Players pick in order, from the highest rated player on the team to the lowest. Some kind of A.I. would dictate the avaliable roles left as the hero selection process progresses. The A.I. would need to understand that at least 1 tank and 2 healers would be needed. Just because the highest rated player gets to pick first doesn’t not mean he HAS to pick dps, they would be able to pick any role they want. Maybe some kind of ban system could be used as well? Just a thought, I’m sure this could be tweaked obviously but I think this would help with toxicity and the fear of very long que times in comp.
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That opens a pretty big door for trolls and throwers. If I’m stuck healing and I don’t want to heal, then I could choose my worst healer. You cannot report for hero choice. I’m not saying me, I am just giving an example.
Role queue is a great theory, but the practical application is not there.
I played a game on Hanamura that went to round 3. The enemy team didn’t get a tick on the first point, so we went quad tank and 2 healers. We walked right though them, got the W, ggez. We couldn’t do that with a role queue.
Sometimes an unexpected team comp is needed. You can prepare for 2-2-2 all day if you know it’s coming.
I’m more concerned with 5 people locking in dps, I’m thinking if you wanted to run quad tank the role que would allow it. I’m also thinking if someone isn’t doing well and he wanted to swap roles with someone he could send a quick “role swap request” to someone who felt more comfortable on the role. The idea is that this role que system would enable people to run quad tank, triple tank, triple dps, triple support ect… just trying to think of a way to weed out the horrific team comps. It works in league of legends… as far as trolls go, there are now 3 certain things in life: death, taxes and trolls in competitive overwatch. Nothing you can do about someone trolling.
Lots of times you are better off letting a lower rated person play who the’re best at. I am of course assuming that a higher rated person is able to flex effectively.
If there were an easy solution they would have done it by now. Role que is the only thing I think that would work. I also think that it would suck if you were locked in.
They removed this from HotS. I assume is because it didn’t work as expected. When you would queue, the Highest SR gets to Ban, and then the First Person on the list would / have to pick. It changed to a Any one can pick at Any time. As it should be.
So like the unpopular kid in school you get picked last filling a role you suck at and hate.
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Role queue is not coming.
A 'preferred Role ’ could be very likely to get a nice blend of people in a game but this forced queue idea has been shut down by even devs.
You can be so set on stopping a problem that you walk into another COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE problem.
This would completely discourage grouping up because if a 2300 SR player and a 2700 SR player are queuing together the 2300 SR player would ALWAYS get last hero pick because the average SR of the game would be around 2500
I’m not saying my idea is the best way, buts it’s something. I’m more interested in other people’s ideas on a way to make competitive play more competitive. Right now I feel like I have a gambling addiction which is what this ladder seems to be. A gamble. Am I going to get tilted teammates? Are they going to pick attack torb? Are they gonna get angry and leave because they died? Do they have a decent computer setup? Is their Internet connection stable? I mean the list goes on… so many things can impact your game play it’s not like role que is gonna be the savior. Anyways gg guys.
You in fact choose to solo queue when there are ways offered (we all can agree those are limited for now until the summer updates the devs just talked about ) to form groups and decrease this lottery of teammates . So its more of a personal choice , you pick solo queue acknowledging that you get random teammates , that’s no fault of the system .