Overwatch Competitive Play Mode

Thu, Jun 23, 2016 by Fornaught

Game director Jeff Kaplan discusses Overwatch's upcoming Competitive Play mode, giving players an overview of how it works and detailing development changes made since the beta based on player feedback. He also addresses several goals that Overwatch's developers have for the system in the future.

Directions on how you can get your hands on an early look at comp play are below!

Summary:

  • MMR for players will be public and shown during a match -MMR for entire team will be shown, lower MMR team stands to gain more
  • Due end of June with longer 3 month Seasons
  • Queuing as a team
  • Assault maps (Hanamura, Volskaya, etc) will be revamped a bit
  • Sudden death will now be played on the same map, instead of a random capture point map
  • Rewards: GOLDEN WEAPONS! (ex: Reinhardt golden hammer)

To give this mode a try, you will need to install a beta copy of the game. Log in to you battle Net account, and install from the Region drop list at lower left:
Comp mode install screenshot
UGC will try to gather some missing info, such as when access begins for a full Overwatch data api and other things on our wanted list. We are in contact with the team at Overwatch and we will keep you posted!

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