[Overwatch Jeff Interview - Role Queue and The Future]
Discussion of Topics:
Brief comparison of Baptiste if he fills into GOATS or other team comps
“Be careful what you ask for” - Jeff Kaplan in regards to bring Brigitte to the game
Jeff says its easy to force the meta to where its disruptive for many players in the community and they don’t want to try to do that.
Jeff: “We think Mercy is not as dominant as she is now and is now balanced.”
Jeff: “We have aggressively made changes…
Jeff: “I am a huge fan of 2/2/2 comp and we believe this is the accepted way to play the game.”
Jeff: “I think role queue is a great idea.”
Jeff: “It took over two years to write the matchmaker, and if we want to pursue a role queue it will take months and months to implement a role queue, and we have people working on this now.”
Jeff Kaplan
113 posts
Overwatch Developer
Feb 28
if we did role queue, we would do separate SR’s. this is one of the things i think would be really fun (plus make the game way more balanced and improve matchmaking)