I'm realising that so many of my deaths on Tracer are in this situation:

1. I see my team stacking on one lane

2. I take an angle on a different lane to split pressure

3. One or two enemies turn on me and kill me instantly

I just played a game on Nepal Shrine (the one with the big elephant statues), and saw my team all stacking on the left open side (the elephant statue + mega healthpack side). I'm playing Tracer and walked to the center of point after respawning. The enemies are backing up, standing in the open area just before the point. My plan is to off-angle from point since flanking hard right through the small rooms would take too much time.

But before any of my master plan comes to fruition, an Ashe + Baptiste both headshot me at the same time and I die. I don't understand how to avoid this. I did everything by the book. Good angle, team supporting me from the side, I'm at a good range for Tracer, with all my cooldowns, enemies are occupied with my team, I have LoS to my supports, etc. But I'm still constantly punished for taking these positions.

I’m a Chinese player, and sometimes I use Chrome’s translation feature to browse discussions on this subreddit.

Something that has occasionally surprised me is how people here talk about China-exclusive Overwatch events and cosmetics. I think many overseas players only see the “exclusive content” part, but not the monetization model behind it.

My English is not very good, so this post was actually translated from Chinese with the help of ChatGPT. If some parts sound awkward or unnatural, please forgive me.

Many China-exclusive Overwatch cosmetics were not handled like normal $20 shop skins in the global version. They were often tied to gacha-style events, loot-box systems, limited-time lotteries, or expensive bundle mechanics designed around whales and FOMO.

A good example is the China-exclusive Naraka: Bladepoint crossover event for Overwatch.

The skins, weapon charms, highlight intros, and other cosmetics were locked behind a lottery/gacha-style system rather than simple direct purchase.

Completing the main collection during the event could already cost around 600–750 RMB (roughly $85–105 USD).

However, the Widowmaker gooner skin — the one with the real-time white/red switching effect that became extremely popular online — was actually a hidden ultra-rare skin in the event and was not included as part of the normal full collection rewards.

Because of its extremely low drop rate, some codes/accounts containing the skin were reportedly resold on secondary markets for around 2000 RMB (roughly $275 USD).

So the most expensive part of the event was not even the main collection itself, but the hidden rare drop on top of it.

From the outside, many overseas players just see “China got exclusive cosmetics.” But for many ordinary Chinese players, these events were controversial and heavily criticized because of how aggressive and expensive they were.

Even if you directly convert the RMB prices into USD without adjusting for purchasing power, a lot of these cosmetics would still look absurdly overpriced to most Western players.

And once you do consider average income differences, the pricing feels even more extreme for ordinary players in China.

A lot of Chinese players weren’t celebrating these monetization systems — many genuinely hated them. To some people, these exclusives felt less like “special treatment” and more like being used as a testing ground for highly aggressive monetization strategies.

I’m not saying people outside China can’t feel disappointed about missing cosmetics. I just think the situation is more complicated than “China got all the good stuff.”

I've been ranking up as Tank and the thing that catapulted me to high masters was realizing "Hey, yeah. If the enemy supports are their backbone of the team, what's stopping me from just ignoring the tank and killing their supports?"

However, as I've ranked up I feel like the enemy tank has also had this epiphany.

It's resulted in most games where us tanks just kinda look at each other for like two seconds and go, "oh yeah, haha we don't shoot each other" and just exchange backlines. Is this seriously the state of the game :/ It's kind of frustrating because as a tank I KNOW there is virtually nothing I can do against a rammattra just punching into my backline sometimes. Sure sometimes I can peel but a lot of the time I just can't. So at that point I just go, "Well time to exchange backlines I guess because if the enemy tank is gonna kill my support I might as well kill theirs too"

Thus the cycle repeats. So at super high level of play like esports leagues why don't they just completely ignore each other as tank and just walk past each other? I feel like that would be more optimal for each other to do anyway because if the other tank does that, they kill the squishies. If you don't do that, you lose. You know what I mean?