Guangyun “Guangguang” Chen, artistic director behind Marvel Rivals, says that whereas many gamers have requested a job queue system, a matchmaking choice to assist create balanced groups, there are at the moment no plans to implement one within the free-to-play character shooter.
The free-to-play third-person hero shooter launched earlier this month and has shortly turn into one of many largest video games of the 12 months, already hitting over 20 million gamers. And a few of these gamers are uninterested in being tossed into matches the place their whole group is duelists, forcing them to play healer or tank to assist steadiness the lineup.
One answer to this downside is a job queue. Present in video games like Overwatch 2, a job queue lets gamers choose a job, like tank, after which discover a match that wants that particular function. In Overwatch 2‘s case, this implies each match has a tank, two attackers, and two healers. This could result in extra balanced groups, however the devs behind Rivals don’t appear involved in including this technique to the shooter.
Talking to Dot Esports, Chen stated that the studio is “not contemplating a job queue” in the intervening time.
“The group’s objective is to supply a greater diversity of group composition by way of team-up expertise and their very own designs, to let folks play their Marvel superheroes quite than limiting gamers to selecting a job.”
Chen additional defined that information from matches exhibits that Rivals at the moment doesn’t want a job queue system.
“We wish folks to have a Marvel expertise the place they’re free to pick out what they need. [Since the beta test earlier this year], issues have been rational and inside expectations. In our Aggressive play just lately, there’s lots of totally different compositions rising from gamers and we’d wish to proceed to watch these enjoyable compositions and the way they impression our sport.”
Whereas some may be upset that Chen and developer NetEase aren’t dashing to steadiness the sport or add a job queue system, I’m completely satisfied to see an internet multiplayer sport studio step again and let issues be chaotic and messy for a bit earlier than leaping in to sand issues down and make all the pieces extra truthful and balanced.
One of many causes I take pleasure in Rivals is as a result of everybody feels highly effective and matches not often play out the identical approach as almost each character appears viable with the correct comp or technique. And whereas a job queue may be good in ranked mode, I hope whether it is ever added, it doesn’t sign a shift to balancing all of the enjoyable out of Marvel Rivals.
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