It will be crazy if it is not making a return because this game is a bigger mess than ever was.
-every match is a stomp now
-the metas have been most stale ones yet
-dps and arcade folks complaining about tanks being OP
-supports and tanks hate playing their roles
There is no way of fixing this while 5v5 exists.
Never.
They won’t roll it back. Arcade doesn’t matter. Meta has been stale for much longer (dive). According to this forum everyone hates playing this game regardless of role.
Yeah dunno what’s going on with matchmaker, bp challenges don’t help the situation either.
We were promised flavored seasons, meanwhile it’s the same flavor for two seasons now, just watered down.
Because if your tank is just slightly underperforming, it’s an uphill battle. Again challenges don’t help the situation one bit.
Oftentimes this is true for dps too, due to reason I mentioned above. If your one tank is slightly underperforming, it’s an uphill battle. Plus there’s this one dps that remains strong for arbitrary reasons. If they have this one dps, you don’t, well though potatoes.
5v5 is infinitely better than 6v6
Nah. 5v5 feels like Deathmatch. I could see why YOU would like that, but most people dont
Never
Tons of people like death matches, there have been a lot of successful DM games
6v6 probably isnt coming back.
Judging by tank queue times in 5v5 compared to 6v6, tanks are not hating their role. A small minority, sure.
Cries in Reinhardt…
If it is only a small minority why not give 6vs6 for the arcade mode?
Matchmaking problem, not exactly 5v5
Nothing will be ever more stale than Goats, Double shield, Rein/Orisa, etc…
Like that matters at all
Tank is literally the most fun role ever, just compare the tank queues between OW1 and OW2. Queue times don´t lie
The Roll vs Be Rolled is more an issue with matchmaker than 5v5. I am okay with 5v5 (as a support main).
Well, while I agree that 5v5 is awful for the game I’d be surprised if they brought 6v6 back. I mean the devs went for great lenghts to ensure that double shield stays strong so that they can use it as a scapegoat against 6v6 and it looks like it worked out for them. It’d be strange if they backed out now.
It’s funny how they never made a single meaningful attempt to stop double shields. They just kept going back and forth on McCassidies flying roll forever. It turned out that flying Cass didn’t invent cure for cancer nor did he defeat hunger in the world unfortunately. And so they decided that 6v6 is impossible to balance and players took that bait lol.
With experimental cards they had all the tools to fix their mess. They also had places to take feedback from. They just decided to not use them.
Meanwhile 5v5 only introduced bigger problems.
They nerfed the sh*t out of orisa and sigma to the point that both were only playable together, yet they stayed meta because tank synergy was too strong and mandatory in OW1
5v5 is for the better
queue times are backing up my claim. Not only it is the 2nd least played role but the player requirement for tank has been halved. If anything that means even less tank players than OW1.
You can say anything about OW2 that you want, but saying that tank isn´t basically the most fun role and the role with the larger queue times is a lie. On OW1 you would get insta tank queues because no one wanted to play it at all
And that hasn’t changed because they just eliminated the need for one more tank.
That still doesn´t make sense since in OW1 the shortage of people playing tank was clear, so a lot of people started to play tank at OW2. Saying that tank only has high queues now because there is one less slot is not enough to justify 10min + tank queues
The role is just popular now because it is actually fun and gives you freedom, which didn´t happen in OW1
That’s not how that works.
care to enlighten me?