How are you with rodents? Lunar New Year returns to Overwatch immediately, celebrating the Year of the Rat with a wealth of themed cosmetics outdated and new. It’s all gone fairly theatrical this 12 months, with heroes like Sombra, Lucio, Brigitte and Moira celebrating musical and theatrical types to have interaction within the time-honoured custom of murdering one another to steal flags. Me? I’m with Junkrat up there – stuffed filled with meals and prepared for a pleasant kip.
For the subsequent three weeks, Overwatch is providing Lunar New Year cosmetics outdated and new, with weekly unlock challenges and a quick new variation on Capture the flag named “Blitz”.
Blitz is an odd one. Aimed at making a higher-stakes, faster-paced CTF expertise, Blitz shrinks the map and doubles the rating wanted to win. More captures, extra chaos, extra enjoyable, proper? Well, reader, I attempted it. I loathed it. In the spherical I performed, each flags had been positioned inside eyeshot of one another throughout a small Nepal courtyard. The match was a straight slaughter, with one aspect shortly dominating and reluctantly capturing the flag nearly as a formality. It’s all a bit naff.
Capture the flag has at all times been an odd match for Overwatch, and Blitz solely exacerbates the present issues. The game’s arenas aren’t designed for capturing flags, heroes have to be modified past recognition to cease them breaking the game. Shrinking the play house solely exacerbates these points. It seems like a glorified deathmatch, in a game that already has a serviceable free-for-all mode.
The actual star of the present, then, are the theatrical new outfits. There are some fabulous hats and dashing gown within the combine, however Sombra’s Face-Changer pores and skin is a stand-out choose. Inspired by the Chinese dramatic artwork of Bian Lian, her masks morphs by means of 6 completely different appearances over the course of a match.
Last year’s cosmetics additionally make a return, promoting for a lowered value within the in-game store. A full lineup of the occasion’s cosmetics might be perused over on the Overwatch site.
There are seven new cosmetics in all, alongside two new emotes and that scrumptious spotlight intro for Junkrat, pictured above. Each week, for the three weeks of the occasion, you’ll be capable to earn choose sprays, icons and skins for Wrecking Ball, Doomfist and Winston by successful games.
The first week of unlocks kicks off immediately with some nifty Doomfist goodies up for grabs, with rewards rotating out till the occasion ends on February fifth.
