LIVE STREAM (Facebook) - OhNickel with Jeff Kaplan - (Old post)

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Another Overwatch Creator’s Residency Stream is live, this time with OhNickel on Facebook Live. I am listening in so I will keep updating the post as I get any news I hear from it but will try to keep this as spoiler free from the PVE Brawl content as possible. I don’t recommend watching this if you want to be kept spoiler free:

https://www.facebook.com/OhNickel/videos/410210019771273/

Relevant notes I have collected so far:

  • The Havana map will be a PVP map later down the road.
  • Echo and Sojorn is NOT hero 31.
  • Jeff Kaplan: “We are never making Jetpack cat!”
  • Jeff Kaplan: There are big plans for Junkerqueen. More on the long-term front.
  • Jeff Kaplan: The dev team is more focused on “feature content”.
  • The Anniversary Event is going to be cool because we have an all-new feature (that has not been asked for by the community) that is going to be really huge for the game. (Editor note: I made the mistake of saying it was a huge feature when I first typed it out yesterday)
  • Jeff Kaplan says there is going to be a skin for the Anniversary event that is “going to break the internet”.
  • Coming this summer and the early fall are a couple of more features that have been asked for by the community.
  • Guilds/Clans is NOT coming soon and not one of the upcoming features.
  • Cross platform play for Overwatch: “We would love to work on the details and challenges for that. But it’s challenging from a technical and business standpoint.”
  • Comics are in development.
  • There is no major reworks plan for any hero at this time.
  • We are definitely entertaining the idea of forced 2-2-2/role queue.
  • We have no immediate plans for permanent free-to-play.
  • No confirmation if Overwatch will come out for the Nintendo Switch at this time.
  • Jeff Kaplan: "We are looking to make further improvements to visually-impaired and hearing-impaired players including a subtitle system.
  • The design team consists of players ranging from Bronze to Grandmaster in the Competitive ranks.
  • Making a story mode would be as ambitious as making a brand-new game.
  • Last comment from Jeff Kaplan: “There is a really cool PVP surprise coming to the PTR very soon! Please be looking out for it!”
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I figured it would be, like Rialto, but it’s good to have confirmation.

I wonder if this one was designed with pvp in mind, this time, as Rialto has several places that were obviously designed for retribution. I guess I will see when I get home.

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Everyone! I can say, don’t watch this if you want to keep yourself spoiler free!

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It has been confirmed that Echo, Sojorn, and (most importantly) Jetpack Cat is not the next hero.

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Jeff Kaplan has revealed there are big plans for Junkerqueen in the future. Apparently there is a lot of artwork already created by Arnold Tsang (Ovewatch’s Lead Artist)

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I just wanna know, who this Ominic dude in the end is.

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Jeff Kaplan said about him with “But that’s the cliff hanger”

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I hope well find out soon.

Hakim or maybe even Reaper?

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Ok but why a Facebook livestream???

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Time to wait 3 to 4 months on an update about him/her

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Tune in next year!

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They just revealed that the Anniversary update is going to have a new feature that “many have asked for” and is going to be “really cool for the game”.

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Jeff Kaplan says there is going to be a skin for the Anniversary event that is “going to break the internet”.

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More features coming in the summer and early fall, but not going to be guilds.

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Cross platform play for Overwatch:

“We would love to work on the details and challenges for that. But it’s challenging from a technical and business standpoint.”

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Wreck-it-Ralph skin for Winston confirmed. Bonus points if he gets an “I’m gonna wreck it!” voiceline.

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Jeff Kaplan: We are definitely entertaining the “2-2-2 lock”. What’s basically happened, the players evolved about how they play Overwatch. A lot of the frustrations is because we would be better off to force players to have a better team comp rather than you picking heroes faster than anyone else. From a design side the biggest challenge is that Damage role would increase in queue times dramatically. Re-tuning the heroes would be required to implement the 2-2-2 (such as Brigitte).

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Long shot here but maybe it’s omnic Antonio from retribution?

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It’s a Dva skin. About time.

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My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

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