Overwatch deathmatch gameplay: The KDR matters again

Blizzard is going back to the roots of the shooter genre for the latest addition to Overwatch, its team-based hero shooter. The publisher announced today that it is introducing a deathmatch mode where the only objective is to get more kills than the other team. This gametype is live now in the Arcade menu on the public test region servers. It should hit the live servers soon.

I decided to test out the new mode for ourselves, and you can see the results for yourself in the video above. As you might expect, death match is a lot of fun in Overwatch. The mode comes in two flavors. Four-on-four team deathmatch and an eight-player free-for-all. These modes definitely feel a bit more skillful in terms of your ability to shoot and kill your enemies. That’s opposed to the objective-based modes that you’d find in Quick Play and Ranked, which employ more strategy and teamwork elements (a different set of skills).