Overwatch’s Looking for Group feature is supposed to help players find better teammates. Blizzard is encouraging players to find a group of five Overwatch players to team up with and stick with them—a way to make games more competitive and players more pleasant.
And according to Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan, the feature is working. Over the first week since its introduction, “players grouping in six-stacks has doubled,” Kaplan wrote on the Overwatch forum. “The awesome part is, six stacks have seen a significant improvement in queue times,” he added. “But the best part is, none of this has impacted any other group size queue times or solo queues times at all.”
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Blizzard’s also seen an uptick in use of the Looking for Group feature at the start of Overwatch’s 11th competitive season. Players queuing up for competitive using the feature spiked on at the start of the season last weekend. Use has remained in a consistent pattern since then.
Still, the Looking for Group feature isn’t perfect. Kaplan promised that updates and coming in the next patch. He didn’t expand on the details of those improvements, but an earlier post suggested Blizzard is working to make the re-filling process more intuitive, among other things.
The Looking for Group feature was added alongside player endorsements with the Symmetra rework patch on June 26. Horizon Lunar Colony was also targeted as part of that patch, with hero adjustments made to McCree, Orisa, and Doomfist, too.
