The Overwatch Experiment

by Rainpool of WaterfallClan

It's the year 2040, and virtual reality has advanced gaming. But what happens when someone takes advantage of that power and puts millions of lives in danger. Follow me as I take you through my experiences in the game and how a group of normal people banned together to protect the game they all love. (Based from actual events and some fiction. Names have been changed.)

1. Prologue

PROLOGUE

It's the year 2040, and technology has developed so much over the years. The most popular advancement, virtual reality. It had been a developing concept for years but now it had developed into something more than just headsets you put over your eyes and see like you are inside a game. Technology now makes it so you are actually in the game. A device called the VRX Headset, first developed in 2020, made it so you were actually in the game. When this VRX Headset first came out, gamers from around the world just had to have one.

Gaming had also developed alot over the years and has become more popular than ever. One game in particular, Overwatch. Ever since it's release in 2016, it had taken the world by storm and became very popular in the gaming community. It had died down over the years but now with the new virtual reality technology we have today, it has made a come back.

Players can now feel like they are actually fighting in the game and becoming the characters they all love. The players use headsets that connect directly to their spinal cords, nervous system, and brain. Manipulating all their senses to give them the actual feeling of being inside the game. However, pain is obviously not included. While not in the game, players can take the form of their favorite character and hangout in the Hub worlds, infinite skirmishes on some of the maps in Overwatch.

Overwatch gained a lot of new players but also some critics who felt the VRX systems still needed work and worried about the dangers it could have to its users. Little did anyone realize just how much danger this technology could put someone in, let alone millions upon millions of people.