From the announcement of 2019 to today's 2021 finally released a lot of new news, Overwatch 2 finally has a specific look for players to refer to, but is this game "Overwatch Plus" in the end? We may wish to summarize the information and judge it.
What's new?
Based on the 45-minute Behind-the-Scenes Story of Overwatch 2, we can expect to see these new things in this work:
New map
The maps officially mentioned include [Rome] in Italy and [New York City] in the United States, and the ones mentioned later include —
Rome
New York
1. [Toronto] (not Dorado, don't be confused)
2. [Gothenburg] (where Tobion's workshop is located)
3. Somewhere in India (presumably [Roshani City], from the short story "One Brick and One Stone" from the "Light of Order")
New PVP changes
Currently, all three hero functions will add corresponding passive skills, and the current examples include-
1. Tank heroes are immune to knockback and provide less energy for big moves when defeated by hostile heroes.
2. Output hero regular movement speed is higher, easy to surround enemies.
3. Support the hero as long as the hero is not damaged for a period of time will slowly restore health.(The mechanism is similar to the "Angel' passive skill "Recovery", but the amount of recovery is lower, it seems that the angel may get the advantage of double passive blood return, or her passive skill will be modified)
● New gun sounds: including optimized sound effects, different echoes according to the shooting environment, shooting sounds that vary according to the amount of ammunition residue, and so on.
● More details of hero missions: Pure PVE mode is also a big selling point for Overwatch 2, and the details added so far include-
1. Theoretically, the production team wants to develop hundreds of hero missions.
2. A considerable number of missions will occur on old maps.
3. However, these maps generally add new additional areas, such as the cart end of King's Road that may spawn new branches at the entrance to Area 3.
4. Different weather and lighting environments will randomly appear in the level, including the sandstorm of the Temple of Anubis and the blizzard of the Toronto.
5. There are many types of goals for hero missions, including recycling items, treasure hunting, destroying targets, etc., try to keep fresh and reduce the degree of repetition.
6. The talent system is large-scale refinement, a hero currently has three skill trees in different directions, which have a large number of different items to change the hero's skill effect, for example, the milk pillar of [Soldier 76] will become a healing aura that follows him (really become a wet nurse!). But don't be a male mom! ), [Angel]'s staff will turn into an energy missile that can be fired (The Magic Chicken is out of favor!). Double fly combination becomes single fly!? ）
7. Enemy types have become more abundant, for example, the zeroer now has a "breaker" who will forcibly rush to the target to explode, and there is a "dragster" who will directly pull the hero to the side to execute, etc., and a considerable number of enemies have an elite version, not only the health and attack power increase, but the mode of action and attack methods will change.
8. Although not mentioned separately, there are also levels in the demo clip that fight the Black Claw, so there will not be only zeroers with new types of units.
9. At present, the hero mission will theoretically allow the player to play as a member of the reconstructed Overwatch Organization, but in practice there is no restriction on the number of candidates, and the player can also choose Black Claw members, such as Black Lily, Death, and Moira, and the currently seemingly neutral Ash can also choose.
10. However, in the Indian map, [Black Lily] will appear as an enemy character, and it is not certain whether the player will be restricted to using the same hero in this case, or the logic of PVP battle, ignoring this, allowing the player to continue to use any hero they like.
New hero look
At present, every hero from Overwatch's default style will be changed in "Overwatch 2" to reflect the change in their roles in the time between the two stories, except for several heroes who identified the new shape when it was announced in 2019, and the hero who announced the new look this time is-
1. The overall style of the Grim Reaper was changed to silver + black, instead of the previous skeleton white + black, and the clothing style was closer to the armor.
2. Max's cloak was changed to bright red and cleaner, he grew a beard, and the other elements did not change much.
3. The black lily style also added more armor elements, more cyberpunk style, and she tied the ponytail into a twist braid.
4. Pharaoh's Eagle, while maintaining the basic structure of the original armor, changed the theme color to blue + white, which is representative of the Overwatch Organization, indicating that she has officially joined the heroic team led by her mother.
Story quests and story development
Compared with Overwatch, whose narrative generally relies only on anime CG and comics and novels, Overwatch 2 will have more specific story plot tasks, including cutscenes corresponding to the missions, and the specific content currently displayed includes -
1. Reinhardt travels to Tobion's workshop in Gothenburg, where he stumbles upon a fortress that has been "adopted" by Tobion, where veterans of the war during the Armed Weapons Crisis and former Armed Soldiers meet head-on, and the conflict breaks out – but it doesn't seem to start. (The author thinks that the sledgehammer may not be able to beat it)
2. Winston's reconstituted Overwatch team (including Genji, Angels, Sky Hunter and Xiaomei) and Sogjen, who have already joined Reinhart and McRae, finally meet, and Winston and Sogyn embrace warmly, apparently the two had a good relationship in Overwatch.
3. The other cutscenes are still basically in storyboard state, but it can be seen that the nascent Overwatch Organization basically recruits most of the heroes currently appearing, including D.Va, Lucio, Brigitta, Fortress, Chalia, Light of Order, and Pharaoh's Eagle, and the old members are Winston, Reinhardt, Sojerne, McRae, Soldier 76, Angels, Hunter, Genji, Echo, Tobion, and Xiaomei (the original organization's researchers were transferred to frontline heroes, let's be considered old members).
4. In terms of other heroes, Anna does not appear on the storyboard, but according to the plot direction, at least there is no conflict with the new Overwatch's position, and should be rejoined.
5. Zen Yata currently seems to be involved in the conflict between Black Claw and Overwatch in India, and from the perspective of his position and relationship with Genji, he should also join the new Overwatch.
6. The other characters currently appear to have no clear position on Sabotage Ball, Orisa, the Wild Rat Roadmaster duo, ash and Hanzo, black lily and black shadow appear as enemies, and it is not surprising that Death, Doomsday Iron Fist, Moira and Sigma are similar positions.
7. Whether Baptiste will have a plot to defect from Black Claw is uncertain at present, but should theoretically join Overwatch.
epilogue
In addition to the above content, I believe that this 45-minute long "Overwatch 2 Behind the Scenes" is still a lot of details hidden in the background and only a few frames of the picture can be cut, but considering the limited time, the author will not be verbose here, or leave it back in the magazine to analyze and analyze it with everyone
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