With all of the 6v6 discussion, why isn’t this at least available in Arcade or an alternative in QP? It would solve a lot of questions, be another fun mode, and let a lot of people understand why we went to 5v5. Personally, I have only been playing Overwatch 2 since season 3. I never truly experienced 6v6. Why isn’t this at least a thing?
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The dev’s know there aren’t enough players to sustain. That’s why they keep talking about it but will never actually do anything. 6V6 was fun, occasionally it would become a 5v6 game and 1 tank could actually carry the team if they were decent.
Yes there were some bad meta’s which only high rank players used. They didn’t mix things up. It was mirror comp every match. Which caused them to leave because they all got bored.
This is something 5v5 lacks severely.
If a player leaves in a comp match especially the tank it’s GG.
However in OW1 many times we’d lose players and still be able to comeback and win the match regardless.
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would be great, but remember arcade has no matchmaking - because the playerbase is so large I keep seeing the same players every single time I play mystery heroes.
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but but 100 millions players! they literally said that I just looked it up its 100& true
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but what about the 100 million ̶s̶m̶u̶r̶f̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶l̶t̶ ̶a̶c̶c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶s̶ players? Surely thats enough right?
lol ig we thought of the same joke lmao
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That’s a decent point, but why can’t it be next to unranked role queue or open queue?
Maybe they’re worried it would split the playerbase too much. I mean, we’re already split as it is. There would 100% be players who would exclusively play 6v6 if it was a mode (and there are already thousands of players who exclusively play the 6v6 custom), further hurting queue times in 5v5.
I would like to have an ongoing 6v6 arcade mode and see the numbers for it though. It could tell us whether players would be willing to sacrifice shorter queue times for higher quality gameplay.
We do have the 6v6 custom mode everyone’s been talking about, but accessibility is an issue as it’s all on Discord. Having it in the game would be nice.
understand what?
don’t worry, I’ll just update Overwatch and only play DPS, will that help?
Hehe, I barely play tank since going to 5v5. Counterwatch really ain’t for me!
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They’re never going to put 6v6 in the game in any shape or form cause they know it’s a superior format and are afraid too many people will stop playing 5v5.
Join the 6v6 discord, see my topic history for the link. Very active community.
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Must be why 6v6 was maintained for 7 years. But suddenly now for some reason it’s impossible to maintain. Makes sense.
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cause its not JUST 6v6…people want that thing to be treated like the main game mode…and they have NEVER shown any interest in maintaining 2 different versions of the game running simultaneously
lets not act like people wouldnt immediately be asking where the balance patches are and such
There’s nothing balanced about mystery heroes or total mayhem. I’m not asking for competitive.
The proportion of players didn’t support 6v6 RQ then and it won’t now if they’re still lacking tank players. Here’s the thing about 6v6, if you make it the main mode you’re:
- Telling every player new to OW2 to relearn the game from square 1, except it’d be much more complex than we OW1 players had it going into 5v5
- Telling more players to pick tanks, who will individually need to be nerfed a lot. But it’s already the least popular role, and they’d only be getting weaker AND more reliant on teammates
- Putting DPS and supports in queue jail because again, there aren’t enough tanks to go around for 5v5. Why would there be for 6v6?
- Taking months, more likely over a year to re-tune numbers to work for 6v6, and also probably having to do some reworks which adds to the time and will give us tanks who suck for months before being reborn as a viable 2-2-2 tank
And you’re doing all that for the sake of a playerbase who largely chose to jump ship and stop supporting the game, at the expense of the one who currently plays
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this isnt people just wanting an outlet from the normal game…this is people wanting the main game to be different…
it is absolutely implied that any 6v6 mode that gets implemented be treated as though it was a main game mode…scuffed/mediocre 6v6 would absolutely receive non-stop complaints
It happens without fail. 5v5ers have to lie to make it look like they have an argument. 6v6 was so good it survived a 3 year content draught.
Oh no it’s 6 people a team instead of 5 cry me a river. I know the overwatch community is generally low IQ but common this is not hard.
All this tells me is you don’t have a clue WHY it’s the least popular role. Tank is only the least popular role in 5v5 role lock. In open queue tank is the most popular role. Why? It’s obvious. Tank players enjoy tank when they have tank team mates because tank synergy is what this game was built around.
6v6 gives tank synergy back and OQ tank pick rate is proof that bringing back 6v6 would dramatically increase tank pop.
Oh no they might cry 
It’s literally already been done by the community bud. I play on a 6v6 community patch that’s far better balanced than the official 5v5 patch.
Probably won’t happen even though it needs to.
There’s an argument to be made here. I and my friend group of 6 others all enjoyed playing various tanks back in overwatch 1. Since OW2 came out not only do we not play anywhere near as much, we have to rotate whoever plays tank because none of us enjoy solo tanking. There’s a reason it’s the least popular role, you’re just isolated and bored. If 6v6 came back, we would absolutely come back as a stack playing every night again, whereas right now we’re happy to play other games like xdefiant.
They seem to think continuously buffing the tanks in 5v5 will eventually make them fun. It’s just not gonna be the case. Tanks are inherently going to be boring for the majority of people if they are the only one on the team. Solo tanking was never popular in OW1, unsurprisingly it’s unpopular in ow2. D.va could have 10 second matrix, honestly it would actually make her more boring to play than if she had 2 second matrix.
Because it seems they would rather lose their player base than admit 5 v 5 was never a good idea. This includes giving the players any 6 v 6 mode where they can show more interest in 6 v 6 than the new (and horrible) standard 5 v 5.