Of course there's the stuff like the team size change and hero overhaul that's already been discussed, he added. And it's not just because this is our most significant release since the game launched," said director Aaron Keller. There's a lot more left to be revealed, however, as we learned during a recent two-hour battery of interviews with key members of the sequel's development team.
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The sequel will also add a proper story mode to the series for the first time, complete with skills to unlock for each hero and narrative cutscenes. That shift led in turn to a mass overhaul of the Overwatch hero roster. The formerly even split between hero roles - two Tanks, two Damage, and two Support per team - will lose one of those Tanks. Team sizes are being cut, from six to five.
We already know some of the sequel's biggest changes. Fan enthusiasm has helped the game to endure and even evolve with the times in the midst of roster fumbles and toxic workplace struggles. It didn’t take long for the competitive shooter to effortlessly muscle its way into the esports scene, simultaneously attracting an army of more casual fans drawn to its inclusive cast of heroes, its rich lore, and its buttery smooth gameplay. 4 as a wholesale replacement of Blizzard Entertainment's bona fide cultural phenomenon, which first launched in 2016. How do you follow a legend like Overwatch? That's the question the Overwatch 2 team needs to answer in its sequel, which arrives on Oct.