Is it serious that the Junkenstein Laboratory is very popular? I went in to test on Monday and the queues for all functions had a wait of more than 20 minutes, I went in today and had a 20 minute wait again. I haven’t even played this mode yet, and apparently I won’t play it.
I compare the times to the quick or competitive game that has a waiting time of 1-5 minutes.
I havent played this week, but whenever i have it was always under 3 minutes normally equal or faster than QP for me.
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I believe Aaron said that Junk’s Lab has about 15% of the playerbase logging into play it even 2 weeks later. That’s a LOT for a temporary mode.
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considering there are like 50k people online, that’s not very much.
Steam has 42k players on it right now. And that is the minority of pc players. And then all the console players. There are way more than 50k online.
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Sadly Mistikas likes to make things up. He’ll claim every single one of them is cheating soon.
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I don’t understand why the ppl who think every match has at least 1 cheater in it, even bother to play the game.
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Don’t say that though. It’s wrong to tell people to stop… 
Yeah I don’t get why anyone would waste a moment of their time on a game that quite clearly don’t enjoy.
20mins is ridiculous. What server are you on?
I haven’t had to wait more than 2mins to play that mode
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It is showing to be quite popular…now I just hope this becomes a permanent feature to make all games a little more interesting. Of course, EVERY single card will have to be balanced and they seem to have a hard enough time balancing base kits…
Still, would love to see what they would do with Junkrat or Lifeweaver cards! “Mass Lifegrip”-pulls all team mates in a 30 yd radius to your location…MWAHAHAHAHAHA
That isn’t actually true. That’s the Steam count which is maybe 10% of PC players (you can actually verify this in your own games using Steam). That’s not counting console players.
Steam only. And Steam OW2 released AGES after battlenet version which is why majority are on battlenet if they play on PC. Also there’s the advantage of pre downloading updates of you use battenet. So definitely not 50k
It says those long times on each role card, but queues have been short even so. If you flex queue, though, that pretty much means support.
I think queue times just show which role is most popular and not how long it will take. Sometimes I even get tank queueing all roles.
Ranked, Quick and OpenQueue are the 3 most played mods.
For Arcade its a matter of time of day and which day. Probably more players the WE.
But since its one of the few arcade temporary event that gets an update, its probably popular enough.
I’m also thinking they use those mods as test grounds, Laboratory in disguise.
What region are you in? I think the longest wait I’ve had was only a few minutes.
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Limiting the heroes probably makes it easier to balance, I kind of like it with a limited roster too. If they change the roster every season and tailor-make it for the 1/3 chosen, it might keep things interesting and create more hype for certain seasons
I’d like it more if games were Bo3 instead of Bo5.
With Bo5, if the game is a roll, it adds one more round of torment (and rolls should end as soon as possible). And if it’s a close match that goes to 99-99 on every round, it makes the game go on forever.
All we need to do to make it Bo3 while keeping the same number of mutations is to give two mutations per round instead of one.
That’s a fair point. This mode, but with a rotating, limited roster so it isn’t a balancing nightmare. Still, I don’t think I am alone in sorta wanting this sort of thing to replace the “normal” game. QP/comp to have cards to “power up” the characters between matches. The other big challenge would be inability to switch heroes…hmmm…I do wonder what Team 4 is discussing about the future of this mode behind closed doors.
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The SEA region for me is showing 20 minutes or so.
I’m guessing everyone just finished the challenge and then either went back to normal QP or junkenstein revenge.
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