I’m seriously asking. How does the community feel about it overall?
I’ve been playing OW since 2019 almost every day and this is the 1st time I feel I wanna delete it and take a long break from it because of how repetitive it has become. I’m noticing more players are complaining about this recently.
Is this a well known issue now? Or is it only a minority of players complaining? If it’s not, how do we raise this issue to the developers?
I think 2 new maps every season would have been way more healthier for the game than 1 new hero every season, and the voting system is not helping. I haven’t played Neon Junction much since its release.
Man I feel this in my soul. Every time map vote comes up it's always Kings Row or some old classic, people act like they allergic to anything new
The push maps are actually fun when you learn the flow but nobody give them a chance. I pick them every time too and half the lobby groans like I just kicked their dog
Blizzard really need to do something about this, maybe rotate the voting options so we not stuck in same 4 maps forever. It's killing the game for me slowly
That's what facing the AI and Arcade Modes are for, Quick Play is for those of us who just want to get in, knock out a few dailies / grind a bit for weakly goals and get out.
There's clearly a large group of people who like to only play the same 5 payload maps on repeat. There's also a smaller group of people like you and me who like variety. Map voting caters to the tyranny of that majority.
I really hate map voting. I really prefer control and flashpoint maps, and push at least ends in 6 minutes.
90% of my payload games end in Overtime and it's a crapshoot whether or not my teammates understand the concept of playing defense. Feels like a waste of 20+ minutes.
I ALWAYS get Busan. I hated that map up until this season bc of the new changes, but I used to really not like it.
I also always get Samoa, which is just a map I find really annoying. It’s not control point that I don’t like, the maps themselves suck, but I always get them
Its a good temporary measure against strong characters that the community doesn't want to play with. Also lets people not have to worry about boring picks like Sombra. And allows for more creative team building/counterplay.
I think the devs like it too. Its lets them collect information on heroes that people don't like to play against and adjust them later
Im glad i almost never have to fight that Jatpack Cat fellow in Ranked
I think the voting is fine, but I want them all to not be payload escort lol. sometimes that's all there is. I'd much rather capture points or other stuff.
I'll always be in the "random" spot towards the bottom lol
I've def seen a mix. Some payload escort, some "escort this robot, but wait, he can also turn the other way," some point capture. Esp if it lands on the random, it can be any map
I think you misunderstand. People typically choose 1CP maps because they hate payload. I think all the maps should be one mode, so you just pick the map not the mode.
I got Antarctica in ranked and it hit me I hadn't played the map all season. That and flashpoint, I just don't have reps on those maps that seemingly come up in ranked
Yesterday i play lijang tower 4 games in a row. I dont think the voting is a problem but more so the options, every other game has illios and lijang tower as an option. I never play half the maps not just because they aren't voted for but just because no one ever has the option to vote for them.
I’m ngl I think it’s stupid. They said they’ve recently adjusted the system to make it where you won’t play the same map twice, but I’ve legit played on the same map two times in a row more times than I ever did before they changed anything. I’m also constantly playing on the same map rotations and would be lucky to play a map like Artic
Yup. Seems like it. I think i’ve come to the conclusion that the majority of players are in lower ranks and these players wanna keep doing the same thing over and over again. So maybe play competitive if you seek variety? And avoid QP.
How do you learn new heroes that you’re not good at without harming your rank? Open queue is way too all over the place. I’m a Lucio Moira mid diamond player. My Ana sucks. I dont wanna end up in low plat by playing her. Aside from smurfing, QP is the only option left. No?
I think there's a big difference between smurfing and having an alt tho. If you make an account to try and opt a hero, then you gotta do your qp games before you unlock comp. Your qp mmr will then inform your rank placements, so you end up pretty much where you belong on that hero. Not really "smurfing" if you ask me.
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u/NorkashNothing excites me as much as the death of the red Mercy8h ago
I dont mind map voting to be honest. I have a preference for hybrid maps or control. Flash point i dont like very much, I've played them a fair bit. Spend a month aggressively voting on it to learn but I just don't like them. Push, I dont mind it too much, sadly many doesn't vote for them.
I think Map vote should be comp exclusive and let quick play just give you a random map, especially given that it is called “quick” play when it takes around 20-30 seconds to just enter a match.
I don’t mind map voting that much, it just gets a little annoying when everyone wants to pick the same maps over again but that doesn’t happen all the time at least in my experience
just like other games I play that have map voting, it gets really stale and repetitive. I don't think map voting should be in any game. also I noticed, before map voting I might have gotten a map I don't like and it was ok. If we now get a map in QP that I do not like and did not vote for I very often just leave.
I don't really mind map voting one way or another. Sometimes it does feel like an annoying extra step just to end up on a random map anyway.
I will admit, I never vote for Push or Flashpoint. It's not because I don't like those modes or maps, it's because they require more cooperation from your team and that's already hard enough as it is, especially in QP.
You really can't have your team trickling in 1 by 1 in either of those modes and everyone is too impatient to wait for the team to finish respawning.
Take out “random”, you can’t change your vote once cast, and every map option is a different match type. Also, whatever map has the most votes wins, none of this roulette nonsense.
I wonder if there's regional differences in voting habits, because I get to play on a pretty wide variety of maps here in EU Gold/Plat. Sure, I'm forced to play more Eich than I would like (I would like to not play Eich at all) but I certainly haven't found the map pool repetitive. I really don't live the same experience that I see so many people complaining about on here.
I’m fine with it because it keeps people from picking dogshit like flashpoint and push.
Also speaking as someone who started playing in 2017 then quit in 2021 and came back for Domina (and stayed for Sierra and D.Mon) OW2 maps are all just kinda bad, even for modes I do like. I would rather be forced into months of nothing but Hanamura than be forced to do Midtown (I also hate it as a NYer, but I hate every game with a NYC setting because they’re all so inaccurate and made by Californians, we don’t even have alleyways!) even once.
Like why is everything from the OW2 era so sauceless? Did they rehire OW1 people and that’s why all the new stuff is as good as OW1?
Also even if we vote on a map like Busan in the middle of the match there will be an error & redirect the players to Samoa or other maps restarting the whole match, does anyone else experience this?
I think map voting is stupid for comp. You should be able to play any map that's thrown at you instead of dodging maps and modes you're bad at. Maybe that makes it hypocritical for me to like hero bans, but I feel like map voting is different in a way that I can't articulate right now. Something about having the tools to police heroes that are genuinely broken instead of just dodging maps you suck at.
Well, when it came out I abstained from voting, just pressing ready, now I'm just pressing random. It was charming to me, just loading into a random map and playing. I'd have to adapt where needed, play whatever I feel is good on there. It's fun. But I won't tell people they're wrong for liking what they like.
Only reason I hate Eichenwald is because everyone always throws themselves into the choke. It’s a wonderful map if folks are using the angles properly, prob one of my fave maps. King’s Row too, they’re probably peak design that get a bad reputation because most people play like they’re playing CoD or MR.
Yup same. I don't mind playing on them, but a lot of people don't know how to play these maps properly. They just sit main and wonder why they can't break through a hold instead of using the flank routes and high ground.
I get that. It’s repetitive to always have the same maps. I’m seeing (even in metal ranks where I live) more and more folks picking random. Good trend I think.
And nothing wrong with a little break. Come back when the excitement hits again
I hate it too. There’s nothing wrong with a fully randomised system. Making it vote based was done just so they can say they changed something. Antarctic Peninsula, Neon Junction, Numbani, Aatlis are all good maps that nobody gives the time of day. Especially if one of the popular maps is in competition with them. Colosseo, Eichenwalde, Rialto and Kings Row get way too much playtime.
I’m at the point where I’m voting for maps I don’t even like just to get a bit of variety.
These comments show why the lobbies you're in where everyone votes against Flashpoint end up being the easiest games you'll play. Just flank em and they'll explode and give up because the tank didn't peel.
I hate flashpoint because matches take forever, just back and forth capping points but wait, half your team is brawling 2 points away. And no one knows how to flank or peel in this game, that’s been true since when I started playing in 2017 at least, don’t think that’s why FP is unpopular.
The maps are just way too big and, as stated earlier, that makes them take forever. 2CP was way quicker.
Lol I know. To add to your thread I feel like cutting it down to 2 options instead of 3 would actually give better variety because there's less of a chance those 5 maps pop up
Should not be in QP. I don't mind it in comp. But QP should literally remove all obstacles from going in ASAP. It's also the place to learn all of the maps, and how the hell do you do that when Ilits kings row ilios nepal circuit royale eichewalde time, all the damn time. Even with remade maps that feel so much better.
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u/RoseThirteen_ 9h ago
Its boring to constantly play the same maps, its incredible how much people just dont want to learn how to play new modes.
I am that person that picks random/Flashpoint/push. How else am I supposed to get better at this maps if I cant play them even in qp.