u/Dogbold

Both last season and this season my experience has been:

By far most matches are HARD stomps, by that I mean so hard that the enemy team pushes the payload 100% of the way with more than 4 minutes left on the clock, and we don't even fill one bar on our round. That bad.
I'll get these kinds of matches sometimes up to 7 matches in a row. Yes, even if I quit and get on the next day after 3 losses.

Constant throwers and toxic teammates. Swapping to Widow over nearly anything is extremely common. Teammates fighting and screaming and cussing at each other. Banning each other's teammates. Just extreme toxicity in almost every match.
I'll have strings of like 3 matches in a row where my team is just super toxic and arguing and fighting and throwing.

Jeffs eating teammates on purpose to kill them off a cliff, supports purposely not healing a teammate they think "sucks" or to punish them, tanks wasting ults in spawn, swapping to Widow for one of a thousand reasons... it's constant.
I had a match a while ago where a Rocket, for whatever reason, just refused to heal me. He would move away if I was infront of him, and took angles he thought would avoid his orbs healing me. Sometimes he would legit dash out of the way so he could heal the rest of the team and avoid his orbs healing me.

Teams do not cooperate or coordinate at all. They ALL want to play lonewolf, they do not listen to advice, they will not coordinate. They want to play what they want to play and they don't care. Asking them to work as a team gets you a solid "go fuck yourself" or "shut the fuck up" or "just play the fucking game". They do not care.

Extreme apathy from teammates that treat ranked the same as QP, or maybe even less than it. They're just there to "vibe" and "chill" and "have fun", and they literally do not care even a little bit about winning at all. They just don't give a shit. They'll flat out admit it too.

Entire game on both sides has become extremely toxic. GG EZ is said almost every single match now from the winning team, "report ___" is said almost every single match from the losing team.

Teams are surrendering WAY more often than they used to. This used to be EXTREMELY rare. Now my teams are surrendering and giving up all the time.

Smurfs and alt accounts are EXTREMELY common. The game is fucking INFESTED with them now. It's absurd how many there are. Overwatch brought over all the "you need an alt for every character and every playstyle you want to play" and "unranked to gm (educational) episode 30" players. They are more common than normal players in lower ranks at this point.

I used to get to GM every season, and then all this shit started happening almost every match and now I can't even stay in Plat. In fucking PLAT.
And all anyone will tell me is "you weren't as good as you thought you were" and "you were boosted" and "you're just trash LOLOL" and "turns out you're actually bronze :)" and "the only constant is you, skill issue, you're trash buddy" and all that.

But the game itself has changed.

I'm in Plat. Just ranked back up to Plat 1.

There's a duo on my team.

These two.

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Because they're a duo, they do the thing that duos do.
They gang up on the rest of the team and start blaming them and calling them trash.

So they gang up on our 6-9 Moon Knight to call him trash.
He tries to defend himself, and Jeff here starts throwing the N word around because Moon Knight "sounds black" and "sounds like a ____er"
They both just go nuts on him, despite the fact that Venom here... is 0-9. He literally has no kills. None at all. And had none for almost the entire match.

So next round Venom steals Moon Knight from our Moon Knight and calls him trash and the n word again, so our Moon Knight goes Spider Man, which he has Lord on.
Both these guys then start calling Spider Man a pussy, and lame, and weak, and a "weenie" for picking Spider Man, and then proceed to call him the n word several more times.

I end up muting everyone because these two are probably the most toxic I ever ever seen in this entire game. It's actually fucking absurd. It's ridiculous.

I unmute like 2 minutes later and they are STILL calling our Spider Man the n word and the r word and all kinds of various awful things and continuing to call him trash.
I then point out that Venom is fucking 0-9 and this earns their wrath against me too, and then they start going after me and calling me a "fatass no woman (r word)" and that I sound "fat as fuck" and I'm "going to die of a heart attack in a couple dies you fat ugly fuck", and then both proceed to laugh at me and repeat "fatass" about 30 times and interrupt me any time I try and speak, so I just mute them again.

We lose, obviously, hard stomp. Enemy team also had a duo, possibly a trio, who coordinated much, much better with each other.

At the end I ask the enemy team to report these two because they are just absurdly toxic and racist as fuck. Like legitimately actually racist.
And I get this

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Instead, the enemy team ganged up on me because I was Starlord and their Wolverine grabbed me one time and started tearing me apart and I dodged and then boosted away. I was not very good at Starlord this match but I tried.

Idk where "baby rage" came from. I guess because at the very very end I went Widow because I was just done, my entire team was in VC just screaming at each other, these two were blasting me and our Spider Man with insults, calling us the N word, fat and ugly, and telling us to kill ourselves, so I just had it. But this was the very end.

They did not care that we had toxic people on our team and it was much more important to them to gang up on me and then agree with the toxic people that I'm "soft".

Oh and if you don't believe me they were actually saying these things

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You pretty much only get muted if you are in VC and say THE no no words. The n word is one of them, automatically detected. The r word is another one. They said both probably upwards of around 90 times.

This is just what ranked is.

We're winning, then suddenly the enemy team makes literally 1 swap.
Now we are losing.
Will my team swap to counter this character that is fucking us? Lol no. They will not. It relies entirely on me and me alone, but I cannot do it alone so... gg stomp loss, we lose.

I'm playing Star Lord.
My supports are: Mantis, Invisible Woman. Both very close range supports that cannot heal far away players. They keep saying they cannot heal me because I'm too far away, doing what I'm... supposed to be doing. I ask them to swap to a longer range support like Rocket, or Cloak and Dagger, or even Luna. They do not. They refuse to support their whole team, so I have to swap off. Later in the very end of the match one swaps to Lord Rocket. What the fuck.

Our tanks are Venom and Thing.
Enemy tank is Peni.
Our only dps is Magik
Enemy team has Namor and Wanda.
Beg my tanks to swap because Peni hard counters them. They will not. They want to play what they want.
Beg Magik to swap because of Namor and Wanda.
"Nah fuck that I'm not a pussy"
They get absolutely and utterly and completely fucked over and over and over again by Peni and Namor.
Still won't swap. Tell me to "man shut the fuck up and just play stop being a bitch" when I ask again.
We lose. HARD stomp. One of the hardest stomps of my life.
"Report ____(my name)"

Spider Man onetrick.
Enemy team is literally nothing but counters.
Won't swap. Tells us to shut up.
Goes 1-13.
We lose.

Our team comp is not working. We are getting stomped. The enemy team is kicking our ass and pushing extremely fast.
I swap but it's not working, I need my team to help and make swaps and switch things up too.
I kindly ask them to.
"2-3 lmao"
"ur 2-3 shut your mouth
"2-3"
"no way the 2-3 tellin us what to do man shut the fuck up you're trash you're fucking dogshit fucking stupid fuck fuckin dumbass smooth brain re___"
None of them swap. We lose.
"Report ____(my name)"

This is all ranked is. All season, every season, all the time. Nobody gives a shit. They pick ranked just to "have fun and chill", and they don't give a fuck about winning at all. They do not care.
Every time I try to play the game as it's meant to be played, my team is just toxic and doesn't give a shit, and they turn on me. I feel like I'm only one that actually wants to win. Nobody else cares AT ALL and they are extremely against being told what to do are are fully 100% anti coordination.

I just can't hit anything. It's like my aim is moving through sludge and it's so jerky no matter what settings I use. I have some light arthritis and idk if that's just making this impossible. It's mostly in my fingers.

I don't seem to be capable of tracking or making small adjustments. Any time someone moves and I adjust, my aim just like... teleports and jerks all over the place, and I'm not sure if that's me or my ingame settings or my mouse or my mousepad or what.

I'll give an example in a replay code right here.

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Yes I paused several times during the match to adjust my settings and also to type to my team, because they were talking about the enemy Punisher and thinking he's cheating. I know I've gotten in trouble for posting codes where I've done this afk thing before but I wasn't just afking for no reason.

Compare me (Koboldoggo) to the enemy Punisher. I'm not sure wtf is going on with my aim and why it's so horrible. It's like something is actually wrong with me, but is that because my hands and my body is just too fucked up and old and I have terrible eye hand coordination? Or is this something that can be trained?

I'm not sure what settings to use, what mouse to use, what dpi to use and all that. My current dpi is 800 and my ingame sensitivity for Punisher was around 2 but I decreased it to 1 mid match to see if that would help. It did not. The jerking thing continued. I tried to slow down my aim very consciously but the problem with that is then my aim is slow.

How does one get aim like the enemy Punisher?

I'm kind of asking... am I lost cause with aim here? This happens to me with all characters. Hela, Phoenix, Rocket, Punisher, Widow, anyone that requires aim. I'm okay with Namor but... Namor has a giant spear.
Weird thing is I'm not terrible with Widow, Ashe, Cassidy or Hanzo in Overwatch, even before they increased projectile/hitscan size.

Netease is laughing at us, clapping their hands and rubbing them together that they fooled us and now we won't ask for anything more.

Sorry to tell you but his damage is effectively the same. He is not actually stronger, he is not able to kill better, and he is not deadlier.
It is placebo.

The ult change and ammo change is good and welcome, but you are only getting more kills and MVPs because... you are using your gun more, because you think he's doing more damage. Not because he's actually doing more damage.

I was insulted and laughed at and downvoted and called a moron when I tried to tell people that I don't think his damage is any better, that it's not helping me out ingame at all. Then I learned that it's because it actually isn't. I wasn't getting more MVPs or a better winrate because I have always used his gun. I've always liked to shoot with him, so I got 0 benefit from the damage "buff" whatsoever, because it doesn't do anything.

It is laid out here nicely by another user in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketMains/comments/1tf4a0m/common_misconception_about_the_rocket_buffs/

The TTK is only 0.08 seconds faster. Faster than it takes you to blink. It is entirely inconsequential, and is just placebo. Netease wants you to think "holy shit a damage buff! thanks netease!" but they have done nothing for his damage at all.

I keep seeing more and more people make posts like "Holy shit he feels amazing this season!" or "His damage is INSANE now!" or "Getting so many MVPs and just shredding it up! His damage is nuts!" or "Oh my god he MELTS tanks!"
Just because they're... actually using his gun now. That's it.

Do not swallow the placebo.
Continue to be negative Nancys and bitch until we get a REAL change like a grenade.

And the key word here being "suspected". They don't even know for sure if that's what it is. I thought that legal systems were a thing, I'm not even sure why they're given full authority to just kill whoever they want so long as they say "We thought they had drugs".

The US military is apparently allowed to blow up literally anyone they want at sea so long as they say after that they suspected they were smuggling drugs.

I've seen footage and they make absolutely sure no one lives. They fill everyone on board with bullets and if any of them jump in the water to try and survive, they will throw explosives into the water or fill it with bullets to make sure they're dead. No one is allowed to survive. No one is allowed to surrender.
Even if they have no weapons and they don't fight back at all, the helicopter will just swing by and fire thousands of bullets at anyone on board, and then do another pass to make sure absolutely everyone is dead even if they're in the water in a life vest or something.

Why are we all just okay with this? I've tried to bring it up before and all I've gotten is "imagine crying over drug smuggling criminal trash". Like we don't even know for sure that's what they are. How many people have been blown up or killed over "suspected drugs" when were just some normal people on a boat?

Why do they not allow anyone to live? Why is the solution here to exterminate with impunity and then sort out what was actually going on after?

It's up against all the biggest gaming corporations of the world, like Nintendo and Capcom. There is no chance in hell they would ever win against them in court. Money talks and wins and they have a lot of it.

I see this getting maybe as far as to the floor of an official government hearing and then being thrown in the garbage and never spoken of again, like all the other efforts to do similar things. Any time anyone tries to get a win for gaming, it loses. We already lost against Collective Shout. We'll lose again.

We are overpopulated. It's just a fact, we are. We struggle to house everyone, feed everyone, give everyone jobs and make sure everyone has an acceptable life. It's pretty bad, and has only gotten worse over the years as our population increase gets faster and faster and faster.

When animals get overpopulated, the solution is to mass murder them. To cull them, exterminate them with impunity and without remorse. Sometimes even in anger, like it's their fault. These deer are a threat, they're a danger with their overpopulation, eating away all the plants. They must be exterminated.

We will then go out there and murder them in large amounts, to "restore the balance." Nevermind that the balance is only disturbed by our constant expansion, and also our hunting of animals that keep other species in check.

We also try and keep the population "steady" by killing a certain percentage of animals. Oklahamo and Missouri kill about 20-30% of adult does each year for this reason, for the purpose of making sure they don't become overpopulated. We need to kill them you see, for the good of the land and the environment. Humans are the saviors and these deer must die, it is good and just.

But when we are overpopulated, the solution is to expand even more. We need to cut down more trees, create more lumber yards, create more farms, spread further out, destroy millions of acres of forests and woods to make room for more houses.
And we see that as totally acceptable.

I'm not calling for the culling of human beings, obviously, but it's hypocritical to say that when one species is overpopulated they must die, but when we are overpopulated that's totally fine, and totally ignore the consequences that more people has on the environment and the world.

And then when our birth rates decline, which should be a good thing? Because we are overpopulated?
No, that is a national EMERGENCY. All the top officials and scientists need to get together to figure this out, in a panic. Less humans is BAD. We need MORE humans. MORE overpopulation is a GOOD thing.
Why are people not having babies? It must be that darn pornography! Quick, ban it so people are more focused on having babies! We need to find a way to raise the birth rates back up right now!

It's absurd.

Recently got permanently banned from r/kentucky because I said I was anti-hunting.
That's it. Instantly perma'd in about 4 seconds after I posted it.

Sent a modmail and didn't even get a response, just an instant permanent mute.

And this is all subs that are mostly Republican. If you disagree with them even slightly on anything, the mods will immediately permanently ban you, and it's not uncommon for them to then blanket ban you across every other sub they moderate as well.

He is essentially the anti-tank tank. You will not have fun as any tank character except maybe Thing when Devil Dino is in the match.

Attacks go through shields because he's melee.
Can grab you and toss you back to his team.
Does percent damage, which hurts tanks way more.
Immune to any displacement ability.
Big ass high health shield that lasts quite a while.
Gets overhealth from doing damage.

I was already having issues playing Rogue and Angela because of Thing being in every fucking match, and now there's another character that fucks them. They can't do anything to Devil Dino and just get eaten by him. He works like Thing in a way.

Most matches I've seen this season so far have just been solo Devil Dino or Thing, and not just because he's new and popular, but because he utterly fucks all the other tanks and makes your life miserable if you play them.

I'm getting flashbacks to Mauga from Overwatch and how he made tanking completely miserable.

OpenAI went IPO.

Which means that shares are now public and can be bought by anyone.
Which means Elon, with his infinite money, can just buy all the shares, become major shareholder, fire Sam Altman and then take control of the company.

Right?

Because I'm still not getting final hits.

Every time I shred someone and get them low, someone else gets the final hit and I get nothing.

I had an entire match where I got ZERO final hits despite trying very hard.
I'd get the enemy Punisher super low and then Invis would left click them and get the final hit.
I'd shred the Devil Dino to near death but then Punisher would shotgun them and get it.
I'd dash over to Gambit and start shredding him but White Fox would left click him and get it.
Punisher would dive into the backline and I'd 1v1 him and almost kill him but Mag would turn around and left click him and get it.

So I'm still not getting Ace or MVP because chunk damage and high damage per shot is just better no matter what his DPS is. They could give him another point of damage and it would still be the same. Someone would shoot them while Rocket is doing damage and they would get it instead.

Actually I get the feeling that there's a priority system for who gets registered as the killer, and Rocket is bottom of the barrel, so even if he would get the kill normally, Wanda will get it instead if she is also left clicking them.

Yes I'm aiming for heads as best I can, but I'm over 30 and I don't have the insane teenager perfect aim and crazy perfect reflexes you guys do. I can't perfectly track a zipping Star Lord on his noggin like you all can.

I guess I'll always be a healbot Raccoon....

The amount of throwers because they can't play the character is fucking INSANE. It's actually absurd, it has to be in the tens of thousands.

People battle and argue and throw over the character every fucking match.
"Let me play dino"
"no i want to play"
"then i'm throwing" *swaps to widow*

Or my favorite, two people want to play the character but one got it first.
Next round the other person steals the character from the guy who picked it first.
So the other guy throws because it was taken from him. Even if the character gets freed up again, they will keep throwing.

Or all the people that claim they're a "dino one trick" and if they can't play him, they will throw.

This happens every fucking season.

EVERY

FUCKING

SEASON

And the devs for some god forsaken reason refuse to put a timed lock on new characters in ranked like almost every fucking game like this does.

And for some reason the playerbase is against it too. Most of you are totally okay with this and think it's fine, and I'm stupid for complaining about people throwing over new characters.

Every season I lose almost all my placement matches and get placed super super fucking low because of these people and how common they are. I'm doing all I can but I cannot turn a match around because two people are throwing a childish baby pissing and shitting and crying fit over not being able to play a character they only have 2 minutes on.

The skin is just "So you like sexy scantily clad women, right?" and that's it. If you aren't horny for near naked women then this skin has nothing for you because that is the entire point of it. It's literally just "sexy cowgirl".

I'm not sure why this was needed when we already have her Savage South skin. Guess I'm not the demographic though because I'm gay and don't get off on such skins, I just love playing the character.

Annnd there's the downvotes. I guess I was right, the only people playing her are just doing it to look at her ass and jack off because she's "so hot..."

We're already seeing this with Claude Mythos, which is allegedly so smart that it can find weaknesses in nearly every system, making it "too dangerous" for the average person. Instead it's been given to the US government and we will not be allowed to use it.

And this made me realize that this will probably be a recurring thing. I think they will eventually make rules that the smartest and best models will only be for approved top company, organization, government and scientist use.
They'll claim it's just "too dangerous" for the average person, you or me, to be allowed to use.

Which means that there are some things we will never be able to do with AI. The dreams of models so advanced you can ask it "Hey _____ make me an entire game in Unreal Engine 5 about giant city ships that do battle with dragons" and it will do it, will never happen, because the models capable of such things are only allowed to be used by approved companies and the government.

They don't want us to have the best models, because we might use them to empower ourselves, better ourselves, and move ourselves away from reliance on the government and companies.

If I can just ask an AI to make me a game, why would I ever buy one? If I can just have one make me an operating system, why use Windows? If I can just use AI to defend myself from viruses, why pay for antivirus? If I can just ask AI to make me a program, why pay for software?

And it's not just that. Imagine if you could use the best models, like Claude Mythos, to patch all the security holes in your own systems and block the US government and law enforcement from surveiling you and having backdoors and ways to get into your systems?
Can't have that, not in a country that is trying very hard to move in a direction like China, if you know what I mean.

They want to be the only ones using the best AI for less than savory things that would worry us all, and for us to have no way to defend ourselves from it because we cannot access AIs that could protect us from it.

This is worrying to me and also saddening because it kills my dreams of being able to use AI to do wild stuff like making my own insane games from scratch.

New characters keep getting released with emoji packs day one. Blade has 2 emoji packs. They keep going back and giving emoji packs to others but not Rocket.

Why? An emoji pack would fit really well with him. I would love an angry one, a manic laughing one, a cursing one, maybe a "let's flarking gooo!" one... Would be so good.

I'm confused why he doesn't have any yet. I'm also a little worried that when we get them, they'll be tied to some goofy ass skin like "mecha Rocket" or "zombie rocket" or something, and then that will be it for him.

I am pro AI, I love using it, and in my posts I make sure to say so.
I made a post in this sub that was pro AI but worried about negative aspects.

I was talking how I love AI and use it every day, but bad things are being done with it that worries me, like the US government wanting to use it for some pretty nasty things which includes spying on citizens.
I also talked about how they are trying to make laws and rules that will impede average citizens with AI use but empower companies and the government.

A mod came in and claimed I was "bringing nothing to the AI discussion" and "arguing in bad faith" (???) and went around to all my replies in the thread acting like my post was stupid and I'm just fear mongering. I tried to defend myself, saying I am still very pro AI, that I use AI every day for many different things, but I was just labeled as "anti-ai", and they deleted my post and then banned me for two weeks.

I then came back and made a post about this ban, bringing up that they do not allow actual discussion unless it is only 100% for AI with zero things critical of AI at all, and they instantly banned me in about 2 seconds after I posted it, like they are constantly watching at all times to look for anything that is even a little bit critical of them or AI.
In the mod messages they said I'm a "troll" and a "moron" and that they refused to even read what I typed.

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Discussion, opinions, thoughts and conversations are not allowed there unless they are only 100% pro ai with no negative opinion or thought whatsoever. If you are worried about something, or dislike something about AI, the mods will remove your post and BAN YOU.

Stay far away from this sub.

I've seen it thrown around so, so much, ever since he was announced and continue to see it.

"If Netease doesn't add Moon Girl, they're racist."
"Netease isn't going to add Moon Girl because they're racist."
"Netease didn't add Moon Girl because they're racist."
"The only people that don't want her in the game are racist."
"If you just want to play Devil Dinosaur without her, you're racist."
"Anyone that claims they just want to play as the dinosaur are just failing at hiding their racism."

Any time I see anyone say "Sorry I just want to play as the cool dinosaur and not a little girl", they get downvoted to hell and called racist. "That's just because you're racist and don't want a black character in the game."

It can't possibly be because Devil Dinosaur is a cool, red, huge, kickass awesome dinosaur that awakens all of our childhood glee, and Moon Girl is... a little girl.

Me personally, yes, I'm happy she is not in the game. Not because I'm racist, but because I want to play as a dinosaur, not a little girl riding ontop of the dinosaur. I want to be running around biting people, rampaging and shooting lasers, so personally I am very happy with this outcome.
Moon Girl is just not interesting to me at all. She is one of a thousand genius children out there in various media.

Please stop calling Netease and people that like the character as he is racist. We just want to play as a cool dinosaur.