Brother! I'm so sorry... Leave Brig alone!
P.S. Fuck Junkrat
2800 Mercy mains picking Rein to fill when they're a 2200 Rein player, throwing off the entire balance of the match?
And as such you would have the ability to have them switch to Mercy if they couldn't play this role (or have someone else switch to Rein off another positions). Now you have no such ability to change this if a 2800 Mercy main that can't play rein role ques in the tank category and is forced to play an entire match as a character they cant play with no ability to switch off tank. I dont see how this is better
This will mitigate the arguing pre lobby a bit (although not entirely as you'll still need to decide if you want to run brawl or dive comps, etc), but will just more quickly lead to people being upset someone role qued for a role theyre not cut out to play. Not sure this is better
This is incredibly rare even in games where most of the team is throwing, to not have at least one tank or one healer. So far I think however this is the best argument, but again its not a common occurence
Probably another good argument, but taking away choices and freedoms from players because youre not able to balance properly likely isnt a super compelling argument for a lot of gamers.
This is solved with the ability to block more than three people, not funnel you in to a predetermined role que that doesnt account for map or objective.
Right were in agreement. Someone not switching roles they cant play was a problem. But you did have more flexibility to play around them before then you do now. And there is a better solution to that problem being so pervasive and thats giving you more people to block in comp. Because teammates either need to be good at the hero theyre playing OR be a team player and be flexible, and if they were neither at least the team could be flexible. Now thats significantly undermined, because in a team game like OW, picking the right comps to carry people was incredibly important ad thats significantly diminished now. In one case you had options to work with them. In this new case, youre plain old stuck with this composition.
Ana has the most impressive kit out of all the healers, you can't really compare them at all.
It would take more memory than I have in both my PC and playstation combined to block all the terrible Overwatch players who pick the most aggressively anti-social comps while playing competitive. At least with this solution we will all be consistently matched with players who are at the correct SR for their role, which fixes the problem before I have to load in and play with them.
As someone who usually fills, I do agree, this is really gonna hurt flexibility. All I can hope is that people are willing to learn the roles rather than a SINGLE character like we most of the time in order to keep things from going haywire early on. Maybe that means people just become one of the 3 roles exclusively, maybe not, but at least on the lower end of the MMR, it might make things shake out in such a way where entire games aren't sabotaged by the person who only wants to play widow. It might not, bad players are bad players. But this might make people learn how to be more flexible within their chosen role instead of doing something that doesn't work for 2:30 and then switch to a last minute dive to eek something out.
I bet this happens too. If you're going to take away her surviviblity, give her the combo back.
I didn't ask for better mobility. I just said that she lacks mobility i never asked for it. Because she lacks mobility and has the lowest DPS out of all the healers (it might be Moira i am not sure tbh.) she needs something to be able to survive and stay alive during that match. And that's definitely not a 200 health shield and crappy self-heal.
This already happens and I am pretty darn certain it will happen less in role lock.
Speaking of Moira... she's actually going to be so good now. There's a new metric ton of decision making one has to do when using Fade, and there now has to be counterplay to deal with that as well. For example, you can save Fade/Coal when you know the Rein is going to shatter, let yourself get shattered, then fade away and ult to save your team.
I know I'm going to love that change most when fading out of a flashbang.
but now you have separate SRs for each role so if you're at 2800 tank, so are all of your teammates at whatever roles they're playing
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Brig's healing output has increased considerably. I don't know the math but I'm sure they've compensated it accordingly.
A lot of heroes will need a rebalance since many changes were made when 2-2-2 wasn't a thing. So many nerfs were made just to shut down GOATS and knowing the overwatch team they didn't take into account for this change even with them planning for it, lmao.
It's still the entry point for people that only want to play Hanzo/Widow, or try out a character they've never used before. Role MMR isn't going to help at all if you've got a low masters Soldier main trying to Hanzo, or a boosted diamond Mercy main that plays Ana like they're in bronze. Heck, 2-2-2 ain't gonna stop you getting a team of Widow, Symmetra, Hog, Winston, Lucio and Moira on Hanamura defence that are all technically diamond in their roles but play those particular heroes like they got the game yesterday.
