Summary
- Overwatch 2 introduces the newest Quick Play: Hacked mode, Limit 2, allowing players to swap heroes for extra tanks temporarily.
- The rotating Quick Play modes experiment with game dynamics, like respawn times or hero selection, in significant ways.
- Expect more experimental game modes in Overwatch 2, like Kingmaker and 6v6 variations, to be introduced later.
Overwatch 2 has officially begun Limit 2, its newest Quick Play: Hacked experiment that allows players to exchange one of their damage or support heroes for an extra tank. This game mode temporarily replaces Open Queue in Overwatch 2, and will only be available for a limited time.
Quick Play: Hacked is an alternating limited-time game mode in which Overwatch 2 experiments with the typical formula of a match. These tests all change the game in significant ways, such as the faster respawn times, payload speeds, and capture rates of Quicker Play, duplicate heroes of Double Trouble, or the customizable options of Pickable Passives.
Overwatch 2 Bringing Back 6v6 Feels Conveniently Timed
Considering Blizzard recently announced that 6v6 would be returning to Overwatch 2, with everything going on, it seems it's been conveniently timed.
Now, another Quick Play: Hacked has arrived. Limit 2 is a new Overwatch 2 game mode that lets fans shuffle around their roles on the fly, allowing them to customize each five-player team with up to two of any role, meaning gamers can swap out their second support or damage hero with another tank. This game mode is available right now in Overwatch 2, where it has temporarily replaced the Open Queue card in the Unranked menu.
Quick Play: Hacked Limit 2 Live in Overwatch 2 Now
At press time, it is unclear how long Quick Play: Hacked Limit 2 will run. However, all the other Quick Play: Hacked experiments lasted between one and three days, so it will likely not be around for long. Players interested in trying out this new ruleset should make time to do so, as it will probably go away within a few days at the most.
That said, there are more Quick Play: Hacked experiments coming to Overwatch 2 soon. Later on in Season 13, Overwatch 2 is running a game mode called Kingmaker, which plays exactly like Limit 2, except the player in the solo role gets a powerful buff. Then, in Season 14, Overwatch 2 is testing out a couple 6v6 game modes: one that features the classic two heroes of each role, and another where the team can consist of between one and three tank, support, or damage heroes.
This isn’t the only special game mode available right now. Due to its overwhelming popularity, Overwatch 2 extended the duration of Junkenstein’s Laboratory by an extra week, giving fans until November 11 to play around with the mutations and powers available in it. Between it and this new Quick Play: Hacked, there are a lot of exciting ways to play Overwatch 2 right now.
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Overwatch 2 is an always-on and ever-evolving free-to-play, team-based action game set in an optimistic future, where every match is the ultimate 5v5 battlefield brawl. Power up your railgun and disrupt the battlefield as Sojourn, or yield your axe and command attention as Junker Queen. Battle to take control of a robot and move it toward the enemy base in the new Push Mode. Bring the fight to new destinations across the globe in iconic locations like New York, Rome, Monte Carlo and Rio. Daily challenges and frequent updates mean there is always something new to play.
