Overwatch will be getting deathmatch mode, where only kills matter

To all who are allergic to the payload and just want to rack up kills, now there will be an Overwatch mode for you.

At its core, Overwatch is a team-based game. If you want to successfully capture the objective, escort the payload or win at all, you have to do it with your team.

Overwatch is taking that main tenet and throwing it out the window for the newest upcoming mode, which is live now on PC test servers. Called deathmatch, the mode draws heavily on the oldest FPS objective of all time: Kill as many people as you can.

In this mode, regardless whether it is played solo or on a team, only the number of kills matter. Played alone, you are pitted against six other people. Played in a team, you have five other people on your side. But the objective is the same. Choose the hero that is your favorite killing machine, go forth and destroy.

In his latest developer update video, Jeff Kaplan explains that a deathmatch mode was never Overwatch‘s priority, but the rise of its arcade game room has given developers more freedom in creating different game modes outside of the regular ones. Thus, deathmatch was born.

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Some of the current Overwatch maps have been modified to fit the gameplay of deathmatch. The smaller maps being used for 3-vs-3 elimination will also become deathmatch maps.

The Overwatch team is also introducing a brand new map specifically designed for deathmatch called Chateau Guillard, a grand estate in France that was the childhood home of Widowmaker. YouTube channel Overwatch Central has made a flyover video of the new map to get a taste of what we can expect from deathmatch’s terrain.

Hopefully now that deathmatch exists in Overwatch, people will be more concentrated on the objective when it counts. But let’s be honest. They won’t.