An Overwatch streamer took on a simple yet impressive experiment: What happens when you mirror the maps from Overwatch? His viewers react disturbed and uneasy.
What happened? The streamer SINotFound played Overwatch on December 28 for his viewers in the live stream on Twitch. However, he simply mirrored the maps. Other effects that distorted the image were also used.
Mirrored maps disturb the fans
This is how his viewers reacted: The tone in SINotFound’s chat is unanimous, Overwatch fans are disturbed by what they see. In his chat and under his YouTube video, comments such as:
- I feel used!
- Can’t process
- This hurts my brain because it distorts my knowledge of the maps
- My brain just exploded after you played Ana with this double mirror thing
Most fans seem to be enjoying the action and celebrate that such a simple trick can play such tricks on them. They even demand that Blizzard implement such a mode as an April Fools’ joke.
Where does the disturbance come from? The reason fans are so confused by the maps is that they know them in their “normal” form. Anyone who plays Overwatch frequently usually has a basic knowledge of all maps and knows paths and routes.
However, when the maps are mirrored, nothing is where it should be. Nevertheless, the maps look similar or even almost identical to their normal state.
This often leads to the feeling that there should be something in a certain position, which is not there. This messes with map knowledge and creates an uneasy feeling of uncertainty.
This is how SINotFound mirrored the maps: Although the streamer plays on mirrored maps, he did not modify the actual maps. As seen later in the video, he simply uses effects.
With certain settings, images on the monitor can be mirrored along certain axes. This creates mirrored or doubled effects.
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