Table of Contents Since its launch, Blizzard’s free-to-play hero shooter Overwatch 2 has been through some serious peaks and valleys.
Originally pitched as a sequel that would exist alongside the beloved original game and offer a new, layered PvE mode that expanded upon its hero’s abilities, the game players got in October 2022 was very different.
Season 15: Honor & Glory Official Trailer | Overwatch 2 Season 15 and 16 will introduce massive changes to the hero shooter that dwarf anything we’ve seen in its nearly decade-long history, from perks that add four new abilities to each hero in both Quick Play and Competitive modes, to Stadium, an entirely new mode that offers even more variety amongst a select roster of heroes.
But with the introduction of perks in Season 15, Overwatch 2 adds a layer of depth and player choice that will completely change how the game is played and further complicate its delicate balance. Each hero will get four different perks — a set of two minor ones and another two major ones.
I only got a chance to play a few matches with this new perk system, but it’s clear that it completely turns Overwatch 2 gameplay on its head, allowing players a chance to approach how to play a character in new and varied ways and adding flexibility to a gameplay loop that has long felt all-too-rigid. It will radically change how every single match is played, a crucial adjustment considering how long the game has felt a bit stagnant, or far too safe.
“There’s some talents that ended up becoming perks, there’s some stuff from that ended up becoming perks, or stuff from Junkenstein’s Revenge that ended up becoming perks,” Dawson responds when I ask if the canned PvE mode inspired this major overhaul. “There’s a lot of ideas that we had in the past throughout the many years of our experimentation that ended up in this system.”
During my brief time with Stadium, I discovered how frustrating it can be to get locked into a character when the other team has the perfect counter for it: I tried to play D.Va against an absolutely dominant Zarya to no avail, though apparently Blizzard has sorted this imbalance out in a more-recent patch. It will even have its own ranking system scored differently from the other modes, cleverly tapping into the Overwatch community’s competitive nature.
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