Overwatch celebrates its 2nd anniversary with goodies

Two years of horrible Hanzo mains. Two years of Mercy questioning why she even bothers. Two years of weirdly time-limited co-op occasions and two years of fan-art of everybody doing smooches on everybody else. Overwatch has been a wild journey up to now, and there’s loads but to return, however in the intervening time Blizzard are celebrating with three weeks of dancing, returning occasions and beauty goodies, plus a brand new Deathmatch map.

The greatest addition for this occasion is the Petra map, which Alice took a longer peek at here. Set within the Egyptian desert, it’s a small, tight warren of tunnels constructed into the mountains with loads of alternatives to knock folks off excessive ledges. It’s filled with soar pads resulting in increased vantage factors (Widowmakers take observe), however that comes with its personal apparent dangers. The different huge factor taking place in pure gameplay phrases is an encore for each seasonal brawl thus far, biking each day. Today, it’s Lucioball. Tomorrow, who is aware of? The co-op occasions and the asymmetrical Yeti Hunt will probably be included on this rotation, too.

Every character is getting within the celebration spirit for the anniversary, with new skins for all (many dance-party themed, however a couple of appear to suppose it’s a fancy dress occasion), plus new dance emotes, new sprays and all the same old Overwatch beauty gubbins. 50 new items in all, plus the non permanent return of each different seasonal beauty merchandise added to the loot field drops. If there was ever a time to grind to fill out your Overwatch wardrobe, now can be it.

Along with the anniversary occasion, they’re placing the sport on sale for the length. The fundamental version of the sport is down by 50% to a fairly palatable $20, whereas the brand new Legendary Edition (which incorporates 15 fancy character skins, however in any other case feature-identical) is down 33% from RRP from $60 to $40. You can snag each of those direct over on Blizzard’s store.