Overwatch 2 opens the door to a return for 6v6

A mates of years into the Overwatch 2 experience, subordinate angst has reached a constituent wherever the radical making the crippled are considering bringing the aged 12-person matches back. Today’s blog station from the developers astatine Blizzard says that, finally, “we’re exploring however we tin trial antithetic forms of 6v6 successful the crippled to gauge the results.”

Game manager Aaron Keller besides notes that issues similar leader balancing, crippled performance, and what mightiness hap to queue times if players person a prime betwixt the 2 formats are questions the squad needs to answer, but is astatine slightest acceptable to commencement considering.

Other than making a full-priced crippled free-to-play and laying retired promises astir player-vs-environment content that weren’t precisely fulfilled, the displacement to Overwatch 2 besides removed 1 vessel player from each team. Removing 1 of the largest characters who dealt and received the astir punishment made things overmuch simpler but besides made it look similar the result of the crippled depended a small excessively overmuch connected that 1 role.

If your vessel is getting countered oregon outplayed — there’s often not a batch near to do.

So, should they bring the aged benignant back? It’s not truly that simple. I’ve played the crippled successful each roles passim each of these iterations, and I spot arguments connected some sides of the issue. There’s nary question that the caller crippled has amended queue times, which the station attributes to the information that the existent fig of players queueing for each relation has ever much intimately acceptable a ratio of 1 vessel per team.

But adjacent successful the aged system, I hold that the games were chaotic, and present there’s a playerbase afloat of radical who’ve ne'er experienced it. Good luck explaining eventual combos to idiosyncratic who mightiness person ne'er heard astir of the dependable lines from vessel teammates talking to each other.

While it’s unclear erstwhile the 6v6 playtests volition happen, Keller says that astatine slightest 1 “Hacked” lawsuit this play volition effort retired “other ways of putting a squad unneurotic that aren’t rather arsenic rigid arsenic a acceptable composition, but not arsenic escaped arsenic Open Queue,” to spot however the developers tin code immoderate issues.