Overwatch Dev Tracker

This is something we're actually in the middle of testing right now. The idea is to reduce crowd control (especially stun) effects on non-tank heroes.

This doesn't mean that tanks will gain more CC, or that they will lose damage and focus on CC more. Its more that by removing some CC effects on existing non-tank heroes, it means that the the current tank lineup would retain the majority of the CC effects as part of their role. This not only gives Tanks something unique and interesting about their role, but it significantly reduces the amount of CC effects in the game as a whole, especially in a world where there is only 1 tank per team.

This isn't a hard rule either. Currently we're pretty happy with Ana's sleep dart, for example, so I don't think we'd change it just to fit within this new paradigm.

As for Doomfist/Hammond, well Hammond is a tank so its ok that he has more CC effects. Doomfist is a hero we'd need to look at though, for other reasons as well ...

2/2/2 Role Queue will become 1/2/2 Role Queue due to the move to 5v5, and we'll probably still have Open Queue but that's not set in stone yet since hero balance will be quite different in OW2.

We might have an Arcade card that still has 6 player teams in the future, we'll honestly have to evaluate all of them with an eye towards how they work with the new hero balance.

Aaron would love it if we could get this in! Unfortunately, that's a really complicated problem for us given how our asset system works. We've tried, and will continue to try, to expand workshop as much as we can to extend custom creation as far as possible. But custom assets is a massive challenge. It's been something we've wanted to give to the community for years, but up to now we just haven't found the right way to deliver it without an unrealistic investment of resources.

I answered this in a question a bit further up, but I'll repost, here, just in case you miss it:

We're pretty excited about the possibilities of cross-play and cross-progression, but we don't have anything to announce, today. However, given the additional complexities of cross-progression, it would probably make most sense to tackle cross-play, first and then explore progression as a potential add-on, if we go this route.

We're pretty excited about the possibilities of cross-play and cross-progression, but we don't have anything to announce, today. However, given the additional complexities of cross-progression, it would probably make most sense to tackle cross-play, first and then explore progression as a potential add-on, if we go this route.

It’s time! Get ready for the Overwatch developer AMA! From 1:30 – 3:30 PM PDT | 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM EDT | 20:30 – 22:30 UTC, we will have several developers from the Overwatch team present within this thread to answer your questions! We’ve written out a few things to know, so please read before posting a reply.

• We will be answering questions about the current state of Overwatch, its history over the past five years, and recent announcements like BlizzConline and the developer livestream, so please no questions about unreleased content – We don’t have any announcements to make about the future today. We’d love to be able to answer as many questions as possible, so let’s try to make them count.
• We welcome questions on a variety of topics, but we just ask that you remain respectful – We’re here to help!
• Reply to this thread with your questions – Other threads or platforms and any sort of direct messaging are not included in this event.
• Please adh...

It’s time! Get ready for the Overwatch developer AMA! From 1:30 – 3:30 PM PDT | 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM EDT | 20:30 – 22:30 UTC, we will have several developers from the Overwatch team present within this thread to answer your questions! We’ve written out a few things to know, so please read before posting a reply.

• We will be answering questions about the current state of Overwatch, its history over the past five years, and recent announcements like BlizzConline and the developer livestream, so please no questions about unreleased content – We don’t have any announcements to make about the future today. We’d love to be able to answer as many questions as possible, so let’s try to make them count.
• We welcome questions on a variety of topics, but we just ask that you remain respectful – We’re here to help!
• Reply to this thread with your questions – Other threads or platforms and any sort of direct messaging are not included in this event.
• Please adh...

Hello r/Overwatch!

We’re excited to celebrate our fifth anniversary with you and want to give you an opportunity to chat directly with the Overwatch development team. Join us on Monday, May 24th from 1:30 – 3:30 PM PDT | 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM EDT | 20:30 – 22:30 UTC for a Reddit AMA, where a number of Overwatch developers will be present to answer your questions.

For this AMA, we’ll be answering your questions that pertain to Overwatch today, its history, and recent announcements like BlizzConline and the PvP developer livestream. While we’re very excited for the future of Overwatch, we don’t have any new announcements we’re looking to make during this AMA. Come prepared with your questions, we’ll have a fresh thread on the day of the AMA – We’re looking forward to having fun with the community and ans...

It's mostly because we've used Perforce for a very long time, since Project Titan.

We manage our asset pipeline outside of Perforce so we don't have as much consideration for how well the VCS handles large or binary files, but that is a common reason for why many game studios use Perforce.

Cheers!

We use Perforce.

Nicely done!

^

the communities on r/overwatch and r/Competitiveoverwatch have meant so much to me. i just wanted to sign off one last time and thank you for all of your inspiration, shared stories and highlights, feedback, criticism and comradery.

whenever i think about the reddit communities, i always think of r/Overwatch as "timmy" (aka punch kid): bright-eyed, optimistic and ...

server side only

We're making a temporary fix to bring competitive back online shortly, more details will be posted on our forums as well. Sincere apologies everyone, I hope the games you get in today are all big wins.

Same will be true for Twitter. The Blizzard App has a notification this issue and is our primary communication channel for incidents like this.

Hey folks, we're investigating an issue that's causing the new competitive season to not start properly. Sorry for the hassle, we'll post updates as we have them.

edit: We're making a temporary fix to bring competitive back online shortly, more details will be posted on our forums as well. Sincere apologies everyone, I hope the games you get in today are all big wins.

happy birthday, jehk72!

the gift is all mine...

thank you all =]

<3

hey there, we've been investigating this issue, sorry for the hassle. As noted above, relaunching can resolve this for most people.

Cheers