Overwatch match review, without the homework.
A match review is ten honest minutes with a game you just played: which fights you lost, why you died, and what you'd do differently. Hardstuck does the counting while you play, so the review is waiting when the match ends.
What a review looks at
A good VOD review asks the same few questions, and none of them is "what was your damage". They're about fights and deaths:
- Who died first in each fight. The team that loses a player first usually loses the fight. If it's you, again and again, that's the pattern.
- What killed you. The same flanker five times means a position or a cooldown problem, not bad luck.
- Which fights you won and lost, in order, so you can see where a map turned.
- Your numbers against your usual, not against a pro. A game worse than your normal is the thing worth noticing.
Doing that by hand means rewatching the whole match with a notepad. It works. Almost nobody does it twice.
What Hardstuck reads
It watches the same screen you do, while you play: the map, the bans and both lineups at hero select, the kill feed for every kill and death, the scoreboard when you press Tab, and your own abilities and ult on the HUD. When the match ends, it's saved and the review is ready.
Every review links each habit it points out to its fundamentals guide and the heroes that gave you trouble to their hero guides, and the numbers add up over time on the stats dashboard.
Reviewing a match yourself
Not ready for an app? The manual version, which is what Hardstuck automates:
- Right after the match, write down the score and one sentence on how it felt. Feelings lie, but they're a starting point.
- Open the replay and skip to each team fight. Note who died first and whether your team won it.
- For each of your deaths, pause on the second before. Where were you, which of your cooldowns were down, and could you have seen it coming?
- Pick the one thing that happened most. Just one. That's next session's job.
Hands off the game
Hardstuck reads the screen (or OBS's virtual camera, if you already use OBS). Nothing talks to the game process and nothing is injected. Your matches stay on your PC and there's no account. More in the FAQ.