Overwatch is getting some gameplay balance tweaks in the near future

Overwatch, as it is now, is pretty much a masterwork of game design. That said, it's not without its flaws (Spoiler alert: nothing is). Among a number of additions coming to the game in the future, Overwatch's game director, Jeff Kaplan told Eurogamer that we can expect a few changes to some characters in the very near future.

There are two characters that the team is focusing on according to Kaplan, McCree and D.Va. He said:

"We want McCree to be a counter to people like Tracer, Genji and Reaper. What we're not crazy about, right now, is the way in which McCree can absolutely shred tanks. It's a little too easy, so we want to bring the fan the hammer damage down, so he's still killing the squishies and the medium strength heroes, but he's less effective against the tanks." 

Kaplan indicates that the team has done extensive playtesting on McCree's new stats and that they are very close to finalizing his new build. The other character of focus, D.Va is not as close to being ready.

"With D. Va, we're still in exploration mode. There's a couple of directions we could take her and it's still unclear which direction we'll go. Obviously her damage has come into question from a lot of people. You have to be really close to do effective damage with D. Va and we might look at that. We might also look at her survivability. A lot of time, D. Va can get herself into situations where she's a tank and it feels like she should be there, but then she gets knocked out of that mech so quickly."

Kaplan also mentions later in the interview that once both character balances are complete, the team feels that they can roll them out on all platforms simultaneously. 

Overwatch released back on May 24th to widespread critical acclaim after a very successful Beta and has since accrued over 7 million active players. If you need any more convincing on Overwatch, you can check out our official review.

Source: [Eurogamer.net]