Doesn’t matter because blizzard will never put away their ego and apologize for butchering a once good game. Just needed to be said.
There is no balancing the tank role. Counter picking and bad tanks will always exist in 5v5. That said I think DPS and supports are all right now. Plenty of broken supports make up for the DPS passive and DPS passive doesn’t even matter when supports stop healbotting. Both roles are more or less balanced depending on skill level.
100% BASED
5vs5 sucks and OW2 is a pathetic nu-woke joke
Bring back the game we actually paid for. We want OVERWATCH back
hi there, we don’t “all know that”. 5v5 is better than 6v6 in my opinion.
5v5 would be great if we removed role queue and nerfed all tanks down from being raid bosses to compensate
Having a 2nd Tank to have that 2nd layer of protection allows for DPS & Support players to not instantly explode when they want to push in. Even with the Season 9 changes, we still need a 2nd Tank to lead the charge into the fight in order to not die too quick into the fight.
I prefer 5v5 / solo tank
What makes 5v5 suck to me was not only blizzards lack of a commitment to removing CC outside of the tank role, but actually going backwards on it.
6v6 all the way, or at the very least made into an arcade game mode… Blizzard is too prideful to go back, whether it makes them more money or not.
What we all actually know, is that some people like each more than the other.
Personally I’m fine with both.
I greatly prefered taking in 6v6. As frustrating as taking was in 6v6 I still overall enjoyed playing the role, but have long since given up on playing tank under 5v5.
My biggest issue with taking was the constant counter picking the role has to deal with. On dps/support, I generally get to play what I want but will occasionally have to switch to either better support the tank or deal with something specific the other team is doing. The level of swapping feels reasonable and intended.
Conversely, tank feels very RPS. The problem isn’t tank vs tank counters so much as teams stacking counters. Winston into D.Va is fine, Winston into D.Va, Reaper, Bastion? No thanks.
Having the second tank complicated counter swaps so one player wasn’t getting hard focused by them. Winston may be countered by Bastion, but D.Va is a good counter to Bastion. It’s rare for a hero to hard counter both tanks and even if they do, they still need to decide who they are going to be focusing on.
So does the extra hp, proper cool down management, proper comp, not taking useless damage, playing a comp that works this way, the hp changes, or hell even body blocking if worse comes to worse.
Or hell you can even go on flanks which the second tank would stop while the other one just beld the frontline.
Yes we all know
Blizz you don’t have to admit…
Just change it back to 6v6 and we act like nothing ever happened at all…
Please!
How many here play 6v6 via private matches on a regular basis? I do, and action really is not that different from 5v5. I also remember when 6v6 used to take 20+ minute queue times just waiting for the 2nd tank to appear.
These 6v6 threads always remind me of Bruce Springsteen’s Glory Days song.
6vs6 is the actual game called Overwatch
We want our game back
Why not take the initiative and set up 6v6 via private matches? There are more than enough players in these forums to get several 6v6’s going.
They could even lie and say that 5v5 was such a success, and is in such a great state, that they’re taking the time to bring back the fan favorite 6v6.
This is precisely what they’d do
they already did that for Open Queue
No they didn’t. Throwing a blanket nerf at tanks isn’t rebalancing them for open queue
It would be very difficult to balance them for OQ in a way that makes them feel fair to fight 3 of them on a team, because that’s pretty much what OQ has been since it came out.
Whichever team stacks more tanks wins.
If they balance them in a way that makes it so that stacking tanks is not the most effective strategy, at that point they’re just DPS.
best thing would be to limit it to 2 tanks per team in OQ instead of the 3 it is now and I think it would be perfect.
I support this post i also hate 5v5
Bring back 6v6
Bring back DPS Doomfist