Overwatch \ Gameplay -- Mouse vs. Gamepad
5Playing Overwatch on PC with a gamepad vs mouse players
Overwatch is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. It was released in May 2016 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The game is highly stylized team-based shooter set on a near-future Earth. Every match is an intense multiplayer showdown pitting a diverse cast of heroes, mercenaries, scientists, adventurers, and oddities against each other in an epic, globe-spanning conflict. In a time of global crisis, an international task force of heroes banded together to restore peace to a war-torn world: Overwatch.
It ended the crisis and helped to maintain peace in the decades that followed, inspiring an era of exploration, innovation, and discovery. But after many years, Overwatch's influence waned, and it was eventually disbanded.
Overwatch is Blizzard's fourth major franchise in nearly two decades, after Warcraft, Diablo, and Starcraft. The idea of Overwatch was born following the cancellation of the massively multiplayer online role-playing project game named Titan in 2014 after seven years of development. A portion of the Titan team brought forth the concept of Overwatch based on the success of team-based first-person shooter games and the growing popularity of multiplayer online battle arena games, along with the design aesthetic inspiration from Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, which resulted in a hero-based shooter that emphasized teamwork. Some elements of Overwatch borrow assets and concepts from the canceled Titan project.
Overwatch was unveiled at BlizzCon 2014 in a fully playable state. Its closed beta began on October 27, 2015 and ended on April 25, 2016, in-between it went down temporarily from December 10, 2015 to February 9, 2016. Its open beta began on May 2, 2016 for pre-purchase buyers, and May 4, 2016 for anyone and ended on May 10, 2016, even though it was supposed to end on May 9, 2016. The open beta drew in more than 9.7 million players and became widely anticipated. The release of the game was promoted with short animated videos to introduce the game's narrative and each of its characters.
As Overwatch is an online game, console users require a subscription to either PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live Gold to play the game.
Gameplay
Overwatch features team-based combat matches between two opposing teams of six players each for its standard modes, Quick Play and Competitive Play. Players choose one of a wide range of hero characters, each with their own unique abilities and role classes. The game encourages the synergy among team members and the balance between team roles to achieve the objectives given for each team by providing tips and team tips during the setup, and allow players to switch to other heroes in the spawn room (as long as it abides the hero stacking rule).
When the match is happening, if the player quit by any reason which is not initiated by the server, this incident will be counted as leaving mid-game and may invoke the Leaver Penalty. The game also tracks player's activity in game and display it on a meter, namely "On-fire Meter". It will be filled gradually if the player make actions such as successful attacking, healing, contesting and capturing the objective and will slowly drop if no team-contributing action is made. When a certain threshold is reached, the player character's icon will be "on fire", representing that that character is a threat to the enemy team, but otherwise does not directly affect gameplay.
At the conclusion of each match, the game compares among best moments from all players in that game and replays for all players the best one from a specific player as the "Play of the Game". Up to four individual achievements for four players on both teams are then highlighted and players are given the option to select one to promote. After that, the experience which the player gained over the course of the game is displayed. In a competitive match, gained Competitive Points and skill rating change will also be shown.
Overwatch also has other play modes. Since the releasing of the game, each week a Weekly Brawl had been introduced, which provided players special-ruled matches each week. Later, Weekly Brawl was removed and its successor, Arcade was introduced. Brawl-rule games are now contained within Arcade, and so are new game modes Mystery Heroes and Elimination, which are for smaller-size team matches. Other play modes, such as playing against computer AI or custom games also exist to cater gamer's need.
Developer(s)
Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher(s)
Blizzard Entertainment
Director(s)
Jeffery Kaplan
Chris Metzen
Aaron Keller
Designer(s)
Jeremy Craig
Michael Elliot
Scott Mercer
Artist(s)
Bill Petras
Arnold Tsang
Composer(s)
William Petras
Arnold Tsang
Platform(s)
Microsoft Windows
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
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