It was never about leavers was it?
It was about QP games sounding like they are going to be more balanced and enjoyable than competitive, only for that to be ruined by someone leaving.
Now that makes much more sense.
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If only we had a real matchmaking system, instead of marketing tool desiged to hand out pitty wins
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I mean you do, all you have to do is have a team or break through majority of the ranks and be Masters and above and your games will perhaps be more fair
And “play with friends” (teamstack) to actually do it.
Then you just get to play matches against players typically way worse than your team overall and get a win that even less enjoyable…
Im not a sadist, i dont get off on pubstomping… especially when theres nothing meaningful to gain from it
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you can at least confirm that it wasn’t your skill holding you back
Nah, tbh im an oldschool tf2 highlander player who retired almost a decade ago…
Competitive gaming now days is a joke, its either about money, or people trying to feel good about themselves at the expense of others… the spirit of competition is dead…
Im just a casual old man who cant abandon his Competitive mindset
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I must be the only one dreaming of worthy opponents
Leavers in QP are annoying, but ya know, there’s backfill so it isn’t so bad. Whatever…
Leavers in Comp are… well… they’re bad people who deserve to be banned.
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I miss the days of creative builds/strategies.
Now its just copying what the streamers say is the Most OP, Broken, Godlike, Dominant or Busted.
Just watch any game with customizable builds in them and you can count using the digits on your person the amount of opponents that WON’T blatantly copy what the Streamers put out yesterday.
I was one of the most feared medics in the early days of tf2 highlander, because i was unpredictable… i won fights i never should have taken… more often than i lost them
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you mean the backfill that won’t tryhard, and also has chance to leave too?
blame the technology and parents, lack of creativity caused by abominations of an apps like TikTok (who else do you think played OW in it’s horrible state just because it was F2P?)
I mean the backfill that’s better than the person who left 90% of the time.
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I am one of those leavers… If I see my Rein two fights in a row hit charge on cooldown and dive so deep no one can save him then he gets melted…I’m out, don’t care cya. Also if I get put into a backfill and I see the my side is 0-20 cya. penalty me, Ban me, do whatever you got to do but you wont be holding me.
I come in and spend my time to play and enjoy the game as it was meant to be played. If you are to dumb or ignorant for that then I’m out
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I just stop trying and start trolling
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I prefer leavers as they are usually the problem and it replaces them with someone more competent 90% of the time. If they get a leaver, I immediately know to not get complacent because their team just got stronger.
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how do you know the leaver is stronger? the same person who leaves will queue and has a chance to be backfilled
I don’t think this is as true in OW2 as it used to be, but I’ll admit I’ve got nothing to back that up except my gut feeling.
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oh you mean when your tank leaves, 15 seconds later someone else joins, realises after 10 seconds its an ongoing match, leaves, it cycles, someone else leaves because we haven’t had a tank for a nearly a minute now, 15 seconds later someone else joins to a DEFEAT screen.
as long as their is no punishment for leaving, people will continue to do it, and waste everyone’s time who actually wants to play.
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Same.
So, maybe I’ve just gotten lucky, but I haven’t really had the string of leavers happen to me. I’ve once or twice had the matchmaker take too long to find someone, but literally only a couple times at most.
I’ve definitely backfilled into a defeat screen, but ya know what? Those games counted towards my daily and weekly challenges so at least I got something out of it.
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Blutsauger op lol