I won’t make a long drawn out post about tanks and the problems with the role, or 5v5 versus 6v6. Let’s all agree that the role was the least popular, and therefore, least fun, least rewarding, role in both game formats. The numbers speak for themselves.
In short, remove the tank role entirely. Two roles of damage and support. 3 damage and 2 support. Reduce hitpoints and abilities to fall in line with the rest of the dps roster and throw them in the damage pool.
There ya go. Fixed.
this is honestly the worst take yet. what your basically saying is turn the game into cod? tank is unique to ow. the reason why tank wasnt popular is because of bad balance and experience regardless of 6v6 or 5v5. making the experience better means more people want to play tank
Honestly, just deleting the tank role would allow for open queue to return as the only mode. Every DPS has an escape tool, so healing isn’t entirely needed.
It’s how we ALL played OW in the beginning. It was very fun with the 6 on 6 dps clashes. Fun got ruined when try hards started playing tanks and stacking them.
Same reason the unspoken rule in deathmatch is not to go tank.
It’s been almost a decade and the role is at an all time low. What more evidence do we as consumers need? They are incapable of balancing or fixing the issue. Incapable. Unwilling. The game is catered to the highest % of the playerbase(dps). Look no further than the current patch. So just take the plunge and make us all dps.
Ideally, sure, make tanking great again… I am a tank player. There is also a point of no return when you cut bait. We have reached that point.
So your solution is to… Lose a chunk of the playerbase? how will you balance tank as DPS without making stacking 3 of them an insta win and without making them awful, they are big slow short range targets and have healthpools to match. Make there health too low without nerfing damage and they’ll be useless
The game isn’t balanced. Its never going to be balanced. Get that idea out of your head because its a myth. Chunk of the playerbase? LOL. I am saying 10 players in a lobby will be allowed to have fun, not 8. Tank is not popular, your queue times are because your entire lobby is waiting on that one poor masochist willing to play respawn simulator. Obviously dps is popular and the game is catering towards its audience(as they should), so can everybody have fun too? Faster queue times for sure.
Thats a stupid idea.
i don’t believe that. this devteam is more talented and active then the ow1 team. they are just misguided and poorly managed.
That is called an excuse
better then saying F it all just hit delete thats called giving up
Of course the game isn’t balanced, it will never be balanced, the solution isn’t to make the game more generuc
What’s a good idea then smarty pants? Continue to bang their heads on the wall? Nearly a decade in and we are at an all time low. It’s an off the wall idea that isn’t going to happen, but it isn’t crazy either. Crazy is doing the same thing over and over in hopes of a different result.
they proved it could work. October 2020. the best patch ever. 1 minute queue times even in high rank across all ranks. they nerfed sigma orisa brig and bap into the ground.
bro you are down bad with the cope
https://youtu.be/Sxus0ddE29s?si=YDcU05ZM7-jhPwUC. there all the proof you need
The solution is to make a video game more fun. We play games for fun. There is a role in this game that is not fun and this is not a subjective opinion. The numbers talk.
The proof is in the numbers. The tank role is at an ALL TIME low. Devs solution to this problem was to add an additional 5% heal reduc. Its not going to get better.
so look what they did in october 2020. they did it. the game was fun. every role had fun
Or you could bring back the second tank and lower their stats accordingly…
And then they buffed brig, bap and then abandoned the game to work on pve 
even during the 2 years of no updates queue times were in the same state they are now.
6v6 with the Orisa rework, reverted hp and the DPS passive is how you fix the game.
yes and by not making that mistake again which is actually what’s happening right now.