In just a couple of days, Blizzard is going to shut down the chaotic Normalwatch event of Overwatch; and if by now you haven’t dived into the madness—what are you even doing?? This limited-time mode, which treats the hero abilities as utter nonsense, will exist only until the fourteenth of April, allowing the players last weekend chances to witness raw and absolute chaos before it vanishes.
Normalwatch has broken abilities (let’s be honest; that is almost all the fun), but players also get to complete new challenges to unlock some truly insane cosmetics, like the legendary Rainy Ducky Orisa skin—who wouldn’t want to see a rubber-duck-covered centaur robot? The chaos of this whole event has been so much fun-Reinhardt flinging around fire strikes like he’s playing dodgeball, with Mercy’s healing beam becoming a full-blown laser show.
Yet, no hot takes were poured in to smoke out the coolness of something way over the top. With the salt, hot takes are normally the most common sighting-here with players asking for the mode to be permanent while some threw shade saying, “It ruins the balance of the game” (as if balance is the point here). But this time? Deafening silence. Too busy playing to tweet? Or are they too busy mourning Overwatch’s return to some semblance of normalcy with heroes working as intended?
So if you sleep in this Human Fate-Normalwatch, this is your last chance. Get in there, snap those challenges, and unlock that duck-covered Orisa while you try to grapple with this glorious mess before it disappears totally. Because let us be real; on April 14, all of us will go back to getting wrecked by completely normal, boring, balanced abilities, which feels a tad sad.
Wait, what was I saying? Oh, go play Normalwatch. Fast, before it is too late.
