An early build of Overwatch 2 will be used for Overwatch League's 2022 season

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Overwatch 2 was announced at BlizzCon 2019, and its relinquish go steady has been variable since then. Present's a big ontogeny, though: Overwatch League's 2022 season, which begins in April, will compete on an "early build" of Overwatch 2, a Blizzard spokesperson told PC Gamer nowadays.

Overwatch 2's PvP design changes are a big allot for competitive players and Overwatch League pros. Overwatch 2 matches will glucinium 5v5 quite than 6v6, and teams leave only get nonpareil tank, which of course made few tank players nervous when it was announced.

A major new PvE mode helps distinguish Overwatch 2 from its predecessor as a new game, but information technology's sort of an expansion, too. Information technology'll include all the stuff from Overwatch 1, and owners of either mettlesome will be able to play with each other, which means the PvP format changes in Overwatch 2 will affect all Overwatch players. The next OWL season will give us the best information yet about what those changes look like for high-level team compositions and tactics.

More details about the 2022 OWL season volition come closer to April, Overwatch League VP Jon Spector tweeted now. As furthermost as the Overwatch 2 release date goes, we placid don't have an announcement from Blizzard, but this intelligence makes information technology seem pretty likely that it'll be out in mid-2022.

Since the 2019 announcement of Overwatch 2, the game's leadership has denatured: Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan and lead story writer Michael Chu both departed Blizzard, and Activision Blizzard has been the focus of a major lawsuit alleging a widespread party culture of sexual harassment and favouritism. That story is still underdeveloped.

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