|
 Overwatch 2 release date is October 4th. Tue. 12:00 PT, 15:00 ET, 19:00 GMT and Wed 04:00 Korea Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, Switch. There is cross-play and cross progression. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGgqyer-qr4 Proven posted:Launch details and checklist: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/23852690/overwatch-2-ready-check-prepare-for-launch/ TLDR How to play Overwatch 2 on PC: Create your Battle.net account REQUIRED TO PLAY: Activate SMS Protection. New Players can download Overwatch 2, when it launches Current and returning Overwatch players can pre-download Overwatch 2. How to play Overwatch 2 on Consoles: Download on your platform. REQUIRED TO PLAY: Activate SMS Protection. RETURNING PLAYERS SECTION PVE SECTION (Not much info yet)  FOR NEW PLAYERS Good to see some new people on the thread. Overwatch is a fun, unique game. What separates Overwatch 2 from other fps games? Overwatch 2 is Team-based first person shooter. Biggest difference to other shooters are the fixed abilities and weapons on each character. Tracer always has the same Pulse Pistols, can blink around the field, do a time Recall and throw a Pulse Bomb as her ultimate ability. Widowmaker has her Sniper Rifle, Venom mine and Grapling Hook and so on. All heroes have an ultimate ability that is charged by doing damage, healing or (slowly) by time. When your ultimate meter reaches 100% you can launch unique powerful ability. Soldier76 all shots hit automatically for a while, Widowmaker reveals all enemy hero locations through walls and so on. Also there's a lot of heroes:  The game has hero roles with different design philosophy. Tank heroes have a lot of health and are larger than average, Damage heroes are good at dealing lot of damage and healers can heal and keep others fighting longer. Most common play-modes have fixed composition team with role queue. 1 Tank, 2 Damage and 2 healers. You can queue for the game as any or just choose flex, if you don’t mind which role you will assigned to. During the game you can change your character within the role. For example if you play as Damage hero, you can pick any other damage hero that isn’t played by your team mate. There are also other game modes, where there are no role restrictions. Each individual hero is very different from each other. What heroes suit you will vary. If you’re good at clicking heads, there’s plenty of heroes that reward that. If not there’s other heroes that are rewarding to play that don’t focus on pixel perfect aiming. Want to be a beefy center-line hero, sneaky flanker or someone who wins by supporting your team mates? Overwatch 2 got a hero for you. Not all heroes are unlocked for new players at the start. You start with a more limited hero selection and unlock new heroes and play modes as you play more and get more accustomed to your heroes. It takes about 100 games to unlock all classic heroes. All heroes and most game modes are unlocked, while playing grouped up. Remember to try out different heroes and roles so you can find what you really love to play! Official Overwatch heroes page  Game modes Overwatch 2 game modes are divided between Unranked, Competitive, Arcade and Custom games categories Main game modes inside these are Quick play (found inside unranked) and Competitive play.* (Found inside competitive, duh) One is more casual and other is bit more tryhard, but otherwise they’re pretty similar. Both game modes have role queue and open queue versions. Generally role queues are more popular, but both are fun. Two teams of 5 heroes face each other in different map types with either one team is an attacker and other defender or both teams are attacking. *Competitive mode is locked for new players, until you have 50 Quick Play wins. Map Types: Escort  One team is an attacker and other team defends. There’s a Payload on the map that can be pushed forward on a route. Payload moves forward when there’s an attacker near the payload and no defenders near it. Its speed increases with more attackers near the payload with maximum speed from 3 attackers. If no attackers are near the payload, it starts slowly drifting backwards towards previous checkpoint. Attackers get more time to push from reaching checkpoints. Both teams get change to attack. Whichever team pushes the cart farthest wins. Control  Control maps are actually 3 smaller maps. Both teams are attackers. There’s a central area that is a control point. You capture it by having your team mates on it with no enemy team in it. Multiple heroes capture the point faster. While the point is controlled, your control meter starts to rise starting from 0. Whichever team gets their meter to 100 first wins a round. While the point is contested by the enemy team, your meter cannot rise to 100. After each round the map changes until one team has 2 round wins. Hybrid [  One team is an attacker and other team defends. There's a control point that the attacker tries to capture by eliminating defenders from the area and standing on the control point. When capture timer finishes the game mode turns into an escort map with a payload. Push  New game mode for Overwatch 2. Both teams are attackers. There is a Robot at the center of the map with a barricade at each side. Robot is controlled by whichever team has a hero near it and no enemy heroes. A controlled robot pushes team Barricade slowly along predetermined road towards enemy team spawn. Pushing stops, if enemy team has enemy heroes near the robot or your team has no heroes near it. If other team is controlling the robot it changes direction and pushes the other Barricade. The Robot moves fast between barricades. Whichever team has their barricade pushed farthest wins.  Other modes In addition to Quick Play and competitive mode, there are other more casual game modes. Some are always available, while others are on rotation. Here is a short list of some of them:  Mystery heroes Same as a quick play, except you are assigned a random hero and when you get killed you get another random hero. Found inside Unranked. Also used as a modifier in multiple arcade modes, like Mystery Deathmatch.  Deathmatch Free For All and Team These game modes have their own maps. Reach the kill count and win. Note that due to asymmetrical killing potential of heroes, some them are a real hard to win with. Especially in free for all deathmatch. Deathmatch FFA is found inside unranked and Team Death match is on rotation inside Arcade.  Elimination Deathmatch with no respawn during the round. Team gets a point for eliminating enemy team. First to three points wins. Winning team cannot use their heroes on future rounds. Has 1v1, 3v3 and 5v5 variations. Is on rotation inside Arcade.  Capture the Flag Game mode has their own maps. Enemy base has a flag and your team has to capture it, while preventing enemy team capturing yours. First team to steal 3 flags win. Is on rotation inside Arcade. Assault Maps Game mode has their own maps. One team attacks and other defends. There's a control point that the attacker tries to capture by eliminating defenders from the area and standing on the control point just like in hybrid maps. When you capture the point another control point unlocks that attacker tries to capture. Casually this mode is called "2CP", short for 2 control points. And there are plenty of other rotating arcade modes and seasonal modes.  Custom Games Want to play an invite only game on Kings row? You can arrange this on custom games. Or you setup a free to join custom game for a Widowmaker sniper ffa deathmatch. What is even better than that? You can literally script your own custom game modes that can be played by anyone that knows its workshop game code. There is anything from aim-training to Doomfist Parkour challenge modes. The system is really flexible and has been available for years in Overwatch 1. During Overwatch 2 launch the workshop to design your own game modes is on break until it is updated on a later patch, but all the old game codes will/should work. Popular source for custom game codes: https://workshop.codes/  PVE story missions but it should have different customizable PVE maps and continue the Overwatch story-line forward. More on it on 3rd post, when information comes available. PVE got Cancelled. RIP. Issaries fucked around with this message at 11:04 on May 18, 2023 |
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 21:28
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 28, 2024 12:24 |
|
|
 FOR RETURNING PLAYERS Welcome back. Depending on when you’ve last played there might be lot of things you’ve missed. New heroes, new game modes and maps. Some heroes got reworked a lot during OW1, but in this section I’m going to focus on what changes on October 4th, when we move from Overwatch 1 to Overwatch 2.  WHAT IS NEW? The Overwatch 2 has only 5 team members instead 6. One of the Tank players got dropped from the standard line up. 3 New heroes at the launch: Junkerqueen, who is a brawly tank with a shotgun, Axe and knife, Sojourn who is a soldier with a railgun alternate firemode and Kiriko who is a japanese ninja-healer with throwing daggers, teleporting and spirit fox. New maps with a new game mode: Push. More about the game mode is on the newbie section, but there are 6 new maps. Colosseo, New Queen Street and Esperanca are Push maps, Paraíso and Midtown are Hybrid maps and Circuit Royal is Escort. There is no more visible SR nor account levels with different borders. Instead you have rank from Bronze to GM and Tier from 5 (lowest) to 1(High) with the rank. Your Tier and rank could be adjusted every 7 wins or 20 losses, whichever comes first. You will start unranked in Competitive each new season until you get your 7 wins or 20 losses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BowIDnsNvjs Monetization. Overwatch 2 is free-2-play. No more lootboxes. Instead game has a battle pass, which can be advanced by playing games and doing challenges. Free version of the battle pass has some skins and other stuff, but all the cool stuff including the new mythic skins are exclusive to Premium Battle Pass, which cost 10 Dollars/Euros per season. There’s also weekly bundles and item shop, where you can purchase all the old stuff you didn’t get from OW1. There are weekly challenges that give you some premium currency, but it is pretty limited compared to spending real money. Overwatch league and their own fake currency remains same. Either watch OWL or pay to get team skins and stuff. There is now cross progression between all platforms. You can link your Playstation/Switch/PC/Xbox accounts and they all can share your skins and progression toward Battle pass. All your old skins and stuff will transfer to Overwatch 2.  Challenges As a new thing, the game has challenges. They're mainly for getting xp for battle passes. * Daily Challenges - 6 simple goals that refresh each day. You can complete 3 of these per day to get almost a level in battle pass. They're simple goals, like "Win a match" or "Queue 3 times with flex role". * Weekly Challenges - 11 more Involved goals that refresh weekly. You can complete all of them. Each give you half a level of Battle pass xp. Completing 4 gives you 0.30 dollars worth of premium currency and doing all 11 gives you total of 0.60 dollars worth of premium currency. Only way to get them "Free", but really not worth it. Challenges are like "Win 10 matches queued in all roles mode" or "Deal/Boost 125 000 damage total". * Season Challenges - 41 mostly simple goals that are season specific. Give low amount of xp for completing mostly for fun goals. Has character and map specific goals, like "Kill 5 enemies with Sojourns Railgun" or "Win 3 games in this map" * Competitive Challenges - These are for the end of competitive season rewards exactly like in Overwatch 1. As a new thing players who finish Master+ get a seasonal custom title. These challenges give competitive points, which can be used to get gold guns for characters. * Lifetime Challenges - Mostly for bragging rights and custom titles. * Hero Challenges - For unlocking new heroes after their release season ends. *Event Challenges - Limited time Challenges for game events.  Role abilities and general changes Damage heroes now get 25% buff to reload and movement speed after every kill for 2.5 seconds. Tanks get 30% knockback resistance and give only 50% ultimate charge for shooting them. Healers all have 15 hp/s regeneration when they have not taken damage in last 1.5 seconds. Players retain up to 30% of their ultimate charge, when changing heroes Hp system has been tweaked. Armor reduces damage by 30% instead of flat number. All the abilities that raised HP over the maximum, now just Give Overhealth.  Hero Changes from OW1 to OW2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgczDOhCqjI Tldr: Complete reworks: * Doomfist is now a tank with no instakill charged punch. More durable and works as a dive hero. * Orisa lost her shield is now bit more mobile centaur with a spear and gun. * Bastions turret mode is now a cooldown with a timer. Damage output reduced significantly but is mobile. New ultimate, new ability, no self-heal. * Sombra – Hack only interrupt abilities, doesn’t block them for a long time. Reveals enemy location to team and gives DPS boost to Sombra vs hacked. Can hack and stay in stealth. Meaningful changes on how abilities work: * Mei - lost her Freezeray. It does more damage and only slows. * Brigitte -lost her shield stun, does now more damage. * Cassidy (mcree) - Lost his Flashbang, now throws an explosive. * Echo – Ultimate gives only max 300 hp. * Mercy – Guardian angel tech flight changed a lot. No longer a secret tech. * Reinhardt – Double firestrike, Charge can be cancelled. * Symmetra – Teleporter isn’t permanent until destroyed any more. * Zenyatta – Melee attack knocks back lot. * Winston - New alternate fire mode. Chargeable longer range beam. and a lot of smaller changes to damage/heal/shield values and smaller tweaks to abilities.  What is gone? No more Assault (2CP) maps in quickplay or competitive. They have been relegated to a rotating arcade mode. Lootboxes, but I repeat myself. 6 team members. Rip. Overwatch 1 itself. There will be only Overwatch 2 servers.  Release schedule Game goes to 9 week season cycles. Each season there is a new battle pass and either a new character or a map is released. Also a new competitive season. First two weeks of the season the new characters are locked out of the competitive mode to give everyone a fair change to unlock them and practice. After the season ends there will be a hero challenge to unlock them, if you didn't during the season. Or you can buy them. UNLOCKING NEW OVERWATCH 2 HEROES  During their release season, you can unlock heroes by advancing you free battle pass to unlock them. Ramattra is unlocked by completing lvl 45 on season 2 Heroes from the past seasons (Kiriko, Sojourn and Junkerqueen) can be unlocked doing their hero challenges. Hero challenge page has full checklist, but general idea is that you have to practice each characters abilities in training range with bots. In addition to that you have to win 35 Quick play, Competitive or No limits games queued as all roles or characters designated role. For example winning game queued as all roles will advance all 3 characters challenge, but winning after queueing as Damage hero will only advance Sojourns challenge. Issaries fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Dec 9, 2022 |
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 21:29
|
|
|
COOL CUSTOM GAME MODES: Infection - Killing enemy turns them into your character and ally. Round resets when everyone is same character and the winning character gets banned: Q365Q - Classic Eichenwald version: SMMGK - Multiple maps version Or just search Infection Parkour - Use your Movement abilities to the max to clear challenges. Usually start from easier tricks and go to really hard fast. 4QETZV - Genji Parkour (Route 66). Or just search Parkour Lucio Surf - Relative to Parkour, these are more freeform maps. Just Wallride to the goal without never touching the ground. KVKKR - Multiple maps to surf Or just search Lucio Surf Widow HS - Click heads with Widowmaker in a deathmatch. Headshots only QCK3P - Necropolis map Or just search Widow HS Aim Trainer - Practice shooting, duh GBM5N - Aim Trainer 2. Practice shooting at bots. Or just search Aim Train (There's both training/Trainer so train finds both) Cool links: https://workshop.codes/ - Codes for custom made game modes you can play in Overwatch 2. https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/ - Official Overwatch 2 webpage https://www.youtube.com/c/playoverwatch - Official Overwatch youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/overwatchleague - Official Overwatch league youtube. Other SA Overwatch threads Overwatch league thread – For the Esport and related posting https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3964699&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 Overwatch Meme thread: Old thread with lot of fun. OW memes, fan art and stuff. You need archives to view. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3775648&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1  Old Overwatch 1 thread : https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3777220&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 Also remember to have fun. https://i.imgur.com/7wtdzCN.mp4 Issaries fucked around with this message at 11:04 on May 18, 2023 |
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 21:29
|
|
|
We back.
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 22:13
|
|
|
Gas
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 22:15
|
|
|
lmao
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 22:17
|
|
|
This thread is my ultimate and might have fat-fingered it out prematurely. Oops.
Issaries fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Oct 2, 2022 |
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 22:20
|
|
|
More like Overwatch poo
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 22:25
|
|
|
Overwatch Took a Number Two. Thanks for the thread.
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 22:33
|
|
|
game bad op
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 22:50
|
|
|
I'm gonna play this probably
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 23:16
|
|
|
what a disaster
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 23:22
|
|
|
Gonna play this with my buds and anticipate us dropping it sooner than later. Sorry, game.
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 23:49
|
|
|
Minera posted:what a disaster oh it's not that bad a thread
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 23:59
|
|
|
Overwatch 2 good. \/ 
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 00:10
|
|
|
Wow I didn't realize they were ditching 2 CP maps, ; glad I reinstalled this week and played a last couple Hanamura games; it may not be well designed but it'll always be a beautiful map that evokes the visual aesthetic of Overwatch.
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 00:14
|
|
|
Yeah. I hope they come back as a rotating arcade mode, like Capture the flag and Deathmatch.
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 00:21
|
|
|
I guess this isn't really an OW2 question, but I have 8000 OW coins, tell me the best skins to buy before they're worthless (unless I am too late)
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 01:19
|
|
|
Ashcans posted:I guess this isn't really an OW2 question, but I have 8000 OW coins, tell me the best skins to buy before they're worthless (unless I am too late) You can still use them for stuff in OW2. It is a bit limited, but there will be uses. Dapper doomfist and hanzo, red or green power ranger genji, funky bap, the hamster with sunglasses, rooster bastion, skeleton bird bastion, squirt gun torb, cruiser or waverider dva headcase fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Oct 3, 2022 |
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 01:27
|
|
|
op should have just been a link to this tbh https://youtu.be/q7RMtDpxtfw
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 01:33
|
|
|
hell, I'll give it another try
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 01:52
|
|
|
Wheeee posted:op should have just been a link to this tbh thank you
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 01:54
|
|
|
I just want no damage falloff McCree back give it to me Blizzard
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 02:36
|
|
|
I’m sorry I have no idea what hero you’re talking about.
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 02:42
|
|
|
heh
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 02:43
|
|
|
Unnerf Roadhog hook and Brigitte healing and Mei freeze cowards Just kidding, I deleted my bnet account years ago
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 02:56
|
|
|
Concurred posted:Unnerf Roadhog hook and Brigitte healing and Mei freeze cowards Sincerely believe it was the most fun when most characters were just absolutely loving broken
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 02:57
|
|
|
do we need to uninstall overwatch to get overwatch 2?
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 02:58
|
|
|
we have no damage fall off mccree at home:
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 02:58
|
|
|
Cowslips Warren posted:do we need to uninstall overwatch to get overwatch 2? No you don't. Just boot up the Battle.net launcher and it should preload Overwatch 2 as a patch.
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 03:05
|
|
|
https://www.pcgamesn.com/activision-blizzard-lawsuit
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 03:16
|
|
|
I'm hyped! RIP 6v6, double barrier and too much CC. I will not miss you.
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 03:29
|
|
|
I liked brawl and dive and bastion bunker and goats and OP Brig and OP Moira and OP Zen and OP Ana and OP Mercy and 2cp and role queue and open queue. I hope I like OW2 as well. e: forgot about OP Bap. It's funny how the healer power balance drives the meta.
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 03:50
|
|
|
Did team fortress 2 ever actually fix the bot problem
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 04:04
|
|
|
My friends and I did one last night of Overwatch 1. It was nice. I'll miss it. Turns out Blizzard's new phone number requirement doesn't allow prepaid phones. To log into Overwatch 1 I just lied and said I'd already added a number and it let me in. I'm assuming Overwatch 2 is actually going to check. Not sure why this free to play FPS requires more hardcore security than my god drat bank, but here we are. Even if I wanted to play Overwatch 2 I literally can't. Feels cool for Blizzard to just take a way a game I paid for. ($30 six years ago isn't a bad value, but still.) Oh well.
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 05:31
|
|
|
what they're doing with phone numbers is very stupid but you can just try to use your number and see if it accepts it - whatever check they have is not a reliable blacklist of prepaid phones all together, with plenty of false positives and false negatives. it seems to be something like just certain prepaid-focused providers are completely blacklisted but if you have a prepaid number with a larger provider then it seems to be likely to be fine? it didn't reject my prepaid number
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 05:43
|
|
|
As far as I can tell with the prepaid thing it still might accept the number depending on the provider and the number range you're in, so some prepaid numbers will work but you won't know until you try to add it to your battle.net account. If your number is not acceptable it'll tell you as soon as you try to submit it on the website. I guess with some parts of the world it's more common to have a prepaid number, but I've seen at least one reddit post where someone with a Vodafone number wasn't able to add it to their account.
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 05:43
|
|
|
whatever they've done it's completely incoherent from any angle
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 05:46
|
|
|
To Overwatch's credit the original game designer is no longer at Blizzard, because he was probably a sex pest. So maybe the balance will be better this time but it's unlikely. The monetization for Overwatch 2 is dog poo poo loving stupid though, and no one who bought the original game gets any of the new heroes for free like what was normal before.
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 05:46
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 28, 2024 12:24 |
|
|
lih posted:what they're doing with phone numbers is very stupid but you can just try to use your number and see if it accepts it - whatever check they have is not a reliable blacklist of prepaid phones all together, with plenty of false positives and false negatives. it seems to be something like just certain prepaid-focused providers are completely blacklisted but if you have a prepaid number with a larger provider then it seems to be likely to be fine? it didn't reject my prepaid number I just literally don't have the option to play Overwatch 2 if they actually enforce this phone number thing.
|
|
#
?
Oct 3, 2022 05:46
|
|