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if we did role queue, we would do separate SR’s. this is one of the things i think would be really fun (plus make the game way more balanced and improve matchmaking)
my opinion is fact.
- “Be careful what you ask for” - Jeff Kaplan in regards to bring Brigitte to the game
- Jeff says its easy to force the meta to where its disruptive for many players in the community and they don’t want to try to do that.
- Jeff: “We think Mercy is not as dominant as she is now and is now balanced.”
- Jeff: “We have aggressively made changes to knock [Goats] 3/3 down, and specific characters who are enabling 3/3.”
- Jeff: “I am a huge fan of 2/2/2 comp and we believe this is the accepted way to play the game.”
- Jeff: “I think role queue is a great idea.”
- Jeff: “It took over two years to write the matchmaker, and if we want to pursue a role queue it will take months and months to implement a role queue, and we have people working on this now.”
- In its current state, the average queue time would go up to as much as 13 to 26 minutes in order to get a fair match in a damage role. So it is not as easy to solve. He did mention he could flip the role queue switch right now with these problems.
- It would be easy to balance the game if the game was restricted to 2/2/2
- “We would like to pursue a role queue and a 2/2/2 meta but its the scope of work required in order to make sure it works for everyone.”
- The psychological mindset of players on the PTR does not make the PTR effective to determine hero balance.
- Stylosa: “Who’s the best region Jeff?”
Jeff: “I will never answer that. I am taking that to my grave.” - The development live ops team (Bill Warnecke’s group I believe) has an “emergency patch” ready to go if a balance change makes things in the game terribly out of whack but is not often taken advantage of. (35% Ironclad Bastion comes to mind).
other people may sugar coat stuff, I don’t whether i get a suspension or not because someone reported me over a stupid comment they shouldn’t take personally to heart but hey you can’t say anything to anyone without the possibility of them being offended anyways so I’ll be me and say what I need to say no icing.