Edit: So I tossed away my better judgement in favor of over-glorifying my contributions to the team. I still feel sore for trying so hard and feeling like I'm not recognized more for it (you can call it stroking my ego if you want. It feels good to know at least someone on your team understand your contributions) but I do still feel like Soldier (or really, any DPS) is underappreciated sometimes. I'm not strictly talking about character designs either (though I like Soldier. Maybe it's just his voice actor that sells it so well for me).
So I have three Overwatch characters I'd consider myself really good with:
Zarya (highest win/loss ratio of any character I play)
Solider: 76 (Most often to obtain most of the gold medals in every game)
Zenyatta (Have the most achievements unlocked for)
However if I had to choose one I have the most fun playing, it's Soldier: 76. I get a very satisfying feeling from his hitscan weapon, and nailing tricky grenade shots is so much fun. That, and the healing pod is not only useful for yourself, but any of your other teammates in a pinch.
Now, I'm not saying I deserve ALL THE PRAISE IN DA GAME, but I do feel like when I do get a very outstanding achievement with the character, I'm kind of shunned aside in favor of another character.
For example, this Tuesday I was playing, and I got 52 elims, and four gold medals. The card only displayed my elims, but that's not the issue. The issue I had was, I received 0 votes, while our teams Lucio, with about 4,500 healing, got 6 votes. If I remember correctly, there was also the enemy team Zarya getting a card for shield bubbles, and I can't remember the other card.
Now I know what you're thinking, I probably shouldn't put so much thought into votes on a card. Okay. Fine. Maybe it was just because the other team was salty. (doesn't explain why I didn't get any recognition from my own team, but whatever)
But I've also run into people saying that Soldier is just for those people who play Call of Duty and games like that, and that's the only reason they do so well with him.
First of all, can we stop saying that. He barely controls anything like a character from Call of Duty.
Second of all, so what? If someone does well with a character because they are similar in playstyle to other games they do well at, isn't that a good thing? Shouldn't that be applauded a little?
It just seems like anytime I do really well (and I mean REALLY well) with Soldier 76, I get brought down by people by saying my contributions weren't as impressive as a character who only had to stand near the whole team and hit "E" when it was appropriate.
So I have three Overwatch characters I'd consider myself really good with:
Zarya (highest win/loss ratio of any character I play)
Solider: 76 (Most often to obtain most of the gold medals in every game)
Zenyatta (Have the most achievements unlocked for)
However if I had to choose one I have the most fun playing, it's Soldier: 76. I get a very satisfying feeling from his hitscan weapon, and nailing tricky grenade shots is so much fun. That, and the healing pod is not only useful for yourself, but any of your other teammates in a pinch.
Now, I'm not saying I deserve ALL THE PRAISE IN DA GAME, but I do feel like when I do get a very outstanding achievement with the character, I'm kind of shunned aside in favor of another character.
For example, this Tuesday I was playing, and I got 52 elims, and four gold medals. The card only displayed my elims, but that's not the issue. The issue I had was, I received 0 votes, while our teams Lucio, with about 4,500 healing, got 6 votes. If I remember correctly, there was also the enemy team Zarya getting a card for shield bubbles, and I can't remember the other card.
Now I know what you're thinking, I probably shouldn't put so much thought into votes on a card. Okay. Fine. Maybe it was just because the other team was salty. (doesn't explain why I didn't get any recognition from my own team, but whatever)
But I've also run into people saying that Soldier is just for those people who play Call of Duty and games like that, and that's the only reason they do so well with him.
First of all, can we stop saying that. He barely controls anything like a character from Call of Duty.
Second of all, so what? If someone does well with a character because they are similar in playstyle to other games they do well at, isn't that a good thing? Shouldn't that be applauded a little?
It just seems like anytime I do really well (and I mean REALLY well) with Soldier 76, I get brought down by people by saying my contributions weren't as impressive as a character who only had to stand near the whole team and hit "E" when it was appropriate.