Overwatch 2 Trivia | 60 facts about the videogame

Overwatch 2 is the hotly anticipated sequel to the smash hit Overwatch. The game has a huge fan base worldwide.

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the sequel.

1. Overwatch 2 is an upcoming hero shooter video game
2. It is the sequel to Overwatch
3. The game is developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment
4. Overwatch 2 is intended to have a shared environment for player-versus-player modes with the first game
5. While introducing a cooperative player-versus-environment mode
6. A major change to address stagnation of the metagame in Overwatch was to reduce team sizes from six to five
7. And to rework the functionality of tank characters
8. Thus, requiring several characters to be reworked for the sequel
9. The game had a PvP beta in April 2022
10. Overwatch 2 is a hero shooter, where players are split into two teams and select one of more than 30 established hero characters as of 2022
11. Characters are broken out into damage class, doing most of the team’s offense against the opposing team; support class, providing heals and buffs to teammates
12. And tank class, having a high damage threshold and can absorb damage for their teammates
13. Each character has a different skill kit with a combination of active and passive abilities as well as a special Ultimate power that can be used after it is charged up
14. The base Overwatch 2 game, like Overwatch, features primarily player versus player battles across several different modes and maps
15. The game includes both casual and ranked matched play.
16. A significant departure will be moving to a five-on-five PvP mode
17. With a restriction of only allowing one tank in play on a team
18. According to Aaron Keller, the prior allowance for six players per team and two tanks made gameplay slower than they would have liked
19. By moving to five players and removing one tank, they believed this sped up play
20. This additionally simplified how much action there was to watch for both players and spectators
21. New maps were thus designed to include more options for cover due to the reduced presence of tanks
22. Heroes will have a general reworking within their classes as to make the game generally faster
23. Damage heroes will generally have increased movement speed, while Support heroes will all gain some type of passive self-healing skill
24. Tank heroes are expected to undergo the largest change to make them able to take on more offensive roles
25. Heroes are also undergoing a visual update to reflect the few years of in-game time that has passed between the events of Overwatch and Overwatch 2
26. The game will include a ping system, similar to that of Apex Legends, for players to easily alert teammates to points of interest on the map in addition to existing callouts
27. A new PvP mode, “Push”, will be introduced, which functions like a tug of war
28. There each team is vying for control of a robot that is pushing a team’s payload to the opponent’s side of the map when a team controls it
29. Push will become part of the standard map rotation in the Overwatch League as well as be available for Quick and Competitive play
30. Some existing gameplay modes may be dropped in Overwatch 2
31. Kaplan has stated that two control point maps, such as Horizon Lunar Colony, will likely not be available in Overwatch 2 as these have been difficult to balance in response to monitoring gameplay and player feedback
32. The game will have persistent player versus environment modes (PvE)
33. These are similar to the special seasonal events, which will feature four-player cooperative missions against computer-controlled opponents
34. In this mode, players can gain experience for the hero they are using, and at certain experience levels, unlock new passive skills called talents that boost the hero’s current abilities, allowing them to customize how the hero plays
35. At least two PvE modes will be added: a story-based mission mode
36. Where players are limited to their hero selection in replaying missions based on Overwatch’s lore
37. Hero missions will allow all heroes to be used in fending off waves of enemies at various locations
38. Blizzard anticipates that Overwatch 2 will ship with over 100 different missions
39. Utilizing new maps as well as existing multiplayer maps expanded out to include new areas, and adding in dynamic effects, such as night and day modes and weather effects
40. Enemy types will be expanded out from the Null Sector robotic opponents used during seasonal PvE mods, adding in new types with unique behavior
41. Overwatch 2 was announced at BlizzCon on November 1, 2019
42. The game will maintain a “shared multiplayer environment” between it and the original Overwatch, so that the players in either game can compete together in the existing player versus player (PvP) modes
43. Thus, retaining all unlocked cosmetics and other features
44. Jeff Kaplan stated that this was a major push he had to argue for this “player-first standpoint” to his superiors at Blizzard, given the current industry trend to draw in new sales
45. All new heroes, maps, and PvP modes will be added to both games to maintain this shared environment
46. At least four new heroes will be added, which include Sojourn, a Black Canadian Overwatch officer introduced in the Overwatch Archive seasonal events
47. Overwatch 2 will run on an upgraded version of the original game’s engine which allows for larger map sizes to better support the new story-based PvE elements
48. Additionally, all of the existing heroes are getting visual redesigns for Overwatch 2
49. Although Blizzard does not expect every hero to have theirs finished by the time Overwatch 2 launches
50. With twelve of the existing 31 completed at the time of the game’s reveal
51. Overwatch 2 is expected to release for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, although there is currently no set release window
52. Kaplan stated they were more concerned about quality of the product than timeliness of the release
53. Investor documents released in November 2021 had reported that an initial planned release window in 2022 had been pushed to at least 2023
54. Intended for “giving the teams some extra time to complete production and continue growing their creative resources to support the titles after launch”
55. Kaplan anticipated that Overwatch and Overwatch 2 will ultimately merge into a single product to avoid having any engine differences affecting player experience
56. Technical director John Lafleur has stated they are also interested in supporting, at minimum, cross-platform progression and are looking at the possibility of cross-platform play
57. In March 2022, Blizzard stated that they had put too much focus on Overwatch 2 over the past few years to the detriment of support of the original game
58. This have changed plans to release Overwatch 2 in parts, with the PvP portion to be released in beta form starting in April 2022 and the PvE part to come at a later time
59. This would allow them to also continue to support Overwatch alongside Overwatch 2’s development
60. Later, Blizzard announced that the first wave of Overwatch 2 closed betas would begin on April 26, 2022, at 11:00 am PT and end on May 17