What do you Expect from PVE?

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Hey guys,

With the risk of being to repetitive, yes, I know I’m focusing too much on PVE, while we are in the midst of a OW2 Beta PVP craze.

Nevertheless, my hope is most exclusively on the PVE side of the game. I know a lot of you feel just like me.

Here’s a few things that I’d like to happen PVE wise:

  • Tanks actually feel powerful and tanky, have aggro generating abilities and can use barriers to protect their teammates. You know, like MMORPG tanks.
  • Support heroes get to be impactful and have really powerful abilities, utility and match defining ults.
  • Dps heroes get to be unique, whacky and with broken, powerful and fun abilities.
  • We get back abilities that have been removed from the game throughthe talent system (I’m looking at you, Proctive Barrier, Lvl 3 Turret, and Mass Rez…).
  • We have different talent builds that can alter the hero’s playstyle and role. For example, it would be amazing for Echo to have a Tank build, a Dps build, and a Support build. How cool would that be???
  • Balance, abilities and all need to be handled with a chinese wall, just like Blizz previously did with SC2. PVP and PVE are absolutely different experience, with different units, talent builds and perks.
  • Story mode that gets new chapters every couple of months (I wouldn’t mind if they cost some extra cash as DLC), together with new map or hero releases.
  • Daily missions with rewards or perks (Win 3 Hero Missions as a Tank), but different for everybody. Let’s say I mostly play support, so it would be cool to have my daily mission to play tank or dps.
  • Boss fights!
  • Release date announcement
  • Exciting ability combos
  • Environmental Hazards
  • Tons of new interactions between the characters
  • Skin, emote, intro unlockable rewards exclusive to game progress.

I hope that as PVP comes along, the devs start telling us a little bit more about the state of PVE and their plans for it.

What would you guys want to see from PVE?

Hope we can make this an ongoing megathread!

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I expect character respawn points.

That way the one troll doesn’t ruin the whole run dying in an unrezzable spot.

Im modeling this after how DRG, L4D2, VT2, and B4B implement team deaths.

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I expect extremely good bossfights at the end of missions or im not buying
If I wanted to play left for dead id just buy left for dead

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I love the characters, so that’s why I’d love to see OW in PVE.

But yeah, boss fights is a good one.

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Tons of achievements based on things like, “explore Jack Morrison’s office in the Switzerland overwatch headquarters in this mission” with a new voice line or victory pose reward, or find “this Ana’s family picture hidden somewhere in whatever map” for an Ana skin where she’s wearing the casual clothes in the picture etc.

In other words, EXPLORATION based achievements so that the crazy detail and effort gone into making maps look lived in doesn’t go to waste in PvP.

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I want it to be L4D2 like. Because the formula works. However no L4D2 style games has customizable builds and abilities to spam.

B4B has lots of builds little no abilities.
VT2 has few abilities with few builds.

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Thats boring just fighting the same zombie for 40 missions.

I expect to see the big robot from Overwatch 2 trailer I want bossfights

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Honestly I’d be happy with good map and enemy variety. Including random spawns for trash mobs and specials.

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Yeah, this would be a very nice thing

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A release date earlier than 2025

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fingers crossed! I do hope it comes at some point in 2022 or early 2023

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I want to see lots of ways to combo abilities. I want it to be a good combination of fighting hordes and interesting boss fights. I’d like there to be environmental hazards and/or devices to make the fights more interesting. I’d like to hear cool voice line interactions.

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Cool idea. I always thought that Storm Rising would have been the perfect opportunity for environmental hazards…