Just wondering how many other people on the forums are in the same boat. It’s not even a case of “I think the game is more balanced” because its not, and the developers obviously don’t care about 6v6 as much as 5v5.
However, me personally, I just have absolutely zero desire to ever play 5v5 again since the addition of 6v6. For me, its just much more fun, not only having another tank, but also being able to swap to another role at any time. 1-3-2? Perfect! I can at any time swap to a tank because I am allowed to. Tanks? Not unkillable for certain DPS. I can actually fight them at a decent level without bashing my head against a wall because they have 700 hp.
I just feel like its a missed opportunity that the developers don’t focus on 6v6 in any capacity. It could genuinely be such a great mode.
It’s not even just a missed opportunity. A missed opportunity is like not going out of your house 5 minutes earlier to pick up the $20 bill that someone else got their hands on.
This is them straight up not wanting to make their game better. 5v5 has proven to be consistently unfixable. They’ve done changes on top of changes and yet ironically, nothing has actually changed.
All the problems 5v5 has brought, still exist. The tank role is still a miserable mess to play as. The tank role is also a miserable mess to play AGAINST because tanks are FORCED to be raid bosses for them to physically function as a solo tank (and even then, they still don’t). Counterswapping is still too effective of a strategy.
Add that on top of the non-format based issues like burst damage, sustain, etc etc. that they still have yet to fix in god knows how many years by now…
I played 5 games of 5v5 just to check out the new map. I was already over it in my first game. Crazy how a barely balanced 6v6 mode is infinitely better than regular 5v5.
I haven’t had a desire to play tank in 5v5 since hero bans. I’m basically a dva otp and my next best tank is my hardest counter, so banning her could also mean shooting myself in the foot in the instance dva is banned… But if I don’t ban her then I’m also shooting myself in the foot. Before someone says to just learn another character, I would have if they peaked my interest but they just haven’t. I was a Mercy otp but other supports actually interest me and so I was motivated to learn/play them. 6v6 is better unless 3 people decide to dps and make me solo tank against a 2-1-3 comp. Tanking in 6v6 has and probably always will make more sense to me as well.
See that’s also kind of my situation. The only tank I really enjoy playing is Doomfist. And well, he gets banned a good 40% of the time. But in 6v6, I can swap off to a DPS, which is my general role.
I can play other tanks well, but I would rather play a DPS instead, and getting that chance in 6v6 is infinitely more fun to me than otherwise.
That sucks, maybe on NA its much more popular because of way more people are nostalgic for 6v6? Not sure.
This exists now with heroes that don’t match the tanks.
Support heroes with no synergy.
It’s never been just a tank thing.
This isn’t a format problem, this is a balancing problem. Which even then regardless of balance, with the current iteration of 6v6 it’s physically impossible to have triple tank.
This isn’t a format problem.
This is a role queue problem and does not exist in the current iteration of 6v6.
From coming from Marvel Rivals where it’s forced 6v6 no role queue, playing against 2 tanks is a chore, more ultimate’s just gets away from the mechanics of the game, having less tanks, supports is an auto loss. Triple support is annoying af to play against. Don’t queue quickplay at degen hours cause you’ll have zero tank players, just hop on Overwatch where there’s role queue.
as bad as raidboss tanks are, 5v5 role queue fixed so many issues.
Last season, I played it a bit more since I had friends who preferred it, but most of them also seem to have transitioned to mainly playing 6v6, which says a lot about how much more natural it feels. It’s simply just better.
If this game ever drops 6v6, I am dropping the game. I do not need to take this anymore now that Mahvel exists. And honestly? Black Panther is better than Genji. Okay, I feel bad saying that. Let’s just stick with “Mahvel has 5 Genji” and call it a day…
No, they just know bringing it back in role queue is admitting 5v5 was a mistake, so they keep it in open queue just so they can go: “Look, it is in the game”.
It was, but DPS mains complained about double shield, so rather than reworking it somehow, they just nuked the whole role. I’ve not seen anyone complain where there is double shield in open queue now. And 6v6 is the best nerf to everyone’s hated Zarya, cause she doesn’t have two bubbles for herself.
We had 6v6 role queue back in December and and people were all over it saying how great it is and it’s not showed up again since. I can’t get my friend to play 6v6 with me, cause doesn’t want us being two tanks with four DPS (it happens). Also heard that “6v6 is played 1/3 of 5v5”. Well gee, wonder if it’s because it’s only open queue. Bring 6v6 role queue and we’ll see them numbers.
Prove me wrong it isn’t just because you saw people liked it more than your 5v5, I dare you.