This queue is full except for needed roles?

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What is this nonsense?

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We talking quick match? If so then it is due to the enforced comps rule. What is likely happening is that there are no where near enough warrior/support players to fill games, and it got to a point that the back log of people that likely waited a long time (possibly longer then actual game lengths in time) to play assassin/specialist has still yet to be cleared.

This was stated before the rule took affect, but the wait times for assassin/specialist are likely to remain high.

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perhaps they are capping the number of people who can queue as ranged assassins so that people can actually get into a game semi quickly…

I know it’s not a super popular opinion but if you are here to 1 trick or only play 1 role I think you should only play ai because you are already not playing 90% of the game content so why should you be in the same games as people who actually fully play and understand the game.

you can’t fully understand a hero until you have used them for a while and you never get that as a 1 trick…

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I haven’t seen this myself, but if what people are saying is true it sounds like a great way to get people to stop playing this game, for a couple hours at least, if not for days or permanently.

Just give us back pre-Dabiri matchmaking already.

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Just experienced this myself. “The queue is full except for needed roles. Please choose a needed role, or queue at a later time.”

Wowww. This game is officially dead. Imagine, for a second, a top tier AAA company that can’t find enough players to get enough matches, so it LITERALLY forces people into certain roles or YOU CAN’T PLAY THE GAME.

RIP Blizzard.

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I wasn’t 100% against the change to make qm comps better. i was under the impression that they would change it so that people who wanted better match up could at the cost of waiting a bit longer as it plucked the needed tank, healer and range player out of the void and putting them together while letting the rest of us opt out and get w/e for the faster queue at the cost of getting a crap comp with what’s left in the queue.

But no they are forcing groups of 4 and under to be in roles they might not want to play atm and just want to play w/e with their friends on top of being in long queues after they eat the bullet and play what the game wants them to play and still might not get a good comp to go against the enemy’s (the last problem is with groups of 3 and under more than 4 mans)

So are they forcing solo players to queue up as something they don’t want to as well?

Honestly this is turning into dog food :canned_food: :dog2:

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Amazing isn’t it. The company would rather shoot itself in the foot than put like 5% of its players in draft mode. Quick match was fine before this and not worth telling people to “play later.”

This game really has gone to hell. I’m really not spending a dime on this game at all. Especially a dead one.

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Only possible solution I can think of for QM is the following:

  1. Revert the changes, but upset those that asked for and liked the changes.
  2. Add some sort of check box to disable forced comp for themselves (basically old match maker), allowing those who do not mind (or even love) crazy matches to get games quicker while those that are willing to wait for forced comps can still do so. They could call it the chaos option.
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Happened to me yesterday, never seen it before. Restarted the game thought its some bug…

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I haven’t seen this myself as I queue as whoever and get to wait for a match every time. Maybe it isn’t the best update, but I for one think something needs to be done to balance out those matches where it just goes sideways. 1 TK to 29 kind of things ending in 12 to 15 minutes.

If it helps, great. Else, more testing and patching

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It would seem you misunderstood it. The game has enough players but the vaaaaaaaaaast majority prefers playing assassins/specialists so it cant make healer/tank+3 other games at all.

Imagine a baseball game. You have 50 people that want to play, but 48 of them want to be the Pitcher and then someone says they dont have enough people to play the game.

Proper comps in QM was something that a lot of people asked for. But what they actually asked for, apparently, was for other people to fill in those roles so they can play assassins.

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Lol so true. I have no issue as i dont mind playing tank or healer. Plus bonus XP while an event is on? Sign me up for 10s-2min ques, bonus XP - and they arent complete disasters comp wise.

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Otherwise i would not find a game with the needed roles within what is essentially the pre-patch queue times; it would need at least as long as with the others if there were too few players.

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Part of the problem is also the daily quest. I don’t mind playing healer or tank but if I get a quest to play an assassin I want to be able to do it! This is made even worse if you are playing with another person who also needs to finish a specific quest. On a weekday we only play 2-3 games a night so the change really hurts our enjoyment of the game.

I fully understand what they were trying to do with the QM change, I was even for it initially, but they have to realize it will drive players away. They need to at-least relax it in some way. Only a require a healer maybe.

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not really dead just all the people queued up for qm are trying to be the same role because they don’t know how to do anything except derp around as ranged dps… if anyone was willing to play a real role for once then there would not be this huge issue with MM.

QM crowd being braindead and only knowing how to play assassins is causing this issue… the game even warns you to play something else now and people are so stupid and so hard headed that they just refuse and come to cry about it.

when I do decide to play qm my queues are 30s-3m EVERY SINGLE TIME. stop crying and play different heroes.

if you are so 1 trick that you can only play 1 role than you don’t deserve a fast game.

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Ah, common sense, so strange to find it here :smiley:

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You are so right about this.
I wasn’t asking for comps in QM at all.

But yes it was obvious to me you had these really crappy feeder type players the type who have 15 deaths in each game. They wanted to blame their losses on no tank/heals for them. They insisted there are tanks/heals to support them… but no they dont want to be those things. So yea… they want other people to play what they won’t play. Kinda just like what goes on in HL.

Activision never should have gone for this garbage.

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Right now the sureway to quickly complete such quests is either play Unranked/Ranked or you could just stomp beginner AI’s for quick clears.

Perhaps players should get a 25% xp penalty for constantly playing overpopulated roles until they play a tank/healer. Like if you play 10 consecutive games as assasins/specs then a penalty will be on for you until you play tank/healer. By “consecutive” I don’t mean on the same day, I mean even on diffrent days.

Also the xp bonus for tanks/healers should have levels depending on how much these roles are needed, 25% bonus then 50% then 75% and at max 100%.

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Great idea blizzard banning people from playing heroes they like and wanna play. Dont even come at me with this “why don’t you play tank or healer”. I play tank or healer in most of my games, but sometimes i want to have a good time on another hero.

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This aint about the number of players. If there is 100 tanks and healers and 10k assassins you will get this message. If there is 10 000 healers and tanks and 1000k assassins you will get this message as well.

Simple as that. MM tells you there is a role that is needed for mm to get you in a game.

Had a 400sec wait for a match. Switched to a tank and found one in 15 sec.Simple as that.

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