person was mean for no reason! wtf, why can’t everyone be a nice and mature adult!’
Unsure how long you’ve been playing online games, but probably not long. Mean people exist, it’s a thing. Mute them, report them, and move on with your life. The people complaining about how ‘toxic’ people are in Overwatch wouldn’t have survived online gaming in the 90s and early 2000s.
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This is true but if the poster learns to aim it won’t matter who they are playing. I learned yesterday that i can’t fall below 2300 with battle mercy no healing.
Got a 5k
But i guess i agree that it’s easier to just go dps till gold or play a healer with dps
But healer game sense won’t improve by playing dps probably
I do appreciate everyone’s feedback so I’ll probably take the quiet approach and just focus on gameplay rather than communication, although it being a team based game, this is kind of counter productive in COMPETITIVE which defeats the purpose but oh well