I recently came back to overwatch after 2-2-2, but I mainly play on the Chinese server. I’m posting here because Chinese forums are dead and my Chinese isn’t that great.
Would it be possible to get SR back for games lost against cheaters/hackers? Losing SR in an unwinnable game feels very unfair.
Now that replay is a thing, it’s really convenient to be able to go back and view things from the other person’s perspective and they are 100% cheating. I’ve had 5 cheaters in the past 10 games (no joke, I took videos of the replay) and it’s unbelievably frustrating. You have blatant wall hacks and aim bots. I report them via the in-game system but, since I’ve been back, I’ve never received a single confirmation that someone has been punished because of my reporting.
Honestly, it’s that helpless feeling that put me off Overwatch in the first place. 2-2-2 is the best it’s ever been but I just wish they’d do something about the rampant cheating.
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Well, I never got any SR back for myself either. Even when getting notified that someone was actually cheating. So there’s that.
That sucks. It’s unfair to be punished for an unwinnable game, and that’s even not talking about leavers, trolls and whatnot but actual aimbot.
I think that this is something that they should do, but probably won’t because it would take considerable time for someone to code, but they do have match histories of players and who they’ve played with so they could put in place a system that checks which players have lost against the player who has been banned for hacking and then would return their lost SR from that match to those players
But at the moment you just have to bite the bullet
You’ve got no idea. I saw someone blatantly aimbotting (he actually admitted it through my discord) to boost an account from sub 2000 to 3600 in all three roles. Meaning there had been at least 225 matches.
The account is yet to be banned.
On the Chinese server, 25% of the games have a hacker. It’s super blatant. I just went through an unlucky streak of 5/10 games with a hacker.
In the past few months, I’ve only had 1 game where the game auto shut down because it detected hacks being used.
I can play on the Asian servers, but it’s just a random chance of whether or not you’ll be put into a cantonese speaking game, a chinese speaking game, a korean speaking game, or a mix. When you can’t communicate, it makes it super hard to climb higher than diamond or plat, unless you have GM skill which I don’t.
If you don’t have GM skills then of course it’s going to be hard to climb higher than plat or diamond. That’s how systems with normal distribution and variance works. Just because you’re for example a 3800SR player doesn’t mean that you’re going to winstreak up to there. It means that your chances at winning the game decreases exponentially the closer you get to that SR which means that even at diamond it’s very plausible and reasonable to lose 5/10 games or even more if the game hits you with the lowest 40/60 chances at winning the game with your current MMR
In other words you’re going to lose plenty of games even at diamond if you don’t have GM skills so you have to always grind a lot to get to your own SR depending on your luck with variance
That’s fair and that’s how distribution works. I just don’t enjoy playing a game where communication is so important when I can’t communicate with my team.
So I only have 3 options. Play with 70-110 ping on Asia and don’t communicate. Play on China with a bunch of cheaters, or just quit again and spend more time on FFXIV where people are nice.
Even then, just on principle, I don’t enjoy winning because there’s a hacker on my team. It’s unfair and defeats the purpose of the game.