Earlier this week, Blizzard Leisure canceled the Overwatch 2 PvE mode Hero Missions. Because it seems, these missions have been a part of an even bigger, now-nixed plan. In reality, the PvE Hero Missions have been step two of a 3 step plan that might’ve led to a brand new MMO.
Again in 2013, a first-person shooter MMO referred to as Undertaking Titan was canceled at Blizzard Leisure (though it wasn’t introduced publicly till 2014). A number of members of that growth staff have been moved to a brand new staff referred to as Group 4, and have been set to work on Overwatch. Nonetheless, they nonetheless thought-about themselves to be an MMO staff they usually got here up with a 3 step plan to get themselves again to creating MMOs.
Step one was to make use of Undertaking Titan belongings to create Overwatch, which turned out to be “a runaway hit.” The second step of the plan was a devoted model of PvE, which was meant to be a mix of Hero Missions and Story Missions in Overwatch 2. Ultimately, this could result in an MMO that might be “a real realization of the unique imaginative and prescient of Undertaking Titan.”
So — what went incorrect?
Based on Overwatch 2’s present recreation director Aaron Keller, the staff “[wasn’t] as centered as we must always have been on a recreation that was a runaway hit” and centered an excessive amount of on a plan that they couldn’t get to work anymore. The result’s a brand new roadmap for Overwatch 2, which nonetheless consists of the Story Missions alongside co-op content material.
Overwatch nonetheless has a future, however it’s not within the type of a brand new model of Undertaking Titan.
