Season 5 feels like a turning point in the game

I feel the simplest solution would be to make solo qeueing easily avoidable. Having a solid network of in-game friends that you know to be dependable, with enough people online every-time you log on to make up a full stack. That's why stuff like ftw.in and other LFG websites exist, but even though I have added tons of people through those systems, most of them don't seem to ever be online during standard play hours. Which makes me wonder why they made a post on those websites to begin with.

And that makes you feel powerless, as even having spent so much time working on assembling a list of players who want to improve and work together, you are still not able to avoid the player lottery.

I love the process of learning a game and getting better at it, and I've been trying my ass off to improve in OW, but last week for example, I played about 20 hours (10 of them on the weekend) and managed to not only not increase my shitty SR, I actually went down 50 points. It made me feel like absolute shit for 48h, it's an incredibly depressing feeling. It really feels like rowing against the current

The community aspect of the game (social tab) should be improved considerably. It should not be so hard to try and find players with a similar approach to competitive play and a similar SR. I don't want to be in the same team as someone who doesn't give a fuck and only plays comp for gold weapons, for example.

I remember this Sunday, I was playing Tracer on Lijiang, and I get teamed up with solos and one 2-stack. In this 2-stack was no doubt the very best Zen I have ever played with. It was glorious. She had game sense up to her ears. I was tracing around and the damned discord orb was always on the main priority target, and being correctly called out. After a while I didn't even need to hear the callouts. I saw what she saw, and whenever a higher priority target showed up, while I was moving to engage the orb would magically appear to tenderize the enemy. It felt unbelievable, and we were kicking ass. I was fragging left and right, gold elims and damage, their healers trembled in fear at the though of the Zen/Tracer team. It was Maverick and Goose levels of synergy. Her stack partner was a good Winston as well, but the other half of the team was crap, and we lost by a hair. I sent a friend invite, but got no response, and I think I'll never know whether it was because we had just lost, because she didn't notice, or because I'm an icky silver. Nothing makes you feel like a leper like being high silver among low golds. Anyway, friend request ignored, and I had no way to try and chat with that player to ask why or something. Nicknames are useless without ID numbers. I'll probably never play with that Zenyatta again, and if the game gave me tools to reduce the odds of this kind of thing happening, I wouldn't be wondering why I even submit myself to this bullshit solo queue lottery.

If you're out there Asterisky, playing with you was the most fun I've had in this game in a very very long time. Best of luck. I will never forget.

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