The Overwatch 2 team has done an AMA on /r/Games on June 22, discussing (almost) anything and everything Overwatch 2. It gets juicy.
For the AMA thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/vicyeq/were_the_team_behind_overwatch_2_which_will_be/
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Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
01:03 – Loot Boxes and Currencies
03:12 – Social Systems in Overwatch 2
04:18 – Accessibility / Screen Shake
04:31 – Plans for Assault / 2CP Maps
05:13 – Meaning of Early Access for Overwatch 2
06:13 – Watchpoint Pack
07:29 – Symmetra Rework
08:05 – Any other reworks?
08:31 – Hero Information Screen
09:34 – Portrait Levels Removal
09:55 – MMR Reset
11:27 – Major Disconnect
12:39 – Voice Line Conversations
13:45 – Concerns About Number of Heroes per Role
14:25 – Challenges for Battle Pass
15:27 – Aaron Keller, New Game Director
16:03 – Meleeing as Junker Queen
16:29 – Design Philosophy for Upcoming Supports
17:39 – Where did Experimental go?
17:56 – Colorblind Updates
18:06 – New Hero Redesigns for Overwatch 2
18:15 – Movement Acceleration
18:43 – After Action Report
19:30 – Outro
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wondering if the 2 legendary skins in the watchpoint pack are available with game currency
Sounds like they'll do a double currency. One for actual money (gems in Smite) and one that's earned in game (favor in Smite). Hopefully they have a method to earn tiny bits of "gems" for the folks that can't drop 20 bucks every 9 weeks on the battle pass.
Da king is back baby he neva miss
I still occasionally use the LFG feature! It's pretty terrible haha I specifically use it to six stack in open queue and do goats on ps4 because it's fun. Easy diamond rank with that. But it's so flawed. Specifically, beyond the fact that people just don't really use it, you can't permanently kick someone, so they'll just keep joining over and over again, spamming racist stuff in chat or screaming into their mic to troll people. You also can't "shut down" the group after you're done. Everyone has to leave the group and then reinvite everyone into a new group if you don't want to have the LFG settings anymore, which is just silly.
I was very disappointed to hear that OW1 will be replaced by OW2 as I also thought they would be separate clients. I hope they keep a lot of legacy gamemodes
For what it's worth, We have known that Overwatch 1 would be shutting down and replaced by Overwatch 2 since the very beginning. I'll oblige that it has been a little confusing, but they have reiterated this point a few times since.
It's also good to see the more level headed figures in Overwatch have rational takes on the MMR reset. So refreshing after seeing so many throw temper tantrums over the last couple days.
I was just curious – I have progression in OW1 on both PC and Xbox. These are both linked to the same battlenet account. Once OW2 goes live and has cross-progression of OW1 stuff enabled, will both of these accounts merge, or will I have to choose which 1 of these 2 accounts to use for everything?
thank god they did not mess with the movement and ditched it😌
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One thing I wish they would do is force all new players to go through the basic tutorial. It may not make a huge dent in how new players play, but it'll at least get them situated and understand the game better than just being thrown into a game with bots or other players and have to figure it out themselves. (Especially since the F1 screen isn't obvious at all.)
I spend actual $0 and have everything you can buy for each character, having never purchased loot boxes over the 6 years I've played. I decided to give back by purchasing the day 1 beta access package.
A Guild/Clan system solves the "why don't people use LFG?" issue. We don't want to play with randoms (hello, that's how the game works without LFG…) but instead, meet players randomly that are great players, positive people, etc and say "hey, wanna form an association of OW players to grind games together". This prevents you from having to add strangers to your Bnet friends list but still have your OW associates grouped in your game interface.
Portrait gone makes me sad. I worked a long time for that affectation ( like I get it, it doesn't make me good or anything) and to hide it in my profile feels like putting it in the fridge instead of on the fridge.
Lowering SR between seasons should be proportional to your level as in, more SR drop for higher levels that enjoy having a number to move, and less SR drop for lower levels that REALLY struggle to move the needle 100SR upwards. The times they did this in the past basically reset a year's worth of work for me (moving from Silver to Gold) and it took a season to get it back, for them to just drop it off a cliff again. It felt like running in place and that's not great at lower ELOs. Like KarQ said, it's a mid to upper thing and they need to really leave us bottom feeders alone lol.