OW2: Co-op player limit increase

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Hello everyone! :slight_smile:

I am very excited for Overwatch 2, what you are cooking up there seems amazing and touches many subjects that I felt should be touched by game developers for some time now. Absolutely awesome! Just one thing you missed imho, especially coming from Overwatch 1:

The 4 player limit for co-op content is way to low. In your behind the scenes video for Blizzconline one of the developers talked about how he is all about the competitive part of OW, while some of his friends aren’t and how he is looking forward to playing PvE with those in OW2! I come from the same point, that I enjoy Ow1 as it is, but mainly play with the same group of friends back from when we had LAN parties as teenagers in our friends house and some of them just don’t like the competitive part of games anymore, yet we always have a lot of fun with co-op PvE contend. The problem is, we are a group of five though! :_( While 4 players is the quasi standard in video games (we can’t even paly Fall Guys together), especially for co-op content, Overwatch comes from a 6 player group limit. So why reduce this for PvE content? I can imagine, that this will break up some other teams and groups of friends that enjoyed Overwatch together so far. So please consider giving the PvE part of OW2 the option to play with 4-6 friends! Scaling it via more and harder enemies should be possible(?).

Tldr; We are a group of five loooong time gaming friends who want to play Overwatch 2s PvE co-op part together, so please consider implementing an option to play this mode with up to six people instead of breaking up teams coming from Overwatch 1! :blush:

Best regards,
Bhim

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Maybe they’ll let us play the PVE modes in custom games where I imagine this would be possible

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Looks like you are going to have to choose your favourite friends.

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:smiley: You’re a mean little HappyTeabag!^^ I guess green tea, nothing added, like not even a tiny bit of smooth and soft jasmine? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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There is a hint of mint but nothing else.

Being serious though, I didn’t think about this before because I duo queue mostly but this is a really good point.

Hopefully some game modes accommodate you and your friends.

Otherwise, enjoy your final days with your friends :cry:

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To be fair, I think that hero missions should let players change the amount of heroes you have on the team (difficulty scaling accordingly). Personally, I only have 4 friends who I know irl to play often with, so I quite like the hero numbers.

I think the only way to get around the problem you’re having is to just take turns when doing the pve.

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Wanted to come back to this, as everyone is facing this issue now, losing one player slot in PvP. But for this specifically it makes even less sense now, with Pvp and PvE only one player slot apart. First you might have to reform coming from OW1 PvP to OW2 PvP and then ditch one more person for PvE? :frowning: