Open queue is actually very underrated right now, as long as you don’t have anyone on your team who wants to play dps. I’ve been 5 stacking with a team of Ana, Lucio, Brig, Rein, and Zarya, “me being the Ana,” and we have been absolutely dominating every game. I placed Plat1 and am now on my way to being masters3. Is anyone else finding open queue as great as I am?
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Well yeah if you have a premade with any kind of intentional team comp then you’re going to roll open queue. The problem with it is that it rarely does result in a good team comp for pubs.
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I’ve been having a blast too. For me I’ve been running into teams where we go as Zarya, Dva, Roadhog (or Winston or Junker Queen), Lucio, and Mercy (me as mercy). Sometimes 4 tanks 1 healer, and it ends up just being a blast. Started on gold 1 and climbed to Diamond 3 I think.
Maybe thats a way to prove that dps role is the one that should be removed from the game to make it achieve peak experience for players.
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GOATS simulator sounds like 
to me
I’m having a terrible experience. In my last game I had to go against Zarya/Rein/Ana/Brig/Lucio, it was awful! We got destroyed!
This made me laugh pretty hard.
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it just shows how under-tuned and hardmode playing dps is. goats players can faceroll blindfolded and win. being on the no-heals no-tanks team is a challenge i enjoy. if i’m going to lose it’s going to be on team glass canon vs. the fat clunkers.
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Without all the CC, it’s actually so enjoyable and I never really got to play it in OW1, so it’s kind of new for me. I’d imagine you’ve kind of been there and done that when the goats meta was prominent or you’re just a dps player, which is understandable.
As someone who can only solo queue I won’t even go back to open. It’s always a crap storm.
I mean, if you can get some friends to play and stack in a full group of competent players, it’s amazing!
GOATS was only ever a problem in OWL, not in the game proper
Few players ever knew what GOATS was, and fewer still had the communication and coordination skills in their team to pull it off
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The problem is that you don’t play in a real competitive environment. The 3/2/0 is pretty much meta in the open queue and so you’re basically rolling a die at the beginning or every match “will the enemy pick at least 1 DPS” with “Yes”, “Of course”, “Absolutely”, “Pew-pew-pew”, “Feeling lucky” and “Another stack” being the sides of said die. And that die determines 50%+ of your victory. So go figure.
So you’re playing with 4 other players in a premade and stomping unorganised groups and you’re having fun stomping? lol
I’m not seeing the problem? 
… the problem starts when the newly baked “Master 3” folks who got it this way start to think they’re great at the game, I guess. So long as there are no misunderstandings like that it’s all fine.
open queue at the moment is literally just GOATS wdym? the team willing to sacrifice fun and not pick dps always wins.
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Do you honestly believe that? When you stack, you’re pretty much automatically going to be put up against another stack, and don’t just assume my victories weren’t hard fought. I’m trying my cheeks off in my games, and as I’ve been climbing, it’s been getting more and more difficult. But to answer that, he’ll yeah, I enjoy winning my matches!
not at all
GOATS cant actually be played at all in the game being called OW2, as it requires 6 specific characters and this game is 5v5 now
this is entirely untrue.
I have seen many teams that include DPS win, even against teams that do not have a dps
u know what i meant
there’s an exception to every rule but the team with the least dps wins most of the time.
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