Overwatch 2 is adding a CS:GO-style mode and bringing back loot boxes

https://www.theverge.com/news/610599/overwatch-2-season-15-16-update-stadium-new-character-freja-loot-boxes

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6 Comments

BroBot9000@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

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Games as a service is a scam!

plasticcheese@lemmy.one · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Overwatch 2 becomes Overwatch 1 again. Gosh, who saw that coming!? rolls eyes dramatically

Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y

A lot of the non game mechanics, yes. But the core gameplay has changed so much it can definitely be called ow2 in my opinion.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Like... The bomb mode? Hostages? The whole thing with buying equipment at the start and if you die, you're dead until the next round?

I feel like that would suck balls with OW's character mechanics.

priapus@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Nah the Verge is just fucking stupid. Its a mode that let's you buy moba-like upgrades between rounds. The rounds are basically shortened versions of normal overwatch gamemodes.

priapus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

That mode is way closer to a moba than csgo. Its kinda just stealing what Deadlock is doing. Even added 3rd person for it.

Why are writers at the Verge so bad at describing games?