Overwatch 2 is currently in private beta and many of you collected codes via registration or via drops on Twitch during the grand opening night. Remember, if you want to get more, you’ll have the entire first week of OWL competition to enjoy. In the meantime, as planned, Blizzard has announced that it is collecting the first feedback from the community and already announces a first buff for its new game.
In a developer note posted yesterday, the beta team announced support role improvements, a role that was seen during the alpha as too vulnerable to dives and flanking attacks. The main reason is the switch from PvP to 5v5, with one less tank to protect supports. In addition, with the arrival of Sojourn and the reworks for tanks and dps, the studio also wanted to take care of the third role so as not to neglect this part of the gameplay.
The editor has therefore improved the passive skills to Allow Supports to recover health faster. But Blizzard noticed that there was still too much of a disparity with the rest of the heroes, as the queue for tanking and dps players increased.
We clearly heard that support players think tanks and damage players have more new content to enjoy and explore in this beta.
Blizzard announces the long-term introduction of new “exciting to play” support heroes. In the immediate term, the role should have a new buff with new abilities and a rework for existing heroes. Deployment is already possible for this beta, but the studio is aiming for the next test instead.
Finally, the editor specifies its improvements and changes at the level of the scoreboardcriticized by the community, but also at the level of ranked matches. In particular, “significant revisions to our basic ranked and competitive mode systems” are planned, which cannot be deployed for this beta at this time. In any case, Blizzard reminds several times that the game is currently under construction and does not reflect the finished product.