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Austin Wood

In a seismic update, Overwatch 2 pulls back from "team strategy and mechanics" by giving every hero in the game built-in healing

Overwatch 2 support hero Mercy.

In one of the wildest updates I've ever seen from a competitive shooter, Overwatch 2 is giving every hero in the game their own built-in healing as part of an effort to reduce the dominance of "team strategy and mechanics." 

Director Aaron Keller outlined the upcoming change, which will arrive in Season 9, in a new blog post. This seismic update is actually just one part of "a massive set of gameplay and balance changes coming to that season," but it sounds like a huge meta shift in its own right. 

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