Blizzard's Overwatch Closed Beta Relaunch Delayed Several Weeks - The UpStream

Blizzard's Overwatch Closed Beta Relaunch Delayed Several Weeks

posted Monday Jan 25, 2016 by Nicholas DiMeo

Blizzard's Overwatch Closed Beta Relaunch Delayed Several Weeks

A little over a year ago, you may have read about Blizzard's new FPS Overwatch. The game is a little over-the-top, but looks to take on Valve's extremely popular team-based strategy shooter, Team Fortress 2. And if you're me, you've been playing the closed beta since it went live all the way to when the devs closed it in December. We were promised the game would return for another round of closed beta testing "soon," however soon will not be coming soon enough as it looks like the next iteration of game testing will be put off for a little longer.

We were supposed to hear from Blizzard this week about the re-launch of the closed beta for Overwatch, with rumors swirling that it would be sometimes during the last week of January. Sadly, we're now being told via blog post that the reopening won't happen for at least a few more weeks. While that may not be a long time for some, the game's exciting and refreshing experience has gamers everywhere chomping to get back to it.

While progress has been great and the team has been working super hard to get everything implemented on time, we're not quite ready to bring the Closed Beta back online just yet...Rather than try to rush a beta patch out this month (which would mean the new game mode would have to be put off), we're going to take a few extra weeks before bringing the Closed Beta back.

Now, the good news is that the team is taking the extra time to actually implement some user feedback. A new game mode in addition to Point Capture and Payload will be added in the next update. The dev team will also be working on some serious game balance issues, along with improving its core progression system.

Game Director Jeff Kaplan closed the blog post by saying the choice was easy and we should expect the game to be reopened for testing in mid-February.

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