The Overwatch fans love to mix their game with Fallout. No wonder, the number 76 is significant for both titles.
A few days ago, when the new Fallout 76 was announced, fans were thrilled. However, when the stylish backpack with the large “76” strolled into view, Overwatch fans raised their eyebrows in amusement. “What is Soldier: 76 doing in Fallout?” It didn’t take long for numerous demands for crossover skins and various artworks to appear on the internet.
The similarity is astonishing: Just like in Fallout, Soldier: 76 also prominently displays 76 on his back in Overwatch, albeit with a completely different meaning. While in Fallout it refers to a year when one finally confronts the nuclear aftermath, for Soldier: 76, it relates to the designation number in the “Super Soldier Program”.
For the fans, those were enough parallels to immediately create some artworks and imagine skins for Soldier: 76 or to transport the hero right into the Fallout setting.
Some of these works we will show you here.
By the way, the one particularly pleased about this is Michael Chu, the lore writer behind Overwatch. He expressed his joy on Twitter that for years he wanted to teach players to write “Soldier: 76” with a colon, and now players reflexively say “Fallout: 76”.
Would you also like to see a “crossover” of the two games? For example, a Soldier: 76 skin in Fallout? Or perhaps a Fallout skin in Overwatch? Or do you find this connection between the two games silly and think they should go their separate ways?
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