On June 17 2016 00:14 mordek wrote: Has anyone been playing to get achievements? I love collecting those things. Some of these are going to be hard because of difficulty and also I'm garbage at that particular hero. Made sure to get my Reinhardt cute spray this morning :3
I like trying for a couple of them but I don't understabd some of the 'prevent team from capturing point' ones. I could swear I've done those multiple times and not gotten anything.
On June 17 2016 00:05 Requizen wrote: I'm ready for some sort of ranked mode. Pick up games are fun but yeah they sometimes feel really one-sided. I guess that won't change too much with Ranked (because solo queue) but hey, you never know.
The nice thing about playing ranked is that you actually have something to play for. In unranked I dont care at all about win or lose, you end up with 50% anyway no matter if you try hard or not. Like my brother is a way better player than me but what does it matter, we both still win the same amount of games. So to me playing unranked feels like being in a hamster wheel. Nothing you do matters, you always end up at the same place as far as you can tell (since you cant see your mmr).
Well that gets more into the focus on MMR vs the focus on personal improvement.
I've bounced around 55% win rate more or less, and none of it really matter because it's unranked. But I've been setting personal goals that I aim for to try and focus on mechanical improvements.
Aiming for:
100 damage absorbed per projected shield on Zarya
55% hook accuracy on Roadhog is what I consider decent, 60% is my current benchmark for "good"
35%+ direct rocket accuracy with Pharah (obviously skewed by shooting shields, but shut up red)
As I get more consistent with things like these, I increase my goal benchmarks. IDGAF about my MMR right now, but all these little improvements will be beneficial in the long run.
Holyflare somehow has like 90% hook accuracy every game, with 20+ hooks fired.
I don't understand...
Well, those are the cards you see, so I'd assume there's a bit of confirmation bias there.
I'm not sure about HF, but I tend to make a lot of low chance, high reward hook attempts (getting people on ledges, airborne enemies, getting flying hooks while I'm airborne, etc) that likely bring my accuracy rate down. I think I'm getting close to 50% average hook accuracy, but I might be falling slightly short of that at this moment (masteroverwatch is blocked at work for me, someone feel free to check Soniv#1962).
It could be that he's taking lower risk chances, he could be always grabbing fat tanks instead of the skinny carries or supports, as Redox mentioned it could be dependent on enemy skill, or he could just be a better Roadhog than I am (although I'd be a bit skeptical on that one only because I've played a LOT of Roadhog, not to teut my own horn or anything).
Checked and you're at 48%.
Thanks. I know I hit 49% at one point, must have fallen back down. I'll be happy once I average 50% overall
I've been playing a lot more of the other tanks instead of Roadhog lately though.
hey you had a game with 100% hook accuracy and also a game with 26 enemies hooked thats pretty baller.
Those stats seem pretty meaningless to me and are at risk of making me focus on the wrong things. IF you start out bad and slowly improve like me over a large number of games it'll take forever to see any real reflection of that in your stats.
Roadhog hooks for example. I'm still learning him so I'm gonna spam hooks like crazy and miss a whole bunch, affecting my stats forever, but all of that will ultimately make me a better player which won't be reflected in my stats the longer that takes to happen. If I focused on good stats I'd only try and go for a few easy hooks per game and not improve.
On June 17 2016 00:14 mordek wrote: Has anyone been playing to get achievements? I love collecting those things. Some of these are going to be hard because of difficulty and also I'm garbage at that particular hero. Made sure to get my Reinhardt cute spray this morning :3
I put in some concerted effort to get some of the achievements I was missing from regular play on my 'main' classes(like, I played around my recall cooldown to get the Tracer one, made sure to go ham reflecting Bastions every time I saw them for the Genji one... I think those are the two I actually had to make an effort on.
Really the only achievement I'm missing for people I play regularly is the Zarya 70 energy for 60 seconds one... which might be the next one I put a real effort into getting as opposed to trying to get it through natural play(I thought I had it last night but apparently it wasn't a full minute, QQ).
Does anyone have small hand mouse suggestions? I'm feeling a change and want to look at options. Don't really know what's out there. Think the last mouse I used before this shitty microsoft one was a SS Sensei which was pretty cool. Before that was the MX518 which is just godly :<
On June 17 2016 00:05 Requizen wrote: I'm ready for some sort of ranked mode. Pick up games are fun but yeah they sometimes feel really one-sided. I guess that won't change too much with Ranked (because solo queue) but hey, you never know.
The nice thing about playing ranked is that you actually have something to play for. In unranked I dont care at all about win or lose, you end up with 50% anyway no matter if you try hard or not. Like my brother is a way better player than me but what does it matter, we both still win the same amount of games. So to me playing unranked feels like being in a hamster wheel. Nothing you do matters, you always end up at the same place as far as you can tell (since you cant see your mmr).
Well that gets more into the focus on MMR vs the focus on personal improvement.
I've bounced around 55% win rate more or less, and none of it really matter because it's unranked. But I've been setting personal goals that I aim for to try and focus on mechanical improvements.
Aiming for:
100 damage absorbed per projected shield on Zarya
55% hook accuracy on Roadhog is what I consider decent, 60% is my current benchmark for "good"
35%+ direct rocket accuracy with Pharah (obviously skewed by shooting shields, but shut up red)
As I get more consistent with things like these, I increase my goal benchmarks. IDGAF about my MMR right now, but all these little improvements will be beneficial in the long run.
Is direct hit really something you want to be maximising that hard?
With how free ammo is in OW, surely you want to be firing zoning rockets into doorways/chokes whenever you don't have anything more useful to be doing, rather than only going for snipes.
Like, sure it's a proportionally stat overall, but trying to intentionally boost it could lead to pretty shitty habits in terms of actually just maximising your own usefulness.
On June 17 2016 03:26 killerdog wrote: Is direct hit really something you want to be maximising that hard?
With how free ammo is in OW, surely you want to be firing zoning rockets into doorways/chokes whenever you don't have anything more useful to be doing, rather than only going for snipes.
Like, sure it's a proportionally stat overall, but trying to intentionally boost it could lead to pretty shitty habits in terms of actually just maximising your own usefulness.
yeah my accuracy is pretty shit on pharah and torb cause i just lob shit where I know they will have to come from presently if its not a good time to go hunting or do anything else.
On June 17 2016 03:00 Numy wrote: Does anyone have small hand mouse suggestions? I'm feeling a change and want to look at options. Don't really know what's out there. Think the last mouse I used before this shitty microsoft one was a SS Sensei which was pretty cool. Before that was the MX518 which is just godly :<
I love my G400 which also was super cheap, but apparently it has been phased out. I guess g402 is the succesor but personally I dont know it. Its also inexpensive tho.
On June 17 2016 00:14 mordek wrote: Has anyone been playing to get achievements? I love collecting those things. Some of these are going to be hard because of difficulty and also I'm garbage at that particular hero. Made sure to get my Reinhardt cute spray this morning :3
I put in some concerted effort to get some of the achievements I was missing from regular play on my 'main' classes(like, I played around my recall cooldown to get the Tracer one, made sure to go ham reflecting Bastions every time I saw them for the Genji one... I think those are the two I actually had to make an effort on.
Really the only achievement I'm missing for people I play regularly is the Zarya 70 energy for 60 seconds one... which might be the next one I put a real effort into getting as opposed to trying to get it through natural play(I thought I had it last night but apparently it wasn't a full minute, QQ).
Rapid Discord seems like it'll be the hardest to pull off even with concerted effort.
I really want the D.Va 4+ kill one but somewhere between beta and release everybody learned to just bolt when they hear D.Va's ultimate.
On June 17 2016 03:00 Numy wrote: Does anyone have small hand mouse suggestions? I'm feeling a change and want to look at options. Don't really know what's out there. Think the last mouse I used before this shitty microsoft one was a SS Sensei which was pretty cool. Before that was the MX518 which is just godly :<
I love my G400 which also was super cheap, but apparently it has been phased out. I guess g402 is the succesor but personally I dont know it. Its also inexpensive tho.
I'll take a look thanks. Seems to be pretty oddly shaped oo
edit: Whelp our prices are fucking insane. So nothing is inexpensive it seems. The G502 is R100 less expensive wtf.
On June 17 2016 00:14 mordek wrote: Has anyone been playing to get achievements? I love collecting those things. Some of these are going to be hard because of difficulty and also I'm garbage at that particular hero. Made sure to get my Reinhardt cute spray this morning :3
I put in some concerted effort to get some of the achievements I was missing from regular play on my 'main' classes(like, I played around my recall cooldown to get the Tracer one, made sure to go ham reflecting Bastions every time I saw them for the Genji one... I think those are the two I actually had to make an effort on.
Really the only achievement I'm missing for people I play regularly is the Zarya 70 energy for 60 seconds one... which might be the next one I put a real effort into getting as opposed to trying to get it through natural play(I thought I had it last night but apparently it wasn't a full minute, QQ).
Rapid Discord seems like it'll be the hardest to pull off even with concerted effort.
I really want the D.Va 4+ kill one but somewhere between beta and release everybody learned to just bolt when they hear D.Va's ultimate.
Convince somebody to play Zarya with you on Nepal or Lijiang~
On June 17 2016 03:37 Slayer91 wrote: I thought I was slowly transforming into an old american white man when I thought bill oreilly was making a lot of sense on the late show
but then he was like yea we just need to make being a jihadi muslim illegal m8
nvm
isnt a jihadi muslim a militant for a religion instead of a nation? isnt that already illegal except in the deep south USA?
On June 17 2016 03:26 killerdog wrote: Is direct hit really something you want to be maximising that hard?
With how free ammo is in OW, surely you want to be firing zoning rockets into doorways/chokes whenever you don't have anything more useful to be doing, rather than only going for snipes.
Like, sure it's a proportionally stat overall, but trying to intentionally boost it could lead to pretty shitty habits in terms of actually just maximising your own usefulness.
That's because DH% is a shit stat, DH# on the other hand is imo really good metric to pay attention to.
On June 17 2016 03:26 killerdog wrote: Is direct hit really something you want to be maximising that hard?
With how free ammo is in OW, surely you want to be firing zoning rockets into doorways/chokes whenever you don't have anything more useful to be doing, rather than only going for snipes.
Like, sure it's a proportionally stat overall, but trying to intentionally boost it could lead to pretty shitty habits in terms of actually just maximising your own usefulness.
That's because DH% is a shit stat, DH# on the other hand is imo really good metric to pay attention to.
had a game with 76 direct hits.... felt good man.... of course they had a reinhardt but still
On June 17 2016 03:26 killerdog wrote: Is direct hit really something you want to be maximising that hard?
With how free ammo is in OW, surely you want to be firing zoning rockets into doorways/chokes whenever you don't have anything more useful to be doing, rather than only going for snipes.
Like, sure it's a proportionally stat overall, but trying to intentionally boost it could lead to pretty shitty habits in terms of actually just maximising your own usefulness.
That's because DH% is a shit stat, DH# on the other hand is imo really good metric to pay attention to.
had a game with 76 direct hits.... felt good man.... of course they had a reinhardt but still
I played with someone who consistently hit 90-100 every game. And I thought I'm good with 40-50.
On June 17 2016 03:26 killerdog wrote: Is direct hit really something you want to be maximising that hard?
With how free ammo is in OW, surely you want to be firing zoning rockets into doorways/chokes whenever you don't have anything more useful to be doing, rather than only going for snipes.
Like, sure it's a proportionally stat overall, but trying to intentionally boost it could lead to pretty shitty habits in terms of actually just maximising your own usefulness.
That's because DH% is a shit stat, DH# on the other hand is imo really good metric to pay attention to.
Certainly, and as I said, it's skewed by shields and stuff. It's a decent enough metric to watch just as a guide, but I know if I was particularly good or bad at direct hits during a game (Pharah air battles are fun as shit).
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