It's cultural. Not even the fault of the way the games are made. It's the way we look at and treat eachother in real life. The way we have expectations and judgments about what people can do in their lives. Of course people aren't going to do something as often if it gets them personally attacked. It takes a strong woman to play overwatch (although its getting better with the new report system) and frankly I'm glad that there are some in competitive. It's refreshing.

Was hoping for the fuel to pull it off but it could be argued that it was close. With fuel experimenting having xqc on so many maps and SD running the same players it could be argued that the future has higher potential for improvement on fuel as they get their players more lan experience. I saw around 360k viewers on twitch at peak for this match. Not bad.

I think they need to practice with xqc more. He is a really good player but its just a different mode when playing in pro games. If the team and him can learn the best ways to play together it should be really strong. But yeah Im not going to beat on it too much casue it was a really close series.

Here's a vid if you don't want to log onto ptr to see them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDn1uhQunzc

The mercy changes are a bit too far. Any 2 of those 3 would be fine but now when you get a mercy onetrick you're gonna be screwed. Remember the objective is to make ALL the supports somewhat competitive with eachother. Getting screwed because nobody picked mercy or because you have a mercy onetrick does not feel like a satisfying mechanic and it goes equally both ways.

Junkrat gets a much needed skill cap increase. It's only when the mines are right up against the outer edges of their damage radius that the dmg goes below 100. Tire speed would be fine just a little above the old speed. I think it needs to be higher than the old speed to really be useful in gm games.

They recently increased the sesitivity on abusive chat reports by ALOT. I the fist few months that they implemented report thankyou emails I got a total of 4 emails over like 3 months saying they actioned someone who I reported. In the time since they implemented the ingame notifications I have gotten about 40-50 messages saying that someone who I reported was actioned. This is probably within a month or so. Many players I talk to said that they have recieved warnings about being silenced or they say that thier party mate can't talk due to a silence. I would say it's still and issue but it is much less of an issue. If you hear someone being abusive just quietly hit the report butto. And rest assured that others are doing the same.

Thanks man.

This is a big deal but we have to talk realistically. If the fcc and the government fully stood behind the repeal of net neutrality then it would chnage things but in the short term 1-5 years from now there are upsides and downsides. The backbone of the repeal argument is that companies setup and maintain the nodes of the internet and once you are connected it doesnt matter how many nodes each company made, how fast they are, or how much they cost. You get to use them all equally. This gives reduced incentives to companies to really make these nodes beyond a certain point.

The arguments against are the obvious ones surrounding ISPs and some others that I will bring up that should be known. You could have to pay more for high quality streaming (and maybe less for internet without it), more for other services ect. I think after living in america its easy to see how competition can favor the companies when consumers have lack of education and research and are faced with agressive price profiling plans. Over time the plans would become more confusing, more expensive, and mainstream consumers would likely buy into it making it more expensive for many whos options would become limited.

The side I am surprised that more people are not talking about is how the backbone systems are going to work. We all play online games and we want low pings. Online games even with voicechat take relatively low bandwidth. We've all heard of the comlanies selling lower ping services and how they are pretty unimpressive for most cases. With the repeal the backbones of the internet could provide high priority and low ping routing for games for a cost. However this also brings us to our 2nd disadvantage. Now we are not just talking about paying one company. We are talking about paying many companies. The fees would likely be small for something like this but there is potential for it to go high in the future. Out of country internet users could even end up paying american companies for routing and prioritization services.

I am in favor of net neutrality because I think it has worked and keeps us safe from things getting really out of control and annoying for consumers. On the upside for the repeal it could actaully lead to lower pings and higher data throughput internet in america. I just don't think it would work out in the best possible way because we are leaving the ball in the court of mega corporations.

Isn't loserfruit high plat?

can't wait to see valkia play pharah for the london spitfire

Candle

It could come in other forms. The worst Ive seen it is durring placements when a gm player with a bronze account ques in party with a gm on their main. They end up somewhere in diamond or masters and can usually stomp the other team. This was a season or two ago. One time the bronze account was even using an aimbot. They claimed that their main accounts had never been banned and that they had done it many times.

On a lesser level you could derank a few hundred points and que with a friend to boost them. Honestly its probably easier to just play well in the first place though.

Wow this is only 9 days away. It feels really good saying that.

Probably the best all british team ive ever seen

I'm starting to be a heavy flex player at this point the hatred of ontricks is so bad i can only rank up when my team doesnt flame me. Honestly its really sad in a way because its very fun to counter hitscans with pharah. But if the team is giving up i have no choice but to switch. I love my teams that stick with it. Lol sometimes i just have to explain what happened last point like "i killed widow and soldier" and then keep calling out when i kill the hitscans. Once my team watches the killfeed and realises Im pooping on the enemy then I can usually stay pharah but if someone is having a bad day and grumpy and just mad because they are mad there is no reasoning with them.

Man they really take thier pubg seriously in korea

About one tricks. The argument goes both ways. There are times when the one trick should switch only because of the perception of thier own team and on the other hand there are times when they actually should switch. But flexing is the whole teams job and if something isnt working then ANYONE unwilling to switch is equally guilty. If someone tells a torb to switch and the torb tells a zen to switch then they are equally guilty if neither switch. Ive played many games as a pharah one trick vs zen ana and the 3 hitscans and won easily. But its not the easy wins we sould look at. Its the close games and the fact of the matter is that nobody really knows for sure. So if you want to be able to tell someone when they should switch then you should accept them being able to tell you when to switch. Its only fair and basicly there is no perfect solution. Yes one tricks need to be able to flex or they are the only ones not able to flex and that is not right but when it comes down to one player telling another player when to switch that is just a bad idea. There are too many tilted people who would abuse it.

Also side note. When onetricking I was required to win 55% of my games to break even. When maining one hero and flexing i was able to actually rank up in mid masters with a losing record which is amazing. So one tricks should consider this if they want to rank up. And if you get a one trick on your team then at least know that they probably have to have a better win rate than if they flexed so if you work with it you should have an advantage.

Lol try hitting his tire with a pharah rocket.

I know this thread is about xqc basicly but the title and first post are a little more abstract so I'll bring up: Fuey500 a torb one trick streamer who has always tried to win, been positive in every game, and gotten decently high (pretty sure multiple times into top500) was banned for a day for "disruptive gameplay".

I understand one tricks are a hot topic but let the point be made that the guy is good enough to repeatedly get top 500 and I have never seen him be even slightly toxic on stream. I watch a few one trick streamers and find them incredibly fun and refreshing to watch because frankly I cant see the same thing anywhere and it really gives you an idea of what is possible when you ignore the meta and still try. I hope that one tricking does not become a bannable offense and maybe blizzard could make a ROLE SELECT function so that hey maybe you get a longer que but at least people can get a functional comp.

Yeah but sym and even torb are actually viable picks if the players know what they are doing. Yes even on king of the hill. And even on attack. And the voice chat thing well I understand why alot of one tricks would not want to join voice. Poor teamwork yes but understandable.

I know what you mean. Its sad but alot of players have resorted to blaming other people on their team instead of attempting to carry. If you are happy with your rank then have fun, stay positive, try new heroes, joke around and be a team player. If you want to rank up just play alot and focus only on your own performance. You literally can do nothing about the guy throwing but you WILL outrank him if you focus on your own performance. The odds eventually are overwhelmingly in your favor. Also keep in mind that these people are in many games. Sometimes all you have to do is dominate one team fight and the other team will give up or even leave. I do miss the games where big comebacks were more common.
Dont forget if someone is actually griefing then report them for it. Ive gotten 3 emails from blizzard saying they took some action on my reports. One time I even reported someone before the game started and it removed him and canceled the game.

I use the zowie EC1-A. It is nice for the medium-high sesitivity I use because it has large pads and slides smoothly making micro adjustments easy. If you get a zowie keep in mind that they offer versions that have an elevated back (to support your palm) or ones like the EC series that are highest in the middle.
They also use good sesnors and have low to no lag with universal drivers.

I know I have been down on the whole OWL scene before but after the world cup I'm really pumped to see what is next. It looks like its going be pretty cool. Would be nice if they ease up a bit and start letting 3rd parties host stuff to enlarge the breeding ground for talent. Either way, for the first time in a while I'm pumped.

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They are gonna need Mickie and PMA Taimou sitting on both sides of xqc just to offset his toxic.

I'm unsure if they are even concerned that they make a profit. It just seems like the money being sunk into these things is either just to own a team for the fun of it or the love of the sports and esports teams alike.

If anything its one of those early investments that could pay off huge but is not likely to at all in the short term.

So when we talk about failure it kindof depends on what the criteria for failure are. Will they shut down if the only have 30k viewers initally? Not likely. Will they invest another round or two of big money into OWL if they have to? Likely. Would it be awesome to go to a OWL game in person? I'd fuckin go in a heartbeat if I was in town. Might even travel if I got really jazzed on it.

Trust me I don't fully like the direction OWL has gone but overwatch is in my opinion the best game right now for esports (cough, after they fix mercy). Its about that man. Its about the love of the game. And perhaps barring a few uninformed investors, anyone who put money in knew it was a big risk and did so anyway.

Wow i am way older than all of you. My fisrt video game was on windows 3.1

Jet set jamerson. This guy is a real caster

I upvoted you man. Being able to control the camera would be a whole nother level. I hope they are not just talking about caster tools but they are.

son i predicted this way back. i even made a dam* thread here.

I needed an account and I have accounts everywhere.

ow is ded

Respawn timers are jusy such a key mechanic in this game its amazing they let res get this out of control.

Also of note is them fixing the sustained movement speed from glide. No longer will she be able to glide into a res and out instantly. And as well the movement speed of valk. People are saying they made it too low on ptr which is surprising considering how fast people say it is now.

Overall it is a major nerf. Expect ana to come back in a big way.

Yeah it would be nice if it was so organized but really you get many programmers working on the same project. A small company might have 20 to work on console to console ports or full handheld games. For a game like overwatch you could easily have hundreds of programmers touch the code. And senior programmers likely work on the project durring inital development and then less so afterward. You allso will have 1000s of files with lines and lines of code in each. Its easy for a new guy to see "make genjis ult stay active even after being stunned" in the workload/bug database and put in some code that looks like it works. But he didnt do his homework. And when he tests it he could easily fail to notice the extra swings because he would have to check the hp of the enemies. Even the in house testers would be likely to miss it.

2 seconds longer ult

Wait... a lan????

Man all my predictions are wrong. Im about to commit over.gg sudoku

Seagul will not play for any team unless its clear they will have high success. He has too high a value as a streamer and too much reputation on the line. He may go back to his roots and play for the love of the game but he would be risking alot. Hes a smart guy and its hard to risk all that easy money from streaming. He could probably stream for the rest of his life and be comfortable.

Rip widow mains

i just hope that ecosystem is worth what we lost by outlawing a year and probably more of NA lans. teams that disbanded that I really liked and may have had a chance to stay together given a more active NA scene. i mean great the whole picture looks great but why throw out free additions to it? those additions would have made it stronger. Even if they are not part of blizzards picture more competition and incentive and a thriving scene just add more to the rest.

this is great. great actual response. i agree with all of it except the last part but whatever.

but take everything there and add to it an NA with actual lans going on where freely organized teams would have an incentive to stay together other than the limited OWL scene. all that extra scene would come at the cost of nothing because all it would take is blizzard to stop shutting it down and everything thats great about APEX and all the other tourneys going on worldwide would be made better with the promise of a stronger NA scene breeding better players and teams some of which would go to trouneys like APEX and make it really exciting and give us an idea of how the multi national scenes stack up against eachother. esports is strong enough now to grow like traditional sports but that doesnt mean we should abandon its roots in many independent organizations coming together and often thriving off of only peoples love of the game not just money and entrenchment and restrictions.

I would think pro players would want a scene where there are as many spots as possible for teams and players to participate and lans are allowed.

Im also waiting for a decent na lan that has real teams in it not this premade world cup bullshit where teams are limited and restricted to where they came from.

its not dead. but its not what it could be. or even what it would have been if blizzard kept their hands out of it. eveything rests on the OWL

sure im waiting bud

I like how none of you have even tried to make a single logical counter argument. saying things like baby rage and sure bud and lul must be the pinnacle of your logical abilities.

This is how idiots argue I guess. gg

Either that or you have become so content and dependent on your measly entertainment that you wont even allow yourself to imagine or propose how it could be better.

Embargo on tourneys what great management. You guys really love outlawing tourneys in your game. Sorry i dont understand your idiotic policies.

Lol i guess the overwatch community is happy with the learn to love less policy.

Pretty sure every other game in na has had lans this year.

But yeah you guys are idiots for deciding this is good enough.

Korea has proved it having more pro teams is just better. And will the heavy leagal restrictions and entrenched teams really be the best for overwatch? I mean think about the creative metas that may not even be experimented with now. Overwatch is just getting locked down and its boring af.

Thats the best you can say. Because you have NO ACTUAL LOGICAL COUNTER to what I say. Ow was way better last year. Say something else stupid please.

Im really glad you think an online tourney is top tier entertainment and no NA lans for the 2nd year of overwatch while teams get scrambled over dumb OWL politics is great entertainment. Looks about as entertaining as playing wolrd of warcraft right now. On the plus side the game is actually fun but the pro scene could have been so much better this year. And will OWL really be the best we can get? Im down for the physical infrastructure but I'm NOT excited to see esports try to emulate real sports broadcasts any more than they already do. I mean does any one else wish that the announcers would shut the F* up every once in a while so you could hear the pitter patter of tracer first revealing herself to the enemy team. Sorry but I happen to play overwatch and I can figure out whats going on just fine with out some LOUD A, CONSTANT conversation going on in the foreground.

In ALL regions??? Contenders is crap. Last year we had way more tourneys and LANs, OVERWATCH OPEN. Teams would manage themselves around their own finances and performance not some dumb promise of a leage limited by insane prices and with orgs locked in to limited slots. You all are crazy if you think this is better. GGEZ

Come on BLIZZARD