REAPER’S CODE OF VIOLENCE CHALLENGE

Learn more about Reaper’s past in the new short story “Code of Violence” by Brandon Easton. During Reaper’s Codex of Violence Challenge, you can earn limited-time rewards like the new Dawn skin for Reaper by playing a few rounds and watching streams of Overwatch on Twitch until March 8. Check out the Overwatch website for more information on the challenge.

NEW SOUNDTRACK – OVERWATCH: HEROES AND VILLAINS

The Overwatch: Heroes and Villains soundtrack is now available, bringing you the music of Overwatch’s backstories, archive events, and trailers! You can find the albums on various popular music streaming platforms. For more details, check out the news on Overwatch’s website or use the QR code in the main menu. The available streaming platforms depend on the region.

CORRECTED ERRORS

General

• Fixed a bug where the voice chat icon was not displayed when speaking at low/medium volume.
• Fixed a bug where the leftmost voting card could not be selected.

Maps

Eichenwalde

• Fixed a bug where the piano was too loud on hits.

Heroes

Ashe

• Fixed a bug where a high pitched beep would play when an enemy Ashe used their Ultimate.

Echo

• Fixed a bug where Echo could duplicate an enemy Echo under certain circumstances.

Hanzo

• Fixed a bug where the Sonar Arrow would not reveal enemies when used in conjunction with Storm Arrows and hit an enemy before bouncing off.

Soldier: 76

• Fixed a bug where Soldier: 76’s teeth were missing when the Promising skin was selected.

OVERWATCH

Overwatch is a team-based 6vs6 shooter that was released on May 24, 2016. Overwatch stays true to the true style of Blizzard’s previous titles. It was developed by Jeff Kaplan and is considered a “new concept” shooter in the FPS genre. The game was officially unveiled at BlizzCon along with 12 heroes on November 7, 2014.

The story of Overwatch is set on a highly fictionalized future version of Earth. In a time where humans and robots, which are called Omnics, live together (Chris Metzen hinted that the story deals with this very robot race). 30 years before the time when Overwatch takes place, the so-called “Omnic Crisis ” occurred. The robots, once helpers of humans, rebelled against their creators for reasons as yet unknown and triggered a worldwide chaos. Faced with the imminent destruction of human civilization, the best soldiers of all nations came together to form a program called “Overwatch”.

Their job was to protect the world from the Omnics, which they succeeded in doing. For the next 25 years, they were the protectors of the planet, united in an international coalition. Some agents stayed, some were replaced, but at some point something changed: the Overwatch disintegrated. However, 5 years later after this event, incidents with Omnics are again accumulating, a worldwide terrorist organization also seems interested in destabilizing the world order. A new crisis is looming. At this point, your career as an Overwatch agent begins.