Competitive Overwatch 2 Players Have A Lot Of Complaints [Update: Blizzard Responds]

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It’s time to reset the clock on Overwatch 2 gamers discovering one thing to be sad about with the rocky launch of Blizzard’s sequel hero shooter. Last time—which is to say, two days in the past—gamers found that crossplay robotically deactivated goal help for console gamers in matches with PC gamers, thus ruining the enjoyable for console gamers. Now, varied gamers are lamenting the state of Overwatch 2’s aggressive system.

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The 4 greatest factors of rivalry for aggressive gamers with Overwatch 2 for the time being are as follows: the aggressive rating system, matchmaking, dishonest, and disconnecting from the sport’s servers mid-match.

Read More: Overwatch 2 Is Buggier Than Blizzard Is Admitting [Update: Entire Characters Pulled ATM]

The new rating system

Some gamers allege that the brand new manner that Overwatch 2 ranks gamers isn’t solely much less satisfying and enjoyable, however an intentional timesink meant to maintain them logged in and taking part in even longer than they might usually.

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In a submit to the r/CompetitiveOverwatch subreddit, Redditor TooRealForLife stated that, regardless of coming into Overwatch 2 with an open thoughts, they discovered its new aggressive system is “a lot worse” than the primary sport’s and that it’s presumably their “least-favorite ranked system in any game” due to how rating progress in aggressive works. In distinction to the primary sport, the place you noticed your season rating quantity fluctuate with each sport, in OW2 you don’t see any motion till you’ve accomplished a number of video games. “With no indication of how I’m tracking until I win seven games, I feel like I’m making less progress than ever,” they stated.

“Where before you could play four or five games in a session and feel like you’d gotten somewhere, I now feel inclined to win seven games every time I log in to get some feeling of change one way or the other,” TooRealForLife wrote. “Even going 7-0 that’s at least an hour straight of play in lopsided games to feel…anything.”

Other Redditors chimed in suggesting that it was a “conspiracy” on OW2’s half to entice gamers to sink extra time into the sport. While Redditor PhoustPhoustPhoust had much less hate to dish out towards OW2’s new aggressive system, they did acknowledge that it causes gamers obsess extra over their rank through wins and losses than bettering their abilities within the sport.

“The focus should always be self improvement. I have a feeling that the seven wins or 20 losses system was set up so that, more often than not, you’re getting a rank update after a win,” PhoustPhoustPhoust stated. “As someone said before, it also encourages longer play sessions, which may not be necessarily a good thing for players but is obviously what Blizzard wants.”

In a separate thread masking the identical subject, Redditor SaucySeducer stated that they’re experiencing a love-hate relationship with how Blizzard rolled out its aggressive rank system and making the rank replace reveal take someplace between half-hour to 2+ hours.

“Personally, I don’t really care either way if they keep this system or not but I would prefer five wins or 15 losses to keep the updates more frequent,” SaucySeducer wrote.

Matchmaking

The second merchandise seeing complaints is matchmaking. What separates the youngbloods from the veterans is OW2’s rating system. Play very well, you get a better rank. Play such as you’re new to the sport, you get a decrease one. If you leap right into a aggressive matchup, the belief is that you just’re mixing it up with folks round your degree, however some gamers have observed that their video games are uneven. Redditor ItsShorsey, for instance, complained about diamond-ranked gamers matching with people ranked silver. For the uninitiated, that’s like your fitness center instructor attempting to interrupt a Harlem Globetrotter’s ankles.

“I thought this was a Valorant post and just shrugged it off but hell nah it’s happening to Overwatch as well,” Fatalcurse7654 replied. Check up in your Valorant homies, I suppose.

“I’m a plat/diamond player with 2k hours in OW. I was placed bronze 5. The games are now absolute shitshows, with a mix of actual bronze and others who are obv not bronze in every match. It’s like they’re forcing a smurf problem,” wrote Redditor DwarvenChiliVacuum.

Matchmaking isn’t simply an in-game, it’s additionally a difficulty for gamers to have the ability to differentiate their rank from their teammates and the ops due to how tiny OW2’s aggressive rank medals are.

“I can’t see my competitive rank or really see what anyone else’s rank is because it is just a small icon that I am not familiar with and they don’t do a good enough job at explaining,” wrote ItsShorsey.

Cheating and disconnects

The final grievance is a twofer: OW2’s dishonest and disconnect points. The former speaks for itself. Despite OW2 being simply shy over every week previous, footage of gamers utilizing goal bots has already hit the web. Which…why? Like I get the entire thoughts goblin reasoning of receiving the joyful mind chemical seeing OW2’s fanfare victory display however for those who play like ass you’ll nonetheless play like ass. Now all the Overwatch neighborhood is aware of your crimes, I assume.

Anyway, gamers who’re detected dishonest have their accounts suspended which is sweet, however what isn’t good is the penalization that gamers obtain for dropping out mid-game when it wasn’t their fault within the first place. OW2 doesn’t acknowledge the distinction between ragequits and harmless gamers being booted by bugs, and gamers who drop from matches sufficient instances obtain a penalty that bars them from taking part in the sport for a set time frame.

While in some circumstances, the disconnect simply boots gamers to the beginning display, others have skilled the sport both fully restarting their PCs or shutting them down solely. Players flocked to the Overwatch boards believing they have been encountering a PC {hardware} situation solely to find that different folks have been working into the identical situation regardless of their PCs working different demanding video games with out situation. Blizzard stated it was conscious of the problem in a tweet from ts official help account, and that it’s investigating the matter.

A tumultuous first week

Pro-tip: Turn on the notification bell for that account so you’ll be able to keep abreast of future pending developments on the Overwatch 2 points entrance. That gained’t do a lot to deal with the dishonest or the perceived shortcomings within the rating and matchmaking programs, although: The ball’s in Blizzard’s court docket on these. We can solely hope it’ll catch a rebound and get its head again within the sport, so to talk, after Overwatch 2’s very difficult launch.

Update 10/14/2022 12:20 p.m. ET: Yesterday, Blizzard addressed Overwatch 2’s aggressive rating points in a developer weblog saying it’d found a bug that precipitated gamers to rank as Bronze 5 in aggressive play when they need to have positioned increased.

Our most up-to-date patch included a repair that may enable you get again to your true rank shortly, and that might be mirrored the following time you obtain a aggressive rating replace. You will obtain a lift as you proceed taking part in that can assist you stand up to the proper ranks. Players who haven’t but positioned in aggressive gained’t expertise this situation after the repair goes dwell.

We’re additionally watching your suggestions about how we current your talent tier and division and the way you have a good time that in-game. While we don’t have any particulars we are able to share but, anticipate us to make extra enhancements to Competitive, and we’ll proceed to observe to your suggestions.”