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Overwatch 2’s long-awaited co-op story missions will go live in August
Blizzard has revealed the Overwatch 2 roadmap for the rest of 2023, including details on when the first story missions are coming to the game. They’ll be available in season six, which should start in mid-August.
Story missions are part of the long-awaited co-op side of the game. When Blizzard released Overwatch 2 last October, the player vs. environment (PvE) aspects of the game that it first showed off at BlizzCon in 2019 were not available. That’s because the team needed more time to work on the PvE modes.
The studio didn’t want to keep fans waiting much longer for an overhaul of the traditional, competitive (or PvP) side of Overwatch 2 after what was effectively a two-year content drought. So, Blizzard split development of the two halves so it could get the sequel out faster. There have been PvE experiences in Overwatch 2, but so far they’ve been constrained to limited-time events.
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It’s worth noting that this won’t be the full PvE vision that Blizzard laid out almost four years ago. “Development on the PvE experience really hasn’t made the progress that we would have hoped,” Overwatch 2 executive producer Jared Neuss said. The team had created “a bunch of amazing content,” including “ridiculous” gameplay augmentations for heroes. “Unfortunately, the effort required to pull all of that together into a Blizzard-quality experience that we can ship to you is huge,” Neuss said. “With everything we’ve learned about what it takes to operate this game at the level you deserve, it’s clear that we can’t deliver on that original vision for PvE.”
Hero missions have been cut in order to not pull too many resources away from the live game, which is the priority for Blizzard. As such, talent trees, an RPG-style feature of hero missions that would have enabled players to customize hero abilities, have been scrapped.
That’s not to say there aren’t intriguing PvE features coming. A single-player version of a PvE experience with a leaderboard is in the works. A ton of co-op features are planned and Blizzard will continue to add content on a frequent basis, including more story missions.
Before the story missions debut in a few months, there’s a whole new season in between. Season five will arrive in June with what appears to be a fantasy theme. Fans can expect a new limited-time event called Questwatch, a new cinematic, the Summer Games event and updates for the Workshop mode, in which players can create custom games. The On Fire system, which lets everyone in a match see when certain players are performing especially well, will return in season five too.
Story missions aren’t the only big change on the docket for season six. The developers say this season will mark the biggest update since launch. Blizzard will add another support hero, a firing range and an overhauled player progression system. The Anniversary event will return as well. Perhaps most intriguingly, there will be a new map type for the PvP modes called Flashpoint, which will debut with two new maps.
There will be a bigger focus on building out the story of Overwatch 2 as well. For one thing, seasons will be named and, with the help of in-game cinematics, season six will “push the narrative arc of Overwatch forward for the first time since the original game release.”
Looking ahead to season seven and beyond, Blizzard is promising reworks for Sombra (yes, another one) and Roadhog. Also in the pipeline are another collaboration following the One-Punch Man crossover, a fresh tank hero, a control map, a winter event, a lore database and, most excitingly for me, the return of competitive Mystery Heroes.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/overwatch-2s-long-awaited-co-op-story-missions-will-go-live-in-august-193108073.html?src=rss
Overwatch 2’s Update Roadmap Features New Characters, Story Missions, And Reworks
Following Blizzard’s announcement that Overwatch 2’s highly-anticipated PvE Hero mode has been scrapped, the studio has revealed a first look at the game’s 2023 roadmap. While not particularly descriptive, the image offers players a glimpse at Overwatch 2’s upcoming game modes, cinematics, themes, and seasonal events, as well as two new Heroes.
Based on the details provided, it appears as if Overwatch Season 5 will have a medieval-fantasy setting, perhaps titled Mischief and Magic. The highlight of this theme is the season’s limited-time event, Questwatch. No additional information about this event has been revealed, but its image on the banner depicts a fantasy map with a castle, mountains, towering evil lair, and more. Season 5 will also feature a new cinematic starring one cute-looking canine companion, the return of Overwatch’s Summer Games, a 5v5 mini Competitive season, a Creator Workshop, and content celebrating Overwatch 2’s one-year anniversary.
For those still reeling over Blizzard’s decision to cut the game’s story mode, it appears that at least some narrative is coming to the game in the form of Story Missions in Season 6. In addition, both a Hero Mastery section and Player Progression system are listed as coming to the game. While it’s unclear if these will function similarly to the versions shown back in 2021, the names of these features make it sound as if there will be some similarity.
In new trailer for Peacock’s Based on a True Story, murder’s just podcast content
Most true crime podcasters try to stress that, while their shows are for entertainment purposes, they come from a place of respect and aren’t just exercises in fantasizing about what it would be like to live as a crime scene investigator. But in the first trailer for Peacock’s new series Based on a True Story, a couple’s homemade show about their neighbor’s untimely death is just the first step toward them living their murder-solving dreams and maybe making a bit of cash along the way.
From executive producers Craig Rosenberg and Jason Bateman, Based on a True Story tells the tale of husband and wife duo Ava (Kaley Cuoco) and Nathan Bartlett (Chris Messina) — a happy couple who finds themselves strapped for cash just as they’re expecting…
‘Based on a True Story’ trailer teases amateur podcasters on the trail of a serial killer
True crime podcasts are such a big thing that we now have not one, but two shows all about characters making one to document their own local serial killer.
Following in the tradition of Only Murders in the Building is Craig Rosenberg’s Based on a True Story, an eight-episode dark comedy thriller about a couple (Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina) who set up their own podcast after realizing they know local Los Angeles serial killer the “West Side Ripper.”
The new series also stars Tom Bateman, Priscilla Quintana, Liana Liberato, Natalia Dyer, Alex Alomar Akpobome, Aisha Alfa, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, and Li Jun Li.
Based on a True Story is available to stream on Peacock from June 8.
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“A suitably epic story with cataclysmic stakes” – Critics give their verdicts on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is almost upon us, with less than 24 hours until the latest instalment of Link and Zelda’s adventure finally arrives. But, ahead of getting hands-on with the game, the wait to see what critics have to say about Tears of the Kingdom is finally over.
It comes as absolutely no surprise whatsoever that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is sweeping critics off their feet so far. Breath of the Wild was in receipt of countless awards back in 2017, including The Game Awards’, Golden Joystick Awards, and GDC’s Game of the Year – which led many folk to declare ToTK as being 2023’s GOTY, long before we’d even caught a real glimpse of the game.
Our own James Billcliffe scored Tears of the Kingdom a 5/5 after having spent plenty of time with the game, but what are the verdicts of other critics? Let’s take a look.