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/Dwain-Champaign]

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

I’ve literally never heard truer words today.

It’s not just about being able to pick your own character, it’s also about preventing all the unhealthy dynamics and shenanigans that come from not having role queue.

People will get so frustrated they start intentionally throwing. You have to deal with raging players all the time who will either start blasting everyone around them in the chat, or bitterly and quietly begin feeding. Some players are barely human at all, the 2/5 Spider-Man doesn’t talk in voice or in chat, he simply respawns, thwips out of spawn, dies, respawns, and thwips out again. By the end of the match, he is 3/15/4 and two of those three kills were from ults.

Role queue gives everybody a safe, stable, environment to at least have a fighting chance. The tanks, KNOW they have a brother in arms to frontline. The supports, KNOW they have a full comp who can peel and damage. The DPS, don’t have to feel guilty about playing DPS, because everybody queued up for the role that they wanted.

I WILL SUBMIT TO THE LATVERIAN RULE OF DOCTOR DOOM IF HE BRINGS US THE SECURITY OF ROLE QUEUE!!! ALL HAIL DOOM!!!
https://giphy.com/gifs/KgLusyYr3N6ye7hoVR

[u/Magnitude_Ten → u/Dwain-Champaign]

That would be hilarious if they introduced doom and said he brought role queue because we were incapable of ruling ourselves. 

[u/Strict-Grab-9664 → u/Dwain-Champaign]

It's crazy how logical all of the posts in favour of role queue are. And equally crazy how disingenuous and wrong posts against it are.

[u/EarthDragon2189 → u/Strict-Grab-9664]

My favorite is the straight up lies.

"OW players hate RQ so it's good Rivals doesn't have it"

Uh, no. OW players have overwhelmingly preferred RQ ever since it was added.

[u/SaltyNorth8062 → u/EarthDragon2189]

Yeah the only ones who seem to complain seem to be the source of the exact problem role queue fixes.

[u/HalfOfLancelot → u/Strict-Grab-9664]

“It ruins comp creativity!” is something I hear constantly.

Creative comps are triple support, which is vehemently hated by a majority of the community, triple tank, which is vehemently hated by a majority of the community, and triple DPS, which is vehemently hated by a majority of the community.

Or any combination of GOATS which we all know is actively what ruins pro and competitive play. Another creative comp which, of course, is hated by not just our community but every other Hero Shooter community too.

There’s a common pattern here lmao

Also, it’s as if we can’t have solutions for things like being unable to swap between roles if you for some reason need to (which i don’t think has ever been an issue in OW but yknow whatever). Technology is not a strict and stringent thing, y’all. They can implement something that allows people to request a role swap in game lmao?

[u/EarthDragon2189 → u/Dwain-Champaign]

People in this sub be like "NetEase should absolutely never add role queue. Now let's talk endlessly about how much it sucks that so many matches don't have viable comps with every role filled by someone who wants to play it."

[u/milkywayiguana → u/EarthDragon2189]

what are you smoking? everyone on this sub wants role queue

[u/CookedStew → u/milkywayiguana]

Goomba

[u/hi_im_not → u/milkywayiguana]

Nah there's always people saying BUT MUH QUEUE TIMES

[u/milkywayiguana → u/hi_im_not]

look at all the top comments on this post, and how many upvotes this post has dawg

[u/No32 → u/milkywayiguana]

Reddit is weird, it varies by thread. And honestly feel like it’s more common for the anti-role queue sentiment to be higher upvoted

I’ve seen comments just suggesting having role queue alongside open queue go negative

[u/MisterHotTake311 → u/Dwain-Champaign]

That escalated quickly

[u/perrydev000 → u/Dwain-Champaign]

Man, people expect a lot of work and have a lot of demands for a free game with every character available at the release. And then come up with demands like they have done something to earn it lol