Overwatch 2 is formally bringing again 6v6 in testing this December

Blizzard is bringing again 6v6 matches in testing for Overwatch 2 when it launches its subsequent season in December. The corporate had beforehand switched the collection to a 5v5 format, and Blizzard is now making an attempt these checks to search out the way it can “make the core sport even stronger” via a balanced new model of the basic 6v6 mode that lets every group have a number of tank characters as soon as once more.

Recreation director Aaron Keller says Blizzard is aware of the 5v5 format appealed to and introduced in a brand new group of gamers, and builders are hoping to repeat that success with the addition of 6v6 (which received’t change present codecs). For an in depth write-up of what’s altering, you may learn the total director’s take.

In July, Keller famous among the points 6v6 confronted have been hero balancing, sport efficiency, and the way to verify gamers can nonetheless get into video games shortly if it splits the inhabitants between 5v5 and 6v6 sport modes. One hero balancing change consists of giving tanks much less survivability and making them not as highly effective.

Overwatch 2 Season 14 may have two completely different alternatives to strive 6v6; the primary will use a brand new “Open Queue” format the place every group of six will need to have at the least one in all every position (tank, harm, help) and not more than three of any position. You’ll additionally have the ability to swap roles on the fly. The second 6v6 take a look at will occur in the course of the season and can let you could have two of every position per group.

There may even be a 5v5 take a look at in Season 13 through which there shall be a most of two gamers in every position, and tanks shall be weaker than beforehand.

My colleague Richard Lawler, who’s an avid participant, stated Overwatch 2’s change that eliminated one tank participant from every group made the sport less complicated, but in addition “made it look like the result of the sport depended just a little an excessive amount of on that one position.”