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Overwatch competitive mode out today on PC, next week on consoles

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Spring Drive

Banned
Hey all,

If you've been following our developer videos or forum posts, you know that the Overwatch team has been working hard to finish our upcoming patch which includes Competitive Play (as well as a few other quality-of-life changes). From the beginning, our intent has been to release this patch by the end of June—and since July is nearly here, we wanted to give you a quick status update.

Patching on PC and Console
First, we wanted to be upfront and let players know that we won’t be able to release our Competitive Play patch on all platforms at the same time. The patch will be going live on PC today, while PlayStation 4 and Xbox One players can expect it sometime next week. We don’t have an exact date to share, but we can confirm that the patch is going through approvals right now on both platforms.

We know this isn’t an ideal way to deliver new content, so we’re going to continue to refine our patching processes over the next few months in an effort to sync up our release dates across platforms as closely possible. Although our Battle.net client will always allow us to be more agile on PC, we hope to reach a point where we can release major updates on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 simultaneously.

In the meantime, stay tuned to PlayOverwatch.com (or follow us on Twitter) for all the latest patch news and updates.

Shorter Summer Season
We also wanted to let players know that the first season of Competitive Play will be an abbreviated one, lasting only two months instead of the normal three. This is because our Competitive Play patch is launching in the middle of the Summer 2016 season, which technically began on June 1 (a minor side-effect of our real-world season system). As a result, our inaugural season will include approximately 1.5 months of play rather than the full 2.5 months, ending on August 18 across all platforms. The Fall 2016 season will then begin as scheduled following our standard two-week off-season break.

We’re super excited to release Competitive Play, and we made the decision to move ahead with a shorter season for two key reasons. One, we want players to be able to start working towards their Competitive Play rewards as soon as possible. And two, we believe this first season will teach us a lot of about what works well, what doesn't, and what players are really looking for from a competitive system in Overwatch. Competitive Play is definitely one of those features that will take us a few iterations to get right, and by getting the system out there sooner, we can start making improvements based on your feedback sooner too.

To learn more about changes we already have planned for the Fall 2016 season, click here.

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Thanks so much for your patience, feedback, and support! We can’t wait to get our first major Overwatch patch out in the wild, and we’re really grateful to be able to share it with all of you.
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http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20745685202#1
 
Jeiiya

Jeiiya

Member
Can't wait for the reward (if any other than rank/title) breakdown to get posted. I wonder if we'll see a bunch of competitive only skins.
 
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KiefbladeMaster

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Jawmuncher said:
So what do you get out of playing competitive over quick play?
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Yeah if they don't have the rewards in place already, what is the point? I don't have enough faith in the playerbase to expect them to randomly start playing the objective just because it's ranked. Could probably expect a lot more grief.
 
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Art Vandilay

Member
Oh shit, I just jumped in like a week ago. Can't wait.

Edit: I'm just praying other people will go support so I don't have to every game.
 
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TheSpoiler

Member
I can't wait for all the butthurt from not playing the game right.

I'm level 20 something and I'm already seeing it turn from passive aggressive to downright aggressively mean.

I love it.
 
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fhqwhgads

Member
Going to be great to get back into the game, Ranked mode will make a nice break from the idiocy of randoms.

Now just give me some Zenyatta buffs.
 
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TheSpoiler

Member
StoopKid said:
Why play if you don't wanna win
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I never said their assessments of mine or other playstyles were correct. In fact, it's usually some armchair general who believes he knows everything about the game.

What would help is just asking people nicely or suggesting instead of jumping down the throats and writing "SIGH" in the chat.

DeathoftheEndless said:
For me, any sort of communication is a rarity.
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That's one benefit of this mode, at least.
 
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Maximo

Member
Jeiiya said:
Can't wait for the reward (if any other than rank/title) breakdown to get posted. I wonder if we'll see a bunch of competitive only skins.
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This is what im interested in too, Golden Gun Skins I don't care about buuuut if there were skins to obtain then I would play competitive.
 
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Maximo

Member
Art Vandilay said:
Oh shit, I just jumped in like a week ago. Can't wait.

Edit: I'm just praying other people will go support so I don't have to every game.
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My Mercy has 4 times the play amount of my second most played hero. Love playing supports problem is people tunnel vision and don't keep a glance every now and then to the healers keeping them alive.
 
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TheSpoiler

Member
Comfort Jones said:
Toxic is becoming such an overused word to the point where it's gonna lose all meaning soon enough.

I'm trying to imagine people hearing trash talk during sports and going "wow this sure is toxic".
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Trash talk is friendly ribbing back and forth, for the most part.

That's different than the people getting angry at their own team and responding by refusing to finish the match and sitting in spawn, leaving, throwing the game, or useless vitriol.
 
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nakedeyes

Banned
So what, is this like a free for all mode or something? Its already a 5 v 5 game, how is that not "competitive".. Just trying to figure out what the new mode(s) are about?
 
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abundant

Member
Maximo said:
My Mercy has 4 times the play amount of my second most played hero. Love playing supports problem is people tunnel vision and don't keep a glance every now and then to the healers keeping them alive.
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And then you get into a nasty cycle where you die - waiting to respawn - you're teammates die, which leads to them bitching about "the shitty Mercy player".

Had that happened today.
 
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taco543

Member
READY!

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gatti-man

Member
TheSpoiler said:
Trash talk is friendly ribbing back and forth, for the most part.

That's different than the people getting angry at their own team and responding by refusing to finish the match and sitting in spawn, leaving, throwing the game, or useless vitriol.
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When I'm playing with a bunch of bads I just practice my genji.
 
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Art Vandilay

Member
Maximo said:
My Mercy has 4 times the play amount of my second most played hero. Love playing supports problem is people tunnel vision and don't keep a glance every now and then to the healers keeping them alive.
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I like mixing it up between Mercy and Lucio. It's all situational though. I just like to play Reaper, Torbjorn, Hanzo, etc. from time to time as well.
 
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Comfort Jones

Banned
Snacks the sober sea lion said:
Trash talk isn't the same thing as people hurling slurs at their teammates due to their own incompetence.
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Players can be pretty mean to each other too.

I'm not defending any of this btw, I'm simply saying the word feels really played out, at least in my eyes something that is "toxic" should be slowly killing itself rather than have some of the biggest numbers of all time for a game right?
 
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