Overwatch is inherently a tilt inducing game

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There are a couple of main reasons to why Overwatch tilts people so much and the tilt turns into toxicity, even though that toxicity as a term has become something else completely as far as this forum is concerned.

People legitimately get mad playing this game that it actually affects them even after their game session.

A lot of the things that actually make OW amazing are the exact same things that make it so infuriating to play.

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This post will incluede opinions of Youtubers/streamers, if you are the type to say “who is x and why should I care” just go to another thread even though I do find it hilarious when someone is going to pretend that an individual who affects the lives of literally thousands of peoples on a daily basis somehow don’t matter, because you simply don’t know or care about them.

If I play Overwatch, like I can get mad playing this game (Fortnite), well if I get mad on Overwatch, I’m arguing with my teammates as well, so it’s like a double thing to piss me off… it’s not just the game pissing me off, this knucklehead on my team is pissing me off. - HighDistortion

This to me and to a lot of other people is very relatable. If you play any other game that can be hard or that you for some reason get mad at, that feeling doesn’t stick with you when you turn the game off. Because at the end of the day, you are just mad at the game and not anyone else.
In Overwatch, when you get mad at the game, there’s also a high chance that you get into arguments with your teammates, and that tilt/anger is what will stick with you even after you turn the game off, because you weren’t just mad at the game, you likely had a heated argument with one or more people and now you are mad at them as well.

Timthetatman: Overwatch killed me, like I’d play 8 hours a day, trying to maintain GM top 500 and that is awful… never had a game make me so angry in my life.

SypherPK: I have never been as angry at a game that I have for Overwatch, I have never been as toxic as a person…

Timthetatman: Oh yeah, I’d go to bed angry sometimes, like mad at Alexis (his wife) like she did something.

Latter Sypher tells a story about how his wife still plays the game and wanted to play with him. She’s diamond and doesn’t care about her rank and Sypher used to be GM and doesn’t care either, but even in those placements games he’d still get so upset that his wife didn’t want to play with him.

Full vid, there is a pause in the discussion because of gameplay things but it resumes again around the 12 minute mark.

The thing is that even if you play just for fun, if you play competitive and you are a competitive person, you are very likely to get upset. Because you play with people who don’t care, or aren’t good teammates among other things.

Overwatch is also an extremely team reliant game. You can play out of your mind but it doesn’t take more than 1 person on your team to either not pull their weight or mess up to negate all the good things that you do.

This is what Seagull had to say on Overwatch as a team reliant game:

Like he said, it’s both the best and worst thing about Overwatch because when it works it’s the most fun game in the word thing but when it doesn’t it’s frustrating.
If you can’t even get your team to walk through an area to actually get to the fight because it requires everyone to move behind a barrier then it’s incredibly tilting.

It also comes down to the fact that Overwatch is a very selfless game that’s being played by very selfish people. Even in competitive, there is no common idea of what that game mode is for.
People want to win, but they also have these other conditions tied to that overal objective like only wanting to play certain heroes no matter what, wanting to play without playing as a team and the list goes on.

For people who are truly competitive and wants to play the game the way it was intended will get very upset playing this game and in turn become very toxic even if they weren’t toxic prior to playing this.

This is why just playing without comms isn’t the right choice for someone who is competitive either because the team dependency and the comms are what makes OW truely special… when it works.

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After all these years, people still haven’t learned that if you want a true test of gaming skill, you take up:

  1. Chess.
  2. Golf.
  3. Poker
  4. Starcraft 2
  5. whatever version of Quake/Quake Live/Quake Champions is active.
  6. Bomb Epic Games’ headquarters for not finishing the “New” Unreal Tournament.

Team based games are ONLY for professional/premade competitive play as a genuine test of overall skill. They were never designed to be a true test of solo gaming skill. Same goes for League/DOTA2/whatever other game you like. Only Counter-Strike/CS:Go tends to cross this since you can theoretically 1 hit kill anyone in the game.

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Why would gamers play the 3 first on your list?

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Chess involves strategy, and out thinking your opponent. It gives you ways to re-think about the way you will tackle an objective. Also it’s fun. (I love it.)
Golf…meh
Poker… only if you got easy prey for the pot.

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I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. Every competitive game is going to be frustrating, more frustrating the more team mates you have. It’s not like this is news to anyone. If people want to be better at the game they will learn to adjust their expectations to stop raging and focus on their own gameplay to improve. Mastering this gained me probably 500 or more SR alone. The only time I tilt now is when my ISP decides the internet has to go out for a minute >.<

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It’s a team based game. If you play this game solo with randoms then you are bound to have frustrating moments. You can’t trust people you don’t know.

If you want to win more and have more fun with the game, play it with friends or people you can trust.

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I don’t remember LoL ever making me tilt

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I mean, all multiplayer games with PvP aspects are very tilt inducing.
I haven’t played any pvp mulitplayer games where there is no tilting (or I haven’t played enough pvp multiplayers).

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Damn, this post has me actually re-thinking about playing Overwatch. I was Legendary Eagle in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and now I’ve consistently stayed diamond in Overwatch, just about every competitive season. The game becomes a chore.

I guess its time I think about what games I play, especially as I get older.

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You can’t forget the fact that all your effort on training days and days is not worth.
The game is totally unbalanced, blizzard knows that but they think that this is fun

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The point is really the title. People seem to not understand why people get so tilted/mad in this game and the complaints about toxicity. I just wanted people to know that everyone who is tilted and becomes toxic because of it aren’t always the scum of the earth that people make them out to be. Anyone who takes comp seriously are basically setup by the game/community to become a rage monster.

And this also a part of the problem. You have to invest so much time into finding good players that you can trust and play with consistently rather than just play and be able to expect that your teammates have the same competitive mindset to the game mode.

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I disagree.

IMO it’s all about personal maturity.

Immature people ‘tilt’ easier than mature people who have more control over their behaviors.

If you find yourself ‘tilting’ often, go look in the mirror.

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That is not a good thing, is just the worst, not the best. Teamwork should be rewarded, not required.

A game being heavily team-based is not a quality.

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Well yeah its tilt inducing. It’s a competitive game and it’s going to be frustrating when you try your best and still cant win. That doesnt mean you cant act like an adult and not spam mic chat with your crybaby nonsense tho.

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Or you could just do what my friends and I did and just simply quit. Honestly, the game wasn’t rewarding enough anymore to become fun. It was more of a chore and frustration more than anything.

My friends and I never really comped much we mostly QP and casually played and its you’re either being steamrolled or doing the steamrolling. Either way, it’s not fun. The game is very unbalanced in its current state. You may have a clutch balanced game in 1 in 30.

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Care to explain on exactly the same base how Kim Kardashian does matter, other than being an overrated celebrity? Millions do know her, so she does matter, right?

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It wasn’t always crazy tilting, back in early days the only thing that pissed people off was Roadhog’s hook combo pulling people from across the universe.

They made it tilting by gutting heroes left and right then going back and giving the new heroes the same frustrating mechanics they took away from the old heroes.
Not to mention the game has no identity, at first the game was about having 6 winstons, then it was about dynamic teamcomps, now it’s 6vs6 mirror matches.

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It feels like a movie so often. No matter what you do it always ends the same. It kinda turns me insane sometimes and brings me worst ideas to
my mind.

You cant take comp serious unless you 6 stack, you just cant. You would smash your head against wall soon.

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Kim K affects more people every day. Kim K for President?

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Lol I do… I even tried playing a couple of days ago (haven’t played in a year) lord all mighty couldn’t stand it and that was on a smurf (i have 20… don’t ask why :rofl:) meaning I shouldn’t care if I win or lose.