Overwatch Announces New PvE Event

Written By: Bryce L. Jackson

During the Halftime of 2nd Match of the Overwatch League, Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan came out to announce and release the trailer for the new Overwatch Archives mission “Retribution” with some of the members of Blackwatch. Blackwatch is the covert operations division of Overwatch according to lore. The mission has players play as Gabriel Reyes before he became Reaper, McCree, Genji, and Moira in Realto, Venice, Italy. The mission goes sideways and the team must fight their way out of waves of Talon soldiers and specialists. The event will have special skins, emblems, sprays and icons players can earn in loot boxes and will run from April 10th to 30th. Jeff Kaplan also hinted that the location of the event is going to be a future PvP Payload map. Being part of the Overwatch Archives event, last year’s Uprising PvE mission will make its return.

Before the night’s announcement, Overwatch released a comic of the events that led to the Blackwatch Mission. Click the READ COMIC link below!