The game director on Blizzard’s inaugural journey into the world of first-person shooters, Jeff Kaplan, has announced on the Overwatch forums earlier today that while the beta won’t be kicking off again until next month, there will be a new present to compensate.
A present in the form of a new game mode.
“After looking through all of the feedback from last year, one of the things we noticed players consistently mentioning was their desire for more game modes in Overwatch, in addition to Point Capture and Payload,” the veteran developer wrote.
“Without getting into specifics, we are working on a new game mode. And we’re very excited about it! And we have some great new maps to support it, too, but we need a little more time to get everything just right.”
Kaplan uses “maps” in the plural, which at the minimum would bring Overwatch’s total map pool to 9. At this rate it wouldn’t be unlikely for Team 4 to push the map count into the double digits for Overwatch’s release later this year, which is a welcome state of affairs considering the dearth of maps other shooters have launched with in the past.
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3 responses to “Overwatch Won’t Return Until February, But It’ll Have A New Game Mode”
I swear if they put in an FPS progression system of the last decade I will be so, so angry/sad T_T
This video:
talks about what they’ve tried so far and what they’re trying to go for (it was from before Christmas though). It shouldn’t be anything that affects character abilities/weapons though and they don’t want it to change how you play (so no Character-based levels).
I’d prefer a beta key 😛