In the Lab this week Rob & Andres return from Blizzcon to delve into the experience with you all. We cover what Blizzcon was like for our first time, quick news updates, some announcements, the Overwatch World Cup, the panel about the Overwatch League, and the new hero Moira!

News & Blue Posts:

• Game Night -- Nov. 24 Game Night
• Omnic Lab is now a Twitch Affiliate!
• Omnic Meta: (Homepage)
  • Moira Ability Stats
• Season 7 is live!
• Recorded Pixels Ep.69 with Scott Johnson and Patrick Beja
• PTR Nov. 6
• Ana Rifle up to 70 (was 60)
• Mercy Resurrect
  • Cast time increased from 0 seconds to 1.75 seconds
  • Mercy’s movement speed is now reduced by 75% while casting
  • Can now be interrupted when Mercy is knocked back, stunned, or hacked
• Mercy Valkyrie
  • When activated, Resurrection no longer has a cast time
  • While active, casting Resurrect does not reduce Mercy's movement speed

New Game Content

• The new Map: Blizzard World (Early 2018)
  • Custom Announcers for each Game area (SC/Diablo/WC)
• New Reinhardt Cinematic
• 8 New Skins coming to base loot box (Early 2018)
• Magni Bronzebeard (Torb) - WC
• Immortal (Orisa) - SC
• Nova (Widowmaker) - SC
• Blackhand (Doomfist) - WC
• Barbarian (Sonya) - Diablo
• Butcher (Roadhog) - Diablo
• EcoPoint (Mei) - Cinematic
• Crusader (Reinhardt) - Cinematic
• Q&A at What’s Next

Overwatch League & Overwatch World Cup

• OW League Website Updated
  • 12 Team names, brands, & rosters announced
  • Match Statistics & Match games on the website
  • Promises for more teams in EU and Asia after S1
  • More Merch
    • Jerseys (home and away) (Dec. 6th)
    • Hats, Socks, Joggers (sweat pants)
    • Contenders and OW Open news coming at the end of Nov.
    • Companion App coming out
• Favoriting system (push notifications)
• Add games to your calendar
• Watch games via the app
• Making it easy to be a fan
• Inside the Overwatch League (with Nate Nanzer)
• 2 Divisions (Atlantic & Pacific)
  • A: London, NY, Boston, Philly, Florida, Houston
  • P: Shanghai, Seoul, LA, LA, SF, Dallas
• No region locking: Anyone can play for any team
• 113 Players - 17 Countries (so far)
• Each Team, 2 Games a Week, 4 Game days
  • Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat
  • 3 Matches per day
• Start times change each day for global reach
• Jan. 10 to June 16th run time (Pre-season Dec. 6)
• July 11 Playoffs (Championship outside LA in a bigger venue)
  • Jan 10:
    • LAV - SFS 4pm
    • SHD - LAG 6pm
    • DAF - SLD 8pm
  • Jan 11
    • LSF - FMH 2pm
    • PDF - HOL 4pm
    • BUR - NYX 6pm
  • Jan 12
    • LAV - DAF 4pm
    • FMH - BUR 6pm
    • SFS - SHD 8pm
  • Jan 13
    • LSF - PDF 11am
    • NYX - HOL 1pm
    • SLD - LAG 3pm
• 5 Weeks and then Title Stage
• 8 Map pool
• Traveling Schedule with international breaks
• Best overall record on a season
• Progress resets after 5 weeks
• 4 opportunities (during a season?) to comeback
• $125K team performance bonuses at each stage
• 50% minimum goes directly to players
• OW World Cup talk about SKR vs USA
  • Spectator Update
  • Instant Replays
  • Color Palette impressions & perspective from a non-OW player
  • Segment from “Ridiculous Hat”
  • Smart Cam & 3rd person
  • Top-Down Map view with health bars
  • Tournament Interface (pause with connection drops)

Moira Chat: A New Support

• Irish Geneticist: Science above all else.
• Gamepedia Stat Spread (tentative & likely not 100% accurate)
• Biotic Grasp: Regeneration (Heal)
• Biotic Grasp: Decay (DMG)
• Biotic Orb: (Heal & DMG)
• Fade
• Coalescence

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