u/tarkytarkenjoyer

I'm a new/returning player. I played some of overwatch 1 near release, but never played much or competitively.

I've been playing lots of damage 5v5 and got to gold 5 in a day after being hardstuck silver. My mains are Tracer and Widowmaker.

I've been really leaning into learning Tracer. She is so much fun, and I enjoy playing well on her. However even if it seems I can do well or provide value by being a consistent annoyance to the backline and drain resources, sometimes it feels my individual value doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

I'm by no means a good or perfect player. I'm a very mid player. I probably don't see many mistakes I commit in games.

I've been trying to maintain my gold 5, and it just seems impossible. I win a couple times, then lose harder and lose more points when I do. I go to silver 1, then back to gold 5.

I could be playing better for sure. The last two games I played trying to defend my gold 5, my tank keeps on diving and leaving the team behind. I try to play around it, initiating when he is diving, but It feels incredibly difficult to provide value as tracer when this happens.

I realize that there's a whole lot of importance on the tank in this game, and it seems unwinnable sometimes when he's struggling.

However, if I'm playing solo queue, how do I consistently carry as tracer, or as any DPS, to win consistently and actually rank up? Is it better to swap more often to try and counter? Any tracer mains have any advice?

I come from Tarkov, so a lot of emphasis is placed on the individual player, and that's what I'm used to. In this game, it feels like even when you're playing well and learning and really trying to improve, there are games where it feels impossible to provide enough value as a solo or to have enough individual impact to where you win a game despite having struggling teammates.

Side notes, but I have also seen that turning off text-chat has been for the better. I had no idea this game had such a toxic playerbase. Also, the tank on my team had no rank, so I'm assuming he was doing placements or hidden mmr? Either way it just felt unfair to me.

And it isn't talked about enough. Doing icebreaker questline, I search it up on the Wiki, it says I need to bring respirators, gas masks, level 5 plates, and a kirasa body armor.

My Storyline tab says I need to talk to the BTR guy first, and on the stash it says "This item has been found in raid for boreas chapter" for all of the items.

Sure. Place the items on my character's backpack, Load into woods, run around like an idiot trying to stay safe and chase the BTR after a while. I go inside, he tells me the dialogue yada yada and that I need to give him the items listed above.

I try to talk to him again, and he doesn't want them. They are IN my backpack. I am literally in your car. Just take it off of me.

There's other instances of this, where, you have to talk to him first, and THEN go to another raid just to complete the quest or hand over the items.

Just doing the Icebreaker questline is such a slog when it comes to the BTR because it's so boring and isn't hard, and just a time waster. I don't mind steep learning curves or game sense that takes so many raids to learn, but wasting time is a big no.

These are my two attempts.

First attempt, I feel like my problem was I took too long and definitely could've been faster in killing the first guy. I find it stupid how he can just phase through the door like that though and I think they should be affected by inertia like we are.

https://reddit.com/link/1u4sd9t/video/gd2qvch4827h1/player

Second attempt, I tried laying a smoke down but in the end they saw through it and it felt like it was more of a detriment to me more than anything.

https://reddit.com/link/1u4sd9t/video/pq7nxvj7827h1/player

Please help me improve. Before this patch I was able to get to Wedge lmao