Overwatch

Ideally, what I would have liked is for them to release the functionality they used to make the league skins to us, and charge tokens to use it each time, and those tokens go to funding the league.

Hmmm... Overwatch facebook page just linked to the store for official merch for each of the teams. Being from the UK and despising the London Spitfire colour scheme this seemed like a great way to support the team and get something that interests me. You would think there would be a way to order things from the home country of the team in question. While it isn't too bad US > UK, I imagine some of the import costs for the other teams will be insane.

Events live

Sombra and Anna got the best new legendaries imo

edited 12th Dec '17 11:25:37 AM by Ukokira

I agree. I'm not super fond of any of them, but those two are pretty good.

Sadly, no skin for Orisa. Though she does get a cute legendary emote.

Are we getting a Reflections comic?

That Orisa emote is the best thing in this event.

Kinda disappointed Junkrat and Roadhog don't match.

Orisa's new emote, so pure and innocent.

The opening screen is very cute too.

Just everyone having a big snowball fight.

Not gonna lie, i laughed like an idiot after seeing Hanzo being hit by a snowball from Ana.

Man, that's a really awesome skin for Sombra! On another note, I really like Roadhog's new skin. It's kind of adorable-looking, in a weird way.

The new Sombra's golden gun looks awesome.

Orisa's new emote is the most adorable thing ever. The new skins are pretty good too. I really like Sombra's and Bastion's.

Sombra skin... oh wow. This is truly divine.

The new mode is cool. It averts the balance problems similar "one vs many" games have, where balance is always skewed towards the bigger team. Here, it appears to be a faily balanced and fun mode. Haven't gotten to be the yeti so far, but it's fun to play as hunter too.

They should make the puppy Orisa's ult. Is it the first time that a "mascot" character makes an appearance without being attached to the hero? (Like with Ganymede or Snowball)

Yay, Hanzo now officially has a skin I don't dislike. Sombra's new skin is... certainly different. Both are on my Christmas wishlist.

Sombra's Christmas skin with a golden gun is absolutely glorious. I don't even play her and I want both.

Kind of disappointed that all of the skins are legendary tier and thus harder to get from loot boxes.

Also, while I like the Hanzo skin, the beard... kind of looks bad. Weren't the sides shaved down in the comic leaving just the goatee? I don't remember him having a full on grey beard. It looks... I don't like it.

While I initially disliked Hanzo's new skin, it's really grown on me.

Also, I got Reinhardt's new Highlight Intro. I wasn't expecting to actually see it anytime soon, but almost immediately after getting it, I got POTG in FFA.

There's some new interactions were added in the event:

One thing of note is that we now know that Torb's wife is named "Ingrid".

The mercy and torb interaction makes me think that after she lost her parents, Torb probably adopted her.

A theory i had for a while

I think that line is just a reference to when they were in Overwatch together.

On another note...does anyone know why patch 1.19 that just hit the PTR is almost 2 GB in size despite just listing a bunch of bug fixes for doomfist?

My best guess is that it's got all the data for the Standard lootbox update and the Overwatch League skins.

edited 13th Dec '17 8:25:19 PM by Falrinn

So it looks like OWL drama is happening again. XQC, one of their players, was caught being the epitome of toxicity again

Is Sombra's new skin a reference to something?

I suspect that they're just trying to give every character some sort of non-canon "monster" skin.