![]() After many years, the group’s influence waned, and it was eventually disbanded. In a time of global crisis, an international task force of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, and oddities known as Overwatch had come together to restore peace to a war-torn world. The action of Overwatch takes place in a technologically advanced, highly stylized future earth. Here's the current crew and some information about them:Īnd here are their gameplay videos to show the differences in each unique hero:ĪNAHEIM, Calif.-November 7, 2014-In front of a live crowd of more than 25,000 BlizzCon® attendees and an expected online audience numbering in the millions, Blizzard Entertainment today announced Overwatch™, a pick-up-and-play first-person shooter featuring an amazing cast of heroes and set in an all-new Blizzard game universe. There are several complete characters already shown in the trailer and on the Overwatch site. They're working on a good system before release.ġ:56 They do not have an achievement and/or leveling system yet, but they would love to see incentive for the player to keep grinding out games.ġ:57 They feel like players enjoy their own outside options rather than in-game voice chat options.ġ:58 You will be able to have multiple of the same heroes on a team. skins for champions).ġ:50 There are no customizations to the game at the moment, they found that talents and items weren't working and added too much complexity and lack of clarity.ġ:52 Consoles sound cool to Blizzard, but zero plans announced.ġ:54 They like the idea of gender swapping skins or skins in general, but no plans.ġ:55 There will be a chat feature and a voice over feature to make communication easier. They were pretty different games, there were some components that got reused but they were different projects.ġ:48 They are not doing narrative story in the context of the maps.ġ:49 No planned crossovers at the moment from other Blizzard titles (e.g. So if you find yourself needing a tank rather than a support, switch away!ġ:26 They are showing a shoutcasted match right now.ġ:43 They do not know the business model yet-not sure if it's F2P or not.ġ:45 This wasn't Titan, they wanted to try something about heroes and go for there. That's the way the game is "meant" to be played. Supports have healing and debuffs, lots of utility.ġ:22 Locations will be tied to the heroes, set in real world areas.ġ:24 You can swap characters at any point, you can swap after you die. Tanks have armor which reduces damage done to them by 50%. She has a resource called energy.ġ:10 There will be different hero roles: offense, tank, support, and defense. Each backstory will be very personalized, explaining their origin and developing player agency.ġ2:57 Tracer has a blink ability which is her core ability. ![]() They're striving to make them readable from their personas, making players understand them at a quick glance.ġ2:45 Overwatch is "less lethal." The idea is to make deaths less frequent while still making death meaningful-more up-time so players have more meaningful engages rather than just dying and dying over and over again.ġ2:49 It's a team focused game without a deathmatch mode, mostly aimed toward making it objective based.ġ2:53 They're explaining Tracer's backstory now, showing how she got her "powers" and how she is able to control her own time. It's a dystopian world, but it needs to provide players with agency.ġ2:42 This game is all about the heroes. ![]() They want to make sure Overwatch is inviting, not too dark and alienating. ![]() As the world darkens, can Overwatch make a comeback and save the world?ġ2:41 They've learned a lot of lessons from design through World of Warcraft. ![]() The nations of the world sent their soldiers and technologies against these omnichs.ġ2:36 In the past five years, something happened to Overwatch. Read more here-we have several awesome prizes to give out all weekend.ġ2:33 They took to the stage, talking about the trailer.ġ2:35 It's set on a highly futuristic and fictionalized version of Earth-something like sixty years in the future.ġ2:35 Robots were common in the future and they went crazy at some point, attacking the cities. We'll be liveblogging that as well as covering all the information it brings! For now, though, we have the press pack to share with you and everything we've learned so far.Įvery comment you leave on any BlizzCon 2014 post is entering you to win prizes like Carved Ogre Idol. Overwatch was announced and there's about to be a detailed panel explaining everything about their new title. BlizzCon 2014 is off to a huge start with tons of news. ![]()
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