Overwatch 2 Now Live

Overwatch 2 Now Live
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Welcome to Overwatch 2

We’ve created Overwatch 2 as a new, free to play experience for new and returning players. Pick from our cast of 35 incredible heroes and team up in epic 5v5 action on 22 global maps across 6 distinct modes. Whether you like to lead the charge, ambush enemies, or aid your allies, there’s a hero for you.

Hero Updates

  • Added Sojourn, Kiriko, and Junker Queen – Check out our heroes, new and old on http://overwatch.blizzard.com
  • Added Role Passives for Tank, Damage, and Support heroes
  • 1000s of new voice lines and improved narrative reactivity across all heroes
  • With over 44,000 lines of dialog, you’ll always be hearing something new
  • Revamped combat sound design for all heroes
  • Updated skins and VFX for all heroes

Feature Updates

  • Accessibility Features
  • Battle Pass starting with Season One
  • Updated Competitive mode
  • Cross-Progression
  • First Time User Experience
  • New 5v5 core game mode format
  • New Challenge System
  • New Cosmetic Types:
    • Charms
    • Name Cards
    • New Skin Tier - Mythic - Cyber Genji
    • Souvenirs
    • Titles
  • New History tab in Profile including Game Reports
  • New in-game currency - Overwatch Coins
  • New Push core game mode
  • Ping System
  • Shop 2.0
  • Six New Maps - New Queen Street, Circuit Royal, Midtown, Colosseo, Esperança, Paraíso, and many existing maps received new daytime and nighttime variants
  • SMS Protect
  • Updated Endorsement System
  • If you want to check out more information on some of these features visit http://overwatch.blizzard.com/news

Delayed Features

  • OWL Hub will not be ready at launch
  • Workshop creation and editing will not be ready at launch

Moved Features

  • Highlights can now be found in the History tab of your Career Profile
  • Role Queue is removed for all game modes except for Quick Play - Role Queue
  • Patch Notes moved from the Main Menu to the Pause Menu

Retired Features

  • Assault maps have been removed from rotation in all playlists (can be found in Custom Game)
  • General Chat has been removed
  • Looking For Group has been removed
  • Loot Boxes have been removed
  • Player Levels are retired (your level prior to OW2 can be viewed in your Profile)

Engineering Changes and Updates

  • 3D audio systems across all platforms
  • Dynamic render-scale support for PC
  • HDR added for PC, Xbox Series X, and PS5
  • Raised max frames to 600 fps
This article was originally published in forum thread: Overwatch 2 Now Live! started by Lumy View original post
Published on 2022-10-04 06:29 PM
60 Comments
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  1. ati87's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jester Joe View Post
    Right that's why every game launch they have a "known issues" thread.
    To deny that there's issues with the launch, right?

    Like when they blamed classic issues on DDoS!
    Oh wait, no, they made more realms and admitted they misjudged.


    Every launch though no matter what happens, people always want to just find a reason to hate on Blizzard more.
    To add to your point.
    Would be borderline stupid to lie about a DDoS attack…you don't lie about this kind of things as a publicly traded company. Hide it/downplayed it, sure…but lying is stupid and pointless.

    Also, what is better PR? We are experiencing a DDoS attack or because of influx of players, the server's couldn't keep up demands.
  1. Kallisto's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ati87 View Post
    To add to your point.
    Would be borderline stupid to lie about a DDOS attack...you don't lie about this kind of things as a publicly traded company. Hide it/downplayed it sure...but lying is stupid and pointless.

    Also, what is betterPR? We are experiencing a DDoS attack or because of influx of players the server's couldn't keep up demands.
    Exactly this.

    Plus DDoS attacks can be viewed, there are literally web sites out there that shows DDoS when it happens. To lie about it anyone can go and prove that it isn't.
  1. StillMcfuu's Avatar
    DDOS attack is nuBlizz's version of SoonTM.
  1. panda040's Avatar
    Why did they remove general chat?
  1. Kathranis's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by StillMcfuu View Post
    DDOS attack is nuBlizz's version of SoonTM.
    How nuBlizz? It's been happening on most of their major launches since 2014.
  1. NoiseTank13's Avatar
    Honestly wouldn't put it past the Team Fortress 2 playerbase to DDoS Blizzard, they are certainly toxic enough.
  1. StillMcfuu's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kathranis View Post
    How nuBlizz? It's been happening on most of their major launches since 2014.
    Just an excuse for lack of preparation. Even if it is happening, they us it as an excuse to not be prepared.
  1. Bakis's Avatar
    Has any time frame of when login queues are sorted being mentioned by BLZ yet?

    Edit: 90 ppl ahead (was 15 mins) login for 5mins to check the new menue torial about the bpass and stuff.
    Then head into settings and spot the HDR is disabled which require a restart. Click that and no prioritized queue and now 800 people ahead
  1. TEHPALLYTANK's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by panda040 View Post
    Why did they remove general chat?
    Did people actually use it for anything other than trash-talking or spamming? Cause I hardly ever saw anyone even use it, and the few times I saw it used were just people spamming. Neither of which contribute to a good experience. I'd wager the lack of use is a key reason for removing it.
  1. Caerrona's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by StillMcfuu View Post
    Just an excuse for lack of preparation. Even if it is happening, they us it as an excuse to not be prepared.
    You know ddos attacks are trackable right?

    Like anyone with 2 brain cells and Google can tell you that you are lying.

    Why lie about such an easy thing to verify? Seems weird.
  1. ati87's Avatar
    BTW has anybody experiencing lower performance compared to the BETA version and the OG version?
    I always play around 144fps but feels like I have stutters for a fraction of a second.
  1. Fortress of Arrogance's Avatar
    What the actual fuck is this shit?

  1. Bakis's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Fortress of Arrogance View Post
    What the actual fuck is this shit?
    Looks like an average cheesy US insurance/car/whatever commercial I have to put up with when watching NFL.
    Hope, future, together blabla.

    Utter garbage for morons but a good chuckle.
  1. minteK917's Avatar
    Lmao its what happens when your game creators become so far up their own ass they gotta make pretentious ads. The way I imagine this trailer being made, they had everything all the way to footage of Ukrainians fighting off Russian soldiers, but someone in the office was like yo, mabye its a bit much we are only launching a video game. So they settled for this. (Its a joke, have to preface since people are dumb.)

    And then I log into the game and do some quickplay before work to have fun. Both games I get have different people afk in spawn and randomly shoot and move to not get kicked out of the game because they wanna grind the battlepass. TOGHETER ALRIGHT.
  1. StillMcfuu's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Caerrona View Post
    You know ddos attacks are trackable right?

    Like anyone with 2 brain cells and Google can tell you that you are lying.

    Why lie about such an easy thing to verify? Seems weird.
    What are you talking about? I know they are trackable. I'm saying blizz use it as an excuse, they may be getting ddos'd but that doesn't excuse their actual game prep.

    Really not that hard to understand.
  1. Kallisto's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by StillMcfuu View Post
    What are you talking about? I know they are trackable. I'm saying blizz use it as an excuse, they may be getting ddos'd but that doesn't excuse their actual game prep.

    Really not that hard to understand.
    And how do you counter a DDOS? More servers? For a few days no one is going to waste that money and will not work.
    Block DDOSers? How, how do you differentiate between someone logging in to play and a DDOSer

    Also it comes to the third part, most DDOS don't go directly at the victim, but the ISP or someone else indirect that you literally can't counter it while keeping an online gaming server.
  1. StillMcfuu's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kallisto View Post
    And how do you counter a DDOS? More servers? For a few days no one is going to waste that money and will not work.
    Block DDOSers? How, how do you differentiate between someone logging in to play and a DDOSer

    Also it comes to the third part, most DDOS don't go directly at the victim, but the ISP or someone else indirect that you literally can't counter it while keeping an online gaming server.
    There are all kinds of protections for DDOS, Blizz isn't in a unique position of being the only webservice getting constantly attacked. But they are the only one who constantly have issues with services because of it. It's an entirely them problem.
  1. 8bithamster's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by StillMcfuu View Post
    There are all kinds of protections for DDOS, Blizz isn't in a unique position of being the only webservice getting constantly attacked. But they are the only one who constantly have issues with services because of it. It's an entirely them problem.

    OK armchair security and network expert. Please provide intricate details on how to prevent ddos from ever happening again. Maybe you can also prevent any hacks or ransom ware from ever infecting a companies server?
    Because if it's all so easy according to you, any security it employees are useless right?
  1. Jester Joe's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by StillMcfuu View Post
    There are all kinds of protections for DDOS, Blizz isn't in a unique position of being the only webservice getting constantly attacked. But they are the only one who constantly have issues with services because of it. It's an entirely them problem.
    Despite what people what to think on forums, Blizzard is still one of the big names when it comes to video games.

    Are you really surprised that Blizzard would get targeted repeatedly by trolls? Along with the fact that each Blizzard game pulls a huge amount of players day one, so it's not really hard to break the server if you're trying to.

    Not something other companies need to deal with usually because their servers aren't also at capacity already.
  1. Kallisto's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jester Joe View Post
    Despite what people what to think on forums, Blizzard is still one of the big names when it comes to video games.

    Are you really surprised that Blizzard would get targeted repeatedly by trolls? Along with the fact that each Blizzard game pulls a huge amount of players day one, so it's not really hard to break the server if you're trying to.

    Not something other companies need to deal with usually because their servers aren't also at capacity already.
    Hell he's wrong when he said no others have issues with services because of it. Endwalker release was a complete shit show partly because of DDoS attacks too. Anything that's popular and online basically gets it.
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