Overwatch 2 devs plan more role experiments amid 6v6 arrival BlizzardOverwatch 2 devs have brought up a new format they\u2019re looking to experiment on, which involves giving a certain \u201cbonus\u201d to a player. Overwatch 2\u2019s July 25 developer blog touched on the 6v6 format, explaining the reason behind the transition to 5v5 and how the team plans to explore how they can \u201ctest different forms of 6v6 in-game to gauge the results.\u201d But with all the challenges that come with 6v6, they wanted to focus on making 5v5 \u201cthe best experience possible\u201d while also remaining open-minded to players\u2019 feedback. Hence, they\u2019re looking into running a \u201cseries of events to try out different core team composition formats in Overwatch 2.\u201d Though this was not specified in the blog, a recent developer interview with Overwatch 2 streamers Flats and SVB provided more insight into what players can expect next \u2013 a two-player per role experiment in 5v5. In a 5v5 format, this means that a team can run two tanks, two DPS, and one support. Alternatively, they can run two tanks, a solo DPS, and two support. No matter what though, one of the team members will be the solo role \u2013 but there\u2019s a catch. When asked about exploring the hybrid open queue system for Overwatch 2, Lead Hero Designer Alec Dawson mentioned experimenting with a \u201cformat where that solo player actually gets a bonus or some sort.\u201d \u201cIf you are that \u2013 say, you\u2019re the solo tank, and you play 1-2-2 again, but that\u2019s open queue format, you\u2019re playing as two tanks, it\u2019s rather difficult. Do we need to give you something? Or you\u2019re the solo support in a 2-2-1 team, and yet you have to do the healing. Do you need something too?\u201d he said. What kind of \u201cbonus\u201d this would be wasn\u2019t mentioned, but it\u2019s safe to assume it\u2019s likely a buff for the player with the solo role. So far, it\u2019s been made known that another Quick Play Hacked will be coming in Season 13, and it\u2019ll be interesting to see how a change like this would affect the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Overwatch 2 devs plan more role experiments amid 6v6 arrival BlizzardOverwatch 2 devs have brought up a new format they\u2019re looking to experiment on, which involves giving a certain \u201cbonus\u201d to a player. Overwatch 2\u2019s July 25 developer blog touched on the 6v6 format, explaining the reason behind the transition to 5v5 and how the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}