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Overwatch 2 opens the door to a return for 6v6

The return of the off tank.

A couple of years into the Overwatch 2 experience, player angst has reached a point where the people making the game are considering bringing the old 12-person matches back. Other than making a full-priced game free-to-play and laying out promises about player-vs-environment content that weren’t exactly fulfilled, the shift to Overwatch 2 also removed one tank player from each team. While it’s unclear when the 6v6 playtests will happen, Keller says that at least one “Hacked” event this season will try out “other ways of putting a team together that aren’t quite as rigid as a set composition, but not as loose as Open Queue,” to see how the developers can address some issues.

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