Queue times in silver

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dps queue WITH tickets;

they say 4 min

going on 9 mins now

in silver

with ticket

?

how is this acceptable?`
don’t say 4 min if you mean more than double that lol.
atleast they won’t take the ticket away from me now that i’ve ALREADY WAITED

ouf come on man. how is this a AAA game in 2021.

edit: aaaand a guy left immediatly. now i’m back in queue with priority requeue. 3 mins in. what’s the point lol.

edit #2: this is me. a dps in silver. with a priority TICKET waiting for 10 mins, a guy immediatly leaves and now i’m in priority requeue for 5 mins. what am i looking at? it’s not 4 am ffs. amazing.

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Low key my queue times in Diamond/Masters were never above 10 mins unless I was playing at like 3 am.

NA servers btw….

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Times can change mid queue, not that special.

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It’s not. The game is incredibly dead during offhours. I wouldn’t be surprised if they started lying about nameplates just to make you think you’re fighting a larger variety of individuals than you actually are.

NA servers are becoming more and more garbage. I’m getting a ton of lag, cd delays (micro dos) and weird noregs vs. people who magically headshot with their crosshair nowhere near my animation.

And no it’s not my ISP. I did the checks and everything is slick in other games. They’re just letting their metal rot, and/or lying about where the matches are hosted, and pulling people in from further away, to save a few bucks. Result is unplayable games.

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eu at around 19-23 here. whatever man, it’s just like… if i were super high elo i’d understand it but i’m i’m down here with the masses and i suffer through the tank games to get those tickets and telling me 4 mins and ending up with over 15 mins in queue to defend on volskaya just isn’t very sexy. like, at all.

sorry ranting.

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Only to have Hog n Ball torture for a tank line

I feel the pain in your heart :broken_heart:

:joy::joy::joy::joy:

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I’m also silver NA, my que times are never more than 7 minutes, 9ish during off peak hours, and I’m talking about the times without using a pass, with the pass they still sometimes hit those same wait times, but I would assume it’s due to a majority of other players also using passes, thus creating a bottleneck in the times.

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Why would you waste time sitting in q as dps, when bap exists and does dps job better?

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I can assure you a Masters Bapt doesn’t do my job as DPS better.

Though I will say the hero himself is exceptionally designed.

Great support hero. Can sustain the team AND take 1v1s when nobody is able to peel.

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Played one dps match last season.

25 minutes wait with ticket. Got my ticket refunded after 15 minutes.

Awesome game, love playing Torb, but not that much…

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How much of downtime you have as dps when you have to look for healthpacks when your supports are so busy healbotting your 2 feedmachienes called tanks? That’s it! Bap has no downtime, that is why he is better, damage numbers are different, but how you can survive and get value of that equalizes overall impact between dps rosted and support like that.

He is broken, but supports are untouchabble I guess.

Yeah, why is that okay? It is not okay. What’s the point to play any dps hero, when you can’t 1v1 support? He has like 500 of effective HP with 150 imortal+150 self heal + 200 hp pool. I abuse this hero now, so easy tbh. When your dps impact is not diffing the match, you can switch to healbot, you can flex through that broken kit. 22 damage x3 and if you manage to hit hs with it it is better than cree/soldier. Even spamming left click is rewarding a lot, cause you have 45 bullets, just whyyyy??? I don’t mind to have valuable support in roster, but buff damage roster at certain extent. Bring back ashe 85 damage, disable damage boost for her if that matters, bring back old widow, old hanzo with increased projectile speed, adjust falloff for cre, why bap have 25m falloff when cree’s starts at 20m??? how is that fair?

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I suppose that depends on the team. But I see the point you’re making :sweat_smile:

Well they want to effectively kill the fun found in DPS (hence the hitscan dumpstering) what do you expect.

I don’t think so, but that’s just one mans OP.

I like his viability. And players who are proficient at him (not just DPS players queuing as support, but actual Bapt players) are some of my favorite people to group with.

I still prefer Ana though because Dive is my favorite play style.

:face_with_raised_eyebrow:

I mean…. Not sure what rank you are but Bapt is far from unkillable…. Definitely don’t underestimate a great Bapt. But he’s still exploitable.

Well now all the tank and support players are going to cry and complain.

I wish….

Ehh…. I don’t mind him at 110 m/s (Masters Hanzo main btw) but I definitely enjoyed not having to swap to kill Pharah reliably.

Personally I LOVE where Hanzo is right now. He’s not OP but he’s not trash. If he gets nerf’d he’d be unplayable. If he gets buffed he’d instantly be meta. I don’t want either scenario for him.

I want the true and dedicated Hanzo players to benefit from his complexity.

Yes…. I know :roll_eyes:…. Spamzo is a play style. But nobody will climb above 2700 that way. You have to be great. And that’s how he should be.

Idk man…. personally I prefer Ashe to Cree but people are dumb. This is why I play Valorant :relieved:

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Yep, that’s a point, dps heroes are very dependent of their team.

I managed to learn how to play him, 1st week I was sticking with my dps mentality, and it was hard to carry with 300-500 heals and 1000-1500 damage per min. Next weak I tweaked my mind into healbot state, then I feel like sometimes it is enough, if it is notm you add some damage numbers here and there (spamming objects shields and suff), secure kills, take crucial 1v1 and you are hardcarrying with like 2 times less effort, but enjoying this gameplay. I want to be that rewarded with any damage role hero.

Ana at least could be easily punnished for out of position play, unlike bap, who is jumping everywhere easily dodging everything in this game and adjusting his positioning like that.

I amd 4371 peak with damage role and ~3800 with suport. I am not sure if I am good enough for 3800, cause when role q came out mmr was taken from your last season when it was openQ, but I didn’t drop below 3600 and bouncing around 3800 avg playing in pretty much “afk state” compared with my mental state playing damage role.
I am doing gold to gm with bap now, not for content but just for myself to proove that I am cappable to even boost account with this hero, I just want to compare feelings of how hard to climb with support and dps, now I am at ~2900SR and I don’t heal that much at all, but dps diffing everything. 82% winrate tho.

Litteraly the most overpowered synergy and heroes itself in a game, why whould they complain if it is clearly seen that they are meta defining for a reason (synergy, heroes utility). Can you remember one meta where dps was defining factor? Quad tanks, goats, double shield, dive, bunker, rush, am I missing something?

Well, I would climb with hanzo up to masters too in his current state, but he is very inconsistent to climb any further unless you hard OTP with it.

And I wish every hero would require same ammount of mechanical effort to climb.

Idk if you like montages, but here is some of my Ashe and hanzo back in days when I was on grind, when this game was grindable. Mostly Ashe, have like 2500h with her.
https://youtu.be/pB5-5QLTpXI diamond-masters ashe only
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/443105507 all ranks up to gm (hanzo/ashe prevalent)
https://youtu.be/g4CybfriE4s kinda smurfing with ashe only.

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I’ll concede to this…. :sweat_smile:

At the end of the day, I can kill 4 people but if my team doesn’t advance the objective, it’s GG….

I’m honestly terrible at balancing between team sustain and damage output. Probably why I’ve never climbed past 2700 on support :joy:

True…. Winston + Tracer/Genji/Echo and it’s a wrap.

It can be frustrating. Which is why in lower ranks, people just need to be better.

Well done. I could probably be GM if I could commit the time it takes to improve. I just don’t have the tenacity or the mental for it.

Haha…. Can’t relate :sweat_smile:

3650 peak.

Every once in a while, I ask to borrow friends accounts and grind for Diamond just to remind myself of the player I am. It’s not about content it’s about refreshing your confidence.

:thinking:

No….

The only counters to GOATS was match comp or 3-DPS and I’m pretty sure one of them has to be Pharah…. :thinking:

Been so long that I don’t remember.

When I hit my peak of 3600 on DPS, I was at a 52% win rate on Hanzo with most of my games split between Hanzo/Cree

(because I under how to play both of those heroes VERY well in brawl composition).

My dive play is definitely closer to mid-Diamond at best. I kinda stopped scrimming after like 5 seasons :sweat_smile:

But I agree…. To climb higher and higher on Hanzo you literally have to be perfect. And personally I know I was getting there.

As do I. I prefer the combination of mechanical skill, game sense, positioning and understanding hero interactions.

I’ll watch them right now….

Here are two of mine.

Back when I was a lowly gold player :joy::

  • https ://youtu.be/rr1mFMUyliY

(3.6 Team Average) Scrim team:

  • https ://youtu.be/_Xfmzkosk3w

Personally I look at these and I love seeing the difference in performance.

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Dude your Ashe play is FUDGING NASTY!!

I like to think I’m pretty damn good at Ashe but I definitely was never that good.

Though, by the time I hit 3250 Ashe had been dumpstered from where she really should be :cry::cry:

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That is good point, climbing is like playing game again back to back, top ranks are boring as hell.

Okay, then, here is my pepega one https://youtu.be/Bh0hxQrGvko (Road to diamond) I was hesitate to show it, cause it is gianormus 16 mins length, including pepega heroes like bastion reapper and stuff like that there =) But most of hanzo after the middle. And I have some montage skills to make it entertaining to watch, I hope =)

Definitely, that is why I made these Road to … series, to kinda celebrate the improvement

When she was released I realised, this hero is what I need, better than widow and more consistent than hanzo, damn, she has a pocket tank even! And then, when I hardstuck at diamond for like 3 seasons with her, I get this from teammates “I feel bad for your otp ashe hardstuck in diamond” Then this “I feel bad for your otp ashe hardstuck in MASTERS” and you wont believe it kept comming even in GM =)

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Oh you have one of those? Damn I got 40 want to buy some? They don’t actually work.

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