[Gaming] Overwatch (#boycottblizz)

My win rates with Mercy/Lucio are around 40%. They are much better with D.Va/Zarya, which explains a lot about why playing support was making me so cranky.
 

GasBandit

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My win rates with Mercy/Lucio are around 40%. They are much better with D.Va/Zarya, which explains a lot about why playing support was making me so cranky.
Most of July was just bad all around. I mean, my win rate with S76 is 48%, but is ~55% with Torbjorn (and a whopping 75% with Bastion), who we've realized is not really a viable choice any more in competitive.
 
I'm pretty sure I played D.Va more in July. In fact, our trend turned around when I stopped playing support. So fuck that shit. [emoji14]

Also, I've told Terrik to auto lock in DPS to start, because 90% of the time when we lose, the randos are not doing their share of the DPS.
 
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GasBandit

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I'm pretty sure I played D.Va more in July. In fact, our trend turned around when I stopped playing support. So fuck that shit. [emoji14]

Also, I've told Terrik to auto lock in DPS to start, because 90% of the time when we lose, the randos are not doing their share of the DPS.
Our trend turned around saturday night. I'm pretty sure you'd stopped playing support well before that :p You've been a DVaholic ever since her shield/ult changes went live.
 
Our trend turned around saturday night. I'm pretty sure you'd stopped playing support well before that :p You've been a DVaholic ever since her shield/ult changes went live.
My trend turned around on Jul. 19, aka as soon as that patch went live.
 

GasBandit

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My trend turned around on Jul. 19, aka as soon as that patch went live.
Must've been games you played without me, then, because my charts show a losing trend until this weekend. We went 19-15 this weekend, and 2 weeks ago between that patch going live and you heading down to Texas, we went 10-11.

(Terrik and I only played QP while you were gone, once, and went 1-1)
 

GasBandit

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Do those graphs include Quickplay? They look like the ones from within the game client. I'm having to go off MasterOverwatch because I'm at work :p

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And where do you get all these helpful statistical graphical toys?

--Patrick
I think she's pulling her graphs directly out of the game client, under player statistics, I'm getting mine off of masteroverwatch.com.
 

GasBandit

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Wow. I've only played 25 total games according to that site.
Most with Lucio (0-7).

--Patrick
Yeah, every time I see you online, you're either screwing around in the training map or in a custom game. Those don't count :p


Anyway, looking at Dei's stats on masteroverwatch, it's pretty clear that yeah, her trend turned around 2 weeks ago during games I wasn't part of, whereas I've been on a losing streak all month until this past saturday. My guess is, those games took place while I was "on leave" to Empyrion to play with my friend who never gets to play.
 
Yeah, every time I see you online, you're either screwing around in the training map or in a custom game. Those don't count :p
Yeah, well I can't play competitive with you guys until I hit level 25, and right now I'm only level 10. I try to duck into practice so I don't atrophy too much, but it's hard to get exp when I can only get 30min or so of play at a time. Same ol' story, I know.
Also in the custom game I learned that Mei is not a very good counter for Reaper, at least not one-on-one. Ouch.

--Patrick
 
Yeah, well I can't play competitive with you guys until I hit level 25, and right now I'm only level 10. I try to duck into practice so I don't atrophy too much, but it's hard to get exp when I can only get 30min or so of play at a time. Same ol' story, I know.
Also in the custom game I learned that Mei is not a very good counter for Reaper, at least not one-on-one. Ouch.

--Patrick
You would gain exp faster in two QP instead of playing bots. :p[DOUBLEPOST=1470084747,1470084680][/DOUBLEPOST]
I have no idea how to reconcile Dei's data and my data with Terrik's data, however, which matches neither.

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Well right off the bat, your win rate started off much higher than ours.
 

GasBandit

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Well right off the bat, your win rate started off much higher than ours.
Yeah, I'm trying to imagine how that all works.
I guess what it means is it used to be you won less without me and more with me, but midmonth it changed to you won more without me and we lost more when I was there. -_-[DOUBLEPOST=1470085205,1470085110][/DOUBLEPOST]
You would gain exp faster in two QP instead of playing bots.
And we WOULD play QP with you, Pat, if you wanted to play with us!
 
You would gain exp faster in two QP instead of playing bots.
Right, but how long does that take?
(Checks)
Hmm, about 10-12min/match.
Ok, I'm used to Hearthstone, where one match might last 20-30m. Hadn't thought it would be shorter.

--Patrick
 
The only time matches run long is Overtime, otherwise yeah they're fairly short, sometimes no more than a few minutes if a Control Point map gets absolutely dominated.
 

GasBandit

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Right, but how long does that take?
(Checks)
Hmm, about 10-12min/match.
Ok, I'm used to Hearthstone, where one match might last 20-30m. Hadn't thought it would be shorter.

--Patrick
Since the overtime rules changes, matches tend to wrap up PDQ. I'd say most matches I'm in run between 8-12 mins.
 
Right, but how long does that take?
(Checks)
Hmm, about 10-12min/match.
Ok, I'm used to Hearthstone, where one match might last 20-30m. Hadn't thought it would be shorter.

--Patrick
If a Hearthstone match took me 30 minutes I would lose my mind.
 
I never even used Master Overwatch before, pretty interesting to see some of my stats and how they stack up with others. Looks like in both Competitive and Quick Play I am hovering around a 53% win-rate.

Also, it looks like I am one hell of a better blocker tank then I though, as it's saying I am in the top 2% in Quick Play and top 3% in competitive for damage blocked. Also top 12% for medals earned in Quick Play, though my Competitive medal ranking is more balanced in the 50% region.
 

GasBandit

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I never even used Master Overwatch before, pretty interesting to see some of my stats and how they stack up with others. Looks like in both Competitive and Quick Play I am hovering around a 53% win-rate.

Also, it looks like I am one hell of a better blocker tank then I though, as it's saying I am in the top 2% in Quick Play and top 3% in competitive for damage blocked. Also top 12% for medals earned in Quick Play, though my Competitive medal ranking is more balanced in the 50% region.
I think the awarding of medals is skewed in favor of DPS classes, to be honest. Kills, objective kills, and damage dealt all disproportionately favor DPS classes, whereas two of the remaining three categories (objective time, fewest deaths) are up for grabs among just about any class, and the final one is a bone thrown to healers (but usually goes to Lucio, in my experience, if there's multiple healers).

And I say that as probably one of the biggest beneficiaries of the bias. I'm far from the best overwatch player there is - not even remotely the best Soldier 76 even, I'm squarely middle of the pack in everything but objective time/obj kills - but I'm in the top 4%/7% for medals per minute in QC/Comp respectively.
 
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GasBandit

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Is fewest deaths a medal? I don't think it's a medal.
I can't remember what the last one after healing is.. I thought I remembered deaths but I could be wrong.[DOUBLEPOST=1470091137,1470091029][/DOUBLEPOST]Ok, I watched one of my videos... deaths is on the medal screen but I guess it doesn't actually give a medal for it. But that still just means that the medals are weighted even more heavily toward DPS classes.
 
I got 4 medals on Lucio last night. To be fair, though, it was maps with ledges I could sound blast people off of. God, I love doing that.

BTW, apparently my best character is Lucio.

http://masteroverwatch.com/profile/pc/us/Darsiek-1741

My computer was out of commission largely since I moved, so that's why there's only recent activity on there, BTW.

If it included console (I KNOW, settle down GB), It would be much more complete.
 
I got 4 medals on Lucio last night. To be fair, though, it was maps with ledges I could sound blast people off of. God, I love doing that.

BTW, apparently my best character is Lucio.

http://masteroverwatch.com/profile/pc/us/Darsiek-1741

My computer was out of commission largely since I moved, so that's why there's only recent activity on there, BTW.

If it included console (I KNOW, settle down GB), It would be much more complete.
I mean, no offense, but if you're getting 4 gold medals on Lucio, your team is bad. That's why I was commenting on how Terrik and I were tanking and getting all the medals. :(
 
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