After last week’s Overwatch 2 developer livestream, a fan created some of the changes coming to the new game in Overwatch’s workshop mode.
In workshop mode, players can create custom games that allow them to do anything from training their marksmanship skills to playing an Overwatch-ified version of Flappy Bird or Bejeweled. Reddit user Ajfis3, who is no stranger to doing cool things in Overwatch, used the workshop to give players a chance to experience what Overwatch 2 might feel like before the game launches. The gameplay recreates the changes announced during Thursday’s Overwatch 2 livestream, including reducing the number of players on each team from six to five, adding hero-specific changes, such as giving Zarya a second charge. on your bubble shield and implement passive role-playing skills as reduced. Takedown of the tank and aids passive healing.
The gameplay also disables a number of heroes that were not shown during the live stream, such as Sigma and Orisa, due to speculation that Blizzard is reworking those heroes to perform differently in Overwatch 2.
Reactions to the mode on Reddit have been positive, with players saying that the reduction from six players to five made the game feel less crowded and their combat feel more complicated. When playing the mode myself, the reduction in the number of tanks makes the games feel emptier. As a healer, I felt more exposed without that beefy second body to protect me, so I had to step up my offensive capabilities to defend myself. I also loved Winston’s new secondary fire ability which causes his Tesla cannon to fire a bolt of electricity to hit enemies from a distance.
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Overwatch 2 is still somewhere on the horizon, but hopefully we will see more recreations like this as more details about the game are released.
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