CONFIRMED: Marvel Rivals will -NOT- have role queue

[Mikedot]

After the roadmap video went up on the official Marvel Rivals YouTube channel, the Marvel Rivals executive producer "Danny Koo" stuck around on discord to answer more questions, and confirmed that Role Queue will not be a part of the game.

https://rivals.fan/news/marvel-rivals-roadmap

"On whether Marvel Rivals will have role queue, or continue as open queue only:"
"No role queue, at all - we want everyone to play who they want"

There you have it. If anyone tries to bring up the idea that the developers are still considering role queue, direct them to this site.

[Zeruca]

Well if that’s the case I won’t be playing this since every game will have 5-6 dps per team all screaming at each other that they don’t have a healer or tank.

[Tiziel]

Most of the games in ranked are lost couz a bad composition. I would prefer a role queue, as you still play the role you want

[Gilmore]

Can more than one player play the same character?

[Soul Reaver]

why people look at this as a good thing?
without role queue everyone will not want to pick a healer or whatever the unwanted role will be

[deusex]

Thank god! Giving up roles was the best thing they could do. It was the roles that limited the roles that ruined Overwatch. Tanks that no one wants to play on and for the sake of which they destroy the balance and entire heroes, such as Sombra.

[ReaperOne1Two2]

Originally posted by Soul Reaver:

why people look at this as a good thing?
without role queue everyone will not want to pick a healer or whatever the unwanted role will be

They never actually played early Overwatch like the guy below you apparently. Outside of high ELO Ranked, you had entire games lost because one team had a tank or a healer.

Or you lost randomly because the one team randomly just popped out of no where with 5 Winstons while you have 0 time to swap to a counter.

[Mikedot]

Originally posted by Gilmore:

Can more than one player play the same character?

Not at all. Only one character per team.

[Yurika]

This is good news, honestly. Not every game has to be hyper-competitive and an "esport", a "competitive in nature" game can also just be dumb fun. Seems like we have all forgot that League, the game that pioneered role queue, only have the established team roles of "1 top, 1 mid, 2 bottom, 1 jungle" because players initially played however they saw fit until eventually the most optimal meta was formed, then and only then did Riot fully recognized it.

Marvel Rivals is a brand new game, no reason to force people into predetermined roles in a predetermined composition yet, players will figure it out eventually.

[Evil Star-Lord]

That's fine for casual but I feel like ranked should have a role selection.

[Raiden - In Flames 🎵]

Originally posted by Lightning:

That's fine for casual but I feel like ranked should have a role selection.

this, casual is for people who want to queue up fast, ranked is for people to show off their skill in a game and to do that properly a role queue needs to be implemented.

[Gilmore]

Originally posted by Mikedot:

Originally posted by Gilmore:

Can more than one player play the same character?

Not at all. Only one character per team.

Is there at least going to be queuing based on character then? They better not force you to choose your character after the match already started like in Overwatch. It’s f-ing annoying trying to pick your character before someone else gets it.

[Mikedot]

Originally posted by Gilmore:

Originally posted by Mikedot:

Not at all. Only one character per team.

Is there at least going to be queuing based on character then? They better not force you to choose your character after the match already started like in Overwatch. It’s f-ing annoying trying to pick your character before someone else gets it.

Not at all. It's the same as Overwatch, where its "first come, first serve."

[Gilmore]

Originally posted by Mikedot:

Originally posted by Gilmore:

Is there at least going to be queuing based on character then? They better not force you to choose your character after the match already started like in Overwatch. It’s f-ing annoying trying to pick your character before someone else gets it.

Not at all. It's the same as Overwatch, where its "first come, first serve."

Aghhhhh! There aren’t even that many characters when this releases.

[Mikedot]

Originally posted by Gilmore:

Originally posted by Mikedot:

Not at all. It's the same as Overwatch, where its "first come, first serve."

Aghhhhh! There aren’t even that many characters when this releases.

33 characters at launch isn't enough?

[Kralqeikozkaptan]

good, open queue is so much better for comp and casual.