6v6 Could Return In Overwatch 2 But Not How You Expect

Overwatch director Aaron Keller published a lengthy Director’s Take blog in response to community outcry for the return of 6v6 in Overwatch 2.

In the post, Keller said that the design team isn’t ruling out the possibility of trying limited-time 6v6 modes to see how they might even work. Whether these happen in Hacked events remains to be seen.

Keller ended off the post saying that the design team wants to reassess how Blizzard solved the original Overwatch’s problems and experiment with other team compositions and gameplay styles that restore some of the freedom of play that people used to have.

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[stunninggold]

literally the definition of, "you could not live with your own failure (5v5), where did that bring you, back to 6v6"

[malicekerendu]

They're not even pretending anymore. It was never a sequel

[MJamesRave]

Idk if the game was better or worse but playing tank was certainly more fun for me with a partner. In ow2 it was so unfun for me I swapped to dps then dropped the game

[KCKSkel]

Funny how their incapacity to just do a few patch notes during goats era led to this clown fiesta.

[The_ASMR_Listener]

Id rather have season 1 OW1 with no updates for the rest of my life over modern 5v5 overwatch.

Im a diamond player who would rather have full team rez, fan the hammer mcree, hook through the wall roadhog, 30k healing taxi service lucio, instant ult charges over anything overwatch 2 has to offer

[MrHatchiFuto]

If 6v6 comes back ima go back to playing tank cause rn playing tank is a nightmare and all the pressure is on you to not die cause if you do that’s basically your whole teams dead

[mydude]

I can already see the hate 6v6 will get…even though it will also be fun

[edfreak]

if you want to increase individual player agency, you have to, unintuitively, increase the amount of players on the team so that one person messing up can be made up for much easier with individual player skill as long as the entire team isn't messing around or something.

[finlaystovell]

I’d be glad just because it would bring back the off tank role. With the new tanks they’ve brought into the game I feel like it would be more fun to play tank anyways in a 2-2-2 format than in Overwatch one, and with some tweaking they could definitely work the role into the a good place that would make queue times not be as bad

[azzafromtazza]

It’s not going to happen for several months, but I’m interested to see what experiments they’re going to try and how it’ll pan out.

[batsignal]

It's always funny to see the Rio map area that it's barely played.

[SILK]

We can’t even work together in 5v5, but ppl really want “tank synergies” back 💀

[itashious]

Just give different options like many games have. It would make everyone happy I think. Buffet style selection and different game modes tailored to what individuals feel like playing late the time

[SilkyML]

Yall wanna bet Blizzard going to release 6v6 when Marvel Heroes is released?

[twgok]

Make it 6 v 6 permanently 1 tank 2 supports 3 dps. 5v5 and 6v6 is not an issue of fun or balance it's an issue of balancing queue times with what players want to play

[ValryaValenskia]

another body means another "I need healing" 😮‍💨

[headbeeguy]

6v6 will kill 5v5 purely because the tank experience won't be so incredibly atrocious and no tank will queue for 5v5

[xtesygaming]

Anyone remember what it was called when you left an enemy alive for a little, then killed them so the enemy team would be down a person

[thechillgamer]

Nah
we Getting og overwatch before gta6

[catnights]

Okay what about 2 tanks 3 dps 2 support because it would be fun and the q times will still be lower