Review Overwatch 2 Classic: Is the event that takes you back to 2016 a hit or miss?

Offensive Heroes

Defensive Heroes

Supports

There are 12 maps in this version, three for each of the four different game modes: Attack, Escort, Hybrid and Control.

Attack

Hanamura

Temple of Anubis

Volskaya Industries

Escort

Dorado

Route 66

Watchpoint: Gibraltar

Hybrid

Hollywood

King’s Row

Numbani

Control

Ilios

Lijang Tower

Nepal

Usually, limited events introduce us to challenges that grant rewards when completed. I'm sad to say, once again, that they are generic and low on rewards.

Maybe it won't be as impactful as the last Halloween event, given that it's difficult to offer a skin in a mode that literally values ​​the originality of its heroes. But the tasks are nothing more than “Play X games of Overwatch Classic”.

The best reward is the name card “Strike Commander’s Watch”, it’s gorgeous and really lives up to the beginning of Overwatch, but I expected more rewards of the same relevancy.

The main topic of the analysis has arrived, gameplay! This event is definitely not one of the tests for the return of 6v6, which is a hot debate topic in the community right now, don’t use it to compare the 5v5 format with the old one.

I can say this because of the Zero Limites mechanic, which turns the match into chaos, being completely casual. This feature allows you to use repeated heroes, as the image below shows me and four other Tracer players.

This inhibits the entire organization of a composition, the synergy between two tanks, two damage and two supports is unlikely to happen here, with the vast majority of players opting for damage heroes. See, in the print below, that in a confrontation with 12 participants, 10 were with heroes of this class, and only me and one opponent used tanks.

Supports weren’t even used in this match, making the experience irrelevant for comparisons.

It's really cool to remember all the original abilities of each character, such as Cassidy's Flashbang, Symmetra as support, self-healing and Bastion's cannon, as well as several other changes.

But this mode should only be treated as fun and nostalgia.

It’ll eventually become a little boring due to the lack of heroes and because it’s very disorganized in terms of compositions. But this complete chaos and nostalgia is perfect for casual players just looking to experience Overwatch during its release period.

Remember not to treat these weeks of 6v6 as something serious or competitive, using the mode disorganization as a yardstick in the debate.

I am available for questions or suggestions in the comments.