I’ve been playing daily since OW2 launched and, most days, if not all of them, one of the daily challenges involves playing any game queued in the All Roles queue. That’s not an issue, since I enjoy playing most of the heroes and I’m comfortable playing any role. The issue is that All Roles means Support. You’re going to play Support. Even if you want to play something else, you’re just playing Support. All the time. Every single time.
Ever since OW2 launched, I’ve only played as a Tank twice using the All Roles queue, and as a DPS just once. I’ve probably played close to 100 matches since then, and just three of them haven’t been as a Support hero.
I think this either needs to change or there needs to be a different queue, so here are my proposals:
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Rework the All Roles queue so it prioritizes the roles you haven’t played in the previous match to make sure it’s, at the very least, more likely for you to play a bit of everything. So, if you played the previous match as a Support hero, it’s more likely the next one you’ll be either a DPS or a Tank. They have a priority queue system in place, so it wouldn’t be hard to do this. This is just my personal opinion, but I think people who volunteer to play anything should be rewarded by letting them play, well, everything, not keeping them stuck in a single role forever.
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Add a new queue that does what I described above, while keeping the “put me in whatever position is empty” queue active.
I just want to play a bit of everything and it’s annoying that I have to go back and check or uncheck Support to play literally anything else. If you check Support, or if you queue for any role, you’re almost guaranteed to play nothing but Support, and it shouldn’t be like that.
Anyway, that’s just my opinion. I like playing Support, but I also like playing Tanks and DPS, and I never have the chance to do so while doing my daily challenges, which kinda sucks.
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All roles queue is only good if you’re queued with a premade group
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Are you not enjoying support or is it just the lack to variety? If you need variety why not queue as tank and Dps instead?
Are you feeling forced by challenges into playing all roles? Would you rather play anything but support?
I play as only support and all roles is exactly the same as support when the queue for tank and dps is around 6-8 minutes each. The ONLY role that need players is support and it has been that way since launch and it will be that till this game dies if they keep supports as clunky as they are.
I think that ‘‘All roles’’ should have a percentage to get you in the front of a tank/dps queue to spice things up. Many tank/dps players knows nothing about supports because they only clog up the tank/dps queue. OW1 had tickets that you earned for playing support which gave you a better place in the dps queue, OW2 needs this too.
Blizzard took away many great things from OW1 when they launched OW1.1 ‘‘OW2’’. They removed tickets to get in to tank/dps queue as support, They removed levels, they removed endorsements giving you skins, they removed endorsements for enemies, they removed ‘‘FREE’’ lootboxes, they removed A LOT and made this game more shallow.
I have used all roles a lot and it is 99% support and once in a blue moon you get in to tank/dps. To get to play tank/dps as all roles is pretty much like grinding an epic mount in WoW, it will most likely not happen. You are pretty much unlucky when you actually get to play tank/dps because you are by then used to play only support.
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If I had to guess the amount of roles I get in it, its like 60% support, 30% dps, 10% tank.
Because there is a task to win standing up for all roles. But all roles are 99% support.
Might be worth changing this quest? Instead of the master of all roles, put the master of support.
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I had plenty of time in quickplay where i flex queued and was put in the dps role.
I mean, the whole point of “All roles” is quite literally to assign more players to the role that needs them to accelerate queue times.
That’s what its for, so yeah…
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It is not useless, it does exactly what it is supposed to do - place the player in a role for which there is the most demand at the time to minimise queue times. It just happens that this role is support 99% of the time.
The name “all roles” misled you. It’s more like “fill what’s needed”. And sadly, it’s going to be constant support games for the foreseeable future (the new hero will be a tank, another backline diver 
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What you are describing would be “variety queue”, and you can do it right now, but manually by queueing for specific roles. Removes the element of surprise, but oh well.
There is absolutely no need for this ‘‘all role’’ queue that some people defend as doing what it is supposed to do. Why not add a queue that spice things up a little bit? instead of having 2 queues where one queue give you 100% support and the other queue 99.9% support? This queue as of right now feels as a bad addition to OW2, especially at competitive since it is mainly only players that are ok with playing support 24/7 that are using it.
I would be ok if this all roles gave people more than the 100xp that you get from playing support, then it would make sense as it is an option which fills up whatever is needed, which happens to be SUPPORT 99% of the time. Currently you could just pick support and get the exact same reward for being ok to help the team with whatever role they need ‘‘SUPPORT’’, but some people want to pretend that other roles also need more players, WHICH THEY NEVER WILL. The new tank will also make the tank queue bigger than the dps queue, lolz… ^^
Btw^ I am only playing competitive, casual matchmaking might be different.
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All roles = fill. 99% of the time, you’re going to get support. At most, I think it should give you a non-support role after you’ve been given the same role 3-5 times. If it was every other game, the queue times would be through the roof.
75% Support
25% Tank
And just 1 time, DPS. 
Opposite for me. WISH my experience were 99% support, I’m near blind I CANNOT play DPS. I have to screw my team every time. I have to drop and leave them short a player or force them to carry me. HATE IT. absolute HATE! Total and complete crap requirement.
I wonder if they deliberately put u in the role u play least just to keep that last payback coin in their greedy pockets per their Pay up and shut up mentality.
Quee for “all roles” and you’ll see. Also, if you have ever played OW2 cos it seems you have not, for the support role the queen time is 2 minutes at most, more of that for tanks and at least four times more for dps.
Currently it’s tank role.
For me it’s Tank. About 80% of the games I’m queued for all roles, I get tank.
Edit: Oh… Another Necro.
I should really check that before responding.
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It’s been happening a lot lately. I only caught it because I thought in what world is support possibly the least popular role.
…Only during the start of OW2 I guess?
Poor tanks.
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I fell for it. 
I shall carry the burden of this shame…
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