What you need to know
- Overwatch 2 Game Director Aaron Keller has written a new "Director's Take" blog post in which he reflects on the game's development and Blizzard's decision to scrap its planned PvE co-op Hero Mode.
- Keller clarified that Story Missions are still coming in Season 6, and that only the mode with hero talent trees and long-term progression have been cancelled.
- Team 4 originally planned to develop Overwatch with a crawl-walk-run approach, with the ultimate goal being to turn it into an FPS MMO. However, Keller says the team tried to do too much, and ending up siphoning resources from the live game to try and achieve this vision.
- This is why the PvE Hero Mode was cut. Keller felt it was ultimately taking up too many of Team 4's resources, so the group scrapped it and intends to focus on Overwatch 2's live service roadmap.
