Lifeweaver is on the docket for more tweaks, with Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller suggesting the title’s newest support will be getting major changes in the big season five patch coming later this month. With Overwatch 2’s fifth season already just around the corner, players are looking forward to all of the new balance changes coming to the live service game ..read more

Crowd control has long been a point of contention in Overwatch 2, and while Blizzard has attempted to largely phase CC abilities out of DPS heroes when the hero shooter transitioned to its 5-vs-5 format, the devs seem to have reverted their position this week. Game director Aaron Keller unveiled numerous hero balance changes coming in season five in a Dev Take post today, and in discussing how crowd control effects fit into the grand scheme of the competitive hero shooter—and previewing a few changes that fall under that umbrella—Keller may have upset some fans ..read more

We’ve all been there. You round a corner, and your head is immediately taken off by a Hanzo or Widowmaker that you had no chance of competing with. Whether it’s the Sonic Arrow that you didn’t know was there or the Widowmaker sneakily hiding almost halfway across the map, Overwatch 2’s sniper characters have long been loathed by the player base because of their one-shot potential ..read more

Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller may have postponed his regular “Dev Take” blog last week, but if you’re as tired of getting one-shot as most players, his latest article is well worth the wait. Just one week away from season five, Keller used his blog post today to preview some of the upcoming balance changes to Overwatch 2, and some of the nerfs that are on their way have been a long time coming ..read more

Overwatch 2 players are up in arms once again as another bug has turned one of the game’s heroes into a game-breaking menace. Earlier in season four, the gravity-defying capabilities of Sigma became a little too strong for players who used his ultimate ability in just the right way. And now, players have increasingly reported the use of an FPS drop exploit by Mercy players ..read more

This week the support community in Overwatch 2 has called for a major change to statistics they believe will help curb toxic teammates from flooding ranked games. The suggested tweak, which was shared by a host of Overwatch support players in a Reddit post on June 5, would show the amount of heals a player received throughout any given match. Currently, players only see statistics that apply to their specific character, as well as the more general damage, heals, and damage mitigation ..read more

A Mercy animation glitch has sent Overwatch 2 lobbies into chaos this week after repeated successful bug attempts plummet frame rates for everyone on the server. The Overwatch support hero can suddenly switch frame rate speeds on a dime with the right moves thanks to a new glitch on Paraíso, and when paired with the perfect duo it seems to be unstoppable too—if Mercy’s teammates manage to quit and rejoin as the FPS-related bug begins, they won’t be affected by the error ..read more

When Blizzard introduced Lifeweaver to Overwatch 2 in April, players were quick to note the trolling potential of the hero. And following his release, gamers have posted countless clips of just how his utility could be misused. But this week, one player showed off just how well the Thai support hero can be one of the most annoying enemies imaginable in the proper circumstances with a video posted to Reddit yesterday ..read more

Activision Blizzard is making the pool of droppable rewards for watching Overwatch League matches even deeper. Overwatch 2 battle pass skips will be available to viewers who tune into the Midseason Madness event during the 2023 season, the league announced today. For years now, Overwatch League matches prominently let players acquire League Tokens by watching matches on the official broadcast with an actively connected account, letting players earn currency they can spend in-game for official OWL team hero skins. More recently, during the 2023 season, the league has experimented with the feat ..read more

Fans of Overwatch have continued to express their frustration with Blizzard after the developer announced that it canceled its original PvE content plans for Overwatch 2, and one particular gamer on June 3 did some math regarding possible hero releases in light of the PvE shift that’s a little bit maddening. Around the time of Overwatch 2’s announcement at BlizzCon 2019, Blizzard took many development resources from the live game and began investing them in the new PvE project for OW2, which we now know has been largely scrapped or edited. This left many gamers playing what felt like a dead g ..read more