we think there could be other ways of putting a team together that aren’t quite as rigid as a set composition, but not as loose as Open Queue. We’ll be running at least one Quick Play: Hacked based on this idea in Season 13.
This is the solution he knows it everyone knows it, just afraid of the amount of work its going to take getting there completely.
open q with tank limits is were it is at.
that’s the only way you can make up for the grossly underpopulated tank players.
This will be a unpopular decision absolutely, cause the biggest whiners will be DPS and its CC youtubers acting as though rq 6v6 is feasible in the slightest and talk about how they all deserve two tanks and two supports babying them, no you dont.
They have to do this against the wishes of the majority to make it a better game for all of them.
The most important part, for me, was contradicting the Morgan Madden statement that queue times were not an influence on their decision. Those cultists were annoying the hell out of me. Flat Earthers have more backing to their logic.
ya and grey was quoting it, and i straight out told him if the dude was using launch day uptick in steam while being in official capacity,its a joke to even talk about and he is their numbers guy.
LIke obviously q times were the biggest part of making decisions always.
In my opinion, the most important takeaway is there are only so many hours in the day and only so many resources you can divert away from the current game development.
Doesn’t matter much what they say now. We the players now have options. The custom game code is public knowledge and growing in popularity AND a proper competitor in the space in the form of marvel rivals is officially online. One way or another the players will get what they want, and if its at the expense of blizzard and overwatch then so be it.
its not in anyway a replacement to main modes, it wont ever have the populace beyond a few k at most against 100ks, but it definitely helped in making them open up as it showed how much better it is.
They can’t force people to play tank, it’s always been the least popular role in every game that has them.
Match quality is always subjective, and very vulnerable to negativity bias. You can’t please everyone.
This has been tackled with the introduction of 5v5. The only way to make them faster would be to go to 1-3-2, in which case tanks would have to actually be busted in order to handle that much heat coming at them.
It gives me intense frustration just seeing it spelt out
Bro has been gaslighting us since before ow2 launched. Dunno why people even listen to him.
Reminder that he was the one who literally went on a dev stream and basically said the matchmaking was fine back during seasons 2-4 all whilst GM and golds were being matched together.
It was only months later that they fixed the issues hidden in some bug fixes in the patch notes
Reminder, he was also the one that said ranked was working fine when people who had been plat for the entirety of ow1 were able to hit GM in ow2 despite showing 0 sign of improvement.
I myself went from a mid-high masters to GM1, top 500 basically overnight in season 3 and called it out as BS. I didnt change how i played at all and suddenly i gained 7-8 divisions and was being told i am a now a GM1 player. That season caused irreparable damage that we are still feeling the repercussions of to this day
There are only 2 individuals I have been given a forum suspension for not holding my thoughts back on. 1 was a certain old lead of hero balance by the name of goodman (ironic surname), the other is the man in question in my quote tweet.
Both whom imo have caused irreparable damage to the game over its history and I am shocked were allowed to continue on the team.
Alec is at least tolerable as the lead on hero balance, he has had hits and misses but recently especially it has always been a fast turn around to fix clearly troublesome stuff. Old balance bro pumped out moth mercy 1.0, brig, killed the game for a couple years as was still allowed to keep his job
ya but in a 6v6 open q you have flex players entering the fray so instead of being locked in on one player of a mmr to make match you have 6 possibilites to throw a match.
was way better before role q purely cause you had more actionable choices to deal with stuff.
that zen you harass as sombra can get annoyed so much to pick a hog and execute the sombra on spot or for lols go sombra themselves.
not to a satisfactory extent were you have quality matches with good q times.
by the end of ow1 they had a few seasons of fast qs by widening the mmr range, it had similar effect even with 2 tanks but worse matchups, same as current state.
Again what are they going to develop new skins or better sustainablity of the game is the question.
People working on hero map and costumes arent the same as the ones working on balance and stuff apart from some overlap.
he limits everything not just tanks, and dont say its his idea dude is already patenting it all and is going to sue blizzard someday as stealing all his ideas
lol yea but he posted it here a lot (that idea i mean) and no one else does really. i dont know about other social platforms since i dont read reddit or others rarely
i just know greyfalcon here because of his hatred of widow hehe
Don’t posit opinion as fact, I don’t want to relegate you to the Bin Of People I Instantly Dismiss Because They Can’t Separate Fantasy From Reality And I Have To Think Of A Better Name For This Bin.
