wardencommanderrodimiss:

OKAY SO at half time in Overwatch League tonight, Jeff appeared to give some announcements so I’ve vaguely cleaned up my live updates from a Discord chat to present here.

• Retribution is a new PvE mode, Blackwatch vs Talon
• The map for the event is called Rialto, and it will at some point make its way to the PTR as a payload map, as well
• There was an intro short for Retribution and the voice over began with Jack asking Gabe what the hell happened on the Venice mission
• that mission being this event, and the moment that Blackwatch was revealed to the entire world. looks like the squad fucked it up, badly.
• the Venice mission is mentioned in Moira’s bio
• there was a lot of Gabriel voiceover too, going “Do you really want to know?” so I have deep hopes for lots of pre-Reaper voice Gabe through this event
• there was a brief bit of Mccree talking at the end, with Jack next asking him what the fuck happened on the mission
• New kinds of enemies to fight against in Retribution
• Talon snipers, assassins, heavy units, that sort of thing
• All Heroes mode Retribution will have some differences than classic Blackwatch team mode
• unlike Uprising where it was the same objectives whichever mode you played
• Jeff specifically mentioned that they got this feedback about Uprising and decided that they would make things different
• NEW REAPER SKIN
• skin will be “Soldier: 24″ – that is, Gabriel way back when he was in the soldier enhancement program, before Overwatch, with Jack. Goes with Jack’s Commando skin, perhaps
• best quotes from Jeff that I was able to jot down:

• “PvE gives a chance to play heroes you might not normally play. Like I usually play tank or support, since it seems like my team always needs them” 

• “When we were making this event, I learned how to play Genji at a higher level. … I also know how to spam ‘I need healing’ now.”
• also Jeff was wearing a shirt with the Blackwatch logo. new merch?

and that’s the main points! or the main points I managed to absorb while simultaneously screaming

Also “Gabrielle Reyes”