Missed the OW2 news; anything good?

I missed the OW2 live stream today, anything worth noting that happened?

No, not really any major changes at all :eyes:

(Jokes aside, this is a pretty good summary)

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New Role Passives.
Tanks : Boops dont affect them as much.
DPS : Faster Movement Speed
Support : Self Heal over time.

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5v5 will be standard
They’re trying to balance tanks to feel good to play solo.
Mentioned Dva has more Matrix juice
Winston has secondary projectile fire
Zarya has two charges of universal bubble like experimental


All dps might be getting stuns removed;
They specifically showed Mei no longer freezes enemies, just slows, but her beam does more damage
They specifically mentioned McCree might get flashbang replaced with something else
They said maybe support too but specified Ana’s sleep isn’t on chopping block


Rome, Monte Carlo, Rio, and New York all shown full matches being played
We get to see Lucio’s DJ club and play inside it!


New UI stuff
Zen and Mercy have their target for healing/discord shown in lower center of screen + that hero’s portrait


Their new hair shaders/cloth tech/engine upgrades will retroactively work for all existing OW1 skins and said it really makes them look even better


One guest asked if we can mix and match skins+weapons or have customizable colors and they flat out said it’s not in the plans :frowning:


I might be forgetting something but that was the highlights

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The good news is that we can all save 50 bucks because they decided to ruin it in a desperate attempt to fix Q times :woman_shrugging:

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But the 50 bucks would be for the PVE :thinking:

The 50 bucks would count to Overwatch revenue… and I don’t want to reward them for ruining the game I like.

Hmm, I guess we just have different reasons for spending money on video games, alright :+1: