00:05Welcome to today's Developer Update. I'm Jeff from the Overwatch team.
00:09This is a very exciting one because on May 23, 2016, we launched Overwatch
00:15and we really didn't know what the reception was going to be like.
00:18And it was absolutely amazing and we are so fortunate here at Blizzard
00:22that so many of you came along for the ride and not only played Overwatch
00:28but fell in love with it like we fell in love with it.
00:31And you guys really made this game your own.
00:34And now this universe belongs to you.
00:36So, in order to celebrate the anniversary of Overwatch,
00:40we will be having our Overwatch anniversary event.
00:44I think there's going to be a lot of cool stuff for many of you for different reasons.
00:49First off, there's going to be an anniversary-specific loot box
00:53that has some of the most amazing items we've made to date.
00:56For example, Hanzo Manes have been asking us for new Hanzo Legendary skins.
01:04And there's a really great one in here. We hope you enjoy it.
01:07Same with Zarya Manes. We've heard a lot of talk about wanting a new Zarya skin.
01:12And it's in there for you.
01:13There's also a great Lucio skin and we're doing some very special experiments with that one
01:19to see if we can try new things.
01:21We were putting two new songs on the Lucio skin that adapt both the healing song and the speed song
01:29to the style of the skin, which is sort of in this jazz style.
01:33So we really hope you guys enjoy some of the skins we've made.
01:38Extra special in this anniversary loot box are dances for all of the heroes.
01:43Our animators had a ton of fun exploring each of our characters
01:47and asking themselves, you know, how would Soldier 76 dance?
01:52If you went to a party and you saw Reaper, what would he be doing in his dance?
01:57What would Reinhardt's dance be?
01:59We hope you have fun unlocking these and checking these out and playing with them in-game.
02:05We look forward to sort of the funny moments that we expect to come out of that.
02:09So lots of cool loot box items from the anniversary loot boxes.
02:13More than I'm going to mention in this dev update.
02:16But there's also cool permanent content coming as part of this anniversary event.
02:22And we wanted to talk about some of that with you as well.
02:26So, for the arcade, we will be adding three new arena maps to the game.
02:32Arena maps, if you guys remember, are things like Eco Point Antarctica,
02:37which are smaller maps that we can do some different modes on
02:40that enable, you know, really fun and different gameplay types.
02:45So let's talk about some of the maps and modes that we're going to add.
02:50We are going to add a Black Forest map that takes place between the Black Forest
02:56outside of Eichenwald and Eichenwald Castle itself.
02:59So sort of between where the last bastion in the movie took place
03:03and the Battle of Eichenwald.
03:05So there's a really cool Black Forest map that features a very unique design to it.
03:11You can shortcut to the enemy spawn almost instantaneously in this map if you want to.
03:17So immediate clash of action.
03:19We're also adding a map called Necropolis that takes place outside of the Temple of Anubis
03:25and takes place at night.
03:27This map is a lot of fun because there's some special story elements here.
03:32You can see an area where Jack Morrison is hanging out, waiting to gain information from Ana Amari.
03:40And Ana Amari's workshop and hideout is in this location as well.
03:44So we hope you have fun with that.
03:46There's also a really cool pit in the middle with some interesting jumps that you can do both across the
03:53pit
03:53and down into the pit and still live.
03:55So we hope you enjoy the Necropolis map as well.
04:00Lastly, we'll be adding a map known as Castillo.
04:04Castillo is a fort that looks out over Dorado.
04:08In fact, you can look down and actually see the entire Dorado layout down beneath you.
04:14It takes place on the beautiful Mexican coast and it features a really cool round design to it
04:21which encourages almost immediate action but a really cool circular flow to it as well.
04:26We think you'll find it a lot of fun.
04:28You'll also see some cool story hints in here.
04:31You'll see Sombra's hacking den.
04:34And you will see the bar in which McCree and Sombra were in the Reflections comics.
04:41So both of those things are things to look out for.
04:43There's also a cool Los Muertos alley off to the side.
04:47So, three new maps coming.
04:49These maps not only will be added for the anniversary event
04:52but will persist and be a part of Overwatch from now on.
04:56And you can access them not only in the arcade modes that I'm about to talk about
05:00but in custom game as well.
05:02So that brings our total arena map number up to four.
05:06So these new modes.
05:07First of all, let's talk about elimination.
05:10We're going to change how overtime works in elimination.
05:14Or I should say sudden death.
05:15So the way it used to work is after a set amount of time
05:18you would get a warning and then it would reveal both characters.
05:22But we found there was a lot of frustrating moments
05:24in particular with characters like Roadhog or Soldier 76
05:28with their self-healing who could sort of avoid the enemy as much as they wanted to
05:34and force a draw to happen.
05:36We're changing this dynamic completely.
05:38What will happen now is after a set amount of time
05:41we will give you a 30 second warning.
05:44At the end of those 30 seconds a capture point becomes available
05:48usually in the center of these arena maps.
05:51And once that point is available whoever captures it wins.
05:55So that means the days of Symmetra in Eco Point Antarctica
06:00camping out in her spawn room the whole time waiting for the enemy to come
06:04and if the enemy doesn't come force a draw
06:06those days will be gone.
06:07You now need to go out and fight.
06:09And if you don't go out and fight
06:11that capture point is going to end the match very quickly.
06:14In our internal playtesting it's playing really well.
06:17we'll watch how you guys play it and we'll do some tuning and tweaking
06:22and adjusting when we see just how long should it take
06:26and are we revealing it soon enough.
06:28But beyond the tie breaking mechanism which we're excited about
06:32we're adding two new ways to play Elimination.
06:35And in the custom game options you can set these to any player amounts you want.
06:39but in the arcade for anniversary first of all we'll have something called limited duel.
06:45And what limited duel is is each round when it's a 1v1 mode
06:50and each round when it starts we will give you and your opponent a random three set of heroes
06:57but you guys have the exact same three heroes to pick from
07:00and you can pick any hero you want.
07:03And what this does is create a lot of fun sort of play and counter play.
07:08what you're trying to do is figure out you know not only what hero are you best at
07:12but what hero stands the best chance against the other two heroes that got selected.
07:17So there's some really interesting rock paper scissor type of decisions in the limited duel mode.
07:24And this mode again will be available in custom game and you can try it with you know
07:28more than just one player if you want.
07:30We really look forward to seeing what you guys have to say about that.
07:33The other thing that we're adding is a lockout elimination.
07:38And the way lockout elimination works first of all for the anniversary event we're setting it to three players
07:44and the way that this works is both teams select whatever three heroes they want
07:52kind of like how elimination works today.
07:54But as soon as your team wins with those three heroes they are locked out and you're not allowed to
08:01play them again.
08:02So if your team picks Roadhog, Soldier 76, and Ana as your composition
08:08and you win the very first round of that elimination mode
08:12well you're not allowed to play Roadhog, Soldier 76, and Ana again.
08:16They're now locked out for you.
08:18This came about as a community suggestion.
08:22We thought it was fantastic.
08:23We've been playtesting it a lot and we really enjoy it.
08:27So we hope you enjoy it as well.
08:29Again, all of these options will have extra ability for you to tune and tweak them as you like in
08:35custom game.
08:36And we highly recommend you start playing around with these new maps and mode in custom game.
08:41So that's just the tip of the iceberg.
08:44Some of the fun stuff that's coming as part of the anniversary event.
08:48Really we want this event to be a celebration of you, our fantastic community.
08:54We would not be where we are today without you.
08:57This game absolutely belongs to you guys.
08:59I consider us just the custodians of Overwatch at this point.
09:04It is your world.
09:05You are the heroes.
09:06You're telling us what's going on.
09:08We cannot thank you guys enough for what an amazing year it's been.
09:12And we look forward to the year in front of us.
09:15Thank you.
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