i did that in rivals, and also turned on the setting to anonymize names (so they just show up as like PLAYER 487), and it made the experience infinitely more enjoyable
So they made overwatch free to play in like 2021 and the relaunched it as overwatch 2 when it wasn’t even a sequel like that, literally the only changes they made was that the game was 5v5 instead of 6v6 and reset the leveling system. Then a couple months agi the relaunched it again and it’s just back to overwatch without the
They did it so they could add in battle passes which they swore they would never do in OW1, there was the lie about it being for the campaign mode but they scrapped it cause Blizzard-Activision is 2nd only to EA for being dogshit anti-consumer corpos.
A lot of the fanbase doesn’t want a campaign for some reason. They all believe it should be multiplayer only when the world is so rich with lore but you can only watch it/read it. I always thought it’d be cool to actually play the major beats of the story.
Around the height of overwatch my ex got into it (I avoid pvp games since my time with LoL), and she went from the sweetest kindest girl to slamming her desk and screaming "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING". She never had that kind of anger for anything else.
https://youtu.be/7R0WPywMBaA I would be able to find you a playlist of videos of people being asked to swap because It is one of the most common things to be asked / said in ranked outside of just flaming people. You're probably a support player which hardly ever gets asked to swap outside of the occasional Ana for Hog and Mauga.
I dont know why you say you are joking. I have so many one sided matches in qp that it’s way more sweaty than actual competitive. I am plat/diamond. QP i feel I get matched with masters
I actually agree with the sentiment. In QP, there is no real reason not to crash out and flame everyone on your team, apart from getting banned — which can be circumvented. In comp, you risk your rank by doing so, as your team might leave/throw. Therefore, it could be argued that flaming is more prevalent in QP than comp — which I’d say is marginally true, anecdotally.
Additionally, those used to the try-hard environment of comp might get peeved by those queuing QP for fun. I kind of get it — if I go to warm-up and the games I get in QP are garbage, it doesn’t set a good mood for the play session.
I’m not the highest-ranked player myself, but I don’t really think it’s “rank-cope” at all. QP can invite blatant toxicity due to there being no real dissuading factor, apart from reporting.
Really? Literally almost every single match I'm in the losing team has someone saying "My team is ass" or "Trash tanks L Rein" or something like that. Seriously like 90% of matches.
I’ve been playing this most of the last ten years and what I’ve learned is to just shut off chat. No need for it really and it’s too distracting. The pings are enough. I’m having a blast
This one kinda makes sense though, when someone is playing into a hard counter because "it's their main" it legitimately ruins the match for everyone. You can't really sabotage your teammates like this in any other PvP game. (maybe Marvel Rivals but I never played it)
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