Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2021, Overwatch Retail Patch Notes - December 16, 2021

[Lumy]

Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2021
Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2021 has started!

Overwatch Retail Patch Notes - December 16, 2021

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

To share your feedback, please post in the General Discussion forum.
For a list of known issues, visit the Bug Report 1 forum.
For troubleshooting assistance, visit the Technical Support 1 forum.

Seasonal Event: Winter Wonderland 2021

Winter Wonderland returns with some festive favorites! Unwrap new cosmetics, earn weekly rewards, and frolic in the snow with our winter brawls!

'Tis the season with Winter Loot Boxes. Unlock new seasonal items–including legendary skins like Snowman Wrecking Ball, Ice Wraith Genji, and Sleighing D.Va–along with other merry items.

Learn more about Winter Wonderland on playoverwatch.com.

Competitive: No Limits - Season 2

Season 2 of Competitive No Limits has begun!

Bug Fixes

GENERAL

• Fixed a bug that caused some players to get stuck in Hero Select after a point has been captured
• Fixed a bug that caused some players to lose sound in the client when switching audio devices
• Fixed a bug that inhibited some players from re-entering voice chat

MAPS

• Addressed a geometry exploit on Numbani. The map is now re-enabled for play in Competitive and Quickplay.
• Addressed a geometry exploit on Watchpoint: Gibraltar. The map is now re-enabled for play in Competitive and Quickplay.

New Features

VOICE CHAT CHANGE – VOLUME BOOST:

• Our voice chat now runs through our audio system, resulting in higher volume
• This comes along with new default values: “Voice Chat Volume” Voice Chat Mic Volume” both set to 80
• You may need to adjust to your liking under “Sound Options”
• We are also investigating an issue causing voice chat to not work for some players

[Zuben]

DVa's skin is nice, but her problem always is you don't really get to see it as during the starting period of a match when you have a window to do emotes she's in her mech. And her mech is always sort of the same.

Gotta say, none of this year's legendaries really strike me, but funnily enough the epic skins are the opposite. Usually it's them that come off uninspiring, but this time I like each of them.

[Lionhearte0]

character skins
for a FIRST PERSON shooter
lmao

[Ealyssa]

character skins
for a FIRST PERSON shooter
lmao

You're 6 years late... And every single FPS are doing skins. You okay buddy ? Needed whatever excuses to rant on the internet to feel better ? Hope you do

[Zuben]

Lucky rolls gave me three of the new skins, Genji, Orisa and Hammond; they're nicer than I first thought now that I got to see them from gameplay perspective. Though Orisa suffers from the same problem as DVa's mech, its variations being mostly the same due to form factor. It's like customizing a car: At the end of the day the basics are still the same, where as a person changes a lot with a makeover. This applies to Hammond as well, but the snow-covering this year is unique enough that it manages to stand out a bit more. DVa's character skin was probably my favorite this year, but since it's overshadowed by her mech I gave it a pass.

So I didn't end up coughing up more tokens this year than 2000 for Mei and Moira. Turns out I actually don't like the penguin suit :P