Overwatch 2 is winding down its 18th season this week, with its nineteenth set to start on October 14. The season doubles as each a return of the hero shooter’s earlier Halloween occasions, and an opportunity to shake issues up with new modes, tweaks, and a few rarer rewards than seasons previous. Whereas breaking down all that’s coming in season 19, Blizzard additionally teased one thing coming in season 20: hero 45.
Blizzard’s full developer replace breaks down a number of adjustments and additions taking place in season 19. The Halloween occasion this yr known as Haunted Masquerade, and it permits you to placed on masks based mostly on totally different heroes that grant you totally different perks. A few of these buffs are easy, reminiscent of Tracer’s masks granting you elevated motion velocity and Junkrat’s making your enemies explode once they die. Different hidden perks are discovered while you pair some masks with particular heroes. For those who’re enjoying as Brigitte, for instance, carrying the Reinhardt masks will make your defend as massive as his. It additionally appears to be like like a Mei masks may add a Blizzard impact to Juno’s Final, permitting you to freeze enemies in a straight path. So it appears to be like like loads of fascinating, sudden combos await.
On the Stadium facet of issues, Torbjörn, Sojourn, and Hazard are being added to the build-centric mode, and a few of their upgrades look fairly nasty. Torb can create a number of upgradable turrets to position across the area, Sojourn can get a Soldier: 76-style auto-aim when she ults, and Hazard can now shoot bursts from the spikes on his again. These are only a few examples of how their play types will little doubt change as you improve and tweak your construct all through Stadium’s lengthy matches. Ana has been within the mode for some time, however she can also be getting a rework to vary up a few of her loadouts. All characters are additionally getting consumable devices that they will use all through the match that may grant you non permanent buffs. One instance proven within the video is an merchandise that makes your hero develop in measurement with elevated injury and protection.
Mythic Skins, the customizable status skins launched every season, have been a bit hit-or-miss since Overwatch 2’s launch, however the Lifeweaver’s Divine Druid Mythic pores and skin is basically fucking attractive. Blizzard is retooling the Mythic upgrade levels so that you’ll unlock extra vital alterations extra rapidly, however that’s not the one main change taking place this season. In season 19, Blizzard will launch two mythic skins, fairly than only one. The second shall be for Junkrat and shall be out there within the mid-season patch. We didn’t see it, however Blizzard says it’s referred to as “Cyberfuel.”
Closing out the presentation, Blizzard revealed it’s lastly placing the entire exterior lore media, reminiscent of comics and animated shorts, within the recreation itself. So now these of you who solely actually work together with Overwatch 2 by means of the sport itself will be capable to learn and watch these in your launcher. Every little thing we will glimpse on this new part of the principle menu in the course of the presentation is latest materials from Overwatch 2, so it’s unclear simply how far again within the lore we’ll be going right here. Will this be a one-stop store for works relationship again to the unique recreation? We’ll see subsequent week. After speaking concerning the previous, Blizzard additionally teased the longer term with hero 45. The sword-wielding injury hero shall be getting a trial session sooner or later throughout season 19, however all we noticed of her was a silhouette and a quick shot of her legs as she shouts, “Ready yourselves for war!”
This thriller swordswoman was briefly teased within the latest motion comic starring Ramattra and Zenyatta, the place she was seen standing in entrance of an explosion together with her big sword. Overwatch 2 doesn’t have sufficient melee-centric heroes, so hopefully she spices issues up when she joins the roster in season 20.
