I haven’t played in over 2 months and my overall health has improved significantly. I no longer get exhausted-anger or stress nearly as much as I did when I played the game.
My advice: take a break and play different games for a while as it’s worth it.
just about the same toxicity level as any other game
doesn’t sound like a toxicity issue tbh
Toxicity disappears when you mute all ingame chat, it’s fantastic, i just mess around in game with friends now and have zero contact with the opposition or randoms who join.
have you had moments where you knew that ONE guy who was muted was losing his mind over the match?
Oh yeah it becomes evident when they ignore everyone else and target you and you see in the death reply the constant pinging.
It really isn’t. Overwatch has always invited a particularly depraved portion of the gaming community for some reason. So there’s that. But, more than that, any teamwork-heavy game is going to be a frustrating experience.
Whether it’s League of Legends, or Overwatch, or high level raids in an MMO - any time your success rests on not just your ability to play, but the ability of random people you’ve never met - that experience is going to be frustrating, and frustration will lead to toxicity.
And that’s ignoring people out there just genuinely looking to troll or ruin another player’s experience, or groups of those people.
These games are really made for players that are looking for a challenge and want to play in a teamwork environment. However, you could argue that most of the people that end up playing it, aren’t those people.
Game isn’t too toxic.
But it sounds like you just had a unhealthy relationship with the game, and gave it too much value in your life.
Very much a you problem.
Naw this isnt an OP problem because there’s far too many people in this game who focus on what everyone else is doing instead of how they can improve and what they’re doing wrong, it’s easier to blame others, I remember being in a game with a Mei before I turned off all communications and this Mei was literally sub 1k damage 0 eliminations and 14 deaths yet decided to blame the tank and healers for their lack of ability to even press a button on the mouse they had in their hand…
So yeah, you’re very much wrong.
Agree in general, a better perspective is needed when playing games.
But, I can only address the op as they are the ones hat explained their situation. So in their situation, it is a them issue, not game.
If you’re getting angry, annoyed, frustrated at the actions of others in a video game. You might want to question why you put so much value into some pixels on a screen.
We’ve all been there, but it doesn’t make the situation better for anyone. You aren’t getting value for that stress.
I don’t get angry or stressed about OW2.
Honestly , its human nature to get angry and that anger can affect your gaming performance for the worse, sensible people get frustrated and put the game down for a break and go back to it later, idiots take out their frustrations on everyone else and create the toxic environment with their vitriol.
Thus. Player problem. Reality check needed for some people.
yall ever played rust
I had to do the same thing a year and a half ago. I found I started getting so angry and worked up to the point I would make snarky remarks around my friends and it was starting to ruin our experience. Took a break to play other games for awhile, now I’m not nearly as ‘ragey’ and don’t care if we lose anymore and play for fun. (Still try my best tho, I just don’t let it get to me now when we lose).
It’s not. It’s one of the more tame games out there.
TIL you can/should pay attention to what your enemies ping.
(In my tier it’s probably literally nothing, as my friends whine at me when I ask for pings, and some don’t even have the key bound).
I find pings are extremely useful and makes people aware of attacks on the backline, sadly alot of players ignore pings outright but thats a tunnel vision issue, I come from alot of Battle Royales where pinging is the base communication in a game.
I don’t think it is. But I also haven’t played other multiplayer games lately, so I have nothing to compare it to.
I agree, I ping things like it’s my dying wish (and often enough, it is). As a Ball player, I can use 3…2…1… Slam every engage and still have teams/players who seem to not know what that means/refuse to learn how to play with Ball. But I guess that’s part a MM issue/playing unranked.
Makes sense. We have a WoW background where suckas are babysat, kill order markings work to handhold/focus, and if you need to, you can shotcall/scream down the mic if people don’t pay attention or misbehave. 2008 was a different time. Our guild was also pretty open/lenient/casual.
For me, personally, my internet constantly ‘wiggles’ plus I’m not natrually gifted at mechanical aim (though do have my moments), so to find success I’ve had to lean more into communication/shot-calling, gamesense, and leading by example on those things.