Please stop giving me tank EVERY TIME

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It’s almost as if the weekly challenge for “Complete 20 games queued as All Roles” should be renamed to “Complete 20 games queued as Tank”.

Look, I get it, it’s not rocket science, all roles means ALL ROLES. But when you are queueing multiple times over a gaming session, getting tank 95% of the time is quite ridiculous.

If I got [tank, tank, dps, tank, support, tank, dps, tank, tank, support] that would be fine.
But this is dumb: [tank, tank, tank, tank, dps, tank, tank, tank, tank, tank]

The matchmaker should be leaning a player away from repeating the same role over and over and over again.

Then again why would I expect the matchmaker to do anything common sense?

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True. All Roles is mostly the fill role: i.e. the role that’s least played by the community, but required for the team. In this case, Tank players.

Really, it goes to show which role has little interest of incentive.

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Been queueing, and nonstop tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank support, tank tank tank.

Yes, in that order.

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That is untrue!

I usually get

Tank 5xs
Then support once
Then tank 6xs.

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Why even do flex role queue when the wait times for the other roles are often rather short? Just play what you know you’ll enjoy

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I also don’t want to tank into Ana and zen all the time. I’ll play tank into any dps to avoid playing into Ana.

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I get tank the least when I queue for all roles. I mostly get dps with some support now and then, but very rarely tank, which is kind of annoying since I’d rather play tank than dps, but gotta queue for all roles for that weekly challenge (because my gamer-goblin brain wants to get those shiny coins every week)

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See, there aren’t enough tank players. So you’re going to play tank.

If there wasn’t a severe lack of tank players sure!

Maybe we should look at the decisions they made recently (Cass nade, Mei freeze harder, Life Grip), and wonder if perhaps it’s causing a tank exodus?

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Picking flex queue is going to give you Tank. Going to like it and endure the incoming suffering it brings

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Funny how the forums complained about supposedly getting support constantly when flexing a few months ago, now it’s apparently Tank 24/7. Do the forums just not like playing any role besides DPS?

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goes to show how fun playing tank is when it’s struggling to find tank players when only half as many people need to be queuing for tank (compared to either of the other roles) to make games

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People want to play several roles randomly. The problem is all roles turns into “the role everyone hates this month” most of the time with almost no exceptions.

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No such thing as guaranteed randomness, never has been. Flex queue in OW1 was nearly always Tank with almost no exception, Flex queue in OW2 is at least more random than that.

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To complete the challenges.

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Its really personal experience though.

You asked… I told you what people expected VS what is happening. People are always gonna complain when flex queue turns into one role over 8 games.

Personally whenever I queue flex recently it’s tank with no exceptions. When I used to flex queue in OW1 I would at least get something else once out of every 4 or 5 games.

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Not a problem, working as intended. It is LITERALLY the fill pick. You play what’s needed, not what you want.

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Sure. I get what its for and personally I don’t care. I’ll play what it gives because I am true flex. But people noticing that it’s hardlocking one role over and over and over is something that should be noticed and talked about. It indicates a problem.

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If you don’t want to play tank…. Don’t queue for all roles. It’s not mandatory to do the challenge man. “All roles” just means whatever’s fastest

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This is why I hate queueing as All Roles, cuz Tank is so boring and I always get it. 6v6 was way more fun, but one tank per team is zzzz

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inb4 I remind that literally explained why and that the challenge should be renamed and that the matchmaker should look at match history to mix it up a bit instead of tank nonstop.

This is about match quality.