Part of game awareness is knowing what your health is at and whether or not you’re being healed and when to find cover.
If you are being healed, but you’re still teetering on critical, then you should disengage. For both your healer and your sake.
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because if I’m not fighting they tend to ignore me.
If they’re not a dive tank, the chances of surviving a hard disengage are kinda low.
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SLAYMASTER DAGATHOR, YOU ARE THE BRAVEST OF US ALL WHAT IS YOUR SECRET?
… I lack situational awareness!
everyone cheers
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It’s like when I play Orissa and I watch my entire team get evicerated 1 meter in front of my shield.
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Cause people bad and don’t look at their health or kill feed.
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I’ve had occasions where I’ve been trying to disengage but I can’t.
I get booped or sniped or stunned (or, once, walked off the map) and I feel bad that out team needs to wait to regroup because I died.
The times I HAVE been able to disengage are usually as Mercy GA-ing to a teammate because I got stuck on some obscure ledge you shouldn’t be able to stand on in the last push.
Why? is probably something I say about 1000 times during every match.
Why is my team running in front of Rein’s shield?
Why is my teammate trying to 1v6 the other team?
Why is my team trying to engage during the enemy’s ult instead of just waiting it out from safety?
Why did the Winston with 10hp say “I need healing” while standing next to the healer, then immediately leap away toward the enemy team.
Why is half my team running to the point when the other half has clearly already died?
Why did my teammate try to ult on point when 4/6 people on our team are dead?
Why is my teammate blaming the rest of the team after they did like four of the things mentioned above in the span of one minute?
The vast majority of OW players are simply bad at the game, even into the Plat/Diamond level. Even after spending 600 hours on the game, they haven’t learned the day one basics. Plain and simple.
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Tunnel vision. I notice this in DM a lot too… people don’t tend to pick their fights, they just go for the first thing they see, and even if they’re losing they will keep fighting and die rather than escaping…
If you’re a support who dies, and you get out of spawn to see a low health teammates waiting a few meters away for you, that’s fantastic. They’re safely out of danger and you can heal them up, and you even get an escort back to the fight.
Seeing people spam the ‘I need healing button’ after you die and not doing anything about it themselves? Not so good.
Players get tunnel vision, it happens all the time. I’ve even seen healers running first into six opponents, while the rest of the team is still respawning. Combat awareness is one of the most important and difficult aspects of the game, and the most important factor when it comes to improving your skill. Knowing when to flank, knowing when to engage, knowing who to engage, and knowing when to fall back.
Point of no return-
- the critical point in an undertaking where one has committed oneself irrevocably to a course of action.
There comes a point when you are commited to the fight. Either you will make a play, or you will die trying. Running away will only feed the enemy ult charge and stagger your respawn.
There are still those times when they’re not in a fight, and have the chance to run from the front lines to cover/healthpack/healer, but they decided to stand around in the open waiting for the next enemy… those are they players that really bug me.
my favorite is when my winston comes to me with like 75 health, i do about 100 healing and then he just jumps into the enemy team like… just wait a sec bro i wasnt done
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Which is why I have four kids. 