Developer Blizzard Entertainment is back with the latest Director’s Take for Overwatch 2, dedicated to the tools to hape your own gameplay.
“Whether you’re customizing your Hero mid-match or deciding which rewards to grind for, we want Overwatch to feel more like a toolkit than an instruction manual. It should be something you can explore, experiment with, and make your own.”
Over the last year, the team put a lot of focus on expanding that toolkit and implementing new ways to customize gameplay. The Director’s Take addresses what has been done, what’s in the works, and how it all ties together.
The director’s take then goes into detail about how the player feedback affected the game development, like introducing the Competitive mode for a greater challenge. These days, players have even more options, including both Ranked and Unranked 6v6, Stadium, with Unranked Stadium coming in S18. Other recent features also come into play when it comes to making meaningful decisions:
- Perks let you choose how your Hero plays during a match and can be used strategically to counter an enemy team or player. A big update to Perks is coming in Season 18.
- Hero Bans and Map Voting give you more opportunities to decide what kind of match you’re walking into.
- Stadium Armory lets you totally reshape how a Hero works in that mode, encouraging you to push abilities and counterstrategy to the limit.
The team is also working on making changes and adding meaningful rewards to the progression system in S18. The plans are to build the system up gradually by adding more ways to earn cool stuff, chase chosen goals, and feel rewarded for the time spent.
“We don’t make these decisions in a vacuum; we’re always listening. Our community team scours social channels and forums. We run surveys in and out of the game. Our analysts keep tabs on player choices and how you’re “voting with your time.” And yes, we play Overwatch, too! All of these methods help us understand how you’re using the tools we’ve built and what else we can add to the kit. We’ll keep listening, keep evolving, and keep adding ways to make Overwatch yours.”
