Overwatch 2 begins its thirteenth season, two years after the sport first launched. As typical for odd-numbered seasons, it is just a little bit lighter on content material, however there’s quite a bit occurring with cosmetics in season 13’s spooky, witchy theme.
Whereas there are not any new heroes or maps, we’re getting the same old suite of recent content material — a brand new mythic pores and skin, battle go skins, store skins — in addition to some updates to 4 of the sport’s maps. Season 13 additionally provides us some long-overdue upgrades to the scoreboard, permitting individuals to mute and report different gamers instantly from the scoreboard.
Spellbinder Widowmaker mythic pores and skin
Widowmaker is the most recent hero to get a seasonal mythic pores and skin, following fellow harm heroes Ashe and Reaper the previous two seasons. The pores and skin presents Overwatch’s aloof sniper as an apprentice alchemist, and upgrades to the pores and skin embody customized results like a fiery witch hat and lightning-infused grappling hook line.
Soldier: 76 may even get a mythic weapon pores and skin named Deliverance later this season, however we cannot get extra particulars or previews till nearer to the midseason patch subsequent month (although we do seemingly get a glimpse of it in the important thing artwork for season 13).
Does the fiery hat burn close by enemies?
Gilded Points for mythic skins
Are you uninterested in your mythic skins? Do you get pleasure from black-and-gold aesthetics? Nonetheless searching for one thing to do with the Mythic Prisms you’ve got earned within the premium battle go? In case you answered sure to any of these questions, Overwatch wish to introduce you to Gilded Points, a brand new function for mythic skins that paints the heroes in a black base with shiny golden accents that look to pair properly with gold weapons.
It is a good contact for anybody who would not love the colour choices in a mythic pores and skin, but it surely’s now the third factor — becoming a member of mythic skins and mythic weapon skins — that you must purchase with mythic prisms, which you’ll purchase solely within the premium battle go or by buying with money.
Gilded Points commerce among the coloration of mythic skins for a extra even design.
My Hero Academia collaboration
Overwatch 2 is aware of its gamers get pleasure from their anime, based mostly on the earlier One Punch Man and Cowboy Bebop collaboration cosmetics. This season, we’ll superhero faculty with My Hero Academia skins within the store for Reinhardt, Tracer, Juno, Kiriko and Reaper. There may even be occasion challenges that allow you to earn different MHA cosmetics.
One other season, one other store pores and skin for Kiriko.
Map reworks
After lastly eradicating the glass from Colosseo, Overwatch’s map designers have been laborious at work with different map renovations, with 4 updates dropping this season. Escort maps Circuit Royale, Dorado and Havana are getting new ramps and entry factors, and hybrid map Numbani receives an analogous therapy. These reworks ought to make it simpler for all heroes to entry numerous factors of the map, which means heroes with vertical mobility are not must-picks on sure maps.
This iconic Dorado excessive floor is now simpler for the attacking crew to entry.
Halloween Terror returns with new Junkenstein’s Laboratory mode
In case you just like the basic Junkenstein’s Revenge PVE sport mode or Overwatch 2’s Wrath of the Bride mode, you will get to play them from the beginning of the season till Nov. 4. This yr, you will additionally get to play a brand new PVP sport mode the place heroes have expertise playing cards that alter your talents — one thing we had been initially promised for Overwatch 2’s PVE however by no means in the end received when the restricted PVE modes ultimately launched.
