

If you’ve got two and a half hours to burn, you can catch a replay of the entire livestream below, complete with footage of new maps and the new Push game mode in action. Overwatch 2 is an upcoming first-person shooter developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. This shift will result in rebalancing and adjustments across the board.” Second, the team announced that Bastion, the Omnic hero who can transform into a turret and tank in the first Overwatch, will be getting a redesign “from the ground up.” This will result, Blizzard said, “in major changes to how the hero plays. As a trade-off, however, it will also do more damage than in the the first game. However, she is ditching her fur-coated attire in favor of a more hi-tech suit. While it will still deal damage and slow enemies, it will no longer be able to freeze them completely with a sustained stream. Everybody loves Mei, and the affable Chinese hero is once again bringing her weather-changing devices to the fight. While the stream didn’t go into much detail on how Blizzard intends to rebalance the individual heroes within the game, two characters in particular did get mentions.įirst, Mei’s primary attack, the Endothermic Blaster, will get a big change. Overwatch 2 is an upcoming first-person shooter developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment.The sequel to the 2016 hero shooter Overwatch, the game is intended to have a shared environment for player-versus-player (PvP) modes with the first game while introducing persistent cooperative modes. By reducing the match size, Keller said, each player can have a greater impact on the outcome of the match. Game director Aaron Keller said the change is designed to make the game a bit easier to follow, as having multiple tanks on a team led to a lot of “noisy” abilities. Team composition will still be role-locked in the sequel, though the limit will now be one tank, two support, and two damage-dealers (or DPS). Instead, the player count will be trimmed back to 5-on-5. The biggest surprise is the news that Overwatch 2 will no longer support matches of 6 versus 6. Blizzard Entertainment recently held its first big livestream preview of Overwatch 2‘s PvP modes-and revealing some big changes in the process.
