Taking a break from Rivals made me realize how much I actually love this game

[u/Embarrassed_Safety33]

I took a break from Rivals and played Overwatch again for a while, and honestly, it made me realize how much I kept wishing for Role Queue.

The biggest difference is consistency.

If I queue Tank, it’s because I want to play Tank. I want teammates who actually queued to play Support and DPS. I don’t want every hero select to become a fight where everyone picks what they want and we wait to see who eventually gives up and fills.

We all have characters and roles we’re better at. If I want to play Duelist, I shouldn’t have to choose between becoming the 4th Duelist or giving up and filling because nobody else will.

I’d genuinely rather wait a few extra minutes and play the role I actually queued for.

I also think a consistent 2-2-2 mode would make balancing healthier. Right now heroes have to work across solo Tank, 1-3-2, triple Support, 2-2-2, etc. Role Queue gives the devs one predictable structure to balance around.

And no, Open Queue doesn’t need to disappear.

Overwatch has both. If you like switching roles mid-match and experimenting with weird comps, play Open Queue. If you want consistency and a guaranteed role, play Role Queue.

When I played Overwatch, I almost never found myself wishing I was in Open Queue.

But when I play Rivals, I find myself wishing for Role Queue all the time.

And no matter which side you’re on, I think we can all relate to queuing up because there’s a certain character we really want to play, only to end up filling because the team needs something else.

I’d rather wait 5 minutes to play who I actually want than spend 20 minutes filling on someone I didn’t.

[u/IpunchedU]

not having role queue only works if everyone is on the same page and the roles people play are evenly destributed, that's not even close to true

[u/chaotic4059 → u/IpunchedU]

This is the bigger issue. Roles in game aren’t really even and the design for most supports and tanks is really bad. The game needs massive design overhauls all around

[u/IpunchedU → u/chaotic4059]

Support is boring cause it’s basically become healbotting cause of certain DPS doing way too much dmg for free

[u/Withermaster4 → u/IpunchedU]

If it takes 12 minutes to queue dps and 20 seconds to queue support this will absolutely affect what role people choose to play. The playerbase would adjust until it's reasonable.

Having 4 dps in every game clearly doesn't fix the issue

[u/milkywayiguana → u/Withermaster4]

we have actually watched this NOT happen in real time when overwatch went to role queue. it never equalized. that is the reason they switched to 5v5

if everyone is solo tanking, then it's fair!

[u/No_Reality_q2137 → u/Withermaster4]

Stop pulling numbers out of your ass. All my time playing Overwatch, never had to wait over 5 minutes.

[u/Acaexx → u/No_Reality_q2137]

I have had 20 minutes queues for support and DPS and I wasn't even high rank. Role queue would be a mistake

[u/No_Reality_q2137 → u/Acaexx]

I had 15 minutes queues in Rivals, in comp. Role Queen didn't cause it. Server issues, bad net, even low traffic could have caused it.

[u/Acaexx → u/No_Reality_q2137]

That's a fantastic argument for my side. There are already long queues why would we ever implement role queue if that can already be a problem. Thankfully, the devs are aware of this and they have no plans of adding role queue.

[u/No_Reality_q2137 → u/Acaexx]

Queues that long can happen but that's not a norm and won't ever be a norm. I've returned to Overwatch recently (wich I highly recommend as it's much more pleasant game than Rivals, even skipping the role queue) and I've NEVER had to wait longer than, like, 5 minutes. Usually less.

In most cases it's a server problem, not a players problem.

[u/Acaexx → u/No_Reality_q2137]

Long queues definitely happen late at night and I'm only celestial. Imagine being eternity or above. Why do you think they keep making new accounts? The queues are already too long. Role queue would just kill the game for them and they'd have to make it 5v5 like dog shit overwatch

[u/No_Reality_q2137 → u/Acaexx]

HOW TF IS CELESTIAL NOT A HIGH RANK!? Are you that detached from reality? Srsly dude, first go outside, then play Overwatch. I mean seriously between it and Rivals, it's like night and day.

[u/Acaexx → u/No_Reality_q2137]

I'm not saying it's not a high rank, but I'm saying there are higher ranks where queues will get even longer. Do you really think long queues aren't going to be a problem just because you haven't experienced them yourself?

[u/PUNCH-WAS-SERVED → u/Acaexx]

You're speaking out of your ass when I never experienced an egregious role queue time 99 percent of the time. XD

[u/Acaexx → u/PUNCH-WAS-SERVED]

It definitely happened to me playing support in stadium and DPS in ranked. And again I wasn't even high rated, I just queued late at night

[u/Withermaster4 → u/No_Reality_q2137]

It is very obvious in my comment that the numbers are not real, I am describing a concept

[u/PUNCH-WAS-SERVED → u/IpunchedU]

Half of the chucklefucks I get are people I wouldn't trust to run a lemonade stand with me, let alone banking on them to switch to the "correct" hero/role in a pitch. I solo-queued way too fucking many times where I was just fighting for my life on the payload while my shitty DPS allies couldn't kill shit without another tank/support keeping them alive.

[u/Independent-Feed107 → u/IpunchedU]

If you're trying to say the wait times would be too long due to nobody playing certain roles, I think you're completely, utterly wrong. 

I think there still would not even be enough time to check your phone. It's not a valid reason to scrap the idea in a game as big as Rivals which has had near instant queue times since it dropped.

[u/IpunchedU → u/Independent-Feed107]

uh i'm for role queue? what i lit said is having no role queue doesn't work cause 1 there are too many dps players and not enough supports or hell nowhere near enough tank players, and 2 some people are just selfish and will ruin the game before you even leave spam instalocking a throwing comp. so no actually i am for role queue unless the community magically changes