Some folks’s Overwatch 2 queue instances are getting dangerous…actually dangerous. And it’s largely as a result of nobody needs to play assist, based on a Blizzard discussion board put up with over 450 replies (and approximately the rest of the web).
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Overwatch 2 has two methods to face in line as you wait to be let right into a sport: open queue, which helps you to keep a unfastened staff composition, like one which has two DPS and three tanks; and outlined position queue, which brand-new gamers have to unlock by finishing 5 open-queue video games. It appears open-queue gamers are discovering themselves caught in messy matches with no support, and disgruntled role-queue gamers, notably these enjoying DPS or tank, are sitting by way of lengthy queue instances ready for healers to drift down on a ray of sunshine.
However assist gamers have good causes to keep away from the position. They’re uninterested in being blamed for their teammates’ inattentiveness.
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“The gamers can begin by not taking out their life issues on assist characters,” a Blizzard discussion board person wrote. “Perhaps then extra folks can be prepared to attempt the position.”
“There are many individuals who need to play assist (I’m one in all them),” mentioned one other commenter within the Blizzard discussion board. “However whether or not or not it’s at the moment viable to play assist in pub matches with the sport’s present local weather is, I believe, the true challenge.”
We’re feeling it too. “In my expertise with Overwatch 2—as somebody who largely performs assist for the XP enhance and quick matchmaking—I’ve skilled Winstons and Reapers zooming previous me and the opposite assist participant, solely to wind up useless moments later, placing all the staff in a foul spot,” Kotaku staffer Zack Zwiezen wrote just lately.
Some gamers hope that including new assist heroes, together with Kiriko—Overwatch 2’s new ninja healer, who at the moment lives beneath the sport’s recent battle move for most individuals—will assist even out assist queue instances. Extra probably, gamers will preserve discovering issues to be aggravated about, and developer Activision Blizzard will preserve union busting.
