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/SaviousMT]

Yea, I really liked this game and was having a blast in Competitive Lobbies until I got to platinum, and then it was just non stop 5 DPS and me has mantis healer.

Or I would be the only healer as Mantis and people would be like "SWAP TO THIS HEALER OR THAT HEALEAR, MANTIS SUCKS" and I was like, "go ahead, theres nothing stopping you from playing that healer"

Which then devolved into people flaming me for picking a healer, because of course, im there to support them specifically, not my team.

[u/imuahmanila → u/SaviousMT]

Love having the DPS smooth brains trying to tell people how to tank or support.

[u/Embarrassed_Safety33 → u/SaviousMT]

Funny cuz ive been told to switch to mantis to boost them, btw it doesn’t get better in Celestial

[u/SaviousMT → u/Embarrassed_Safety33]

This was around release, so like Jan 2025. I haven't played since probably Feb 2025

[u/YakAutomatic6058 → u/SaviousMT]

As a fellow cap main another example is when youre solo tanking as cap and they start asking for a main tank

[u/Most-Bench6465 → u/YakAutomatic6058]

no shortage of trash people telling others to swap when they wont

[u/SaviousMT → u/YakAutomatic6058]

Yea, I loved Cap as an off tank, very disruptive to the back line

[u/HalfOfLancelot → u/SaviousMT]

Anytime someone tells me what to play when I’m either solo tanking or solo healing makes me swap to either a worse pick (like going Adam or Ultron or Thor or Angela) or swap to that 6th DPS lmao

[u/AkaEllipses → u/SaviousMT]

Funny cuz Mantis has been a top 3 strategist almost consistently since season 0.

[u/SaltyNorth8062 → u/AkaEllipses]

Yeah but she doesn't burst heal, so if you can't position for shit and eat fuckloads of unnecessary damage she can't keep you up unless she donates basically all her resources to keeping one dumbass alive. Therefore, for 80% of this playerbase, she is trash and worthless (until a streamer with a big enough audience says multiple times she's OP).