When the Forces of Evil Rise, Season 11: Super Mega Ultrawatch is Here!

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When the Forces of Evil Rise, Season 11: Super Mega Ultrawatch is Here!

Gear up for an epic showdown as Ultrawatch faces Mythic Calamity Empress Ashe, plus celebrate 100 million heroes with the return of Pink Mercy, and much more. Overwatch 2 Season 11: Super Mega Ultrawatch arrives June 20!

Get ready to unleash your inner superhero with Legendary Ultrawatch skins, as you call upon their power to fight evil. The fallen Mythic Calamity Empress Ashe, alongside her no-good miscreant sidekick B.O.B., has risen to power, and it's up to Ultrawatch to stop her. But will the power of teamwork be enough to stand against the Empress’s wicked reign or will she conquer and rule the world?

Create Calamity with New Mythic Rewards
Being evil will never be more fun when you progress through the Season 11 Premium Battle Pass. This season, the wickedly magical Mythic Calamity Empress Ashe has emerged, wielding her dark magic as she looks to defeat Ultrawatch and any others who try to stand in her way. Experience enhanced visual effects, with her Ultimate featuring a fiendish summoning circle and massive magical rune. You can unlock Calamity Empress Ashe when you collect 50 Mythic Prisms, then continue collecting Prisms to customize the diabolical fallen Empress with three additional configurations.

Coming in our mid-season update, we’ll be introducing a new type of Mythic cosmetic, the Mythic Weapon Skins. Like our Heroic Weapon Skins, you’ll be able to equip a Mythic Weapon Skin with any Hero Skin (for the matching hero) and will come with exclusive sound and visual effects. Another way to spend your Mythic prisms, you can unlock the base skin at 50 Mythic Prisms, and then unlock additional levels at 10 Mythic Prisms including a Weapon Flourish emote, elimination visual effects, and reactive effects.

Stay tuned to unlock incredible powers with the Mythic Bound Demon Reinhardt Weapon Skin, coming July 23. This dynamic weapon will unleash the fury of a demon with every swing. Flourish your hammer by spinning it in the air. Defeat your foes and watch as the demon’s power grows in every match you play. You’ll be calling out “Big Slam!” as opponents fall to a fiery surge through every Earthshatter.

Whether you choose the Mythic Calamity Empress Ashe Hero Skin, the Mythic Bound Demon Reinhardt Weapon Skin, or choose to unlock a past Mythic Hero Skin, you’ll be able to pick up some wicked good looks with your Mythic Prisms this season.

Super Mega Rewards in the Premium Battle Pass
Join Ultrawatch and save the world from darkness when you upgrade and progress through the Season 11 Premium Battle Pass. Unlock new Ultrawatch Legendary skins for Genji, Reaper, and Sojourn plus fun Lifeguards as you progress through 80 tiers of non-stop excitement this Season. You can also earn dozens of other action-packed rewards including sprays, skins, and more.

What’s in the Premium Battle Pass?

• Up to 80 Mythic Prisms
• 5 Legendary Skins
• Lifeguard Lucio Epic Skin
• 500 Credits
• Additional Rewards including Souvenirs, Weapon Charms, Victory Poses, Highlight Intros and Emotes
• Everything in the Free Battle Pass including two additional Epic skins, 600 Overwatch Coins, an additional 1,500 Credits, and more!

It’s Time for Ultimate Battle Pass Power
When you purchase the Ultimate Battle Pass bundle, you’ll be able to summon all the exciting rewards in the Premium Battle Pass, plus 20 Tier Skips, 2000 Overwatch Coins, along with the Kaiju Roadhog and Kaiju Zenyatta Legendary Skins and rampage across the battlefield with your new monsters!

Celebrating All Heroes
Over 100 million players have answered the call to play Overwatch 2! To celebrate this incredible milestone and do some good in the world , we're bringing back the beloved Pink Mercy skin, along with a new Rose Gold Mercy Bundle. 100% of the purchase price from these items will benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (excluding any applicable platform fees and taxes). Join us in this noble cause and elevate your game with these rare collector's items. Both skins will be in the shop starting Tuesday June 25, so don’t miss out on this rose-golden opportunity to be a hero and help support breast cancer research (read more here).

Community Crafted Means Crazy Fun
Our Community Crafted mode is back for Celebrating All Heroes, and we’ve recruited some of your favorite Overwatch 2 creators to come up with fun ideas for their favorite heroes. Emongg has ideas for tanks that are sure to be a big slam in the competition. TQQ will tweak hitscan damage heroes, so watch out for them to click heads like never before. Get ready for hot, cool, and explosive changes as Custa brings new and returning tricks for projectile damage heroes. Finally, Eskay tinkers around with supports and explores tricks that will have them flying through the air.

We’ll reveal the changes when Season 11 launches, so join the celebration and check out the Community Crafted mode in the arcade on June 20.

Log In and Play to Earn Free Rewards
When Season 11 begins, join in the celebration right away with a series of event challenges to kick off your progress on the Season 11 Battle Pass. Play up to 40 games (with wins counting as double) and earn the Aztec Sombra bundle which includes a festive Legendary skin, name card, and spray. There’s also up to 40,000 Battle Pass XP that you can earn for your Season 11 Battle Pass.

Earn Exclusive Community Created Drops on Twitch
When Celebrating All Heroes launches, you’ll be able to tune into your favorite content creator in the Overwatch 2 category to earn all new community-created cosmetics starting on June 20. In our first Twitch Drops campaign running from June 20 to June 24, watch three hours to earn the Letter on the Wind spray for Kiriko hand-drawn by community artist Angela Ziegler (@A2Ziegler) and a total of seven hours to earn the Nihon Hanzo Epic Skin. Then, in another campaign starting June 25 to June 30 watch 3 hours to earn the Cute Rose Gold Mercy icon drawn by community artist Dani Ellis (@OWGrandma), you’ll also have a second chance to earn the Letter on the Wind spray and the Nihon Hanzo Epic Skin.**

**Watch time and progress after the first campaign ends will be reset.

Explore the Peaks of Runasapi
Hike your way up the new Runasapi Push map, to a town hidden high in the Peruvian Andes. Amble through marketplaces full of fresh produce and pay a visit to the Inti Warrior Historical Museum and Monument. This exciting Push map is vibrant and challenging as you escort TS-1 through tight streets. Watch out as some fights may take place precariously close to the steep cliffs overlooking the sunny farmlands below. Runasapi is available to play when Season 11 launches in Quick Play and Competitive game modes, and you can queue for matches right away in a dedicated play card in the arcade.

Hero Mastery for Kiriko and Solider: 76
Sharpen your kunai and master your aim when Hero Mastery single-player courses for both Kiriko and Soldier: 76 launch this season. So practice your Swift Step and power up your Tactical Visor as you take part in new challenges in a limited-time event from June 20 to July 9. Plus earn new rewards and up to 22,500 Battle Pass XP.

What Else is New in Season 11?
Season 11 brings a host of buffs for many of our heroes across all three roles. In addition to the various hero buffs, Cassidy is trading in the Magnetic Grenade for a new and improved Flashbang that will be sure to slow foes in their tracks. Thanks to your feedback, we have removed the glass on the Colosseo Push map along with a variety of other changes that will allow team fights to take place all over the streets of Rome.

We’re also making it easier for you to complete your weekly challenges. If you miss a week you can catch up on the previous week’s challenges, before working on the current week’s challenges. Weekly milestone rewards are easier to achieve than before, as well. Now complete 3 weekly challenges and instantly get 20,000 XP. As each week passes, a new milestone reward becomes available. These changes allow you to play on your own schedule without having to miss out on earning Battle Pass XP from the previous week.

Get ready to join the fight, heroes - Ultrawatch needs your courage! Unlock incredible rewards, champion a heroic cause, celebrate a monumental milestone, and experience the action-packed superhero adventures all season long. Log in and join the battle today!

[Zuben]

I hate the theme and I hate the skins. Seems okay to skip the premium for this season.

[korijenkins]

"Buy buy buy! Buy our low effort cosmetics!"

[saixilein]

I hate the theme and I hate the skins. Seems okay to skip the premium for this season.

Noone ever should buy a premiumpass. These people are the reason this and many other modern games suck.

[Beefhammer]

Noone ever should buy a premiumpass. These people are the reason this and many other modern games suck.

It's because big devs are too afraid to take risks. Has nothing to do with the optional spending habits of a relative few.

[Phunkle]

It's because big devs are too afraid to take risks. Has nothing to do with the optional spending habits of a relative few.

That "optional" spending habit of a "relative few" is the sole reason why Blizzard got away with Overwatch 2 in its entirety.

[Jester Joe]

Noone ever should buy a premiumpass. These people are the reason this and many other modern games suck.

Just another label for people to hate on blindly and blame for their own negativity honestly at this point.

There are plenty of amazing games that are coming out and have come out recently without battle passes, there's absolutely no reason for you to be anywhere near a battle pass if you dislike them.

Meanwhile, Overwatch 2 is at a point now where there's absolutely no need to buy battle passes. It's only ever cosmetic rewards and even with the free tracks you still get currency to buy older overwatch 1 cosmetics that are still great. The game is completely free overall and if you enjoy the game play you can get hours upon hours of entertainment without ever spending a dime.

[saixilein]

Meanwhile, Overwatch 2 is at a point now where there's absolutely no need to buy battle passes. It's only ever cosmetic rewards and even with the free tracks you still get currency to buy older overwatch 1 cosmetics that are still great. The game is completely free overall and if you enjoy the game play you can get hours upon hours of entertainment without ever spending a dime.

I rather pay 50 Bucks (or even less, it was in sale pretty often) for the game and get all the future content for free, then paying every season for a shitty pass. And OW2 dont let you buy/earn almost nothing. i Still have ton of currency to buy almost every missing OW1 cosmetic, but i dont need to, cause every OW1 cosmetic i want i already got. Just by playing the game.

F2P Games + Battlepass are always shitty. Even worse are just something like Diablo 4, where you pay 70 bucks, have an ingameshop and a seasonpass.

You can defend it, because "you are not force to buy them" bla bla but it always feels bad to not able to get (new) cool cosmetics, without paying tons of money for totally worthless digital items.

Also you could argue "oh, but with the money that was spent for cosmetics you also get new maps, heroes and modes" - Yeah, cool, but to bad if you dont like specific modes/maps and are forced to play them or when they remove a gamemode + 5 maps on the other hand, that i really loved. Also dont forget the PvE Part that got cut and we dont even get new events anymore.

This game is a big failure if we talk about content & monetarization.

[Jester Joe]

I rather pay 50 Bucks (or even less, it was in sale pretty often) for the game and get all the future content for free, then paying every season for a shitty pass. And OW2 dont let you buy/earn almost nothing. i Still have ton of currency to buy almost every missing OW1 cosmetic, but i dont need to, cause every OW1 cosmetic i want i already got. Just by playing the game.

F2P Games + Battlepass are always shitty. Even worse are just something like Diablo 4, where you pay 70 bucks, have an ingameshop and a seasonpass.

You can defend it, because "you are not force to buy them" bla bla but it always feels bad to not able to get (new) cool cosmetics, without paying tons of money for totally worthless digital items.

Also you could argue "oh, but with the money that was spent for cosmetics you also get new maps, heroes and modes" - Yeah, cool, but to bad if you dont like specific modes/maps and are forced to play them or when they remove a gamemode + 5 maps on the other hand, that i really loved. Also dont forget the PvE Part that got cut and we dont even get new events anymore.

This game is a big failure if we talk about content & monetarization.

Of course if given the choice, almost everyone would pick to pay a little to get everything for nearly free instead, but that doesn't mean that model actually works for games that are constantly putting out new updates. If the trade off is you get the actual game for free and cosmetics cost money, that's better than the game just dying off because it doesn't make money anymore.

Diablo 4 is absolutely a bad situation, I'm not going to disagree with you there. The idea that the put forward was that it supports upcoming content but then they're still selling expansions and the seasonal content hasn't been enough to feel like it justifies it.

Free to play games with battle passes that are purely cosmetics is absolutely fine though. Especially if those battle pass rewards are able to be unlocked later still, which is something overwatch could improve on but it's getting there like with the mythic changes. It's especially reasonable in a game like overwatch where all you see of your character is the gun anyway unless you're playing like, Rein.

2CP still does exist, it's under arcade though because it shouldn't be anywhere near ranked due to how imbalanced it was throughout literally all of overwatch 1. And we do still get the same level of events for the most part, I don't know where you're getting the idea that we don't, unless you only count pve content but even then every Halloween has gotten new pve events. But basically every battle pass has had a unique PvP mode. We just had mirrorwatch with unique movesets, we had the ticket mode for the Le Sserfim event, battle for Olympus (custom moveset for free for all), Starwatch, and more that I'm probably forgetting.

We've been getting more content at a faster pace than overwatch 1 has given.

[Zuben]

Of course if given the choice, almost everyone would pick to pay a little to get everything for nearly free instead, but that doesn't mean that model actually works for games that are constantly putting out new updates. If the trade off is you get the actual game for free and cosmetics cost money, that's better than the game just dying off because it doesn't make money anymore.

Diablo 4 is absolutely a bad situation, I'm not going to disagree with you there. The idea that the put forward was that it supports upcoming content but then they're still selling expansions and the seasonal content hasn't been enough to feel like it justifies it.

Free to play games with battle passes that are purely cosmetics is absolutely fine though. Especially if those battle pass rewards are able to be unlocked later still, which is something overwatch could improve on but it's getting there like with the mythic changes. It's especially reasonable in a game like overwatch where all you see of your character is the gun anyway unless you're playing like, Rein.

2CP still does exist, it's under arcade though because it shouldn't be anywhere near ranked due to how imbalanced it was throughout literally all of overwatch 1. And we do still get the same level of events for the most part, I don't know where you're getting the idea that we don't, unless you only count pve content but even then every Halloween has gotten new pve events. But basically every battle pass has had a unique PvP mode. We just had mirrorwatch with unique movesets, we had the ticket mode for the Le Sserfim event, battle for Olympus (custom moveset for free for all), Starwatch, and more that I'm probably forgetting.

We've been getting more content at a faster pace than overwatch 1 has given.

Mm, people have been so pissed off about OW2's monetization (rightfully, it is greedy af in parts) that they've forgotten how dry the last three-ish years of OW1 were; Havana was the last relevant map in 2019 and Echo the last hero a year later. After that, there wasn't anything new to the game besides two Deathmatch maps and the seasonal events until OW2 finally came out.

I've been enjoying OW2 a lot once they ironed out some initial gripes I had. Gameplay feels better and I much prefer the one tank per team approach. I like Push the most after Escort/Hybrid, and Clash felt alright for the limited time we got to test it. Flashpoint was initially awful, but I've come around on it after giving it a fair shake.

I do hate that Assault was removed for OW2. I get why it was removed for Ranked, but they could've kept it for Unranked. The one in Arcade doesn't have role limitations, which can easily turn it into a shitshow. And being faded out like that means we also won't get new Assault maps. Honestly, I've always found Control the weakest mode in the rotation, Ilios pretty much being the only one I like. That mode should've been the one to remove instead of Assault imo.

Now, the monetization. They have made some concessions since 2022, but it still sucks. The in-game shop is supplied with skins costing 20€ a piece, and they even have the audacity to sell Highlights and other fluff for real money. Events largely place their legendary offerings behind a paywall, with sometimes one skin given out as a concession*. Compared to that, ponying up 10€ for a Battlepass, which always gives you 5 legendaries, a mythic, credits and fluff, ain't that bad of a deal. It's roughly the cost of a pint in a halfway decent bar in Finland. Except, I'm probably not buying it for S11, because all the skins are awful this time.

*These can sometimes be quite insulting, though. In the Cowboy Bebop event, we got a legendary Wrecking Ball skin... which was essentially just a rough recolor the way Epics usually are. "Legendary". Blizz has started to sneak in such offerings lately. Hashimoto Kiriko, which was in the in-game shop a while ago, was pretty much to that level of effort as well (though it was still dope).

Considering how lootboxes became outlawed in parts of the world, there was no way OW could've kept to the model. Battlepass was where live-service was trending towards, so OW1 would've switched to it even if OW2 had never been in the works. It sucks that we can't get multiple legendaries every event and then some by just diligently playing the game, like we could in OW1, but you get used to the new normal after a while. Or you quit the game.

All in all, I don't think they're asking too much if you have the mental fortitude to only pay for the premium BP and ignore the other, way less reasonable offerings. Nowadays, the free pass gives 600 coins per season too, so you can earn some spending currency by just playing.

I do think it's good that people have been vocal about their gripes all this time, because Blizz certainly wouldn't change things for the better, little by little, if nobody said anything.

[Darththeo]

Why this theme? Did they want a Super Sentai/Power Ranger crossover or something? It is just such a weird thing especially given Genji already HAS two Sentai themed skins.

Just weird.

Oh, and a Lifeguard set too for some reason? Like how does that relate? This just seems like a complete step down from the theming of the Mirrorwatch.

[Golden Yak]

Damn it, they stole my idea.