Blizzard’s long-awaited arena champion returns to BlizzCon with new features.
Along with Diablo IV, the most anticipated in the catalog Blizzard For the near future, Overwatch 2. Director Jeff Kaplan and his talented team of developers have not shown any signs of life for a long time, and they may be immersed in the production of the game; But they reappeared on the occasion of BlizzCon to present a Video Which indicates a healthy and steady development from what we saw in his official announcement in 2019.
Maps like Rome will be specially designed to host the advanced modeWe left the event with some others heresy Of interest, too. For example, we had the opportunity to see Two new maps For the most promising multiplayer title, which is Roma (focus on trailer first mode, which we already saw in the OW2 commercial) and New York. During matches, we can take advantage of a system Talents It’s been making noise for a long time: it’ll allow us to customize the effects of heroes’ abilities – think Tracer inflicts damage when teleporting through opponents or shaking Reinhardt in 360 °.
at entorno PvE, Which would be noticeably superior to what we saw during the original Overwatch limited events, a rift appears between them Story missions and hero missions, Which you can imagine will be devoted to expanding the background of the charismatic heroes of the game. An addition that makes perfect sense if we take into account society’s insatiable appetite for history, which until now has been flowing through excerpts from texts, storyboards and stories.
Transitioning from Overwatch to OW2
When Overwatch 2 was officially revealed, Blizzard made it clear that it was a flagship Complement concept, Which in the eyes of many matches better with “modernization” or “expansion”: in general, the original game will be updated with the graphics and technical developments of the second part, to which we have to add the fact that both games will share the team, maps, modes, and matches for the entire PvP scene. Simply put, OW2 will contain a series of Collaborative content It will be available only to those who pass through the box.
Whatever the case, the original game continues to update (slowly, but it does) with maps like recent Kanezaka, and events like the Lunar New Year. There is no release date for OW2 as of today, so keep an eye out for future events and potential comments from developers for new clues.
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