“It’s going great” just seems like company talk for “we’re f’d”, whcih looks to be the case if this 2023 release date ‘leak?’ is to be believed.
Could the community managers get some concrete numbers?
What percentage of new heroes are completed?
Maps?
Missions?
Balancing?
Reworks?
Redesigns?
If you don’t want to give us the exact number of heroes etc, sure, that’s fine, but could we at least see the current state of progress?
From all info I have:
What percentage of new heroes are completed?
– 15/33 so 17 more whe don’t know nothing about the “new look” but Im awere about the “new” Moira look we get from one gameplay
Maps?
– New York City - Hibryd - we seen on Develper pvp play 20 May and OWL gamplay on 9 October 2021
– Toronto - Push - we senn on BlizzCon 2019 and Develper pvp play 20 May 2021
– Rome (we senn on Develper pvp play 20 May 2021
– Rio de Janeiro - we senn on Develper pvp play 20 May 2021
– Monte Carlo - we senn on Develper pvp play 20 May 2021
– Gothenburg - No Info
– India - No Info
Missions?
– Rio de Janeiro - Thats the only info I have. Theres a 14min gamplay from 9 November 2019 upload on YT by GameSpot
Balancing?
– No Info so Im assume that it’s gonna be as bad as we have in current state
Reworks?
The only reworks that we already new are Sombra (unbalanced) and Bastion (it’s balanced better… kind of) on OWL from 26 September 2021
Brigitte - only shieldbash that gona do 50dmg
Doomfist - hes becoming a off-Tank
Redesigns?
Theres 15 hero that was redesinged:
Lucio, Mercy, Reinhart, Winston, Tracer, Genji, Mei, Widowmaker, Reapper, Phara, Cassady, Torbjorn, Baptiste, Sombra, Bastion.
More info:
Engie - Unknown for now but we know that the engie team is adding more to game.
Maps - Theres a plan for adding more map Environment such as sandstorm on Necropolis or Temple of Anubis (this one we can see on 2 November 2019 I assume that gamplay is from OW1 coze theres a diferends in graphic between ow1 and ow2 (it’s more shiny).
We get a day and night maps… but I would more like it the Day and night changes from WoW, where it changes in real time and it’s not randome.
Sound - new sounds and/or resound (is that a word) all guns - few people (Flat’s who come up with those terrible ideas for Experimental Card) said that S76 gun sounds like ping-pong rifle. There’s a sound that goes up when more of youre teammates die so you have clear vocal info about it.
Visuals - From OWL gamplay 26 September 2021 we can see that
On 19 November 2019 - Was Overwatch 2 interview with Michael Chu and Matthew Hawley
on YT uploaded by SA Games [1743 views, 18 likes] quality of video - poor (BTW wahts Michael Chu work is about? If he’s responsable about the lore than it’s realy poorly done job)
Where they anouced that for OW2 they planed to add 40 more heroes. Don’t get exited coze we see how thet add it heroes to with role so we can expect that theres gonna be:
1 Support
2 Tanks
37 DPS
On OW2 Realase day they planed to add at start 4 new heros with 1 of them is Sojuorn (DPS). Some rumors about Mauga and Junker Queen so 2 tanks/2dps/1 tank 1 dps?
No body knows and I think even Blizz don’t know about it.
But I think this is how we gonna get “40 more” “heroes”
So this means the current 33 + new 7 heroes = 40 “new” heroes
Now we have dps players that don’t know what to choose from 18 heroes,
tanks that be like “I pick this (1 of 8) and of not work than I switch”
and Support been fire by tam for they pick. But yea they need pick something that works with tanks and/or dps (7 heroes).
For me thise 7 new heroes should be 2 tanks ,2 supports, 1hibryd (tank/support like Lhan from Paladins) 2 dps and thats all or just focus only on tank and support role
– 2 Tanks, 3 Supports so its equal 10 heroes in both roles.
Play Model:
Unknown of it’s pay n’ play or free to play or the EA way Pay to Win
Realise Date:
Unknown but announce delays and postpone the premiere.
from 2019 the relase date was rumours that is gonna be on 1Q 2020 blizz claryfy it’s Q2, they changed to 2Q of 2021.
Now is Nvember 2 on 2022
Beta OW2:
Unknow if we as a cummunity will have the beta to play. Blizz chose to make beta for some streamer “content creators” and OWL so all OWL gonna be in OW2 and the start of OW2 OWL was on 26 September 2021.
“We gonna give you more update information and we wanna communicate more with our community about nest comming feature”
Minwhale:
9 June 2021 Aaron Keller - comming Cross-Play but cross-progression not.
11 May 2021 Aaron Keller - “What’s Next” (plans about live stram so all what I write above +AMA that for some reason not everyone know about it)
16 December 2020 Last Jeff Kapan update about Kanezaka DM map
18 March 2020 New hero Echo that at first was a support role but was changend before relase.
Last year there was more “update” from Jeff Kaplan but it was more like some shot QA for example the answer of been colled “Papa Jeff”.
And there was this dumb 5 “<3 Overwatch” streamers that say something for 1min and that’s it, nothing more
1 Video - It’s political movement about feminizm a bit late coze there was already rumors of blizz bad behavior etc but ok…
2 Video - guy that talking about the “clink” sound when you kill someone and it geves him more energy like a coffe.
3 Video - Feminizm move that girls also playin. So we have streamer that talking about loose in ow but they win coze they kill enemy team.
4 Video - OWL player talking about “Strategy we never tryit before” - by that he means “We win coze we choose Cheese Comp of Phara Mercy”
5 Video - mosty showing clips of doomfist and echo as a “game change it moment” so yea “I use thes heroes coze they unbalanced and op”
And 1 clip on 2021 from Blizcoon Cosplayers from 2018-2019, just showing few cosplayes.
There was a live where Aaron Keller sayed that they gonna look closley and think about what to do with smurfing. I think It was in 2019-2020 and theres still no info about it.
There could be more info and updates from developers or they should do open QA from time to time, nobody gonna ask to “(…) tell us The Answer of Life, The Universe and Everything.”
Im sorry that Im the person that anser your question coze cleary you expect a someone from Blizz to do that. I spend 2h on that 
Thanks for the info. I knew a lot of it but I still appreciate the time you put into it.
Hero redesigns are 15 / 31? Not sure if they will redesign Echo as well. Either way, it’s below 50%. Or at least that’s what we’ve seen. I want to know from the devs how far they are with the other designs. How many redesigns are completed, but not being shown to us openly for suspense.
Same with heroes, all we know is Sojourn, another f’ing DPS, FML. Junker Queen, Kanezaka Fox Girl, Mysterious Omnic are all very high probability, roles unknown, hoping for Tank Support Tank, will probably get 3 more DPS. Hoping for info on how far these 3 are specifically, as well as what percentage of new heroes are complete. What’s left, some animation tidying, voice actors, maybe they are just in the concept art faze for some.
New maps, Gorthenberg will probably be scrapped because it is 2CP and they are removing those. Rio, Rome, Toronto, Monte Carlo and NYC have all been showcased, we are guaranteed these 5 maps, we could see the other two making seven. I want to know how far are the other two in progression and how far have the devs come in making other maps on top of these (if any).
Missions? How many? How many mission locations will there be? Will there be custom additions to certain maps, entire custom maps, exclusive to the PvE?
I don’t think they planned to add 40 heroes, they wanted to get up to 40 total heroes, including the 32 we have right now. Since 40 appears to be the max they are reaching, we can assume MAYBE up to 7 more heroes, or even 8. What percentage of these 8+ new heroes are DPS and why is it 100%?
Well the last hero reworks on which they working on is: Sigma, Orisa, Cassidy, Moira and Doomfist.
Heroes which got changes / reworks: Brigitte, Mei, Winston, Reinhardt, Zarya, Sombra, Bastion, Junkrat, D.Va, Ana.
So there is still a lot to do and I’m pretty sure that the next reworks which getting revealed are for Sigma, Orisa and Doomfist alongside their new redesigns. what we know so far is that the devs are trying out to rework Doomfist into the tank role
I am hoping for a Tank Doomfist, we need more non-DPS and Doomfist wouldn’t be able to keep all of his CC in the DOS category, unless the devs started making some big exceptions.
Well they mentioned that they have experienced that he felt weird as a tank without any defensive abilities. So I think they trying out maybe a completely new kit for him? Who knows. This is almost 4 months ago and I’m really sure they probably almost done with all reworks and currently focusing on getting things ready for the OWL (New redesigns, texturing the new redesigns for the OWL teams, bug fixing, polishing, finishing the rest of the hero reworks). We also should get some news about the 2nd new core game mode someday too.
How sure are you of there being a second core game mode? I’m hoping there is one, since they added Push but deleted Assault, but I cant remember any mention of another upcoming core game mode. If this is the case, we could expect a lot of new maps to coincide with the new game mode, at least 2 or 3, like how Push has Toronto, Rome and hopefully a third.
They already confirmed that there will be a 2nd new core game mode and Maps such as Gothenberg and India will be palyed with the new game mode. Gothenberg was previously a 2CP (Assault) Game Mode but they changing the map for the new core game mode.
I am sure that they said that there is one new mode.
Maybe I can find the quote.
That Map looked so pretty.
Wish we could play on it now.
For Echo I have no Idea… maybe she got that 50% but at the same time shes the newes so why do anything with her?
Kanezaka Fox Girl? I totally thought that it’s just that one YT guy idea, still it looks like shes gona be just a dps or (I hope) shes gona work like IO from paladins her fox is more heal like lucio and from time to time do aditional dmg and stun in ow2 could just dmg boop.
Sojourn - another dps
Junker Queen - she looks more as a tank but you know blizz… its a dps
Mysterious Omnic - probably tank… but its dps anyway
Now I think that I heard something about Maximillian to be a playable it could be rumors but still and the same YT was trying to make him a support.
1 PVE Story Mission for every hero no idea how long.
Few PVE map missions (like those from Archives Events) for Paris, Busan Ø, Ilios, Route 66, Torontp, Rio Ø - from Trailer
im kind of wondering about the weather effects that were shown on some of the maps. like winds and objects blowing around. i mean i kind of wonder if that would be extra clutter we dont need heh in an already cluttered game. also the way the day/night cycles will produce more glare? something else we dont need
well… Ana keeps the most broken stun in the game, so who knows.
I think they said explicitly they wouldn’t add Max as a hero, but that’s wrong and they have gone back on their word before.
I have a Support concept for him, he is a summoner who can summon troopers or even a heavy assault, kinda like B.O.B.
Weather effects will most likely be PvE only.
Ana gets to keep her stun because that requires skill. It’s a long cool-down and a precise shot. Cassidy loses his massive AoE F you ability and Brig loses hers.
The devs confirmed that ONLY day of time cycles are coming to PvP and all the other effects such as wind, snow, etc. is exclusively for PvE. So I think for PvE is it no problem Imo.
I found the quote.
They MAY be part of a new game mode.
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I’m currently looking trough the Reddit AMA from May 2021. Aaron Keller wrote a little bit about the map and game mode, cause he was confused why we knew about Gothenberg loool
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Boyo we all can agree that everyone have a good idea for hero maybe they not ballanced but still good.
I realy like your Support Idea 
and acually if it’s gonna hapen that this hero become real than I know what I gonna play the moust XD
My idea is for:
1 support that works like doppler from borderlands or paladins, as an ult he multiply and hes clones do what he do, if he dies he become one of hes summoned clones.
1 support that is a mix of ball n lucio
1 support that is have a ~5m flame aura and gets heal if enemy is in it and dmg enemy in range of that aura, atack is a beem, can apply heal flame on torget or dmg on enemy.
1 Tank - slowly moving foward shield, 2 ability CC that are boop with low dmg, charge boop with more dmg (but not rein charge dmg).
1 tank - slow, with more hp, close/medium range, short time shield works like mei ice wall, can summon a shield for short time so hes Kind of like Leszy from Wiedźmin 3.
I kinda like that idea of weather effect that randomly appears, in BF1 it works for both team bad and good. Here it’s can’t be fog like milk but still seen it for example temple of anubis when is thunfer storm or kings row when is a snow blizzard.
Theres a rain at King’s row or hallowen Eihenwilde but no one see this effect coze it’s barely visible.