Overwatch is giving away 10 Loot Boxes, two of which are Legendary, as Twitch Drops, all while PS Plus subscribers can claim Null Sector Orisa and five Battle Pass Tier Skips in a free bundle. This one-two punch of Overwatch freebies is the icing on the cake of the hero shooter’s massive relaunch.
During the Overwatch Spotlight on February 4, Blizzard revealed an ambitious plan for its franchise set in Future Earth. Overwatch 2 was dropping the 2 from its title, beginning the first of its story-driven seasons with Reign of Talon, and releasing five new heroes at once, among many other changes. The soft relaunch has been a massive success, with Overwatch blowing away concurrent player records on Steam within hours of Season 1’s release on February 10.
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Free Overwatch Loot Boxes, Tier Skips, and Orisa Skin Via Twitch, PS Plus
If all the exciting new content is not enough on its own, Overwatch is also giving away a bunch of free stuff right now. On Twitch, fans can claim eight Common and two Legendary Loot Boxes for free, while gamers with PS Plus subscribers can pick up the Null Sector Orisa skin and five Battle Pass Tier Skips at no additional cost from the PlayStation Store.
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How To Get Overwatch Reign of Talon Season 1 Twitch Drops
To earn the free Loot Boxes, viewers must watch a total of 13 hours of any Overwatch Twitch streamer from now through March 8. Players will unlock these Loot Boxes at regular intervals as they watch, which can be claimed and added to their in-game inventories for free, so long as their Battle.net is attached to their Twitch account. Time watched is cumulative, meaning players can freely jump between streamers across multiple days and preserve their progress.
- Connect Twitch and Battle.net accounts
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Watch any Twitch streamers in the Overwatch category from now through March 8, 11:58 PM PT to earn the following rewards:
- 30 minutes: Loot Box
- 1 hour: Loot Box
- 2 hours: Loot Box
- 3 hours: Loot Box
- 4 hours: Loot Box
- 5 hours: Loot Box
- 6 hours: Loot Box
- 7 hours: Loot Box
- 10 hours: Legendary Loot Box
- 13 hours: Legendary Loot Box
- Once complete, claim rewards from the Twitch Drops inventory
- Loot Boxes will automatically appear in Overwatch
Overwatch Reign of Talon Season 1: Conquest refreshed the pool of items obtainable in Loot Boxes with cosmetics from last year, so fans now have a chance to pull skins, emotes, highlight intros, and more from Seasons 15–20.
How To Get Overwatch Reign of Talon Season 1 PS Plus Bundle
The PlayStation Plus bundle is slightly more exclusive in that it requires gamers to have a subscription to the service in order to claim it. Qualifying players who also have an Overwatch account can simply navigate to the PlayStation Store and claim this bundle for free, after which they will have the skin and Battle Pass Tier Skips delivered automatically to their game. This deal does not have a listed expiration date, but similar Overwatch PS Plus bundles in the past have been redeemable for up to three months, so fans will likely have a similar amount of time to do so for this deal as well.
- Have an active PlayStation Plus subscription
- Link PlayStation Plus and Battle.net
- Claim the Overwatch – Null Sector Orisa Bonus Pack from the store for free
- Battle Pass Tier Skips and Null Sector Orisa will automatically be credited to the connected Overwatch account
The PS Plus bundle image briefly showed that it included 20 Battle Pass Tier Skips, despite text correctly saying it only included five, but has since been fixed.
Null Sector Orisa is a Legendary skin that was originally a part of the Overwatch Archives event back in 2017. Not to be confused with the OR-Unit Mirrorwatch skin added in Overwatch 2 Season 10, Null Sector Orisa transforms the hero into a mindless killing machine, and appeared as an enemy during some of the Invasion PvE missions. Though the skin can be purchased in the Hero Gallery for 1,500 Overwatch Credits, obtaining it for free is a nice perk for those who haven’t done so already.
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May 24, 2016
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T for Teen: Blood, Use of Tobacco, Violence (online interactions not rated)
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Proprietary
