I can’t play quickplay without feeling dissatisfied, so i usually play comp. I have tried one tricking, playing in groups, solo queue flex. Literally everything and i’m stuck in this loop of always winning one game and losing two. I have been playing for almost a year now, and it feels like more of a chore than a game now. It’s kind of fun when you win but every loss makes me feel terrible. When you lose you lose hard. Finally just uninstalled because i’ve had enough. other than lucioball i’ve never really liked the game because it just makes me feel bad but want to keep playing because maybe i’ll stop feeling bad
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Eh, I do not care about losses shared with 5 other people. You should try focusing on self improvement instead. You will probably feel a lot better about your progress.
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Whenever you play, there is always going to be a winner and a loser.
So when it comes to it, scream a bit and see what you can take from it.
But in this case, it really seems like you did the best hing and just uninstalled.
Play something that makes you happy.
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If something in life is making you feel terrible then you should stop doing it. It’s that simple. This isn’t an “Overwatch” problem but a “you” problem. It’s like you’re sitting there chugging down the alcohol knowing it makes you feel like crap yet you keep doing it. Maybe you’re borderline addiction? I donno, I’m no professional.
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I was down a while ago.
Take a break. Play another game (for me some solo games on my PS4 (I play OW on PC)) then come back and do you. Play what you want, communicate, have fun. I’m enjoying the game again.
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I just came here from playing for about an hour and I feel like hot garbage now - I’m frustrated and upset, it felt like EVERY team I was on was soft throwing and just didn’t give a crap. Genji and Tracer teams into Torbs with Bastion and Orisa comps, seriously?!?! Is that FUN for you to get relentlessly murdered every time you step out there? Because that’s what’s happening!
I just don’t get it. I don’t understand WHY every match feels like I have a team of mentally defficient starfish as my teammates and the enemy is like, super smurfs or at least marginally willing to cooperate, which puts them at such an advantage over us that there is NO CHANCE of winning.
Like - it’s not a good sign when I leave a game ten times more frustrated and mad than when I went in. And it sucks.
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gg |||| go |||| next
I personally have an ideology that if im losing, it means im worse and that this is my chance to get better through adversity.
So when im winning, im excited to show off my skills and when im losing, im excited for the chance to get better.
It actually helps me enjoy the game more than when I feel like i deserve to win all the time and get frustrated that im not.
Same with general annoying abilities and heroes. If that pharah is countering me as doom, instead of getting frustrated that i deserve to beat her because im playing the more skilled hero or anything, i instead look forward to it as a chance to get better so next time pharah wont be able to beat me as easily.
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ve been playing for 2 years now, or is 3? since the game came out anyway, and at the one year mark i felt pretty bad for similar reasons to op/you. But after growing more and more i actually enjoy even the bad games like doctor kid said. If you play a role theres a hero within their somewhere designed just for this cheese thats making it unwinnable (also never forget some games are truly unwinnable, a lot of what seperates the pros and plebs is consistency rather than an insane skill gap). I mean like the bastion orisa cheese, no one suffers from that more than me a main tank, and yet i enjoy the games, if im playing rein my shield is gone in a second, orisa gone in a second, winston gone in a second along with me, but if i play hammond i can play some creative angles and generally outmanouver them etc. along with rein, my shield may be gone but if i creativley flank and lead the team the right way i can cause a collapse on their insane cheese comp despite our team being useless compared. But chances are youre a dps which means you have ten times more variety and choices to do such things
You sir have just Won the game. 
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Yeah but you as Hammond alone cannot counter a Bastion / Orisa / Mercy that are working together. Ultimately this is a team game, you NEED your team in order to win unless you’re playing against people who are so below your skill level that you’re able to reliably and easily kill the enemy team with any character you play. Most people are not that, and should not be that, because the point of the game is to play against people who challenge you.
It’s funny you bring up hammond - I swapped to hammond, actually, and spent the rest of the match desperately trying to convince my team to go dive when they simply refused to swap at all. Then they blamed me for swapping off of heals, as if me playing Ana would have been able to heal them through a Bastion / Orisa / Mercy bunker while they were playing characters like Tracer, Genji and Hanzo with no barrier to support them.
Sometimes you just can’t fix stupid. It’s just the reality of the game. And just because you are able to turn your brain off and not get mad at wasting 20 minutes and a bunch of effort doesn’t mean you’re ‘right’ or anything - it just means it doesn’t bother you. It’s still a legit thing to get bothered about though.
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What a great tip, until you get flattened by 3-4 others on a much better coordinated team and you can’t do anything because you can’t counter 4 heroes at the same time.
This sounds like Plat in a nutshell. Sure you can improve yourself all you want, but unless you’re 100s of sr above your enemies it won’t matter how well you do if you have a team of 4 dps that run head first into 5 people hiding behind a shield.
There is only so much you can do as one person in a game consisting of 12 people total. Improving and doing the best you can doesn’t make it any less frustrating to play.
Isn’t it sad that you have to find alternative reasons to find enjoyment out a game?
“Yeah i just took it hard on the chin, but at least is wasn’t as bad as the last game! YAY!”
OP did the right thing in uninstalling. We should always congratulate someone when they free themselves from the shackles of overwatch.
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Yes indeed. Congratulations OP! Your willpower is stronger than mine.
Yesterday was a very lousy day for me in OW. I usually don’t do comp, but QP was so bad with randoms that I decided to try comp (placements). Man, the toxicity was unbareable. I should have muted all chats from the start but didn’t, and got tilted by the abusive chat and the constant trickling of every1 of my teammates to their deaths.
I was so close to uninstalling, but I didn’t. And now I’m sure when I get home I’ll start the game “maybe this time will be different”, “maybe this time it won’t suck”.
Maybe I’ll keep to Gauntlet. That mode is more enjoyable than the others.
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Are you your measure isn’t subjective in that it feels like you win one and lose two and not actually winning one then two?
The way the SR works you should overall be winning one and losing one on average. If you go on a streak one way or the other the SR should inevitably rank you up or down until you’re breaking even again.
If you want a game where you win most of your games then this isn’t a game for you. The way SR works alone is going to frustrate the hell out of you.
Kind of reminds me of a friend who was frustrated because he kept expecting to win half his games in a 5-v-5 MTG card game. Save yourself a lot of grief and set your expectations accordingly if this is actually the case. No sense in unwarranted heartburn.
Winning isn’t everything. You can’t control your teammates. Just chill and have fun. Man. So many uptight people playing a cartoon game.
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Play a worse game, then come back. I played Paladins after I got tired of Overwatch, and that game was way more broken than Overwatch. When I came back, it felt so much better
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well yeah sure not all the time, some games are straight up unwinnable even the best player in the world cant win certain plat games, like if you watch pros v bronze players youd think it would be a walk in the park but suprisingly not so much in certain cases. But yeah as the support youre not going to carry on a hammond, but as a main tank, i dont use comms whatsoever but just use my plays and timings etc. Like the other day they had a bastion bunker comp on first point defence of hollywood ( set up on the first thing you see through the bridge) so as rein i just walked round the stairs and naturally at least one guy followed me, then waited for someone else to take the aggro and i just walked straight in zarya bubbled me, one of our dps then saw 2 people pushing so he pushed up you dont need to tell him to dive you should inspire them to. And sure enough their brick wall came crumbling down on them, some stayed and got killed by us others dropped down and got killed by my teammates that didn’t follow. We had no comp and no strat and their comp countered me, but like i said just finding the angles and inspiring other players through your actions and we ez clapped them. As for hammond, i go him against bastion a lot of the time because like i said bastion just melts every other main tank, so like attacking horizon lets say, i cant push through anywhere thanks to the bastion, so i just go hammond, and then at the end of the day the objectives all that matters, so literally just touching the point can split their bunker in 2 most times as a few people touch the point to contest at which point you can pick off these straggles or attack the original bunker now its weakened, or make them reassemble elsewhere blah blah blah, the point is theres usually always a way around it and its usually always fun figuring out a way. But yeah im not saying a buddhist immune to tilting, like i said a year a go id have been saying the same thing as you and the op. But people get higher ranks by being better which means solo carrying and inevitably losing a lot of games, just winning the majority and climbing by default by big brain plays. Something worth noting as well, which doesnt really apply to me as a main tank, but my brother is an off support so he plays zen and ana pretty much exclusively, he was stuck in plat for ages, even dropped to gold and was stuck their for a bit. He bought a 144hz monitor and went to diamond a day or 2 later and masters a week or so after that. Space the pro players emphasises this as well saying youre at a huge disadvantage if your at 60 like me, but again i play main tank so cant really be bothered forking out but if you play support dps or flex definatly worth considering, especially once you hit the diamond point where majority of people have the 144hz advantage. I never play widow or dps so naturally im trash at her/them but i had a quick go on his pc and was actually thinking this is a joke how easy it is to get headshots on widow, instantly went from a bronze widow to a masters (skill wise) sorry for the essay
This is very true. Paladins wasn’t ‘bad’ per say but it definitely made me appreciate OW, and when I came back OW2 was out and it was even more polished.