Precisely because you get more powerful, progression will not carry over into player versus player Overwatch modes. 'Just like when you play WOW or Diablo, you're levelling your character up, they get more powerful, they can survive more, they can do more damage,' said game director Jeff Kaplan in an Overwatch What's Next panel. In addition to talents, it sounds like heroes get stronger each level they rise. Other character's talents include Reihardt's Epicenter, which makes Earthshatter travel in all directions Sojiro's Guidance, which makes Hanzo like Yondu in Guardians of the Galaxy, and fire an arrow which hits anyone detected by Sonic Arrow and Snowball Effect, which makes Mei a boulder of ice after using Cryo-freeze, able to tumble into enemies and knock them down.

Level 20: Speed kills - killing blows speed up your cooldowns.Level 20: Vortex - enemies are pulled towards the point of Recall and snared, or.

Level 10: Hindsight - Recall causes damage to all recently damaged enemies.

Level 10: Flash - Blinking through enemies damages them, or.

Level one: Chain reaction - Pulse Bomb causes secondary explosions on enemies that are damaged.

Level one: Adaptive Reload - Pulse Pistols reload when using any ability, or.

In Hero Missions, you can choose from the full character roster and level your heroes up, and when you reach levels 1, 10 and 20, you can choose a talent. Hero Missions were not playable at BlizzCon but were described as being endlessly replayable like Adventure Mode in Diablo 3. There are two aspects to it: Story Missions and Hero Missions. We've had a sniff of what Blizzard can with the Archives PvE events, but Overwatch 2 takes PvE to the next level. What's more, there will finally be a meaningful, non-temporary, non-competitive side to the game.

Finally Blizzard can push the Overwatch story forward and not just flesh out backstory - and it can do it in the actual game. I'm excited by the Story Missions in Overwatch 2 and encouraged by what I played at BlizzCon 2019.

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