On January 18, the largest acquisition in gaming history was the one that led to Microsoft announcing the acquisition of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion.
Speaking of Blizzard, people who play the game must be familiar with it, and the well-known games are Warcraft, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone and so on.
Although "World of Warcraft" was extremely popular before, it was only tepid operation with the people who played the game in the past.
Therefore, Blizzard later launched Overwatch, which had high hopes, but even this masterpiece that won the title of TGA's 2016 Game of the Year was a short-lived one, because the game was updated too slowly and the mechanics were not balanced enough, resulting in a large number of players abandoning the pit.
Instead, Infinity Ward Studio, acquired by Activision Blizzard, launched the Call of Duty series, barely maintaining the stock level.
Therefore, Microsoft has taken a fancy to the huge IP value of Activision Blizzard, and it has occurred that some time ago, the largest capital acquisition in the history of games is known.
After all, in Europe and the United States, Call of Duty is the representative of FPS.
Overwatch 2 is coming
However, Blizzard was clearly reluctant to give up overwatch, and in 19 years, Blizzard announced a sequel to Overwatch, Overwatch 2. However, there has been no specific news since then, most people just know that Blizzard is going to postpone the sequel, but there is no specific time.
Fortunately, Overwatch 2 is getting closer and closer. Recently, Blizzard officially announced that Overwatch 2 will open testing on April 26!
It should be noted that although the name is 2, Overwatch 2 actually adds new content based on the underlying communication of 1, but there is a lot of content, so it is simply named 2.
Update content without squeezing toothpaste
As far as the news is concerned, Overwatch 2 will add a new multiplayer map, and the first to be released are Toronto, Canada, Gothenburg, Sweden, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, New York, and Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Added a new hero ,"Sojourn", a Canadian who wears a snow jacket and attacks with an electromagnetic cannon.
Four heroes were also redone: Alyssa, The Iron Fist of Doom, Fortress, and Shadow.
Regarding how the doomsday iron fist changes this matter, it should be the most concerned about everyone at present.
Game director Aaron Keller has personally stated that he will transform the Doomsday Iron Fist from a damage hero to a tank, and in the new version, he will also retain a fly similar to Winston, and the Doom Iron Fist will be more survivable and good escape than before. And he made a special guarantee that the Iron Fist would cause much less damage than he did when he was a hero.
Doomsday Iron, the hero who ran amok in 5V5, finally attracted his doom...
In addition, the original familiar hero will also change in the image, and recently, the official Facebook account of the "Overwatch League" leaked a screenshot of the game.
As can be seen in the picture, in the hero selection interface of 5v5, the appearance of the character "Soldier 76" has changed, and the mask has disappeared, revealing a white beard, making it look more old and fierce.
Finally, Overwatch 2 adds a new "Maneuver Propulsion" mode.
The maneuvering propulsion gameplay is similar to that of a cart, the map is symmetrical, and the two teams need to compete for control of the robot in the center of the map and send it to each other's base. Teams on both sides can compete for control of the robot at any time. Escorting the robot to a farther party on the enemy side will win.
I wonder what you think of these major updates? In the case of fruit, although many new maps and content changes have been added, in terms of gameplay, there seems to be nothing too refreshing, if Blizzard can not find a breakthrough point in this place, then Overwatch 2 is relatively not so easy to get out of the circle, after all, the player is the best publicity list, for a game, the early momentum is very important.
Of course, people who like the game will still play, and the launch of Overwatch 2 will definitely increase the return of some old players, but the most important factor in whether the game can continue to be popular is related to whether its own game quality is excellent.
If Blizzard can fix the previous shortcomings, such as slow updates and unbalanced heroes in the game. It is believed that Overwatch 2 can occupy the first echelon of online games, after all, Blizzard, although it has fallen, is also more careful than most manufacturers to make games.
As for the configuration, it's good news for those with low hardware parameters.
Overwatch 2 PVP B test system configuration requirements show that only a Core i3 or Phenom X3 8650 CPU, GTX 600 or HD 7000 Series graphics cards, and 6GB of RAM are required to play.
Gt600 and HD7000 are both cash cards released around 2012, and this entry requirement can be said to be very low.
Whether Blizzard can return to glory
I believe that everyone has heard of Blizzard's production, it must be a boutique of these eight words, but with the birth of more and more excellent games on the market, Blizzard's games seem to be getting farther and farther away from everyone, if you ask young people today what games to play, they may answer you the most may be the glory of the king or the peace elite.
Fruit believes that Blizzard's biggest problem is two points:
First, many games focus on cultivation, such as in "World of Warcraft", the characters need a long time to exercise and energy investment, and in "Hearthstone", it is necessary to constantly liver daily missions to barely ensure that they can collect the new deck, and many times the previous version of the card has not been collected, and the next new model has emerged.
Second, it is to launch a game in a few years, it can be said that it is unsuccessful to become a benevolent, because the patience of many players is very short-lived, otherwise no one will play the game no matter how good it is, it will not make sense.
However, Blizzard seems to have learned the lessons of the past, and began to release game products with its own IP on the mobile side, such as the mobile game Diablo, and gradually accelerated the development speed of the game on the PC side.
Of course, everything is two-sided, and at this time, some people will say, you do it so fast, then you must be not as good as before, it has become rough, and you blizzard have actually begun to do mobile games, and you have actually fallen.
It's like Schrödinger's cat... Before the game is officially tested, there will be a variety of people with different views. As a player, Guozi still hopes that Blizzard can regain its original glory, after all, everyone wants more and more good games, so let's wait and see the performance of Overwatch 2!