'Unfortunately,' he continued, 'the effort required to pull all of that together into a Blizzard-quality experience that we can ship to you is huge and there really is no end in sight. While the Overwatch 2 team is said to have 'created a bunch of amazing content' as work on the mode has continued - including new missions, new enemies, and 'some truly great and ridiculous hero talents' - Neuss admitted, 'development on the PvE experience really hasn't made the progress we would have hoped.' Watch on YouTube PvE was heralded as a major new component for Overwatch 2 when it was announced in 2019. Now though, in a newly aired developer livestream, Overwatch 2 executive producer Jared Neuss has confirmed the game's PvE mode is officially dead. To that end, a fully PvP-focused version of Overwatch 2 finally launched last October, and little has been heard about its once-key PvE component in the months since.

PvE was presented as a flagship feature of Overwatch 2 when the team-based shooter sequel was unveiled in 2019, but, as development dragged on and 2022 arrived, Blizzard announced it would be 'decoupling' PvE from PvP in order to get the game into players' hands sooner. More on all that below.īlizzard has cancelled Overwatch 2's much-trumpeted but long-delayed PvE mode, admitting development 'hasn't made the progress we would have hoped.' This amounted to 'big story missions, new cinematics, co-op events and single player Hero Mastery missions' for the game - even if its major Hero Mode has been left on the cutting room floor. 'A clarification that I wanted to make is that, while we made the decision to cut Hero Mode + Talents, we have a lot of great PvE content coming this year,' Overwatch 2 executive producer Jared Neuss wrote on Twitter this morning.

Overwatch 2 developer Blizzard has spoken out to reassure fans upset by its decision to ditch plans for a PVE Hero Mode, to say it still had 'a lot of great PvE content' still in the pipeline.

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