Overwatch 2 – Season 7: Rise of Darkness Begins October 10!

I just have high standards :person_shrugging:

As much as I’m still disappointed about previous decisions concerning the game, I can acknowledge a W – or at least a partial W…

  • I can get behind the limited shops offering things for credit.
  • New maps look good
    • very likely teasing Mauga (been super interested in him since the Bap story)
  • seemingly free skins (may need to reread or rewatch trailer)
  • Sombra rework seems ok on paper
    • I didnt have an issue with old Sombra, but she doesnt seem butchered
  • Digging the diablo skins, but they’re probably paid; would be sick if they weren’t

I’ll wait a few days to get more details and get a general vibe on season 7, but I might play for the first time since season 4.

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Pleasantly surprised to see another classic map get updated for 5v5 play. Doesn’t look as significant as what happened to Gibraltar, but a Route 66 update is much appreciated.

Hope they continue to revisit and update older maps to smooth out gameplay!

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Most of the good skins will be on the shop as usual though

Fair enough I guess…

The weird part is that they “expected” the skins to be duds, that’s what makes it seem like they’re trying to see them in a negative way before they even see them

Are there any skins you think are good? Because I would say some of S7 skins are among the best ever created

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maybe not, maybe she’s just visible for the cast time, it depends if it starts the cooldown instantly or not.

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I think this in particular will help with player perception, hopefully it will stop sombra players from trying to take flanks that never went anywhere over and over.

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Forgive me for being positive but this season looks great! I have never been a Sombra fan EVER but I am really digging her new design. Virus sounds like a lot of fun but we’ll see how it plays out :slight_smile:

Can’t wait to get my hands on that Lifeweaver skin!

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I’m guessing the remixed version of Demon Hunter Sombra will have a lot of gold on her outfit judging by the skin’s name; “Gilded Hunter Sombra”

Hopefully we get more recolors of Blizzcon skins. It’s a good way of re-releasing them while at the same time keeping the original Blizzcon skin owners such as myself happy.

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Sad that anyone on these forums have to say “Forgive me for being positive”

Just shows how pathetic these forums have become that you’ll get berated and insulted for saying something good about it

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She could also work in off angles more, I think. Hack will still be good against any heavily ability reliant character and her damage will be more consistent for helping to secure kills with virus. And obviously if she wants to flank she still has a great tool kit for that too.

I might give her a try again. I’ve never liked her very much because of how uninteractive she has been. I think this largely fixes many of my issues with her and I hope this rework keeps her fun for those who currently enjoy her.

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Good & Evil Echo. Top tier skin, every Echo legendary since is bad. From OW2 there’s Poseidon Ram, Cyber Detective Sojourn, P9K Pharah, and Intergalactic Smuggler Ashe are also very good. I think there’s one or two I’m forgetting but everything else is mid to bad…

I thought you had high standards bro

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I do you just have bad taste :100:

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Only being able to name 5-7 skins out of hundreds is pretty bad lol

And to be honest… your “top tier” mentions are questionable compared to some others imo lol. But hey, to each their own

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I’m gonna say cos it has 3/4 skins in it this time they’ve decided 1000 less coins. So whilst yeah less coins I guess it’s a balancing act. I’d have preferred 2k coins and 2 skins still but we can’t have everything.

Excited for the event mode and also the map.

Skins are rad. Very bold move to put the moira skins in the battelpass. I almost got tempted to buy it but then I remembered I don’t main moira.

Credits seems to be still useless.

Sombra changes seem scary.

Good to see old maps are getting some love even though too little too late.

Expect more scary surprises in store in the in-game premium shop in the weeks to come!

I am already scared of how literal this may be.

There is a whole room with mauga’s stuff in! It was previewed live during the OWL finals and a show match played and honestly it’s one of the better control maps. It’s deffo better than antartica!

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The moira skin isn’t in the battle pass. You can purchase it with the ultimate bundle which has coins and other skins and 20 tier skips but that costs real money :slight_smile:

Oof. You are right. Now it all makes sense -_-