Some people want to play the new hero’s but the real reason it only takes 20s to get into a match as support is because no one wants to play these boring, heal drone, babysitter simulator characters.
It’s too bad cause tank can be good, dmg role obviously has the most fun characters, but the game will be dead in a few months when support leavers stop getting filled and matches die before the timer runs out.
PvE is the only hope for this franchise, hopefully that’s fun, but at this rate I doubt it.
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Tbh, I have fun healing sometimes, It’s a nice feeling knowing that you’re healing everyone, and I don’t even main that role, I just like to play a lot of Lucio and Bap, I like their healing Sty
The only healers that I’d consider a “heal bot/ babysitter” are Mercy and Moira.
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Sounds like there’s gonna be some demand for me (as in support, not me as a person) in OW2, maybe I’ll finally be able to make some friends in the game 
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Facts. I can’t get into a match as tank or DPS so I don’t play the beta at all because I don’t like playing support. They have the lowest carry potential, take the most blame for losing, get no credit for winning, rarely have a highlight reel play that isn’t a Lucio environmental boop.
The role of support is basically to allow others to have fun.
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yeah… i hope OW2 succeeds, but i sure as heck, don’t think i will be sticking around…
Healing in OW2 is a significant downgrade from OW1, the pacing was really good…
It had a rythm before…
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Exactly. The move to 5v5 and this faster paced gameplay has left every support feeling like complete heal bot. There is no break anymore for support to make offensive moves without completely sacrificing team health.
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I can’t wait Blizz’ marvelous solution : remove a support
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Going to 5v5 REALLY hurts when you’re a support. You’re already on the backfoot vs flankers, and now they’ve made it worse with less peel.
But I will admit that it’s hard when you haven’t had any decent changes or new heroes to test out. We’ll have a better picture (either good or bad, most likely bad) when Fox Girl comes out in the next beta.
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I actually like the 5v5, things are less cluttered and theoretically should be easier to balance, for someone like me who can manage a good amount mentally, 2 less on the battlefield is just cake.
they just didn’t adjust the game to maintain the pacing and fundamental design change, now it feels like k-mart tf2… (the gameplay and pacing i mean, the actual visuals and most of the sounds are incredible and i would give them all raises).
Like that new manager at work, that swears they know and have a direction, but does nothing but axe 2 positions and change nothing else, but tell everyone how great they are…
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Support is target practice for dps and dps like tanks hence why if you pick fill role youll get supp 19 out of 20 trys.
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Yep. But RQ apologists will continue to say everything is great when a role literally no one is playing now requires 40% of the team just to start the match.
People may like the idea of RQ but the fact is it doesn’t work. Any new players trying OW2 out in October will quit as soon as they encounter a 20 minute queue for the roles that allow them to kill stuff. Nobody is leaving other games to be a heal bot.
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I never liked role que but i understood it this 5v5 just seems like a bandaid fix . theyll buff supp and theyll most likely be dps with heals an we ll just have a prettier version of valorant.
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I’m not even struggling to stay alive and get a lot of wins ,I have to agree that the game play has turn into babysitting simulator.
10-7 minutes for other roles is not worth it, Que Simulator is the main reason ,I never bother playing dps and my main on console is Pharah.
Turn into an Ana player on pc and shes OP,But still not having fun addicting play.
Which at that point you might as well just play Valorant instead for instant queue times.
I dont die much as supp either but try keepin some one from bein deleted in 1 sec its just not fun supp is supposed to support the team now i support with what heals i can an damage then go sry bud your screwed watch my team die run an repeat.
Watchin junkrat 2 shot a full hp JQ while haven a mercy pocket an i knew there was no fun in supp role.
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We need supports that don’t heal.
What if we went back to 6v6 but instead of 2 tanks, we brought back the defense role?
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I don’t mind support so far, but support doing damage seems a lot more important. Which makes me feel weird when I play Mercy.
Also I absolutely hate Mercy’s new jump mechanic. I’ve messed so many rez’s up because I just randomly yeet myself into the air mid rez. I don’t understand.
Ana is probably the only hero who breaks out of this restriction and everyone is whining about her needing nerfs.
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I have been having a blast on Brig.
Some OW players seem to be bothered by the idea of a support being able to defend themselves. They think supports should all be healbots. Even though in literally every other shooter the supports are DPS that just happen to be able to heal.
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