The Overwatch 2 builders have launched a weblog detailing their ideas concerning the present state of tanks this week and the general steadiness modifications they need to introduce within the coming months, with plans to buff the general archetype within the works.
The principle function of the June 28 developer replace, posted on the official Blizzard weblog, is to deal with participant considerations concerning the tankiness and survivability of all tank heroes. Each builders and gamers have famous Overwatch 2‘s anti-heal passive makes it tough 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 observed that “each Help heroes have to 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 situations 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 workforce.
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 usually characters die all through a match and the way shortly they’re defeated. The info is then in comparison with the variety of occasions a hero is predicted to die in any given match.
Through the use of this newfound knowledge, the developer workforce 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 saying their plans for a tank replace, the builders additionally laid out their philosophy for hero steadiness, stating that they take pleasure in hero-specific modifications as a substitute of roster-wide updates.
Overwatch 2 is not any stranger to sweeping gameplay modifications, reminiscent of 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 bettering the gameplay expertise for tank heroes.
The builders state they’re pleased with the sweeping modifications applied into the sport, such because the anti-heal passive, however they imagine “particular person buffs or nerfs to heroes can have a dramatic affect on their effectiveness.” Whereas the devs don’t element the precise modifications they’ve deliberate, tank mains can relaxation simple figuring out their favourite heroes are on observe to returning to their former glory.
