Overwatch LORE

What have they done to my boy 😭😭😭

He just doesn't look like Junkrat anymore 🥲🥲🥲

Where's his flaming hair and ratty clothes??? 🫠🫠

Kiriko and the Shimada brothers

So we all know that Kiriko is Japanese and supposedly trained with the Shimada brothers when they were younger. Here's the official artwork Blizzard released, detailing this in fact:

Here is the exert you get if you google whether she trained with them as well:

'Kiriko's parents were both excellent at both wielding and making swords, and her mother, Asa, is the one who taught Hanzo and Genji everything they know. In her youth, Kiriko joined in on the lessons her mother gave to the two young Shimada brothers, and Kiriko herself also learned how to use the weapons'

Now, based of those pictures, what do you think the age difference between Kiriko, Genji and Hanzo is?

That's right if you guessed 16 and 19 years then you're correct! If you guessed anything below the number 10, you would be wrong.

Because it obviously looks like there's 16 years between Kiriko and Genji in these photos.

Obviously.

Let's just offer a round of applause to Blizzard for messing up their own timeline because in the current game, Kiriko is 21, Genji is 37 and Hanzo is 40.

Well done Blizzard.

Can't even stick to your own time line.

Lesson learned, don't get distracted in Overwatch :/

ITS THE SAME GUY OMG

(Winton has internet issues btw, that's what they're talking about because it made him leave. We still won though)!

This made me laugh 😂

For context the enemy team had a leaver and the 'ow no' happened when they got the first point.

They couldn't push the payload though 😂😂

Archives Event - Part 5

The 2021 Archives event took place from April 6th to April 27th.

Like the event last year, we did not get a new brawl. Instead we got three more mission modifiers:

Bulletproof Barriers, is pretty self explanatory. the barriers are bulletproof. Sympathy gains, damaging the enemy heals the enemies around them. (I think I erased this archives even from my memory I'm not gonna lie...) and then Thunderstorm, enemies damage all nearby players. I honestly can't remember if that means the player is damaged from being in the proximity of the enemy, or if the enemy's damage acts like's mercy's ultimate and spreads from character to character.

Well...

At least the skins managed to make a come back this year. Like the first three years, this year they decided to stick to an actual theme, which I think personally works a lot better than just making random skins like they did in 2020.

Once again, we only got 5 skins, but, these skins are great. I think at first glance, they're visually appealing, but then when you take a closer look, you realise that they're pretty historically accurate. Now, I'm no expert on Russian, Japanese, American or French history, (though I'm a bit more familiar with French history since it's so closely related to my own countries in certain periods). But surprise, surprise, they teach British history, in British schools, and boy, oh, boy, does that Tracer skin make me happy.

So, kudos to the design team for this one, amazing skins.

Finally, what you definitly were not waiting for, are the weekly challenges. Again, I'm fairly sure I have all these skins, but I think I've just erased it from my memory.

Well, apart from the Mercy skin, I use that one from time to time. But... honestly, making Zen a submarine? That's a unique choice, and the biker Lucio? Again... not really the look I would have pegged on him, but who am I to talk?

Conclusively, this year got slightly worse than last year, with the skins saving their ass pretty much. But you know what they say, quiet whilst you're ahead, and that's what Blizzard did, because this was the last Archives event. Well done, Blizzard, you got rid of your best event. Bravo.

Healer Gripe -

When a Tank or DPS runs around a corner, away from you or out of your line of sight, and you desperately try to keep up with them and not die. Then when they inevitably die, they SPAM THANKS.

Like sir, please use your brain and stop blaming me...

Throwback to OW1 when me and my duo threw to Silver and actually got stuck 😮‍💨😂

(Miss you portraits and old rank symbols 😘😘 AND OW1)!!

Just another cute Junkrat interaction ♥️

I feel that 🥲

Find a group feature

Ok, so I've been on holiday in Malta the last 10 days, which means I've missed out on a large portion of event play time for the Underworld event. That means I have some serious grinding to do for achievements. I managed to complete every challenge except the legendary modifier one (so far, fingers crossed).

It's time like this when I really miss the find a group feature from overwatch 1. People who played the archives event on legendary mode know that the best chance you get at winning and earning the achievements is by searching specifically for a group, then using pre-designed tactics to make it though.

It's the only way I ever got those achievements, but since they've removed the find a group feature in Overwatch 2, they've somehow indirectly made these legendary missions even harder 🫠