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Overwatch 2 is finally bringing back 6v6 with tests to decide OW’s future (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Lol. After all these years they're thinking of rolling back the 5v5 changes. To quote someone from Reddit:

PVE was dropped, heroes are free again, and now 6v6 is back. Blizzard spent the last couple of years turning overwatch 2 back into Overwatch 1.

Edit: See also the developer's blog post about this, which goes into great detail explaining their decisions over the year and how we got here. Really worth a read if you are (or were) an OW player.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I stopped playing shortly after OW2 came out. They killed my favorite role (tank) by throwing one of the tanks away, making the tank role miserable to play since the team fights were always on my shoulders. Then, on top of that, they unbalanced everything even more, and had to update maps for 5v5, forever removing some of them from the game.

That was all after the slap in the face that was taking away a game I paid money for to replace it with a broken, microtransaction-ridden experience.

I might be willing to look past the microtransaction BS and play again if they bring 6v6 with some of the original, unmodified OW1 maps.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

The biggest issue is that IMO, even nowadays balance isn't remotely as good as it was before the change, owing to the massive imbalance on all ends the 5v5-switch introduced, and them only working through that at a glacial pace. But even more so, this is annoying because of how it essentially undermines the reason they did this.

Sure, the queue time argument still stands. Yeah. But on a balance level, "Double tanks were problematic for game balance" is a bit of a moot point in hindsight. Yeah, they were, sure. Less so than 5v5 is, it turns out.