More missions ahead.
When Overwatch was announced in 2019, fans were excited to play the new PvE content, with new talents and the ability to merge characters' powers. Now, after the game came out with just the PvP part, Blizzard revealed the plan had been scrapped. Yes, the most prominent aspect that the new game was built around is not happening after all.
On a Twitch stream yesterday, executive producer Jared Neuss said that the Hero mode development "has not really hasn't made the progress that we have hoped." But don't you worry – PvE missions are still going to be a thing.
"Unfortunately, the effort required to pull all of that together into a Blizzard-quality experience that we can ship to you is huge, and there really is no end in sight or defined kind of end date where we can put that out into the world," Neuss said (via IGN).
He reassures players that it was a "difficult choice" and offered a roadmap for the year. We will get story missions in Season 6, a new support hero, and a mode called Flashpoint, which comes with two new maps.
But back to Blizzard's new vision. In an interview with GameSpot, Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller revealed that the decision to get rid of the Hero mode was made before the game was launched:
"As we were running up to launching Overwatch 2, we realized that we could not build that other game. We couldn't save up all of that content over the course of what was looking to be at least the next several years to finish it, and by doing that, pulling more and more resources away from the people that were all playing our game and all the people that would be playing Overwatch 2. So we made a decision later last year that we would focus all of our efforts on the live running game and all of our PvE efforts on this new story arc that we're launching in Season 6."
When reasonably asked what's different about Overwatch 2 then, Keller said that "it's the way that we're writing the game and how we're looking at the game going forward."
Read the full interview here, it has a lot of valuable information.
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