🔔 Developer Update | Role Queue

General Discussion
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Well classic quick play will be in arcade

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  • Role Queue (obviously)
  • It’s 2-2-2
  • It’s locked roles
  • It’s in Quick Play, Comp, and OWL
  • Separate role MMR and SR
  • 5 placements per role
  • You get comp rewards regardless of the role you choose
  • You get more comp points for placing with all three roles (no specifics for how this works yet)
  • Current Comp season is ending early
  • Beta Comp season on August 13th that will only run for two weeks
  • On ptr today
  • Official comp release on Sept 1st
  • Arcade adds “Quick Play Classic”, which is just Quick Play but without role queue
  • Meant to improve overall quality of matches, not to change the meta
  • Jeff disagrees with people saying that it’ll reduce creativity
  • Lots of balance changes in the near future (gives brig as a specific example)
  • “I think this is the biggest change we’ve added to the game since we added the hero limit”
  • The team will actively watch how role queue is doing
  • Possibly longer queue times, particularly for dps (they’re trying to change that)
  • Some type of new reward system (no details given yet)
  • They’ve completely rewritten the matchmaker
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:crab::crab::crab: OVERWATCH IS SAVED :crab::crab::crab:

Also that Moira buff, love that. I am a support main so now I’ll get loot boxes for playing what I love? Amazing!

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longest sigh

So what, it’s only going to be there once a month? A the rest of the time we’ll be forced into boring comps? I’m legit upset. I at least hoped there’d be a separate queue for cheese and casual fun, but no.

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If you mean switching from tank to dps, that’s doing you a favor. People aren’t the same skill across roles, Jeff even gave his own example. You queue for what role you want. One day you want to support pick support and switch within support and at least your support SR won’t be effected by switching to something that ruins your stats.

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Can we try this while Sleepdarted?

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Just look at this forum. Quite some of these.

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Expect a lot of hero balances. Time to shine OW Forum. Rejoice as your cries will finally be heard.

or not… lol!

But I do expect a lot of hero balances.

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They may rework arcade and make classic QP permanent like MH.

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Hopefully they make it permanent so people can have classic mode forever and always

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Imagine having to wait over 10 minutes to play a casual game of QP. Hahahahhaha. What an actual joke.

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Greatest day in Overwatch history.

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Which nobody will be playing, which will also be inaccessible for majority of the time because arcade mode swaps and nobody will care about arcade mode.

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I really hope so. Cheesy Quickplay with friends is the most fun I have for Overwatch. I want to win with weird and unexpected strats.

I know people hate the “tryhard” excuse in QP, but 222 isn’t the only way to win. Sometimes going crazy is just more fun than a “balanced” team.

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So some of us who want a fair match should be forced to play/against people that insta lock 5 dps?..

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QP role queue s a terrible idea.

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No longer having to solo heal/tank 4-5 DPS “groups” sounds good to me. Now to see how it plays out…

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Seeing as quickplay was supposed to be a way to practice for comp, it would be confusing for new players.

I sure hope so.

If you mean the rotating gamemodes. I think they’ll make it permanent, just like MH.

MH mode doesn’t swap, this might be the same.
And if most people hate 2-2-2 as much as some on the forums say, then the mode should be packed and the wait-times fast.

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The casual mode will be in arcade.