That was my experience last night. Loaded up OW, queued tank into King’s Row attack, walked out of spawn to first choke, peeked choke to see what we were dealing with, got slept, got naded from sleep, got 5-orbed and storm-arrowed, dead before I got control of my character back from sleep. Alt-F4 and loaded up Marvel Rivals. As tank I survived 15s and all I did was peek to see the other team.
I’ve never had this experience in MR but it is common enough in OW with Ana existing that I’m really struggling to even bother opening OW any more. I hadn’t opened it the previous day, preferring to spend time learning some MR heroes, then when I do open it I’m met with death within 15s of the game starting on tank.
Is it a skill issue? Not sure in this case as I literally peaked the corner and I assume Hanzo still had a sonic on it (how can you tell if you didn’t see it go on?) and got slept for doing so. Once slept there is nothing you can do except hope they don’t follow through, but if they do you, as tank, are dead instantly.
I really understand why people don’t play tank in 5v5, and usually it starts with an A.
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I uninstalled. If I reinstall, I’ll grab a code (if I can from a game I left 15s in).
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But, I thought tanks are unkillable raid bosses in OW?
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They introduced themselves comprehensively.
#PMA
OW2 is legitimately awful to play now because matches are almost always so unbalanced… any one still grinding this game must be some sort of sadist. I can last maybe 2-3 games before I realize again why I hate what this game has become.
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though i agree that 5v5 tank is not a fun experience, but if you loaded up a shooter and expected to just survive… well that’s on you.
ow is at its worst when things never die.
that said it feels bad because the 5v5 tank has so much impact. if you die your team aint gonna be able to carry your slack. 5v5 role queue is what imo is destroying fun in ow2.
the reason why you dont feel like it in rivals is because theres a whole other teammate able to pick up the slack. and rivals has insanely high power levels compared to ow.
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Sounds like one pretty unlucky death tbh. That you were not woken up until multiple burst dmg sources came at the exact same time, and they had 2 pretty unpopular heroes being zen and hanzo to be able to do it. If you don’t enjoy the game fine, but 1 death to rage quit seems a bit much.
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That’s where i’m at i tried playing OW again a few times but just had the urge to go play MR, game is broken it can’t be fixed
If blizzard want peak OW again they need to invest a lot and start fresh with ow3/ow rebirth/ow classic or whatever, with 6v6 format
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It’s not 1 death though. It’s not that untypical to die, even as tank, from being slept followed by nade. Ana is just way too oppressive against tanks and sleep+nade+any other damage source can kill you because it takes so long after the nade hits for you to get back any control of your hero while waking up.
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I made a wishlist for my ideal game. It’s called “pvp without bull”. Overwatch was a big inspiration I have to say.
I did the same thing in reverse.
Loaded up MR. Lost 3 points in under 3 minutes, left and got on OW.
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Yep, the game is still trash. Tried one round. Havent played since season 4. This abomination of a game needs to die
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Funny how every miserable tank game starts with Ana huh
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Oh I agree Ana is a menace on tanks, but going 100-0 soon as you peek a corner before being able to react is quite rare.
Also depends on the tank you are for how effective she is, for example does a lot less vs Zarya, or like Dva who is good with matrix compared to hog or mauga who are free.
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hopefully you don’t die in MR.
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Unlucky, very unlucky. I wonder what you played and what supports you had.
Discord is already a death sentence for tanks if you can’t cleanse it or break los.
Full storm arrow on a discorded target is a crapton of damage + the full volley
The sleep just enabled it.
“I died in OW D:< So I’m going to make a post about it!”
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Please go ahead, play MR then.
I’ve seen you complaining about the same thing (anti/sleep/storm arrow) for months on this forum. You’re just trying to fit another thing (which is leaving OW for MR this time) into your own narrtive.
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How many times have you uninstalled and reinstalled overwatch at this point
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