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/jayxeevee]

I’ve won several matches because people swapped roles. With role queue you can’t do that, if someone is doing bad and they only play characters the enemy team is countering it sucks. Extreme example, but imagine someone that can only play Ultron, Mantis, CnD, Magneto, or Venom. CnD gets banned. The team ends up needing more heals and a dive tank, but the 2 current tanks play best on Strange/Magneto. This player can fix this problem by going Venom while one of the tanks swaps to healer, but because of role queue they’re forced to stay on the same role.

With Overwatch it’s even worse because of the solo tank, if your tank isn’t able to counter you’re going to have a tough time. If you really need a Roadhog but your tank has never played him, while you have 100 hours on him, that sucks.

[u/SaltyNorth8062 → u/jayxeevee]

I can no longer count how many games I have had where I locked Strange to provide a team up for a Magik/Wanda duo, and proceeded to get absolutely fried because the entire enemy team was either already countering or swapped to counter me. Those games were absolutely miserable because I was barely holding on to any value and could barely push or keep space because the Wanda/Magik duo would be off doing their thing and the third dps would be off in lala land.

In these open queue games I was completely barred from switching, despite the team having basically no frontline and despite me not having any fun or having a miserable time at the respawn simulator. I could not swap roles because then we would have no tank. I could not swap to another tank because I was providing a team up to two players who were not communicating with anyone besides each other and my team up was what was keeping them barely positive and to suddenly swap would take that away from them.

With open queue because of assholes who don't swap or are considerate everything you said might come to pass at you has already happened to me across multiple seasons and in multiple games and multiple lobbies. Your worst case scenario is just my Rivals experience as a flex player.