He began talking about how they haven't changed Sombra yet because they think she has a high skill cap and they don't want another overpowered character like the launch of Ana. They introduced Eichenwalde, Arcade Mode, Seasonal Events, and all the other content. It's been a blast.
Looking forward to the new year there's a lot of stuff for the players to be excited about.
Oasis is the new map that's already on the ptr. They're going to release it early 2017, maybe even by the new year.
More Seasonal Events are coming. Some that we'll see coming and some that we won't see coming.
They're working on customization for a communication wheel (ultimate, hello, voice lines, etc). They're going to put like 4 emotes and voice lines and stuff. There's also going to be custom bindings to trigger these. For sprays they're going to add a spray wheel-up to four sprays. By adding this customization it will make a lot of the voice lines, sprays, and emotes more exciting and rewarding.
Minor upgrades include joining team chat right away instead of clicking on it every game.
They're working on a lot of new content all the time but they also scrap a lot of ideas as well. Genji is an example of this because he wasn't working out in the beginning of the creation process. They have a hero that has been worked through the art prototype already. Possibly Doomfist voiced by Terry Crews?
They're working on other maps other than Oasis. These will be shown next year. Some won't see the light of day.
They're always looking for new things to try out for Arcade Mode.
Improvements for esports will be coming for sure-particularly for spectator viewing. Professional broadcasters and observers have been helping them with this.
The last thing which they mentioned at BlizzCon is that they want to give us a way for us to find custom games. They're creating a server browser so people can see a big list of custom games and players can create them and make them public for people to join. This is the top requested feature and its very common in first person shooters. They're going to have a solid version 1.0 running in early 2017 and they're going to expand upon it later.
The developer updates will keep coming and we'll learn more as time passes.
Oh yeah, Tracer was revealed as being gay in the latest Overwatch comic. Cheers love, the gays are here!
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