Especially Quick Play?
You’d see how bad it has become. Lots of toxicity. Impossible to play half the roster without waiting a long time (or in game mode that’s never fun because people think it’s training mode).
Overwatch is supposed to be a game. It’s supposed to be fun. Most games are never fun because people who waited 10 minutes to play think everything is due to them.
Role queue made the game more toxic. Role queue is making me toxic.
Boots up Overwatch.
<2 min tank. <6min DPS. <2min support
<1min DPS with priority pass. 36/40 passes.
Yep, looks the same for me as usual in quickplay. Queue time to me at one point after Overwatch’s release used to be really high and somewhere along the way I almost never saw a waiting time longer than 10min. With PPs in the picture my wait times feel even lower to the point I don’t even notice it.
The RQ largely hurt the people at the extreme ends talent where trying to find balanced matches is harder because the populations of those extreme’s are so low and finding enough people on at the same time.
Doesn’t work well when grouped if you must cancel game search to reselect role each time.
And doesn’t fix role blaming and toxicity that came along.
PP’s really changed my life, sucks that they don’t work completely fluently in groups.
(but in all seriousness they really help)
But seriously, if I wait 10 minutes, you bet I will be playing who I want to play. I could totally flex to any dps needed, but I am not going to. Rofl.
I’m not surprised about the game search because the match maker is based off 2 factors. How long you have been waiting?
How good are you in your role?
If players swap you suddenly f!#@ that stuff up. The person who was tank is not longer that 2400 rating is actually 1900.
In regards to blaming that will never go away. People will just come up with difference excuses based upon what is available. DPS diff is suddenly replaced by why didn’t you 4 DPS players go a support when we had 2 tank players?
Judging by the balance, I doubt anyone even had a foot on the live server.
One tank can also go support. In a case like that, every team member are to blame.
Which gets replaced by. Why didn’t that one tank get off hog and go rein instead.
Because he thought it was a good idea.
He made the call. Not the game. He had that freedom.
Now we are stuck in role queue hell with DPS never switching, impossibility to assume their role and toxicity at an all-time high due to role rivalry.
Role queue didn’t resolve any problem, made the game less fun and more toxic.
Just as the game is intended to be played.
Long live role queue.
Agreed
