Activision and Blizzard have officially revealed Overwatch 2; a supercharged sequel that will send players deeper into the world and story of Overwatch. The game promises to build upon the original game’s critically acclaimed foundation of world-class PvP competition, and below you can find the first details for it.
In Overwatch 2, players will take on the roles of the world’s heroes in cooperative missions that challenge them to team up, power up, and stand together against an overwhelming outbreak of threats around the globe. Players will also battle each other in the next evolution of competitive Overwatch play, which carries forward existing players’ accomplishments and loot collections and features the current complete Overwatch roster, a new generation of heroes, new internationally recognizable maps that widen the scope of the world, a new Push map type, and more.
J. Allen Brack, president of Blizzard Entertainment, said:
“With Overwatch 2, we’re building the cooperative, narrative-driven game experience that players have been asking for since the original—and that we’ve wanted to make for a long time. We’re looking forward to telling the next chapter of this epic story in-game, and we’re excited to give players a whole-new kind of co-op experience built around progressing and customizing their favorite heroes—all while providing even more of everything they love about Overwatch today.”
In the sequel’s action-packed cooperative Story Missions, players will experience the advent of a new Overwatch as Winston, Tracer, and other members of the original Overwatch join forces with a new generation of heroes. Players will take an active role in the Overwatch saga as a new global crisis unfolds through a series of intense, high-stakes four-player missions. As the story progresses, players will team up as different sets of heroes and fight to defend the world from the omnic forces of Null Sector, uncover the motives behind the robotic armies’ attacks, and come face-to-face with rising new threats around the globe.
The battle continues in Hero Missions, where the Overwatch team will be called upon to go beyond their limits as they deploy across the planet, defending cities against robot invasions, taking on elite Talon agents, and battling the villainous forces laying siege to the world. In this highly replayable mode, players can level up their favorite heroes and earn powerful customization options that supercharge their abilities in co-op play—such as altering Reinhardt’s Fire Strike to ignite nearby enemies or modifying Tracer’s Pulse Bomb to cause a devastating chain reaction
—granting the extra edge they need against the overwhelming odds.
To help realize these missions, the sequel also introduces significant engine upgrades that support larger maps for co-op (PvE) play, as well as the wide variety of new enemies and factions that players will encounter on their missions. The game also introduces visual enhancements designed to bring players’ favorite heroes—and their new looks for Overwatch 2 —to life in greater detail.
Overwatch 2 also represents the beginning of a new era for the series’ world-renowned competitive 6v6 play. In addition to carrying forward all of the original game’s heroes, maps, and modes—as well as existing Overwatch players’ accomplishments and loot collections—the sequel adds multiple new playable heroes to the ever-growing roster; widens the scope of the world with even more maps and locations; and adds a new Push map type, in which two teams compete to make a robot (that happens to be pretty good at pushing things) push the map’s objective to their opponent’s side.
Last but not least, current Overwatch players will battle side-by-side with Overwatch 2 players in PvP multiplayer. In addition, current Overwatch players will be able to play Overwatch 2 heroes and maps, ensuring the core PvP experience remains dynamic and vital for today’s community in the Overwatch 2 era.
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so it appears that 4chan leak was true, minus diablo 4 being a fps, the leak even predicted the classes on diablo 4. I guess they decided to change it.
That 4chan leak had a ton of wrong information about Diablo IV.
It also said the game was in production immediately after Diablo Immortal(Not true), that loot doesn’t drop properly(Not true), 3 classes at launch(not true), game involves siding with demons after a millennia of peace(not true), final boss is a holy/light infused diablo called Diabael Primus(Probably not true), Diablo will be the good guy(probably not true), expecting to launch in 2021(not true judging by it not coming out “Soon, not even Blizzard soon” from the panel today).
So what exactly did they predict? That there would be 3 classes? One thing it predicted from the demo of a game that’s nowhere near release?
I can take shots in the dark and then see if one of them landed on target too, it’s not that hard to do.
“that loot doesn’t drop properly”
How do you know thats not true?
>production immediately after Diablo Immortal(Not true).
>loot doesn’t drop properly(Not true).
>3 classes at launch(not true).
>siding with demons after a millennia of peace(not true)>Diablo will be the good guy(probably not true),
>expecting to launch in 2021(not true).
What ? Game will only have 3 classes, Production started immediately after Immortal’s failure announcement, we all know that, i don’t think they are even 10% into the development, not showcasing the gameplay clearly shows that. we don’t know about loot drops but might be true since it’s not at a playable state and 2021 also might be true but i guess it won’t get released until 2022. just like Anthem they just slapped some nonsense together for the sake of announcement.
They were right about WOW,HS and OW2 and most of D4.
Game doesn’t only have 3 classes, it’s launching with the standard Diablo 5 classes since 2 came out.
Production didn’t start immediately after Immortal. Diablo IV was being produced before Diablo Immortal got announced.
People played the game, so the gameplay has been showcased. It’s exactly what we saw in the gameplay trailer that Blizzard put out. People were picking up loot fine in the gameplay, literally dozens of Youtubers and people have put up on the Internet. If it was “10% in production” I doubt they would even be this far along to have smashed together such a working prototype in a year.
They weren’t right. Sorry. Fantasy land tier bullsh*t at best that you believe in.
>it’s launching with the standard Diablo 5 classes.
Yes but the leak said 3 classes and they showed 3. after that they said there will be 5 in final product.
>Diablo IV was being produced before Diablo Immortal got announced.
No, you can’t prove that, i can’t either. because the leak was right for the most part i go with that.
>People played the game.
No, that was a “Demo” they put together in a few months. there was no game, just one tiny area with ~20min time limit.
>People were picking up loot fine in the gameplay.
Maybe they fixed it for blizzcon.
>Fantasy land tier bullsh*t at best that you believe in
Doesn’t matter, they were right about most of blizzcon this year, that’s a fact, new wow expansion’s name, OW2, HS and D4.
ok … no joke … for a sec i thot blizzard will kill mei in that trailer …. you know … FREE HK and all that
wouldn’t play this even if you payed me
They didnt even bother to show Widowmaker’s butt…this is gonna suck (even more) than the original..I wonder if all the gay characters are straight now. Kek
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Also note that Tencent owns a 5% stake in Activision Blizzard.
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Nice, they’ve finished ruining the first one, now they can move on to a new project to f*k up.
Oh, is Overwatch getting a new patch called Overwatch 2? How creative. Don’t hurt yourselves there, Blizzard.
Needed an excuse to put more aggressive monetization in. That is all
Sooo its like overwatch 1 but with bots???