After a run of leaks and rumours, Blizzard in the present day introduced Overwatch 2 at BlizzCon. The FPS sequel will characteristic “a ton” of PvE and story bits, director Jeff Kaplan mentioned in stage at BlizzCon, together with “highly replayable” cooperative missions. A brand new core PvP mode is in too, together with new maps, new characters, and new seems to be for previous characters. It’ll characteristic cross-game multiplayer with the primary Overwatch and, my god, beauty doodads unlocked and purchased within the first will truly carry over into the sequel. Come watch the announcement cinematic and first wee gamevid.
The first Overwatch was by some means a prequel to itself, story-wise, so it appears one thing may truly occur this time.
So! New characters, although the one one we all know is Sojourn and we don’t know a lot about her. New maps, together with Toronto, Gothenberg, and Monte Carlo. And a complete load of PvE, together with four-player story missions and the ‘Hero Missions’ mode. Hero Missions may even see characters levelling up, unlocking new perks. PvP-wise, we additionally realize it’ll characteristic a brand new core mode named Push. You can see a little bit of all this within the gamevid:
You can see a number of the character makeovers on the Overwatch site. More particulars on different bits are there too.
While unlocked cosmetics will carry over into the sequel, newness will movement again into the primary game too. Players of Overwatch and Overwatch 2 will play on the identical PvP servers with the identical maps and the identical characters. Kaplan mentioned they wish to “redefine what a sequel means” and yeah, it does sound fairly good from the little they’ve mentioned. More particulars on that to comply with this weekend at BlizzCon, I’m positive.
No agency phrase but on when Overwatch 2 will launch.
