Taken from official Blizzard post:
“We take competition very seriously in Overwatch”
-Game has no scoreboard
-Game has no stats tracking
-Game has no ranking system based on individual performance
Yeah, no… Try again pls.
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- Team based game.
- Perfomance based SR exists.
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It doesn’t tho. All ranks are based on team win/loss, nomatter how good or bad you performed in the match. Rank has nothing to do with individual performance.
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It does below diamond. If you’re overperforming consistently you gain 30 and lose 20 which makes climbing super easy. Above diamond PBSR doesn’t exist, so it’s based purely on win%.
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You don’t need the first two of those to be competitive and the third is not a viable form of ranking in a team based game for the vast majority of players
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Competitive or not, OW being team based doesn’t excuse the fact that it lacks a scoreboard. Other team based shooters like TF2 and CSGO have had scoreboards for years now.
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I just want to mention, that altho I agree with you and want a scoreboard instead of the crappy medal system they have atm, OW already had a scoreboard. They removed that feature to solve “toxicity”, so it’s very unlikely to come back.
Blizz seems to be going too far to resolve the toxicity issues when it can’t be solved. They took off the scoreboard, added private profiles, etc. Just you wait until they do like HotS and remove the chat.
You’re not asking for a “performance based system”
You’re asking for a participation award, where “everyone wins as long as they try their best :D”
Besides, you can be a great individual player, but if you’re not a team player you don’t deserve to be in a high rank in a team game anyways.
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Actually they changed it a while back, from bronze to plat it values your personal stats more, and from then up it counts team play more.
Your ability to help your team win is the only stat that should matter.
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it’s negligible, just about 3-5 points different if you were really special. It’s used to be up to 20 and it was better for adjusting rating. Especially for smurfs
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They lowered it because in a team based game medals for trash damage or sticking to the payload instead of taking good positions for the next fight shouldn’t have so much weight.
Performance based Sr is why we once had 2 hide-and-seek Mercy OTPs in a team. It’s why Torb mains were able to stay in high ranks with below 50% winrates.