Yo, open queue is hell if the enemy team decides to play goats. I think either they limit the tank roles to 2, because of their buff, or for every tank on that team after the initial one tank, dps and healer get a damage buff, so basically punish players for using goats, cause that is straight doodoo butter, and everyone who runs it should be ashamed of themselves. Pls save open queue
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why not just play role que if you want less tanks?
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no. leave oq the dumpster pile it is.
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Is an open queue player admitting that open queue is bad and now wants it to turn into role queue XD
This has nothin to do with tanks being buffed in OW2. Multiple tanks in your comp has always been strong, that’s why role queue exists.
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Because OQ with tank limit would still be OQ.
Nice reading comprehension you got there!..
No, OP it is not saying that.
Let’s say they limit tanks at 1 per team.
A team could then have 0 or 1 tank. And that 1 tank could be player X, and later player Y, if player X decides to swap to another thing.
And then there are the other roles being able to have any number of heroes and being able to swap.
People could still start as support, then change for DPS, and then end up as a tank.
OQ becoming a bad mode was obvious since the moment they showed us that tanks were going to be way stronger.
And the fix was easy to implement. They are just that lazy.
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Op asked that the number of heroes per role be limited. Whether it’s for 1 role or all roles it still turns open queue into something it’s not and makes it more like role queue.
Limiting the number of players per role and allowing them to change roles as well is a bad idea for the most part as it will lead to toxicity. Like the typical “give me X or I throw”. It’s also super janky because now you have to group up in spawn or wait for team mates to die before you can swap roles etc etc.
I you want open queue you get open queue. If you want structure and a more balanced game you play role queue.
Open queue has always been a bad mode because tanks have always been the strongest heroes in open queue.
Manipulating the number of players per role in any form would make it something else entirely. A new mode and not open queue anymore.
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I love how people call OQ a dumpster fire as if there’s nothing that can be done against it.
Obviously it’s going to be a dumpster fire if there isn’t any balancing done around OQ.
I like the fact that I can change my role mid game depending on the situation, so basically if my dps is trash, or we don’t have enough healers, but no man should have to run goats just because the enemy team was losing HARD, and decided to run goats. It’s not fun, and I prefer the chaos that open queue is, just NOT GOATS
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An entirely different mode… GOATless OQ could be called.
that’s exactly what’s happening lmao
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Think you’re missing the point of OPEN QUEUE.
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I thought the entire point of open queue was freedom and agency, not restrictions.
My vote is they should’ve just balanced tanks instead of do role queue.
Nah, the point of OQ was having the old mode active.
But the game changed. And the old mode no longer works with the current characters, so, something need to be done.
Leave it broken and extremely boring, delete the mode, or fix it.
Before 5v5, I mostly played OQ. I never liked GOATS, and I never liked 6v6 roleQ.
This current iteration of OQ is just worse than 6v6 roleQ. It is just an invitation to an even worse version of GOATS.
Role queue is cool and all, I rather not wait the extra time just to be locked in one role, plus im not the best tank or dps, and I for sure don’t wanna be on mercy duty all day, I’m just a competitive casual with very limited time who wants to jump in have fun. One guy said limiting tanks is role queue, and that’s a good point, but we all know goats meta is a plague. It was rare to see it in overwatch 1, but dang near every game in overwatch 2 is bad. All I’m asking is that open queue have tanks be checked somehow. Leave everything else alone, just the tanks. Have the system detect if it’s 3 tanks or something, and reduce their health by 50, something pls I beg of you. shbsgvgg gujbddh, by the way I waited 8 min to play dps
its the point of Open Queue to play different compositions.
Yes, on OW2, 3 tanks is kinda imba but it was already on OW1. It’s just a whole different meta. I doubt devs would ever balance the game for open queue.
I think it’s more for people to try characters without waiting ages in role queue. Or a way to have some fun with more chaotic games.
It has nothing to with balance and everything to do with synergies. If it was as simple as making some balance changes then the countless nerfs to brig should have killed goats but it never did and the countless nerfs to Orisa and Sig should have killed double shield and it never did.
Which is a mode that doesn’t restrict players to playing certain roles… If you implement a 1 tank lock into open queue you are locking other players out of that role.
The old mode didn’t work in OW1 which is why role queue came about.
It’s always been broken and extremely boring.
Most people played open queue for quick dps queue’s but that isn’t really a problem any more.
Unlucky for you, open queue is the home of goats along with many other annoying and cheesy comps. It comes with the territory and has always been awful.
Now that everyone can’t play Dps anymore because people actually try in Open queue again it’s unfun all of a sudden? Remember when the role queue and open queue split came about, cheesy tank heavy comps were common in open queue until the game mode was basically abandoned and relegated to queues for dps players that wanted a shorter queue time or people that wanted an easier way to get T500.
Open queue will never be taken seriously as a competitive mode because it just doesn’t work anymore and is impossible to balance properly. Most of the time it is my warmup game mode if anything.
Open Queue should be 6v6 and reduced HP for tanks. In fact let’s make role queue that too, it’ll reduced tank queue times and make the games fairer as tanks won’t be so OP and if one is a dud then you always have the chance the other could make up for it.
Dude, why do you waste so much time talking about something you don’t care about?
It’s not even worth talking with you if all you say is “old mode bad, wah!”
Because I’m allowed to have an opinion and I do play the mode from time to time.
I’m saying the mode has always been pretty bad and everything you are describing has always been an issue which is why role queue was introduced.