Well there is the waiting in line for enough tanks part, that doesn’t change, but otherwise the other chunk of the queue time could go down to almost zero.
Also they could end up matching tanks that are ranked as Diamond, but performing like GMs into GM games. And then crank up their SR.
Heck, just equalizing the population histograms of tank/dps/healer would take a ton of CPU power.
But just that? Faster queues? I don’t see that as spicy… I mean that’s great as well, but I guess there will be something spicy about the gameplay too…
Seems interesting, I’m not gonna lie, I kind of was hoping for an in game feature, but That is great news as well, It’s just that my personal expectations were on something else, but I’m happy with this too.
Well, Google has to be giving something really valuable for Blizzard to take all their Esports hopes and dreams, and take it away from Twitch and gamble it with Google.
And if Google is doing the heavy lifting for this work, that means devs can work on OW2.
I speculate,
Some sort of Voting feature. This will be huge. For what? No idea. Maybe maps, player role (player not doing great at a role? Team can vote for an override), player kick or maybe choose your gamemode with all options available?
Leaver fill: Faster refilling an empty slot from a leaver.
Player Tag: New data will be tracked on a player like times left an active game, times reported/falsely reported, times kicked/falsely kicked (so if a person plays Symmetra alot, they won’t be banned because they were reported falsely or if they have a high kick ratio that data will be paired with what character they played to get some feedback on community behavior) maybe even an indicator visible to other players that a specific player is highly toxic.
New hero. I won’t dismiss the possibility but not likely, IMO.
All heroes get an HP buff (Mcree an indicator of new direction?)
Skill equip menu? Much like the story mode abilities but not as game breaking?
Will this be a huge update like the vote system to stop people from being toxic that makes absolutely no different to the game or the way you play at all.
It could be a map voting system where you tick what maps you don’t like to play and then it puts all maps on rotation as normal.