making open queue was a knee jerk reaction. For the last few seasons of role queue they were balancing toward 2-2-2, now with open queue expect strong metas to return, and eventually not be fun.
Good Job!
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Genuine question, have they said that they were going to let open queue affect balancing decisions?
They arenât. Just balancing for role queue
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Oh, nothing wrong with that then.
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Thatâs what I think. Plus as more tanks and supports come out it could create some interesting variants. Like replacing dva with sigma for goats
Well I use open queue as more of a practice for role queue or âwarm-upâ
I donât think âStrong Metaâsâ will appear as often as most players arenât in a large group to coordinate that sort of composition.
I think you might have run this up to quickly in your head (no offense) and just posted it.
I do understand where youâre coming from though.
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I believe the team will balance towards RQ, but I think everyone should hope for a eureka solution that lets us go back to Open Queue.
Because the ever worsening queue problem of RQ is not going away and if you think waiting to play will be an awesome advertisement strategy for Overwatch 2, I donât what to tell you.
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Only thing wrong was that fact you thought I asked a question.
Blizzard would probably make a new character that brings a âeureka solutionâ putting most compositions down the drain and actually make role queue playable.
But that might have to come into ties with your statement of âwaiting to playâ
If I never saw a contradiction then this would serve a good example.
I never thought you asked a question, i see your whiny complaint, and iâm saying itâs not valid.
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Not a complaint but more of an observation and prediction. and Iâm glad its not all up to you nick, as others at least understand where I am coming from.
The only thing unbalanced about it is one team is now gonna run 6 dps and the other actually runs 2 2 2
The game will still be officially and rightfully balanced around 2/2/2 role - lock and therefore OQ will have absolutely zero impact on balance from now on.
Therefore, you donât have to worry about anything.
Exactly, if there is a broken meta in open que, they said they arenât going to make balance decisions based on open que as long as the heroes are balanced for 2-2-2 you get what you get in open que.
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true for the moment, but the above strongly implies it will always be this way
many folks claimed role-less queue would never return to the game, but that changed.
this too might be changed
But the devs never outright said that a Competitive game mode without 2/2/2 role - lock would never be implemented, but in this situation they did confirm exactly how the game will be balanced from now on.
But yeah, with that logic, anything can change. Competitive Open Queue could be removed from the game in like a month due to lack of popularity for example, etc.
true
however, Role-less queue modes are gaining in popularity, as evidenced by their return to the game and after that their promotion to the main game selection screen
as such, I see it as more likely that role-less queue supplants 222 at some future date.
Iâm not saying this will happen, not at allâŚrather, it is from my point of view more likely than what you suggest above
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I donât see that at all, but I guess that anyone can make their own assumptions of what happens in this crazy world of ours.
not at all
no assumptions were made
rather - observations
observations of changes that have occurred in the game, which I am surprised to hear you claim to be unaware of
the first such change was the return of role-less queue competitive to the game, at first in the arcade as an experiment
the second such change was the return of role-less queue competitive to the main game selection screen
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