Overwatch 2 announced that they were thinking about it Testing a return to the original 6v6 format After the game already switched to the current, controversial 5v5 structure when the sequel was released in 2022, it looks like this test is coming sooner than originally expected, as Blizzard has announced that the format will be in to be reintroduced in the next season of the hero shooter.
In a new one Blog on the game’s websitethe team announced that it will hold two separate tests for a return to 6v6. The first will take place a week after the start of the new season, which begins on December 10th. This is not a direct return to the 2-2-2 role distribution of the original OverwatchFor this test, the team must have at least one hero of each role, but no more than three per team composition. For example, in a team of six you could have a tank, a DPS and a support, and as long as these are taken into account the other three players are free to choose which hero they want as long as there are no more than three per role. This way you’ll definitely have at least one person to heal and another person to tank, so a group can’t just line up with six damage heroes.
The second test will take place mid-season, but will adopt “some new principles” from the sequel, such as reworking heroes and downgrading crowd control abilities. With a bit of luck, the Sombra revision from the current season It will be undone by then, but I’m not holding my breath.
Meanwhile, Blizzard is also planning a test for a new variant of its current 5v5 format, which limits a team from five to two heroes per role. This means you can finally have two tanks again, but these will have the nerfs associated with the open queue format, so they won’t be quite as powerful as in the current Standard RPG. This also includes a midseason game mode codenamed “Kingmaker” that rewards any player who is the only person in a role with a “bonus,” but no further details were given.
Blizzard says it will look at the response to these tests and determine what comes next, but the studio says there is a possibility that both 5v5 and 6v6 could exist in the game at the same time, which could be the best of both worlds , although it sounds like it’s a lot to overcome for a team that has experienced such drastic cuts over the past year.
That’s probably exactly what some people who miss the days of the original do Overwatch It’s what I was hoping for, but I’m still having a hard time getting too excited about it Overwatch 2 When It has given me so little in the last two years. Maybe the return of people returning to the game to relive the glory days will be enough to reignite my love for it. We’ll see when season 14 starts in December.
