Overwatch 2's Invasion Begins 10th August, Support Hero Illari Revealed, New Maps Incoming

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by Khayl Adam Wed 9th Aug 2023

Overwatch 2's Invasion event kicks off tomorrow, 10th August, and we got a pair of new trailers showing off both Season 6's inclusions and an animated short featuring Sojourn. Like the rest of Blizzard's animated offerings, the latter's of particularly high quality and serves to expand the overarching Overwatch universe.

Season 6 has been hyped quite a bit by Blizzard, and, completely unrelated, former rapper and current Hollywood hero John Cena has been concerned about the implications of the Invasion event for a while now. Solar-powered new Support Hero Illari looks like a blast and maps Survasa, New Junk City should serve to spice things up, alongside a new permanent game mode called Flashpoint.

What do you think of Overwatch 2's Season 6 update, Invasion? Tempted to jump back in? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

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Flaming_Kaiser
Wed 9th Aug 2023

I never played Overwatch 2 but it looks like Overwatch with a annoying Battle pass I'm kinda disappointed.

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GymratAmarillo
Wed 9th Aug 2023

@Flaming_Kaiser don't do it, Overwatch 2 is Overwatch 1 but worst, they literally took content away from the game and sold it like new lol

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Flaming_Kaiser
Wed 9th Aug 2023

@GymratAmarillo Thats a pity the game was fun but the monetization didn't sit well with me and now it's even worse. I would rather pay €60 and have a normal game.

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WhensDinner
Wed 9th Aug 2023

@Flaming_Kaiser What's funny is that's the exact reason Blizzard themselves gave for Overwatch 1 not being a free to play game when it launched. I guess they could only resist going for that f2p money for so long.

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NotSoCryptic
Wed 9th Aug 2023

@Flaming_Kaiser the game was literally better with loot boxes. It was also better with 6v6 and without that stupid push mode. I honestly wish we'd get vanilla servers or last state servers.

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QBGaming12
Wed 9th Aug 2023

Kind of with the new character wasn't another support character, seeing as the last one was a support character lol.

I do agree with everyone though that this game needs more content. Them cutting the single player content and just doing it in chunks is a huge mistake.

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Flaming_Kaiser
Wed 9th Aug 2023

@NotSoCryptic @WhensDinner It's a pity because the game was good with singleplayer content and removal of loot boxes I would have gladly payed full price.

But with the limited time to collect stuff and monetization I totally lost interest. I found out I was playing not for fun but to unlock stuff. I was clearly being influenced by FOMO.

When I started spending money I sold the game and decided to move on its quite shocking the monetization got worse. But after the mobile Diablo Blizzard lost all restraint such a pity for such a fantastic developer.

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Toot1st
Thu 10th Aug 2023

She comes out today yet we haven't been told a single thing about her? What even are her abilities?

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Flaming_Kaiser
Fri 11th Aug 2023

@GymratAmarillo Thanks for the heads up.

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