Overwatch Archives 2021 event: date, skins and new challenges announced

Overwatch Archives 2021 event: date, skins and new challenges announced

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OverwatchThe Archives’ annual event is now live, giving players the chance to revisit the game’s cooperative missions and win brand-new skins. Archives also features a new reward structure for Overwatch this does away with the previous rules of winning nine games to get new skins, which is good news for players who want to tackle the most challenging PvE missions in the game.

First, let’s talk about skins. There are five new legendary skins, one for Genji, Soldier: 76, Tracer, Widowmaker and Zarya. These can only be won in loot boxes from Archives or by purchasing them with in-game credits.

The 2021 Archives event, which takes place from April 6 to 27, also features new epic skins for Lucio, Zenyatta and Mercy. These skins can be earned by participating in weekly challenges. Instead of being forced to win nine games a week, players can now earn “stars” on OverwatchArchives missions. The harder the difficulty, the more stars you earn – and you don’t have to complete the missions successfully to earn stars. Just try your best.

Check out the new skins in the gallery below, as well as an analysis of the weekly challenges and new missions to come in the next three weeks.


Week 1

  • Earn double credit for revolt missions
  • Molten Cores – Enemies bring Lava down on death
  • Glass cannon – players have 50% less health and increased damage
  • *NEW* Bulletproof barriers – enemy barriers are invulnerable
  • Earn 10 stars to unlock the player icon and 20 stars to unlock the spray
  • Earn 30 stars to unlock the Lucio Corridor (epic)

Week 2

  • Earn double credit for retribution missions
  • Surgical attack – Only critical hits cause damage to enemies
  • Close Quarters – Enemies can only be damaged if a player is nearby
  • *NEW* Sympathy gains – Damaging enemies heals other enemies
  • Earn 10 stars to unlock the player icon and 20 stars to unlock the spray
  • Earn 30 stars to unlock Subaquatic Zenyatta (Epic)

Week 3

  • Earn double credit for Storm Rising missions
  • Blood Moon – No support heroes and healing is reduced; heal yourself by doing damage
  • Storm Raging – Some heroes are enraged; killing them spreads the rage
  • *NEW* Storm – Enemies deal damage to all nearby players
  • Earn 10 stars to unlock the player icon and 20 stars to unlock the spray
  • Earn 30 stars to unlock Camouflage Mercy (Epic)

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