To ringing successful the caller year, Overwatch 2 kicked disconnected a limited-time lawsuit themed astir Greek mythology. No, you won’t spot Apollo oregon Kratos roaming Ilios, but if you ammunition retired $20, you tin alteration the spidery sniper Widowmaker into the goddess of quality and stone, Medusa, replete with a achromatic tunic and snake headpiece. Unfortunately, for arsenic chill arsenic the caller tegument is, it seemingly makes a clump of sound in-game, prompting immoderate players to telephone it a “pay to lose” cosmetic item.

Battle for Olympus is the caller limited-time event successful Overwatch 2. Running until January 19, Battle for Olympus introduces a free-for-all deathmatch mode that gives 7 of the game’s playable heroes—Junker Queen arsenic Zeus, Lucio arsenic Hermes, Pharah arsenic Hades, Ramattra arsenic Poseidon, Reinhardt arsenic Minotaur, Roadhog arsenic Cyclops, and Widowmaker arsenic Medusa—the powers of mythical creatures and gods. Lots of things alteration astir these 7 characters during this event, including their attire and eventual abilities, arsenic good arsenic their interactions with different characters. Some skins, specified arsenic Junker Queen’s Zeus, are buried heavy wrong the conflict walk portion others, similar Roadhog’s Cyclops, look to lone beryllium purchasable with Overwatch 2 coins.

Another tegument locked down a paywall is Widowmaker’s Medusa, and it’s this quality outfit that has immoderate players up successful arms. Retired Overwatch pro Brian “Kephrii” St. Pierre tweeted that, acknowledgment to the large hissing from the headpiece, “the force squad tin perceive the snakes/hair connected the Medusa tegument and pointpoint your determination from them.” In Kephrii’s opinion, this $20 cosmetic “actively punishes you for utilizing it.”

“Pay to lose, the lone mode it should be,” chimed idiosyncratic successful Kephrii’s mentions. “That’s really truthful fucking large what,” said different player.

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That’s not to accidental everyone agrees with Kephrii’s instrumentality connected the Medusa skin. As some users person pointed out, “with the magnitude of dependable and audio clump happening successful this game,” it’d beryllium hard to perceive the snakes. Overwatch 2 is loud, aft all, and players person been complaining astir the audio mixing for immoderate clip (including our elder editor, Alyssa Mercante, who claims you “can’t perceive shit”).

Unless everything came to a abrupt standstill and nary 1 changeable astatine anyone else, you’d beryllium hard-pressed to prime up the dependable of Medusa’s headpiece. Still, if idiosyncratic had keen capable proceeding oregon a truly coagulated headset, they could perchance announcement the obnoxious hissing snakes and springiness you a escaped haircut. The information that it’s a anticipation astatine each to perceive Medusamaker makes the tegument consciousness similar capable of a disadvantage to dissuade players from utilizing it. Widowmaker is expected to beryllium sneaky. Loud-ass snakes marque stealth kills impossible.

Kotaku reached retired to Blizzard for comment.

Whether the Medusamaker tegument is “pay to lose” oregon not is irrelevant erstwhile the subordinate basal writ ample seems to beryllium beauteous disappointed successful Battle for Olympus overall. On the game’s subreddit are a handful of popular posts astir however the limited-time lawsuit is “possibly the worst [one] successful Overwatch history” due to the fact that of however “boring and unbalanced” the free-for-all deathmatch mode feels aft conscionable a fewer games. Hell, immoderate players adjacent look to judge that Blizzard is simply flaunting the skins alternatively of introducing breathtaking caller content to the leader shooter. Yeah, people conscionable aren’t enjoying this Greek mythology.