Isn’t the whole point of this mode is to switch for what your team needs? What’s the point of keeping respawning to die all over again with pathetic numbers?
The point’s actually to play DPS without the queue times. 
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To me the waiting for 6v6 is the same fore dps.
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The point of the mode is to have our tank synergies, and better role vs. role balance.
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It’s always Ball/Doom/Hog.
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yea i remember that in the old days 6v6 days too. was hoping to play with orisa and reinhardt as dva but always was paired with ball or roadhog
i dont know enough about it now since i HARDLY play 6v6 open queue. only a few times as dva and i think i got a variety of tanks tho. still i am sure i got doom/ball quite a bit w/o noticing. i did solo tank quite a bit
I don’t mind hog as we can be together, ball however is just playing another game with himself.
i actually like ball as a hero now, when im tracer that is hehe. one of those crazy good synergy combos
no? the whole point was that it was 6 people on both sides.
Open queue has always had high amount of DPS instalocks, it going to 6v6 didn’t change that. I just wish it was role queue, no one asked for open queue 6v6. The pros of having more flexible team comps just isn’t worth it with an inflexible player base, imo. Role Queue is also just the more popular format, I have seen so many people who just don’t want to put up with open queue.
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The trouble here is that people can wish for 222 RQ as much as they want, but until enough tanks queue up for the mode, it’s unsustainable. Max 2 Tank 6v6 is the best we’re going to get.
too bad we’re adding role queue with 10 minute queues for 6v6
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This is false.
This forum was non-stop about demanding 6v6 open queue. Especially after Blizzard posted why they weren’t going to do Role Queue anymore, because of Tank queues being 20 minutes.
Conversation here generally leaned towards favoring role queue from what I observed. Was there a statement from blizzard saying why they didnt want to do role queue? I dont remember that.
Old blog post.
Finding that post is a pain in the neck on Blizzard’s Overwatch website, so here’s a picture from it on Reddit
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There’s no official statement as to the fate of 222 RQ, but we’ve had the formal 222 RQ test, plus an OW Classic mode featuring 222 RQ that didn’t even get extended. Meanwhile, Max 2 Tanks was extended and appears to now be a permanent fixture.
People might say that they enjoy 222 RQ more than Max 2 Tanks or 122 RQ, but the unfortunate reality is that it looks like they didn’t actually turn out in enough numbers to make it happen. At the end of the day, it’s what people do that counts, not what they say.
But I’m no oracle. It could be that Blizzard’s coming up with a 222 RQ mode behind the scenes. I just don’t think that the signs point to that.
Ah I did read that blog post. I do wish they told us about the 222RQ test queue times too though, it would be insightful to see how the queue times changed.
No. Where in the world did you get that?
as someone whos currently Place 33 in Top500 on DPS, i can say that playing dps in 6v6 has alot more carry potential compared to 5v5 imo. Tanks take dmg and arent unkillable raidbosses. i strugle real hard in 5v5 on dps cause tanks just suck up everything i throw at them.
the point of 6v6 openque is to play what you are best on, and swap if you cant do anything on the current role. i play mainly soldier/soj/bap no tank.
a shame that quetimes take forever if you are GM or higher, wish more people would play 6v6, its much more fun overall and rarely a stomp like its pretty much the case 24/7 in 5v5.
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cant remember the last time ive seen more then 3 dps in my games, mostly its 2-2-2 or 2-1-3. maybe a problem in lower ranks. i hated roleque the moment they came around with this crap, insane quetimes and the lack of flexibility just killed ow1 for me, i kept playing openque ever since and its the better format. the freedom of swapping roles if you cant do well at the current role will always be better.
5v5 was fun in the beginning, now its just boring and always tank diff. raidboss tanks arent fun to play against and destroy the flow of the game. cant have the impact on dps that i used to have against these completly busted tanks. they get away with so much its insane, in 6v6 they would have been deleted within 3s, in 5v5 they just look at you and delete you from existing.
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