Overwatch 2 Brings Again Transformers Collab, However There is a Catch

Overwatch 2 has formally introduced again its Transformers crossover, however this time, it hasn’t included any of the in-game challenges from the primary run. Although the 4 Transformers collaboration skins are again within the Overwatch 2 money store, the free rewards out there through the unique iteration are nowhere to be discovered.

On July 9, 2024, Overwatch 2 began a crossover event with Transformers throughout Season 11, Tremendous Mega Ultrawatch. Like most collaborations, the Overwatch 2 x Transformers occasion consisted of two components: new Legendary skins within the money store, and an in-game occasion with gameplay challenges and free rewards.

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Overwatch 2 Transformers Collab Lacking In-Recreation Challenges

Now, over a 12 months later, Transformers has come again to Overwatch 2, however the collaboration occasion is lacking one thing important. The four Legendary Overwatch 2 x Transformers skins – Optimus Prime Reinhardt, Arcee Illari, Bumblebee Bastion, and Megatron Ramattra – are again with their respective bundles, however the in-game challenges and their respective rewards aren’t part of the rerun.

Throughout the preliminary run, there have been six of those challenges that offered rewards at intervals after each 20 accomplished video games. By reaching these milestones, followers might earn Autobot and Decepticon-themed Participant Icons, Title Playing cards, and Participant Titles, together with 30,000 Battle Cross XP. Until Overwatch 2 surprises followers by bringing these challenges again later or awarding them elsewhere, these collaboration cosmetics might be unobtainable, regardless of the occasion’s return.

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Of the 4 collaboration occasions which have returned, that is the one one to have much less content material than the unique. The second Cowboy Bebop occasion was equivalent to the primary one, and the LE SSERAFIM and One Punch Man collaboration reruns in Overwatch 2 truly added additional stuff within the type of new skins, although the previous was technically a correct sequel crossover. It’s presently unclear why these reruns have been inconsistent with what they’ve introduced again, or what Overwatch 2’s plan might be for future ones.

Regardless, the second Transformers collab has left loads of gamers disillusioned, particularly contemplating it arrived not lengthy after the One Punch Man rerun and its new Garou Wuyang and Hellish Blizzard Ashe skins. Overwatch 2 even scrapped several Transformers skin ideas through the first run, together with Starscream Pharah, Soundwave Lucio, and Unicron Wrecking Ball, any of which followers would have beloved to see within the second spherical. The shortage of latest skins, coupled with the omission of the in-game challenges and rewards, has been a let-down for a lot of gamers.

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Although it took just a few breaks between the unique One Punch Man collaboration in Season 3 and the Diablo and LE SSERAFIM crossovers in Overwatch 2 Season 7, it has in any other case had not less than one collab occasion in each season since Season 9, with some even having two. Season 19 broke this document, as a substitute having reruns of One Punch Man, and now Transformers. There are nonetheless technically just a few weeks left within the season, nevertheless it appears impossible {that a} new collaboration might be introduced earlier than it ends.

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All Overwatch 2 Collaboration Occasions As of Season 19

Season	Collaborations
3	One Punch Man
7	Diablo LE SSERAFIM
9	Cowboy Bebop
10	Porsche
11	Transformers
12	World of Warcraft
13	My Hero Academia
14	Avatar: The Final Airbender
15	LE SSERAFIM (Sequel)
16	Cellular Swimsuit Gundam Wing Avenue Fighter 6
17	G.I. Joe Nerf
18	Luka Doncic Persona 5 Cowboy Bebop (Rerun)
19	One Punch Man (Rerun) Transformers (Rerun)

Season 20 is approaching December 9, bringing a brand-new hero to Overwatch 2 in the form of Vendetta. It stays to be seen if there might be a brand new collaboration occasion within the replace, or if any previous ones would possibly return, so followers must hold their eyes peeled forward of its launch to see what Overwatch 2 plans to do subsequent.