Jeff Kaplan has confirmed that at some unspecified level within the late future, Overwatch 1 and a pair of will merge into the identical shopper in the end.
While talking to Kotaku about Overwatch’s present state of affairs, Kaplan stated that Overwatch 1 isn’t present process “a slow death, but a temporary stasis.”
Kaplan additionally informed Kotaku that the 2 video games will finally grow to be a synonymous expertise, saying the next:
“There will be a point where the clients merge. We think this is important, especially as a competitive experience. The whole idea is to avoid fragmenting the player base and giving anybody a competitive advantage. If we’re playing in the same competitive pool, you’d better not have a better framerate just because you’re on a different version of the engine.”
After asserting Overwatch 2 at BlizzCon 2019, Blizzard did verify that each one of Overwatch 2’s new PvP content material might be obtainable within the first sport. That means the 4 new maps – which encompass Toronto, Gothenburg, Monte Carlo, and Rio de Janeiro – and the brand new sport mode referred to as Push might be obtainable to play in Overwatch 1.
Overwatch 1 gamers will even be aware about the brand new and upgraded look launched in Overwatch 2. In truth, in the event you’re already an Overwatch participant, then except you need to expertise PvE missions, discover the sport’s lore, or check out the brand new hero skills, then there’s no purpose to spend money on an entire new sport.
However, Kaplan did reassure Kotaku that Overwatch 1 “isn’t going anywhere” and can nonetheless obtain “some meaningful” updates, which ought to put to mattress any fears of any participant who’s involved in regards to the sport being left within the mud.
There’s presently no introduced launch date for Overwatch 2 however we will safely assume it’ll probably be out in 2020. There’s additionally an opportunity that PC customers will get the sport earlier, with a later launch date for console gamers to line up with the discharge of Xbox’s Project Scarlett and Sony’s PlayStation 5.
Overwatch 2 is presently in growth for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
