Blizzard’s shooter Overwatch (PS4, Xbox One, PC) has the new event Uprising coming up. The Xbox Store has apparently leaked the new skins.
Next week, on April 11, a new event is set to start in Overwatch: Uprising – The Rebellion. New events are always a big deal in Overwatch: there are special loot boxes with unique emotes, skins, and spray icons. Sometimes Blizzard even introduces a new game mode.
The player numbers and revenues shoot up in Overwatch when such an event is running. Here are the highlights of the shooter.
The Xbox Store is the culprit, it leaked the skins
A lot is already known about the upcoming event or at least a lot is being speculated.
There was a dedicated comic about it, set in the past of Overwatch. It concerns the time when Overwatch was still a real organization. A conflict was brewing in London between humans and omnics. Overwatch wanted to intervene but had not received the “okay” from the English government. However, Tracer eventually convinced Soldier: 76 to give the order to deploy.
Everyone actually expects that the event will take place in this London of the past, and that there will be a new version of the “King’s Row” map.
However, nothing was known about the skins so far. Until now. Players on reddit have discovered something.
In the digital shop of Xbox, Microsoft apparently revealed more than intended. There was already a picture visible that replaced the actual logo of the “Overwatch: Origins Edition”.
Where is the cool Genji skin?
Here we see skins for Mercy, Tracer, Torbjörn, and Reinhardt. They are wearing outfits that match those from the comic. The heroes are all a few years younger than we usually know them and are in uniform.
But the skin for Genji, which many had hoped for, is unfortunately missing here. People are still expecting skins for Widowmaker and McCree, which are also not visible yet.
It is therefore assumed that these are the skins that will be in the game starting next week. However, this has not been officially confirmed yet.
What do you think of the skins? Do you like them or do you find them too conservative?
You can see the comic for the new event Uprising in Overwatch here:
