Since Sombra is basically my main DPS, I'm cool with him. Gives me more of a reason to play her. His ult looks like it could be extremely annoying though, and a bit unfair considering all other ults require the character be onscreen. I wonder if Blizzard plans on altering past ultimates at all.
Also I haven't been keeping up with this thread so forgive me for suddenly replying to everything.
This doesn't even touch on the amount of times that I've gotten sexual comments. It's always gross and uncomfortable. Sometimes it just lasts during champ select where a guy's like "Hey baby, why don't you tell me your kik," but there have been several times when guys have done this to me throughout the entire match. One time I got a guy two games in a row who, for the entirety of both games, made comments about having sex with me while making moaning noises. Another time a guy who I friended after a game asked for my social media, saying that he bet "my body matched my voice." I told him I didn't want to give it to him because it made me uncomfortable. Every time I logged on he would ask me for it, and eventually I just blocked him. This is the kind of stuff every girl goes through, not just mercy players.
For the rest of the game that girl's every move will be scrutinized. If she makes a mistake and dies with rez she gets flamed. If she doesn't heal Tim and he dies she gets flamed.
It doesn't help that Tim just dislikes mercy as a character so he'll sometimes talk shit because of that. It pissed me off immensely a few weeks ago when a mercy was carrying the game but he gave her shit because she died with rez once. I heard him call a girl a whore (not to her but still on stream) and chat went wild over it. A few days ago there was a girl mercy on stream who couldn't play any other healers. Now, this isn't good, when you get to a higher elo it's best to try to learn extra characters so you can switch if you need to, but she DID switch to Lucio and wasn't doing well on him. Tim and chat made fun of her because of everyone's idea that he's an easy hero (he's really not).
I'm talking about the ones who just queue up for a game and wind up in another streamer's match with chat constantly talking shit about her. I hit masters last week and it's honestly become a fear of mine that that this might happen to me. Pathetic? Maybe. Egotistical? Sure. The odds of me running into a streamer are low, especially one who's popular. I probably won't ever make it beyond low masters so it's very unlikely, but every time I watch a stream and see stuff like this happen to a girl I can't help but put myself in their shoes and think that it could be me.
I don't like entering a game with a target immediately put on my back. I don't like feeling anxiety and wondering if I should speak early on so people get used to me being a girl or wait until the middle of the match so they're less likely to comment on it. I don't like coughing and trying to deepen my voice in order to sound less feminine. I don't like knowing that in some way I'm contributing to a stereotype that people make fun of and wondering if I should feel guilty about that.
don't have a mic, so that has never been a problem for me. It's not something I've noticed either, but it still sucks to hear. I guess there's both a plus and a negative to not having a mic - on the one hand you don't get harassed for your voice, but on the other you can be subjected to assholes trash-talking you because they don't like how you're playing and you have no way of defending yourself. (The latter has, unfortunately, happened to me on occasion.)
I play on console, solo-q, with no mic; don't even bother joining voice chat, mainly because out of the few times I did, once was only a kid, and the others no one was talking. But this kind of shit, along with being hassled for my plays/character picks, is also a huge factor why I don't even bother. I play the game to blow off steam, not get into arguments with asshats. Downside, of course, is that I'm leaving the team balancing up to RNG. And with that, I've found it's about 70/40 I'll have to be healer...so I go Mercy. Why? Well, I'm shit at Lucio (thank you
@Michel for acknowledging HE IS NOT EASY TO PLAY). I haven't mastered wall-riding yet, so that's like...what, two thirds of the characters usefulness/uniqueness/mobility cut away? And Zenyatta, I can play but not as well; he and Ana's ults, I feel like most of the time I'm wasting because I'm not sure what situations are most useful to bring them out. Also I'm shit at sniping, so Ana's out lol. (This is all speaking Compwise, btw.)
Mercy? Damn son. She's an incredibly fulfilling character to play, when things go right; and when I'm playing her, more likely then not things will go right, or at least well enough that I feel like the fact we lost isn't ENTIRELY my fault for being shit at the character. It feels good when I'm able to fly over to a lone teammate, losing a 1v1 or 1v2, and help them pull off an otherwise grim-chance escape. It feels great when I'm able to keep the team alive and together through a pull, and FANTASTIC when I can pull off those sweet, sweet 4-5 man res's. And yeah, it even feels good when I'm able to pull away the enemy attention for a bit, even if I die from it; ESPECIALLY if I can get them to waste their ults on me.
Idk man. Even if she's a one trick pony, she's damn good at it, and often can turn an otherwise dire situation into a win.
Just don't look in the Custom Game lobbies.
Seriously don't.
Jesus fuck not even OW is safe from Furry RP servers.
are there many "daddy rein punishes little torblets" servers on PC? for some reason those are the most disturbing-sounding to me
although i enjoy the straight up "[18+] MIC ONLY" ones that are blatantly just there to beg for mic sex
miccing? micing?
(In the middle) I'm glad Skeletor found work after He-man was cancelled and he became a tranny
I'm irrationally upset Soldier 76's dance is not in there
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