Role queue can't come soon enough

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This has been happening ever since 2004, so it’s expected at this point.

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Yeah, but it’s getting worse. Also, Goats is probably at least partially caused by Tanks being OP to make them more appealing to play.

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I never pick tank, i win games with 4-1-1 against 2-2-2.

If nobody is learning something new and they play what they are good at, you win over a team that forces theyr members to play tank.

Dunno how high you are, but below dia this is actually working… In qp… :sweat_smile:

Ofc if theres a decent tank the dps will have in theory the space upperhand.

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I can’t even get a single tank :stuck_out_tongue: Not unless I play it. And I got fed up with that, because there is nothing like sacrificing your fun and playing tank only to lose because the other team had two tanks.

The only 4-1-1 comp that works at all is Hammond and he is incredibly hard to play. Plus you have to have at least one competent DPS and good luck with that.

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They aren’t, burst damage and damage mitigation are, and tanks are good with damage mitigation, that’s why tanks seem OP, when they really aren’t.

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I dunno, I think tanks are and always have been, which is why the meta is always one functional support away from falling into triple/quad tank but a DPS heavy comp has never ever happened.

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I think this is just due to some fundamental design choices, and asymetrical balance. Its not at all that tanks are OP, but synergy has a way of throwing a wrench into balance.

(PS without 2-2-2 it will happen over and over and over and we will never know peace.)

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Not really. I use it every day. Unless you’re playing at a weird time queue times are no longer than normal.

50

So… Complaining that other people don’t want to play tank when you yourself don’t want to play tank. Genius!

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Honestly I’m a healer main and I want a role queue with 2-2-2 just so I stop getting grouped with 4 other healer mains all the time.

I’d settle for it only being a solo-q mode since most of the reasons to want Role Queue are solo queue problems.

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Who decides what’s fun

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What exactly is “your version” of role queue.

People cry out for role queue to save them but no one even has a basic design model for the game that would work.

hard to implement role queue in a game where infinite hero swaps are a thing and two of the roles have less then 10 heroes to choose from and one has like near 20. Fun game overwatch will be to play if your a DPS player.

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I mean, what do you suggest? Play tank? I did, but it isn’t fun, and it doesn’t solve the issue of not having tanks.

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Hero swapping was genuinely the gimmick that derailed this game. I thought it was cute at first, but it has had some LONG lasting implications and fettered design decisions at almost every turn. I wish they scrapped it back when they scrapped no limits.

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There is no solution, not as long as players care more about playing what they want, than winning.

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Do you play heroes you hate just to win?

58

I wont play Mercy, but I’ve been lucky that I can just soldier on as Rein/Zen in most comps and do fine.

Other than Mercy, Torb, Sym, I’ll play anyone if its needed.

EDIT: I just won my last game, after, both teams said ‘Yeah Genji/Widow wasnt going to get it done there.’ Like it wasnt close. Yet did the Genji/Widow players swap? Of course not.

Its not the game. The players are ruining it.

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Well, the list of heroes I won’t play is just Mercy and Reinhardt. Unfortunately, one of those is obligatory.

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You can make do with DVa, Winston, or Orisa I find. I just live for Shatters, so it works out.

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Nah, Orisa or Winston just automatically loses against any decent Rein.

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