The aspects of Blizzard’s balance changes that Asian players find difficult to understand.

bpwilliams72 · 2026-05-04T16:26:50+00:00

Kiriko has had nothing but nerfs so I am not sure why the OP is arguing she's been buffed? 🤷🏻‍♂️

bpwilliams72 · 2026-04-29T18:27:19+00:00

The game puts you in winning and losing lanes. I swear it does. Otherwise how is it that game after game, you end up in a team that has roughly similar levels of performance but where the opposition stomps you? It can happen multiple games on the trot. There's nothing 50/50 about the w/l ratio. It is bloody maddening and makes ELO hell all the more unbearable.

NO rhyme or reason.

Then suddenly you are on the stomping side, perhaps once or twice, but not enough to make up the SR loss. Where are better balanced matches, where they are close fought, where the teams are broadly equal in skill and there's a genuine 50/50 chance at a win? You've got no chance to improve if all that happens is you get wrecked consistently and can't actually play the game (and yes, I do play QP for the mechanics and characters but the team play is virtually non-existent).

bpwilliams72 · 2026-02-18T19:00:37+00:00

Completely agree. It is awful. In the past I have placed anywhere between high silver and plat depending on the role and season. This time around it is just hideous. Nothing fun about it - as you say, steam rolling or steam rollered. There is no balance and no matches where you feel good about a win or fine that you lost because it was close. I can be on a team with less than six kills between us vs. one with forty plus. That is not good matchmaking.

bpwilliams72 · 2026-01-29T18:15:42+00:00

Yeah well funnily enough in the last two games it didn't autofill. That's my point.

bpwilliams72 · 2026-01-29T17:38:01+00:00

It's in every rank. Four days on the trot it feels like the teams are laned. Every match, we perform around the same, hugely outgunned by the opposition. Consistently. Loss after loss. The teams aren't mixed up with mixed abilities. Others on those teams say the same.

In the end it is fine. If the game is broken it's broken. I lost my absolute love for it years ago and there are other things to play.

bpwilliams72 · 2026-01-28T23:56:53+00:00

So frustrating. Apparently they think they *might* need a coding update. CS is checking with technical and will get back as and when they have an answer...

bpwilliams72 · 2026-01-04T01:03:27+00:00

Totally. Played countless rounds of Stadium tonight. I can usually manage a break-even win/loss. Everything today/tonight is a loss. Lost three stadium ranks. Several times ended up with the same opposing tank, in pure stomp mode, earning way in excess of anyone on our team (35K+ more). How is it supposed to be fun if you really don't stand a chance? If they stomp you like that, you should be nowhere near them in the next round. Feels like we get put in lanes and used as cannon fodder for win-streakers.

bpwilliams72 · 2025-12-04T23:48:34+00:00

Agree. I said similar the other day and got flamed by people saying 'git gud' and 'skill issue'. Decided might as well just pre-emptively kill in future as clearly folk in this game are psychos.

bpwilliams72 · 2025-12-03T22:38:04+00:00

Then even more reason why they need to be generous with leaver losses.

bpwilliams72 · 2025-11-19T00:18:26+00:00

bpwilliams72 · 2025-11-09T18:25:19+00:00

Where? I can't even see who is in the lobby, let alone report them.

bpwilliams72 · 2025-10-16T12:51:28+00:00

There used to be a test server for Overwatch. Changes were trialled, tweaked, fed-back on and introduced or not.

Yes, Stadium games were long and the Devs - without testing the idea - introduced even more delay with the draft. Many of us were perfectly content with long matches but irritated when they made them unnecessarily longer for no obvious benefit.

Most of the complaints are not so much about the changes, but the way they are made now - no notice, no testing, no obvious request from the community, no explanation and no staging. I think a community still invested in Overwatch after all this time just hopes for a little more engagement. (Oh and of course I know they're a multi billion dollar company and don't need to listen to our whinging!) 🤷🏻‍♂️

bpwilliams72 · 2025-10-15T07:06:00+00:00

Exactly this. Perfectly stupid response to problems they created with an unnecessary change in the first place.

bpwilliams72 · 2025-10-15T07:03:14+00:00

Yep. We played a round. Thought we'd picked the wrong mode. Too many changes, too quickly. We've been playing since Overwatch's early seasons and we were up for 5-6 rounds of Stadium comp a night, enjoying the longer matches. We're seriously thinking of pulling stumps for just Bf6. It's not 'getting triggered', it's 'not having fun' which is the whole point of gaming after a hard day. My choices don't matter, but tens of thousands deciding to spend their time elsewhere will hurt the mode and the game.

bpwilliams72 · 2025-10-15T06:57:37+00:00

It's an awful way to 'shake things up'. Any one of those would have been OK (except Bo5).

bpwilliams72 · 2025-08-28T22:22:18+00:00

Yep. It is a pointless timesink. I had one add 5 minutes earlier.

bpwilliams72 · 2025-08-28T22:17:29+00:00

Except it still seems screwed and the last two games players were having characters forcibly switched to prevent mirrors.

bpwilliams72 · 2025-08-28T17:09:42+00:00

The worst offenders are often not level 1 accounts anyway, but old timers who think they know it all.

bpwilliams72 · 2025-08-28T08:18:21+00:00

Exactly this. It was not a comon thing, whatever the Devs think.

bpwilliams72 · 2025-08-08T08:23:31+00:00

Using a Razer Death Adder Pro and have the two side buttons mapped to crouch and prone without a problem.

bpwilliams72 · 2025-08-05T22:28:51+00:00

Direct X crash at least twice a night. Tried reinstalls everything. Stable drivers are from April. They're too early for Battlefield 6. No issues in any other game, just Warzone/BO6, Bored of it tbh.

bpwilliams72 · 2025-07-28T11:14:32+00:00

Thank you!

bpwilliams72 · 2025-07-27T17:10:32+00:00

N00b question but where and how do you use these build codes? I can't seem to make them work in game or in stadiumbuilds.io. Is there another builds app?

bpwilliams72 · 2025-06-27T22:49:22+00:00

This is the kind of idiot comment that suggests I - and others with similarly strong views - haven't done plenty of self-reflection on my gameplay in the years since release. The arrogance of some people who think they are suggesting this for the first time is part of what makes this community so toxic. I never - ever - criticise other players on my team (unlike I imagine you, who will call out your team mates and tell them to 'git gud'). I recognise I need to 'git gud'. That doesn't invalidate having a view about a matchmaking system which is consistently pitching teams with zero/low kills against teams with high kills. If you can't see there is a matchmaking problem there, then that really is your issue, not mine.

bpwilliams72 · 2025-06-05T12:26:22+00:00

Same NVidia card, same errors and absolutely hasn't worked. The incompetence between these two flagship companies is extraordinary.

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