It’s a beneficial bookmark keeping players in a healthy starting space, which is not a bad idea at all. To ensure placement matches are fair, Blizzard pairs players based on their invisible MMR, or Matchmaking Rating, essentially tethering them to their respective skill tier so that, for example, a player whose skill equates to Diamond tier level play isn’t matched against a Bronze tier player.
These two goals end up being somewhat contradictory. At the same time, we’d also like every new competitive season to feel like a fresh start. Fair matches of skill between the teams provide the greatest chance for you to have fun in Overwatch. As principle designer Scott Mercer explained on a forum post way back after Season Two:įirst and foremost, we always want to provide the fairest matches that we can. While presented as a fresh start, placement matches are actually essentially a continuation of the last competitive season based on an invisible ranking rather than the visible SR player ranking which is itself being “reset.” This, by itself, makes a lot of sense. However, as it operates now, these placement matches are, at their best, pointless and, at their worst, infuriatingly restricting. The beginning of that new journey involves players undergoing ten placement matches which determine their SR (Skill Rating) and their starting point for the season. Each season is presented as a fresh start, a new opportunity to climb to new heights in ranked Overwatch play. Let’s start where every Competitive season starts: placement matches. While these outside tools might help, for me, the problem rests within the confines of the Competitive Play mode itself and, unless Competitive Overwatch ranks up and improves with some system adjustments, I don’t have much hope that Season Eleven will be that much better. Perhaps in response or conveniently ready for the next year of Overwatch, Blizzard have implemented some new systems to combat the frustrating game state including an endorsement system, to acknowledge quality players and teamwork, and an in-game LFG (looking for group). Season Ten of Overwatch ranked play just ended and, from what I can glean, was one of the least popular seasons in the two year history of the game. C’est la vie of a competitive Overwatch player. One of the enemy players had quit within the first minute (the thwarted D.Va) and my team, after one of the best presses I’d ever seen in my life, was rewarded with nothing but disappointment and a waste of time and effort. As the team kill bell rang and the payload hit its first checkpoint, the match was promptly canceled. The remaining enemy supports and tank weren’t enough to stop the tidal wave that was my team from leveling them, demolished by a perfectly synced dive unnatural from a group of solo queuers and admittedly unplanned. It might not have been enough if I hadn’t raced ahead of the orb and sprayed some damage into the two enemies before rewinding to safety as the orb easily did the rest of the work. She threw her damage orb at the two, probably not enough to finish them off, but enough to push them back. D.Va turned to run, but I promptly de-meched her and finished her with some close-up headshots as my team pressed on.Īn ally Moira close behind me made for the rat and cowboy who were forced from their perch by our damage-deflecting cyborg. Her defense matrix pointed at the payload, she wasn’t ready for the Tracer fire into her backside, receiving no support from her allies, McCree and Junkrat, who were forced from the high ground by our Genji. The only adversary on point was a D.Va that our Zen just hit with a discord orb. The doors to Dorado opened and I flew out like an angry hornet ready to pester whatever defense attempted to halt the payloads progress, avoiding the sight-lines of the upper platforms where I could be picked off by enemies with range.
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