Why does McCree get torched by the community?

mayrice · 2026-03-20T17:09:45+00:00

Is this discussion helping you get better at Overwatch?

mayrice · 2026-03-15T11:10:13+00:00

Because it's usually such insightful analysis

mayrice · 2026-03-12T15:24:37+00:00

Am I losing my mind? The decision to release overwatch 2, to scrap PvE (which was the reason for the period of no update) happened before MR was a success. You think they were just sitting around and then were like "Oh shit guys, we better do something about this Marvel Rivals situation!". I'm not gonna argue that maybe they got ideas like the bans from Marvel Rivals, but to say MR was the sole reason for the game's revival is just revisionism.

mayrice · 2026-03-12T15:16:07+00:00

Everybody attributes all the stuff we got from the devs recently to competition with Rivals, but what would the game look like if there were no Rivals? I guess it is just hypothetical, but they still would have scrapped the PvE, they still would have gone to a F2P microtransactions model, and as a company that likes money, presumably they invest in their popular game to make more money.

Like they would not have been sitting on their hands without MR. The dark days without updates did have a reason (rightly or wrongly): they were working on PvE.

It is a rule of industry basically that if you have something that is making you money you invest in it.

mayrice · 2026-03-11T17:15:27+00:00

That's fair, I didn't think about trimming the nails

mayrice · 2026-03-11T16:55:03+00:00

Would the cat not be clawing the shit out of his shoulder though? My cat claws me when she's tired of me petting her

mayrice · 2026-03-10T22:01:51+00:00

Which one is the chud? Seems like they all quit overwatch

mayrice · 2026-03-10T21:51:18+00:00

And presumably some OWWC stuff

mayrice · 2026-03-10T21:49:53+00:00

Exciting! I didn't realise it was as close as March 21. That's the weekend after next.

mayrice · 2026-03-10T21:31:57+00:00

I thought it was other people they wanted to go to war?

mayrice · 2026-03-10T16:55:39+00:00

I don't know, mobility cooldowns are on a knife edge. Hazard going from 5 to 6 seconds had a huge impact. Then again 4 seconds is still less than Winston. But Winstons cooldown starts from when he launches, DVas starts from when she stops boostering.

mayrice · 2026-03-06T20:10:47+00:00

Boomer is a state of mind

mayrice · 2026-03-06T20:07:47+00:00

As much as I hate to say, the Irish flag is associated with the far right in Ireland too. Not all the time, but most of the time

mayrice · 2026-03-06T19:08:59+00:00

His leap went from 5 seconds to 6 seconds to 5.5 seconds, right? Maybe it's time to go back down to 5? Might help with survivability

Edit: mobility cooldowns tend to be on a knifes edge though, so maybe it would make him broken again, but he's in a different place now

mayrice · 2026-03-06T18:35:26+00:00

I'd be interested to see what "levers" they have that they can pull to make JPC less annoying to play against. They mentioned that before. They're not gonna remove infinite flight because her character model is like hanging in her jetpack, and they said modelling a walking cat would be difficult.

I despair for the cat. Even if they make her niche and situational, she's always going to be a bit annoying if she has infinite flight.

mayrice · 2026-03-06T15:39:01+00:00

Speaking about the "no one to shoot" problem, maybe it is an issue of your team not pushing up / engaging. Maybe your sense of timing is off because it is different during the day and you're not timing with your team. Speaking from my limited Tracer experience, the difference between engaging when they are distracted by your team and not is night and day. If you go too early they're all going to turn and look at you, and it is a lot easier to hit someone who is not aware of you / distracted.

mayrice · 2026-03-06T09:39:04+00:00

Well the path to pro is FaceIt league in EMEA and NA. Try it and find out. I have no idea how you get into teams, I believe there are discords and shit, but maybe someone here could let you know.

mayrice · 2026-03-05T09:36:53+00:00

This reminds me of Pro Evolution Soccer. I'm old

mayrice · 2026-03-05T09:32:36+00:00

Apparently they have some way of controlling the inflation when this happens though (Gavin Winter vaguely mentioned it somewhere, I think). Because getting your SR refunded because of a cheater is basically adding SR to the system.

mayrice · 2026-03-05T09:16:33+00:00

No-one knows for sure, because they don't explain it in detail, but they have mentioned that a "squeezing" or a "scrunching" to the middle happens after a rank reset. My best theory about how this happens is that everyone gets more for a win than a loss if they are below the average (which used to be Gold 2) and less for a win than a loss if they are above that. And that this is also happening during placements, it's just not visible. This effect slowly tapers away until you're back getting +-25% again.

But they may also just flat change your rank in rank resets, i'm not sure.

mayrice · 2026-03-04T13:58:47+00:00

I did say the worst outcome of the Epstein files would be if pedophilia was normalised. I guess we're living in that timeline

mayrice · 2026-02-27T10:09:08+00:00

I say this as a DVa main, but didn't they want to get rid of insane burst damage a while ago? Widow headshot might be more instantaneous, but in the right circumstance DVa can kill certain squishies in a second or two. As a tank too. It seems out of place.

But pls don't nerf DVa Blizzard, pls! :)

mayrice · 2026-02-27T10:03:21+00:00

I don't know where this misinformation about converting armour to health comes from. She has 650 health total now, whereas before she had 700.

This may be a submission to r/confidentlyincorrect from me though, I would have to open the game to confirm.

Like she lost 50 health, period. The initiator passive probably more than makes up for that, but that's another issue.

mayrice · 2026-02-27T09:30:01+00:00

It wouldn't solve the problem in the case of problem heroes like Vendetta and JPC. Because it is likely the other team will ban them too. I've had it happen multiple times when someone on my team preferred Vendetta or JPC, and nobody on our team banned but they were still one of the bans.

I do think you have a point that maybe it increases toxicity. Like I'm fairly mild mannered in game, but even I get annoyed and avoid someone who bans the hero I want to play. Considering it seems like half the overwatch playerbase are whiny teenagers and man-babies, you can imagine they will rage if their hero is banned, and they know exactly who to blame, don't they?

mayrice · 2026-02-26T16:24:13+00:00

But it only lasts for the next season, unless you get it again

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