“We should be a little scared of what we put there”: Overwatch 2’s chief designer says hero privilege is about the perfect balance of “let go”
This week, Blizzard threw a curveball on Overwatch 2 fans, just a few months from its ninth anniversary. As of next week, Overwatch 2’s static heroes will be upgraded in a match against the mini skill tree. Blizzard calls them privileges, and according to how long I play with them, they are the biggest shake-up of Overwatch format since 5v5 – a revitalization that keeps Mercy’s blue bundles into two allies, and another Huitou brings Reaper all minor Fire, and mine is mine. The most popular deal Orisa’s javelin spins for obstacles, giving her pivot the role of a defensive tank.
While it is natural to question whether Overwatch’s hub can directly respond to Marvel’s competitors’ teamwork capabilities, oftwatch 2’s leading game designer Alec Dawson told Blizzard’s Irvine’s Irvine campus that rivals are new hero shooters hot Before, this allowance began. That is, the motivation is ultimately due to the increasing risk of Overwatch being stagnated.
“One thing we all agree with is that Overwatch needs to develop and need to have more choices,” Dawson said.
When Season 15 introduces Heroes Perks on February 18, the Heroes will earn XP throughout the game and increase twice, choosing between two allowances at Level 2 and Level 3. Heroes and design fantasy privilege.
“People always ask LifeWeaver to be more of a damage dealer. How do we look at this and then give it to you in a way that makes sense to Lifeweaver?” he said. “other [hero] That’s the representative of sombra. One of her main privileges makes her healing allies with hackers. People have talked about “support sombra” for a long time. How can we have a little taste of this? ”
The allowance is not that risky. Dawson talked about earlier versions of the more conservative allowance than the current iterations and said it took a lot of time and testing to stop backing.
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Game Director Aaron Keller put it into practice, eager to reduce protection and “less precious” to launch the media, and the game about Overwatch could be a guiding principle for Team Dawn.
“We’ve been chasing the good balance we’ve been chasing and seeing how everything works to some extent,” Dawson said. “We should be a little scared of the impact we’re there because of how it might affect the game.”
“I think the allowance is that. Players can learn a lot and we’re going to be monitoring the way this will happen over time, but also giving it room to breathe.”
Asked about the overnight run of 168 enthusiasts across 42 heroes that meant a blizzard was embracing a level of balance chaos, Dawson declared Overwatch for over-challenging and silly balance patches 》’s reputation.
“We think players really want to be much more complex than the complexity we gave them for a while,” he said. “When we looked at some of the balance patches, they already had a lot of tweaking and recycling. We wanted to get out of the way and make sure when They really feel it when we make the balanced decision. I think Perks gave us a good steering vector for that.”
One thing we all agree with is that Overwatch needs evolution.
Alec Dawson, Chief Game Designer
Multiple Blizzard developers mentioned that the allowance would give the team “new knob to rotate” to get a future balance pass. Dawson also mentioned that whether it is balance adjustments, abandoning underperforming allowances, or keeping the system fresh through the planned annual “PERK DROPS”, it is seasonal change, which is for Marvel competitors Similar methods of spin team bonuses.
“I do think the team overall wants to make sure we don’t forget that Overwatch should be fun,” Dawson said. “We should have a little weird thing, but also let these heroes play the way our players want to play.”
Overwatch Season 2, Season 15 (starting from February 18) will bring the hero allowance to Quickplay and competitiveness. Stadium is Overwatch’s new third-person mode, with its own upgrade story that has nothing to do with privileges, and he will be with the new Hero Freja in season 16.
