Be Prepared For These 7 Big Overwatch 2 Gameplay Changes - Kotaku

EST, Overwatch 2 will come to replace her, and the sun has long set on days of 6v6 and free-range characters not cloistered behind a battle pass.

Before you get a chance to discover any of Overwatch 2’s facelifted gameplay, you’ll need to have a working phone number handy.

In a blog posted on September 27, developer Blizzard announced that, in interest of eliminating “disruptive play,” all players will be required to link a non-VOIP, non-pre-paid phone number to their battle.net account.

And when Blizzard says all players, it means all—even those who owned a physical Overwatch copy and those playing on consoles.

Be aware, too, that Blizzard will be planning on recording players in order to create a “temporary voice chat recording of a reported player and automatically transcribe it through speech to text programs.”.

In that same September 27 blog, Blizzard shared that it was testing a new way to soften the initial Overwatch 2 experience and discourage cheating: any account made on or after October 4 will be subject to the First Time User Experience (FTUE).

Experience will instead go into leveling up your Battle Pass, Blizzard wrote in a September 28 blog, a themed, seasonal floodgate for 80+ cosmetic unlockables.

To “ping” someone or something, you’ll need to press your device’s “ping” button, which you can find in Overwatch 2’s settings (on a keyboard, it’s “G”; on a controller, it’s left on the D-pad)?