Developer Blizzard Entertainment has taken to the official Twitter account of hero shooter Overwatch 2 to share the latest roadmap. The image offers a look ahead at Seasons 5, 6 & 7 and some of the featured content that they will introduce. Among other exciting additions, players can look forward to new limited-time events, cinematic reveals, story missions and more.
- Overwatch 2 Season 5 will introduce a new limited-time event Questwatch, Mischief of Magic, a new cinematic reveal, Summer Games and more. Players can also look forward to the 5v5 mini-comp season, Creator Workshop mode and other additions;
- Season 6 will feature the long-awaited Story Missions as well as a new Support Hero, Flashpoint, Hero Mastery, Player Progression system and more. Overwatch 2 will also be celebrating its anniversary, so there will likely be interesting surprises;
- In Season 7 and beyond, the game will receive a new Tank Hero, new collaboration event (limited-time mode), control map, winter event, new Hero Mastery missions, Roadhog & Sombra reworks, cinematic debut and more.
However, there is a point that has confused the game’s community. Namely, the lack of a PvE mode that had been promised by Blizzard during the initial info rush after the announcement of OW2. To learn more about what happened to the developers’ ideas regarding the feature, check out the PvE update video below. That discussion with Game Director Aaron Keller and Executive Producer Jared Neuss starts around 42:00 minute mark.
“We announced Overwatch 2 in 2019, and a part of that presentation was about this always-on, deeply replayable PvE experience. And as work slowly continued on Overwatch 2, we began to pull more and more of our focus and energy away from the live game and all of the people that were playing it. We had players that were excited to be playing that game, and they just wanted more of it.
So we had a difficult choice to make: we could continue working on our original vision for Overwatch 2 without a definitive end-date in sight… or change our strategy and get something out in front of our players sooner. We chose the latter and we released Overwatch 2 last October with new Heroes, new Maps, new Modes and regular seasonal updates.”
Following the community’s outcry on Twitter, Executive Producer Jared Neuss stepped in with the following:
“A clarification that I wanted to make is that, while we made the decision to cut Hero Mode + Talents, we have a lot of great PvE content coming this year. Big story missions, new cinematics, co-op events and single player Hero Mastery missions are all on the way.
I also want to acknowledge that today has been a challenging day for many of us in the Overwatch community – players and developers alike. We understand that today’s news about the scope of PvE is frustrating. We on the OW leadership team didn’t make the decision lightly.
We love the world of Overwatch and have many new stories to tell. Moving in this direction gives us confidence that we can tell those stories, albeit in a different way than we originally communicated. Our next Director’s Take blog will be out on Friday with more context.”
