This goes the same for ultimates, as sometimes it is best to time when you unleash your greatest ability rather than using it as soon as you can. You can get kills with D.Va's Self-Destruct or Reaper's Death Blossom, or you can wait for Reinhardt to knock people down to blow them

Medals are completely meaningless. Other than a minor XP boost from your highest medal earned, you don’t get anything for collecting medals. They aren’t tracked on your stat page or in your achievements, you can’t trade them for cosmetics, and you can’t even see anyone’s medals but your own. What they did do was explode onto the screen all bright and shiny at the end of every match. My Overwatch career is more than 400 hours long, and the medals alone were enough to keep me coming back for m

The benefit of a battle pass, compared to a loot box, is you get to see what you’re buying. You know exactly what you get for your $10 before you buy the premium tier - though, you still don’t get to choose what you’re buying. If there’s a specific skin, victory pose, or voiceline you’re after, your only option is to buy Coins with real mo

Finally, while Blizzard did share some updates on the mobile game Diablo Immortal, no release for the game was given. There is another testing phase planned for later this year, similar to the technical alpha held last Decemb

Blizzard actually removed loot boxes from Overwatch before it went offline. If you played in the last few weeks, you would have earned Credits just for playing games. Overwatch 2 could reward a similar drip feed of Coins alongside battle pass progress - or offer coins as battle pass rewards for that matter - but it doesn’t. You can’t even earn enough Coins in a season to pay for the next one since you can only earn 540 over nine weeks, and the premium battle pass costs 1,

The biggest announcement of the night was almost certainly the reveal of Diablo 2: Resurrected , an overhauled remaster of Diablo 2. According to a report from Bloomberg last month, the Vicarious Visions team was recently absorbed into Blizzard largely for the purpose of developing the Diablo 2 remaster. Though the game has been rumored for many years, this is the first official announcement that the game is com

I loved seeing three or four gold medals pop up at the end of a particularly good match. It was the perfect cap on a great experience. Sometimes when my team played well, we’d sit on the medal screen for a minute or two talking about the high points of the match and bragging about our medals. I took a screenshot of my last Overwatch game before the servers shut down where I earned three gold medals and three career bests. In Overwatch 2, matches just sort of end. There’s no fanfare, no time to reflect on how well you did. You can’t even see the scoreboard anymore once the game is over. I’m glad we have a real scoreboard, but we didn’t have to give up the medal completely, did

Unlocking old heroes only applies to new players, but going forward the battle pass will come into play. With that, free players will need to grind to unlock heroes, while premium players will get them automatically. It seems to go against Overwatch’s greatest strength that some players can have access to so many more heroes, and so much earlier. Of course, it might seem like Overwatch cannot win. I’ve just complained that it is opting for the sequel model, Overwatch2Fans.Com and now I’m criticising it for going down the seasonal route. Maybe that’s just it though. Maybe Overwatch cannot win. It was the perfect game at the perfect time, and it feels impossible to think it might ever recapture that ma

The first online-only BlizzCon kicked off today with an announcement-filled opening ceremony. The livestream featured updates, reveals, surprises, and new game announcements, including some that are already available today. Here's a look at everything announced during the BlizzConline 2021 opening cerem

If you’re a free-to-play Overwatch 2 player, you only get 20 items from the seasonal battle pass. Overwatch 2 seasons last nine weeks, so it would take you just over 20 years of consistently completing every battle pass to earn the same number of items I got from Overwatch’s loot boxes. If you’re willing to upgrade to the premium battle pass, which gives you all 80 items, you’ll catch up to me in a little over five years - and it will only cost you $500. I’m doing napkin math here. I haven't factored in the 60 Coins you can earn a week or whatever we might get for free from seasonal events, but you can see my po

Overwatch led the way for the likes of Fortnite , Apex Legends , Paladins, Bleeding Edge, and Valorant . Even Destiny 2 seems to have taken as much from Overwatch as it has the original Destiny. But what those games have in common is the exact thing that stands Overwatch 2 apart for the wrong reasons. Sequels to Fortnite, Apex Legends, and Valorant will never arrive - instead the games continue to evolve with constant updates, new battle passes, and frequent seasonal events pulling you back in. Even Destiny 2, though a sequel itself, is abandoning that model in order to keep building and evolving as it