I don’t see how equalizing Tank kits will make the Tank experience more fun.
Also it is not “theoretical” variety that is getting lost.
Sure, there is a meta… but 5v5 won’t change that.
What will change is, that everything goes a faster paced Team Deathmatch playstyle - and if I would have wanted that, I would be playing a different game.
For some reason they are trying to appease the FPS crowd, but is it really realistic to expect people who prefer the FPS playstyle to switch from CS:GO & Co to OW2 as their main game?
The reality is that %90+ of the high tier tank pickrate experience is whatever it meta, which is usually limited to 2-3 Tanks.
And 60% or more of the Plat and below pickrate experience is Rein/Zarya, with another 20% as Hog.
That’s a lot less “real” variety than you think it is.
As if Hog/Zarya and Ana/Bap don’t have anything to do with FPS playstyles.
A lot more realistic than expecting to recruit WoW and LoL players into a game that’s primarily a shooter.
Especially when OW2 PVE is surely going to drain a significant portion of those “don’t go for kills and just focus on heals and blocking damage” players.
Especially with the bizarre audacity to assume somehow those “non-aggressive” players will outnumber kill focused players.
I have never played multiplayer shooters before Overwatch.
Before I mostly played RPGs/MMORPGs and RTS and I gave Overwatch a try exactly because it sold itself as “different” with a higher variety of playstyles.
And you would rather risk breaking the entire game while turning it upside down instead of simply fixing Rein/Zarya?
Making changes to Rein and Zarya is arguably much easier than having to at least partially rework the entire Hero roster.
You aren’t going to fix a Tank shortage by alienating your Tank player base.
DPS Mains and new people who come from other FPS aren’t going to play them - no matter what.
I am pretty sure that there are a lot of DPS players who prefer the different playstyle as well.
They have plenty other “more FPS-y” options, but they chose Overwatch and are willing to wait in queue. If that wouldn’t be they case, they would play a different game.
The very moment they turn Overwatch into something that is much closer to one of those games they aren’t playing, is the moment they will lose those players - while not really getting anything in return.
Overwatch can’t win if it tries to compete in the “true shooter niche”.
While we lose a tank the supports are unfortunately going to be under the most pressure due to what OP mentioned… Plus we don’t know how they plan on changing every hero (what they showed wasn’t a finished product obviously)
I said this in another 5V5 thread… but not many people actually read (I don’t think)
I play support because I have fun healing and supporting my team and am not one bit excited for the game to be changed to 5v5. One less teammate means I have one less player to help so it’s very hard to imagine this change as an upgrade.
They should just add in a big team mode with 7v7 or something; adding a dps slot.
Both 5v5 and 7v7 should exist just like how we have open-que and role-que.
