‘Tis the season to be spooky (mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha, wa-ha-ha-ha) and don we now our ghoul attire in Overwatch, as its annual Halloween occasion has returned with extra PvE motion and extra new spooky costumes. It’s not all seasonal, thoughts, as final night time’s replace additionally launched the reworked Torbjörn together with his new skills, tweaked a couple of different heroes together with Pharah, remixed the sound, and whacked in new colourblind choices too.
The cooperative Junkenstein’s Revenge four-player mode returns in a lot the identical form, nonetheless having choose heroes battling in opposition to waves of spookies. This 12 months, Brigitte and Tracer are added to the pool of playable ghostbusters.
But oh me oh my, the brand new Halloween costumes added to the brand new Halloween Loot Boxes (which will be earned by taking part in or purchased for actual money) are fancy. See the event page for the total lineup, in addition to the spooky spotlight intros and emotes. Players have noticed some actual good touches on the skins, similar to Wrecking Ball’s miniguns ejecting chewing gum as a substitute of empty casings, and Pharah’s ghostly animate armour collapsing when she dies.
The Halloween Terror occasion will run till October 31st.
Parts of yesterday’s replace will final so much longer. Barfpörn’s rework is now dwell, changing plenty of the notdwarf’s skills. His gun is buffed, his turret is now completely at stage 2 and builds mechanically, his Armour Pack ability is eliminated and changed with a weaker model of his outdated final ability, and his new final ability spews blobs of molten slag to burn baddies and block off areas.
Pharah will get notably retouched too, together with her rocket launcher modified to fireplace quicker, deal much less splash harm, deal extra direct harm, and have much less knockback. “The overall damage potential is now increased when landing direct hits,” Blizard say, however you’ll have to intention true. Some gamers haven’t been finest happy with this variation.
A lot of different heroes had been tweaked too, similar to McCree getting a shorter cooldown on Combat Roll. See the patch notes for extra particulars on all the things. The new colourblind choices sound good and all.
“Customise how team colours are displayed in your user interface (e.g. nameplates, HUD, health bars, and hero outlines) with a set of nine different colourblind-friendly colours to choose from,” Blizzard say. “You can also colourise enemy and friendly UI separately.”
Okay, that’s sufficient from me, occurring, get outta right here and get spookin’.
