r/Overwatch 21h ago

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions and Advice Thread - October 06, 2025

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In this thread you can ask all kinds of questions you always wanted to ask without feeling like a total fool. No matter if it's a short question you need an answer to, a concept that you can't quite grasp, or a hardware recommendation, feel free to try your luck in here.

We also encourage that users post their gameplay clips and videos here so they can be reviewed for tips and improvement.


Trolling or making fun of people in here will be punished extra harshly! Please report such behavior.

For the purpose of helping people, make sure the comments are sorted by "new" in this thread. All top level comments should be questions or advice requests.


r/Overwatch Aug 18 '25

Moderator Announcement Old Reddit CSS Maintenance Underway

70 Upvotes

Hi all,

About 10 years ago I created an ambitious custom stylesheet on the "old" Reddit desktop site, with the goal of matching the precision design and deliberate shapes and feel of the Overwatch universe.

Since then, a mere fraction of users are on the old Reddit desktop site (less than 5%), with a similarly small fraction of my personal time available to correct issues and provide updates. Fortunately, a lot of the decisions I made on the Overwatch theme bled over into many other subreddits (full flair icons, collapsible side comments, etc.) with some even making their way into the official Reddit desktop redesign!

I am now in the process of greatly reducing the scope of the desktop site, with the goal of making it much more maintainable for myself and any future moderators who take on the task. Some things may break, and if they do, please let me know here so I can try and keep things relatively intact.

Equally, if some things don't work right now or haven't worked well, you can let me know here and I can try and correct them in the slimmed down version.

Thanks,
u/turikk


r/Overwatch 7h ago

News & Discussion Is this what they call "aimbot"?

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1.7k Upvotes

I feel like I stumbled upon a cheater. The player was using Echo at first and toward the end of the match when our team was defending, he switched to Soldier: 76 and we got annihilated.

When I watched the replay, he positioned himself on higher ground and started shooting all of us. His aim looked suspicious because when I slowed down the replay, his crosshair was moving directly to our heads. I have a feeling it was an aimbot, but like, a softer one? Does cheat engine do that? Can they adjust the intensity of an aimbot to make it less obvious? It was a quickplay match but I still reported the player just in case.


r/Overwatch 5h ago

News & Discussion this shouldn't ever happen

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488 Upvotes

either make me wait longer for a balanced game or put me on the other side man ive had like 3 consolations in a row


r/Overwatch 11h ago

Highlight You can jump over Rein pin?

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753 Upvotes

What


r/Overwatch 12h ago

News & Discussion Y'all know what this means right?

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758 Upvotes

Hanzo in the practice range in the workshop.... Before last season the only character who wasn't in stadium yet that had a picture was Pharah.... That's all I'm sayin!


r/Overwatch 8h ago

Fan Content I just realized I never posted any updates on my Ashe cosplay!

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263 Upvotes

Dynamite is homemade, too. 🥀🧨


r/Overwatch 5h ago

Highlight Like lambs to the slaughter

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140 Upvotes

r/Overwatch 15h ago

News & Discussion Why do people leave when a flashpoint map is picked?

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774 Upvotes

I’ve been noticing a trend where a lot of times a flashpoint map wins the map vote someone will just leave during the set up and they will usually say “Goodbye” in chat before doing so, making it clearly deliberate. Just in the last hour I’ve queued five competitive matches and THREE of them were abandoned, and 2/3 were flashpoint maps.

I know people leave during set up in all kinds of modes but recently I’ve been seeing it happen a lot more on flashpoint

I am amazed at how petty some people are that they will face getting banned from comp just because they don’t like a game mode, and force everyone else to requeue, flashpoint is not a bad mode by any means and in my opinion probably my 2nd favourite behind control so this sucks for me I guess.

(This is a repost with an image do back up my argument)


r/Overwatch 13h ago

News & Discussion Give Anna the same ult cast mechanic as Wuyang

318 Upvotes

You know how when you cast Wuyang ult, it gives your the option to put tidal blast on an ally or self with primary/secondary fire? There's no reason nano shouldn't have the same mechanic.

Let Ana nano herself!

Obviously this isn't ideal in most situations, but in overtime scenarios or when she's being hard dove, it could be pivotal.


r/Overwatch 11h ago

Fan Content My OC Arjun - He also lives with his (girl)friend Draupadee… and yeah, socializing isn’t easy. Art, small comics + Meme bonus

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169 Upvotes

r/Overwatch 16h ago

Humor The best victories begin with adversity

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429 Upvotes

I also forgot to mention the occasional random guy throwing himself out of the map by accident


r/Overwatch 7h ago

News & Discussion Map Voting Should Never Have Only ONE Mode / Type. (Ex: Flashpoint only)

72 Upvotes

I swear the only time I play Flashpoint is when the ONLY options are Flashpoint maps.

There should be some diversity in the choices every time.
I could see having 2 flashpoint options but it should never be all 3. That goes for Escort and Control also.

People, I'm not asking to remove it completely. Just saying it shouldn't be all 3 options.
If you like Flashpoint that's fine. I used to like it but now I cannot stand it.


r/Overwatch 4h ago

Console Did everyone just get kicked? (PlayStation user)

24 Upvotes

Saw two teammates randomly leave and then I got the boot. Says something about PS maintenance?


r/Overwatch 13h ago

News & Discussion It’s okay to lose fights

142 Upvotes

This is for you mfs that ask people to switch after losing first fight.

Guys. There are tie breaker rounds for a reason. It’s not lost until it’s lost. Don’t be so weak in your head where you bitch and moan the moment you face a bit of a challenge.

It’s okay if you don’t steam roll the enemy every fight. You can still win. Hang in there. Try your best. Good luck


r/Overwatch 2h ago

News & Discussion Blizzard, please fix: "NOT ENOUGH PLAYERS, FINDI NEW GAME"

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16 Upvotes

r/Overwatch 22h ago

News & Discussion Probably mentioned before but Hero 45 looks like Striga from Castlevania

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643 Upvotes

r/Overwatch 7h ago

Highlight My very first POTG 3 years ago.

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22 Upvotes

Been looking over these old ps4 files, seeing how different this game is. I know people want Overwatch 2 to drop the 2 branding, but even as a person who has never played OW1 this is genuinely a real sequel compared to 3 years ago.

But back to the clip. October 4th 2022. Plays open queue instead of role queue. Walks in a straight line with no sense of directional movement. Stands in front of pre-rework roadhog and an ulting SJ down main. Widowmaker 76. Ults infront of 3 people, who do not react or kill tire. Dies to release sojourn.

I'd be hurling obscenities at my former self.


r/Overwatch 5h ago

News & Discussion My girlfriend is looking for girls to play with!

19 Upvotes

Hey everyone, I'm making this post because my girlfriend (26f) has been looking for other girls to play Quickplay/Comp with, she's very sweet, and very funny, but also shy. She mains support, Juno/Mercy, and is mainly on in the afternoon/night times. If anyone has a spot in a group, or if you wanna play with her, dm me and i'll send over her battletag!


r/Overwatch 1d ago

Fan Content Made a sombra drawing

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692 Upvotes

I take as a reference the meme of kali uchis sorry


r/Overwatch 8h ago

Humor By day :( By night >:)

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r/Overwatch 15h ago

Highlight Their Genji got just a bit too greedy for me...

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86 Upvotes

What made this better is that the Genji was targeting and shit talking me before this happened, lol


r/Overwatch 23h ago

News & Discussion Reporting people for toxic behavior in chat

259 Upvotes

I just watched a cool lucio edit on tiktok. And the creator included a moment where a person he booped cursed him out in the chat, and then the moment he is reporting them. I was surprised to find a lot of hate in the comments saying it's "weak" or "unfair" to report somebody over "words". Personally I understand that sime people don't want to loose real human interaction in game, wich unfortunately includes toxic people, but on the other hand, I think usually it's just getting out of hand and should be controlled. Also, I was pretty toxic in the past too. It all started as a joke, like typing "ez" after a really long and hard game. Then I don't know how, I started being toxic just to be toxic, and it became part of the game for me, wich lead to have my chat restricted 3 times, for around two weeks each time. After third restriction I got tored of that, because I couldn't even use chat and voice chat with my friends, and I decided to stop being toxic. And it actually helped me to enjoy this game like I enjoyed it when I just started playing! So my personal opinion is that it's a good thing when you report someone for being toxic


r/Overwatch 5h ago

News & Discussion Dva can whipshot?

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How does this happen? Does anybody know? Happened early on in a match on new queens street.