Blizzard offers surveillance 2 A holiday treat for players in the form of a Gingerbread Bastion skin. It’s exactly what it sounds like: the hero shooter’s robot made entirely out of gingerbread cookies and candy canes. His bird companion is even made out of gingerbread and the whole getup is super cute. The skin and a candy cane weapon charm are now available as a cheap One Overwatch Coin bundle, but what was probably intended as a goodwill gesture for the holidays has one notable pesky downside: now my Overwatch Coin balance is gone available nice round number.
If, like many others, you’re the kind of person who has to turn the volume on your TV up or down to get the level number ending in a five or zero, you probably know what that means. No matter how many coins you earn by completing weekly challenges or by paying directly, you will never go flat again as you can get all coin amounts surveillance 2 end at zero. So when you buy the Gingerbread Bastion skin, there’s always an annoying nine at the end of your currency. Unless Blizzard releases something with a cost ending in nine.
I joke, but the discrepancy actually has a noticeable impact on your use of the surveillance 2 Business. All of the cosmetics you can buy from the in-game shop cost round numbers, and there’s no way to buy Overwatch Coins for less than 500 coins ($4.99). Let’s say you wanted to buy a skin that costs 1000 Overwatch Coins, but you just bought the Bastion skin for 1 coin, which increases your balance to 999 coins. You would be a coin away from buying the skin you want, but the only way to close the gap right away would be to pay at least $4.99. The second fastest way would be to complete four weekly challenges, which would net you 30 coins but is of course more time consuming.
Ultimately because the grindy systems the surveillance 2 store is available For acquiring currency, a skin that costs a coin has a handful of weird downsides, whether that’s putting your coin balance in a weird place in its economy, or having to deal with an out-of-round number in your wallet, staring at you every time you open the store. But as a Christmas present, the thought counts, I think?
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Outside of seasoned bastion skins, surveillance 2 is currently hosting its annual Winter Wonderland Eventwhich includes a new mode that harks back to the days when Mei could freeze everyone in place.
