Overwatch Will Have a Ton of Post-Launch Content & Features; FOV Slider for Consoles May Be Added

Blizzard'south highly awaited first foray into the first person shooter genre, Overwatch, opened the beta gates to everyone yesterday.

If you lot're interested at all in Overwatch, you tin freely try it now on all platforms and decide if it's a worthy purchase. In the concurrently, Game Manager Jeff Kaplan addressed several interesting topics on the official Blizzard forums.

Showtime of all, he confirmed that the Open Beta build will also exist the launch build, with the mere addition of some bug fixes. Yet, he confirmed that there is a "ton" of post-launch content being prepared and then hinted to an "amazing Summer" for the game.

Yeah. The version you are playing now is what will get live at launch (there volition be some problems fixes etc...). We also accept Competitive Play, which was a characteristic that was live in Closed Beta. Nosotros removed it from Open Beta because we received a ton of great feedback on how to improve the system. We had a tough selection. Information technology would have been awesome to accept the feature in for Open Beta and Launch. But we felt like we could really improve on some things so we opted to have the feature come up out shortly after launch. We're hoping that our efforts in the Closed Beta to try to get things done rapidly and at loftier quality aren't lost on our community -- simply we also never want to sacrifice the quality of the game past putting something live that isn't upwards to our standards.

We're too working on a TON of post-launch features and content. It'south going to be a pretty astonishing summer...

In another post asking to add together a FOV (Field of View) slider on consoles, Kaplan replied that they're open minded about this and the feature might very well be added barring performance bug (a wider field of view also brings forth a slightly increased operation striking).

We're very open-minded to adding this. We need to exercise some research into performance before nosotros add this. It will probably be a post launch feature, bold information technology doesn't cause whatsoever meaning performance problems.

Overwatch'southward Open Beta will terminal until May ix, while the total game will launch on PC, PlayStation iv and Xbox one in May 24. Are you having fun in the beta? Let u.s.a. know in the comments!