Fresh off his marathon yule log stream over the holiday break, game director Jeff Kaplan is back with a recap of the last year for Overwatch and what's coming up in 2018. "We are well along the path on [introducing the 27th hero]," he says, adding that there are "some great new maps in the works."
Kaplan doesn't delve into anything particularly out there or unexpected. The topics discussed today are more of a continuation of Blizzard's work over the past year, so don't expect any big reveals yet.
With that in mind, here's what he touches on:
- Overwatch League skins are coming soon.
- The Blizzard World map is also dropping soon.
- The team will continue fine-tuning competitive play with fixes and tweaks with each new season. "As the year goes on, we want to evolve our plan for what competitive play looks like over the long term of Overwatch," according to Kaplan. That could mean it will eventually "take a different shape or form," but that's "still to be determined."
- More story development, specifically furthering the storyline with shorts and comics.
- The Lunar New Year event (Year of the Dog) with "some pretty significant content."
- The "next iteration" of the lore-based Uprising event. "We have a lot of really big ideas."
- The Anniversary event will return.
- Finally, "a ton of new content" will be added to the basic (non-event) loot boxes.
Coming our way via Phr0g we have some images of Flame Toys' officially licensed, high-end, non-transforming Drift figure, from their Kuro Kara Kuri lineup. These pictures show us the packaging, including the tray inside for the accessory loadout, a quick demo of all the lights turned on, and then a basic overview of posing and accessory options for the figure, including the fabric cloak. It's an excellent looking product - as one would hope for one with a price point this high: Sponsor BigBadToyStore currently has preorders available at $299.99(!) Keep reading to check out the photos.
Alien Attack Toys rang in the new year by posting a few new photos of El Cid, due to be the second toy in their movie-derivative figure line. El Cid represents Optimus Prime more or less as he looked in parts of Age of Extinction and The Last Knight. Probably. Though we're sure people who were more attentive to tiny detail changes between movies might be able to let us know what this most accurately represents. Some examples of poseability are shown, plus a vehicle comparison, and a close look at the sword and shield, among the new photos we have. We've got them mirrored below, click through to see them right now.
