Overwatch 2019 👌

Ornery-11199 · December 31, 2018, 10:55pm

This^

I’m kind of in the opposite boat, as just last night my friend was talking about how much he loved this game, and it stood out because it was so genuine… he didn’t say he still loved this game, it was just “yo this game is great” like it always has been and always will be. I had to agree with him.

I’m probably not the best person to go to as I’m a bit of an optimist by nature… but I really believe Jeff when he was talking about all the things they’ve been working on when asked “why haven’t we heard from blues in a while?” See below:

I dont like developer silence

Hey… sorry!

We don’t like being silent… that’s not our intention. we’ve been trying to show up more on various streams (we have our creator’s residency now here at Blizzard where streamers hang out with us) plus we did a bunch of streams at Blizzcon. maybe you missed those?

We’re also in a bit of a “head’s down” mode trying to get a lot of work done. we also had a few people traveling over the thanksgiving holiday (we’re based in the US) and took advantage of the slow week to allow developers to work on whatever they wanted. the end result was pretty cool. we explored new game modes, new features and new engine tech. it was all really rough but some of the prototypes will actually turn into features someday.

I guess, mostly, we don’t have a big newsworthy thing to announce or talk about right now so we’re more focused on “getting stuff done” rather than anything else.

Roughly, this is a sample of some of what we’re working on:

–top secret stuff i’m not allowed to talk about
–hero balance (i actually think we’re in a better spot than these forums will have you believe)
–quality of life features (UI updates etc)
–new hero prototyping and development
–new game mode prototyping (don’t expect to see these soon)
–feature development
–ongoing event support (skins etc.)
–more top secret stuff i’m not allowed to talk about
–top secret stuff i’m not supposed to talk about

I trust they’ve a lot of big changes coming and I’m truly excited for the future of this game and am honestly even looking forward to the second season of OWL. I think they learned a lot from the first season, and with the new teams joining I’m eager to see where they’ll fall in terms of skill.