Overwatch 2 Fans Are Suffering As No One Wants To Play Support

Some folks’s Overwatch 2 queue occasions are getting dangerous…actually dangerous. And it’s largely as a result of nobody needs to play assist, in line with a Blizzard discussion board put up with over 450 replies (and approximately the rest of the web).

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Overwatch 2 has two methods to face in line as you wait to be let right into a sport: open queue, which helps you to keep a free group composition, like one which has two DPS and three tanks; and outlined position queue, which brand-new gamers have to unlock by finishing 5 open-queue video games. It appears open-queue gamers are discovering themselves caught in messy matches with no support, and disgruntled role-queue gamers, notably these taking part in DPS or tank, are sitting by means of lengthy queue occasions ready for healers to drift down on a ray of sunshine.

But assist gamers have good causes to keep away from the position. They’re uninterested in being blamed for their teammates’ inattentiveness.

“The players can start by not taking out their life problems on support characters,” a Blizzard discussion board consumer wrote. “Maybe then more people would be willing to try the role.”

“There are plenty of people who want to play support (I’m one of them),” mentioned one other commenter within the Blizzard discussion board. “But whether or not it’s currently viable to play support in pub matches with the game’s current climate is, I think, the real issue.”

We’re feeling it too. “In my experience with Overwatch 2—as someone who mostly plays support for the XP boost and fast matchmaking—I’ve experienced Winstons and Reapers zooming past me and the other support player, only to wind up dead moments later, putting the entire team in a bad spot,” Kotaku staffer Zack Zwiezen wrote not too long ago.

Some gamers hope that including new assist heroes, together with Kiriko—Overwatch 2’s new ninja healer, who at present lives beneath the sport’s recent battle go for most individuals—will assist even out assist queue occasions. More probably, gamers will preserve discovering issues to be aggravated about, and developer Activision Blizzard will preserve union busting.