Overwatch 2 Season 17 launch date, Powered Up Battle Pass skins, Map Voting and extra | Gaming | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Overwatch 2 followers are counting all the way down to the discharge of Season 17, which is coming to PlayStation, Xbox and PC.

The new Overwatch 2 season is titled Powered Up. It has one thing of an old-school online game really feel, one thing that’s mirrored within the Battle Pass rewards.

Overwatch 2 Seasob 17 has a June 24 launch date. Fans will be capable of try the brand new content material after downloading an replace, which is anticipated to go stay at round 5pm BST UK time.

The spotlight of the brand new season is the discharge of a brand new Battle Pass, full with new skins and different objects.

As you’ll be able to see from the image beneath, the Season 17 Premium Battle Pass options 8-bit Reinhardt, Genji, and Sombra skins, in addition to Delinquent Cole Cassidy and Professor Fawkes Junkrat from Overwatch Academy.

Additional rewards embrace Sakura Ana, two Legendary Loot Boxes, 500 Credits, a full vary of cosmetics like emotes, souvenirs, charms, title playing cards, voice strains and 80 Mythic Prisms to unlock the Mythic Horang D.Va Hero Skin, Mythic Steel Death Reaper Weapon Skin, or different Mythic content material.

Elsewhere, the Ultimate Battle Pass Bundle provides 20 Tier Skips, 2,000 Overwatch Coins, and two further Legendary skins: Principal Lacroix Widowmaker and Professor de Kuiper Sigma. There’s additionally a free Battle Pass containing a Legendary Loot Box, 600 Coins, 1,500 Credits, plus the Epic 8-bit Orisa and Zenyatta skins.

Speaking of rewards, the season will kick off with the Powered Up occasion from June 24 till June 30.

Blizzard explains extra: “Complete 17 matches in Quick Play, Competitive, or Stadium to earn 4 Epic Loot Boxes, with a guaranteed Legendary skin within.

“Progress tracks throughout Quickplay, Competitive, and Stadium, however doesn’t apply to Custom Games, Hero Mastery, or Practice vs AI.”

In terms of new content, Season 17 includes a big update to Stadium. Zenyatta, Sigma, and Junkrat are coming to Stadium, alongside new Stadium maps, including Esperança and Samoa.

“Strategy will run deeper because of expanded construct instruments and the debut of Stadium Forge: a create/save/share system to check and refine your group comps like a professional, which is able to embrace early and late sport instance loadouts for each Hero,” Blizzard continues.

Season 17 additionally introduces the primary Stadium rank reset. That’s on prime of Drives to reward constant efficiency, Custom Games for making your personal guidelines, plus contemporary All-Star rewards.

Elsewhere, Map Voting will lastly go stay Quick Play and Competitive. Fans can vote after the function queue locks. You’ll get three maps to select from, with the winner determined randomly.

Blizzard will disable group chat throughout voting, in addition to battle tags, and particular person voting.

Finally, the brand new season provides two new mythics, together with D.Va’s Mythic Horang Hero Skin and Reaper’s Mythic Steel Death Weapon Skin. Both mythics have 4 ranges to unlock.