Some folks’s Overwatch 2 queue instances are getting unhealthy…actually unhealthy. And it’s principally as a result of nobody needs to play assist, based on a Blizzard discussion board submit with over 450 replies (and roughly the remaining 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 recreation: open queue, which helps you to preserve a free crew composition, like one which has two DPS and three tanks; and outlined function queue, which brand-new gamers must unlock by finishing 5 open-queue video games. It appears open-queue gamers are discovering themselves caught in messy matches with no assist, and disgruntled role-queue gamers, notably these taking part in DPS or tank, are sitting by means 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 function. 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 consumer wrote. “Possibly then extra folks could be keen to strive the function.”
“There are many individuals who wish to play assist (I’m certainly one of them),” mentioned one other commenter within the Blizzard discussion board. “However whether or not or not it’s presently viable to play assist in pub matches with the sport’s present local weather is, I believe, the actual difficulty.”
We’re feeling it too. “In my expertise with Overwatch 2—as somebody who principally 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 the complete crew in a nasty spot,” Kotaku staffer Zack Zwiezen wrote not too long ago.
Some gamers hope that including new assist heroes, together with Kiriko—Overwatch 2’s new ninja healer, who presently lives beneath the sport’s contemporary battle cross for most individuals—will assist even out assist queue instances. Extra probably, gamers will hold discovering issues to be irritated about, and developer Activision Blizzard will hold union busting.
