As for the “Prefer This Player” option, it’s “more or less working as intended”, so Blizzard is keeping it enabled.
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A translation of the information on NeoGAF states that competitive play will have multiple rounds for each game type, where teams must achieve the objective to win points.
There are also stricter penalties for leaving or going idle during matches. The post is extremely long and goes into detail about how matchmaking works and how they plan to change it in the future. For those who are not yet familiar with Competitive Play, this mode is actually where players are more focused in terms of strategy and healthy competition against other players. By outlining these heavy punishments, Blizzard will dissuade people from giving up on matches midway through, which will lead to a better experience for everyone. If you’re the beta type, find the Overwatch tab in Battle.net, select “PTR: Overwatch” from the Region/Account menu, and get to playing.
Overwatch was released on May 24th, 2016 for the PS4, Xbox One and PC. Though the new mode still isn’t officially out yet, we can already admire the golden weapons players can look forward to. From the translations, it appears that the guns are available via a different in-game currency from the current loot box gold.
The progress that gamers have made so far in the main game of Overwatch will be transferred to the PTR.
After attaining a skill rating, Overwatch will do its best to pit you against players at or around your skill level.
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Now, with the new competitive game play mode, “Overwatch” is going to directly correlate a gamer’s matchmaking rating (MMR) to their skill rating which is counted from 1 to 100. Like Overwatch’s “Avoid Player” system, something the game is losing in its latest patch. And not just that, they must install the game and at least logged in once. She’s so good that after beating rivals during Nexus Cup qualifiers, other players accused her of cheating.
