Overwatch 2’s 6v6 playtest is successful, however tank participant numbers are waning within the experiment, leaving many locally confused as to the place they could have gone.
6v6 has taken the highlight in Overwatch just lately, triumphing over Hazard’s launch and far of Season 14’s different content material. Early participant reception gave the impression to be fully over the moon for 6v6, together with from tank gamers who felt as if the mode total made tanking an gratifying expertise once more.
The tank expertise in 5v5 is wrought with counterpicking, as there isn’t a second tank to cowl any weaknesses, and mismatched expectations as tanks are the one contributor to that function. Because of this, many locally anticipated the function to extend in reputation in the course of the 6v6 playtest.
Sadly, this doesn’t appear to be the case and a few Overwatch 2 followers aren’t positive why.
The place have all the nice tanks gone?
In keeping with Aaron Keller, queue occasions had been a major purpose why the workforce determined to pivot the format into 5v5 as a substitute of 6v6. As this difficulty continues to be a priority as evidenced by Keller’s newest weblog submit, waning tank queues might show to be a difficulty for the longevity of 6v6 going ahead. Sadly, some gamers have seen that tanks in 6v6 have change into unpopular once more.
“The fact is that tank is an unpopular function most individuals don’t get pleasure from enjoying,” stated one participant. “It has all the time been, and it’ll keep this fashion sooner or later. Many individuals would declare tanking is enjoyable in 6v6 is to take care of their agenda however wouldn’t really play that function when logged into the sport.”
A typical sentiment is the returning dynamic of the “fundamental tank” and “off tank,” the place the primary tank is extra answerable for absorbing the injury from the enemy workforce and making area. “You’re principally on the mercy of your duo,” acknowledged one other participant.
It’s price noting that queue occasions could differ based mostly on what server you might be enjoying in, as some servers report longer queue occasions for tank, indicating that the tank queue has extra gamers than different roles.
No matter present tank queues, the workforce will provoke one other 6v6 playtest later subsequent yr, which is able to enable gamers to have a most of three characters per function however a minimal of 1 per function. This may eradicate many queue time points by creating an “open queue,” the place gamers don’t queue for one explicit function.
