What's wrong with people in this game?
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Posted Aug 22, 2018, 2:29 AM UTC
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People rather DPS than support eventually you'll start to get into games where people will flex to what the game needs.
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I hope I find games like that soon
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Don't let yourself get pidgeonholed into roles just for the sake of winning a quickplay game. You're new, you should be learning at least a little bit of each type of role.
Most people are going to want to pick DPS. If you just follow their lead, you'll never learn DPS and your skills will never grow.
If you want to learn heroes, I suggest Mystery Heroes because while you have no control over what you play, there is no concern over team comps since everything is random.
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I saw that when I was looking around the menus earlier. I'll definitely try that out, thanks a lot!
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Yeah, it's really nice with no pressure. Don't worry about winning or losing, since sometimes people will roll a great team comp that's really unfair and you have no control to counter it. Just focus on doing your best with what you have, learning the hero, and learning the map layouts and where health packs are.
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Have you tried Mystery Heroes yet? It’s a nice opportunity to try different heroes without the pressure of making the selection yourself and, if you’re like me, you might end up preferring to flex in the long run. When I first started, I mained D.Va for like 40+ hours, then started playing MH and now I rarely mess with QP. Plus, playing as every hero actually makes it easier to understand what your enemy is working with when trying to attack you.
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Not yet, someone else just suggested that to so Im definitely going to give that a try tonight. I appreciate the help
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No, people who want to play DPS won’t switch even if it means losing the game, badly. Or they’ll say things like ‘we need heals’ but do nothing themselves about it.
I also main supports because I enjoy the role, but I do want to have at least a DPS character I can play. It’s difficult to get practice time in though. I usually play in at least a 2 stack and have adopted the general rule that if the other stack in the game doesn’t provide a tank or a heal, my stack doesn’t either. Eventually someone will switch and then my stack adjusts to fill the missing role. Sometimes no one switches and that’s fine too; it’s quick play and it isn’t your responsibility to fill for composition shortcomings-if someone feels strongly enough that the TEAM needs heals/tank, their game also came with the ability to pick one.
Sometimes you just need to be as selfish as seemingly most other people and go DPS regardless, and make your personal win condition ‘die less than X times’ or ‘build ult Y times’, ‘kill red Doomfist Z times or until he leaves match or switches’ that type of thing as a lot of the time you’ll have no healers or maybe an off healer.
I would never in a million years behave like that in Comp, but for QP it’s a crapshoot anyway, make the best of it.
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Are you playing in Quick Play or Competitive? Seems like a lot of people will instalock their favorite hero most of the time in QP. I know I have been guilty of locking a hero I want to play or practice in QP. Sometimes you just have to accept meme comps in QP. I've had groups that were really fun with 6 DPS before. Just can't take it too seriously.
If this was in competitive, this is the biggest issues I have with the community in this mode. Especially in the lower ranks. Players are toxic and salty all the time. "I have 3 gold's, what are the rest of you even doing??" From a Reinhardt that's not blocking for the team and just running in with hammer swinging. This is why I like to play with friends in competitive. Seems like you get a roll of the dice with randoms.
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Quick play right now because I'm not high enough level for comp. And I get that people want to play their favorite hero, but like if you play it most of the matches, and you join a game and see there arent healers or tanks, is it too much to ask for people not to be selfish and play a healer or tank for one game?
And I hear all the time "I got 3 golds keep up" "I have gold elims kill yourself!" "Do you even have any golds? Shut up". It's not a good time :(
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That's why you gotta befriend a bunch of tank and support mains and queue with them. =p
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Definitely a good idea! I'll friend request everyone that plays support or tank and stack my friends list so Im always prepared, haha
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If you're on PC you're free to play with me!
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You're all in the same boat. It's not their job to play support just because they got connected later. You wanted to play DPS and so did they. Is it lame that people have such limited hero pools? Yes. Should people be more polite? Also yes. But expecting people who connect a few seconds later to compromise more isn't necessarily a winning strategy.
Ideally everyone could work it out together, but in casual modes, it's really more just "Do I care more about a well-rounded comp or do I want to play what I want to play?" And everyone kind of has to answer that for themselves.
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I'll end up switching because I dont want to get steam rolled by the other team.
The assumption that the 'enemy team' never encounters these issues that we face every single match is what's actually wrong with people in this game.
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You tell em daddy
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oooOoooOoo stop, you just gave me shivers
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I just can't help it!
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They definitely do, I've seen it multiple times, I feel bad for them for the same reason that I get aggravated about the same thing
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ToxicWatch. Game community is pretty bad. All the good nice people have moved on to newer games. Unfortunate but it will get worse not better as time goes
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ToxicWatch
Damn, I hate to hear that since I just got this game :(. Maybe itll get better when I can play comp
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Hope so but I tbh I think it’s actually worse in comp. when people are losing they like to blame the off meta heroes .may be it goes well for you. Specially if you like to play tank or healer
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If you're in quickplay, nobody cares and neither should you.
If you're in comp, flex to what the team needs.
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I'm playing quickplay because I'm not high enough level to play comp yet. And while I know it's not ranked, it still does suck to get stomped in QP because we didnt have anyone healing and I had hanzo, genji, and widow on my team telling me to kill myself because I asked one of them to play a support
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It's quickplay. Nobody cares and neither should you.
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That's a flawed way to think about it. Why care about comp? Because there's a rank attached to it? I'm not sure why I wouldnt care about losing in ANY game mode.
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It's the only way to think about it that preserves your sanity.
Quickplay is for:
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practicing heroes you're bad at
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goofing off with your friends
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doing stupid shit because it's fun
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grinding loot boxes
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whatever else people decide it's for
Expecting comp-level coordination in QP is setting yourself up for disappointment. Enjoy it when it happens, but do not expect it and do not demand it.
Or ignore me, raeg yourself straight to burnout, and quit. Fuck if I care what bad decisions you make.
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The problem isn't so much this community. People just suck ass these days.
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Dont worry about team comp in qp that much. Play what you want to have fun.
In comp, use LFG if you want a specific role.
QP now because I cant play comp yet. Will definitely keep LFG in mind when I get to that level! Thanks