Looks like Overwatch 2 might be a thing!

IGN are reporting that a leak suggest that Blizzard are set to announce Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2019. Includes new maps, extended co-op features, new abilities for heroes as well as a new hero. There's a few leaked shots showing off Tracer's new abilities.

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What do folks think? With World of Warcraft: Shadowlands also rumoured Blizzcon could be interesting, especially given the whole PR mess.

I'm very interested. I hope they take this as an opportunity to really re think some core design choices for the main game.

I dont know that I'm really excited for PVE stuff though.

Will be interesting to see the reaction to this. Like will all heroes transition over? Will people enjoy how Blizzard change the heroes with new abilities? Will the cosmetics carry over?

The question is will they keep Mei in the game?

@imhungry: they will but she will be a villain that the the other Heroes must defeat to protect the honor and glory of Overwatch's new leader Emperor Xi.

It will also have a new tag line; Overwatch: Even heroes must kneel.

Cool beans. I really enjoyed the various horde modes they added as events

Shame I won't be able to buy it until Blizzard get their shit together. But still frigging cool.

Don't get it twisted. I'm all in on Overwatch 2 from launch day. I put over 700 hours into Overwatch, played every day for 2 years. I just hope they can recapture the magic it had at the beggining. I hope they have taken lessons learnt from heros/metas and use that to better the sequal.

Please don't take my Zenyatta and Winston away from me!

Wow - kind of blown away that OW2 might not even get a release in 2021. Makes me think it's having a troubled development and it also makes me worry that all of these resources being ploughed into OW2 means that OW isn't getting the attention it needs.

I feel like my friends are falling off OW and these OW2 delays are just going to make things worse.

Even if this game is mediocre or "fragments the community" or whatever, I will enjoy it. Sometimes I just wanna put on some Spotify and grind through PVE without worrying whether my Orisa might yell at me because I was healing her instead of damage boosting. I don't even fuck with comp. This is EXACTLY what I wanted more of from Overwatch. If they support it and keep adding more missions, I could see myself playing this for years to come.

@matt_parker I'm not too surprised. It could have a beta this year. There's been some rumors of that. Blizzard is known for announcing something, then either delivering when they think it's ready or having a massively problematic launch (remember trying to play Diablo 3 at midnight?) I'd rather have them rethink things and playtest more and make promises they might not fully follow through with than get something that feels like a $60 game that's still in beta.

@frodobaggins I know this is a shot in the dark, but do you wanna play sometime? I play on PC. Have something like 500 hours. Have never found someone who plays the game regularly and still enjoys it--and isn't toxic. PM me! I usually play support but I'm getting more into Junkrat, Sigma, Ana, etc.