Jeff Kaplan Reveals New Overwatch Retribution Trailer

During halftime of the Los Angeles Valiant and Seoul Dynasty Overwatch League match, Jeff Kaplan revealed the first trailer for the player vs environment mission Overwatch Retribution. This mission will accompany the Uprising event from last year that focused on Tracer's first mission with the peacekeeping organization in the Overwatch Archives event. 

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Retribution will be taking place in Venice, Italy and will allow players to play as the Blackwatch versions of Genji, McCree, Moira and Reaper in the first Blackwatch mission that the public became aware of Overwatch's shadow organization. The four heroes will be battling Talon in a brawl that will feature a whole new set of enemies for the community to fight against. This mission is stated as the one that changed Overwatch history forever, so players who have been wanting more story elements added into Blizzard's first person shooter should be extremely excited to take part in the new event. 

Overwatch Retribution will introduce a completely new Reaper skin. Fans will get to see the beginning of Gabriel Reyes' transformation into Reaper during his time in the super soldier program with the brand new Soldier: 24 skin.

Jeff Kaplan explained during the reveal that Retribution will feature a great deal of variety in its action compared to Uprising last year, as players will be faced with many more enemies and encounters. 

The brand new map Rialto will also be added into the game, as it is where the infamous Venice incident took place. This new map will not only be available for players to play in Retribution, as Jeff Kaplan stated that the map will be added into the game as a player versus player payload map. However, it be going through testing before it makes its way into the live version of the game.

Players will be able to experience Overwatch Retribution for the very first time on April 10th. 

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