I’ve been playing this game for a week. I literally still die by walking off the map and get lost all the time. I don’t know what half the heroes do.
I started playing competitive when I reached level 25 to actually have a competitive experience, but I was placed in GOLD? I realise there’s 2 ranks below that. What the actual f.uck? I’m getting destroyed every single match, I’m virtually useless no matter what I pick and just keep getting frustrated.
Fix your f.ucking placements system, new players don’t want to get ravaged all day for no reason.
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Did I play in a match with you on my team earlier? 
How did you reach level 25 and not know what any of the hero’s do, or where the edges of the map are?
I’m not trying to be snarky, but legitimately asking. Normally you use your first 25 levels to get a feel for these things.
I would ask you to please not play in comp games until you have a better sense of these things. Otherwise you screw your team mates
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It’s a problem. New players tend to place too close to high gold. With more games played, you will sink to your proper level.
Then just dont do comp until you learn everything? You dont decay unless your diamond+, leave it alone and you will learn and will be glad your not lower.
And some people still believe QP MMR matters for fresh accounts’ placements lol.
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Play a ton of QP until you feel confident in what you are doing. And watch some videos/streams about your heroes
This is new. Usually we get people complaining about how they get placed too low but you are complaining about getting placed too high. Never a dull day in Overwatch
It is truly refreshing to see someone complaining about being placed too high - its not that common (at least not about themselves).
But as Kaawumba said, most new players land in Gold then get killed for a while, Kaawumba has some good stats on why (search his posts), but the short story is that it’s a know issue / revenue generation for Bliz to encourage people to buy additional accounts to get a higher SR (at least briefly)…
Well you see I’m not really interested in having a high rank so much as I’m interested in a compelling competitive experience. But for that I need to be matched with equally skilled (read: bad) players. You either lose and feel like you can’t do anything about it or you win and you feel like you had nothing to do with it.
Keep playing and you’ll drop. You can also wait until next season and the same thing happens.
I went from 2391 to 1400 umu
Yes they are messed up, at least you didn’t fall for the trick of actually believing you were a gold player. After your initial losing streak things will stabilize and games will be more competitive.
To be fair until you have done comp the first time the game has nothing to go by.
Problem 2 is gold in QP is silver at best in comp if not lower. There are so many more QP players that it’s easier to climb in that mode along with the fact that qp is generally not taken seriously.
Thanks, that’s a bit reassuring. I just don’t understand why the system doesn’t place people more conservatively and let them climb. It’s frustrating for new players and the people they play with
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Pro smurf tip:
You can drop a bit faster if you leave the game at the start ( in spawn) . The game will then cancel so your team wont lose SR. You will lose 50SR and get a timed ban - first one is 10 minutes and they will get longer untill you are perma banned. You can do this a couple of times without really harming anyone.
Gold and bronze are the same tbh
just another brain dead system by blizzard. They should increase the level requirement and add some extras. Obv their system would be better in placing you this way without killing everybody elses game.
That doesn’t fix anything. I still want a competitive setting, just one adequate for my skill level
um no they really aren’t.
that explains why so many matches are like that. didn’t realize smurfs have that logic. how do you avoid the perma ban?
Play a couple of games without leaving and the penalty will eventually reset. It doesnt really help smurfs to stay low though as the PSBR will fight you and give you huge SR gains.