The Archives Event Storm Rising - Part 3

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Just some friendly overwatch 'banter' 🥰🥰

Why can't people just be nice 🫠

I love this interaction hehe 😚😚

I always know where my duo is because she always spams voice lines 😂

Talon forces...

Ok, I'm currently engaged with researching as much as I can about Overwatch Lore ever since the new PVE missions came out because, I just gotta know everything, you know?

I was looking at the Talon wiki page and going through the members and the commanding staff, yada, yada, yada, and I scroll down to the gallery, and I see... an atrocity.

I LOVE the achieves event, right. It's my favourite event since it always came out around my birthday, and PVE is just so fine. I remember playing Retribution when it first came out, and man, where those missions good. The enemies were great, they had unique designs and made combat interesting.

The assassin was my favourite because it nodded to Genji's original design ideas, and found a way to still incorporate it into the game.

Basically, the Talon forces in Retribution and Storm Rising followed as such:

You had your grunts, your standard cannon fodder and really easy to kill. The only thing that irritating about them is the amount of health they gain in Expert and Legendary.

Then you had the enforcers, who had slower attack patterns but did more damage. You gotta be real careful of their attack when it gets to Expert and Legendary, because they can one shot you.

Then there was the sniper, who would spawn in with a small cutscene initially, and then had a tracking laser that followed the person they were targeting. Fairly easy to take out in the Easy - Hard difficulties, and then slightly more difficult in the Expert and Legendary versions. Because, like Widow, Headshots can kill in one shot.

Then there's the assassin, which like I said before, is a nod to some design concepts initially discussed for Genji. The assassin, like the sniper, would initially spawn in a small cutscene when they're first introduced in the mission. Then they would leap from wall to wall, before selecting a target and running across the ground towards them to slash them. Usually, whatever difficulty, it's a one attack, one kill kind of thing, but she's the easiest to avoid and the easiest to kill in my opinion.

Then there was the heavy assault unit. Man, where those things nightmares. Massive hulks of men, with two giant mini guns (or whatever they are) attached to their arms, and giving off a constant stream of fire. People literally designed routes and patterns for the achieves mission so that there was a possible way to destroy these monsters in Expert and Legendary. Not to mention the ungodly amount of them Blizzard throw at you.

Here's a photo for reference :P

So, here I am, looking at this photo reminiscing, because IT'S BEEN THREE YEARS SINCE WE HAD ARCHIEVES BLIZZARD! Then I click onto the next slide and oh God...

What is this travesty?

Who... are you? What happened to the Enforcers? To the Assassin? Why do the grunts look so... flaccid... and why does the Heavy assault look like a bad imitation of Winston? He looks smaller and not as intimidating as well... And the sniper... I could have physically cried when I saw this. The sniper in overwatch 1 was so sick! But now... well... now she looks like a shoddy imitation of Widow.

Petition for the return of Jeff Kaplan? </3

(I feel like I might have gotten too carried away over the Talon enemy models, but then again. Maybe I didn't).

I can never really tell if I'm getting complimented or insulted when I get remarks like this one...

It was made from the enemy Wrecking Ball towards me after we won.

Like that has to be a compliment right? 😂

It just throws me off when people use the word diff and then follow it with something that's not hate 😂😂

Someone take away my Pinterest privileges...

Why did this make me laugh so much...

My duo calls lag non consensual movement 😂😂