Dude I got a story and this is pathetic.
In a quick play round on Numbani on defense. Legit the fight didn’t start for like idk, 45 seconds. I’m on Lifeweaver and I saw that the enemy tank had chose Rammatra. However I hadn’t seen them join their teammates. They waited until they knew who the tank was before counter swapping to Zarya and then finally leaving spawn
This NEVER happened in 6v6. This is garbage. I’ve never actually been as disgusted with this game as I am right now. And people actually defend this.
Cool and your Problem is?
True, but that’s less to do with 6v6, and more to do with barely any switching in OW1 6v6 Role Queue.
At all.
Over 60% of Tank playtime was Rein/Zarya.
And GM had hard metas more than 90% of the time.
And we still get tank metas now. Same as 6v6. The only difference is now there is counter swapping
Well if 5v5 had hard metas, just like 6v6, then 5v5 wouldn’t have swapping issues either.
Because of the lack of swapping, in general. Like in 6v6.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OverwatchTMZ/comments/13vdtiw/i_think_about_this_samito_clip_everyday/
Like +90% of the time in OW1 was hard metas.
So I’m gonna talk post GOATS only. Like, only when role queue was introduced and after. How long did we go without updates? 2-2 1/2 years? Of course there were hard metas. THERE WERE NO UPDATES!
Of course double shields and pirate ship and Rein/Zarya didn’t go anywhere. Had we gotten the same amount of updates then as we do now, it’d be a much less toxic game in general with less problems.
People forget that then when they like to bring up OW1 and how bad it had gotten. They did no updates for years and then were like, “Btw we’re making it 5v5 now,” a year beforehand. So they focused on that instead of balance.
They are no hard metas in OW2 because they get patched out. OW1 didn’t get that same treatment
Perhaps, but OW1 would have had CounterSwapping issues if they did that.
Also when I said 90% I meant starting from 2016.