{"id":22972,"date":"2023-05-20T06:09:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T06:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5a829464-8a74-4eb1-9e49-84ed2a6cb92b12"},"modified":"2023-05-20T06:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T06:09:52","slug":"overwatch-2-director-explains-why-hero-missions-were-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/overwatch-2-director-explains-why-hero-missions-were-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Overwatch 2\u2019 director explains why hero missions were canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"
When Blizzard announced<\/span> earlier this week that it had canceled Overwatch 2<\/em><\/span> hero missions, a central part of its player vs. environment (PvE) story mode, fans were none too pleased. So director Aaron Keller published a blog post<\/span> today to ease the concerns and offer more transparency about the development team\u2019s \u201cincredibly difficult decision.\u201d<\/p>\n Hero missions, revealed<\/span> in 2019, were designed to provide a \u201cdeeply repayable\u201d branch of the game based on RPG-like talent trees. Although progression would have been separate from the main game (to avoid giving hero mission players an unfair advantage), it was still part of the hype Blizzard used during the past four years of marketing the title. But the publisher ultimately found that the hero missions were pulling too many development resources away from the live game.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhen we launched Overwatch<\/em> in 2016, we quickly started talking about what that next iteration could be,\u201d Keller wrote. \u201cLooking back at that moment, it\u2019s now obvious that we weren\u2019t as focused as we should have been on a game that was a runaway hit. Instead, we stayed focused on a plan that was years old.\u201d That years-old plan refers to the development team\u2019s influence from its work on Project Titan<\/em><\/span>, Blizzard\u2019s canceled MMORPG. The creators initially saw Overwatch<\/em> as a vessel to reintegrate some of the ideas from that scrapped project.<\/p>\n