My friend is very excited to try playing tank with me! She likes to play Rein already, which suits me very well as a previous off tank player, but she doesn’t like to be up front by herself. I can’t wait to play off tank Zarya again and take some of that pressure, I hope they don’t screw it up too bad.
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Everybody is Rein this, Rein that. Reinhardt saved us from nuclear war. Reinhardt saved a cat from a tree. Look up there, is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s Reinhardt, Reinhardt, REINHARDT! But what they do not speak about is the glorious return of Zarya. From one of the highest skill gaps in the role to… More straightforward than Moira? It’s been a bumpy ride for our favorite Russian Olympian. My Sistah Spice and I will run this glorious composition together when the tests arrive during the next election year. Reinhardt for president, by the way.
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WE are the ultimate crushing machine, comrade. 
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I’m interested to see how they go about it. I just hope it’s role lock. If it’s open queue then I’m out
Now you mention it, I wonder if Zarya will get to keep her universal bubble charges for the 6v6 experiments. One aspect I never really cared for about OW1 Zarya was always having to save E bubble for the tank and no-one else. Zarya might be more fun if I can get away with spending the other bubble on a different teammate.
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I’m interested in what they said about blending the two together. If they required at least 1 hero selected from each role, that could be good. I miss being able to flex between roles a lot, even though that usually meant flexing to support. I think it would be different nowadays, supports have a lot more options and a bigger playerbase than they did so many years ago when OQ was the function.
Yup, tanks got more flexibility and choice, too. I also hope they keep the vast majority of it for these trials, because tanks have needed help for a long time.
I’m actually not interested in a system like this because I got very sick of flexing. Nobody wanted to do it so I always ended up having to. And frankly I never want that aspect of the game back. It caused so much toxicity and terrible comps from selfish players.
I think that the only way I would be happy with a system like that is if it hard capped every single role at 2. So it forced 2/2/2 but let you decide amongst yourselves who had to play what. Because at least then you would never have to solo tank or solo support which was always my objection. I like those roles but not if I’m alone which I always was.
and then they go 6v6 but with 3 dps…
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I think what Oranges meant is there are 4 roles to queue for. Tank, Support, DPS, Flex.
The matchmaker looks for 1 tank, 1 support, 1 DPS, 3 flex.
So you can still queue tank. It’s up to the 3 flex queuers to decide to play tank/dps/support in the game itself. The other 3 decided to hardlock one of the roles.
There are downsides to anything they might choose to go with. That’s why testing is important.
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In this scenario is it still 2/2/2 or does it allow for 1/3/2. Because honestly I’m open to something like this so long as I get 2/2/2 comps as the end game.
Can’t wait for hog and ball torture
I’m not convinced that Blizzard will do their due diligence in balancing for 6v6 tbh. I’m thinking it’s more a way to generate low effort data that gives them justification to say “this is why we’re sticking with 5v5”. But that being said, I do hope that 6v6 gets a fair shot to succeed. Having been playing the custom mode pretty often I definitely prefer it over 5v5.
I am not exited about anything that is more than 6 months away. We have to wait nearly a year to even see if its possible from a technical point of view and THEN they have to implement it. So around 12 months away.
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Don’t go manifesting this.
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Yeah Slid got it right basically. I would flex queue every game if I could under these perimeters and it would be comfy knowing that doesn’t mean I have to rely on the rest of the team to (not) fill out a proper comp.
Already tried in OW1. No one liked so it never came back.
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Well in theory we did 222 too, but sure lets then just assume we will be goin to new things, 4dps 1tank 1sup this time!