Bring back 6v6 mode in Overwatch 2

General Discussion
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I watched a video where this player Sprixy brings up some very good points about 6v6 when compared to 5v5.
I want Blizzard to bring back 6v6 and have it be a mode you can select in quickplay and competitive in the client.

  1. Thousands of people agree with Sprixy.
  2. The game was initially balanced around 6v6 and the hero designs were based on 6v6.
  3. When you play 5v5 the tank gameplay feels worse.
  4. When you play 6v6 the tank gameplay is more fun.
  5. Double shield was not a huge problem in 6v6 because tanks had 400 ish hp not 700. So tanks without their shield were very killable and you could destroy their shield fast anyways with that huge hitbox on it.
  6. Is there any reason NOT to bring back a 6v6 mode when tens of thousands of players want it? Is it just laziness? You already created the game mode so just have it as an option in quickplay and competitive. Christ.

I want double tank to come back. I had more fun playing the game when it was 6v6.

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They’re working on it!

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No, lets switch to 4v4 and call it Overwatch 3.

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No they are not, they are going to trial an untested 6v6 role queue mode for two days with zero balance changes.

They are definitely not putting any work into it and the results will be horrible.

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OW team in a nutshell.

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To be fair, you have to be really bad at your job to mess that one up. They literally have all the cooldowns and values from OW1, half the work is already done.

Adjust the new characters and thats it.

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There is no way they spend any extra work on testing that mode. The blog post made it clear they dont care about the game.

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They could also take everything from the 6v6 code devs. They did a hell of a good work.

If the 6v6 playtests end up being unbalanced then someone should be fired because this is pretty much impossible to mess up.

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Someones kind of insanely late to the party. Jesus buddy.

10

Man did someone burn your toast? Try to be more positive!

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Hard to be positive with the past track record of the OW team.

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They literally just said they’re devoting 6+ months of coding to get 6v6 to work on the new engine. They’re factually putting a lot of work into it.

6v6 is coming back 100%. They have to because their tank community is paper thin, marvel rivals offers 6v6 tanking and if they lose a decent amount of tanks to that game, overwatch will literally break.

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Good get away from the overwatch 2 branding already. Everything about it has been a complete and utter failure

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AN IDEA for 6v6 OW (Team Tank composition Curses): make it so that if one team has more than 2 tanks, (3,4,5) that team’s tanks gain a weakness like a curse, like a reduction of -8%-10%-15% (to Life, Shield, or Shield duration, or cc duration) for that team’s tanks or -8%-10%- 15% to their spells or attacks. Use curses as a way to balance certain over meta builds, or certain team comps that require a nerf. Maybe use it only on pros league. The curse could also apply to shields, or armor, for the tanks instead of life. Maybe apply the curse to -20% shield time duration. (Maybe apply a particular weakness to each tank depending on their strength).