u/Archoniks

I really don't enjoy playing Kiriko. I know she is constantly reccomended as THE support to climb and I can see that she's well rounded compared to the others but I just don't enjoy her gameplay style.

I want to be a well rounded and flexible support while still sticking to the ones I enjoy. I am open to a few others like Wuyang and Baptiste but I just listed my three favorites. The main ones I don't enjoy are Mercy, Kiriko, and Lucio.

What would you guys reccomend and what weaknesses do you think each character has and what situations do they play into well and not so well?

ecided to try out Overwatch for the first time as someone who typically doesn't play a ton of shooters. The first 5 games were very obviously against bots and since then I have a 20% winrate. I have been playing support and based on the stats after the game I am doing about as well or better than my other support most of the time. I just don't really understand and it's been completely miserable.

I would like to play competitive to be matched with people of my skill level but based on what I read you have to win 50 quick-play matches before you can play competitive?

At the rate I have been winning I guess that means I have 200 more matches to go...

I have played a lot of competitive games over the years and while I am never amazing I usually end up anywhere from Gold-Diamond and I don't think my play in this game has been absolutely awful or anything so I am just at a loss.

Decided to try out Overwatch for the first time as someone who typically doesn't play a ton of shooters. The first 5 games were very obviously against bots and since then I have a 20% winrate. I have been playing support and based on the stats after the game I am doing about as well or better than my other support most of the time. I just don't really understand and it's been completely miserable.

I would like to play competitive to be matched with people of my skill level but based on what I read you have to win 50 quick-play matches before you can play competitive?

At the rate I have been winning I guess that means I have 200 more matches to go...

I have played a lot of competitive games over the years and while I am never amazing I usually end up anywhere from Gold-Diamond and I don't think my play in this game has been absolutely awful or anything so I am just at a loss.

edit: since the image seems to be broken, I have played 24 matches against real people so far and only won 5

I have seen this mentioned in comments elsewhere but I haven't seen anyone make an actual post about it. I thought it was odd when I didn't get charged any tax on my purchase yesterday, so I have been checking to see if others noticed.

Through reading various comments over the past 24 hours, I feel confident the mistake was listing the controller as a digital good/software download. Everyone who says they weren't charged taxes lives in states where digital games aren't taxed like California, Arkansas (which taxes some digital goods, but not games), and Missouri.

Meanwhile, I've confirmed that people in states like Georgia and Pennsylvania were charged tax, which makes sense because those states tax digital downloads just like physical hardware. Originally I was confused by someone in Georgia paying tax, but through some research I found out that Georgia updated their laws in 2024 to tax digital game purchases.

This seems like a pretty big mistake on Valve's part. Hopefully, it doesn't result in orders being cancelled, but it might explain why some of us got a "stealth discount."

If you live in a state like California and were charged tax, please share that here and what time you bought it. It's possible they fixed it at some point yesterday.

Edit May 5th 5:50est : My order just got updated to "Packaged Items" so for anyone who was worried this may affect their order it looks like you don't have to worry about that.

Edit 2: I was right, someone posted the listing change on SteamDB in the comments. Shortly after my first post pointing out the error they updated the listing from Game to Hardware. https://steamdb.info/app/4165870/history/

Edit 3: Someone reached out to support and they confirmed that it was a mistake but that we wouldn't be charged after the fact to correct the mistake. https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamController/comments/1t3o8i7/comment/ok5mhjt/?context=1

The recent steam controller discourse kind of surprised me because I am noticing that most people don't use the trackpad features of the steam deck at all.

Personally, even on CRPG's like baldurs gate 3 that support controller I still use the trackpad setup and find it extremely enjoyable. I've gotten extremely fast and comfortable using a high sensitivity.

I really think it's worth taking the time to practice and get good at. As someone who spent about 20 years doing way too much gaming, I have a lot of wrist trouble and I try to limit how much time I use a mouse. The biggest limitation for me is my hands going numb for a while after using the steam deck, so I'm super pumped for the new steam controller as a way to sit back, relax, and enjoy games like wrath of the righteous and BG3.