Queued up for Quick Play Classic and waited. And waited. And waited some more until I gave up after 8 minutes of waiting. Tried going into Skirmish while I was in still in queue and I was the only player in the Skirmish lobby. Mind you, this is “Quick” Play, during an event and a challenge AND on the weekend. Decide, FINE, I’ll queue for Role Queue Play.
Game 1. Stuck as healer. My team does absolutely nothing and we get rolled, as usual, and because I’m stuck as healer there is nothing I can do about it despite my gold healing medal. The enemy team gets 4 cards. I get a message that my Endorsement Level has dropped from 4 to 3.
Game 2. I get stuck as Tank. My team steamrolls the enemy despite my minimal contribution and we get 4 cards.
Game 3. Like clockwork, my team gets rolled again in less than 4 minutes. I am again stuck as a Tank.
Game 4. Backfill as attack on 3rd point. Get stuck as Healer but we win. I am now bored and stop playing.
Common points throughout every game:
- Win / loss swings like a pendulum as regular as clockwork
- 50%+ of my American region games’ teams are made up of Super Tryhard Bros. with Asian names who don’t appear to speak English or use any form of communication
- Constant lag throughout every game
- I am constantly getting deleted in less than 1 second despite being a Tank / Healer every game
I cannot imagine how bad things are going to be moving forward into Overwatch 2, now that the focus is on making sure you get deleted even faster, and there are even less counters to hitspam. I imagine it will work like this:
- Queue up for open queue.
- Wait 10+ minutes.
- Give up and queue for DPS and wait 20 minutes to have fun OR queue flex for a lootbox and have unfun
- Get instantly deleted every game before you can leave the spawn room
Who is this game even made for? The only thing I can think of is that they are tripling down on the E-Sports meme.