Overwatch 2 Players Realise There's No Difference In Orisa's Golden Spear

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Golden skins in Overwatch are a flashy way to show your dedication to a character, typically one you main. They cost 3,000 Competitive Points which isn't exactly easy. You get 15 for winning a match, five for drawing, and zero for losing. So, when you buy one, you obviously want it to be worth the effort.

Orisa's spear isn't. The standard is indistinguishable from the golden variant, with a slick neon green bar and golden trims, only those trims are gold in the original, too. Weirdly enough, her gun's golden variant is distinct much like other heroes, but the spear tends to be the same across skins as well.

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This was highlighted on the Overwatch 2 subreddit with many calling on Blizzard to overhaul the spear and make the golden variant stand out from the base version. However, it's not just a problem with Orisa. Kiriko's cards change a small symbol to gold, which isn't particularly noticeable, and Ramattra's fists do not become gold.

In-game, regardless of what skin you have, or if your spear is golden, it appears a bright, singular neon green - it's not a real, tangible spear, but a construct. This means that what we see in the menu isn't what we see in-game, so it's likely that a golden skin would be overridden anyway by this neon filter. The solution then might not be to give it a golden variant, as some highlight, but to simply remove it from the menu to avoid confusion.

However, others would rather see it in pure gold when summoned, given its appearance in the menu, with one suggesting that "They should make the spear glow yellow instead of green". But others put forward that buying gold itself is a complete waste when Orisa's fortify turns