Most likely it will be both enjoyable, and good for the game
The one thing we lose is tank duos and tank synergy, which is something a large portion of the game already dislike, i think its a welcome change.
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No it wontā¦ it will be the same as it is nowā¦ just more preassure on tanks to be shields and nothing else.
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People dislike tank synergy? I have never read that one before. All I ever see is praise for concept. I am talking before the 5v5 revealā¦
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I wish that would be the only difference but it will be more than thatā¦ Remember they also buffing tanks who already do a similar job to dps (goats was a good example for that) but have protection.
So tanks who already count as the most important role would become even more important, making the single target a carrier or destroyer of games.
Not to mention, because they shift away from protection into damage, not only tanks would be more similar to dps but also weaker heroes such as Bastion or Symmetra would see 0 play considering they have no way they can be good without a protective tankā¦ They already see very low pick rate but their pick rate would go even lower considering they wouldnāt even be niche, just throw pick overall.
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I mean
D.va = A lot more matrix, or make Matrix behave like a barrier
Zarya = Good enough for skill tiers without good snipers, and strong at high tier with DoubleBubble Dive
Hog = Wonder woman.
Hammond = Move to DPS role, 300hp, 20% smaller character model
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I can hear the piercing cries of the anti-5v5 players already. Your words are like acid on their skin.
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My whole point is that tanks are going to be forced into a shield play style. So if i want to tank and enjoy playing RH and then screamed at by the 12 yo who want a shield tank. How is that fair on me?
If they are going to make 5v5 a thingā¦ remove role locks remove 1-2-2 of what ever stupid combo they want to use
I mean, if he can just spin his hook around as a āinnacurate deflect barrierā.
Thatās basically a barrier.
Problem solved.
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Iām hesitant to state whether itāll be good or bad. I donāt know.
I want to know more of what it will be like when we know the reworks that heroes are getting, what tank balance is like when itās more polished for it, etc. Right now we saw an early build of it. Iām hopeful thatās not how they expect tanks to operate and thereās a LOT of changes that have to be made for 5v5. So Iām justā¦hesitant to lean on either side of whether itās good or bad.
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regardless if thats how they want them to operate or notā¦ it will be enforced. The meta player base will scream that the tanks are for their own personal shield. They will only make the tank player base not want to play tankā¦ who wants to just sit on the payload?
Thatās true.
But I still wouldnāt dub the change good or bad yet. It kinda feels like itās telling people, āBe happy with this or youāre wrongā or ābe unhappy with this or youāre wrongā.
Like itās going to happen. I know that and Iām okay with that. I just donāt want to dedicate myself to feel any type of way about it yet until I know more of what itāll be like. Especially because I donāt particularly like tanking so my opinion on whether itās good or bad just isnāt informed.
yes, it just wasnāt worded that way very often ātank synergyā probably spiked in usage over the last few days. its always been a heated topic whenever the tanks force a new meta at the pro level though. its praised until itās a perceived mandatory thing, then very vocally disliked.
was disliked with double shield, halt hook, even dive tanks, even now (ārein zarya or loseā), and many many others
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Please no more any type of barriers in OW.
Also the devs themselves have stated to doing what they can for tanks to not be as barrier dependent for OW2.
And the main reason for that was to bring parity with heroes like D.va and Roadhog.
They already stated that all tanks (off and main) will be tweaked accordingly to be viable to solo tank.
Hopefully this is true and we get away from , choose a shield tank to win metas.
Hopefully each tank will viable for different maps, for different situation, and for whatever the enemy comp is. Instead of just go Rein all the time.
Well like said, that could just end up āevery Tank gets the equivalent of a barrierā.
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very subjective has hellā¦
also as a Main tank player if i die i normal hope the off tank help to protect and team back upā¦ but in OW2 if i die team will be wipe easier
OW2 gonna be about tank diff now
Why every Comp game gotta be 1v1, 3v3, 4v4, 5v5 like serious OW was different because it was the only comp focus game that had 6v6 now it just another wanna be 5v5 comp game make a lot of people just lose interest
True, but from the recent developer videos, they are trying to move away from barriers as much as possible and tweak tanks to be strong in other ways. So giving every tank barriers to make them all main tanks is not an option for their future plans.
There wont even be off and main tanks anymore. Just tanks. And not even Tanks. They even might change the name of all the tanks to āBrawlersā, per the devs own words.
The best idea is remove the locksā¦ so if people wanna do 4 tanks and 1 heals they canā¦ Thats what the game was designed around from the start
Oh, I know. Iāve probably put more time thinking on these sorts of issues than many people on the dev team.
But you got to admit, itās a heck of a lot simpler to just balance a bunch of similar heroes. Than it is to make NotBarrierTanks, equivalent to BarrierTanks.
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