Competitive Play is designed for those players who want to put their skills to the test and offers a more serious experience than our Quick Play or Arcade Modes. Players new to Overwatch 2 will unlock access to Competitive Play when they complete the Competitive Play Qualification challenge by ...
In the first part of our two-part deep dive on matchmaking and competitive we’ll look at how matchmaking works under the hood and answer some outstanding questions around how MMR is determined and factored into the system. Ultimately, the goal of matchmaker is to create as fair matches as ...
While some heroes are performing better than others, and there are differences across player skill levels, we have been happy to see that no hero’s overall power level is far out of line with our goals. Every hero on the roster has a win-rate between 45% and 55%, and we are not p...
Descendant levels are the most straightforward. As you play with a specific Descendant (which are just your different classes you can unlock and swap between), you will gain XP and level that specific Descendant up. Each Descendant level gives a minor stat boost and eventually unlocks new abilit...
Because of this shift in design approach to heroes, we believe that launching new Overwatch 2 heroes through the Battle Pass system is fair to our players, respects the competitive nature of the game, and aligns with our goal of supporting Overwatch 2 as a live service moving forward. ...
Overwatch 2 Season 8 patch notes were teased in the latest “Director’s Take” blog Overwatch 2 has seen a ton of new changes over the year. Apart from the major tweaks done to its competitive ranked system, big changes have been done to some of the game’s signature heroes to fix ...
Comparing what you get in the Fortnite Crew for $12, it would cost you almost five times the amount of money to get the equivalent content in Overwatch 2.There's also a lot of content missing. If you're into competitive Overwatch, Push, Escort, and Hybrid game types are all present...
Blizzard commented on the recent Overwatch 2 launch issues, as well as detailed the fixes theyve already made to combat them, fixes that are still coming, and more, from removing SMS Protect for a majority of existing players, to the steps taken to addre
because in a test with a limited number of players, we generally want to prioritize making matches more quickly over splitting players into multiple queues; and second, because we’re planning some significant overhauls of our core ranked and competitive mode systems, and those are not yet ready...
Another competitive change noted in aReddit AMAis that there will not be a Competitive MMR reset inOverwatch 2. MMR is your rank that helps the game pair you up against opponents close to your skill level. This means that your MMR from the first game will translate over to avoid massive...