Something isn’t right…
Like I’m having to try SUPER hard to win games in bronze 2 and it is just waay too intense and exhausting. I mean physically. I feel like I’m trying so damn hard… I’m not losing a lot, I’m climbing a bit but it’s so fricking intense.
Is it like someone lacking on my teams or something?
Like does it calm down to where I don’t have to like push so hard to get a win?
Here is the last game if someone could look at it.
I know I make mistakes I’m Bronze, I know when I die it’s my positioning most of the time. So I try to fix it after spawn, but when my game is so intense and I have like 30+ kills and 19k damage I gotta be doing something wrong to lose these games.
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Edit: man I made so many mistakes… It was totally my fault. I watched the replay and so many things I could have done better. I wasted 2 full ults by swaping, my positioning wasn’t that great. I was on cart a bunch because some overtime situations, and in bronze sometimes the tank doesn’t stay on cart so you kinda have to do that yourself. Ya, I could have done better, but man it just felt like it was too much.
Yea I would have thought that is like mid-high silver or low gold based on the replay. I guess gone are the days where you can dance on Bastion’s head while you spawn camp the rest of his team with sym turrets.
A lot of more casual players have left the game for Marvel Rivals. Ironically most of the players left are the very people Blizzard abandoned when they went after the casual market with OW2. So stands to reason games are more intense, even in lower ranks.
I don’t mind tbf. I always strangely liked the last couple of seasons of OW1 where the only people left generally knew what they were doing for the most part.
Also, not sure what it’s like on PC, but on console it’s rare to see a match where everyone is within the same rank. I’m diamond and most of my matches are plat-diamond or diamond-masters. A few gold - masters thrown in when the game really wants to screw me over. If thats the case for you then even though your bronze there’s no guarantee that everyone else is.
Ya, at times this seems to be the case. I’ve noticed it’s really bad late night from 10pm EST on. There are a lot of Higher skilled players and it’s just a stomp fest.
Like I can tell when someone is clearly not a bronze player. It’s obvious. They are just rolling the lobby and the game just becomes one of those games where you literally just stand afk because you can’t do anything, you can’t even move 2 meters and survive against them so you just give up. People leave the lobby and the game is just an auto loss.
This is not that players fault, it’s the Matchmaker and the person that coded it.
When i wait 4-5 minutes to find a support game, i got genuine silver players but when i wait only 2 minutes, even if the players are still labelled “silver”, they are clearly not silver…
It’s like the game doesn’t let me play with silver players even if i am one. Something totally wrong in this game. You can only have a match in your rank, if the MM has no choice.
As a bronze subscriber player, I am stupid and without any skill, I want to play with bad skilled people and against bad skilled people during the little time I have each day, which largely explains my rank that I accept without complaint.
Not against smurfs “bronze to master for educational purpose” or players who are on their way to gold rank, which for the elite located at the very top ranks seems ridiculous, but for me it is not, it is just hugely unbalanced matches without the slightest trace of fun.
Yes we learn by playing against stronger people, but when the difference is too high the learning is greatly slowed down when it is not impossible, because being stuck in the respawn does not teach anything at all, except patience and eventually a disgust for the game.
Otherwise, in the rare case where I am the worst player in a team where everyone is of a much higher rank than me, I am just as disappointed, because I do not like at all being a drag and throwing the team without wanting to, being carried in tourist mode does not interest me, no experience gained, no dopamine shot, just disappointment and shame.
First of… as a long time bronze player, pretty recently gold, I know the feeling all too well.
So my sympathies to you.
My theory is that these games feel/are so sweaty is because everyone is trying very hard but due to lack of game sense, poor decision making and just generally many mistakes, the games are very chaotic.
(To be honest, in gold it’s still chaotic but with a bit less mistakes and a bit more game sense)
As to this specific match/replay: what I saw is that mistakes were made on both sides. On your side unfortunately more than on the enemies team. You were particularly unlucky with your tank.
Neither of the players, to me, seemed to be much higher level than the rest. Though the enemy Mei and especially Mercy stood out. Mercy was very relaxed, in the beginning afk even. Her movements were smooth and I think uncommon for bronze: she whipped out her Glock to (try) get some kills.
I’m not sure what else to say other than the advice to try and focus on what you’re doing since you have no control over the rest (match making, team mates, Smurfs).
Basically what you’re doing now by analyzing your own performance and seeing how you could improve next time.
I don’t make the mistake of being obsessed with my rank.
It’s just a reference value that’s especially useful for MM.
I’m more focused on correcting my mistakes, learning automatisms, improving game vision, positioning and aiming.
I think it’s more interesting to have exciting matches where you have to surpass yourself to win, and where losing is not a problem because you’ve done everything possible with your current level without ever failing.
Whether this match is bronze or gold is secondary, the rise in rank will happen naturally when everything else improves.
Whether it takes 3 weeks or 2 years is not so important.
The biggest problem with Overwatch right now, which has been around for a long time, too long, is that these difficult matches that allow you to improve remain a minority, at least in my case, and those that are too unbalanced (stomp or be stomped) are still far too numerous.
I remain realistic: you can’t have 100% quality matches. But having 10% in the best case scenario like now is penalizing, and depressing in the long run.
I try to follow the advice of Lucio the good guy: Never give up. It won’t necessarily allow you to win, but it will avoid ending up depressed.
I’ve consulted enough guides from OW player YouTubers to know that as long as I’ve done everything with my available skill to win, I shouldn’t be disappointed by a defeat.
Mathematically you can only win 50% of your matches so losing some is not a problem, as long as you give it your all even in the worst situation.
I noticed that I used regular reply instead of reply to you. Probably because there was a problem with sending it.
Anyway, see my previous reply in regards to your replay code.
Edit: I still don’t see OP’s icon in upper right corner so I’m not sure anymore.
I’m a bronze forum user I guess.
I’m patiently waiting until I’m top 500 because there are just 500 players left :V Then number 500 will be in bronze.
This is basically what happens to the current ranks. If more players below gold 2 left for MR then everyone is redistributed to lower ranks on average.
Someone else wrote a nice explanation but I can’t find it anymore.
I feel like I’m stuck at the same rank but the players keep getting better. Make it stop.
I also had a game in plat 5 that seemed like it should have been a much higher ranked lobby. The enemy widow was crazy. Not sure how are they the same rank as me but I guess this is what it feels like to be the guy who gets carried by EOMM.
Things happend, a lot of my bronze matches feel like gold to me.
I can’t play more than 2 competitive matches without being totally mentally exhausted, and absolutely having to take a break.
Contrary to what is said about bronze matches, at the slightest error of placement I get killed, if my aim is not perfect I do not hit anyone, and in terms of game sens if I am not able to make at least 5 different decisions per second as a support I am useless.
I consider that the game tests me and consider that my skill is of this level: personally I think that it is not, I am a beginner without significant experience who is starting out, and I would just like to be tested more gently.
This does not mean that I want easy matches, just not to feel like I have to save the universe at every moment.
I totally agree with the op.
I’ve played Overwatch for short periods of time but multiple times, but each time too short a time for it to be significant in gaining experience, and this is the first time I’ve had this feeling.
In my case I think the system was calibrating my theoretical rank, since now I am only navigating between silver 4 and 5. Rank that corresponds to my current skill.
I have for the moment identified the main cause of this phenomenon: my decision-making capacity is still too weak and too slow, out of step with the intensity of the fights, it is a priority point on which I must progress.
Once that is resolved, I will tackle the secondary causes.
Since we cannot resolve all the causes and progress in all areas at the same time, it is essential to stagger priorities, otherwise we will be overwhelmed, resolve nothing and not progress in anything.
Time to learn for my mistakes. Again. Always question ourselves.