Overwatch 2 Developer Live Stream - List of all changes!

This thread is intended to work just like my Overwatch League discussion threads, so keep the chat civil and the popcorn popping!

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What we learned today?

  • Everything seen is still “Work in Progress”
  • MAJOR development - Overwatch will be going 5v5 with 1 Tank, 2 Damage, 2 Support
  • Tanks will be beefier in comparison to their current versions
  • New York Map and 5v5 gameplay shown live
  • New York is a Hybrid map and the payload is a Firetruck
  • Some of the April Fools patch changes were intended as legitimate tests for potential changes for the live game
  • Updated UI for specific heroes. Mercy and Zen will show portraits of their heal or discord targets
  • MAJOR Balance Change - They are testing slowing the movement acceleration (how fast it takes to go from stop to full movement speed) to minimize straddling spam.
  • MAJOR Balance Change - Bonus HP will be consolidated to “overhealth” (instead of bonus armor or shields). It is not known how this will be affected relating to abilities like Brigitte’s Rally or Sombra’s EMP
  • Push mode is designed to have more close contests and go into and stay in overtime more frequently rather than see a team complete the objective before time expires.
  • MAJOR Balance Change - Mei no longer freezes enemies from Endothermic Blaster primary fire but slows more and deals more damage.
  • MAJOR Balance Change - Winston’s Tesla Cannon now has an alternate fire to charge up and shoot a longer burst of lightning
  • They are carefully looking at all Crowd Control ablities to reduce the impact of CC across games overall, but this is still in progress.
  • Rio De Janeiro is a Hybrid map and the payload is a peacock shaped parade float.
  • Cosmetic update: Older skins will receive the same skin and hair shader and enhancement updates.
  • Cosmetic update: Torbjorn new Overwatch 2 default skin revealed!
  • Rome is a Push map
  • Monte Carlo is an Escort map and the payload is an F1 racer
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Looking forward to it.

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Hopefully they mention something about why there haven’t been any experimental or balance patches.

Even though we shouldn’t expect anything on this, but its really important.

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Not likely, this is supposed to be about Overwatch 2 overall.

Is it YT only, will it be on Twitch?

Can’t wait for the forums to be flooded with pure rage/appreciation afterwards

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YouTube only. Remember Blizzard and Google are under a long term partnership agreement.

Scratch that, they are broadcasting on Twitch… lol… that was no expected.

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patience is a virtue and a value that youth seldom rejects.

Wish we got news if an ExC was ever coming :frowning:

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“Reduce your expectations to zero.” -Sigma

It’s better to expect nothing, that way, you can be surprised if something of note happens. If not, well, at least you can be proven right.

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show me more of the new classic skins and im satisfied

I thought that part was obvious. They’ve been putting their testing resources into polishing this “Demo Patch”.

What is that gameplay shown on the IGN version??!?!

I can play better than that

Let me just say this, Experimental Cards are not forced out for no reason. They will make changes to the current hero balance if and when they find the best possible solutions to any outstanding metagame issues. Also remember that since the start of the 2020 Overwatch League season, balance changes are intended for the top levels of play (Grandmasters, Contenders, Overwatch League), which if the May Melee was any indication is showing the metagame balance to be at one of its best states in a very long time. Don’t get wrong, there will always need to be changes to address issues as the metagame become more refined, but I do know that they are still tracking and working to keep Overwatch 1 fresh in terms of hero balance.

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I can already tell people are expecting way too much out of this

It’s just going to be like Blizzcon 2019…basically people playing like a round or 2 of push but with like more maps

Perhaps we get to see a new feature… like say role passives

Here’s one thing I do know we will see for sure:

One or two tanks?

By the way I just got a Twitch notification talking about the stream so I wonder if they are doing it on Twitch

But that we will see it here does not mean thats what will be at the game when its out so :man_shrugging:
Doubt they will do any actual confirmed changes in this one, but more on what they are testing themself maybe.

The gameplay on the IGN version was brain melting