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[Geek]

https://twitter.com/OverwatchGG/status/768547315992948740



Literal: Why do you all look at the sky? The answer is not over your heads but behind you all. Sometimes it's necessary to analyze your previous achievements.

My interpretation: Why do you guys look to the sky? The answer is not above you, it's behind you. Sometimes you need to analyze your past achievements.

This is a very old clue provided by Sombra weeks ago (likely pointing to the unsolved Tracer string)

Furthermore, I think these unofficial Overwatch "Skycoder" accounts are just trying to fuck with fans

 

[MissCauthon]

The picture has a womans face at the top left corner, you see it in the white part and in the black as well, as if the image separated the colours.

Sort of like the jim morrison pic with the colour boxes but all same picture.

Lol

 

[ekim]

This is the worst.

All it does is have people come up with farfetche'd bullshit because whatever the ARG creator did wasn't obvious enough to be caught by the general public.

If someone doesn't find your super secret hint, you either move on and drop a hint for it elsewhere, tell the user base that missing information, or just forget it entirely.

Yeah. It's a bad ARG if it does not follow its own rules. That one conference from valve about it what quite eye opening.

 

[ekim]

This is a very old clue provided by Sombra weeks ago (likely pointing to the unsolved Tracer string)

Furthermore, I think these unofficial Overwatch "Skycoder" accounts are just trying to fuck with fans

Maybe we still need to look at the tracer trail then?

 

[Dierce]

https://twitter.com/OverwatchGG/status/768547315992948740



Literal: Why do you all look at the sky? The answer is not over your heads but behind you all. Sometimes it's necessary to analyze your previous achievements.

My interpretation: Why do you guys look to the sky? The answer is not above you, it's behind you. Sometimes you need to analyze your past achievements.

I think this adds credence to Sombra being the little girl that is rescued by Soldier 76 in the Hero short (she might be older though). She is also supposedly Reyes daughter.

 

[Manoko]

I think this adds credence to Sombra being the little girl that is rescued by Soldier 76 in the Hero short (she might be older though). She is also supposedly Reyes daughter.

No this is old ARG.
It lead to people finding a hidden message in the first animated short, Recall, the one with Winston and Reaper.

 

[Vire]

This shit feels so aimless a not fun. Not one of the better ARGs...

 

[Yabberwocky]

This is a very old clue provided by Sombra weeks ago (likely pointing to the unsolved Tracer string)

Furthermore, I think these unofficial Overwatch "Skycoder" accounts are just trying to fuck with fans

I don't know about the rest of the Skycoder accounts, but Unit Lost/Stylosa just got back from streaming with Blizzard at Gamescom, so I don't think he'd be doing anything that wasn't asked for by Blizzard. He's been teasing Sombra all week.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

This is what's popping up. I may be crazy, but my brain can kind of see a skull-like face looking to the left.

It's scrambled TV porn featuring Omnics. A new breed of shippers are born, heretofore Clankers.

 

[Dierce]

No this is old ARG.
It lead to people finding a hidden message in the first animated short, Recall, the one with Winston and Reaper.

That's right, I guess I'm late to the party.

 

[NeoRaider]

I don't want to play anymore. Please Blizzard.

 

[Gator86]

This shit feels so aimless a not fun. Not one of the better ARGs...

Yeah, it needs to die. They've dragged it out way too long now. Who is the person still having fun with this and prefers this shit to just getting to play a new character?

 

[closer013]

One of Sombra's skin better be titled Crash Override.

 

[Shinigami]

I don't know about the rest of the Skycoder accounts, but Unit Lost/Stylosa just got back from streaming with Blizzard at Gamescom, so I don't think he'd be doing anything that wasn't asked for by Blizzard. He's been teasing Sombra all week.

Wanted to say the same. Sty has been very pushy about Sombra. I think there's credit to his posts.

 

[Syntax]

Maybe Sombra is a Mexican God Program/Omnic like the one from Anubis and she's uploading a message to Omnics? Maybe similar to La Llorona and she views Omnics as her children?

 

[Dimitri LH]

One of her skins better be a Harlequin, she's messing with us too much and she's enjoying it.

 

[Galava]

I assume someone looked into actual game achievements they earned in the past just in case one of those had a hint.

 

[ekim]

I assume someone looked into actual game achievements they earned in the past just in case one of those had a hint.

It was at least discussed on Reddit.

 

[Dimitri LH]

I assume someone looked into actual game achievements they earned in the past just in case one of those had a hint.

It's been done already, there was a clue on the achievement page on the overwatch website. Old now really.

 

[LordofPwn]

I definitely see it too. I can make out his pulse rifle in the bottom left corner. It also looks like its a screenshot of him in the pose he strikes on the main menu, and judging from what little I can make out of the background it appears to be Volskya.

Honestly though the subject matter is probably unimportant, the image's code itself is probably hiding something similar to the other data moshed screens Sombra has posted.

doesnt really work like that when its in a video.

source-file.filetypeA compared with Source-file_altered.filetypeA

images are easier to data mosh but you can still do it with videos just not images to video and vice versa

 

[dryuriev7777]

You don't know how happy I am that nothing was directly revealed today. Keep it coming, ya'll, this is my new soap opera since I'm done with Stranger Things.

Although it seems they are being way more direct about it compared to before. Reveal must be close. Maybe next week?

 

[Plesiades]

It seems that the Blizzard Magic™ doesn't apply to ARGs.

 

[Vire]

It seems that the Blizzard Magic™ doesn't apply to ARGs.

Whenever you start doing the countdown linking to another countdown, you've fucked up.

Oh well, at least the new map will be out soon enough.

 

[R0ckman]

Why is Sombra getting this long dragged out bullshit when Ana was just announced with little fan fare.

Dude, she's a senior. Have some respect Grams.

But really I think I said it would be interesting to have a sabotage hacker character that screws with mechs and stuff, but it seems too niche, mostly effective on Bastion and Torbs and stuff, characters that I rarely see in my games anymore.

It would get really wild if you could do things like make it so Reins sheild just would not work or D.vas Mech ult actually kill her team without them knowing it just goes out like a normal ult but kills them.

 

[Nazo]

doesnt really work like that when its in a video.

source-file.filetypeA compared with Source-file_altered.filetypeA

images are easier to data mosh but you can still do it with videos just not images to video and vice versa

Ah, that makes sense. I have very little knowledge of that sort of stuff.

 

[TheChillyAcademic]

Ok blizzard, you clearly aren't Valve; this is no longer fun just give us the damn character lol

 

[Pilgrimzero]

I bet her Ult will be disabling the other teams Ults for a few seconds. Or atleast one foe

 

[Kor of Memory]

Whenever you start doing the countdown linking to another countdown, you've fucked up.

Oh well, at least the new map will be out soon enough.

Speaking of, I'm still showing the momentincrime site at 3%.

Is it actually going up?

 

[maouvin]

Speaking of, I'm still showing the momentincrime site at 3%.

Is it actually going up?

Nope, stuck on 3% for a while already :/

Maybe it'll jump straight to 99% tomorrow and then get stuck there for a few days, like a good progress bar.

 

[Majine]

They've crossed the line.

I am officially boycotting the game.



...


Ah who am I kidding.

 

[Hellshingu]

I bet her Ult will be disabling the other teams Ults for a few seconds. Or atleast one foe

That would be borderline OP and could make her a must pick.

 

[Grisby]

Is this actually going to be a spy character? Because I feel like I could do without that in Overwatch.

 

[Azure Phoenix]

In all honesty, at this point I wish everyone would refuse to continue playing into Blizzard's hands and give up en mass so they have to reveal Sombra in the normal way, these teases stopped being interesting weeks ago.

 

[Kurumi]

Alright Blizzard this whole ARG thing with Sombra was cool at first but now it's getting pretty dumb. For the love of god Blizzard just announce her already. It's not like we don't know she's coming at this point.

 

[Vire]

I feel like entertainment these days is a series of endless bulllshit teases. TLOP, Blonde now this shit.

Just release the damn thing without a circus. At this point, I'm just expecting it at Blizzcon.

 

[LordofPwn]

did anyone see the progress at less than 2%? maybe if we calculate when it started, it would help us figure out when it ends? i thought maybe it has to do with page visits. bunch of people looked at the site and it jumped to 3% but now it's just kinda dormant.

 

[Kor of Memory]

did anyone see the progress at less than 2%? maybe if we calculate when it started, it would help us figure out when it ends? i thought maybe it has to do with page visits. bunch of people looked at the site and it jumped to 3% but now it's just kinda dormant.

Somebody did that.

We originally thought it took 15-20 minutes to go from 0 to 1 and from 1 to 2.

However, it's been stuck at 3 for over an hour.

If it went by the 15 minute mark, it would take roughly 22 hours.

 

[KiefbladeMaster]

Is this actually going to be a spy character? Because I feel like I could do without that in Overwatch.

Same, I was hoping for a more roguish character than what it's seeming like she's going to turn out to be.

 

[Kor of Memory]

Wow:

Skycoder has just posted the following -.-- --- ..- / .- .-. . / -. --- - / .-. . .- -.. -.-- It is morse code and translates to "You are not ready"

Fuck this...

 

[Plum]

In all honesty, at this point I wish everyone would refuse to continue playing into Blizzard's hands and give up en mass so they have to reveal Sombra in the normal way, these teases stopped being interesting weeks ago.

Youtubers still want that sweet sweet ad revenue so it's going to keep going until Blizzard wants it to.

 

[Geek]

did anyone see the progress at less than 2%? maybe if we calculate when it started, it would help us figure out when it ends? i thought maybe it has to do with page visits. bunch of people looked at the site and it jumped to 3% but now it's just kinda dormant.

It started at 2%, went up to 3% about 20 minutes later

Nothing since then

 

[Korosenai]

This went from fun to annoying.

 

[KLoWn]

It seems that the Blizzard Magic™ doesn't apply to ARGs.

Whenever you start doing the countdown linking to another countdown, you've fucked up.

Oh well, at least the new map will be out soon enough.

Ok blizzard, you clearly aren't Valve; this is no longer fun just give us the damn character lol

In all honesty, at this point I wish everyone would refuse to continue playing into Blizzard's hands and give up en mass so they have to reveal Sombra in the normal way, these teases stopped being interesting weeks ago.

Alright Blizzard this whole ARG thing with Sombra was cool at first but now it's getting pretty dumb. For the love of god Blizzard just announce her already. It's not like we don't know she's coming at this point.

I feel like entertainment these days is a series of endless bulllshit teases. TLOP, Blonde now this shit.

Just release the damn thing without a circus. At this point, I'm just expecting it at Blizzcon.

Is that all you got? We need MORE whining!

Seriously though, they've obviously put a lot of work into this, so just enjoy the ride or go do something else and it'll be out in no time, yes?

 

[ChoklitCow]

Yeah, Blizz should totally stop having their fun when their are tons of people enjoying this experience just because a few of you are upset you can't have your birthday gift a few days early.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

it was amazing how this was #hype literally until that countdown ended and then all of a sudden it became really annoying

blizzard why

 

[Manoko]

it was amazing how this was #hype literally until that countdown ended and then all of a sudden it became really annoying

blizzard why

Honestly it became annoying quite a few days ago, some would even say weeks.
Blizzard is teasing it too much, and the countdown leading to another countdown is really a shitty move from them, to the community.

 

[B.O.O.M]

lol good thing I had a class and didn't actually F5 the whole thing for hours

 

[Lulubop]

Is any of this shit gonna to make Blizzard reveal her earlier? No.

 

[Mik317]

just come back when its ready.

there is obviously a planned out thing going on...when its done, it will be done.

If it stopped being fun for you, then bounce and let it ride.

whining and getting mad won't make it come any faster really.

 

[Shake Appeal]

Just went to 4%. My guess is the community has to collectively do or solve something to get it to ramp up. Community Twitter "hacks" seem to confirm it.