For Overwatch gamers who want to revisit former glories or study from previous errors, Blizzard are lastly including the much-requested function of replays. As you’d anticipate from the function that’s been frequent in multiplayer shooters for oh so a few years, it can let gamers view previous matches from totally different views at totally different speeds and all that. Me, I’m hoping I’ll get to lastly take some respectable screenshots to make use of in RPS articles as a result of all mine are garbage. Replays are actually dwell on the take a look at servers, and can launch within the common foremost model later.
Overwatch will retailer replays of gamers’ ten newest rounds, viewable till a brand new patch comes out (and presumably breaks compatibility). It is a disgrace that apparently it doesn’t assist downloading replays of different matches, reminiscent of event games, to study from the perfect.
Blizzard have been speaking about replays since 2017 and right here we lastly virtually right here.
Do see Blizzard’s blog post for the replay hotkeys and a few sizzling ideas. These are literally fairly good, suggesting methods to greatest enhance by finding out different gamers and groups in replays in addition to how to not make spotlight movies that suck (don’t over-use gradual movement, obvs).
Overwatch is at the moment in the course of its third birthday celebrations. As nicely as including foolish new outfits (together with making one other character a cop, booo), it’s biking via outdated occasion modes and cooperative story missions. The game is free to try in full till Tuesday too.
