This previous week, Overwatch 2 builders have been slowly saying a few of the adjustments coming in season three, which begins on Feb. 7. Aggressive mode fans already received their good news within the type of matchmaking adjustments and simpler rank-ups whereas Ramattra specialists could must plan round a newly-nerfed ultimate.
Whereas recreation adjustments are essential, the environment round matches themselves is a important a part of maintaining Overwatch 2 pleasing. In today’s Defense Matrix update, the builders talked about a few of the methods they’re working to maintain video games protected, honest, and freed from harassment or toxicity.
Streamers and content material creators are the lifeblood of the Overwatch 2 neighborhood, maintaining the joy going and facilitating beauty drops and viewership incentives. For Overwatch’s total lifespan, common streamers have needed to cope with a phenomenon referred to as “stream sniping,” the place viewers deliberately queue right into a recreation concurrently the streamer. Past that, they will use data from the stream to achieve a gameplay benefit.
In season three, stream sniping needs to be a factor of the previous because of the builders including a long-awaited Streamer Mode to the sport. “Gamers will now have the ability to cover their present BattleTag or cover the tags of the opposite gamers in the identical recreation they play in on their very own recreation consumer,” the devs stated in a weblog publish.
Not solely will this preserve a streamer’s BattleNet tag hidden from viewers, eliminating the opportunity of errant good friend requests or abusive messages, however the tags of others within the recreation may even be hidden to maintain different gamers’ identities personal. Streamers may even cover the present queue time or put a delay on the queue to really get rid of stream sniping.
These options will launch for everybody when season three begins and will be discovered below the “Social” settings in Overwatch 2.
Past that, the devs up to date followers on the progress made of their Protection Matrix initiative, which was launched with Overwatch 2 to facilitate a much less poisonous gaming expertise. Monitoring of abusive voice chat utilizing voice-to-text know-how has been “exceptionally correct and efficient,” builders stated. Extra moderation choices will likely be coming to customized recreation modes and the Workshop in season three.
Dishonest remains to be a difficulty in Overwatch 2, however the builders famous that they’ve already taken motion on over 50,000 accounts they consider to have been utilizing cheats for the reason that recreation launched.
As normal, the group reminded gamers to utilize the report operate to deliver points to their consideration.