

Genji let his older brother know that he had forgiven him, but that Hanzo must walk the path of forgiving himself. In their former home of Shimada Castle, which had since been taken over by the Hashimoto clan, Genji revealed that he had survived their fateful encounter. The Shimada brothers would cross paths once again, on the anniversary of Genji’s death. In time, Zenyatta became his mentor, and under the monk's tutelage, Genji came to see both his experiences and his cybernetic form as a gift and a unique strength. He drifted for many years before crossing paths with the omnic monk Zenyatta.

For the second time, he abandoned his former life and wandered the world in search of meaning. But when Overwatch fell from grace, Genji felt increasingly at war with himself-all that had transpired between that fateful night in Hanamura and his life as an Overwatch agent. His efforts in both Havana and Singapore led Genji and his squad mates to successfully apprehend Doomfist, then the highest name on Overwatch’s most wanted list. Overwatch leadership encouraged Genji to continue with agent training for the larger Overwatch strike team, and he graduated alongside Tracer and Winston. We'll share a kind of launch checklist with players ahead of things so that they have a smooth experience getting in on 4th October, when we launch.Genji wasn’t sidelined for long, however. There's also a couple of things that we'll be asking players to do, to get ready for Overwatch 2. "We'll give current Overwatch players the ability to download Overwatch 2 a little bit ahead of when we launch, if they want to pre-download.

And then it's a 27-hour downtime that we're planning in order to get the Overwatch 2 server stood up and running. "So that means, as a practical point, that October 2nd really is the last day to go in and play Overwatch 1. "So roughly a day before Overwatch 2 launches, we're going to be taking down the Overwatch 1 servers," commercial lead Jon Spector explained to me. With time differences, it could be 3rd October elsewhere in the world.) Overwatch 2 will then launch 4th October and be the only Overwatch game in operation. (Note: this is from a Pacific Time point of view. The last day of Overwatch 1 will be 2nd October, Blizzard told me during an Overwatch 2 roundtable interview last night.
