Earlier this week, Blizzard Leisure canceled the Overwatch 2 PvE mode Hero Missions. Because it seems, these missions had been a part of an even bigger, now-nixed plan. The truth is, the PvE Hero Missions had been step two of a 3 step plan that might’ve led to a brand new MMO.
Again in 2013, a first-person shooter MMO known as Undertaking Titan was canceled at Blizzard Leisure (though it wasn’t introduced publicly till 2014). A number of members of that growth group had been moved to a brand new group known as Crew 4, and had been set to work on Overwatch. Nonetheless, they nonetheless thought of themselves to be an MMO group and so they got here up with a 3 step plan to get themselves again to creating MMOs.
Step one was to make use of Undertaking Titan belongings to create Overwatch, which turned out to be “a runaway hit.” The second step of the plan was a devoted model of PvE, which was meant to be a mixture of Hero Missions and Story Missions in Overwatch 2. Ultimately, this may result in an MMO that might be “a real realization of the unique imaginative and prescient of Undertaking Titan.”
So — what went incorrect?
In keeping with Overwatch 2’s present sport director Aaron Keller, the group “[wasn’t] as centered as we must always have been on a sport that was a runaway hit” and centered an excessive amount of on a plan that they couldn’t get to work anymore. The result’s a brand new roadmap for Overwatch 2, which nonetheless contains the Story Missions alongside co-op content material.
Overwatch nonetheless has a future, however it’s now not within the type of a brand new model of Undertaking Titan.
