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, it will test out a return to six-player teams. When the transition from the original game took place just over two years ago, Blizzard switched to a 5v5 format, dropping one tank from each side. But after countless requests from the community, the team is ready to trial new spins on the old format with different approaches to team compositions.. The first of these will get under way a week into season 14.
Each team of six will have between one and three heroes from each role. So you could opt to run with three tanks, two supports and one DPS in a set up that's similar to. But since this is a spin on the open queue format, teams will also be able to switch up their composition mid-match.
"These format tests are all about understanding if we can make the core game even stronger," Keller wrote. "Every day, millions of players jump into the core 5v5 format and the last thing we want is to negatively impact that experience. The exciting thing about these tests is the potential to introduce something that could appeal to another group of players, ones that might have felt uncertain about the move to 5v5 whenlaunched.
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