Sombra and Doomfist Among Heroes Getting New Skins in Overwatch Retribution
By Nicholas Barth ·
Blizzard Entertainment has teased a whole new set of skins for six heroes that will be available for players to acquire with the Overwatch Retribution event going live today.
The latest player versus environment (PVE) event for Blizzard Entertainment's first person shooter Overwatch is set to go live today with Overwatch Retribution, and it will be bringing a new skin for Sombra, Doomfist, Hanzo, Mei, Winston and Moira. Players will also have the chance to acquire some returning skins from the game's past with the Blackwatch skins for McCree, Genji and Reaper and the Uprising skins for Reinhardt, Mercy, Torbjorn and Tracer making a comeback.
In addition to the new cosmetic items, Retribution will be bringing a whole new playing experience to the game for players. The community will have the chance to play as Reaper, Genji, McCree or Moira when they were members of Overwatch's shadow organization, Blackwatch. Facing off against the forces of Talon, the four heroes must survive the dangerous incident that revealed Blackwatch to the entire world and set in the motion the fall of Overwatch.
If you have missed the short teasers for each of the new skins that Blizzard has been slowly leaking, do not worry, as we have compiled all of them for your viewing pleasure below.
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— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) April 5, 2018
Subject identified: BLACKWATCH MOIRA
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Moira's Blackwatch skin gives players a glimpse at how the scientist looked in the heat of battle before she lost her eye and began her self experimentation
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— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) April 7, 2018
Subject identified: SCION HANZO
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Hanzo is the leader of a infamous crime family, so it is only suiting that fans finally get the chance to play as the older Shimada wearing an outfit only a scion, a member of a prominent family, would deem appropriate for business.
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— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) April 7, 2018
Subject identified: TALON SOMBRA
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Sporting shorter hair and the Talon battlesuit, Sombra's newest skin gives players a glimpse into the notorious hacker's past as a member of Talon.
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— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) April 7, 2018
Subject identified: TALON DOOMFIST
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Doomfist's Talon gear shows fans what the younger version of the powerful villian wore into battle when he was a member of the criminal organization.
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— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) April 8, 2018
Subject identified: PAJAMEI
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Mei's new skin is the outfit that she wore in the digital short Rise and Shine, which documented the scientist's tragic past.
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— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) April 10, 2018
Subject identified: SPECIMEN 28 WINSTON
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Winston's skin could possibly be the suit that the brilliant gorilla wore when he was a test subject on living on the moon's Horizon Lunar Colony.
Reaper's Soldier: 24 skin gives fans a glimpse of how Gabriel Reyes looked when he was apart of the same soldier enhancement program that transformed Jack Morrison into Soldier: 76.
Lucio's new skin comes directly from his early concept art and allows players to play as the DJ while rocking the look of his initial design from the Overwatch art book.
Players will have until April 30th to make a run at adding all of the new skins to their collection.
Which of the new skins will you be adding to your collection? Let us know in the comments below!
(cover photo courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment)