You lost me at “nerf Ana” 
Like that’s ever gonna happen…
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you dont want 6v6 as a non main mode because the balance would be terrible using the 5v5 tank power.
and they arnt going to balance the game for both 5v5 and 6v6.
this isnt theoretical: they added open queue again because people wanted it but they dont balance for open queue. they balanced it one time in 5v5 to lower the hp and thats all they have done.
youd likely get 5v5 hp tanks (300 hp tank poggers???).
so it wont be a “balanced game” based on that. the only way this happens if they do a classic overwatch and do launch ow1 again and let people experience the first like 10 seasons of overwatch in a classic mode.
but this isnt a perma mode and the end patch of classic wow would either be 9 or 10 (or god forbid 30+) so only a handful of seasons were actually fun and balanced.
6v6 on its own wasnt the most balanced thing ever, it was largely broken for most of the games existence
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It will one day! Heed my words! Heed them!
Seething coping malding
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Ok i need to clarify my idea, so there would be 2 main modes that’s what i was trying to say you know none of them are the main one, but, both are the principal ones you get it like a classic and modern gamemode.
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Yeah he was fun to ply as but when I played soldier I depleted his health very quickly.
And also (i didn’t read the bottom part sry) the devs are not that stupid they have the ow1 assets and game versions the usage of flashbang in the hide and seek mode is the prof of it, so probably they would reuse those assets to set all ow1 characters to their 6v6 states and the new characters they would be a problem if they were included that i would agree at least for most of them mauga and souj feels like ow1 characters for some reason.
but classic game mode wouldnt happen, but you might get a classic game.
full on classic overwatch is possible, they literally have classic wow and other games have classic versions.
but a classic mode isnt likely because it would need a full team behind it, at that point why not just make the full game?
and how good a classic mode is will depend on how well its balanced.
6v6 with the heroes from ow2, even with ow1 style balance would be worse then 5v5 ow2 is right now and it aint exactly great.
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you might be onto something blizzard does like to do that, but, with microsoft now they mighit decide to go with a gamemode instead of the game it self I would prefer the game to be honest
also ana will hardcounter him like almost all other no shield tanks xd
Dude, Mauga isn’t going to prove 5 vs. 5 is trash because it’s already been proven.
5 vs. 5 in a nutshell:
No off-tank equates to Supports needing to be super buffed, or else they’re fodder.
Because supports have to be super-buffed, high-burst DPS heroes will always be meta because they’re the only ones that can kill through the sustain.
Rock, Paper, and Scissor Tank gameplay—need I go on?
5 vs. 5 is just a 
show, and the developers would know it if they actually played their game at a competent level. 
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if we had 6v6 and no passives even if it was 2 off tanks like d.va and hog for example or even Mauga ana would not be as useful as she is right now even with then support nerfs.
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I had hope they would talk about that in blizzcon but they didn’t even had a Q&A, perhaps microsoft saves us next year who knows, but, so far all we have from blizzard on that matter is “Nostalgia is a strong drug”
Had my first game on him on Saturday. Attack on Eichenwald. Was getting full held for about 3 minutes until his kit finally clicked with me. Then I stomped the enemy. The enemy tank started Mauga (while they were full holding us) but then swapped to Zarya right after the first fight my team beat them.
We stomped every fight after that. I ended the match with most damage and elims, twice as much damage as the 2nd highest in the lobby.
You say he’s slow? His shift is a Rein Pin + Earthshatter on a low cooldown. Key here is low cooldown. You can turn and escape easily so long as you are quick to realize when you’re out of position. You can eliminate stragglers and chase kills easily.
Yeah he will have his strong weaknesses. And as time goes on other people will learn how to counter him better. But imo Mauga isn’t any worse than any other tank atm at ‘proving 5 v 5 is trash’.
Every tank proves that.
The thing I hate most about solo tanking, as an OW1 Rein main. Is immortalities, especially Suzu. I can’t force out Suzu myself and have to rely on my team. Most of my earthshatters are planned for by Kiri and will be suzu’d, so I can’t make any plays.
Mauga doesn’t seem to be affected by immorts. You can poke at good distance for a tank when utilizing the fire crit. He is strong against turrets/pylon. His ult is such a wide radius that suzu doesn’t counter it. I didn’t get to see the LifeWeaver Pull interaction with it but I’m assuming they can’t be pulled out of it?
Honestly Mauga might become my new main when I can be bothered tanking.
it’s literally the truth, never forget that overwatch was most loved in 6v6
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They can be. Don’t know why that’s the one interaction they allow.
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Idk why people think reverting back to 6 v 6 will solve all the game’s problems. I think if Blizzard did go back to 6 v 6, players would soon realize almost all of the same problems still exist + a bunch of new ones that plagued Overwatch 1.
If Maura is truly that bad, Blizzard should simply buff him in any number of ways. He’s been available for 2 days and OP wants to discard the entire basis of Overwatch 2 lol.
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When exactly wasn’t it trash? always has been.
I mean, if you are talking about release OW that’s also not a fair comparison. It was new and genre breaking content.
OW is in the best state it’s been in years, and 5v5 is a part of that. Keep your rose colored glasses on that 6v6 was somehow better, and I’ll keep enjoying the evolution of the game.
The reason you are seeing a lot of “bad” Mauga players, is that literally everyone can access him during this weekend. That includes literally new players.
More experienced players know not to dive 1v5 thinking you will win.
With some sense, you can bait an Ana. The thing is Ana is OP, nate needs a rework or really longer CD. it’s basically a free win button. Why do you think Ana is literally the most played support in OW.
“Ana > Mauga”. Well, true, but it’s also true for Hog, JQ, Doom, etc.
Zenyatta mains laugh at huge hitbox and no mobility!!