Overwatch 2 is finally bringing back 6v6 with tests to decide OW’s future - Dexerto
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The Overwatch 2 devs have revealed tests for 6v6 to return and determine if the game should permanently go back to the old format.

Lol. After all these years they’re thinking of rolling back the 5v5 changes. To quote someone from Reddit:

PVE was dropped, heroes are free again, and now 6v6 is back. Blizzard spent the last couple of years turning overwatch 2 back into Overwatch 1.

Edit: See also the developer’s blog post about this, which goes into great detail explaining their decisions over the year and how we got here. Really worth a read if you are (or were) an OW player.

  • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    You have to buy the battlepass to use the newest characters. And the cosmetics used to be free.

    They monetized competitive gameplay elements and cosmetics that were supposed to come with the $60 I spent. Both of these are microtransactions.

    • ltxrtquq@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      3 months ago

      They actually changed that a while back, new heroes aren’t in the battlepass any more, everyone gets them for free. I don’t know how that works with the “new player experience” where you needed to win games to unlock the base heroes on a new account though.

      • rigatti@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        3 months ago

        I believe new players also have all the characters unlocked immediately.