Why is open queue 5v5

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It doesn’t really make sense for this gamemode to be in 5v5

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Because the game is balanced around 5v5. Given open queue already breaks balance with multiple tanks, but it would be even worse with an extra tank per team while being much stronger in ow2 than 1.

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Well, on both counts.

They are probably going to replace 5v5 Open Queue, with 6v6 Open Queue with Role Limits.

That way it makes the nostalgia-heads happy, it doesn’t have GOATs, but also it soaks up excess DPS out of Role Queue without draining too many Tank players.

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It doesn’t make sense for role queue to be 5v5 either. Yet here we are.

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Who knows what they will do.

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I makes sense to me - role-less queue can work with any team size

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Well, I am genuinely curious how 5v5 Open Queue with a 1x Tank max, 5x DPS max, and 2x Support max would function. It might legitimately be better than 5v5 Role Queue.

But if you’re talking 6v6 Role Queue. That was never going to work, unless they dramatically made Tank more popular somehow that didn’t involve making them stronger.
Which I wasn’t able to figure out after looking at that issue for over 700 hours.

So if people wanna act like that’s an easy problem to solve, then I’m like 99% sure they are naive or lying.

But theres always that 1% chance I’m wrong. But I’d need to see some ridiculously conclusive evidence on that.

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I suspect the arrangement will be more like 1-0-1-4
1 locked-in tank
1 locked in support
Other 4 slots are any available character with 1 exception: max 2 tanks per team
The two locked-in characters will get some kind of small buff (tbd later) to encourage their selection.

I am not saying this is what I want to happen, as I dont like slotting of any kind, but this is what I think they will do

a possible variation: change the above so that the team tank limit is 3 instead of 2 but only one of these can be a shield tank.

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Open queue is a fake mode anyways who’s gaf why would anyone play it anyways

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Not at all

Roleless queue isnt “fake” in any way shape or form

Many players, myself included, prefer it to 222/122

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