The game proposes you to be a good player to give you honor ranks. This is: engage in games, avoid disconnecting, avoid being rude to your teammates, focus on the game and do your best.
All excellent, in theory.
But Overwatch 2’s honor system is toxic.
Earlier, in a post I made on this forum, I explained that Overwatch 2’s reporting system was designed to give credibility to “revenge reports”, and similarly detailed in another thread that the automatic reporting system was hurting the fact of confronting toxic or rude people.
In both threads I pointed out that the best option was to turn off in-game chat and focus on playing.
But now, after deciding to disable the chat and focus on doing my best, today I received the alert: “your honor has decreased from level 4 to level 3”, after having played a game where I did not die even once and, as a tank, I successfully pushed the target into the enemy base in record time.
What is the conclusion?Overwatch 2’s honor system is toxic and designed to please sore losers who report you for revenge.
I don’t see any satisfaction now in accumulating honor and would be very offended if, in the future, with this poor automation, it was decided to give some kind of meaningful reward for having a good level of honor.
I’m assuming you are talking about endorsement levels? And you can drop in endorsement level, simply from people not endorsing you at all. They don’t have to report you or anything. When you are a high endorsement level, you have to keep getting endorsements to keep it. (I think)
I play support most often and usually get at least one endorsement per game, not always. Sometimes multiple per game. I generally bounce between endorsement level 3 and 4. You can lose rank for being reported, but that takes you to level 1 I believe. Otherwise, your rank degrades if you are not endorsed enough. Not sure what the actual metric is for gaining and losing the level. I do know that getting to level 5 is insanely difficult and keeping it is pretty close to impossible. I will admit, it doesn’t feel great to be relatively decent in games, interact and ping as needed, remain positive with teams, but then still lose levels.
The whole system is dumb cause they only give you 2 endorsemnts to give out meaning the other 2 chumps on your team miss out, usually people always endorse the supports or the tank and barely the dps unless they carried the game.
For the system to work as intended they should allow us to endorse our whole team if we feel like it