Overwatch 2 Season 3 Content Revealed: Loverwatch Dating Sim, One Punch Man Collab & More

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Overwatch 2 Season 3 kicks off later today (February 7), and Blizzard has now revealed all the content coming to Overwatch 2 in the new season along with the release schedule. Season 3 will bring the text-based Loverwatch Dating Sim for Valentine’s Day, a collab with One Punch Man, the return of Pachimarchi and the Overwatch World Cup, and much more (you can check out the complete Season 3 patch notes here).

Overwatch 2 Season 3 New Content & Balance Changes:

New Antarctic Peninsula Control Map:

Control gets its first new map in Overwatch 2 in the form of frosty Antarctica! The Antarctic Peninsula station is a lore-rich tundra with several stories yet to be told. This snow-themed Control map features some unique sights, including an ice-breaker ship, an underground drilling station and numerous flank routes.

Asian Mythology Theme & Kiriko Mythic Skin:

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Overwatch has long explored and celebrated real-life cultures from around the world, which can be seen in the roster of heroes from Korea, Japan, and China. Asian Mythology will be the theme for season three, featuring some of the most unique skins to date with special lore connections.

Complete the Premium Battle Pass, and you’ll unlock the Amaterasu Kiriko Mythic skin, inspired by various deities in Japanese mythology with customizations you can mix and match themed for the moon, the sea, and storms

More Rewards, More Often:

Season 3 will improve on the first two by offering even more rewards just for logging in and playing. You can look forward to 10 additional tiers of rewards on the free track, as well as 1500 Credits to earn and spend as you please in the Hero Gallery. 500 Credits have been added to the Premium track as well.

Nearly all Epic and Legendary event hero skins from the original Overwatch—300 total—have been added to the Hero Gallery and will always be available for purchase with either Overwatch Coins or Credits. The price of these Legendary skins has been lowered from 1900 Credits to 1500 Credits.

In total, four earnable skins will be offered outside of the Battle Pass through in-game events and the game will be granting players a heaping helping of other earnable and free cosmetics this season. These include a gold medal weapon charm for logging in at any point between February 7-February 20 to celebrate the Overwatch World Cup festivities, a Cupid Hanzo Player icon for logging in during our upcoming Ultimate Valentine’s event and an earnable Legendary OW2 skin later in the season from the IP collaboration.

All players will be granted the first five free tiers of rewards in their Battle Pass in season three just for logging in during the first week. And tune in for Twitch Drops throughout the season to support the streaming community and claim more fun cosmetics. In March, players can look forward to the returning PachiMarchi event, which includes even more rewards! More info on these events and their exact dates can be found below.

Loverwatch Dating Sim (Feb. 13-28) & Ultimate Valentine’s Event (Feb. 14-28):

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The Ultimate Valentine event kicks off on Valentine’s Day this year with a Hanzo 4v4 Limited Time Mode and Support-themed challenges that can net you two earnable epic skins, among other rewards. In another first for Overwatch 2, don’t miss out on the Loverwatch dating simulator, which launches on February 13!

Loverwatch is a non-canon text-based dating sim where players will choose between two potential dating paths: Mercy or Genji. Players will be presented with dialogue options to interact with that hero and will be assisted by Cupid (who looks suspiciously like Hanzo). Unlock the secret ending, and you’ll be rewarded with a themed POTG Highlight!

Once live, Loverwatch will be accessible at https://www.Loverwatch.gg and available on web client only. The experience will be playable until February 28 in Korean, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, and English. The full playthrough lasts roughly 30 minutes.

One-Punch Man Collaboration (March 7 – April 6):

100 pushups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and a 10-kilometer run! Every single day! Blizzard has been working with Japanese Anime “One-Punch Man” on its first-ever major IP collaboration for Overwatch 2 to bring One-Punch Man skins and cosmetics to the game this season! A collection of cosmetics has been created from the beloved anime, including a Saitama skin for Doomfist. Each item will be revealed before it drops on March 7, with one being a Legendary skin that’s earnable via themed challenges.

PachiMarchi Returns (March 21 – April 4):

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PachiMarchi is back with a new limited-time Kill Confirmed game mode and a ton of rewards, including an epic skin, six PachiMarchi player icons, a weapon charm, and name card! Claim a PachiMarchi Roadhog player icon just logging in during the event, and complete themed challenges to earn an Epic Pachimari Roadhog skin before the event ends on April 4.

Balance, Matchmaking, and Quality-of-Life Changes:

The full patch notes to kick off season three will be posted later today. Players can tune in to the Overwatch 2 Twitch today at 12:00 P.M. PT for an in-depth discussion of the Hero balance changes heading to the game later this week. Lead Hero Designer, Alec Dawson, and A_Seagull will break down who’s getting nerfed, who’s getting buffed, and what it means to players. In the meantime, here’s a short summary of the biggest changes:

  • The health totals for all tanks will be lower when playing any game mode that does not have a role queue to address the relative power of those heroes in game modes where there can be multiple of the same hero on the same team. Health totals will remain the same for tanks when playing any Role Queue enabled game.
  • Maximum ultimate charge retained when swapping heroes is reduced from 30 to 25%.
  • Mercy is receiving nerfs, and most supports have received minor balance changes.
  • Damaging enemies with Rammatra’s ultimate now slows the duration timer down instead of pausing it entirely.

Several quality-of-life changes have been made to matchmaking and competitive, as detailed in the recent blog. Here’s the gist:

  • The matchmaker will be updated so that roles on both teams will be similarly ranked. For example, mirroring tanks should more often have similar ranks than before, and likewise, for each respective role.
  • Your competitive rank will update with every 5 wins and 15 losses.
  • In the mid-season patch for season three, the UI will be updated so information about your progress towards a competitive update will always be viewable.
  • Also, beginning with the mid-season patch, Top 500 Leaderboard players will see their Top 500 leaderboard rank updated after every match rather than every 5 wins and 15 losses.

Looking ahead, in Season 4 Blizzard will be removing rank resets and rank decay as this has been a poor experience for some players and cause for churn.

Overwatch World Cup Celebration:

The stage is set! All 36 countries participating in the Overwatch World Cup have been announced, and the competition committee selection process is now underway. Follow Overwatch and Path to Pro on Twitter for updates as the final committee and player rosters are revealed through these channels. Check out the newly launched web experience for details on all the ways to get involved, including the upcoming World Cup Trials, the Wild Card Challenge which will qualify in additional teams, and the season three Leaderboard Challenges! More info on OWWC, including how and when to watch, will be shared throughout the year.

Workshop Returning & Moderation Tools:

Season three will bring back the advanced workshop tools for custom game creators to use. In doing this, the aim is to ensure that custom games remain safe and enjoyable for all players. As such, new moderation technology is being introduced that will automatically remove custom games containing inappropriate titles or content, along with issuing restrictions or actioning accounts of those who create and post those games. The recent Defense Matrix update has more information.

Streamer Mode & Accessibility Improvements:

Streamer Protection will be introduced starting in season three as well, which all players will be able to find and toggle on or off in the Social options within the Settings menu. Streamer Protection can set your personal client to hide your Battletag and the Battletags of everyone in your matches, your chat, your replay codes, the amount of time you’ve been in queue, and will allow for adding a delay to your queue before the game begins finding a match. For more information on streamer mode, also check out the recent Defense Matrix update.

Also added to the Settings menu are several accessibility improvements, outlined below:

  • Improved Subtitles Options to allow for text scalability, character portrait icons, speaker name, text color changes, background color changes, and subtitle preview.
  • Added the ability to change the mouse cursor size on PC.
  • Added a setting to select custom colors for Group and Alerts in the UI, which can be previewed before saving for easier setup.

Let us know what you think of Overwatch 2 Season 3’s new content and balance changes in the comments below. Best of luck on the battlefield!

Source: Overwatch Blog

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