That’s so freaking boring! Buuuh 
So trash.
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No mini event, and a map for a gamemode I never play. So fun.
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No mini event because they decided to change Mccree’s name but don’t actually have a new name or path to changing it yet 
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Oh no, anyway
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I didn’t think this would have anything with mccree tho? Isn’t malevento a talon map? So i was expecting there to be a skin challange for a talon hero not mccree.
The lack of challenge isn’t related to the rename.
This^
I’m totally ok with them changing the name. Happy for them even! But damn they really didn’t think of a new name BEFORE announcing they were changing it? I know the rename process itself is long and complex but simply internally choosing and revealing a name isn’t nearly a difficult.
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They explicitly said in the statement that lore and content was planned for September but is now delayed because it involves him.
So yeah, not necessarily Malevento related but that was our next scheduled content.
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They said a while back that they had lore planned for September, but it just so happens that McCree was a prominent figure in it… sounds highly convenient, if you ask me.
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No mini event no balance patch nothing…
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honestly disappointed with the lack of a challenge … but I would say that I am even more disappointed that OW continues to spam secrets of things that “will be updated later” rather than already visible details like what happened in Kanezaka.
more detail:
Like each map before it, Malevento is an experience packed with little details and hidden references–particularly for players looking forward to Overwatch 2. “Why is Talon setting up shop? Who is the mysterious statue in the courtyard?” teases Thomas. Talon’s base, secreted away inside a villa built by a contingent of workers who have since mysteriously disappeared, rests within Malevento like an ill omen, their plans for the town yet unknown.
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See, this is where a lore article would’ve been nice to have (like with Kanezaka).
I still find it awfully suspect that the lore detail planned for September was delayed because it just so happened McCree was an integral part of it (the odds are just way too convenient for my liking).
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Yes, by now I also think that there is something that has definitely gone wrong with this publication …
We know that Overweatch had a base in Rome, while Talon acts with a HQ in Venice. A regional middle ground between the two cities is the Tuscany region, which inspired Malevento. This makes me think of something like an investigation into what’s left of Talon in Italy after Vialli’s death (masquerade). I don’t exclude in the least that there must have been something about McCree investigating after he freed Echo in Reunion.
How is that suspect? The story arc involved McCree, McCree has to be renamed, therefore the story arc gets delayed while they incorporate the rename. The McCree lore wasn’t connected to Malevento at all - Malevento was originally planned to release in July, but got delayed due to the lawsuit.
Someone even mentioned this should’ve been a Reaper lore expansion: shotguns are littered across the map, developers said Reaper would be expanded upon, the map is a Talon base, if anything, Reaper fits the map more than McCree. Unless, of course, the planned wasn’t about the map, but if that were the case, then why?
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Boring AF.
Nothing new. 1 month of PTR for nothing. Disappointment after disappointment.
At least we have Halloween soon but this is just… Awful
The “secret base” isn’t that good anyways it’s just a bunch of talon weapons on top of a wine storage and a talon flag.
What details do we get? A car blueprint and a computer with no info. Ha.
Reaaaaaaaally interesting lore there Blizzard Reaaaaaaaaally interesting.
Not even a freaking trash mini event with an epic skin. Not even that.
EACH. DAY. THEY. DISAPPOINT. ME. EVEN. MORE.
How’s that even possible???
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yes, this is absolutely true. But if it was all about Reaper, why delay this portion of lore “randomly” while we have the case of McCree’s name change? let’s remember what was said in this post:
explicitly speaks of McCree as a key point in an upcoming McCree story. Perhaps the blackwatch pupil would meet again with the mentor? Ipotetically, with a new short tale.
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Just think it’s highly convenient that out of all of the 32+ characters in this franchise, the one to get further lore was also the one that recently has a controversy. To even announce it just seems too good of an out. Was no other story being made on to swap out? Do they just work on one story at a time for one hero at a time?
It just seems like the perfect storm to delay something with a easily explainable situation. It’s almost like when you tell your parents that you were going to do your chores, but your dog needs to go for a walk; strange odds.
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No, I mean as in, this is purely about Reaper (no McCree).
For instance, say, Reaper is assigned to oversee development of a Talon base in the countryside of Italy. Once there, he reminiscence about how he once fought against Talon in this very base: realizing just how in the right Talon was, and how wrong Overwatch was.
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