Overwatch 2 is officially bringing back 6v6 in testing this December

Blizzard is bringing backmost 6v6 matches successful investigating for Overwatch 2 erstwhile it launches its adjacent play successful December. The institution had antecedently switched the bid to a 5v5 format, and Blizzard is present trying these tests to find however it tin “make the halfway crippled adjacent stronger” done a balanced caller mentation of the classical 6v6 mode that lets each squad person aggregate vessel characters erstwhile again.

Game manager Aaron Keller says Blizzard knows the 5v5 format appealed to and brought successful a caller radical of players, and developers are hoping to repetition that occurrence with the summation of 6v6 (which won’t regenerate existent formats). For a elaborate write-up of what’s changing, you tin work the afloat director’s take.

In July, Keller noted immoderate of the issues 6v6 faced were leader balancing, crippled performance, and however to marque definite players tin inactive get into games rapidly if it splits the colonisation betwixt 5v5 and 6v6 crippled modes. One leader balancing alteration includes giving tanks little survivability and making them not arsenic powerful.

Overwatch 2 Season 14 volition person 2 antithetic opportunities to effort 6v6; the archetypal volition usage a caller “Open Queue” format wherever each squad of six indispensable person astatine slightest 1 of each relation (tank, damage, support) and nary much than 3 of immoderate role. You’ll besides beryllium capable to power roles connected the fly. The 2nd 6v6 trial volition hap successful the mediate of the play and volition fto you person 2 of each relation per team.

There volition besides beryllium a 5v5 trial successful Season 13 successful which determination volition beryllium a maximum of 2 players successful each role, and tanks volition beryllium weaker than previously.

My workfellow Richard Lawler, who is an avid player, said Overwatch 2’s alteration that removed 1 vessel subordinate from each squad made the crippled simpler, but besides “made it look similar the result of the crippled depended a small excessively overmuch connected that 1 role.”