This Was Painful To Complete 🥲

Is Reaper a COVID baby because he was born in 2018, and (hypothetically if COVID happened in Overwatch Universe) would have been turning 2 during the lockdown? Like would he have been one of those toddlers that didn't develop proper social skills at nursery?

I think about this sometimes...

SPREAD THE JUNKRAT LOVE <33333

The most darling Rein ever ♥️

What have they done to my boy 😭😭😭

He just doesn't look like Junkrat anymore 🥲🥲🥲

Where's his flaming hair and ratty clothes??? 🫠🫠

The Decline of the Anniversary Event, Part 3

The final remix event took place in August and just...ugghhhh

Tada, here are the Rem-mixes...

I just...

I'm literally studying concept and character design and I would get fail for plagiarism if I tried something like this.

As usual, here are the originals. You won't be surprised to see another skin that already has a twin colour pallet worm it's way in here.

It's not like there are literally dozens of skins that don't have twin skins Blizzard.

But really.

You do you.

Some real classics in there, skins I know people really adore. Then they go and get those crappy remixes. It just makes me wander what Blizzard was thinking.

I'm not as mad about the weekly challenges this time, for the purely selfish reason that I skipped the last two special events because I thought the skins were mid and was glad for another chance to get them.

I can understand why Blizzard would want to give new players the opportunity to get these skins, but it also feels like laziness wrapped up in false generosity. It still miffs me when I realise we got absolutely NO new, original, content for three whole events.

But, I guess it doesn't compare to this years Anniversary event.

For starters, there isn't even a trailer on their YouTube for it. Nor is there a separate post for each week on their Instagram.

I was busy during the first week, *cough* playing Baldurs Gate 3 *Cough* and I didn't get a chance to earn any of the rewards of SS the information, so this is all I got for week one.

In the first week the Winter Brawls and the Battle for Olympus mode came back and they had a series of challenges and rewards tied to them. Most of the rewards were pitiful credits, which are still a pretty dead currency even with the anniversary shop being open (for only a month). Everything still costs a steep price even if the currency is credits. Other than that it you can earn the classical hero icons for Junker Queen and Sojourn. The big reward here is the Echo highlight intro.

Wait.

That's weird.

I can't find the skins.

What?

Where did they go?

Oh wait-

There they are, costing as much as paid for OW1.

Oh yeah, here's the anniversary store, where you can buy everything with 'credits'.

The only skins you could buy with credits were the space raiders ones, the Ice Angel skin, the Art Deco skin, the Pearlescent skin and the Infinite ace. The Beekeeper and Hermes skins still cost real money, they're just discounted.

I can't say for certain those are all the credits skins though. I had the space raider skins on pre-order and I bought the infinite ace when it came out.

Anyways, here's week 2.

Once again, we have returning events, nothing new, and a series of challenges to complete. More classic golden player icons, a few credits and a Junker Queen victory pose.

It's not really screaming, quantity is it?

Finally, week 3.

Finally, in week 3 we see the return of the Summer Games modes and the mischief and magic game mode. The rewards are mostly the same with the golden player icons and credits, but finally, finally, we're presented with our first free skin. The cursed captain Reaper skin!

Hooray.

A single skin.

Lucky us.

Honestly.

Blizzard started out with 11 free legendary skins you could get through loot boxes, and now all hey offer is a card machine and a single free skin?

Do better Blizzard please.

I'm literally paying the price of OW1 for every skin I buy.

It's just getting ridiculous.

Apex Legends manages to have loot boxes and a battle pass, so why can't we?

Here's Mauga's Origin Story:

Overwatch Origin Stories Master-list

Links to the Youtube Origin stories in Chronological order of hero release <3

Most of the base Roster doesn't have an origin story, but there is this short for Roadhog and Junkrat:

It's not in the same format as the rest of the origin stories that follow, but it's the closest thing that resembles an origin story for them.

Soldier 76 is obviously one of the outliers of this standard (being Blizzards golden boy and all I suppose), and I'm fairly sure his was the first origin story put together in this format:

Another of these outliers is none other than the poster girl herself, which I guess makes sense:

That's all the base roster got, and the following origin stories all belong to heroes that we released after the release of the game.

First of, Ana came out in July of 2016:

Then followed Sombra in November of 2016:

Orisa in March of 2017:

Doomfist in July of 2017:

Moira in November of 2017:

Brigitte in March of 2018:

Wrecking Ball in July of 2018:

Then a couple of months later they released the 'Honour and Glory' short:

Then another year or so later the 'Shooting Star' short was released:

A couple of months later the 'Reunion' short was released:

The the infamous OW2 trailer 'Zero Hour' was released, casually three years before they were ready to release the thing:

The first Overwatch 2 short 'The Wastelander', was released a astounding three years later, with no filler shorts in between:

Shortly after the 'Kiriko' short was released:

And last but not least, the newest trailer, released in the summer of 2023 is the 'Calling' short:

Fingers crossed there will be more shorts in the future though and it won't be the last one for long lol

Overwatch Animated Shorts Master list!

All the Overwatch Animated shorts in release date chronological order <3

Naturally, the 'cinematic trailer' came out first :) ->

The next trailer that came out was the 'We are Overwatch' short:

The next short was the 'Recall' short:

Quickly following that short, was the 'Alive' short:

Not long after that one either, the 'are you with us' Short was released:

Following that was the 'Dragons' short:

Then not even two weeks later the 'Hero' short was released:

Then a few months later 'The Last Bastion' short was released:

A month of two later the next short, 'Infiltration' was released:

After quickly putting out so many shorts, Blizzard took a break just shy of a year before releasing the 'Rise and Shine' short:

Can someone tell me why Blizzard thought this was a good idea??

Why is the 2023 anniversary player icon just wilding at the top of the menu, instead of being in chronological order??

It's a rabbit hole ladies and gentlemen ;-;

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