What's up everybody, this is Master Ian Gamer and today I'm going to go over some
of the evidence we have so far with regards to the 2017 Halloween event, including datamined
items and confirmed upcoming skins, as well as why I believe tomorrow, October 3rd is
when we'll see the first official teaser for the event itself.
So to start, let's take a look back to the 2017 Summer Games datamine.
Yes that's right, even back in June there was evidence of new hero items for Halloween.
These were listed at the time as being part of Event 8, which makes sense given that Halloween
Terror 2017 will be the 8th Overwatch event since the game's release.
The heroes who were listed as getting an Event 8 item were Tracer, Hanzo, Reinhardt, Bastion,
Symmetra, Genji, McCree, Junkrat, Soldier: 76, D.Va, and Sombra.
Now, as exciting as this might sound, I going to have to pull the brakes at this point.
Just because these heroes each had an item listed for this event doesn't mean that
it will be a skin.
It could be a skin, but it could also be a spray or emote.
If you remember from the 2017 Summer Games event, every hero got at least one item, although
many of those were just voice lines.
So, as exciting as this sounds it unfortunately isn't really giving us any new information.
And on top of that, datamined information isn't always the end all be all that people
often consider it.
The Summer Games datamine listed Junkrat and Hanzo as getting two items each, when in actuality
they got three.
Ana was listed as getting three items, but only actually got two.
I'm not sure exactly why people never address this, but just because the information comes
from within the game itself, doesn't guarantee everything.
Even something as officially regarded as datamining can in fact be misleading.
However, some information which is quite a bit more credible are the words that came
straight out of Jeff Kaplan's mouth, or, rather from his forum account.
And this info is that Hanzo and Zarya have confirmed upcoming skins.
We don't know any of the specifics for exactly what these skins will be or even when they'll
come out, but back in April, Jeff posted on the Overwatch forums that "Hanzo has 3 amazing
legendary skins in production right now" and that "Zarya has two skins in production.
One is awesome.
The other is beyond awesome."
We got one of the skins for each of them during the Anniversary event, meaning that Zarya
still has one coming, and Hanzo still has two.
Now, I do want to clear up a misconception I've been hearing a lot recently, which
is that these remaining three skins are confirmed to be coming out before the end of 2017.
As far as I could find, neither Jeff nor any other Blizzard staff member ever went on record
saying this.
If somebody does have a source for this, then please feel free to provide a link to it in
a comment below.
Given that we don't know exactly how far in advance Blizzard starts working on content
for events, the fact that a skin was being worked on last April, doesn't guarantee
we'll see it anytime soon.
Again, I hate that I keep dashing everyone's hopes and dreams, but it's better than getting
lead on to expect a skin for either of these two, only for them to potentially not get
one when the event starts.
That being said though, I would love it if they both got one.
There's a couple skin ideas I've heard for them in particular which I'm super duper
on board with.
(Ghostbuster Zarya & Robinhood Hanzo)
Anyways, moving onto more positive speculation, I'm sure all of you have seen the Halloween
start date leak which appeared this past weekend.
Real quick in case you haven't seen it yet, on Reddit an image of what appears to be an
instore poster advertising the event, along with what we expect is the event's official
start date.
October 10th matches up with the same Tuesday the event started last year, so it seems incredibly
likely that this is when it'll start this year.
However, more immediately exciting is the fact that tomorrow, October 3rd, we'll almost
definitely see an official teaser for the event get Tweeted out by Blizzard.
All the past recent events have had a Twitter teaser one week prior to the event, sometimes
even showing off one or two of the new skins.
So if you're watching this before October 3rd, make sure to keep your eyes glued to
Twitter tomorrow, and expect the Tweet to come out around 12:00 pm Pacific Time.
I'll show some alternate time zone equivalents on screen for those of you outside the US.
If there isn't a teaser tomorrow, well then heck if I know.
I'd be just my luck to have Blizzard make me look like a fool twice this year.
But, in the likely case that the teaser does show up, be sure to check back on my channel
for my complete thoughts and analysis of it, as well as further predictions for the event
itself.
I've already made two videos about the 2017 Halloween event.
One giving my initial predictions for the content we'll see, and the other debunking
a supposed leak that came out a little while back.
You can check out both of these through the cards on screen, or at the end of this video.
Anyways, that will do it for today.
Leave a comment below giving your own hopes and predictions for this event, and if you're
watching this after October 3rd, then let me know how right or wrong I was about the
teaser.
Also, check out today's poll card to vote for whether you'd prefer Zarya or Hanzo
to get a skin this Halloween.
Leave a like if you enjoyed the video, and check out my social media to keep up with
all my future Overwatch content.
This is Master Ian Gamer signing off.
I'm going to go stare at the Overwatch Twitter account while spamming F5 for the next 20
hours, so until next time, have a great day!
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