Overwatch Dev Tracker

The inaugural year of Overwatch Champions Series competition is ending with a bang! 

The 2024 OWCS World Finals will kick off Friday, November 22nd as DreamHack Stockholm makes its debut at Stockholmsmässan. Sweden has been home to so many iconic esports moments throughout history, and we’re excited to add the first OWCS World Finals to the list!

As with the OWCS Major at DreamHack Dallas, the eight strongest teams from Asia, NA, and EMEA stand ready to battle for glory and their share of a crowdfunded prize pool. We’ll bring you up to speed on everything you need to know to enjoy the Finals in full - including when, where, and who to watch, what you can earn by tuning in, limited time in-game bundles, and more. We’ll also have some details on an exclusive, Season 14-themed developer update happening on November 22nd… You won’t want to miss it! 

Read on to learn about:

• Tournament Overview
• Crowdfunding Detai...

Welcome back to another Director’s Take. Back in July, we opened the conversation around 6v6 and 5v5, and now we’d like to continue that conversation as well as share a few updates coming in Season 13 and Season 14.

Previously, we talked about the different format changes throughout Overwatch’s history, why we switched to 5v5, and where we plan to go from here. Included in those next steps, we said we're looking at running a series of tests to try out different core team composition formats in Overwatch 2.

These format tests are all about understanding if we can make the core game even stronger. Eve...

Hello and happy Autumn. It’s that time of year where there is a chill in the air, everything seems to have a pumpkin spice flavor (bleh!), and you can feel the magical spirit of Halloween quickly approaching. In case you missed it, we just revealed a lot of cool tricks and treats coming for Season 13 in our Developer Update, including an up-close look at the new Spellbinder Widowmaker Mythic Skin, a detailed look at four maps that are getting major changes, new updates to the in-game scoreboard, and a first look at the hauntingly fun Junkenstein’s Laboratory. (Insert scary thunder here.)

Okay, so to kick things off, let’s take a look at Tank adjustments. Ramattra’s Pummel while in Nemesis form is getting an adjustment that will better give opponents a chance to take cover without really impacting the lethality of the attack. The attacks from Ramattra’s punches will no longer pierce barriers, but instead will deal 2.5 times the damage on them. This gives Ramattra m...