#archives 2021

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No thoughts, only McEcho.

EDIT: Now with Kkachi Echo! Andrewjrt’s video happened to have her. 

[virgbro]

Overwatch: Archives 2021

[fiesty-fishbiscuit]

reasons i must obtain cavalry tracer

1) silly hat

2) the cavalry’s aCTUALLY HERE

3) its so dumb??? but so funny?????

4) legit reason to keep working on my awful tracer impression while flexing my new skin

5) silly hat

[pairs-of-pears]

Banking on the lab coat skin this year (probs won’t happen but I can dream) let’s go, archives 😂 - Pears

[addictedtooverwatch]

Overwatch Events: First 2 Archives 2021 Skins

The Overwatch team's Twitter announced the first two Archives Event 2021 skins. They showed us Bushi Genji and Mousquetaire Widowmaker.

Check out the videos showcasing the skins on the Overwatch team's Twitter; Bushi Genji and Mousquetaire Widowmaker.

Also, I saw a tweet that said Genji's belt looks like a twisted oversized Cheeto and if I am going to suffer seeing that then so are all of you. Once the event officially starts, I'll post my skin review and before the 2021 OWL season starts, I'll post my OWL teams tier list. ~ Nova

[gronjon44]

Ok like... I gotta rant cause its just super annoying.

Overwatch is dying and Archives 2021 was the nail in the coffin.

Yes I'm aware the fan base is still alive and I'm also aware someone else probably beat me to this but just... Archives 2021 feels so lazy this year.

While yes you can argue the skins are great (which they I love Samurai Genji) that doesn't change the fact that these just feel so out of place in the event.

These are skins that SHOULD be in the game I will say that, but they better suited for different events. The Historical Skins are all great but here's the thing that sticks with me.

They said they weren't releasing anymore new events based around holidays (which I think is stupid as is)

But look me dead in the eye and tell me-

TELL ME THESE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN PERFECT FOR A 4TH OF JULY EVENT

We could have gotten a full Historical Event themed around just, history in general, and it could've been separate from Archives And besides its not like Jeff would complain about more people forking money over for the game and in game events

It always bugged me when they said "Oh we won't make anymore holiday events we're just sticking with what we have"

Y'all realize how much your limiting yourselves right? You could give us more 3 week Challenge events and add skins like these. Give us more mini events to fill the gaps with how LITTLE you actually give us nowadays.

And as far as the Genji and Zarya skins are concerned I think they're the two best skins by far this year, but they feel just as out of place (they'd be more at home in Anniversary or Lunar New Year I think)

And these aren't the only other skins I think that would've benefited from this (Mountain Man McCree and Conductor Reinhardt I think would've benefitted from this treatment as well)

And just...

This whole event just feels empty.

The skins are all great but nothing feels like Archives to me.

The Mutations are just kinda eh (they're not bad but compared to last year the only one I personally think is fun/challenging is Sympathy Gains (Retribution but killing enemies heals other enemies))

Impenetrable Barriers is more difficult when a Shield Unit is protecting a Bastion

Thunderstorm is just... Everyone is Winston thats it.

They don't compare to modes like Storm Raging, Blood Moon Rising, Surgical Strike, and Glass Canons

And if I'm gonna talk about the other skins let me just say that Corrador and Sub-Aquatic are really awesome and Camouflage is just... its a love it or hate it skins I think (kinda like Lightning Tracer)

Look me in the eye and tell me they're adding actual recurring content nowadays to the game that isn't related to the OWL or a standard event.

They don't add heroes anymore cause they're dumping so many resources into OW2

They don't update events anymore with actual new gamemodes (not including minor mutations to old events)

All they really give us is new skins, while fantastic, are becoming fewer in numbers and they don't actually match the events nearly as much as they used to (case and point this event)

I get they wanted to release a sequel and continue the story, but here's the thing.

You could have very easily just added a campaign mode to the main game and slowly updated it with new Missions/Campaigns. That's what Doom Eternal and GOW 5 have done so far.

And even if you made it so you have to buy each mission/campaign (like the Telltale games or Life is Strange) I don't think the player base would have had any issues (so long as the price was within reason)

But just... I feel like this year is a final straw for me (and I doubt I'm the only one who thinks this way)

I understand they wanted a sequel to profit off the success of the initial game but the problem with that is that it was too soon for the game to get a sequel.

Yes you can argue that alot of franchises have short gaps between new releases (like Borderlands, COD, and GOW) but those are all Solo Campaign games that focused more on the individual campaign and only had simple multi-player.

Overwatch is a Multi-player based game that built its storyline into the Multi-player with no actual solo campaign.

I'm not saying that they shouldn't add a campaign but I'm also saying that for a game like Overwatch the campaign should have been integrated into the original game and not crammed into an entirely separate project.

Archives was the ideal place to start off cause it told historical events in the games plot (all of which are fantasticly done)and the idea of a solo/4 person multiplayer campaign is an amazing idea.

Dropping everything to abandon your old game and shove viable new content into a second unnecessary game and leaving your player base dry for content... not an amazing idea.

This has turned into a massive rant so let me end it off on this:

Jeff Kaplan is a hack who doesn't know how to run a game and they just need to move OW2 onto the original OW platform

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