It’s likely Overwatch‘s newest tease refers to its first in-game event that doesn’t revolve around a real-life activity like Christmas or the Olympics.
“We’ve heard the call that a lot of players want a non-real-world-tied event, meaning they want some sort of set event in the Overwatch world,” Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan told PCGamesN.
A popular theory is that the event refers to the King’s Row Uprising, part of Overwatch history which revolves around a series of battles between humans and Omnics. It’s also referred to as the Omnic crisis.
“The event is going to be something – when players see the event and play the event, I think they’ll see that we’ve been listening to their feedback,” Kaplan continued.
“We’ve been hearing a lot of desire for more story, people want to know more about the story of Overwatch, they want to know more about the past of Overwatch. I think they want to know more about what’s going on between omnics and humans in this world and how did we get there. I think a lot of that will be answered for them.”
Whatever it is, Lead Character Artist, Renaud Galand, has called the event “one of the best thing[s] we have worked on since launch.”
Overwatch is currently available on Windows PC, Xbox One and PS4. We’ll report back as we learn more.
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