My friends who got me into Overwatch won’t queue with me until I’m able to reach close enough to their rank because Wide queues take way too long. I get it completely. Unfortunately every time I get into masters I just get steamrolled in every game I queue and stop having fun. Solo queue has been genuinely miserable but until I get to GM I don’t have anyone I know who I can play with.
Any tips on getting from the bottom of masters up to GM as quickly as possible? I mostly play Sierra these days so any tips are welcome. Idk how much more solo queue I can take man I can genuinely feel my sanity slipping lmao
I mean nobody wants to be in queue for 20 mins. That’s what happened the last time we queued together. So I don’t really blame them. It’s my fault for being bad at the game anyway
Just weird that they’d get you into the game to just not play with you though…. and make you stress out alone…how is that even enjoyable Like I could never to my friends…i dropped my rank to play with my friends, as they are more important to me than a rank in a videogame..or sometimes people even make alt accounts to do rank with their friends, that’s another option a lot of people do.
Don’t ever say that!! everything that Destrolock said!
In their defense, they got me into the game without realizing how much an issue the q times were going to be if we were different ranks. The stressing out and agonizing alone is not their fault. It’s definitely mine. You are right, though it has been a lot less fun than I anticipated, I’ve given myself a finite deadline to hit GM, and if I don’t hit it, I’m just going to go back to playing other games that I actually enjoy all the time instead of just some of the time.
A lot of the games do feel very "rigged” but other people are climbing to GM during these same rigged games, so it’s probably just a me issue. I highly doubt blizzard would waste the time and budget to Target me specifically with extra poor games lol cuz that would just be completely nonsensical.
As far as the whole alt account thing, neither my friends nor I want to do that. We think that it genuinely ruins the competitive experience for everybody else in those games, and it’s just not something we want to support. I know a buttload of people do that on this game, and blizzard doesn’t seem to care at all, but we don’t want to contribute to being part of the problem that this game already suffers from intensively
tbh I don’t see the point to reach GM, sure, because of your friends, but the queue time gets really high… like, REALLY high
Anyways, it’s kinda disappointing that your friends get you into the game and then they say no to you because of the queue time. I mean, they can just switch account and play together until you reach GM or masters
It’s not your fault that you have a lower skill than your friends who have been playing longer, who refuse to help you to play together or at least that’s what I understand. We all have different levels of learning, it took me YEARS to reach the level of skill I have in Overwatch rn because I’ve always been alone in this game, but your friends can push you to learn quickly
Watching my games again helped me a lot, you can do that too, but you have to be very analytical when reviewing replays, such as:
Was my positioning good at that moment?
why did I die? Why did I receive a lot of damage there?
Should this player be attacking me at that moment?
Did I contribute space to my team? was worth to hold position there?
Did my tank/ DPS/ support wanted to make a play with me or someone else?
What should I do while my tank is being too alone? is it better to support my tank or stay with my DPS/supports in that situation?
Was my ultimate enough? too soon or too late? good or bad placed? was the target correct? how did it impact in the fight?
should I be more aggressive in those moments?
Did I pay attention to my enemy cooldowns? their ultimates?
etc etc etc
All of this matter and A LOT starting from masters & GM
Blizzard does care, really
Even that, the matchmaking still sucks because the current system pushes new accounts and so newbies into high ranks to “avoid” the smurf impact. It doesn’t matter what they do, matchmaking will be always deficient.
The more active we are in helping and offering higher quality posts, the less we see of the Conspiracy Cabal Corner™.
Anyway, back to the OP. I wouldn’t set a deadline for yourself, in the worst case you can always find some new friends to play with. You said you mostly play Sierra? She drops off in effectiveness the higher you go, have you considered switching to Soj or similar? That ought to give you a boost just on the select screen as long as you play her or a similar pick to the same standard.
Also worth mentioning; do your friends not have alt accounts? I find that highly unlikely. I think literally everyone I know who’s been in higher ranks has at least one alt. What’s stopping them going on those? What about potentially off-role too? Actually, we aren’t talking about 6v6/OQ, are we?
Like I could never to my friends…i dropped my rank to play with my friends, as they are more important to me than a rank in a videogame..or sometimes people even make alt accounts to do rank with their friends, that’s another option a lot of people do.
everything that Destrolock said!