What’s in Overwatch 2’s Watchpoint Pack?
Blizzard Entertainment is rolling out Overwatch 2, a major update to the original game pitched as a sequel, and inviting everyone to play. Overwatch2 is free-to-play, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t numerous ways to spend money on it. Take the Overwatch2 Watchpoint Pack, a $39.99 starter kit that gives buyers a bunch of skins, in-game currency, and the season 1 premium battle pass.
Forty bucks is a lot to spend on a free game, and Overwatch 2 players don’t need to buy the Watchpoint Pack to play. But for Overwatch players who care about skins — including two that appear to be exclusive (for now) to the Watchpoint Pack — and those who want in-game currency to spend on cosmetics, it might be a good deal.
But veteran Overwatch players may not find a lot of value in the Overwatch 2 Watchpoint Pack.
No. Overwatch 2 is free-to-play, and can be downloaded without having to pay a cent. Existing Overwatch owners will get Overwatch 2 as a free update on Oct. 4.
The Watchpoint Pack includes the season 1 premium battle pass, 7 Legendary skins (including two all-new Space Raider skins), 5 Epic skins, 2,000 Overwatch Coins, and an Overwatch 2 player icon.
Specifically, those Space Raider skins are for Cassidy and Soldier: 76, as shown at the top of this post. Also included in the pack are skins for Junkrat (Fool), Mercy (Valkyrie), Cassidy (Mystery Man), Hanzo (Okami), D.Va (Officer), Reaper (Blackwatch Reyes), Bastion (Overgrown), Pharah (Security Chief), and Tracer (Slipstream). Longtime Overwatch players, especially those who purchase the Origins Edition of the original game, may very well have all of those skins already.
Because the season 1 premium battle pass is included in the Watchpoint Pack, it will include immediate
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