We struggled to find our footing with the Hero Mission experience early on. It was built into the DNA of the team early on, and some of us considered that final game a true realisation of the original vision of Project Titan.”Īfter Overwatch launched, however, Keller alleges the team wasn’t “as focused as we should have been on a game that was a runaway hit” and instead tried to continue to build off of a “years old” Project Titan ideology: “Things rarely go as planned in game development. Overwatch was the crawl, a dedicated version of PvE was the walk, and an MMO was the run. As we transitioned away from that original concept and started creating Overwatch, we included plans to one day return to that scope. The Overwatch team, especially at its inception, considered itself an MMO development team. That game had many facets, but at its heart, it was an FPS MMO. “The Overwatch team was founded in the wake of a cancelled game at Blizzard called Project Titan. Keller’s blog makes it clear that Story Missions (“fast-paced, co-op gameplay” that are “leaps and bounds above what we’ve built for PvE previously”) are still happening, and he’ll have more details “in the coming weeks.” But the Hero Missions (“an in-development game mode that allowed players to upgrade individual heroes through talent trees, providing a deeply replayable version of PvE in Overwatch 2”) make up the mode Blizzard is “no longer moving forward with.” Overwatch 2 game director on PvEīut on May 16, Blizzard confirmed that the expansive PvE mode would never happen and that the company was instead focusing on shoring up its PvP mode. Over time, it became clear that we weren’t getting what was promised, as Kaplan left Blizzard, Keller took over, and Overwatch 2 became a standalone sequel that would replace Overwatch 1 entirely.
It would have a shared multiplayer universe with the OG title, that way players who didn’t want to shell out extra for the PvE sequel wouldn’t get left in the dust. Read More: Overwatch 2 Multiplayer Isn’t Good Enough To Justify Gutting Its Long-Promised PvEīack in 2019, then-director Jeff Kaplan stepped onto the BlizzCon stage and promised an extensive Overwatch 2 PvE experience with skill trees and customisable hero abilities, offered as a buyable add-on to the original game. In a newly released blog, Keller says the discussion going around about “how we’re cancelling PvE outright…isn’t accurate” before getting into details about the game’s origins, development process, and future. Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller has provided more insight into why developer Blizzard decided to can a long-promised PvE mode that has been in development since 2019.
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