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Overwatch 2 will drop its long awaited PvE mode in favour of limited-time PvE events, Blizzard has recently confirmed.
Game director Aaron Keller told Gamespot that the permanent PvE mode will be scrapped as devs can’t support both PvE and PvP streams.
“In the years following our announcement at BlizzCon 2019, we had a really large portion of our team working on the PvE side of that game, and I think players of our live running game could feel that because we eventually stopped making content for it,” Keller said.
“It’s been maybe two and a half years since the last hero that we launched, and we don’t want to be back at the point where it’s another three and a half years since launching a PvP map. So we really looked hard at what we were doing with the live game in service of this much bigger thing that we were working on and hoping to release later.”
Blizzard said that limited-time PvE events would be offered instead.
“I think moving away from that idea of this one big singular PvE release moment and into a, ‘No, we’re going to do PvE stuff all the time’ [is the go],” said executive producer Jared Neuss. “We have all these plans. Season 6 has three different flavours of that, and we have a bunch of other versions of that coming up and seasons after that,” says Neuss.
One such limited-time PvE event — a hybrid PvE, PvP affair called Starwatch — is available in-game right this second.
Blizzard previously used the inclusion of the PvE mode as the reason for transitioning Overwatch into its sequel, Overwatch 2.
Overwatch 2 is a free-to-play title available on Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, PS4, PS5 and Switch.
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