The following tips come from tens of hours spent playing that beta, an early version of the game that nonetheless showed how the many heroes interact. But based on its beta, Overwatch has been scratching the MOBA itch I’ve had ever since I made the call to quit Dota 2 cold turkey. Overwatch’s servers only went live today, making it too early to say if the final version of Blizzard’s latest will pull people away from either Team Fortress 2 or games like League of Legends. Rounds rarely last more than 10 minutes, for one, where Dota 2 games can stretch to the hour mark, and are usually upwards of 40 minutes.
Overwatch shares a lot of DNA with Dota 2 - and Blizzard’s own Heroes of the Storm - but it’s not exactly the same as those games. That’s not to say shooting isn’t important - you should be shooting people whenever you can in Overwatch - but as with Dota 2, better players develop a knowledge of not only every character’s unique abilities, but how best to combine them to either put up a stalwart defense or a strong attack in the game’s short objective-based rounds. You’re not viewing the action from the position of an omnipotent sky god like you are in Dota 2, sure, but Overwatch’s focus is in how the unique skills of each of its 21 heroes can be used to kill, protect, and disrupt other players, rather than the simple twitch skills of shooting enemies in the head. But Overwatch also shares a lot in common with another Valve game - Dota 2 - and other games in the horribly named MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) genre. Players of that class-based game will find a lot of overlap here. The most obvious touchstone for Overwatch is Valve’s Team Fortress 2, another cartoony multiplayer FPS with multiple characters, each with very different skills. And while it looks like what would happen if Pixar’s B-team designed a multiplayer shoot-'em-up, there’s a lot of hidden complexity in the way its roster of playable characters interact. Blizzard’s Overwatch is out today, making it the first brand-new property from the World of Warcraft developer in close to two decades.
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