Get ready for these 7 big gameplay changes to Overwatch 2

Sorry, the old one Surveillance can’t come to the phone right now. She is dead. Today, October 4 at 3 p.m. EST, Monitor 2 will come to replace it, and the sun has long since set on the days of 6v6 and free-roaming characters not cloistered behind a battle pass.

You probably have questions. It’s a natural response to discovering that one of your games has been replaced by a lookalike with a nerved ass. Your apprehension is understandable, and you need to know what you’re getting into in case you need to start working on this year’s project. “Top 5 Butts Surveillance” Youtube Video as soon as possible. To make this difficult (but, relative to a real problem, still a lot of fun) transition easier for you, I’ve put together a list of seven gameplay changes to consider before you begin. Monitor 2 for the first time.

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Prepare your phone number

Before having the chance to discover one of the Monitor 2the revamped gameplay of, you will need to have a working phone number handy. In a blog posted on September 27, developer Blizzard has announced that, in the interest of eliminating “disruptive play”, all players will be required to associate a non-VOIP, non-prepaid phone number with their battle.net account. And when Blizzard says all players, it means all, even those who possessed physical Surveillance copy and those who play on consoles.

Also, be aware that Blizzard plans to record players to create a “temporary voice chat recording of a reported player and automatically transcribe it through text-to-speech programs.”

“Once the audio recording has been transcribed into text, it is promptly deleted as the sole purpose of the file is to identify potentially disruptive behavior,” Blizzard wrote. “The text file is then deleted no later than 30 days after the audio transcription. This system relies on players reporting disruptive behavior as soon as they encounter it in-game, as we do not store voice chat data long term.

Newbies Get Pampered (Unless They Give Blizzard Money)

In that same September 27 blog post, Blizzard shared that they were testing a new way to soften the initial Monitor 2 experience and discourage cheating: any account created from October 4 will be subject to the First Time User Experience (FTUE).

The FTUE will limit budding accounts by:

• Apply initial account restrictions, including limited game modes and heroes. FTUE players will not be able to access Competitive Mode until they have completed 50 Quick Matches.
• Putting players through two phases – the first of which unlocks all game modes and in-game chat, the second of which requires completing around 100 matches and unlocks all old ones Surveillance hero

Even though Monitor 2 is a supposedly free game, anyone who purchased the Watchpoint Pack, a $39.99 content cluster with a Premium Battle Pass for Season 1, legendary hero skins, virtual currency, etc., will mysteriously bypass FTUE . With similar esotericism, Blizzard seems to have removed the Pack from its store (but console sites still sell it).

Anyway, welcome to Surveillanceit’s 5v5

You probably expected Surveillance 2overhaul of the core gameplay of, taking the shooter out of its 6v6 setup and into more traditional 5v5 territory, since the beta launched this summer. Consider this your reminder that it’s all here and happening.

5v5 will mow down a tank from the teams, meaning they will only have one instead of the previous two. As a result, teams will become more vulnerable to damage, players will need to become more strategically active, and tanks will need to play as solidly and faithfully as ever.

Goodbye, portrait levels

Gone are the portrait tiers, the borders that indicated player rank and skill. Experience will instead go into upgrading your Battle Pass, Blizzard wrote in a blog from September 28a thematic and seasonal lock for Over 80 cosmetic unlocks.

Are also replaced, deleted or modified:

• “SR” or skill level: will be replaced by skill level divisions. “Tier splits represent the same skill tiers as SR, but they give players a higher level view of where they are placed in competition,” Blizzard wrote in this September 28 blog post. “Each division represents approximately a range of 100 SRs. Players will receive a Competitive Update every seven wins or 20 losses, instead of every game. Competitive Mode will retain its ranks, Bronze, Silver, Gold, etc. “Each tier will have five divisions ranked from 5 (lowest) to 1 (highest),” Blizzard wrote. “As you progress through each tier, your division will count until you rank up to the next tier. The Top 500 will not have tier divisions.
• Competitive skill levels: although the competitive levels remain, they will not be displayed before matches. Instead, players will see a dashboard. Unlike the dashboard that frustrated gamers for Monitor 2during the beta period, this completed dashboard will not show medals.
• Placement: your competitive ranking is something of a blank slate in Monitor 2. You won’t be ranked until “your first competitive update after the first seven wins or 20 losses,” Blizzard wrote on Sept. 28. is slightly lower when they start, as they will learn new concepts and metas. But, opaquely, Blizzard also writes that “players who were able to learn more about the game in our betas, or who follow the Overwatch League, may find themselves ranked higher than ever”.
• Competitive Rewards: the top 500 leaderboards and competitive points remain, but prizes like animated sprays and icons are out. Instead, you’ll find “limited competitive titles for your business card,” Blizzard wrote. Additionally, competitive points will be capped “at the highest skill level you achieve in any of your roles.” 3,000 CP nets you a golden weapon for any of the Monitor 2is the most recent or existing hero.

Go ahead and “ping” someone

To ease the heat of voice chat a bit, Blizzard add a “ping” system. To “ping” someone or something, you will need to press the “ping” button on your device, which you can find in Monitor 2‘s (on a keyboard it’s “G”; on a controller it’s left on the D-pad). You can use it to report locations or enemies to your teammates, and different types of pings will trigger different recognition dialogs from heroes, lines like “attack”, “defend” or “need help”.

Try new game modes, “push” and more

Including those found in its competitive and more casual fast-paced game categories, Surveillance was the host of seven different game modesall of which offered variations and unique playing pleasure.

Monitor 2 assault remnantsa mode where teams had to capture or defend points on a map, and introduces new game modes that will come out in waves, with the pull of sound now seasonal model. The first new game mode released is Push, which the Surveillance the website described as a “symmetrical type of map” in which “teams will fight to gain control of a robot that starts in a central location and then pushes it towards the enemy base”.

Familiar characters are renewed in key ways

Monitor 2 will produce a series in season balance changes to its heroes, both broadly and individually. In the first season of the game, you will discover that:

• Temporary health gives 50% reduced ultimate charge, not zero ultimate charge like before
• Kills increase reload and movement speed by 25% for 2.5 seconds. This effect does not stack, although its duration refreshes with subsequent kills.
• You receive up to 30% Ultimate Power Refund when trading any type of hero, not just DPS heroes
• However, DPS heroes alone will receive a 25% increase in movement and reload speed after a kill
• Junker Queen’s “Commanding Shout” has been weakened. Her ally health bonus has been halved from 100 to 50 HP, her ally duration has been reduced from 5 to 3 seconds, and her cooldown has been reduced from 11 to 15 seconds.
• from Orisa base health increased from 250 to 275, base armor made the same jump, and energy javelin cooldown reduced from 8 seconds to 6 seconds
• D.Va Booster impact damage increased from 10 to 25, Micro Missile cooldown squashed by one second, and Call Mech ultimate cost reduced by 12%
• At Brigitte’s healing ability Inspire got a 1 second duration reduction
• at Baptist Biotic Launcher primary fire damage increased by 1 and minimum fall range increased from 20m to 25m
• The pressing squat Mercy can perform during his guardian angel move launches you vertically, and you can safely start an angelic descent by holding Crouch in the air
• Bastion Ironclad passive has been reinstated
• A point has been removed from mower Hellfire guns are spreading
• Stay of Railgun environmental energy gain reduced by 50%
• Sombra’s Hacking ability lock duration slightly improved from 1 to 1.75 seconds

Only tanks can stun

Sorry!

Did you download Monitor 2 Again? Let us know in the comments any gameplay changes you notice.