sábado, 10 de dezembro de 2016

Overwatch... A Fountain of Idiocy

So... it's no surprise that the world is fucked. It has been since the begginning of the existance of the human race. But it's in games that I realize more and more that this is absolutely true... And this particular game is Overwatch, a first person shooter developed by Blizzard, the giants behind such games as Warcraft, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft and so on and so forth... It's an amazing game, I absolutely love it in many ways but there's a thing about this game that really makes me want to punch walls until my knuckles start bleeding. Its player base... Oh my fucking gods is it filled with idiots. Now, in a normal game aka quick play I wouldn't text anything to anyone, I would simply suck it up and move on into another game, because that's all that is to it. But in competitive it's a whole new story...
Competitive matches in Overwatch are done by seasons which last 3 months and they have ranks through which you can climb to become the best. There's Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, Grandmaster and Top 500 (best 500 players but technically they are Grandmaster still).
These ranks are acquired by playing 10 placements matches that determine in which ranking you will be placed.
All good and jolly stuff so far right? Yep, until you finished the 10 placement matches, you get placed in gold and start playing with randoms in solo queue because you don't have friends playing the game or they just don't care about the game as much as you do.
What I hate about solo queue is that it takes you about a week or 2 to go 200 season ranking points up and it takes you an afternoon to go 200 SRP down. Yes my friends, it's like that... Not only that but to find an actual decent team it takes around 5 matches or even more and then it's back to the gutter to grind your points back through the infinite amount of teams filled with idiots.
I kid you not folks, it's been unbelievable the amount of fucktards i've been finding in this game... They do not perform well so they blame it on you. Why? Because you talked on microphone to talk back to them and try to give some advice so they throw every rock they can at you.
Then there's the fucktards who are usually kids who pick a hero in the roster that is absolutely useless for the team and map dynamics, but they want to prove a point and let you know that it's a good character no matter what... Guess what, 98% of the time they fail miserably and blame it on you. That's right. Because they're never wrong. You are!
Then as if that wasn't enough, last Friday I got matched with a team that had a party of 5 where 1 admitted to be drunk and then said that 4 of them were drunk. To this I say : Last week I got drunk myself, I wanted to play Overwatch, sure... but I played No Limits gamemode just for the heck of it... And, for my surprise... when I started to call them to attention to play the game properly, they ganged up on me... no shit, it's a party and i'm 1. It felt like those fools who're super tough because they walk in gangs of 4 or 5 and shit. This is super sad as the game is amazing but i've been seeing a huge toxic community... not every player is, but there's way more than it should. At times it literally feels like i'm playing League of Legends and I absolutely hate that.
Anyways, it's a shame but as I always say... I love the game and I will keep coming back to it because it's awesome and at times very fun. Just asking that if you have friends that play the game in a competitive manner, get me into your friends, their friends, all the friends so that we can play properly... I like adapting to the situations myself and to the dynamics of the game.
That's that... another rant. (What's new?)

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