The Overwatch 2 builders have launched a weblog detailing their ideas concerning the present state of tanks this week and the general stability modifications they need to introduce within the coming months, with plans to buff the general archetype within the works.
The primary goal of the June 28 developer replace, posted on the official Blizzard weblog, is to handle participant issues concerning the tankiness and survivability of all tank heroes. Each builders and gamers have famous Overwatch 2‘s anti-heal passive makes it troublesome for tanks to remain alive with out critical help from their teammates, even after the tank buffs launched throughout season 10.
Particularly, the builders have seen that “each Help heroes must focus solely on the Tank simply to maintain them alive,” inflicting conditions the place all three gamers really feel chained to one another all through the match. This creates eventualities the place sure harm sellers obtain no assist from their helps, or damage-dealing helps like Illari can’t freely transfer across the map to assault the enemy group.
The builders continued, discussing totally different hero metrics they’re monitoring and together with a brand new chart for the “tankiness” of each hero within the sport. This tracks how typically characters die all through a match and the way rapidly they’re defeated. The information is then in comparison with the variety of instances a hero is anticipated to die in any given match.
By utilizing this newfound information, the developer group has concluded that each tank hero is considerably much less tanky than beforehand, and assures gamers they’re “placing collectively a patch that’s focused at rising the tankiness of many of those heroes.” After asserting their plans for a tank replace, the builders additionally laid out their philosophy for hero stability, stating that they take pleasure in hero-specific modifications as a substitute of roster-wide updates.
Overwatch 2 isn’t any stranger to sweeping gameplay modifications, akin to eradicating 6v6 fight, passive therapeutic, and creating the anti-heal harm passive. Now that every one of those modifications have settled into the sport’s meta, the builders are taking a look at bettering the gameplay expertise for tank heroes.
The builders state they’re pleased with the sweeping modifications carried out into the sport, such because the anti-heal passive, however they imagine “particular person buffs or nerfs to heroes can have a dramatic impression on their effectiveness.” Whereas the devs don’t element the particular modifications they’ve deliberate, tank mains can relaxation straightforward realizing their favourite heroes are on observe to returning to their former glory.
