What is the most frustrating part of Role Queue for you?

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Lemme start:

Just to be clear…I favor Role Queue leagues more than the previous non-2-2-2 system, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a gripe or two about it either.

  • The team compositions have certainly improved, but the quality of matches haven’t changed either.
    • Players are people and people will have the tendency to find fault in others. Since it’s 2-2-2, I suppose some players might think, “There isn’t much of an excuse for my teammates to underperform anymore since we have a decent team composition.” While that’s true, everyone has to work together and pull their weight equally.
    • If you really have to call out on someone not performing to your expectations, I’m sure there are much calmer ways to express yourself. Look at yourself first before you start a rant, or even better, if you have nothing nice to say - don’t say anything at all. Nothing gets solved through irrational behavior.
  • This one is much shorter but it gets on my nerves: when you’ve waited 7 minutes for a Damage Queue, and then the match is canceled when an enemy leaves because your team capped the Objective first.

Now that I’ve gotten those out of my chest…

What do you find frustrating about Role Queue?

Cheers,
~ PyroPanda

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Being expected to play all heroes within my respective role in situations we need them, because the rest of the team can not pick them.
I have no interest in playing Mercy or Moira.

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I hate when a moira queues in and I’m playing as zenyatta, and they’re mad that they couldn’t get their 2 min DPS queue so they play DPS moira and run around the shield tanks and get nuked constantly by the enemy team …

yeah that miffs me pretty badly. Nothing i can do but reroll and go Baptiste and try to salvage the team because someone is mad they didn’t get their DPS slot and had to wait 7 small minutes for it.

I hate impatient people, i wish blizzard would put more effort into making tanks and supports more rewarding/fun to play. Wrecking Ball and Sigma are excellent examples of tanks being fun to play.

Baptiste and Lucio are as well.

Mercy is unfun and bland and is so ineffectually weak it’s disheartening.

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The lack of flexibility is definitely up there for things I hate the most about Role Q/Lock

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Longer queue times (for DPS and support both) and increased toxicity.

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Lack of strategy. Sometimes it’s nice to be able to run extra DPS or extra tanks.

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Having to play against Doomfist every bloody game. He is such a broken hero, and it feels like most games are just decided by which team has the better Doomfist.

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I’d like to be able to pick DPS and Support and get a good mixture of games, but, you have to turn off support to get DPS games.

I totally get WHY it is like that, but it is slightly annoying.

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Overall I feel the quality of my matches has gone down and the feeling of hopelessness has gone up. I’ve played a fair amount of each role before anyone speculates.

It just feels even more “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” than ever before – and when most matches feel like that I hardly ever wait to play DPS anymore.

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The most frustrating part is using the last 3 years telling everyone that we should broad our hero pools and be able to cover for strategic swaps mid-match, and then develop and deliver a system that actively punish those that broadened their hero pools and reward the specialists.

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The really big holes in the Tank/Support lineup for counterplaying threats.

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2 things about it.

We begged for years for it to happen, but it only became reality because of OWL.

It came with no balancing changes and no required game changes. No thought process put into how the balancing needs to change with role que or how it should be in order to not make 2 hour que times for high tier dps mains.

And I’m not gonna accept the excuse of it’s a new thing they put into game so time will eventually fix it. This has been a major topic of discussion for 2~3 years in the community. You mean to tell me, they didn’t even think about how they need to face these issues? And if you weren’t ready for it, why implement it for high level players now?

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Queuing as a tank to see that people playing Supports are actually not support mains and are playing the role cause of faster queue times and loot boxes.

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The people who flame it :stuck_out_tongue:

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I don’t know if its just me but, when I try to que as DPS in League it doesn’t let me pick a DPS when we get to the hero selection screen. Is it because I haven’t finished the placement matches for Tank? Only reason I can think of.

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currently impact on “win” from dps/supp/tank players with same SR is very different… also add to this difference big differences in SR =\

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1.Terrible queue times.
2.Stale gameplay
3.Very terrible distribution among roles, you have players who know nothing about their role.

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When I’m a support and the enemy team has the superior Widowmaker, and we all just have to basically spend the rest of the game losing without a fighting chance.

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I don’t really want to list frustrating things since there are just too many to list, but I will say that it has been interesting seeing a lot of forum users the last few weeks since it came out. Some of it has been refreshing and sometimes irritating.

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Honestly, can relate. I can’t play every Hero with the Role I’ve Queued for, so I’d only choose the few Heroes in that Role if they’re really making me.

DPS Moiras…oh God, those are a real pain to have on your team…

Like, other players who can’t play other Heroes on the Role they’ve Queued on for?

Mr. Kaplan did say Queue times were going to get longer. And for toxicity, it’s felt so-so so far compared to non-2-2-2.

I had an idea where two players on a team could switch Roles if they both agreed on doing so. Would make “filling” in a bit easier.

Doomfist feels a tinge OP in 2-2-2, I’ll admit.

Sorry to hear about that man, I’d just play whatever Role makes you feel happiest to play as. :<

It’s more like, players should have been able to play multiple Heroes per each Role to fill in, and now players who Mained one particular role are having a harder time to play other Roles and have to catch up learning other Heroes now.

Clarify please?

I can get behind that-ish.

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“Why isn’t our Moira healing?”
“Yeah, why is our Moira just going to the enemy and spamming Damage Orbs and right-click only?”
It’s sickening, really.

Haters are gonna hate.

That is a big-ol’-relatable subject right there…

That’s prolly on them for not trying to deal with her.

I guess they needed to get what riled-up opinions they had on their chest to the Devs about 2-2-2, hoping they’d listen.

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