It’s getting more and more frustrating teaming up with random players who are not willing to fill up necessary roles!
I play very very hard for my victories and spend countless hours raising my SR in comp.
Then all it takes is 3-4 games with players who refuse to play anything but damage to lose hours of hard work…
I don’t think roleplay in OverWatch is quite acceptable.
Well let’s make it a choice… ? For those who want it
I’d be happy with Role Select IF people could work out what they actually wanted from it.
The problem is there is a LOT of variants, all of them bad. (IF, someone can come up with a good variant, then I’ll be onboard in an instant)
Lets go through them.
You need to make a choice on whether people can switch from their role or not. IF you say yes, then DPS will queue as Tanks, and that is bad. If no, then where Pharah is wrecking your team, and you are the Mercy but are good at widow, Then you can’t switch to counter. Both are bad. Worse yet, you MAY want to play different heroes on different maps. But you can’t.
Do you force people in 2/2/2 or not? If you do then you lose a world of wonderful comps that can happen. If you don’t, then welcome to the world of 4/1/1
Do you mix SoloQ, RoleQ and StackQ? If you don’t, then you will wreck search times. If you do, then you will have a bunch of Salty RoleQers who got wrecked by teams who have FAR more flexibility to counter them.
What do you classify Sym as? Mei? Sombra? Brigitte? Hog? There are many Heroes who are not classified well. How do you handle that?
In short, the forums are going to hate whatever variant Blizzard fields. Now… a LFG system in the game… that may work.
Would play more solo q with some kind of role q
Well I was thinking something along the line of grouping heroes into different classifications than they already are.
As you sign up for a Role u can choose any Character belonging to that specific role.
This will allow you to switch and counter as needed and guarantee that there is still going to be a good balance in the party.
The thing is that currently u encounter many games with either no healer or no Tank.
This is causing frustration as one cannot get out of Bronze… ( I am getting close) but still … Hard earned games Vs. Very easy losses for the above reason
Bronze is it’s own special hell. I got stuck down there a number of times.
You are likely to get out of bronze and go straight to gold (once you get mid silver). All of the smurfing you see almost every game VANISHES roughly mid silver and up.
It is a different game once you are out of there. Best of luck! I don’t think roleQ would help you get out. But Blizzard taking a harder line on people who were in Plat+ earlier in the season down in bronze would make all the difference in the world.