The long-in-development Overwatch 2 lastly went dwell with a PvP beta this afternoon. Quickly after launch, the primary Overwatch broke its earlier document of whole Twitch viewership in mere hours.
In honor of the sequel beta, a number of high-profile twitch streamers equivalent to Lirik, Fantasy, and most notably, xQc streamed the primary Overwatch. The sport peaked at round 450,000 views at this time, and xQc’s amassed over 150,000 views of Overwatch on his personal.
Overwatch followers have been dying to see in the event that they have been chosen for the Overwatch 2 PVP beta. The one method of accessing a beta secret is to look at partnered streamers for a sure size of time whereas having their Blizzard battle.web account linked on Twitch. Fortunate customers can choose up a PC beta key solely till Might seventeenth.
In a tweet from Nathan Grayson of the Washington Post, sources have said that Overwatch has suffered from Activision Blizzard’s aggressive calls for for each a sequel and an esports league. The corporate’s well-reported office lawsuits haven’t helped both, and there have been a number of high-profile exits from the corporate previously a number of years.
With over fifty million items bought within the authentic Overwatch, there’s a complete lot using on Blizzard for growing a worthy sequel. For years, followers of Overwatch had been seeing points from delayed hero releases to seeing Jeff Kaplan, Overwatch’s authentic recreation director, depart the corporate solely precisely one yr in the past.
Christian Angeles is a contract author for IGN.
