After its rocky launch, Overwatch 2 continues to invite controversy. A new custom game mode, called "Sexual Harassment Simulator," has been making the rounds on Twitter because of its inflammatory title and premise. Credited to YouTuber Amatsuhikone, the description reads "This is version 1.2 of the new and unique Sexual Harassment Simulator. Find new friends, live a normal life and give birth to a child!"

According to a report from PC Gamer, this is how the game mode works: "[Sexual Harassment Simulator] forces one player to play as Cassidy against a team of strictly female Overwatch heroes. In the top-left of the screen, it instructs you to 'Flash to knock down your victims,' which refers to Cassidy's old Overwatch 1 Flashbang ability and then says to 'Tbag to fuck,' which is written with spaces, seemingly to get around a word filter. As you crouch, text appears on the top of the screen that says 'raping…' Enemy heroes are then marked as 'pregnant' and, eventually, a Torbjorn bot is spawned to simulate a child."

Cassidy, the hero the harasser plays as, is the new name for original Overwatch hero McCree. McCree was renamed after it was discovered his namesake, developer Jesse McCree, was involved in the sexual harassment scandals at Activision Blizzard.

Reaching out to Blizzard for comment, PC Gamer was told "Inappropriate or explicit content has absolutely no place in our game." Blizzard also removed the game mode and pledges to continue improving their automatic filters. However, PC Gamer's Tyler Colp has confirmed that the game mode is still accessible if you have the unique five-digit code to access it. It also appears the game mode has been around for some time, as reddit posts dating back to four months can be found criticizing the custom game mode.

 

[FAST6191]

In houses mods because control, then gets to play censor.
Hilarious.

 

[Sakuraibr]

If only these were based on dedicated servers Blizzard wouldn't have to worry that much of having ownership in this type of custom mode. You take ownership of everything the community does, you better be responsible for any of your children fuck ups.

 

[Xzi]

I'm disappointed they missed a perfectly good opportunity to call it the "working at Activision-Blizzard simulator" instead.

 

[MariArch]

This is a stupid article. It’s a custom game mode and obviously ironic. Can Twitter shut the fuck up for 5 minutes

 

[sombrerosonic]

Reminds me of a custom gamemode called "junkrats's s#x slaves" where alot of tracers at 20 health who couldn't shoot had to zip around and avoid junkrat from blowing them up with mines.

 

[haxan]

Enemy heroes are then marked as 'pregnant' and, eventually, a Torbjorn bot is spawned to simulate a child."

What did I just read.......
I just started playing this game two days ago, and it's my first Overwatch experience, guess it's time to quit lol

 

[Kioku]

Generic community makes a generic gametype.

 

[codezer0]

I'm disappointed they missed a perfectly good opportunity to call it the "working at Activision-Blizzard simulator" instead.

#ThisIsHowBobbyKotickRunsThings

This is a stupid article. It’s a custom game mode and obviously ironic. Can Twitter shut the fuck up for 5 minutes

Telling Twitter to shut up about something, just motivated them to shout it louder, out of spite.

 

[ChanseyIsTheBest]

This reminds me of the BBC reporting on Roblox 'strip clubs'

 

[Foxi4]

[Sexual Harassment Simulator] forces one player to play as Cassidy against a team of strictly female Overwatch heroes. In the top-left of the screen, it instructs you to 'Flash to knock down your victims,' which refers to Cassidy's old Overwatch 1 Flashbang ability and then says to 'Tbag to fuck,' which is written with spaces, seemingly to get around a word filter. As you crouch, text appears on the top of the screen that says 'raping…' Enemy heroes are then marked as 'pregnant' and, eventually, a Torbjorn bot is spawned to simulate a child.”

That sounds hilarious.

 

[MasterJ360]

Just our typical Rule34 fans is all im reading here.

 

[tofino]

isn't overwatch's tagline "sexual harassment simulator"?

 

[AWESOMEGAMER]

sorry WTH is Overwatch
LOLZ i am dead did they just say
TBAG A FUCK
hahahaahhaahahahahhaha
I am team Nintendo so that is funny as the day is long right now
I just died on the floor LOLIRL
what are you doing to me

 

[ZeroFX]

Based as fuck.

 

[Mayo1990]

This is it Blizzard: I'm not gonna give you my 25 hours of voice chat erp with my female Mercy mains!

 

[HarveyHouston]

I heard about something similar for The Sims back in the day; this is not really that surprising. Another reason not to play Overwatch.

 

[Sansgaming420]

Considering my only knowledge of Overwatch comes from lewds, this fits.

 

[Mayo1990]

Considering my only knowledge of Overwatch comes from lewds, this fits.

Not sure if based or based. But in case based.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

We are going to be stripped of custom game modes which are already incredibly rare to get in games these days because people literally have to complain about everything