I was initially very excited when I heard about “remixed” skins, since I thought this could be aluding to the idea of alternative reality or “What If” styled skins. Specifically taking the existing OW Lore and creating cosmetics based on what would have happened if the events of the past had played out a little differently.
This could involve Mercy being the one who went to work for Oasis and eventually joining Talon, Reaper being the one to become Overwatch’s commander, Soldier 76 becoming part of Blackwatch, Zarya betraying Russia to fight alongside the omnics, Sombra becoming a white hat hacker. There’s so many ideas that could have been explored… We could have even gotten a few comic issues to go alongside it.
The effort we got feels… lazy and uninspired. Especially given the remixed skins we got are all just white variants. They could have taken some of those varients in such cool directions. It’s even worse because Archives is normally the last event before anniversary/the events looping, so it would have been a perfect last hurrah before introducing these remix events.
I get them saying they want to move resources over to OW2, but that’s the whole reason OW1 has been on skeleton support the last few years, with no new modes and only a handlful of deathmatch maps added
No creativity allowed, be happy with your random archives mode on rotation every few months… Lame. I just want to play story mode Retribution, uprising and storm rising.
Its almost like they want to complete ow2 as fast as possible, without draging the process out by spending time and resources on two (technically 3) games.
On top of what ever content they do make for ow1 needing to be reworked anyway for ow2. Because of the changes required for 5v5 to work.
I was hoping that we’d maybe get more challenge modes for them this year, like we’ve had in previous years. There’s a lot of things they could do with very little effort to make the matches more interesting (e.g. have special units spawn in nanoboosted, make it so certain units can call for backup if they don’t die fast enough, have a twist where a gamemode has a special healer unit that pockets special units, etc)