The well-known Overwatch tipster Metro broke the news that Overwatch 2 may not be released in 2022 a few days ago. Now the tipster has revealed new information. He explained why Overwatch 2 will be released.
Metro said:
Most of the heroes are over. The new heroes they want to add to Overwatch 2 have been completed. They have basically completed the single-player campaign. They also made new maps for multiplayer games. But what they didn’t do was, They didn’t consider redoing any heroes. For example, the last time they showed the updated content, they didn’t even consider that McCree might lose his flash bomb skills in Overwatch 2.
According to Metro, the Overwatch team has almost completed most of the work, new heroes, new maps, and new battles. But because the Overwatch 2 game mode will be changed to 5V5, a lot of heroes need to be remade, but the official did not realize this. They only realized when the players gave them feedback about the balance of certain heroes. The existing heroes need to be remade.
That being said, if it turns out to be true, RIP OW no way the game will be alive for another year and a half without major updates.
— Metro (@Metro_OW) August 7, 2021
It is worth noting that in the previous Q&A session, the developer directly stated that McCree might lose his flash bomb skill in Overwatch 2, so this is consistent with the official statement in the past. In the previous 5V5 demo, Blizzard revealed that Midea’s main attack mode will no longer freeze enemies, but slow them down. The developer also talked about some heroes that need to be remade, such as Black and White, Doomfist and Hanzo, but it seems that other heroes also need to be modified.
Metro added: It’s as if developers don’t know how their games work. We know this, right? They know how to make good-looking games and maps, but they show the gameplay time and time again, but no clue.
In addition, Metro also expressed his concern about the current Overwatch game on Twitter: If this game does not have a substantial update, then it will not be able to live for another year and a half.
