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Drives weekend
Apr. 19th, 2025 02:44 amIt's time for Competitive Drives again in Overwatch, which is an end of season chance to pick up bonus comp points. OW started doing this three seasons ago - at the time, I was very much out of comp as a mode, had not played in it for over three years due to the format being too stressful for me (number matter), and OW2 had removed all end of season comp rewards for rank so equally all incentive. Drives are the effective replacement for end of season rewards, and it's a "you get enough for a weapon skin" across all ranks for everyone if you play a reasonable number of games/win those games so. They successfully lured me back in.
When OW2 came out there was a lot of. How shall we say. Bugs due to account merging across platforms. ( unrelated to comp bugs ) I also experienced a bug where my comp points I had at the time were times'd by ten. So I went from 900 to 9000, or, three gold guns. (Some people got like. 35k points. WILDIN.) I spent those points on Junkerqueen, Lifeweaver, and Juno weapons, and those from the previous drives on Echo and Winston. I have 3k left, which I'm planning to spend on Freja sometime after she launches, and then I'm kind of set on golds for my characters I play often and well.
The first drive I only got 500 comp points as I hadn't done placements and decided like, second to last day I wanted in. Next season I was prepared and placed in everything, partly to satisfy my curiosity of what the game thought my rank now was. It was roughly as expected: Platinum 3 for support, and Platinum 4 for tank and dps. I played a bunch of games to get the 3000 points, won maybe 60%, and went up the tiniest amount to Plat 2. Where I stayed for the last set of drives - placements are biannually - because they had 6k points up for grabs but I didn't have the time due to PEM to do more than the basic 3k, and fortunately I only had to do less than half a dozen games for it as the drive score was generously low.
I don't really dig the galactic weapon designs - it removes all texture from a weapon on console and doesn't look great - but I like them more than the jades, and I have a few maybes, and we do seem to maybe be getting a wolf themed Italian robot lady at the end of the year (I'm in so much danger), so I was just, yeah I'll do drives again. Did my placements. Not in dps because that was a one time deal; I find it extra stressful and I unfortunately care too much about my Ashe winrate. Placed Plat 1 in support, Plat 2 in tank. Waited for drives. Played through the first two thresholds yesterday as tank and then the third and fourth today, in support queue.
tl;dr
(I still need to do the fifth threshold (me and duo tried but went on a losing streak due to some very questionable teammates), but my goal was to hit the fourth one today so being ahead was like, that's fine, I can do less tomorrow and if it doesn't work out I do more on Sunday.)
Unrelated to drives, I am sleeping a bit better (actually a number of hours) and had to give in with trying to contact the GP about food and digestion stuff, but I still have to wait another week for one to examine me before anything gets remotely rolling. Heaven forbid the NHS does anything quickly. I've had a bit of success with upping my omeprazole to see if it was stomach acid/bile making it worse and the answer was "yes" and "it does help and means I can eat and the swelling on the left side of my body went down because my body isn't screaming every time I put anything into it", but I'm not sure if I'm now getting headaches off it from the higher dose... or it's just my body's new pre-period thing. Because that showed up too, which. Explains a lot as to why it got worse, again. As usual all my abdomen issues vanished for a few hours as soon as I started bleeding. Absolutely an angle I'm going to force them on when I ask for allergy tests/blood tests/an ultrasound because I have very strong suspicions as to what the real cause of all of this is.
When OW2 came out there was a lot of. How shall we say. Bugs due to account merging across platforms. ( unrelated to comp bugs ) I also experienced a bug where my comp points I had at the time were times'd by ten. So I went from 900 to 9000, or, three gold guns. (Some people got like. 35k points. WILDIN.) I spent those points on Junkerqueen, Lifeweaver, and Juno weapons, and those from the previous drives on Echo and Winston. I have 3k left, which I'm planning to spend on Freja sometime after she launches, and then I'm kind of set on golds for my characters I play often and well.
The first drive I only got 500 comp points as I hadn't done placements and decided like, second to last day I wanted in. Next season I was prepared and placed in everything, partly to satisfy my curiosity of what the game thought my rank now was. It was roughly as expected: Platinum 3 for support, and Platinum 4 for tank and dps. I played a bunch of games to get the 3000 points, won maybe 60%, and went up the tiniest amount to Plat 2. Where I stayed for the last set of drives - placements are biannually - because they had 6k points up for grabs but I didn't have the time due to PEM to do more than the basic 3k, and fortunately I only had to do less than half a dozen games for it as the drive score was generously low.
I don't really dig the galactic weapon designs - it removes all texture from a weapon on console and doesn't look great - but I like them more than the jades, and I have a few maybes, and we do seem to maybe be getting a wolf themed Italian robot lady at the end of the year (I'm in so much danger), so I was just, yeah I'll do drives again. Did my placements. Not in dps because that was a one time deal; I find it extra stressful and I unfortunately care too much about my Ashe winrate. Placed Plat 1 in support, Plat 2 in tank. Waited for drives. Played through the first two thresholds yesterday as tank and then the third and fourth today, in support queue.
tl;dr
(I still need to do the fifth threshold (me and duo tried but went on a losing streak due to some very questionable teammates), but my goal was to hit the fourth one today so being ahead was like, that's fine, I can do less tomorrow and if it doesn't work out I do more on Sunday.)
Unrelated to drives, I am sleeping a bit better (actually a number of hours) and had to give in with trying to contact the GP about food and digestion stuff, but I still have to wait another week for one to examine me before anything gets remotely rolling. Heaven forbid the NHS does anything quickly. I've had a bit of success with upping my omeprazole to see if it was stomach acid/bile making it worse and the answer was "yes" and "it does help and means I can eat and the swelling on the left side of my body went down because my body isn't screaming every time I put anything into it", but I'm not sure if I'm now getting headaches off it from the higher dose... or it's just my body's new pre-period thing. Because that showed up too, which. Explains a lot as to why it got worse, again. As usual all my abdomen issues vanished for a few hours as soon as I started bleeding. Absolutely an angle I'm going to force them on when I ask for allergy tests/blood tests/an ultrasound because I have very strong suspicions as to what the real cause of all of this is.
