Overwatch 2 Season 11 will start on June 20, and it is bringing with it a Japanese superhero-inspired battle move, the return of one of many sport’s hottest skins, and a community-crafted sport mode to rejoice the sport having lately reached 100 million gamers worldwide. Whereas it will not be there at launch, Blizzard is teasing a Transformers crossover for later within the season.
The brand new season, dubbed Tremendous Mega Ultrawatch, will introduce a slew of recent skins impressed by the likes of Tremendous Sentai, Kamen Rider, and Japanese kaiju. Ashe will obtain a Mythic pores and skin, Calamity Empress Ashe (clearly impressed by Rita Repulsa from Energy Rangers), which might be personalized in a number of other ways. A mid-season replace will moreover introduce Mythic weapon skins, the primary of which would be the Sure Demon weapon pores and skin for Reinhardt that turns the hero’s hammer right into a fiery demonic axe.
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Season 11 can even embrace a brand new Push map set within the Peruvian Andes, Runasapi, in addition to new Hero Mastery programs for Kiriko and Soldier: 76. Buffs are coming to every of the sport’s three roles, Blizzard says, in addition to enhancements to weekly challenges that may give gamers who missed out on a earlier week the power to catch up earlier than transferring on to the present week’s challenges.
Blizzard is already teasing Overwatch 2’s subsequent crossover, with the shooter having beforehand supplied skins and cosmetics primarily based on One-Punch Man, Cowboy Bebop, and the Okay-pop group Le Sserafim. In a press launch, Blizzard states “greater than meets the attention” is coming quickly, with the Autobot emblem showing on the finish of the official Season 11 trailer. That definitely appears to verify {that a} Transformers crossover is within the playing cards, however no additional particulars have been shared right now.
As a method to rejoice 100 million gamers, Blizzard is placing the much-loved Pink Mercy pores and skin, alongside a brand new Rose Gold variant, again on sale, the entire proceeds from which can profit the Breast Most cancers Analysis Basis. Blizzard additionally partnered with Overwatch content material creators TQQ, Emongg, Custa, and Eskay to switch the sport’s numerous hero roles in a brand new Arcade sport mode, with extra particular particulars on the mode set to be revealed as soon as Season 11 launches.
For many who aren’t within the battle move or shopping for Pink Mercy, there are some freebies up for grabs. A brand new Aztec Sombra pores and skin, identify card, and spray might be earned by finishing in-game challenges as soon as the season begins. Tuning in to observe Overwatch 2 on Twitch will rating gamers some extra free gadgets crafted by the neighborhood, together with a Hanzo pores and skin, Kiriko spray, and Rose Gold Mercy participant icon. Gamers might want to watch a complete of seven hours of Overwatch 2 content material from June 20-24 to unlock the spray and pores and skin, after which one other three hours from June 25-30 to earn the Ruse Gold Mercy icon (which can even function a second likelihood to earn the earlier rewards for individuals who missed them the primary time round).
Blizzard beforehand introduced it might be eradicating one of many sport’s PvE modes, the Hero Mastery Gauntlet, from Overwatch 2 come Season 11’s launch. The three-person co-op mode noticed gamers crew as much as battle in opposition to waves of bots in a round-based, tower defense-inspired mode. Hero Mastery solo programs for every of the sport’s playable heroes will proceed to be launched.