No Role Queue For Marvel Rivals, Says Game’s Director

Guangyun “Guangguang” Chen, inventive director behind Marvel Rivals, says that whereas many gamers have requested a task queue system, a matchmaking choice to assist create balanced groups, there are at the moment no plans to implement one within the free-to-play character shooter.

The free-to-play third-person hero shooter launched earlier this month and has rapidly change into one of many greatest video games of the 12 months, already hitting over 20 million players. And a few of these gamers are uninterested in being tossed into matches the place their complete staff is duelists, forcing them to play healer or tank to assist stability the lineup.

One answer to this drawback is a task queue. Present in video games like Overwatch 2, a task queue lets gamers choose a task, like tank, after which discover a match that wants that particular position. In Overwatch 2‘s case, this implies each match has a tank, two attackers, and two healers. This could result in extra balanced groups, however the devs behind Rivals don’t appear concerned with including this method to the shooter.

Speaking to Dot Esports, Chen mentioned that the studio is “not contemplating a task queue” for the time being.

“The staff’s aim is to supply a greater variety of staff composition by means of team-up expertise and their very own designs, to let folks play their Marvel superheroes somewhat than limiting gamers to picking a task.”

Chen additional defined that information from matches reveals that Rivals at the moment doesn’t want a task queue system.

“We would like folks to have a Marvel expertise the place they’re free to pick out what they need. [Since the beta test earlier this year], issues have been rational and inside expectations. In our Aggressive play not too long ago, there may be a whole lot of completely different compositions rising from gamers and we’d wish to proceed to watch these enjoyable compositions and the way they affect our sport.”

Whereas some may be upset that Chen and developer NetEase aren’t dashing to stability the sport or add a task queue system, I’m pleased to see a web based multiplayer sport studio step again and let issues be chaotic and messy for a bit earlier than leaping in to sand issues down and make every thing extra honest and balanced.

One of many causes I take pleasure in Rivals is as a result of everybody feels highly effective and matches not often play out the identical means as practically each character appears viable with the fitting comp or technique. And whereas a task queue may be good in ranked mode, I hope whether it is ever added, it doesn’t sign a shift to balancing all of the enjoyable out of Marvel Rivals.

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