This might have been brought up before, but what would you say about the possibility to choose which map to play for Quick Play, or at least downvote some maps?
In World of Warcraft, the system is excellent. You can chose a specific Battleground OR do a random one and if you do the random, you get more benefits than specific. But even at random, you can downvote 2 battlegrounds.
I would LOVE this feature for Overwatch. Some levels are amazing and some are quite underwhelming, and everyone has their own opinion about favorite maps.
Many will just say “Go Custom game”, but it really is not the same. It’s more effort to find a proper custom game, many of those games have strange/custom rules, you cannot do achievements etc and people do not take it nearly as serious as actual QP games (even though some people don’t take QP serious at all either).
This is a feature we badly need for competitive like for real we need to be able to avoid specific game modes not just maps game modes heres looking at you 2cp you can get in bin right now and stay there.
If Blizzard made such a feature then everyone would play on maps that were strong for there particular hero of interest or weak against certain other heroes, thereby making the Comp ladder unfair.
If you got to say 3.5k playing on Junkertown one tricking a particular hero, and another person got to 3.5k playing all the map pools then whose a more better player ? The guy that was able to get there with a random map pool thrown at him is. But it’s not fair that both the players are showed off at the same level.
I’ve asked for this before, certain maps I dislike.
It would be a good tool for the developers to see what maps were most picked by players, which I guess would indicate that maps people enjoyed to play the most.
If a map is so bad it almost never comes up because most players ban it maybe just maybe Blizzard will fix it? Balancing doesn’t mean only hero changes.
To be honest I just have a dislike for 2cp its fun to watch on league etc but to play it on ladder not so much requires the most teamwork out of all the map types and when you are playing the lottery for team mates already and adding game type on top it just fills me with dread every time it comes up.
That is a splendid idea if you ask me. I think it would also be beneficial to Blizzard, seeing what maps people seem to dislike the most. I am guessing Blizzard World and 2CP maps would be high on the list.
And what haoppens if those maps never got chosen because others don’t want to play them?
You would quickly change your opinion of whether or not it’s a good idea. I am sure most of the people in this thread would come moaning about maps they dislike always being voted.
People have different tastes in regards to maps. The fairest way of allowing all players to play on maps they like is to keep map rotation.
It’s a valid concern that allowing people to pick there maps for QP would result in the death of so many other maps.
Plus even if people were randomly picking most maps, it would increase the wait time for those players that picked a map, that’s not so popular pick. That would make for a bad experience in general.
Hence allowing players to choose a map is a bad idea from a design point of view.
They could give the option to blacklist a certain amount of maps, 2 or 3, there is about 21 in total and 18 in qp and comp I believe.
It would be a great tool for map creators but I doubt people would really want to play just one map like counter strike, plus a lot of the dust2 servers (I’m talking source not cs go) were modded, 64 player, quick respawn, rpg, gungame etc OW doesn’t have that option for QP so one map would get stale very quickly.
I would blacklist Temple of Anubis, Hanamura and Rialto.
I also see queue time as the counter to so many arguments but some people say there don’t mind waiting longer for things but until it happens we never know.
Hey Jaqenoffski, either allowing users to pick maps they like or letting them ban certain maps they don’t like will eventually have the same problems that was discussed above.
You can’t solve these problems that will come into play when you allow people to pick maps / ban maps.
I was mostly thinking about Quick Play. The mode is for fun anyway, so why limit the fun? I understand that Comp is most fair if all maps are in play, but Quick Play could certainly have a little more freedom.
I just want a game without Hanamura, Eichenwalde or Hollywood ever again
Whats wrong with Hollywood? You don’t like the high buildings? They are a double edged sword, while the DPS stationed there have a great view they are also limited in where they can go.
I play strictly quick play. And since I may end up not getting to play maps I like due to others choices you could be restricting my fun as an individual.
