Summary
A group ofOverwatch 2players were recently held hostage in a Quick Play match by a superior enemy team that refused to capture the point while spawn camping. This particularOverwatch 2game went on for over 30 minutes because of the enemy team’s griefing.
Quick Play inOverwatch 2is supposed to be the casual pick-up game mode where players are pit against foes of similar skill levels. Unfortunately, not allOverwatch 2Quick Play games end up evenly matched. WhileOverwatch 2is constantly trying to avoid comp stomps, such matchups are not uncommon.
Overwatch 2fan Onion Head recently shared their own Quick Play horror story on Reddit. During theruinousOverwatch 2matchup, Onion Head faced a team that was vastly more skilled than their own. The enemy team trapped them in their spawn, repeatedly killing them while also refusing to capture the point. When the match eventually went into overtime, Onion Head’s opponents proceeded to walk on and off the capture point to suspend the overtime counter for another 10 minutes. After a half hour, Onion Head gave up and quit the match, only to be unable to re-queue for another 30 minutes.
Onion Head’s opponents turned the match into a meat grinder. In the images they shared, the enemy team had racked up a staggering number of kills; Baptiste,a healer character inOverwatch 2, had the fewest with 61, while the enemy Tracer racked up 114 eliminations and over 26,000 damage. Most of Onion Head’s team appears to have backfilled during the match, but the statistics make it quite obvious theOverwatch 2match was far from even.
TheOverwatch 2fans who saw Onion Head’s post were sympathetic toward their plight. Many of them shared stories of their own stomps, and lamenting how common they seemed to be. Players were annoyed that Onion Head was punished for leaving the game, especially since the enemy team had played so disingenuously.
That said, some players also pointed out Onion Head’s 30-minute suspension was not just because of this game. With thenew Quick Play leaving penalties inOverwatch 2, players receive a 10-minute suspension after leaving four of their last 20 games, and a 30-minute penalty for leaving six or more of them. That said, even if Onion Head has a history of leaving games, most agreed they shouldn’t have been penalized in this particular instance, so hopefullyOverwatch 2can add some safeguard against similar situations in the future.
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