One could almost think that Blizzard has buried the project Overwatch in the meantime, so quiet it has become around the successor of the popular team shooter. But now, out of nowhere, Aaron Keller, the game director of Overwatch and successor of the very popular Jeff Kaplan, has spoken out in a video and announced the start of the closed beta of Overwatch 2 for the end of April. Beforehand, however, he apologized explicitly for the fact that they had again let so much time pass without providing players with any new information. However, that is to change now.

Afterwards, he revealed what will happen next. The most important point is probably that the developers have decided, to separate the PvE part and the PvP part of Overwatch 2 during development, so that the latter could be brought to the players faster. And that’s exactly what would happen now.

In an internal alpha, to which, in addition to Blizzard employees, selected players such as professionals of the Overwatch (buy now 52,47 € ) League are invited, the new content will be tested promptly. However, according to Keller, this is under NDA – so there will be no public information about it. The closed beta phase of Overwatch 2 – more precisely, of the game’s PvP content – will start at the end of April.

This is included in the beta for Overwatch 2

While PvE content continues to be a long time coming, we are finally seeing some of the features, some of which were announced years ago, rolling towards us. These include:

• The new hero Soujourn
• The new 5v5 game format
• 4 new maps
  • Circuit Royal (Escort)
  • Midtown (Hybrid Map)
  • New Queen Street (Push)
  • Colosseo (Push)
• The new game mode “Push
• A new ping system
• Extensive hero revisions
  • Orisa
  • Doomfist
  • Bastion
  • Sombra