Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan took to the forums yesterday to share some of the plans for the game’s continued development.
Primarily on the table, of course, is the competitive play mode. Kaplan said that Blizzard is hoping to get the feature on test servers prior to release, and even when it comes out, it probably will change over the next year or so. “We’re working very hard to make it awesome at release but there are some things you need to see and feel along with a large population before you can properly sign off on the feature,” he wrote. “I anticipate competitive play will require a few seasons’ worth of iteration before we’re in the place we want to be.”
What else is on the docket, according to Kaplan? New heroes are being made, including some prototypes that may never see the light of the day. More maps are a given, and he mentions improvements to spectator functionality, brawls, custom games, character progression, and social features.
Overwatch’s popularity is already prompting others to create not-so-subtle clones. In China, a new game called Legend of Titans is coming out for mobile that looks suspiciously similar to Blizzard’s shooter.
