I have played a total of 8 games today, and every queue I’ve had have been 15 minutes. That’s a total of 2 hours just waiting on Overwatch to let me play the game. It’s absolutely ridiculous . Solo queue.
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So pick another role or don’t solo queue, maybe try arcade where a sensible team comp is not required.
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Why is it only DPS players who have to pick another role?
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Because there are too many people who want to dps…
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Idk, maybe because there are to many who want to play that role?!
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What Sallian and Yuh said
Also, I disagree with you OP, and I’m a Junkrat one trick on my main so I get plenty of long queues(Actually I’ve yet to get longer than 10 minute queue in Masters on DPS)
What rank and time periods? I’m in mid diamond and I average around 7 minutes at peak hours. My matches have also been high quality so I don’t mind the queue.
I’m actually dumbstruck over the amount of dps players that think that the dps queue times is a new issue.
Here’s a news flash - every single time you guys played dps in the old system with at least 3 people on non-dps roles I can assure you that one of those people wouldn’t have minded playing dps. As I have said in other threads my dps queue times before role Q was about 1 week. That’s how often I got to play dps without being one of “those people” that locked dps 3 and 4 and refused to swap.
The good news for me though is that I actually started to really enjoy playing support and started to realize that hard carrying more often than not comes from a non dps slot. Now I’m enjoying my 0-3 minute queues very much.
Sure if they introduce a priority queue system for people willing to play roles in high demand (in return for quicker queues for low demand roles) I’ll start playing dps again. Until then I will keep enjoying my short queues and good quality games where I can focus on improving and climbing instead of being frustrated over queue times.
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I play QP Classic mostly now, i ain’t waiting
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LOL, noone stopped you from picking dps, that all 2-2-2 nonsense is just something youtubers were pushing. I loved playing 3 DPS games, and it was rare that i would lose a game when we had 3 dps and they had 2. I also think it is a much better gameplay with 3 dps & 1 tank. In any case this is what I personally like, and its subjective, but now they took that option away from me and many other similar thinking people in comp, so i have to play QP classic to enjoy the game.
And the selfish people are the supports who wanted to literally FORCE dps to switch got their way. And im sad to see that Blizzard got bullied into submission.
I can see same stuff happening in politics now - oh you disagree with me, we will FORCE you to do what WE want
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advise like, play another game, sad I cant swear at forum.
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My usual OW group i play with moved on from DPS and we usually run a 4 man squad 2 heals and 2 tanks. They enjoy their new roles quite a bit, so while que times are bad, they have encouraged some DPS to move on from that role and try new things.
Forums solution to play dps;
Dont play dps.
Love it
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I’ve been doing that for dps, now doing it for support too as the queue has gotten to 5 minutes even on that role.
If I’m playing OW, it’s because I want to play a fast paced game. If I’m not getting that, I’ll play one of my other games.
Basically you play tank (and main tank at that unless you want flak from your team), or you wait.
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Yes, for me i either queue tank or go qp classic, when they take qp classic out im done
arcade -> quickplay classic
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And why are there too many people who want to DPS?
I think my longest queue time for dps was 26 minutes lol in Platinum in the afternoon.
Could be there are more Dps players than Tank/Healer which I think may be true.
Because DPS is more fun to play maybe and a higher chance to carry.
Correct. And who designed DPS to be more fun to play? Who has known (since beta) that DPS players would outnumber tanks+supports combined, and who stubbornly insisted on making the game revolve around 2/2/2?
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