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Overwatch Is Getting a New Spectator Mode this Year, Called the World Cup Viewer

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Published: Oct 24, 2018 02:34 am

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The Overwatch World Cup finals are inching ever closer, and to celebrate the event, Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan has announced that the game will be getting a spectator mode.

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The Overwatch League made its debut at the start of this year, and while it was certainly an entertaining esports event, the camera work for some of those matches were a little questionable. With this new spectator mode, called the Overwatch World Cup Viewer for now, players will be able to watch matches however they like. Whether it’s through third or first-person view, or even the top-down camera view we saw in the League, players will have full control.

The spectator mode will be entering a beta phase through the Battle.net app shortly before BlizzCon this year. Kaplan also mentioned that players will be able to use the spectator mode to check out the World Cup matches.

While there was no mention of whether season 2 of the League will be getting the spectator mode treatment next year as well, we expect that it will, if all goes smoothly.

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Zhiqing Wan
Zhiqing is the Reviews Editor for Twinfinite, and a History graduate from Singapore. She's been in the games media industry for nine years, trawling through showfloors, conferences, and spending a ridiculous amount of time making in-depth spreadsheets for min-max-y RPGs. When she's not singing the praises of Amazon's Kindle as the greatest technological invention of the past two decades, you can probably find her in a FromSoft rabbit hole.
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