[LEAK] Overwatch Anniversary Event (Spoilers)

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So the next HUGE overwatch event/update has gone gold, I got to play the new event as a tester and I got some information about it.

This event is going to be simply called "Overwatch Anniversary Event" and it's about the same size as the Uprising event. It has a VERY similar PVE mode. This takes place in the Ominc Crisis and you play as young Soldier 76, young Reaper, young Ana and Rein with his fabulous hair. They will be all reusing the old "young skins", but rein will get a new skin where he has that amazing hair. The character "Liao" will be talking with you through the voice chat and giving you directions (possible new hero in the future? we can hope). You will be defending against the omnic forces and you will do an counter attack against them in the end. This will last for 10 waves, and then you will attack.

The main menu will have an AMAZING shot of all the heroes posing together. You will be granted a free lootbox (as always), but it will be a normal lootbox.

There wont be a new lootbox for this event, because all the new skins and such will be added to the normal boxes.

I will list all the new skins below:
Reaper = two legendary skins, the other is a re-coloring like the uprising torb one.
Sombra = one legendary skin
Hanzo = two legendary skins, both different.
Bastion = one legendary skin
Sym = one legendary skin
Tracer = one legendary and one epic skin
Orisa = one legendary skin.

There will also be new victory poses, highlight intros and emotes.

This event also ships with MASSIVE balancing changes, that are already on the ptr, and some that aren't. Probably the biggest new change is mercy getting a second use for her ult, which revives her and gives her 50% ult back.

Also, everyone who has had overwatch for a year, will get a gold medal to their profile, under their name. (Also, you will get this medal when you have had overwatch for a year on your account, so if you bought the game on christmas, you will get the medal on christmas.