Voting map system

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This should be implemented in overwatch, there are just some maps i do not like to play on. For example, Napal, Blizzard World are two examples for me personally.

Let us decide which map we want to play on or avoid when queuing up in QP, and Comp.

What do you all think, should there be a Voting map system for QP and Comp?

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I was for it at first (during the first year of the game), but there are so many targets for ā€œunpopularā€ maps that the game would be really bland with people just constantly voting for Kingā€™s Row or something. Beyond that, I actually like most of the maps that people hate. Such as Blizzard World, in your case.

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Eh. I donā€™t think it would end up working out as well as anticipated.

People wanted LFG for ages and still complain that its trash now that we have it. Can you imagine the chaos resulting from a map avoiding system? The matchmaker is bad enough without throwing map preferences into the mix.

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If they were gonna do it, it should be done like MWO does it where it will pop 3-4 choices then the lobby votes. If your pick loses the vote, your vote power goes up 1. If your pick wins your vote power resets to normal 1 vote. That way, itā€™s guaranteed that eventually you will get to play the map you want even if it isnā€™t a popular one.

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I am really tired of getting volskaya at least 2 times a day while I have barely even played Blizzardworld but voting is not good enough. It will just create bias towards certain maps and make it even worse.

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lets do one better and in qp you now have a game mode filter, no one wants to play 2cp, especially in qp.

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My calculations over the years have resulted in the following resultsā€¦

Snow: Automatically wins
Horizon: Loses
Blizzard World: Wins

Some maps would never be picked, seriously.
If they do, it would be very rareā€¦

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There is this thing called custom games. It allows you to choose which maps are enabled.

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Itā€™s a terrible idea because 2 cp will never be played and people like me love 2 cp. we will also be limiting the maps we play. Stuck playing the same couple of maps over and over again.

Also hell no for comp. take the map you get and play it. That will be so abused. People will only play maps that they excel at on niche heroes that have crazy winrate on those specific couple of maps. They would be raising thier sr to a rank they really shouldnā€™t be playing at. Thatā€™s boosting and basically cheating. Now they will edit thier menu and join other maps and ruining thier teams games because they arenā€™t actually meant to play at that competitive level.

That video blame the controller did was messed up and he sounded entitled as hell. I love most of his content but he was wrong for that one. He put no thought into what the negative effects of this would be on a game and was just like yeah thereā€™s none. Then he twists the words of the devs of the interveiw. They didnā€™t ask for peopleā€™s ideas on how to do a veto system. They said they donā€™t want to do it and would rather have people tell them why they think the map is not fun and fix that instead.

These decisions donā€™t just effect the people that use the feature. It affects everyone. I would much rather have a healthy equal random odd at maps giving diversity then filling the same maps over for people that avoided half the maps.

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I donā€™t think this is a good idea simply because I felt that the guy at the panel answered it well.

If you could just vote out a map, then nobody will ever know if there were certain bugs that needed fixing in said map
and ignoring it altogether would be as if the map doesnā€™t really exist anymore. It would be a waste of the developer teamā€™s time and resources if say, a majority of the community despised a certain map and just voted it out of game.

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How will my rank be compareble to others if I only decide to never play 2cp when other players play them.

I too wouldnā€™t mind the system but I donā€™t see the devs going through the trouble of making a map so that one day no one would want to play it.

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You nailed it perfectly. Iā€™d give you a like if I had any

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I will something like the ā€œFinal Destinationā€¦ Fox Onlyā€ in Smash Bros community, also some heroes shine better in some maps.
I hate Lijiang Tower, but the randomizer makes everything diverse.
Also the queue will take long of time for people wanting the same map

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Then we would just end up on the popular maps and that would become stale really quickly.

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Aww here :blush: Have a like for you liking my post.

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One day I will repay your kindness. Thank you. Also I love your name. Iā€™ve been thinking about legally changing my name to nova because I love it as a name and use it for a lot of my usernames

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Other problems would include specializing in only a certain map. Like someone said above, what if you were really good at map type X but mediocre at the others? You could just play the one mode you are good at with the heroes that are good at that mode to boost yourself.

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Relevant topic to refer to post I made a while back:

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My dear, you need to do no such thing! :heartpulse:

Oh my that would be amazing! You would have the coolest name ever haha I like it as well as its simple yet very ā€œspaceā€ like! I never net a Nova before but if you did change it youā€™d be the first I know lol