NVIDIA Launches Overwatch 2: Invasion Ultimate GeForce RTX 40 Series Bundle

[GFreeman]

Overwatch 2 is Blizzard's always-on and ever-evolving free-to-play, team-based action game that's set in an optimistic future, where every match is the ultimate 5v5 battlefield brawl. To unlock the ultimate graphics experience in each battle, upgrade to a GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics card, desktop PC, or laptop for class-leading performance, and unbeatable responsiveness courtesy of NVIDIA Reflex.

The invasion has begun in Overwatch 2's biggest season to date! Fight back in three co-op Player vs. Enemy Story Missions, play PvP as a new Support hero, and tier up the new Invasion Battle Pass to unlock new skins and cosmetics. And you can get the GeForce Overwatch 2 Invasion Ultimate Bundle with the purchase of select GeForce RTX 40 Series products at participating stores, starting today.



With your purchase in hand, you'll unlock:

• OW2 Invasion Story Missions
• Vigilante Sojourn Legendary Skin (*Earned)
• Sojourn Hero Unlock (*Earned)
• Premium Battle Pass
• 20 Battle Pass Tier Skips
• The C-455 Sharpshooter Cassidy Legendary Skin
• The K-2000 Blademaster Kiriko Legendary Skin
• 3,000 Overwatch Coins

To enhance your Overwatch 2 experience, purchase one of the following, eligible products at participating stores, and follow the supplied instructions to redeem your Invasion Ultimate Bundle code on Battle.net. Before purchase, please ensure the graphics card, PC or laptop is participating in the bundle promotion by checking the product page; redemption codes for non-participating products cannot be provided.



Using one of our participating GeForce RTX 40 Series products, your shots and movements will occur almost instantaneously in Overwatch 2 thanks to input latency that's as low as 9 milliseconds!

This blink and you'll miss it performance comes courtesy of NVIDIA Reflex, which reduces system latency by up to 60% in Overwatch 2, and the raw power of GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs, which can run at over 360 FPS at 1440p. You can also enjoy excellent performance and super low input latency on powerful, thin and light GeForce RTX 40 Series laptops.



Learn more about Reflex and high frame rate competitive gaming in previous Reflex articles, and get plenty of additional detail on the NVIDIA Reflex homepage.

You'll find GPUs, desktop PCs and laptops participating in the Invasion Ultimate Bundle at numerous system builders and retailers worldwide. Head to the Overwatch 2: Invasion Ultimate Bundle homepage to see the complete list of participating partners in your country.

Once you've bought any qualifying product, you'll receive email instructions on how to redeem your bundle, and just a few clicks later you'll add all of the Overwatch 2 goodies to your Battle.net account.

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[ixi]

Didn't see any difference with nvidia reflex. For what is it again?

Free 2 Play game with nvidia product, rofl, made my Friday.

Paladins is more fun and enjoyable than OW. Just my opinion.


Blizzard needs money. Asking for nvidia help, with this patch I guess OW is on steam as well? Those 10min queue for match to be found will be reduced I guess to 8min now. While competition (paladins) you get a match in ~5 sec.

 

[TheLostSwede]

People still play Overwatch?
Sorry, but they ruined the game and this doesn't look like it fixes any of the issues.

 

[BorisDG]

I do, yes. The core game is super good/fun! Just ignore the store/microtransaction nonsense and you are fine.

 

[ZoneDymo]

I do, yes. The core game is super good/fun! Just ignore the store/microtransaction nonsense and you are fine.

and ignore the fact that you are actively supporting a terrible inhumane company by even playing that crap I guess

 

[evernessince]

People still play Overwatch?
Sorry, but they ruined the game and this doesn't look like it fixes any of the issues.

I used to play it all the time, got pretty high ranked in competitive as well. They completely ruined the game when they started balancing it to be more FPS focused, lowering the TTK (time to kill), and reducing the focus on teamwork. The game is now a crappy TDM with the veneer of objectives, not remotely enjoyable to play.

Going free to play, the battlepass nonsense, and now having to pay for smaller story missions is just icing on the crap cake.

F2P game goodies bundled with a video card is not in the least bit enticing. I'd almost expect Nvidia to be getting paid to include them from a dying game.

 

[wNotyarD]

Since when is a RTX 4000 series card required to use Reflex, and even more so required to play OW2? The marketing here is as much bs as the bundle itself.

 

[notaburner]

Didn't see any difference with nvidia reflex. For what is it again?

Free 2 Play game with nvidia product, rofl, made my Friday.

Paladins is more fun and enjoyable than OW. Just my opinion.


Blizzard needs money. Asking for nvidia help, with this patch I guess OW is on steam as well? Those 10min queue for match to be found will be reduced I guess to 8min now. While competition (paladins) you get a match in ~5 sec.

Purpose of nvidia reflex (low latency mode) is basically to just disable power savings. So basically, the GPU doesn't downclock when CPU bound. So if a scenario came along where more load is placed on the GPU, it doesn't have to upclock as it's already running full tilt. If you're GPU bound already this would make no difference and honestly the impact when CPU bound is probably something you can only detect in synthetic benchmarks.

Reflex as a whole is mainly meant to reduce the number of pre-rendered frames. Basically, trying to make sure that the frame being displayed has been rendered recently. At high refresh rates, this is probably also hard to really tell without a synthetic benchmark. YMMV though.

 

[HisDivineOrder]

Well, Nvidia's desperate to seem like they're competing or doing anything. And Blizzard is desperate to seem... like Blizzard in any form, so tricking people into trying Overwatch 2 in any way possible is only logical. I'm really surprised they didn't just toss Diablo 4 in there as a freebie to boost that user count, too. Might as well. Going to be hard to explain away the year end user count...

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

and ignore the fact that you are actively supporting a terrible inhumane company by even playing that crap I guess

Unless you are amish, you are guilty of doing the exact same thing.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Unless you are amish, you are guilty of doing the exact same thing.

Explain

 

[MarsM4N]

People still play Overwatch?
Sorry, but they ruined the game and this doesn't look like it fixes any of the issues.

Really wondering what's riding Nvidia to team up with the publisher of the 2nd worst rated game on STEAM right now. Blizzard Coins, I guess. You won't come across a "Overwhelmingly Negative" game very often. Btw. had to disable "Infinite Scroll" on STEAM to get to the last page after sorting by "User Reviews". Steam250 is also rating the game as the 8th worst game.

Also check out the Comments Section on their STEAM page, pure comedy gold. Wouldn't be surprised if they pull the STEAM page and just create a new one, like Call of Duty®: Warzone™ did. But it didn't help in the end, there is no escape from reviewers on STEAM. No wonder Dev's who release trash don't have a comments section on their own launchers.

P.S.: the game shows as "owned" because I added it for collectors reasons. No intention here to play it, lol.

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

Explain

I think he's alluding to the fact that vast majority of companies whose product you use, like or not, are guilty of similar things.
For one, I'm pretty sure plenty of hardware elements are made by Foxconn, which also has terrible track record of treating their employees.

 

[Selaya]

ah, the worst-selling game ever tag-teaming up w/ the worst-selling gpu generation ever
passt wie arsch auf eimer!

 

[Guwapo77]

and ignore the fact that you are actively supporting a terrible inhumane company by even playing that crap I guess

You are aware the game is free to play?

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

You are aware the game is free to play?

Even if you don't buy anything in-game, by playing it you're expanding playerbase, giving game ever so slightly more staying power for others to do the purchasing .

 

[Garrus]

Blizzard knew exactly what they were doing. They ruined Overwatch 1, and pushed players involuntarily in to Overwatch 2, to drive monetization. Instead of having to work to gain a free to play audience, they forced a "I bought this for $60" audience in to their marketplace.

After 5+ years, at least people were to get a new game with new features, but they cancelled all that. All content cancelled. All of it. There is no Overwatch 2.

So yeah, ruined the first game, forced "not free to play" players in to a free to play game, and then didn't deliver any content except skins that you used to get for free now cost $30 CAD.

They deserve all the hate they get. Ruined my favorite game of the PS4 generation.

Bug off Blizzard. You got so much deserved hate over World of Warcraft, over Warcraft 3 remastered, over Diablo Immortal. You had one shining bright spot, the best game of the PS4 generation with the best new art and IP, and you ruined that too.

Should have had multiple Overwatch IP games in development, plus movies and all the other stuff. Instead management decided "how to we make money off our existing game instead of having to make more games" and they killed it.

 

[HisDivineOrder]

Blizzard knew exactly what they were doing. They ruined Overwatch 1, and pushed players involuntarily in to Overwatch 2, to drive monetization. Instead of having to work to gain a free to play audience, they forced a "I bought this for $60" audience in to their marketplace.

After 5+ years, at least people were to get a new game with new features, but they cancelled all that. All content cancelled. All of it. There is no Overwatch 2.

So yeah, ruined the first game, forced "not free to play" players in to a free to play game, and then didn't deliver any content except skins that you used to get for free now cost $30 CAD.

They deserve all the hate they get. Ruined my favorite game of the PS4 generation.

Bug off Blizzard. You got so much deserved hate over World of Warcraft, over Warcraft 3 remastered, over Diablo Immortal. You had one shining bright spot, the best game of the PS4 generation with the best new art and IP, and you ruined that too.

Should have had multiple Overwatch IP games in development, plus movies and all the other stuff. Instead management decided "how to we make money off our existing game instead of having to make more games" and they killed it.

It's really amazing how they took a promising franchise and really Battleborned the bejeezus out of it.

 

[Wye]

and ignore the fact that you are actively supporting a terrible inhumane company by even playing that crap I guess

Inhumane? Did they abused some animals?

Blizzard knew exactly what they were doing. They ruined Overwatch 1, and pushed players involuntarily in to Overwatch 2, to drive monetization. Instead of having to work to gain a free to play audience, they forced a "I bought this for $60" audience in to their marketplace.

After 5+ years, at least people were to get a new game with new features, but they cancelled all that. All content cancelled. All of it. There is no Overwatch 2.

So yeah, ruined the first game, forced "not free to play" players in to a free to play game, and then didn't deliver any content except skins that you used to get for free now cost $30 CAD.

They deserve all the hate they get. Ruined my favorite game of the PS4 generation.

Bug off Blizzard. You got so much deserved hate over World of Warcraft, over Warcraft 3 remastered, over Diablo Immortal. You had one shining bright spot, the best game of the PS4 generation with the best new art and IP, and you ruined that too.

Should have had multiple Overwatch IP games in development, plus movies and all the other stuff. Instead management decided "how to we make money off our existing game instead of having to make more games" and they killed it.

Looks like you know everything about making games. I'm looking forward to your billion dollar grossing game!

 

[Selaya]

Inhumane? Did they abused some animals?
[ ... ]

no, they merely abused their employees.

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

^ Same thing from their board's perspective.

 

[Mussels]

Didn't see any difference with nvidia reflex. For what is it again?

It fixes DX12 forcing a 2 frame render ahead queue doubling latency in most systems.
Ironically, the ones with the least problems are those with slower CPUs since they cant keep ahead of the GPU as much

It's done that way to prevent/hide stutter, but 60Hz users go from 16.67ms to 49.9ms in the worst case situations (current frame + 2 on the queue, before a new UpToDate frame is even rendered let alone shown)
It's what adds that floaty feel where you're seeing and reacting to the past, like oldschool LCD TVs before game mode was a thing