Summer Games 2017 brings +40 new items for us to obtain. In addition to +90 items from last year’s summer games totaling over 130 items for players to acquire. Overwatch’s Summer Games 2017 event will run for three weeks starting on Aug. 8 and ending on Aug. 28 for all platforms. New Summer Games cosmetic items will costs 3,000 credits for legendary skins, 750 credits for epic, 225 credits for rare, and 75 credits for common.
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5 NewProfile Icons
- Doomfist’s Shotput
- Orisa’s Javelin
- Sombra’s High Jump
- Copa LucioBall Hero
- Copa LucioBall Competitor
7 New Legendary Skins
- Junkrat: Cricket
- Mercy: Winged Victory
- McCree: Lifeguard
- Reaper: Biker
- Soldier 76: Grillmaster 76
- Sombra: Tulum
- Widowmaker: Cote D’Azur
1 New Emote
- Ana’s Beach Ball
8 New Voicelines
- Ana’s: Better than Retirement, Learn From The Pain
- Doomfist: I Make Medicine Sick, Make You Punch Drunk
- Orisa: Golden, Grease To Your Elbow
- Sombra: What’s up, Try and Keep Up
3 New Sprays
- Doomfist: Shotput
- Orisa: Javelin
- Sombra: High Jump
2 New Highlight Intros
- Hanzo: Target Practice
- Pharah: Slam Dunk
Lucio ball is back with a competitive portion called Copa Lucio Ball. Sydney Australia is the new stadium for Lucio Ball. There are top 500, sprays for placing and being in top 500, and massive tilt for all. Players can no longer stand in the enemy goal and boop the enemy goalie out of the way. Lucio’s ultimate will now allows you to move much faster, you can use his alternate ability to boop the ball more quickly, and he jumps a lot higher.
LucioBall Sprays
- 3 LucioBall Achievement Sprays: Bicycle Kick, Goal Blossom, Safe Hands
- 2 LucioBall Competitive Sprays: Copa LucioBall Competitor, Copa LucioBall Hero
This will be the first event that the lootboxes have the reduced dupe rate, so potentially players have an increased chance of getting more new items and having a better experience with this event. Not everyone has +8 hours to farm boxes in game or spend money on cosmetics that don’t affect anything. Luckily, players will be able to unlock the old skins for credits at a discounted price as well as the new skins. Last year’s Summer Games cosmetics will cost 75 credits if they are rare, 250 for epic, and 1000 for legendary.
Examples of Last Year’s Items
- Bastion’s Victory Pose: Medal
- Bastion’s Voiceline: Doo-do-doo-dee
- D.Va’s Skin: Taegeuxkol
- D.Va’s Voicelines: I’m number 1, Scoreboard
- Genji’s Skin: Nihon
- Genji’s Voiceline: Hoping for a challenge, Touche
- Genji’s Spray: Fencing
- Hanzo’s Victory Pose: Medal
- Hanzo’s Voicelines: Ignore all distractions, Defeat is the first step
- Junkrat’s Victory Pose: Medal
- Junkrat’s Voicelines: I give it a 3, I give it a 10
- Junkrat’s Spray: Tennis
- Junkrat’s Highlight intro: Shot Put
- Lucio’s items are from last year:
- Mercy’s Victory Pose: Medal
- Mercy’s Voiceline: Piece of cake, Sponge or spray
- Widowmaker Victory Pose: Medal
- Widowmaker Voice Lines: A Perfect 10, I don’t Miss
- Widowmaker Sprays: Gymnastics
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Blizzard has temporarily introduced an Olympics flavored mini-game to Overwatch with the introduction of the Overwatch Summer Games. This will be a confession of the initial pain the update gave me and how I still hate to play despite how fun it is.
The mini-game’s name, Lucio Ball, already paints a colorful picture. Although the idea of seasonal mods reminds of Dota 2’s Greevel games, the gameplay of Lucio Ball is just like Rocket League. Three players per team battle in a soccer cage to knock a ball in the opposing goal. Instead of driving supercharged monster cars, each player plays a Lucio. You can use his E and Q abilities just like in a regular game while his Shift is deactivated to keep him in high velocity mode. The team with the most goals at the end of a four minute countdown wins. Simple enough, right?
I’ve never been a fan of seasonal mini-games in any title. I prefer my games chiseled for purpose, like Chess.
I also think that Lucio Ball demonstrates Overwatch’s potential for custom games just like in the Starcraft and Warcraft days. Now that they’ve shown us a modding capacity, we’re stuck waiting for the tools. Blizzard should let the players mod their own maps and games so we can build the game together with the developers.
Nevertheless, Lucio Ball is still super fun to play. I mean, who doesn’t enjoy a game of Rocket League? So at least we can say that the Overwatch developers know how to select the upper echelon of garbage, when the garbage decision has already come to a close and can no longer be reverted. As pointless as it was to include a mini-game, at least Blizzard chose a very fun one.
I had a tough time coming up with reasons to play. Here are the only ones that came to mind.
- Blow off some steam and have some casual fun.
- Spend some time honing your Lucio skills.
- Play Rocket League without needing the game.
- Faster XP for your account.
Reason one is most convincing for the majority of people. The second reason is redundant because you can practice Lucio in a competitive environment instead. The third reason is just as useless, because players bought Overwatch to play Overwatch, and not Rocket League. The fourth reason is the only one with any weight. I didn’t run the numbers myself, but because each game of Lucio Ball is shorter than a regular game while giving almost the same amount of XP, it does seem like you gain levels faster by grinding Lucio Ball.
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Either way, none of the above reasons persuade me, so I’ll be playing some regular Overwatch instead. I can’t spend my time on something that doesn’t guarantee progress.