The long-in-development Overwatch 2 lastly went reside with a PvP beta this afternoon. Quickly after launch, the primary Overwatch broke its earlier document of whole Twitch viewership in mere hours.
In honor of the sequel beta, a number of high-profile twitch streamers equivalent to Lirik, Fantasy, and most notably, xQc streamed the primary Overwatch. The sport peaked at round 450,000 views in the present day, and xQc’s amassed over 150,000 views of Overwatch on his personal.
Overwatch followers have been dying to see in the event that they have been chosen for the Overwatch 2 PVP beta. The one method of accessing a beta secret’s to look at partnered streamers for a sure size of time whereas having their Blizzard battle.web account linked on Twitch. Fortunate customers can decide up a PC beta key solely till Might seventeenth.
In a tweet from Nathan Grayson of the Washington Post, sources have said that Overwatch has suffered from Activision Blizzard’s aggressive calls for for each a sequel and an esports league. The corporate’s well-reported office lawsuits haven’t helped both, and there have been a number of high-profile exits from the corporate up to now a number of years.
With over fifty million models bought within the unique Overwatch, there’s a entire lot using on Blizzard for creating a worthy sequel. For years, followers of Overwatch had been seeing points from delayed hero releases to seeing Jeff Kaplan, Overwatch’s unique sport director, go away the corporate completely precisely one yr in the past.
Christian Angeles is a contract author for IGN.
