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Elie Gould

'We were super confident in third-person': Overwatch 2 Stadium devs love the new perspective but understand it's not to everyone's liking, 'A decade of muscle memory exists'

Overwatch 2's Kiriko.

One of the most jarring changes that Stadium brought to Overwatch 2 was the introduction of a third-person perspective. For the last nine years, Overwatch has just been an FPS, but in the spirit of making changes we got the option to either go first or third-person when playing Stadium.

From what I've encountered, third-person perspective in Stadium can be a bit like Marmite: you either love it or you hate it. So when I asked senior game designers Dylan Snyder and Conor Kou what their preference was, I thought it could go either way.

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