lil bro thinks people asking for 6v6 don’t also want balance changes 
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I think it’s either old players stuck in the past or new players not understanding why it was bad because they didn’t live through it.
They had six years to perfect it and they didn’t do it, so why would going back suddenly work?
Zarya bubbles would need so many nerfs XD
Double bubble with winston is still really good, and i’ve taken to enjoying bubbling doomfist on oq while i stay with the supports to peel. That’s so much energy gathered so fast that flankers will see nightmares about it for weeks. Just like the enemy backline too with a bubbled doomfist in their faces.
Reinhardt and queen comp? Maybe with a lucio in there too?
That’s a ball of destruction you have to avoid onto high ground. Until that nightmare hops onto a lifeweaver flower and suddenly the highground is no longer safe.
So many wonderful options and chaos to sow. I love running a double tank on oq.
Zarya mauga is pretty horribly broken on oq right now…
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because it is easy to shoot shields.
I mean, you answered it yourself right there - “they didn’t do it”. It’s not that it wasn’t possible or that it couldn’t be done. They just…didn’t do it…for some reason 
They literally just never dealt with the root cause of the problems. Like ever. They were notorious for doing that.
It’s actually incredibly baffling/embarrassing how they just wouldn’t rework some heroes/abilities that were incredibly problematic. So many people were telling them what the problem was, they just wouldn’t change it 
It was nothing but pure and utter incompetence. That or they did it purposefully 
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Exactly and i think tanks would understand they wiuld need to be nerfed
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Almost everyone i’ve seen wanting 6v6 back have also said that tanks would need to be reverted back to pre ow2 time as a baseline and adjusted further from there.
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So they probably won’t do it again. Regardless, I don’t think people on the forms can agree on how to make it work.
The game was more fun when it was 6v6, and it was taken from us. I dont care that 5v5 exists and people like it, I want to play 6v6, no reason both cant exist at the same time.
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I would say keep orisa and doom rework tho
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Wasn’t there a big report from the end of 2023 pointing out how the majority of games that people are playing nowadays are 6+ years old? (https://newzoo.com/resources/trend-reports/pc-console-gaming-report-2024)
Some takeaways were that 66 games made up 80% of playtime, and 60% of that playtime was spent in games at least 6 years old. 5 old games (Fortnite, Roblox, League of Legends, Minecraf, and GTA V) were 27% of the total playtime in 2023.
Then for the 23% of playtime on games 2 years or younger, more than half was spent on annual sequels like Madden. 8% of total playtime was spent on new, non-annual titles.
It seems like players at large are playing older games. Some of it could be explained for other reasons (for instance I know I’d be interested to play BG3 but there is no chance my computer can run it, and people might be financially tight and not able to buy as many new games,) but implying that Overwatch fans are weird for liking older games doesn’t make much sense when so many players are playing them anyways.
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Have to remember that back in 6v6 tanks did not have abilities and HP pools to attempt to balance them for 5v5.
Take Zarya for example. She had like 200 HP and 200 Shield and a single bubble in OW1 6v6. If the Zarya made a misplay with her bubble she was a sitting duck.
The reason we want 6v6 back is because the only reason we dropped it was because the devs put 6v6 into maintenance mode during an awful patch which lead to the tank role not getting played by people which made everyone think 5v5 was the right move.
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6v6 wasn’t even fun for tanks. Tanks were weaker and less capable compared to now and entirely relied on another tank player to get things done, it was awful.
Again, for the millionth time, another irrelevant post that completely ignores the fact that tanks are redesigned to be brawlers!
Look at non role queue modes where tanks have less health. It’s actually very fair except that tanks get stacked, and when it’s 2-1-2 there’s a missing dps.
Add the 2nd tank, pull back survivability slightly like in non-role queue modes, watch the game actually become balanceable.
Oh yeah, I remember the days where I played tank and never died. The never ending, stacking CC didn’t exist. Was a figment of my imagination.
Love that Ana’s kit still remains the same when there’s only 1 tank now.
Will never happen as long as Ana’s kit is allowed to exist on one hero and she remains as popular as she does for the “no sc0pez hitscan/snipers 360 mounttttain dew” crowd.
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bc it sucks for the one tank to be counterplayed, spread out the fun so the tank role doesnt die out and the queue times for dps doesnt approach infinity, dps gotta make some sacrifices to be able to play the game
Because it was way better. Noobs wouldn’t get it.
OW2 is not Overwatch
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but at least the two tanks could cover weaknesses for each other, now its just a huge gaping hole for the other team to exploit
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A: They did die.
B: The alternative is we keep buffing the singular tank till they can’t die.
Case in point; Every Orisa and Mauga meta we’ve had
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I get more enjoyment from 6v6 matches than i have ever gotten from this 5v5 game
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