Overwatch 2’s PvP beta continues to be in its early levels, and extra content material is coming earlier than the total recreation launches. That features new options, maps, and even extra unannounced heroes, Blizzard says, in addition to common steadiness adjustments with an preliminary give attention to the sport’s assist solid.
Blizzard detailed a few of these adjustments in a developer weblog on the official Overwatch website on Tuesday, offering a take a look at what gamers can anticipate over subsequent patches.
Whereas there’s no phrase on when new heroes (past Sojourn) or maps might arrive, Blizzard shared a few of its plans relating to rapid priorities. Help heroes shall be seeing extra buffs, since they’ve misplaced an off-tank to guard them and are extra open to flanking. Which will additionally imply reworked talents, one thing that the assist aspect of Overwatch didn’t get in Overwatch 2’s beta.
“Now we have heard clearly that assist gamers really feel each tanks and harm gamers have extra new content material to take pleasure in and discover on this Beta,” Blizzard stated. “Long term, we consider the best approach to sort out this problem is so as to add thrilling new assist heroes to the sport, and that’s a part of our plans. Within the close to time period, our hero design crew can be experimenting with important, however shorter lead time, concepts together with new and refreshed talents for some present assist heroes.”
Blizzard additionally touched on adjustments to Overwatch’s scoreboard, and defined why it retired the medal and “fireplace” system in Overwatch 2’s beta in favor of extra granular participant statistics.
“These statistics embrace eliminations, assists, deaths, harm, harm mitigated, and therapeutic,” Blizzard stated. “The data shall be offered in a brand new format that mirrors different aggressive video games and sports activities. We need to present gamers with an total extra correct view of the sport. Our crew believes offering correct suggestions and encouragement can enhance everybody’s gameplay expertise!”
Blizzard was fast to notice that the beta take a look at continues to be a piece in progress, and components like menu screens, scoreboards, heroes’ new and upgraded seems, and the golden gun system should not totally carried out or full. There shall be “a major quantity of total polish and refinement added within the type of enhanced UI, [and] bug fixes,” in accordance with the developer.
