{"id":725827,"date":"2026-04-13T21:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/725827\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:29:13","slug":"overwatchs-next-season-looks-dope-except-for-one-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/725827\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch’s Next Season Looks Dope Except For One Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been slacking on Overwatch lately, which means it\u2019s the perfect time for a new season to inject some life back into the game and get me pushing payloads. Season 2<\/a>, the second in the hero shooter\u2019s post-2 era, is introducing a new hero, updated maps, and a new Diablo collaboration. But it\u2019s also giving Soldier: 76<\/a>, my grumpy gay grandpa main, his first Mythic Skin, and after nearly four years of waiting, I\u2019m sad to say I\u2019m pretty disappointed by the direction Blizzard went with it.<\/p>\n

To start off with the good, season 2 is adding Sierra<\/a>, a new drone-using damage hero, to the roster. She\u2019s the 51st playable character in Overwatch, and is part of the Helix security faction that Pharah once belonged to. Maybe the two of them will have interactions about shared missions, or maybe Sierra will only know Pharah by reputation now that she\u2019s joined Overwatch.<\/p>\n

Overwatch is also bringing back post-match accolades spotlighting player achievements like high damage, skillful ability use, and being the only person who keeps their foot on the objective at all times. This will also include a match-wide voice chat lobby that I hope to god there\u2019s a way to disable for those of us who try to avoid speaking to randos at all costs.<\/p>\n

Also coming this season is a rework for the Antarctic Peninsula map, a bunch of skins, Ramattra joining the Stadium mode, and a Mythic weapon for Genji. But the headliner vying for your Mythic Prisms is Soldier: 76\u2019s new Volted Overdrive skin. This new look makes Soldier look like a cyborg, with flashy neon lights coming off his armor and guns. Which, I mean, that\u2019s pretty much what Sojourn\u2019s was last year, but that\u2019s not my real issue here. My bigger problem (other than just kind of being underwhelmed by it in general) is that Soldier: 76 is supposed to be a 58-year-old man, but Overwatch is obsessed with giving him throwback skins to when he was a young, blonde heartthrob instead of the gruff, white-haired vigilante he is in the game\u2019s present day. The first version of Volted Overdrive that Blizzard showed had him sporting blonde hair like in the good ol\u2019 days. The other two shown in a Blizzard blog post<\/a> only age him up in hair color, but he\u2019s still got a full head of luxurious locks and looks like his younger, clean-cut, and chiseled self.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a9 Blizzard Entertainment <\/p>\n

His shift from the palatable face of Overwatch to a shadowy, gruff gunman fighting conspiracies is a pretty important part of his character in the series\u2019 lore, and I wish the team hadn\u2019t gone in this direction when giving him one of his biggest highlight moments. Just let him be an old man, Blizzard.<\/p>\n

Overwatch\u2019s new season begins tomorrow, April 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve been slacking on Overwatch lately, which means it\u2019s the perfect time for a new season to inject…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":725828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[246942,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-725827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-overwatch","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116399529637308522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}