I’m a new player and I’m really bad at this game, but I’ve been having a lot of fun. At least at first. After playing the game for a while, I noticed some people were really upset with me for not being good at the game and not playing correctly (I recently unlocked Sombra and wasn’t playing her the right way according to them). This is the first FPS game I’ve played on PC, so I’m still getting used to the controls. I tried practicing against AI to try to improve and do decently, but when I play against other players I suck really bad. I’ve only met one person who was nice enough to give some advice and not hurl insults at me. All the negativity is kind of making me not want to play the game for much longer.
What is some advice you could give to a new player? I really like playing as Lucio, Briggite, Junkrat and Reaper and want to know better ways to play them.
Also, what does “diff” mean?
And is there a way to disable all the flashing lights and screen effects? I’m not epileptic, but all the flashing makes me dizzy and effects my aim. It also causes a of lag and has forced me to leave games on multiple occasions.
Edit: Thanks for the tips, everyone!
Edit 2: After some thought, I think I’ve decided to avoid playing with other people at all costs. I recently found out I can create a custom game and play with and against AI. I know avoiding playing with other people is probably not going to help me get any better, but I can at least not worry about winning or losing a game and can experiment or just mess around with the AI. Thanks again to everyone who did give advice. I appreciated it.
Just to manage expectations. I have been here since launch and sometimes people still tell me I’m playing the game the wrong way, even people who are 2 or 3 full ranks below me. Its just easier to blame someone else than look at your own mistakes.
For improvement look at YT and after you learned the basics maybe you find a high ranking twitch streamer that plays your heroes and explains his/her decision making a little.
Hiding text chat and not entering voicechat is still something a lot of people will recommend. Kinda depends on your ability to ignore insults and such.
Turn off match chat & just keep playing I promise you will improve over time that is inevitable.
The tip I would suggest is try very hard not to die for example when you do die watch the killcam & see how you died soyou can avoid doing that again.
So many players will never improve because they are absolutely adamant that their death from being out of position is always someone else’s fault , the whole “ my team mates are trash , my dps cant aim “ , these players will never improve.
Like everyone else is saying just keep practicing and turn off chat if it bothers you. Watch videos on how to improve. Mechanical skills are one thing, game sense is entirely different and will take time to learn
DISABLE CHAT because in-game community is very toxic
LEARN THE BASICS of EVERY character, role, map, and mode since it will help you know how to handle different scenarios
FIND A NEW GAME because the developers that made this 2016 GOTY are long gone or stopped caring about the community
I’m sorry you had to deal with toxic people but that’s how most the community is these days. If you argue back at them it might get your account banned. If you play badly it might get your account banned. If you stick to one character you love playing it might get your account banned. This is why I tell people to avoid this game and find something else worth their time.
Definitely turn off the chat, there’s nothing of value to be found there and you don’t need to verbally communicate with your team until you’re a really high rank and in ranked games. Use your ping well and call for help when you need it using your comms wheel, but nothing other than that is required.
You can look up videos of heroes you enjoy or are trying to learn to get good tips. There are plenty of great “Tips for x hero” vids on YouTube. A lot of streamers will do vod reviews for you too, they’ll watch your game and let you know what you’re doing right or wrong and what you should be doing instead. Or at least they used to. I think ML7 still does occasionally, but can’t speak for any others.
You can ask for vod reviews here as well, many nice people will help you out, but keep in mind that many people on these forums are also sad, toxic people and they’ll also be able to view the vod and give their unhelpful, rude comments.
You don’t need to find another game, most of the people who’ll say that are just salty because they can’t get free skins anymore and none of the other problems the game has are really worth leaving the game over if you’re a new player. You never played 6v6, so that reasoning wouldn’t apply to you either.
If you enjoy it, I say stick it out on your own terms, ignore the in-game community and just have fun until you’re not having fun anymore. That will be your indication it’s time to move on, not the words of disgruntled OG players.
And 99% of getting better is just playing more and realising your mistakes, and I don’t mean VOD review no one actually does that lol.
I would argue realising your mistakes in the moment is a better skill than having amazing aim since even cheaters can get stuck in Gold because they have no gamesense and realising your mistakes allows you to rapidly improve.
You just have to realise in the moment why you died, so for example when I die on Widow one of my worst characters I think to myself why did I die.
Was I too close? Did I stay in the same place for too long and enemy caught on and started spamming it and flanking me or whatever.
Watch videos on YT showing characters gameplay. There are plenty of them. Practice against the bots. Get a feel for the character, then go into a regular game. And it won’t matter how good you get, someone will always say something to get under your skin. Just ignore them.
just play whatever, and get familiar with the heroes, one of biggest flaws with OW, is the fact you don’t know who is new and who isn’t, and i think new profiles are private by the start seeing how game has been out 6-7 years most me included assume most are not new players, another problems with private profiles… I am more patient when i know there new than when i don’t
Respect the things that can kill you. This is legitimately the difference between a Bronze and a Plat. For example, you’re playing Junkrat and facing a Tracer or a Sombra. Instead of fighting them, you run TF away. They will not lose that 1v1.
Prioritize your life over kills 99% of the time. You staying alive and not staggering yourself at the cost of a kill is worth it.
I’d also recommend watching A LOT of A10 on YouTube. Watching his mindset videos, not even really his guides, helped me rank up from Gold to GM. This game will make you frustrated very easily unless you keep a very healthy mindset on it.
People will always be mean over the Internet. I’d suggest turning off chat unless your mental state can handle it.
If you insist on playing this game, I recommend going into Total Mayhem in Arcade to practice. In TM you have double health and all your cooldowns are much faster. It will be absurd and messy, but you will have a lot more practice to get the muscle memory down, as you can use abilities more often and you live a lot longer through mistakes.
I actually go into Total Mayhem to try out a new hero also. Whatever you do, do NOT play FFA deathmatch because you will learn nothing getting killed every 10 seconds before you can fire a single shot.
I would not play Sombra if you are new to the game. To be effective with her, like really effective, you need to be predictive and have great timing (which also means you need good positioning), not to mention understand all the other ults in the game and which ones hacking can cancel (for example you can cancel sigma alt before he smashes people down but hacking soldier will not take him out of visor). You also need to do a lot of call outs because you will get real good with noticing who has and doesn’t have all on the enemy team. She’s a scout, a dualist, an annoyance character. The skills floor is not low. If you like that kind of character I would start with soldier first, unless you really love the mobility of translocator.
I’m biased but I think some of the easiest characters to use are projectile based such a symmetra, junkrat, orisa, baptiste, lifeweaver, rammatra… You aren’t supposed to be getting a lot of body shots and headshots with them and they take that into account.
I think if you go in the video options you can actually reduce camera shaking and effects complexity, so game won’t look so visually chaotic.
As much as many of us would like to see you reply back with “I QUIT THIS CRAP” after playing FFA… it’s the total opposite of Mayhem because it often has 1-2 top level players destroying everyone.
Total Mayhem: play this a lot to learn. (it’s not up right now though)
Low Gravity: do NOT play this as a learner, because the physics will teach the wrong way.
No Limits: a bad idea because these are completely unrealistic matches. 4 Torbs? 5 Illaris?
Hero Gauntlet and 3v3 are like FFA where you just don’t spend enough time with 1 hero to learn.