{"id":102971,"date":"2019-11-01T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/353270"},"modified":"2019-11-01T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T19:27:00","slug":"blizzard-announces-overwatch-sequel-at-blizzcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/01\/blizzard-announces-overwatch-sequel-at-blizzcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard announces Overwatch sequel at BlizzCon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At BlizzCon today, Blizzard&#8217;s Jeffrey Kaplan took to the stage to announce <em>Overwatch 2<\/em>, a sequel to the hit 2016 multiplayer shooter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Overwatch 2<\/em> appears to differ notably from the first game, featuring a larger focus on co-op story missions as opposed to the competitive multiplayer of the first game. This design appears much akin to the missions that Blizzard has released as part of <em>Overwatch <\/em>events.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though the trailer emphasized the new co-op story content, the game also seems to retain&nbsp;the multiplayer, esports-friendly design of the first game. However, it appears the multiplayer has been refocused around a new core game mode.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First and foremost, you have to remember <em>Overwatch <\/em>is a team versus team, 6v6 experience, and there&#8217;s no way we&#8217;re losing that at all,&#8221; Kaplan said.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan also announced that support would continue for the first&nbsp;<em>Overwatch<\/em>, as new multiplayer maps and heroes would be shared between the two games. He described it as a &#8220;shared multiplayer environment&#8221; where players from the two teams could compete together. Items players have purchased in the first&nbsp;<em>Overwatch<\/em>&nbsp;will also migrate to&nbsp;<em>Overwatch 2.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At BlizzCon today, Blizzard&#8217;s Jeffrey Kaplan took to the stage to announce Overwatch 2, a sequel to the hit 2016 multiplayer shooter.&nbsp; Overwatch 2 appears to differ notably from the first game, featuring a larger focus on co-op story missions as opposed to the competitive multiplayer of the first game. This design appears much akin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}