Overwatch 2 Introduces Radical Changes, Adds More Player Choice, More Chaos
Sometimes, Overwatch 2’s support for Ace Ana Amari just wants to nano-enhance itself. The ultimate ability allows burst therapy to be accompanied by increased damage and reduces incoming damage, making it a versatile combat tool that allows enemy teams to turn the table completely. But Anna can’t “nano” herself.
At least until next week.
With the release of Season 15 on February 18, Overwatch 2 adds a new ability to upgrade mechanics to change the way heroes work. It can be said that this is the biggest restructuring of the game since its launch in 2022. Players can now set hero allowances, a cute bonus unique to every hero who changes their abilities or other gameplay. The allowance is divided into two stages, small and professional, the former makes a slight change to your kit, while the latter essentially changes your abilities.
One of ANA’s main offer options, “Shrike”, also applies Nano Boost to ANA, whenever she uses it on her teammates. Of course, it adds the ultimate value because you essentially double the cast, but it also greatly improves your strategic choices. Traditionally, you have nanoenhanced teammates who are actively fighting because this will make them kill enemies faster and also make it harder for them to kill them.
But is there agile revitalization? Of course, the same option still applies. However, you can also use it for the healing and damage reduction of the burst, making it possible to save yourself when the enemy team jumps down. Alternatively, you can find a side angle on the enemy and use a nanoenhancing agent to threaten yourself and any teammates you increase in significant damage. You can even use Ultimate on your first allies just to give yourself a significant advantage in 1V1.
Honestly, both options seem great.
Allowances and new stadium modes offer players a lot of options
Arguably, the allowance is the biggest change announced in the Overwatch 2 Spotlight developer update, and players will start choosing them in fast games and competitive ways when the new season begins. However, the game’s developers have also announced various changes over the year, including new game modes, new heroes, hero bans and map voting, and the usual new cosmetics news.
This is an unstable moment for Overwatch. After years of de facto hero shooting kingdom, the game finds itself a powerful challenger Marvel competitors Launched in December. The competitors provide fans with familiar superhero faces, as well as new features such as third-person perspectives, destructive environments, team capabilities, and a higher ranking hero ban in competitive mode. It also uses the same 6V6 open team structure of oftwatch when it launches, then ends up going to the queue for a specific role and then putting players on the team, supporting the 5V5 format.
The competitor was a direct success, hitting 20 million players a few weeks after launch. Suddenly, Overwatch competes fiercely for players. The changes announced today were not whipped in two months, but they still feel that Overwatch issued a statement that it is willing to adapt and provide players with more matches and new reasons. this game. For example, allowances provide existing players with new ways to participate in the game and make it a more dynamic experience as you choose your privileges, as well as your response and adaptation to the allowances and adaptations chosen by teammates and enemies.
Is it a risk? Yes. Is it necessary to adjust and adjust when the player finds out the best privilege? Yes. However, I would rather see games fluctuate like this than make the game rust, and new games become the focus of people.
The new Stadium Game Mode will be launched sometime in April in Season 16, which offers more customization, adding MOBA-like progress elements to the game. Players will rotate multiple maps and preferred characters in seven best formats for game modes in each match. Between each round, players will spend time in a store where they can buy items and power for the heroes, essentially changing the way these characters play. It also allows for first-person or third-person viewing.
Again, this is a very different game from the one launched nearly a decade ago. But live service games need to adapt. Maybe the stadium will fail, or this will be Overwatch’s Fortnite: Battle Royal Moment. The only way to find out is to put it there and see what the player thinks.
The abilities of some stadiums overlap with the capabilities of Junkenstein’s lab activities.
Since this is a fundamentally different game mode from traditional Overwatch, the stadium will be launched in its own ranking mode. It will be launched only with 14 playable heroes in the game’s current roster of 42 heroes, increasing over time.
Season 16 will also introduce the hero ban to the competition model – a feature that the community has been demanding and debating for years. Later this year, the game will also allow players to vote on the map while participating in the competition.
All of these changes illustrate one theme: more player choices. “We want to find new challenges and ways to challenge our players and giving you more options in the game seems to be the perfect solution,” said Alec Dawson, chief game designer for Overwatch in a blog post. “Input allowance – a system that allows us to inject a layer of strategy into each game without completely reshaping the game you know and like.”
Whether it’s forbidden the powerful heroes in your competitive matches, vote to skip your least favorite map, play the entire game mode, build the entire game mode around building a suite of heroes, or just let yourself choose Nano as ANA To improve yourself, these changes are driving more choices in your hands.
Tired of sleeping from Reinhard’s allegations? The power of the stadium will keep you shielded when you explode your enemy team!
What else do you expect from Overwatch 2?
Aside from the more groundbreaking changes, Overwatch also teases the standard kit for upcoming heroes and cosmetics. The next new hero, Freja, is the bounty hunter who wielded the crount, will play a role in a trial later in Season 15 until she is in the official release of Season 16. She seems to be a fluid hurt hero.
Freja’s kit combines athletic ability with cross action.
Later this year, in Season 18 (expected in August), we will also get a new hero named “Aqua” who will have the ability to change the battlefield with his water abilities.
The upcoming season will also introduce fabulous skins for Zenyatta, D.VA and Juno, as well as weapon skins for Mercy, Reaper and Widowmaker.
The reward for replacing last year’s Jade Weapon is Galaxy Weapons – Star Purple Weapons seem to radiate the light of stars.
The new Galaxy weapons will have competitive points.
The unlikely return of the loot box
The loot box is back. The original game uses loot boxes as a power distribution system for cosmetics – if you want a new skin or spray, you have to buy the loot boxes and pray until you finally get what you want. However, as the loot boxes become easier to unlock over time, and as the game adds repeated protection, long-term players can reliably get new makeup from several, often free, Irving boxes.
Overwatch 2 introduces weekly and event rewards to the loot box, as well as the legendary loot box (with guaranteed legendary items) in the free and premium battle pass.
The stadium’s third-person perspective provides a new look and feel to the game.
Overwatch 2 is fighting for the future
Watch Medas come and go when someone who has played the game for eight years, survived years of content drought, and watched its popularity rise and fall, I think it is the most in Overwatch History One of the important moments. There are a lot of things in these announcements, and even if these changes aren’t a drop in one go, they can dramatically change the feeling of things over the course of the year.
My opinion: This is good for the game.
Yes, things like Perks and Stadium modes will make the game more complicated and confusing. But, honestly, this game may be even more chaotic. In my opinion, part of what makes the Marvel competitor so successful is that it evokes a sense of infinite chaos, very similar to the early days of Overwatch.
Staying unrestricted, this chaos can make the game feel impossible to parse, or make the victory completely out of control. But the right amount of chaos makes things interesting. It allows you to keep your toes. It makes everything feel fresh and different, and that’s what this game needs now.
Nano-enhanced ANA is serving you.
