Listen, Overwatch is my absolute favorite game of all time. I absolutly love this game to death.
But I can’t help but feeling so unreasonably frustrated sometimes.
I have no idea why, but when I have a bad steing of games I become incredibly angry and unreasonable.
I don’t want to get mad, I want to have fun, and I do have fun when I’m not getting incredibly ticked off!
I’m not sure what to do…
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Its a hard mindset sometimes cause generally when we play overwatch, we want to win. So i suggest if its really ticking you off that badly try taking some deep breaths and taking a break then coming back and remember the purpose is to have fun. not to rage
When you start to feel frustrated, it’s time to take a break.
To keep playing will make it worse.
I recommend not playing comp and play more lax gamemodes like arcade or quick play
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Maybe you have issues dealing with frustration, or impatience. I’m like this as well. Nowadays I just quit and take a break when I notice matches are pissing me off too much. Also avoid voice chat because I know I can say things and regret them latter.
Dealing with a competitive team based game is frustrating as hell. Some people are more “chill” and accepting than others, but I think it is impossible to play this game for a long while without getting pissed off/facepalming at least once.
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I used to be this way too. I understand how you feel. A lot of times when I play comp and when I lose because my team gets stomped, I completely lose myself. It was scary. Very scary.
The source of my problem is because I care too much about comp. After my outbreak, I take a break from comp and just play qp and arcade. Then I get an epiphany that I play this game so that I can relax or to engage my adrenaline but not bad enough until I lose myself.
I recommend everytime when you are about to play, you keep telling yourself that this is just a game. Suggest yourself so that you can actually relax and have fun.
I hope this advice can help you and I wish you could get better and didn’t lose yourself when you play this game.
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Try to focus on learning over winning. When you lose, debrief the match via the replay system and kill cams. This way you can be happy even when you lose because you will have gathered more data on how to improve.
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If you play because you want to win and climb (which is natural) then it becomes easy to feel angry and stuck, but if you play to improve then you can remind yourself that you learn more from losses, and focus more on yourself than teammates.
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I think a lot of the game is set up to be frustrating these days, and even more frustrating than that is the added layer of gaslighting that happens when other players tell you that it’s only YOU experiencing that anger, that frustration. I don’t think it’s just you, I’ve played so many games for so long now that I know how to spot a game community that is struggling and largely negative. Overwatch and it’s fanbase has taken a heavy hit in the last year, whether or not Blizzard or the other players here want to acknowledge that, the excitement surrounding the game has died down considerably. Not just excitement but also love and adoration; I no longer see fanart like I used to, the happy side of the fanbase seems rather dead lately. That’s not a good sign for any fandom, and between that and some rather disastrous PR moves and game decisions I don’t see it changing until they do something big like give us guilds or do something that helps give us the opportunity to improve. This whole totally random team every time thing is kind of the antithesis of a game where the best way (sometimes only way, depending on the meta, lookin’ at you GOATS) to win and enjoy yourself is through teamwork.
Basically Blizzard needs to make this game something average people who are not in OWL teams -can- enjoy.
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In my case is mostly due to me having personality disfunction/bipolatiry. I start hating on myself for my lack of capability to properly do my job when someone else is doing bad and get angry to the point of not being able to think/do anything anymore and thats when i stop playing and go do something else.
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“Holding onto anger is like holding a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You’re the one who gets burned”
Overwatch is a very frustrating game because it’s so team reliant and some people just aren’t good or refuse to work with a team or just straight up throw. The game allows boosting with the 1000sr group limit, smurfs all over the place, so ranked is never really balanced. There are huge skill gaps all over the place.
We all get mad sometimes, but realize that you have a choice on how you react to negative emotions. When you dwell on anger you’re only hurting yourself and your gameplay. When you start to get mad, acknowledge it, and let it go. This is the practice of mindfulness. Pro player jonak does mindfulness meditation before every game.
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Pick Zen… so you can experience tranquility
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