Developer Update | Overwatch Uprising (EU)

Hi, everyone. I'm Jeff from the Overwatch team.
Welcome to today's Developer Update.
This one is particularly exciting for me,
because we get to introduce you to Overwatch Uprising
the new Overwatch event, which is now live.
So, I want to talk a little bit about why we decided to make this event.
We listened to community feedback a lot.
We really care what you guys have to say, and we've seen all the enthusiasm
for the previous events that we've run, like Halloween Terror or
Winter Wonderland. And we've seen a lot of desire for a
non-real-world-related holiday event. So, something that we came
up with kind of out of the blue. There's also been a big desire in the
community to hear more story behind Overwatch.
And then, add to that, we got such a favorable response to
Junkenstein's Revenge that people really enjoyed playing a little bit
more PvE or fighting AI-controlled enemies; that there was this great
convergence on the development team to create this event called
Overwatch Uprising. So, little history behind the event.
We wanted to create something that allowed us to take any moment from
Overwatch history, almost pulling out of the declassified Overwatch archives and
saying "Here was a cool moment in Overwatch history. We want to deliver it
to you and let you as a player live through it firsthand."
So, what we chose was a moment in Overwatch history that we call
"The Golden Era" of Overwatch. So, in the Overwatch timeline, there was
the Omnic Crisis, when Overwatch was formed. That was sort of 30 years before
the game that you guys know and play every day took place.
Then there were "The Golden Years" that took place after the Omnic Crisis
was resolved, but when Overwatch, the organization, was in its heyday.
And then there was the fall of Overwatch, which we talked a little bit
about in the 76 teaser video that we showed.
So, this takes place in "The Golden Era," and what's
special about this event is that it is Tracer's first mission with Overwatch.
And you'll see we're putting out a comic along with this.
And I encourage you all to read it. But you'll see, at the time, Tracer's
sort of in training. But we're going to send a
crack team in to deal with the conflict that's taking place in King's Row.
That crack team is Reinhardt, Mercy, and Torbjörn.
They need somebody who's familiar with the area.
And who better than Tracer to come in with them.
So, this event will manifest itself in a number of ways to you as a player.
One: there's a cool new loot box that has all sorts of really great items.
Not only does it have the skins that "The Golden Era"
Overwatch characters wore.
So, you'll see the Reinhardt, Torbjörn, Mercy and Tracer skins.
But, we also sort of selectively pulled out some really cool moments in
Overwatch history to make skins for as well.
So, you'll see Genji and McCree's Blackwatch skin or a Talon
version of Widowmaker, that we think is really cool.
So, there are some good skins for you guys to enjoy.
The loot boxes have a lot of other cool stuff in there:
great animations, some cool sprays, and voice lines.
So, hopefully, those are really appealing to you as well.
The thing that we're most excited about are the two game modes that
we're adding to the Arcade for this.
So, the main one is called Overwatch Uprising--just like the event.
That's where you get to step into one of these four characters and
play through this really cool event that's all PvE.
It's much longer than Junkenstein's Revenge was.
So, you'll get to experience a lot more. There's a lot of story there.
There's some really interesting other things going on
like Morrison and Ana Amari are sort of giving you direction over your comms.
So, hopefully, that gives you a little bit more insight into what
Overwatch was like back in the day as well.
And then for the Arcade, again, based on feedback that we heard from you
with Junkenstein's Revenge; we also are adding another
card to the Arcade, which is the exact same brawl, Overwatch Uprising, but
you could play with any hero you want.
So, you can pick any of the 24 heroes and try all sorts of crazy
combinations to see, you know, "Hey look how overpowered
D.Va and Zarya are together" or "Look at how challenging it is
if we do it with four DPS and no healer."
That could be a really fun challenge for you.
So, we heard a lot of desire after the Junkenstein event that
people wanted to play with whatever hero they wanted. So we're
giving you sort of two versions. The intended version, but also the
super-fun, play-whoever-you-want version.
There are achievements, some of them apply to one of the cards, and most of
them apply to to the other cards. So, there's achievements that you can
unlock and there are spray rewards for those as well.
Really, you know, at its core, Overwatch, was designed to be a PvP game.
And we really believe in that six vs. six, player vs. player,
team-based action-shooter. That's what the game was designed to be.
We had so much fun making Junkenstein's Revenge
and your response to it was so overwhelmingly positive and a lot of us
have worked on PvE games before, like World of Warcraft or the Starcraft
campaign, that it was just so much fun for us to try to branch out and do
something a little bit different.
So, we hope you not only enjoy all of the story elements that exist in the
Overwatch Uprising event, but also the new gameplay that hadn't really
existed in any other form in Overwatch to date.
So, we hope you have as much fun with Overwatch Uprising
when it comes to playing it, as we did with making it.
And again, thanks for all the feedback that led us here in the first place.
Have fun with it.

Developer Update | Overwatch Uprising (EU)

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