Now that 6v6 tests have been going on for a bit, I wanted to see what the community thinks about this ongoing debate.
Just curious which people are preferring. There has been a lot of debate on which is better. But not a lot of testing to see how it would work in OW2 until now.
I personally prefer the time to kill in 6v6, but I prefer the role que in 5v5
I would like them to test 6v6 role que to see what the que times would be like. I know people have said the que times may be an issue, but how will we know for sure until we test it?
EDIT: And the old devs never reworked tanks for 5v5, they just buffed them. You can’t have have 1 role with characters being so far apart from each other and think it’s not gonna bring issues and countergame.
Just remember how they went ups and downs with armor to balance the tank role (which would screw or buff all roster ) but several tanks don’t have it at all.
I don’t really have a strong preference either way. 6v6 does potentially allow one more person in my friend group to play at the same time, though the times when there’s 6 of us online wanting to play Overwatch together aren’t all that common anyway, sooo…meh
As long as there’s open queue, I’ll be happy either way.
I prefer 5v5 because you have more self agency as tank because you are individually stronger. You don’t need to constantly be having another tank bail out a bad one constantly from double defensive rotations. There is simply less total mitigation in the game because tanks can’t have near perfect rotations on each other with healing in between.
Support feels stronger because it doesnt’ have to play heal all the time since there aren’t two tanks soaking up damage constantly or another big butted target in your face blocking shots.
DPS have more line of sight to fight each other or get to a backline. I just prefer the dynamic of having more options to a fight instead of it almost always being diluted through tanks.
You also have to never suffer the issue of solo support for a team of 5 or a solo tank against 6 enemies trying to kill you.
I’m indifferent, and have been more-or-less fine with the game under every configuration outside of open queue. I’ll play it either way, but the question is moreso about what the tanks as a whole will play. You don’t get them to prefer 6v6 at an extreme majority, there’s no reason to change back.
I’d rather have the potential to kill 50% of that tank dive in 6v6 than 0% of it in 5v5, personally. For me, being able to meaningfully interact with every player is a deal breaker.
Im missing that secret test 