traditional offensive/defensive roles. If you dig disrupting or healing only for example, there’s still a place for you in this game. Matchmaking queues have generally been short for me (1-2mins max), so you don’t need to commit to long gameplay sessions to get some Overwatch under ...
Steve Watts:Yeah, you really hit the nail on the head. There have been lots of multiplayer shooters, but a few things set Overwatch apart. One of them is definitely its sense of balance, not just between classes and team composition, but with tools built explicitly to reward lots of diff...
glisa is one of the top 100 overwatch players in terms of time spent in the game. she has so far logged thousands of hours of gameplay, and she keeps a youtube channel with highlight reels. but sometimes she posts videos of her interactions with other gamers. she uploaded a montage re...
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Very little ofOverwatchcharacters’ backstory can be learned through gameplay. Some of the game’s canon is delivered through minor exchanges between characters before round starts, while most of the lore and story are shared through promotional videos, comics, and social media postings. This leaves...
In this chapter we will, whenever relevant, address the fanworks' proximity to the official brand and canon of the game. Our work here does not cover 'behind the scenes' community management, gameplay analytics, or other player and game insights that the company collects that arguably inform ...