Overwatch is now celebrating Lunar New Year

To have fun the Lunar New Year subsequent week (otherwise you would possibly comprehend it as Chinese New Year), Overwatch right now launches festivities together with a brand new aggressive seize the flag mode with a brand new map, new beauty gadgets, and different shinies. Some of the brand new outfits are p. swish all proper. The occasion will run till March fifth. Here, have a look at a few of the fanciness on this trailer:

The replace brings 50-odd new beauty gadgets: skins; spotlight intros; emotes. You can see them on Blizzard’s Lunar New Year page.

Capture the Flag mode returns, this time accompanied by a Competitive Capture the Flag mode with matchmaking, leaderboards, Competitive Point rewards, and so forth – like a correct critical Overwatch mode. CTF additionally will get a brand new map, Ayutthaya, set in Thailand. Blizzard have tweaked the CTF components too, as they clarify:

“Flag pickup is now instant, but flags cannot be picked up for five seconds after being dropped. Flags return after 4 seconds, and flag return is not interrupted by taking damage. Mobility and invulnerability skills drop the flag and, music plays while carrying the flag! Sudden death will now break ties at the end of a match. When time runs out, the round starts over, the flags are moved closer to the center of the map, and the first team to capture wins. All these changes will be applied to older Capture the Flag maps as well.”

Today’s patch additionally tweaks Doomfit a bit, lets players select skins at the start of rounds, and fiddles with different bits. See the patch notes for full particulars.