A correct spectator mode is coming to Overwatch, although you’ll have to attend some time if you happen to’re not within the Overwatch World Cup. Game Director Jeff Kaplan broke the information in one other of his affable dev movies, the place he explains that watching the Cup from in-game will allow you to poke the digital camera wherever you want. You’ll additionally be capable of comb over the replays, the place you’ll be able to decelerate time.
It’ll be a bit like utilizing those binoculars from Harry Potter, solely you’ll be able to sit in your room in your pants fairly than trudging out to a discipline with low-flying broomsticks. Proper magic.
To be clear: the time-slowing stuff is just for replays, and for now solely these of the finals and semi-finals at BlizzCon. Those shall be from the 2nd-Third of November.
“You also have control over things like the camera speed”, says Kaplan, “So if you wish to watch in quarter time and watch in very sluggish movement to essentially perceive how the professionals have been doing all of these strikes, you are able to do that. You may velocity issues up, you’ll be able to soar round within the timeline.
“We’ve enabled another options with the World Cup viewer as properly, like that prime down map view the place you get the little icons on every of the heroes that reveals you in the event that they’re surprised, in the event that they’re casting a capability and reveals you the place their well being is at and their final standing.”
All of these options will come to common matches in the future – “Early on this will only be available for the World Cup, and will require a special version of Overwatch only available on PC. But at a later date we’re trying to use this technology to reach every single one of our Overwatch players.”
Kaplan additionally mentions that there’ll be no new map introduced at Blizcon, in contrast to earlier years, although they’re nonetheless engaged on “new map content”. He then makes liberal use of the C-word to vow different bulletins in early November, and closes with a short overview of some steadiness adjustments.
“Expect buffs for Roadhog, Reaper, Symmetra and Mercy”, says Kaplan. “Mercy will be getting a buff specifically to Valkyrie”, whereas they’re aiming to offer Roadhog nicer hookfeel and enhance his “shotgun consistency”. The full patch notes will be discovered here, although observe these are for the PTR consumer and are certain to vary earlier than they make it to the servers correct.
Did you see that Sony actually made a pair of these Harry Potter Omnioculars? What a time to be alive.
