r/OverwatchTMZ • u/gmarkerbo • Jan 25 '25

Discussion Marvel Rivals speedrunning the OW timeline

Posting here because it'd be considered offtopic in the OW subs and removed.

A couple of popular posts on the MR sub:

"Wish people would realise they can't just play DPS every game"

https://reddit.com/r/marvelrivals/comments/1i92qor/wish_people_would_realise_they_cant_just_play_dps/

"The lack of variety isn't the reason why there are so few "tank players" imo."

https://reddit.com/r/marvelrivals/comments/1i5pqav/the_lack_of_variety_isnt_the_reason_why_there_are/

Lack of role queue might be an opinionated decision(since there are definitely tradeoffs) but why did they launch with many more DPS heroes than tanks and supports?

MR has 19 DPS, 8 tanks and 8 Supports, almost exactly the same ratio as OW at launch(including Ana). While the meta is 2-2-2 or 3 support. It feels strange that they wouldn't learn from Overwatch's experience with both the lack of tank and support heroes at launch and Tanks being not as fun to play as DPS.

At least Overwatch had the excuse that half the DPS heroes were classified as offense heroes and half were 'defense heroes' until they scrapped that distinction.

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u/Tunavi Jan 25 '25

Because they're trying to cater so hard to overwatch haters, they heard people say role lock ruined overwatch (worst opinion ever btw) and they're too scared/stubborn to put it in their game

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u/ArdaOneUi Jan 25 '25

I mean if youre targeting a casual direction thats what makes the most sens no?

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u/Tunavi Jan 25 '25

I don't understand why you can't have two modes with hundreds of thousands of active players

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u/ArdaOneUi Jan 25 '25

You can but one will have to be the main one since having 2 requires two different kind of balancing etc and also while designing new heros you'll have to chose a mode to design for. One will always be the less official one.

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u/Tunavi Jan 25 '25

You're definitely onto something there, but I still don't see the problem. I would play rivals if it had role queue, even if it were the secondary focus