Seeing a lot of negative posts that I just don’t understand. I’m having a great time. Thanks for making QP fun again Blizzard.
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Queue times have shot up for me and I'm not queuing tank when there's a chance I could end up having to solo with less resources.
It's probably because I started with OW2, so I fucking hate 6v6. I can acknowledge my bias though, I've played years of overwatch with one tank
50-70 games played since the test started and not 1 game for either side was there a 1 3 2 comp.
Even when there was 1 3 2 games which were like 5% or maybe 10%. It never happened. Which the only way I realized it was 1 3 2 was when you go to your match History.😂
I thought all them games were 2 2 2 anyways since that's what you get off the bat!
Which I haven't witnessed yet for this test.
Well the queue has literally never changed to 1-3-2 so youre dodging nothing lmao
I've had exactly 1 game so far be 1-3-2, and one of the DPS tank. guess I could be lucky but it hasn't been an issue at all so far
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It's your opinion. Imo it is insufferable specially playing tank.
I’m generally queue’ing tank. Rein/D.Va/Mauga mostly. Love pairing up with a 2nd tank.
What do you mean? Tanking is actually fun again.
How is tanking insufferable? You do know the tanks are supposed to work together having to allows for additional team varieties
Imo it is insufferable specially playing tank.
I dunno, the Ball or Doom or both in literally every single match seem to be having a grand ol' time
Been loving 2-2-2!! I only play tank in 6v6, so it's nice. Must say though, there is a clear unbalance in 1-3-2, especially against a team that decides to run two tanks
i mean, 132 is the bad state where the que times were bieing a problem, but i havent had any 132 matches on switch so que times are not as bad as they were expecting
They should just make it...Role queue but **Just in case there is a 1 3 2 game. You should be able to choose your roles just in case you get a 1 3 2 match as well.
Cuz if it's 1 3 2 I wanna play dps so I can tank with a flex option.
I don't mind playing dps either at all so if someone goes tank I'll gladly play dps.
I played all day yesterday and had like 1 or 2 games which felt balanced. Every other one i was either getting rolled or doing the rolling.
Same, every match is so imbalanced. The far extremes on both ends are so much worse now, haven’t been trapped in spawn like this in years lmao
That the test is happening in QP which has dreadful matchmaking by default must not be helping
Disagree
Keep yourself safe
I can't even complete the loot hunt due to 10 minute queues
It will be fun until DPSQ is 10 minutes to find a game
I’d still choose that over 5v5 🤷🏻♀️
That's not as bad as actually playing tank in this mode
I'm already gettt7 min queue so if it persists at these times it's a no from me. I got a life. No time to spend quruing over 5 mins for a game.
Remember when bots said "oh get ready for loong queue times since nobody plays tank with an extra tank spot open".🤡 Well that was a fkin lie because in 50-70 of my tank games it was an instant queue or 10 seconds wait at worst. They were talking all this propaganda about the tank role being the reason for long queue times in role queue. In reality it's either DPS or supports who get the longer times.☠️ Come on don't people just HATE to play tank in 6v6? What happened?
No. Tank already not played much. Now you want 2 of them AND they are nerfed.
I just wish it wasn't mandatory but whatever. I haven't played in a couple of weeks after the last hacked mode and came back online to this. I just want 5v5 lmao
Can’t stand 2-2-2 anymore, and I came from OW 1 where I thought I’d never get used to 5v5. Every match feels so lopsided, my team either completely steamrolls or we’re trapped in spawn and can’t do anything. Idk what it is about 6v6 that causes this, but it’s absolutely intolerable for me and I’m sick of people begging for 6v6 to become the standard when half of the community is happy with the way OW2 currently is structured. Also not for nothing, but most of the tanks just feel like slightly souped up dps at this point. Many of them just feel better solo.
My thoughts for why it feels crappier (as someone who also used to think 6v6 was superior) is it just inherently creates more snowball moments with an extra player on each team. The chance that all 6 of the people on your team are playing at the same level is so low, and now if you have a couple people underperforming and a couple slightly above average performances on the other team, its a wipe 90% of the time. I played a bunch of 6v6 last night and yeah, while the well balanced games can be a lot of fun, there was so many more stomps on one side or the other. My friends and I basically decided that the highs in a good 6v6 may be higher than 5v5, the lows are way lower and seemingly so much more frequent
Yeah the spawn traps are making me want to rage quit and I don’t do that ever
Idk that just sounds like every QP game I've ever played, which is why I only play ranked even though I don't really care about climbing. Just better quality games. 6v6 ranked at higher ranks isn't like that as much.
6v6 is so much better. I really enjoy it too!
The most fun I’ve had in ow in awhile tbh not 100% sure if it’s just new to me I don’t have any interest in open Que, but me and my friend duo tanking is chefs kiss
Yeah, I came from paladins & so did my friend. He queued 5v5 and it felt like garbage for him. It's funny bots blame the 6v6 MODE for balance stuff (which is from 5v5 balancing btw) but nothing that's inherently bad From the ACTUAL mode itself.😌 & That's their reason 6v6 is bad....yeah cuz there's 5v5 garbage bogging down the experience. 👉Anyways Paladins actually has 2 tanks in a 5v5 composition....Craaazy how that works, yet we gotta deal with this Trash solo tank sLop in overwatch.🤭 We'd duo tank a bunch in that game. He never played 5v5 again because solo tanking in 5v5 felt bad. As a 5v5 hero shooter it's not good at all compared to Paladins. 6v6 it's alot better & actually comparable
They are doing this to check queues but 1 3 2 will make more tank players leave
Genuine question, why do you guys prefer it? I'm a flex player and my experience has been, Support I'm largely forced into healbotting. Characters like mizuki are pretty good for avoiding that but I'm still having way less fun seeing people explode the second my heals are on cooldown. Poke DPS I'm constantly having to play around enemy shields, brawl and dive DPS I'm suffering from the extra CC Half of the tanks I play just disintegrate the second I step out from behind cover, so I'm often forced to play safe, boring and passively. On the occasion I'm playing zarya with a dive tank, I can see the appeal- having the bubble on a separate cooldown allows me to always have it ready for when they decide to dive. But most of the other tanks I've been playing seemingly have shields made of paper and the constitution of a sickly Victorian child. So what's SO much better about 6v6 that some people love it this much?
I've been playing since the release of OW1 and I think the people who have it the worst are supports that have to healbot more and DPS that don't take off-angles, specially hitscans (which IMO is better for the game but that's subjective) That said the main appeal as a tank is that you share pressure with a buddy, you stop being the only main target of every stun and debuff the enemy team has. You are no longer a raid boss, but that also means that you have an extra resource (the other tank) to help you absorbe pressure. Also something that affects non-tanks is that is again possible to win 1v1s against tanks, specially if you outplay them or if they use their cooldown incorrectly. In 5v5 if you are against a tank, you are basically forced to stop existing there.
IM PLAYING TANK AND HAVING FUN! Sincerely, lvl 500 Mercy.
As a support playing Kiri Juno and Mercy im not liking it at all. So im not playing it unless my squad is on
Shitty tanks love 2-2-2. They're terrible play averages out better.
Im still enjoying 6v6 but I preferred the last test. Roadhog feels really strong this time around and im growing very sick of him lol.
What did they buff for him? Hog was stronger last test.
& If your games don't have the tanks swapping to counter him then those games aren't even valid enough to mention.
Because I remember, I had a bunch of games just yesterday where we were about to lose in hybrid or payload. Literally couldn't do anything until the last minute & then we won the game.
I say like 1 or 2 of those games I stayed on my character as tank & it worked but most of the time I had to swap & it worked exceedingly well.
Safe to assume if I didn't swap those times it would be ggs.
I'm going to Bet tho Tank just has the most impact so doesn't matter.
👉Last point, I swap to Hog tank counters & it gets neutralized
Pt 2 - Also I remember a couple games. Where a hog was doing solid for the enemy team .
I have a bot on Orissa who's playing Poor. Like why are you on Orissa when you're ignoring Hog all game.
I even had to ask him in chat if he could swap off to let me actually go face to face with him.😌 He wouldn't do it tho.
I can't remember the outcome tho, I've played 50-70 games since the test started to now.😭 I do remember them getting alot of push tho
👉 6v6 you can actually properly blame tanks now. 5v5 is just brainless scapegoating imo. For me if I counter swap it's almost gg for the hog.
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I thought it was going to be enforced 2-2-2 but then yesterday I was tank and it was 1-3-2 and fighting against Hog and Mauga with 3 attack was painful. The Hanzo was good, not ideal but at least he was good... The Mei and the Emre however were hopeless.
I like it because then ramatra is powerless against two tanks instead of him just punching our tank to smithereens
My hot take is that they just need to pick one of these modes and balance around it. Some people will gripe and groan but it’ll great a more balanced game with quicker queue times. Coming from 5v5 I actually like 6v6 with 2/2/2 way more than I thought I would.
I really don't know why blizz felt the need to open old wounds.
They need to just stick with 5v5. It’s been working for years. These tests are pointless
Until the heroes are balanced for this mode, people should definitely withhold judgment. It's wholly unbalanced in its current state.
People who played ow1 don't need to withhold judgment.
The 15 min queue time for support was not very fun last night 💔 I usually play open queue, can’t put my finger on what exactly makes it feel so different. I think some of the balance changes will take a little while to get used to.
Really hope it becomes the standard again like it used to be, 5v5 just feels so bad
Love it as tank but nobody wants to play tank
Every match I played was two tanks after 20 games for me.
I like it, but liked the version from two weeks ago better since I get to play dps more while still being able to flex to tank.
Bc the mode many people prefer is gone for a few days, it’s not that surprising some players might not like the same things
It’s been amazing. Rarely get tank when doing flex queue so it’s been a ball getting to play all my old mains
I get tank every single time I queue all roles just about. In 20 games I got DPS 3 times and support once.
Tank feels better, DPS feels the same, support is massively less fun. Tank is not anywhere near enough of a better experience to fulfil the doubling of the tank playerbase needed per match to maintain current queue times. Queues will skyrocket again. 6v6 is going to slowly kill the game again through queue time. I will personally quit the game if we go back. I'm not waiting in support queue that is 3x the length for an experience that is not as fun, I will just stop playing 🤷🏻♂️
Some characters feel balanced, others feel useless. The balancing just seems really off? Some tanks genuinely just fall over and die over and over, especially I noticed this with Mauga, Reinhardt and Domina. Meanwhile Sigma, Orisa and Roadhog are still doing quite well in my games. Solo queueing was hell but when I got some pals to duo/trio-queue yesterday it was alright. First day we were four-stacking and had like 5 losses in a row at the beginning. The matchmaking feels awkward, but maybe it's because so many people are playing across different skill levels?
It's so much better than 5 stacks.
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Seeing how dps and support que length has doubled, sure, it's fun.
i love 2-2-2 i can’t wait for it to weed out all the tourists bring back my goat
It's fun. More chaotic. The balance is way different. But that is to be expected since it's kidna an experimental game mode. However I think the que times are much worse though. It seems everyone wants to play DPS since they basically since they have tank roster available to them as well. Then there are the balance issues. It's a fun mode. Would keep it in rotation. But I think it's not ready yet for a main game mode.
If fun is wanting to kms every game, then yes it is.