Once again, I am going to ask about this as it has never really been explained publicly, only just confirmed in a few past developer posts. Why is group-size a priority of matchmaking? I get in any given single game of Overwatch, this rule feels more fair, but when I look at the grand scheme of things and seeing the balance of the overall Competitive ladder, I would think that demonstrating the skills of good team coordination would be more beneficial for all players, and the best way to do this is by grouping up.

However, because group stacks of equal size are typically paired together, the end result is often longer queue times for large groups and playing what essentially becomes a more challenging game of Overwatch versus playing Solo-Queue or Duo-Queue (especially at lower ranks). It feels li...

I much rather equip the “End of 2020” icon, but its not loaded in the forums yet.

The graphic designer in me is intrigued when I saw this and I wish to ask what exactly does Trey do that requires Illustrator? Is he just planning out the overall map design to build in 3D later? I assume based on his role it’s not to do art texturing or graphics to the maps.

Server crashes like the one Josh describes above usually results in the “Server closed due to unexpected error” and that will not have a penalty. If you were penalized it is more likely due to a disconnection. In any case, Blizzard does not refund skill rating lost, but it is easy to recover it by simply playing Competitive game to full normally and allow your SR and hidden MMR to resync.

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Victory!

According to earlier posts, there was some bug that apparently made her impossible to kill.

Rarely does this happen, and in my observation they often can hotfix it within a day. If it requires a game client patch, it may take a few days.

Yep, whenever they flip a hero switch it disables it from all game modes including custom games and the practice range.

All the D.Va mains be like…

I will keep it simple, here are easy copy and paste custom game codes.

Practice Range with Experimental: MV3JR

Quick Play Ruleset with Experimental: 4ZF8E

Competitive Play Ruleset with Experimental: EVZ4A

On a side note, its quicker to load a standard ruleset from your Presets menu than having to toggle all of the different switches to get a certain ruleset to activate.

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And remember people, the priority pass on the PTR will not appear to speed up queue times!

As a friendly reminder, stream drop troubleshooting to earn the sprays for this promotion is available in this forum thread:

There are times I really wonder how many hours are spent on the concept sketches. As a graphic designer, I recently completed a series of posters for a school project which involved illustrations (totally not Overwatch related), but each illustration for me averaged around 12 hours of work.

All the Reaper mains be like…

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This is not correct, tier 1 has 1 spray, 2 has 2, 3 has 3.

Can you try again? I am seeing some reports within the last two hours that linking is now working again.

I did get confirmation Blizzard is aware of the issue though.

Hello Molly, thanks for writing in!

I would like to point out as of today, I am tracking a new problem in the Technical Support forum. Some users have reported not being able to relink their Blizzard account to Twitch if they unlinked it in attempt to troubleshoot this issue. I reported this to Blizzard Customer Service, but figure I might as well post here as well.

No. The Razer Chroma API for Overwatch enables select compatible Razer branded keyboards, mice, LED strips, headsets with LED lighting to display in colors related to hero pick and provide special lighting on keys related to cooldowns down to show when they are ready. See the gif below:

Please note that Razer Synapse and all related features to keybinding overrides, mouse DPI and bindings, etc should not be affected by this.

My biggest “annoyance” with Moira is how the projectory changes with her damage orb. I feel this is more of a map design issue rather than a hero balance issue, but it can he pretty frustrating to evade that purple ball when you think it should turn left and I go right but the orb just goes right as well and melts any remaining HP I have.