Blizzard is taking a special strategy with regards to storytelling within the Overwatch universe this 12 months. At this time, Recreation Director Aaron Keller shared plans for the way forward for the free-to-play staff shooter in a Highlight video. The roughly half-hour-long video laid out plans for the sport’s narrative, kicking off on February 10. The narrative is exclusive in Overwatch because it has a full arc that takes place within the span of a 12 months (or six seasons) starting with Season 1: Conquest.
Titled the “Reign of Talon“, the story begins with the cinematic revealed at the start of the stream at present, through which Vendetta makes her transfer to take again Talon. Whilst somebody who doesn’t play Overwatch, I’ve to say the brief is fairly epic. The story will run throughout all six seasons, and a brand new story will start with the primary season of 2027.
The story will probably be instructed throughout quite a lot of media. After all, there will probably be in-game content material, together with particular occasions. And Blizzard is all the time huge on the trailers. So there will probably be loads of that as nicely. Gamers may also anticipate brief tales and comics to assist fill in the remainder of the lore. The excellent news is that every one of it is going to be obtainable within the recreation. So that you don’t must go looking for it on web sites or elsewhere.
Blizzard can also be rolling out all of the stops since this 12 months is the tenth anniversary of Overwatch. This begins with the truth that they’re upping the variety of hero releases this 12 months to 10. Half of these will drop with Season 1 – together with some I do know I’ve seen gamers theorizing about, similar to Emre and Anran (Wuyang’s older sister), and a few that could be a shock, similar to a fats orange cat with hover tech actually named Jetpack Cat. (I don’t know whether or not the cat will probably be a blessing or a curse for Overwatch. Everyone knows about orange cats and their shared braincell.)
Season 1 will introduce sub-roles to the sport. DPS could have 4 sub-roles, whereas Healer and Tank could have three every. This received’t be a case of choosing a personality after which deciding which sub-role you’d like to make use of. As a substitute, the character chosen determines the sub-role. So, gamers will wish to take into consideration what they wish to do earlier than selecting who to play. Every sub-role and its associated characters are listed within the patch notes on the Overwatch web site.
Oh, and there’ll be an Overwatch x Hey Kitty Collaboration obtainable when Season 1 launches.
The replace can even embody a significant overhaul of the sport’s programs, meant to streamline issues and deal with participant complaints about issues like shifting across the menus. For example, they’re making a notification hub and the stadium to make issues simpler to seek out. There can even be a aggressive reset that includes rewards associated to Talon.
Lastly, you’ll discover I haven’t referred to the sport as Overwatch 2. That’s as a result of there was an announcement throughout the livestream that Blizzard has determined to drop the “2” and can merely be referring to all the things associated to the Overwatch universe as merely Overwatch. (I’m fairly certain that’s what we had been all calling it once we weren’t having to jot down about it formally anyway.)
