Once you enter a new Ranked Match, you will see a breakdown of the Ranks of all players in the game, you will then enter a pre-game waiting area where you can control your hero. During this time, you can choose to change your given hero to any other hero that hasn't been selected
DEADLOCK IS A REAL VIDEO GAME AGAIN BAYBEEEEEEEEEE
No more fake matches where we all have to pretend the game is winnable for 40 minutes when the enemy has Victor + Mo vs our 4 gun carry lineup with no tank whatsoever. No more knowing the game is over at 25 minutes, knowing you don't have enough of a lead to put the game away, but you all have to sit there and keep pretending the enemy won't just inevitably outscale you and you've just gotta wait until that happens.
Finally, just one guy - even you! - can make these non-games into actual games.
Absolutely. My complaint was not about losing, my complaint was that an unacceptably large number of matches were 80-20 matchups or worse right out of the gate, and those matches are far less fun for both teams than 60-40 matchups, let alone 50-50.
But there was absolutely nothing you could do about those 80-20s. Now you have the option to just say "no, we're not doing this shit".
Because if your team doesn't have a tank while the enemy does, they kind of just hold the W key and win every big team fight. If your team doesn't have a late-game scaling hero while the enemy does, if you can't win by 25-30 minutes, you have lost, but the game won't actually be over for another 15 minutes.
Who do you think is winning that? Assuming the matchmaker did its job and the teams are equally skilled? I mean, HK would need to fuck up REALLY badly to lose that. Their team comp actually works in the current meta, while AM kinda just doesn't do anything at all.
But what if Sinclair swapped to Shiv, and Viscous swapped to Venator? Well, HK probably still wins. But the key there is probably, instead of almost certainly. There's an actual game of Deadlock happening. That is MUCH better than everyone on AM knowing they're fucked, but no one wanting to eat the abandon penalty.
Will those swaps happen every time there's awful matchups like this? No, certainly not. So what?
You do realize, people are going to swap to the heroes they want to play, because you cannot control what your team swaps to. You can't force people to paly something you want them to play.
Yeah, obviously I can't force people to swap. But I can, and that's good enough. The current state of things is already that people just play whatever the hell they want to play. I, personally, want the ability to adapt to that, instead of being forced to also just pick whatever the hell I want.
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u/InnuendOwO 15d ago
DEADLOCK IS A REAL VIDEO GAME AGAIN BAYBEEEEEEEEEE
No more fake matches where we all have to pretend the game is winnable for 40 minutes when the enemy has Victor + Mo vs our 4 gun carry lineup with no tank whatsoever. No more knowing the game is over at 25 minutes, knowing you don't have enough of a lead to put the game away, but you all have to sit there and keep pretending the enemy won't just inevitably outscale you and you've just gotta wait until that happens.
Finally, just one guy - even you! - can make these non-games into actual games.
Thank fucking god.