As Season 5 of Overwatch 2 winds down, Blizzard gears up for their most significant content drop yet: Overwatch: Invasion. The update brings highly anticipated PvE story missions, a new Hero, and an exciting Core Game Mode.
To build anticipation for Invasion, Blizzard has partnered with prominent Overwatch streamers for sponsored streams. However, these streams come with a twist—intermittent interruptions featuring enigmatic messages and videos.
These intriguing video interruptions seem to originate from the Overwatch 2 development team, showing a mysterious individual hacking into a computer overlay and gaining some level of access to the system.
Additionally, random strings of numbers appear on-screen during gameplay, further adding to the enigma.
On July 25, well-known figures like Shroud, and beloved Overwatch community streamers like Super, Flats, and KarQ, experienced these unusual interruptions, with some of them genuinely surprised by the unexpected occurrences.
Speculation among viewers and fans suggests that this could be part of an Augmented Reality Game (ARG), as Blizzard has employed such tactics before to promote upcoming events.
Back in 2016, leading up to Sombra's release, the developers subtly inserted a string of text in Ana's origin story video to tantalize fans. With each cipher decoded by the community, the devs continued to add more, ultimately culminating in Sombra's grand reveal.
Now, fans are left to decipher the new ciphers themselves, eagerly uncovering what Blizzard has in store for them in the upcoming Invasion event.
