Gaming: Overwatch's Grand Revamp Event Is A Suffocating Blip In An...
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They say that 2026 is the new 2016, and when it comes to my relationship with Overwatch, that is most certainly the case. I've fallen in love with the hero shooter all over again after its recent revamp—where Blizzard dropped the "2", gave us five new heroes to mess around with, and the promise of a year-long narrative arc that'll hopefully make up a little for its lack of previously-promised PvE content.
It feels bizarre to live in a world where I'm once again looking forward to booting up the game every evening for a few skirmishes, but I've genuinely been loving everything about Overwatch again. Well, except one teeny-tiny thing: Conquest, its grand, five-week event that seemingly expects me to min-max the absolute crap outta my playtime in the worst possible way.
I've found it a huge stain on what has otherwise been a very exciting and cool time to be playing this game again. It certainly doesn't help that the first week was mired by a progression bug that caused most people to be locked out of rewards—though that was something Blizzard thankfully fixed by doling them out anyway.
It's a strange event, honestly. Talon versus Overwatch, with two reward tracks and a set of dailies for each side. At the end of the week, whichever side was more popular gets an additional little reward sent out to everyone. It feels like a test of which side your loyalties lie, but it's an event that also actively encourages switching back and forth to claim everything you can. Something that's made even more obvious by Blizzard offering the "Double Agent" title to anyone who completes enough tracks on both sides.
Once you've nabbed the cosmetics for the week, you can then continue completing quests throughout the week for bonus loot boxes, with the rewards track culminating in one legendary loot box reward. That's a pretty sweet deal… but it requires a bizarre level of optimisation that it's making me not want to play for just how scummy it feels.
That's because the event is set up in a way where you have to play every single day. Which is fine, broadly speaking, except that even then it's a complete pain in the ass. Four daily quests for 100 points each. Each reward takes 175 points to obtain. Don't feel like playing one day, or don't naturally hit a handful of challenges in your day-to-day play? Oops, good luck getting that legendary loot box.
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