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Overwatch 2 announced for PS4, XB1, Switch, and PC! (see staff post for discussion guidelines)

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AlexFlame116

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Was formally announced at Blizzcon 2019! Is set to be after the fall of Overwatch. Trailer shows the attack on France by Null Sector. Watch the "Zero Hour" Cinematic!

ALL MAPS AVAILABLE FOR LEGACY OVERWATCH PLAYERS. SHARED MULTIPLAYER ENVIRONMENT. ALL COSMETICS ARE COMING OVER.





Sojourn and Echo confirmed as new heroes!

EDIT: Gameplay trailer!


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IDontBeatGames said:
Here's a summary of Overwatch 2 news in a shortened way:
  • Complete story experience with story missions, PvE modes, remastered maps
  • Hero missions are highly replayable cooperative experiences
  • All 31 heroes + more are getting upgraded looks to them.
  • Multiple new heroes already confirmed, but won't be talking about yet
  • With Overwatch 2, they wanna redefine what a sequel means. For all Overwatch players, you will get to play on all of the same maps as Overwatch 2 players and same heroes. It's a shared multiplayer environment where no one gets left behind.
  • All Overwatch progress matters, everything carries over to Overwatch 2.
Basically, it's gonna be a "DLC" that people can pay for in order to receive all the story based and PvE based content. You lose nothing besides that by sticking to Overwatch 1 besides I'm assuming the new graphics? They didn't say anything if the remastered content or new UI gets added to Overwatch 1.
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antitrop

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Up to the normally high standard of Overwatch's cinematics and trailers. Can't wait.
 
Lant_War

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Would be funny if they took Mei out because of the HK stuff
 
lunanto

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Kain

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Luckily it looks like it's running on more or less the same engine so my current coffemaker should run this no prob
 
Cordy

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Damn, I think I'm back in Overwatch. I was out of 1 for a bit, just got sorta bored with it but yeah this looks great. PvP, Story Missions, PvE, co-op, damn.
 
Ravelle

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Overwatch players, do these cinamatics do anything for you? I can get behind getting excited for more improved overwatch but bookending story cinematics while the PVP is mostly just payloud and shooting each other seems odd to me. Attaching a story to it by way of 1 or two cinematics seems weird.
 
Shortiloe

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I see no difference. Never played Overwatch a lot , but eh... guess this is not really for newcomers. More for OW Fans that need more of the Overwatch-Lore..?
 
Ithil

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Ravelle said:
Overwatch players, do these cinamatics do anything for you? I can get behind getting excited for more improved overwatch but bookending story cinematics while the PVP is mostly just payloud and shooting each other seems odd to me. Attaching a story to it by way of 1 or two cinematics seems weird.
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They just added a story mode to OW2 with PvE.
 
Soulstoner

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Eggiem said:
I just want to know what will happen to all the lootbox skins xD
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Srsly. All that money people have invested in OW thinking that it was a platform and not a single game like Call of Duty has me curious. When I was playing, I certainly thought it was a platform/service.

Also, these PvE modes were already in the first game during events... why does this need an entirely new release to make it permanent?
 
Sabot

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Expac to OW, honestly I expected more.
 
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