So I’ve just finished a 7 day account slap on the wrist for abusive chat ingame, and i’ll hold my hand up and say it was deserved,
I came back to the game trying to improve on what i did wrong and sought ways to negate my old ways of getting frustrated due to lack of English/teamwork communication in Comp. I get that not all people speak english perfect or feel weird using a language which isn’t their mothers tongue.
I’m currently 1700 SR which is where is belong for now, i’m trying to improve, learn from mistakes etc,
This, however is proving very hard to do, i’m trying to get teamwork from the other players, saying hi, telling people what hero’s i play well ( for that sr lvl obvs) and trying to encourage people not to tilt.
I can’t do it anymore, it’s tilting, the whole experience is tilting, none english speakers in comms all the time, none speaking, stacks of 2-3 people with no comms, running their own little setup. and excluding others as they are not in their group.
I really don’t know what to do anymore. any suggestions folks? should i just not use comms? so let down by this game at the min. i wanna climb in comp and i’m truly trying!!! but the game is just so tilting when comms fail due to none english speaking people
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why dont you try LFG and saying in you group name you are looking for english speakers
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At your rank teamwork is pointless, your SR gain/loss is impacted by your personal performance.
It’s fairly easily to carry games at this rank even as tank or healer. Just focus on yourself, watch guides on youtube, learn the basics of the game (positionning, counter pick, etc.) and you’ll climb.
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This right here.
If you want a specific kind of team, make that group in the LFG.
ps. Players at silver are REALLY bad, so I am 100% certain just looking at your own performance and trying to improve it will yield results. As people said earlier. SR system measures only mechanical skill. If you win 1 lose 1, if you perform well you will gain SR with a 50% result.
I’m not going to say use LFG as I found it very slow and didn’t yield the desired results, so was a waste of time.
You just have to accept that communication in a team based pvp title with random players is going to be bad, expect the worst and do your best.
I doubt anything will ever be done about this from blizzards end as they don’t want to hurt feelings but you could try the US servers if your internet connection is quick enough, they tend to speak English the majority of the time.
I know your problem, but it’s hard to talk with english-talking people for me, because of my knowledge. So I use teamchat, but some “VasyaNagibatorPro228” doesn’t know english, so I can easily switch on Russian and talk with him, but then I can’t talk with other teammates. That’s a real problem, but all we need to learn any foreign language, so learn it for game is a good way to improve your language skills.
Если сможешь это перевести, знай, мой родной язык - русский.
Use voice for as much as you can - sure, you can’t make teamwork all on your own, but you can call out what you see and who to focus - that way you already get a huge benefit with only yourself talking. Sure it’s weird, talking into a void, but it does make a difference - especially if you play Zen or any support for that matter.
With any luck and skill this will allow you to climb into ranks where communication is more common (starting around mid gold, you will generally have a bunch of people being useful in voice).
As for LFG: it can be used best for duo-queuing (tank+support that can rely on each other), but you can also do that by finding other players to your liking in your games.
if your connection is strong enough you might want to try american servers. I have played on them for a year and they were absolutely glorious. Not only are most people pretty chill and speak English but they also communicate fairly well (not sure about silver tho)
Come to the USA, there are lot more games, everyone speaks English, less toxicity and a lot of people do use comm even in bronze comp.
130 ping for me its still playable, there might be small issues for chars like tracer, sombra.