It would be phenomenal if you could select the maps that you like and only play those. Many other games have such features as well and I think it would fit great into Overwatch as there are many maps people generally don’t like to play.
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Queue times would go up massively.
Maybe something could be implemented as in when you get queued up with players the people get to vote for a few maps they were given and then they’re going to play on that one.
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An option to queue for a specific game mode would be amazing. I always have a penalty since I have to leave every single 2cp game. God that game mod sucks…
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Easy. Create a custom game and invite 11 others to play with you.
That way you can control every aspect of the game, and even have your own hero bans and so on.
Exactly where it shouldn’t be.
Sadly, the community is not one to be trusted. There is a reason 222 was introduced, and maps are random. To stop people being stupid when they don’t get what they wanted.
Yes, if the community was nice and civil, it would be lovely. But sadly it just isn’t the case.
So if you want your control. Make a community, do scrims and take them seriously. Competition is in the match, not the SR/rank.
I like how Quake games let you choose between two maps before the game starts. Not as aggressive as a map filter, but still gives us some choice so we can avoid a map most out of the 12 players don’t like.
Sadly, as with most things we ask for, it will probably take them a few years to get around to adding something so simple. Maybe in OW2, maybe never. I wouldn’t hold my breath.
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well they did answer this question a while back why they don’t have map votes or map selection for ranked games, it’s because they want you to play all the maps they have so the resources they spent making them didn’t go to waste.
if a map is so egregiously bad they will remove it themselves out of the map pool which have happened now and again.
but in general that’s their stance on their map situation.
now i would be in favour of map votes or personal map pools etc, but that would make the qeue time sky rocket for some maps and for the few that would like to play on those maps they would get severely higher qeue times for it.
but if i would be honest i think a smaller map pool would be better for ranked overall because it means more specific practice on the individual maps making map knowledge higher in general and easier to remember and making the quality of the match increase and by match quality i mean skill ceiling increases through out the ladder on these specific maps.
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They did try a smaller map pool (3 per mode) and people complained that it became stale and boring.
They probably should of had the pool changing every couple of weeks, rather than each season. But it didn’t go down well.
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well yeah, there’s 2 types of play, one is the diverse type of play and the other the in-depth type of play, neither really works well together so it’s either choose the game to be more diverse or more in-depth.
for casuals the diverse is more fun because the changes in how the game functions are more extreme and easy to spot, where as in-depth is probably more fun for the more grindy type of people who basically lifts and checks under every rock for things to use or exploit.
seeing as the majority of the playerbase of most games being rather casual, it’s obvious that more maps is gonna be more fun for most people.
so i don’t blame the devs for going for the popular option.
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Yeah, you can’t say the devs haven’t tried.
I think some variation of a map vote for quick play might be good. It can randomly decide the mode then let the 12 vote for the map, most votes wins.
There isn’t enough maps in each mode for their to be a need for over complicated systems that filter out maps. Yet.
Never going to happen sadly. And even less likely with the new mode that is coming with the new maps that will bring.
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really the only thing i would probably want is a mode selector that automatically puts me into a specific map pool with only those types of maps.
but i’m ok without it aswell, it’s just a wayward wish.
Mode vote is probably a safer option to map vote tbf.
Then again the point still stands… there are only 4 modes (soon to be 5). You don’t like 2CP… fine, the next game is unlikely to be 2CP.
Maybe in quick play a vote will help, but I don’t see it as adding much value.
the thing is with modes i think is that people like different modes so i think the qeue system wouldn’t crumble for a specific mode really.
and if it did, it would bring attention to a particularly bad one that they could try and make better.
for instance, you remember the time when they tried to implement changes to 2cp?
i honestly think if they went and did something like that, they could have given that to QP as the biggest problem with 2cp in QP is that you only get to play 1 side of it and if by chance you allways end up on attacking or defending constantly which is annoying.
i mean on control maps you allways play 3 maps anyways in QP, what would be the harm in letting people play both sides of 2cp or payload.
They know 2CP is an issue. They have tweaked and tried bigger changes on experimental. They have said they are still working on it.
Not sure people voting to not play it will highlight it anymore than it already has.
Although it might flag up that the Control maps/mode needs work.
100% agree that quick play needs to be the full (attack/defend) game. Otherwise what is the point. Would probably reduce a few of the leavers as a game isn’t lost immediately.
I would not like it as some maps i enjoy but most other dont and before you know it itwould be a rotation of 2-3 maps every game due to no skill players that like rundning 1 route over and iver every match instead of having to use strategy so i sure do hope they dont change it to this
Lol was that an autocorrect? Matberedare?
(Food processor for kitchen use btw)
haha yeah that was autocorrect that i missed when i used my phone at work 
stupid auto correct changing the word " most" for some reason to matbreadare…oh well quess my auto correct want the overwatch forum to teach people the Swedish word for a kitchen tool instead 
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i think some more basic variant of 2cp should be in qp, like there’s no third round, it’s just attack and then defence, the team who wins the fastest on attack wins.