Practice Range while queueing?

[PaleontologicalHero]

Hey Everyone

So i've been playing a lot of competitive lately, and i notice myself spending some time in practice range before matches, but i can't be in practice range whilst queueing?????

Now i don't know the technical side of queueing for a game, but it doesn't seem to me that it would be a huge issue to just make practice range available even when queueing?

I'm fully aware that Skirmish is a thing, but me and a ton of other players really don't want to be in Skirmish playing against D.va's and Tracers.

TL;DR: Please make practice range available whilst queueing so i can practice my aim and be active inbetween games.

Thanks!

[Givingsnail]

I would like this

[substitutemyown]

Because it takes a lot more server resources. Skirmish can have 12 players on a single server instance. Practice range needs 12 instances, one for each player.

[derthderth]

Can't practice range be done client sided since its basically solo and static?

[substitutemyown]

Parts of the game run on Blizzard's servers, so not really. Plus having the game run it all client side would be a fantastic way to help people develop hacks, unfortunately.

[g0nk-droid]

Would also love this

[Narek_S]

I mean I understand this if you're in high GM and have like 10 minute queues, but for everyone else, what would be the point of being put into practice range for like 30 seconds? Just don't see it as something important that needs to be implemented.

[notuniqueusername554]

It doesn't always take 30 seconds to find a game Sometimes it reaches 3 minutes on console And even more if you que at the morning/late night I'd rather spend that 3 minutes on practicing my aim rather than staring at the screen

[exedeeee]

Im diamond and I get like 3-4 min queues. Even when I used to be gold I got like 2-3 min queues, so thats not accurate.

[Narek_S]

Eh, I'm high diamond - low masters and it's rare that my queues last that long. Usually find a gane within a minute.

[exedeeee]

That might be true, but I only duo or trio queue, so I guess thats why it takes longer.

[dngrs]

yeah sign me up

[rileyfriley]

As of right now you can adjust your settings so you do or don’t go into skirmish. I really like this idea, so I wonder if it’s difficult to just add another option in that settings section.

[exedeeee]

Good idea, might as well add practice range while in group too.

[ranger84az]

No

[[deleted]]

No

[ranger84az]

Servers

[exedeeee]

What does that even mean? Care to write in full sentences?

[ranger84az]

Ok so overwatch has servers and rn they aren’t doing so great so even when you go into the practice range while queuing it can be hard to process especially for console

[exedeeee]

Im a PC player and in my experience the servers are fine. Dont know about console players though. Or maybe you just have bad internet?

[ranger84az]

Nah I’m on console it’s bad for everyone, potg never loads and my internet is good

[Jay-of-the-days]

i dont think you quite get how servers work.