You’re telling me that blizzard focused for TWO months trying to see if we can make a 3DPS 2 healers and one tank for competitive?! When they could’ve been using that time Fix rank mode and balance characters. For the love of god blizzard just Focus on fixing the game for rank placement and hero balancing Because telling us that you that’s the project you were working on and telling us that it’s not gonna happen is just a waste of time and money
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calm down…
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There is nothing wrong with ranked mode to fix really.
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Really so there’s something wrong with placing five wins for placement matches to just wind up in the same rank over and over
Yep, works perfectly fine. It’s a solid system that is proven time and time again as a fully functional… haha nah… it’s broke man.
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Mmr handicap system. Performancee based Sr which encourages poor team play and one tricking.placements being time and time again a waste of time.
I am begging for Practice Range to have full hero models that just stand there, or a few that move around and dont fire back.
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Placements shouldn’t shift you wildly they are to short a sample size to be nearly reliable enough for major changes.
There is no handicapping, Performance based SR only benefits you if you know what your doing and it stops at diamond where people generally speaking do. 1 tricking doesn’t help you with the SR gains that’s an outright myth, The reason one tricks climb is becuase they tend to know how to excell on there hero even in situations where they in theory shouldn’t be able to that’s down to them mastering a skillset not a flaw in the system.
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Dude, yes things may not be great right now but seriously calm down and just be APPRECIATIVE!
Three crazy-awesome things were discovered in that post by Jeff.
- He’s communicating with us about OW1
- He and the devs have not completely given up on OW1
- They’re still thinking of ways to improve OW1, and not just tossing us skins and listening to the loudest crying for balance patches.
He’s having people actually play the game-which just that- has the potential to do so much considering so many people have been like “do they even play their own game lately?”
Also… what have you been doing for 2 months? Instead of telling others what to focus on, maybe you focus on your own plays and find a way to make them work.
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it actually does until diamond, for the reasons you just mention after
I really hate to defend the OW team… BUT, there are many teams in a development group. I am very sure they have a special set of devs move over to a ‘what if’ team when necessary. I have been pulled many times in the last 30ish years to make software changes that may or may not ever see the light of day. The balance teams don’t all move over. The design teams don’t all move over. Most likely 10ish people to make the little sand box for internal playtime. I have, to date, never liked Jeff as a leader, but that aside he is free to do what he wants to with the developers at Blizzard OW.
Not really I mean to an extent a 1 trick might benefit from PBSR just becuase they take time to properly master there craft but they could in theory do that just as well across multiple heros it would just take a little more time becuase learning a wider range at a high level takes more time. It’s nothing inherent about 1 tricking that makes climbing any easier.
There is handicapping but agree to disagree. Moving on. Don’t want to argue this.
Performance based Sr encourages one tricking and this is what I mean. Let’s say your team needs -insert hero here- that’s the win condition but you won’t be able to wrack up stats as efficiently as you do on one specific hero. You will play that hero and lose because you didn’t want to risk losing more Sr or gaining less.
Now that you can play dps every game or tank every game or support every game. You spend time to learn multiple heroes in one class opposed to spreading out your time to be reliable on three classes with two sub classes each.
If you’re on pc I have a workshop code for better practice range. I’ll reply to you in this thread with it later today when I get home.
Boosted players, throwers, hacking is becoming more and more common, also the meta is awful and the shield tank rework shows how little they understand about the game, that’s what’s wrong with ranked
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Why should you care seriously why cant you be greatful to actually have developers that actually stay in touch with the community and willing to spend time and money to experiment way to improve the game long term seriously what’s wrong with you its extremely rare to have developers like these. I love overwatch it’s in my top 5 favourite games of all time.
Do the developers get it right no. Do I agree with certain desisions they make absolutely not but do they try yes they do look at how the game has changes and developed from laughed to now. Its drastic
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I deep down hope you are a Blizz employee. 
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I wish people would stop posting these threads without referencing the sources for their information
not all of us scour the forums and reddit for dev posts like vultures looking for a fresh piece of roadkill
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Someone has made a pratice range just like u said in the workshop. I will have to get home to tell u the code but can relay it to u when i get there 