Baptiste Official Wingman Of Overwatch 👍🏻🥰

I realise I haven't posted in days and I have a perfectly reasonable excuse for that... Baldurs Gate 3 ✨

A Breakdown of all the Overwatch Anniversary events so far.

I'm in the mood to write lengthy paragraphs examining OW2 today, so let's go for it.

Just to clarify, my first Anniversary event was 2018, so I have just a wee bit of experience playing these events. Unfortunately, I didn't have the pleasant experience of playing the first anniversary event in 2017.

But, it's as good as any place to start, so what exactly did we get in the 2017 anniversary event.

Three new area maps were added, which I'm sure most of you are familiar with. They were Castillo, Black Forest, and Necropolis.

Not only that, but NINE FREE legendary skins were added during the limited time event, that anybody could pick up through loot boxes.

Not just that though, there were over a hundred unlockable items also released during that limited time. Ranging from skins that were lower than legendary, to player icons, to sprays, to voice lines, to emotes, highlight intros, and victory poses.

The 2017 Anniversary event was also the event that introduced dance emotes, which I'm fairly sure you just have to plainly buy no, but don't quote me on that.

WELL

Moving onto 2018

A new death map was released on the 2018 Anniversary event called Petra. Honestly, it blows my mind that Petra came out five years ago now. I remember logging on, and loading up deathmatch and getting lost out of my mind on this new map.

They released 8 legendary skins

and 3 epic skins

Including Lightning Tracer. Man, I remember just how much people hated this skin, claimed it was the ugliest skin ever made.

Personally, I think there are more than a handful that can rival it nowadays.

The 2018 event also introduced being able to buy past event items for all the events, not just anniversary.

Now that I've summarised all the wonderful gifts 2018 gave us, let's hurry on over to 2019.

This year, unfortunately, they did not release any new maps, (that doesn't mean they didn't realise new maps during the year, they just didn't release maps during the anniversary event).

But, they introduced another reel of awesome legendary skins. Except, there was only 6 this year.

Don't get me wrong. I love almost (egg head Pharah is the exception) and I physically screamed when I pulled Academy D. Va.

But, the delice shows when you compare things side by side.

No new map, and 3 fewer legendary skins.

Here are the epic skins as well, nothing special really though what can you say really.

Although, let me put it out there. I am not complaining. I got to play and earn all these skins for free and it was an absolute privilege that I did. I'm just pointing out the differences as the events progress.

2019 was also the first year to introduce legendary loot boxes for logging in. It was free and guaranteed one or more legendary. I'll just put it out there now, I absolutely adored these loot boxes. They were always the highlight of my game time when one came sliding quietly into my loot box tab.

Next up, 2020.

Now, looking at all of these event trailers together, I've released Blizzard made a very particular choice when displaying the legendary skins this year. Notice in the previous years they're usually grouped together and displayed like that? Well, not this year, because there's only 5 new legendary skins.

By displaying each skin induvial and using a highlight intro, it gives the impression there are just as many skins as usual. Very clever Blizzard, I'll give you that.

So far, we've gone from 11 legendary skins in 2017, to 5 in 2020. That number fell dramatically quickly.

2020 was also the first year to introduce the weekly challenges that became ever present in OW1 events.

None of them are really anything special. I remember being fond of the Widow one because of the gold highlights, but I also disliked the Sigma and the McCree ones because their eyes were covered.

Not much else to say really about 2019, the legendries are classics and it was the first anniversary event to use the weekly challenges, but that's it really.

2021 is where I really start to get pissed of at Blizzard.

Remember how I said before that showing of each skin specifically in their highlight intro was a cheap way of making it look like there's more content than there actually is? Well, it get's worse. At least in 2019 they specified that these were new skins.

In 2021, they just roll out the dance cutscene and introduce the new skins without saying they're introducing them, and combining skins from old events into the background. Maybe because it's late when I'm writing this, or maybe because I'm so used to seeing these skins in game, but I had to actually google a list of what skins came out in 2021 because I couldn't figure out the new ones from the old ones.

Anyways, I figured out which are the new ones, and here are your... five skins.

I won't lie. I'm not really a big a fan off... any of these. I suppose Funky Baptiste would be the best, but personally, the quality of the skins declined so dramatically. You can sort of already see it happening in 2019, but I don't think the delice is too noticeable until 2021.

But maybe that's just my personal preference.

These were the weekly challenges, and honestly, I love Tux Hammy. It's just so classically cute. The vibrant Echo is definitly a look too, just maybe not mine.

This is the bit where it gets a bit... trickier.

I'm going to have to make a second post because you can't post more than 30 pictures per post.

I AM DECEASED

On today's episode of 'what does the OW2 idiot' think now?

D.va thinks the enemy team hearing her footsteps is 'wall hacks'

Overwatch LORE

I am a slut for one thing and one thing only. Overwatch LORE. It's probably the only reason I'm so invested in the game still (that's a lie, I would still find a way to love Overwatch). I eat that shit up. There's nothing more satisfying that getting another titbit of Overwatch Lore and nodding to yourself, like yes, yes, I definitely understand the relevance of this important piece of information.

I will never fangirl harder than when new animated shorts are released as well.

Is there some OW2 sniper prejudice I didn't know about??

I played Ashe on DEFENCE, Reaper on OFFENCE

(We won btw 🤔)

My duo calls lag non consensual movement 😂😂

Here's a little comparison between D.Va's normal sound effects and Porsche D.Va's sound effects <3

The Porsche sound effects tickle my brain <3 (worth the money).

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

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

When the DPS is lacking...

Played a game this morning, where I was switching between Anna and Mercy, I had around 15k heals by the end of the game and our second support was maybe 10-13k? I wasn't really paying attention to their heals. Our tank was you know... slightly unaware like most tanks are, but they were doing all right when they remembered to stay with the team, and on defence they were smashing it. Our Junkrat was pulling it out of the bag and popping off, but what was our other DPS? I literally can't tell you... they did so little and were so unmemorable that I can't even remember what hero they were playing. The opposite team had this literal god widow as well, and I was having to play super carefully because as soon as I peaked, I would get killed. The Junkrat was super on it when he could and killed the widow a handful of time, but our other dps really let the team down, and in the end because he couldn't kill the widow, she picked off both of us supports and we lost the game.