hope so

new OW 2 not cooL at all

early access = not bug free no wonder still so much time till release,,,

-_-

oh, its early access already! But ... really how do they really want to revitalize the Overwatch genre with basically some carbon copy multiplayer ... ? :-)
I dont think this coop missions are going to be a hit ... I tried now this horde mode in several fps games and these horde mods are not something that provide longterm fun, t his is not comparable to real SP experiences like Half Life, Quake one Arcane Dimensions etc. ... I cant imagine anyone eager to play these coop missions after a week of playing

funny that Q1 did good "new" Horde as update 4 free after 24/25years

Arcane DImensions as addon would be DOPE²³

The last actual good game from Blizzard was maybe Starcraft 2, but they do not care about it anymore too.

After the scandals stuff is going to be delayed even more
https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/overwatc...ls-3085738

I haven't played OW much but it's sad to see, last time I tried it I needed to wait quite long in Queue to play.

Why it's sad to see? Because there are some many fucking Battle Royale (really why they cannot remove that part of lobbies and jumping...) games and there is almost no alternative to play something more like classic FFA, TDM, whatever.

Ok, there is also CSGO and Valorant they are also quite boring. (but at least now they got the short game modes)
And Arena shooters are just dead.

Sp there is only Halo Infinite - with shitty weapons, shitty melee and more frags with grenades than from shooting... bleh

Srsly... dunno how Blizz fucked up every of their titles

Blizz has definitely had some good titles ...
I mean Hearthstone was a *new* game, Overwatch was a *new* game ...
But now with their damaged brand, their sucessor title wont be as sucessful without providing anything new to the table ... maybe it will just become like Starcraft 2, yeah, new game, solidly done, etc., but mass market did not play RTS anymore (was there ever another RTS title played other than Warcraft/Starcraft ? ) so after initial artifical hype noone really cared about it ... maybe this will be the same fate for OW2 ...
As a Quake player I never really enjoyed OW, its still a very simplified Quake in many ways ...
I think Call of Duty Warzone and Valorant are good games, but I dont enjoy the camping, the "rounds" or "preparation phase" where nothing is going on and the waiting after death, in quake you just respawn and have instant action all them time, and then there is the movement, the projectile weapons, airfrags, rocketjumps, etc. ... I dont know how one can not prefer the later ...
Anyway, QC is still alive and active in EU/NA I think, so keep playing there, if possible :-)

Age of Empires 4 proves that such games can be popular and that they are way more popular than arena shooters, still not as big as really big games. Starcraft is brilliant game and it's still playable, SC2 matchmaking is fast etc.

For me these days there are two genres of shooters - Battle Royale and Non Battle Royale. I was playing some Apex but in the end I'm getting tired of Lobby/Drop/Looting/Hiking loop and there are so many BR games.

When there is just few Non BR games to play. Overwatch? Long queues. Titanfall 2 - niche, Arena FPS - dead, CS/Valorant - ok games, at least I can shoot things, but never liked punishing people for movement. Halo Infinite - actually is not THAT bad... Battlefield which is shit, COD: Modern Warfare?

Overwatch is fine but for me it's similar genre as Team Fortress 2 or Enemy Territory - "objective shooters". Aiming there is quite hard but it's not that important - so this is my issue. OW feels more like MOBA game when you use your abilities in right moment, not like a shooter. IT should be more shooty shooty,

you might not like Quake Champions but in fairness, when I checkbox DM, TDM, CA, CTF and instagib, the moment I click 'play' it usuallly finds a game under 30 seconds, in less busy times in like 1 - 2 minutes.

obviously that's just casual play, but still

Does the whole server 'die' after each round like it did when it came out? I remember that on match end it didn't load a new map, instead it kicked the entire server so you were forced to re-quere and hope for the best.

I really like QL because even if I drop it for a few months/years, I can jump in and play a few maps uninterrupted.

I think that OW was successfull because it catered both to old players that remembered objective mode in wolfenstein/fortress games and new players that looked at it as a hero shooter (and a lot of people in between, basically almost every character was resembling a gameplay from some particular game, like mccree felt like playing cs with deagle and flashbang, or soldier felt very much like assault in bf2, phara was like playing tribes series, etc), but right now OW2 doesn't bring anything new to the table (co op missions are already present in ow1 for several years), and there was very little support for ow1, so I expect it to flop.

OW2 soon?
https://www.dexerto.com/overwatch/overwatch-p...g-1726108/

I'm sure Microsoft will do great things with the recent ip they now own. Instead of forced IE browser on install you will get call of duty 99 or whatever # it is

They basically paid 65 billion for Diablo and an already heavily milked Call of Duty ... the rest of their brands are just game over, starcraft is outdated retro game now, overwatch is done, warcraft is game over, film seemed to have sucked too (didnt even watch it), cant be milked anymore, hearthstone is done too ... and with their diversity pushes there is no talent left to create anything big inside their company, they can only buy up new companies, just like google and microsoft ... anyway, the blizzard money milk machine is done, maybe Diablo is worth 1 billion, COD maybe 250 million, rest 200 million that's it, so 1.5 billion maybe, but 65 billion? Omegalul ... dumbest deal ever ...

Yeah sure the IP world of warcraft and starcaft has zero value.
Both starcaft 3 and world of warcraft 2 would make MS tons of money, even warcraft 4 would be selling like hotcakes!

SC3 would need to be perfect esports wise.
WC4 would need a great campaign and be pretty good esports wise.
WoW 2... Good luck making a MMO.

Its Starcraft
Its Warcraft
Its world of Warcraft

All of them would sell huge.
Why do you think so many people at least tried QC compared to let say warsow or that cpma clone I can't remember the name of? It's because of a strong old IP's.

Initial sale would be huge, sure.
But they need something to milk for another 20 years.

ok, boomer

Not a fan of Overwatch but I enjoyed a short period of playing with friends back when it came out. The game had good production value, appealed to the effeminate, global homogenous culture in the right ways, and seemed to enjoy good support from the developer. It's been 6 years since it came out so a sequel would not be out of order. I won't be playing it but I respect the coordination and management required to succeed with major titles like these.

I still play and enjoy OW from time to time. It's a cool casual game. There is no problem to queue up and I find games quickly. I just wish some of my friends would want to play it as having a stack gives more option to do some funny and coordinated stuff.