Overwatch

Celebrate the Year of the Tiger

Ring in the Year of the Tiger with a resounding roar! Celebrate the return of Overwatch Lunar New Year with festive cosmetics, weekly rewards, and returning brawls. To commemorate the occasion, we’re bringing rich new rewards for you to unlock: set a lantern alight with Genji, illuminate the night with Orisa’s sparklers, don some New Year-ready attire as Seolbim Mercy, flit around the battlefield in Nezha Tracer’s fire-heeled shoes, and more!

Bounty Hunter

Rack up points as you claim bounties in this rowdy brawl. The player who gets the first kill of the match becomes a Target, and everyone else a Bounty Hunter. Earn extra points by killing the Target, but beware—if you land the killing blow on a Target, you become the next one.

Capture the Flag Blitz

The stakes have been raised in Capture the Flag. With both teams’ flags much closer together, six captures are now needed to win the match instead of the traditional three. Launch an all-out offensive against the enemy to snatch their flag as many times as possible.

Capture the Flag

In Capture the Flag, each team attempts to secure the enemy flag and return it to their base while preventing the opposing team from doing the same. Determined players can try Competitive Capture the Flag, which includes placement matches, leaderboards, and Competitive Points!

Play to Earn

Play games in Quick Play, Competitive Play, or the Arcade to unlock sprays, player icons, and festive skins like Prosperity Ashe, Auspicious Soldier: 76, and Porcelain Wrecking Ball. Wins count as two games. Each week brings new rewards to earn!

A new patch is now live on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. Read below to learn more about the latest changes.

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Bug Fixes

Hanzo

• Fixed a bug that caused Storm Arrows to go through barriers

Hero Updates

Moira
Fade

• Can now jump much higher while using this ability

Reinhardt
Earthshatter

• Now deals an additional 200 damage within 1.75m of the impact area

Hanzo
Storm Arrows

• Arrows ricochet once upon impact

Cassidy
Combat Roll

• Can now roll while in the air

Torbjörn
Rivet Gun – ALT Fire

• Ammo cost decreased from 3 to 2

Wrecking Ball
Grappling Claw

• Now has a maximum grapple time of 6 seconds

’Tis the season for the coziest event in Overwatch! We’re introducing new festive, frigid, and fashionable cosmetics to turn every game into a winter wonderland. Some of the gifts you might find in your Loot Boxes include Snowman Wrecking Ball, Ice Wraith Genji, and Sleighing D.Va!

To celebrate the event, we teamed up with concept artists Morten Skaalvik and Yiming Liu, as well as senior concept artists Qiu Fang and Nesskain, to learn more about how these magical legendary skins came to life.

Snowman Wrecking Ball

The process of creating a new skin for any hero starts with an ideation phase. This is where Concept Artist, Morten Skaalvik, drafted the first version of Snowman Wrecking Ball. The ideation for this skin was chilly and snowy, with Wrecking Ball cozied up in his snowball donning a red scarf and clutching a cup of joy. After the ideation phase, the art team begins to finalize the concept. Senior Concept Artist, Nesskain, worked to finish this skin by adding extra Christmas flair. “We wanted to make Wrecking Ball’s legs and weapons look like they were built in Santa’s workshop.” Nesskain finalized the look by infusing Wrecking Ball’s body with holiday spirit and transforming the feisty little hamster into a tribute to jolly old St. Nick.


Ice Wraith Genji

Concept artist Yiming Liu and senior concept artist Qiu Fang teamed up to create the frosty and fierce Ice Wraith Genji. Fang kicked off the initial concept by wrapping Genji in serrated lines and cutting frost you may recognize from other Blizzard properties. "I began the concept phase by drawing reference from snow motifs and sharp edges that fit with Genji’s edgy theme,” says Fang. He was inspired to transform Genji into a mythical warrior encased in ice armor.

Liu refined the skin by drawing upon different references, like Gothic arches and haunting ice wraiths. “We can see a lot of similar archetypes in Wrath of the Lich King,” says Liu. He polished off Genji’s weapons and armor by adding extra detailing, which ended up being the best part of the design for Liu. “My favorite part of the skin is the ice attached to his armor. I first designed the ice as very neat and clean, but with the help of the team, this detail now looks very organic and fits perfectly with the skin.”

Sleighing D.Va

Ice Wraith Genji wasn’t the only Winter Wonderland cosmetic Fang was involved in! He was also responsible for seeing Sleighing D.Va’s concept from ideation to finalization. As D.Va’s second Winter Wonderland skin, the inspiration comes from a different perspective on the holidays. Her dress is inspired by Japanese Lolita fashion, which incorporates wide, Victorian-esque bell-shaped skirts. D.Va’s knee-high socks, paired with the bows in her hair and on her outfit, are essential to the Lolita aesthetic of cuteness. Looking closely at her skirt, you can see that even her signature bunny logo got a frosty makeover. “The pattern on D.Va’s dress was really special for me to work on,” says Fang. “It was also a really fun challenge to make her mech work as a sleigh with the bells and harness on her guns.”

Now that D.Va is decked out in holiday style, she’s ready to slay with her fellow winter-y heroes in the fight! GG.


Winter Wonderland comes to life with these cheerful and bone-chilling cosmetics now through January 7, 2022 at 11am PST. Be sure to jump into the game and unwrap your Loot Boxes for the chance to get one of these new skins!