Overwatch 6v6 is now permanent

overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24187726/director-s-take-season-16-on-the-horizon/

OVERWATCH IS SAVED
THANK YOU BASED BLIZZARDGODS

Don't care. Where's the pve content you promised years ago?

So...it's really just Overwatch 1, again

SEAmonkey game like Valorant

Overwatch has been dead ever since they nerfed Mercy in the first month

Wow it's almost like releasing overwatch "2" was completely pointless as literally every single change is now nonexistent, interesting.

shitty openque and not ranked experience

Still not going to play it. Free to play player base is shit.

We are so fucking back

The failure of Overwatch 2 mirrors the failure of modern society. Men (tanks) were sick and tired of putting in all of the work so that women (healers) could get a free ride so they just stopped playing.

They ruined Symmetra and Torb

season 16

overwatch is 16 years old? fuck my life. 1994 was just a couple years ago.

I think they're supposed to be bringing back free loot boxes. That was really the only thing that kept me playing for a long time.

you think youre funny but overtrash is almost 10

damn vro, thats crazyy. Anyway
LEAVE THEM TO KHONSU

Sorry anon they're making way too much money with F2P

you can earn some free lootboxes weekly which gives you some of the normal shop items (no mythics or collabs I believe)

For queue times, to make tanks feel tankier (raid bosses), to deal with double shields and goats. No one really wanted to play them honestly. They should just do what Rivals is doing now, making tanks very tanky but they kinda do mediocre damage like that one test they did back in OW1 but the damage was a bit too low, they did like a blanket 20% from max instead of just adjusting it per tank depending on attack and abilities. This is the problem with these devs, they always one a one size fit all solution instead of adjusting characters individually properly. This is why their open queue is always just -150 HP on every tank instead of adjusting it appropriately.

They kept bending over backwards trying to keep the compfag meta fresh, but that never worked. So 5v5 and limited to a single tank.

Of course this was a terrible idea because while compfags are extremely vocal, they are also extremely minority.

No surprise when a large amount of the playerbase quit after the 6v6 removal

shitty open queue

It's 2 tank limit and is the perfect medium so far. Role queue is too restrictive and complete open queue would guarantee goat meta

not ranked experience

Competitive 6v6 has been available for like 2 months now and they're keeping it.

LMAO!
Why made it "Overwatch 2" for no fucking reason!

buy game

money stolen

Amazing

technically lost after the very first patch

Torb has never been in a better state than he is now. Symmetra is neither here nor there.

They're also changing the name dropping the 2 in the future. So yes, it's just ow1 with the player base ready and willing to get crammed by mtx

6v6 and the upcoming Stadium mode (Deadlock MOBA type shit) will unironically save Overwatch.

youtube.com/watch?v=E9tUpO0BTQY

Made for me and only me

way too little way too late
deciding Marvel Rivals was a viable competitor only after they stole 90% of your users was the biggest mistake Blizzard ever made

hahaha holy shit you're fucking kidding
do not tell me that Blizzard saw Deadlock getting a momentary bump in engagement MONTHS and MONTHS ago and put all their fucking resources into copying it even after every dropped it.

That's hilarious.

Do you still have to unlock new heroes?

not anymore, they just release them when they come out

SO how many Overwatch 2 changes are even left that they haven't completely backtracked on? Are they going to publicly apologize for being fucking retards?

yep, that's what they did, you can tell how desperate they're getting

I can't be the only person who likes playing Mercy and is not some kind of slut

dropped it

more like Valve is being lazy (again) and Blizzard is swooping in to pick up some free cash

If they do it a good enough job casualizing it, they could have something fun enough for a 2-week limited gamemode!

What do you make White boy?

Fuck you and your stupid competitive bullshit retard

Make a shitload of fun broken new abilities and advertise if for the PvE side of your game

PvE is a flop because devs were niggerfaggots so now all this dev time creating abilties were wasted

Instead use those PvE talent trees and abilities for this moba pvp stadium mode instead to not have it go to complete waste

You guys laugh, but it's honestly a pretty solid idea given how absolutely fucking retarded the PvE idea was going to be.

you're telling me blizzard couldn't half-ass a MvM clone in 4 years?

hides thread

So far they're keeping Open Queue 6v6 for Season 16 but not removing 5v5. They state there is a 3:1 preference for 5v5 but I think that's just because people view "tests" as the non-official game mode but we'll see.

Aside that, all that remains are the visual and sound effects changes (VFX/SFX, light/shadow, rendering, engine stuff), hero reworks specific to 5v5, and the F2P/shop currency stuff. They also removed things like looking for group that was in OW1 but I don't think that is returning any time soon. There will be no PVE stuff (they stated they canceled all that) and no plans for workshop in the near future either.

Everything else is about the same as OW1, they are still adding heroes and maps in the typical cadence and they're doing the same seasonal events (few new ones but they also repeat) about 3 each a year. (Very slow versus Marvel Rivals which is planning on doing 1 hero a month now).

Outside that, Stadium, Hero Bans, and Map Voting are the known new features coming Season 16 and 17.

Everything inspired by W3 dota shit is cancer. Everything inspired by Diablo is cancer. Everything inspired by WoW is cancer. Blizzard is cancer.

Deadlock had a surge in popularity because a "secret" game suddenly had open invites

It almost immediately lost that popularity not because of anything Steam did, but because MOBAs and TPS' mix about as well chocolate and clam chowder.

The general audience didn't want a MOBA, they wanted a hero shooter that didn't suck. Rivals gave that to them.

The current Blizzard couldn't. The original devs made one in a few months for the halloween thing and it's one of the only good things about the game

oh no

5v5 is still going to be around and is like 3x more popular than 6v6 queues. Did you retards not read the post literally linked in the OP?

Of course this was a terrible idea because while compfags are extremely vocal, they are also extremely minority.

the important thing to remember with compfags is that they will enthusastically chew glass for an extra 1% winrate, and say that this is great and everyone should chew glass, but this doesn't mean that mandatory glass chewing is a good idea

At least half of those years were spent on making a breast-milk vault for the CEOs.

The PvE modes in OW1 being so incredibly fun was the only reason I gave a shit about OW2
Them canceling the PvE mode was ridiculous

Everyone on the overwatch team is getting fired and I couldn't be happier. This is what happens when you turn on your entire fanbase and just try to monetize everything and squeeze every single cent out of them.

good move that mode is much more fun than normal comp
rather have a role q version but it works

why would I or anyone still play this?
they are desperately trying to grasp at that 2017 hype.

How is that diversity calculator working out for you Blizzard? A little competition and your game gets folded over in 4 months.

In the trash where it belongs

Wohoo another permament arcade mode, who gives a shit.

So far the last 2 heroes are white lol

Role queue is too restrictive

For what? Fucking retard matches full of dps faggots and no heals?

So absolutly nothing changed, great.
For a marketing stunt all they did was shoot themselves repeatedly in the face.

what a shitshow

Yeah only after the fucking mystery meat C*nadian genderqueer xer and a pink hair from Mars. They are desperate to reverse course and it shows

I've had plenty of games where I was able to flex off one role to another and win because of it. In role queue that's not possible.

this unironically looks fun
mobashit is gay besides the pvp so skipping straight to it is good
you're more likely to get multiple healfags who all only play one character like mercy or ana

UHM SWEATY YOU *HAVE* TO PLAY A ROLE YOU DON'T WANT OK, BING BING PEW PEW DIE DIE DIE IS SERIOUS BUSINESS OK?

JUST PLAY ANOTHER MATCH? UHM DON'T YOU KNOW THAT TRIGGERS MY PHOBIA?

Role queue is extremely gay

Too late. Already loyal to Marvel Rivals.

The only diverse character that could bring any attention to this game is a character with F+ cup tits and cleavage by default, all they're pushing out is safehorny Tracer clones that are forgotten in a week

pink hair from Mars

What's wrong with Juno? She's unironically a good character in both gameplay and design.

Wohoo another permament arcade mode, who gives a shit.

It's in both casual and competitive. Not in arcade.

I think he means moira

Meme thing was never used. It was shown off by an intern that had no say in the company. Characters like these has been leaked even a year before Rivals.

He's replying to a post that says "last two heroes". Moira came out like 5 years ago or some shit. I think he's just complaining to complain. The average Anon Babbleigger if you will.

it was totally used lol otherwise shit like venture would have never been conceived

Kill OW1

Make OW2 where literally nothing is different, just to farm money

Literally the plot of a shitty Ryan Reynolds movie.

Normies already move onto Marvel Rivals and won't come back.

TF2 chads keep on winning by doing nothing again.

A thing like venture was always going to be a possibility in current blizzard regardless of a tool existing or not. What's good is how fast they jumped on creating content for Juno after realizing how much of a bust venture was.

That one non binary bitch that looks like she eats rocks got no fan art or hype. Overwatch is a shadow of its former self. Juno has a great design I'll admit

TF2 chads keep on winning by doing nothing again.

doing nothing

But enough about 70% of your player-base being idle bots.

I've noticed that alot more in Rivals than OW nowadays
probably because all the dps shitters are spider panther moon one tricks

He's wrong but you're also retarded for damage controlling.

I am koji fox from the critically acclaimed multi million seller final fantasy xiv

OWbros... Will this be the hail mary we need to recover our dying playerbase

this thread is saved

damage controlling

Call it whatever you want I'm just tired of fags on Anon Babble being negative niggers just because it's their default personality here. There are so many points of criticism that overwatch deserves. I've probably talked more shit about the game than he has.

cope

rest in piss reddit rivals

December

And where did 75% of that playerbase go? Next flavor of the month slop?

Thought I was in the 3ds thread for a second
Which of these should I play

I'm just tired of fags on Anon Babble being negative niggers

And you decide to post that shit in an Overwatch thread of all things? Choose better shit to defend next time.

Overwatch is about to go on a decade of the most questionable, circular business decisions. It's a study in bad production of a live service game.

The only promise overwatch 2 kept was being f2p and that's still a raw deal for the consumer.

I'm never playing Trannywatch again and whoever does should kill themselves

watch the anime in kai and play inazuma eleven go on your 3DS

every single blizzard dev deserves to get raped how can someone be so incompetent at their jobs

And you decide to post that shit in an Overwatch thread of all things?

I've actually done this kind of thing in other threads as well. Not commonly, though. You want me to make a trip, so that you may follow my blogposts, fellow anon?

I don't really care. Just don't act surprised when people call you out for defending this shit.

Alright thanks.

Marvel rivals better

On the contrary. It's all completely expected for me.

Wait wasnt 6v6 the main reason they abandoned Overwatch 1 to begin with?

They remove all but Ana tranq dart as a stun.

That, and an attempt at expanding on 1's limited PvE events. Key word: "attempt".

OY VEY.
I wouldn't even play again if they added nude skins.
Fucking kikes and their freemium bullshit

They completely reworked the tank role and its heros with solo tank in mind, so I don't see how this works without unfun balancing issues.

the main reason

The actual reason was they legally couldn't change the monetization system in a game people paid $40 for. So they made a """""sequel"""" to have battle passes and other mtx bullshit to fuck the playerbase as hard as they could. They gave fake excuses to make this sequel like the PvE that was eventually canceled.

They completely reworked the tank role

They even didn't do that much. Some tanks just make no sense as solo tanks like zarya with her double bubble. She can only exist in two states: Retardedly broken, or completely useless when it comes to 5v5. In 6v6 she's back to one self bubble and one ally bubble, making her a much healthier tank to play and play against. Even with the devs creating new heroes with 5v5 in mind, 6v6 still works FAR better as it was the original way the game was made.

IIRC the 2020 double shield meta had OW1 at it's absolute lowest point, so they wanted to push 5v5 as a solution.
only to make things much worse lol

no pve

characters are still gay

ignore and fuck over fanbase for 4 years now

Comic book hero shooter comes out and steals disgruntled fans

suddenly pretend they care and release what amounts to backtracking on their past mistakes

Yeah I give this game 2 years or so before we see a shutdown notice. There's literally nothing they can do to fix it.

Yeah I give this game 2 years or so before we see a shutdown notice

2 more years

Surely, this time.

Blizzard will be dead this time for sure!

two more weeks!

What the fuck is an Overwatch??

I FUCKING TOLD YOU BLIZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD

It's definitely not getting shut down but Marvel rivals did light a fire under their ass to do more to fix the game.

yall some fuckin peasants man, getting excited over 6v6 when that shit should've been the standard from the beginning. real blizzdrone mental illness hours

Pretend for years OW2 was gonna be a different experience to 1

End up going back to 1 design anyway

Now watch everyone cry for 5v5 to return cause Compfags start stacking Sigma and Reinhardt and bring back double shield

Marvel rivals still clap your disgusting tranny game

I'm not installing the chinese kernel level anticheat no matter how much you shill capeslop.

Now watch everyone cry for 5v5 to return

They don't have to, 5v5 is staying. OP literally linked the article you lazy triple nigger

Marvel Rivals and Overwatch are friends.
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not really even if i did like pic related

getting cucked by Squirrel girl

is 6vs6 replacing 5vs5 though?

Yay now I can throw after my team's tank rage locks my hero in tank role queue!

nutter butter milkerz
yes pease

45%

dayum

Remember when people were adamant that 5v5 was better than 6v6 and fanatically defended 5v5 whenever it was questioned?
Those people became 6v6 advocates and started pretending that they 'always knew' 5v5 was bad, lmao

I am SO GLAD I saw this shit all along.

lactation is so fucking gross
and so is pregnancy, honestly

Nah

that number basically dropped to what it was the previous year and then recovered a bit

lol no overwatch used to be above 30k last year

right, today is currently 26k (the day before Marvel Rivals patch) but all week has been around the 30k's. Last year was 30's-40's. April to Nov was 40's-50's then it dropped in anticipation for MR to the 30's down to 28k and went up a bit with perks patch then dropped to current figures again. So basically just the existence of MR is kept the game consistently about 20k~ lower than it was in the previous year's average

As someone who likes lactation, most of it is shit because it's portrayed like shit. That's not how human beings lactate. Maybe it's how squirrels lactate; I don't know.

Squad moved on to MR and while i appreciate OW2 slowly rolling back to OW we really only have enough free time for one hero shooter

Most people still play on bnet for some reasons, true OW playerbase is probably around 100k daily on average.

magical bnet numbers

lol who knows it could even be 1 BILLION!!!

same, i would play ow2 but my friends dont wanna anymore and no way in hell am i solo queing with randos

I take double shield over the current metas

shitty openque and not ranked experience

fuck you nigger role que is trash

i dont play either, i still play tf2.

In the $15 dlc

i want to burst fire down her throat

Why did they change it in the first place if everyone likes 6v6 more?

I'm not playing Overwatch until they update Tracer as bi and give her a very fucking lewd outfit.

It was hilarious seeing overwatch pros and content creators pushing 5v5 as the next huge thing for esports, only for OWL to die a year after launch.

I got permabanned from overwatch which I dont mind. I wish I knew why I was permabanned

Blizzard makes a big deal about how Tracer is gay

cut off yuri shippers by having her engaged to some random offscreen nobody

Literally what was their strategy here

Overwatch 2 did what it seeked out to accomplish. Completely change its way of monetisation without facing any lawsuits.

it's unironically too late unless they start CRANKING out new maps, heroes, events, and PvE content IMMEDIATELY. Marvel Rivals has unironically made ongoing Overwatch support look like Team Fortress 2's ongoing support. just a flat out not enough, full stop, ancient, archaic content release pace.

do i wanna play the game getting two new heroes and one new map a year, or the game getting twelve heroes and six maps per year?

hmmm.... i wonder....

true OW playerbase is probably around 100k daily on average.

Will this kill marvel rivals?

Hopeful.

Do people actually want this crap? Do people forget this game is not like L4D, with different items and such. PvE for this game would be boring as shit since it's just you shooting your infinite ammo weapon at dumb bots, waiting for your cooldowns to be over. Everyone would complete all the missions and get bored of them in a day.

I just consider her futasexual since that's all anyone ever spams aside from blacked.
Getting points from fags.

would there really be more players on steam than bnet?

fat

instantly closed

Blizzard saw how Deadlock got popular

make Stadium mode in a panic

but in reality nobody wants to deal with and study autistic MOBA builds and math shit, they just want to shoot shit

nobody plays Deadlock anymore, they moved on to simple shit like Marvel Rivals

lol they fucking jumped the gun

The Mario movie

It's the only reason for even owning the sequel.
Without it there is nothing
It was the only thing keeping me from quitting all together

Rivals made me into a role queue fag, DPS niggers deserve death

Blizzard realized it was a waste of time and money. It's basically like zombies mode in TF2, but more braindead.

t. never played the PvE Battleborn campaign

game doesn't need role queue, it just has a severe role disparity issue that Emma and Ultron are finally gonna start to mend. can't really blame DPS mains for landing on a DPS hero to main when over half the roster are DPS. that's just how it's gonna work out in a lotto.

Did blizzard ever explain why they removed LFG in OW2

It had one?

There needs to be a hero shooter with no healers, just give everyone regenerating health. Fuck this middle man shit of healers.

I feel like I'm the only person who liked the 5v5. Gave the game room to breathe and not be taken over by shield spam or hamster stall. Plus it let me play giga-aggro as Reinhardt. Robot tug of war sucks cock as a game mode though.

Do I want to play the unpolished, third person shooter, that forces you to install kernel level chinese rootkit

No, I don't think I will.

Much prefer this concept art design of Juno, looks cool and her smg looks more fun to play with, in comparison to her otoscope turned ray blaster. Unfortunate

I wish an Overwatch clone came out that removed Roles entirely, having open queue with built in role requirements is goddamn retarded

yeah, that was the actual real content of the game, not the tacked on PvP Overwatch competitor. you had like 20+ heroes, they'd start at level 1 at the beginning of a level, and as you'd level up you'd get to choose ability enhancements. kinda like HotS. it had some other RPG mechanics like that too, there was some persistent hero progression match too, but it's been so long now i struggle to remember it. i think you could also equip items that affected your damage/kit/attack speed/crit/lifesteal. every character could be played in a few different ways, it was unironically very fun. some buddies and i put like 90 hours into it doing just the story mode missions as different heroes/with different builds. i wish there was a game like it out today cause once they shut it down that was it. genre deleted.

i already play League of Legends, the Chinese have had my shit rootkitted for years, i don't care.

containment mode for giga retards

very based blizzard, hopefully all the mercyfucks will go there and stop ruining my ranked games

waste of time and money when they still do PVE halloween events every year

They get what they fucking deserve

dps/tank/healer trinity shit except now the devs came up with the most retarded names for them and instead of being helpful

It's infuriating seeing massive budgets get thrown at a game design that we've realised is shit years ago.

i vehemently disagree. you are not the final arbitrator of what is and isn't fun.

you are not the final arbitrator of what is and isn't fun.

Way to miss the point. I'm not saying it's bad simply because I think it's bad. I'm saying it's bad because everyone got sick of this shit once already.

SBM vs EOMM

would you prefer cancer or cancer?

I'd rather have the game balanced around trying different comps than forcing ppl to only que for a specific role and not being able to switch if needed.

Playing trannywatch

IN 2025

LOL, LMAO! FIND A BLIZZDRONE TODAY AND HELP HIM BY SHOOTING IT IN THE HEAD! it no longer thinks

one thing bad means it's okay that other thing is bad

Garbage take. Also, I didn't even know that LoL had that. Glad I never even gave it a shot then.

Every big massive upgrade that you niggers shill is just a reversion to OW1, and OW1 was always mid. Come back when they actually do something new.

The perk system (talents) is new and well received. And Stadium is going to be very new as well:

Lol
It is now confirmed that the only reason they slapped a 2 on the game was to get retards to buy into the game again under much worse monetization practices.

it's less one thing bad and another thing okay and more that i've already done this whole "do i care about rootkits" bit and i don't so i installed the League update anyway. so now whenever another game has that, it doesn't really come up again. cause how much worse could being double rootkitted be? lol

Marvel Rivals is not really any better. The healer slug meta has been plaguing it for months now.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DONT PICK YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER IN MY UNSERIOUS CHINK MOBILE GAME WITH MARVEL SLOP COAT OF PAINT, THINK OF OUR TEAM COMP?!

you are a fucking clown nigga

I don't like the perks desu. They're just too boring. They should use perks like TF2 used loadouts. That way you can play a character in truly different ways like Demoman vs Demoknight.

If you can change perks during the game like you do heroes, then it offers even more flexibility in counters. If your team seems to be pretty self sufficient then your Mercy can choose battle Mercy perks and become more DPS. If your tank is playing more like a DPS, then let your Mei choose some tanky perks. Stuff like that.

overwatch has more characters to play in the first place if you want to go from demoman to demoknight, and modern devs cant balance for shit because they never play their own game so they dont want to let people have too much fun.

they literally only changed the name to try and weasel their way out of "every hero in Overwatch will be free forever" by slapping a 2 on it and pumping out battlepass shit to try and lock characters behind the paypig wall only to back down when everyone called them out on it

Character unlocks never required buying the premium pass though. People bitched about it because they used to require level 50 which was later dropped to 20. People were literally complaining they had to actually play the game to unlock heroes.

This was obvious the moment PvE was canceled.

cool. still not playing it.

You don't have to.

but because MOBAs and TPS' mix about as well chocolate and clam chowder.

Monday Night Combat managed to hit the sweet spot (and then the sequel fucking ruined everything and died because some idiot decided to turn it into a full-on MOBA).

is there a name for this the turtle mode hooded armor archetype? its grown on me.

Didn't this game have bots to shoot as well for like levels or money and shit? I feel like that aspect always puts me off of playing them.

playing any Blizzard game in 2025

doing [thing] in [current year]

When will this shit meme die off aleady?

5v5 is still the superior mode

That's called Halo.

it has been the whole time.

but its fun to kill healers and imagine their team arguing, especially if you can instigate it in all chat

I love le heckin 6vs6 now play a second tank so I can play Genji into Winston and you better play around the one guy who only plays Zarya or we'll blame you when we lose

Safe horny isn't real. If he idea is you want characters lusting after your characters, and reviewer/games journalist types hate men lusting after attractive characters, then no horny is safe.

Safe horny is a meme made by reddit. A red herring. It cannot exist. You have people complaining about your """safe horny""" Juno, so clearly she's not """safe""" horny and can't be. Just regular horny.

Everyone on the overwatch team is getting fired

Source? I want to believe this but I doubt it because microsoft is self destructive and keeps funding flops.