Overwatch 2 hit PlayStation, Xbox, Swap, and PC final October and with the one 12 months anniversary coming quickly, Blizzard has introduced its plans across the celebration. It can function returning occasion recreation modes, new challenges, returning skins, and a model new recreation mode known as Hero Mastery.
The anniversary celebration begins later this month on September 19 and brings loads of updates like hero tweaks, bug fixes, map modifications, and extra. However main the celebration cost is the aforementioned Hero Mastery. Blizzard describes it as “a brand new, single-player recreation mode that enables gamers to check their expertise with particular person heroes on customized programs” and it’s out there beginning right this moment. Every hero could be performed on three distinctive programs of accelerating issue, and you’ll unlock as much as 5 stars on every course. Hero Mastery programs are scored primarily based on time, eliminations, heals, escorts, and extra. Plus, every particular person hero has stat monitoring as effectively.
<img src="https://www.gameinformer.com/websites/default/recordsdata/kinds/body_default/public/2023/09/07/dc302728/ow2_2023_heromastery_missionsschedule_1920x1080.jpg" alt="Overwatch 2 Hero Mastery Mode September 19 One Yr Anniversary Celebration Begin Date Replace" class="image-style-body-default" />
Blizzard says gamers can accumulate all Mastery Emblems, however they’ll want to take action shortly as a result of Hero Mastery is a limited-time occasion. It additionally consists of unique rewards. Programs for Tracer, Reinhardt, and Mercy can be found now with programs for Sojourn, Winston, and extra going reside within the coming weeks.
When the anniversary celebration goes reside on September 19, it is going to convey with it returning modes like Battle for Olympus, Catch-A-Mari, Starwatch, and Mischief and Magic. It can additionally convey a ping system replace that makes it in order that “owned entities (reminiscent of Torbjorn’s Turret, Symmetra’s Teleporter, or Illari’s Therapeutic Pylong) now have a decrease precedence as ping targets than enemy heroes.”
This replace additionally features a ton of modifications to heroes like Zarya, Junker Queen, Orisa, Ashe, Bastion, and extra, alongside tweaks to maps like Dorado, New Junk Metropolis, and Suravasa. Head to Blizzard’s patch notes weblog publish for a full breakdown of all of the stability modifications coming to the sport’s heroes, maps, and extra.
<part class="kind:slideshow"><determine><img src="https://www.gameinformer.com/websites/default/recordsdata/kinds/entity_browser_thumbnail/public/2023/09/07/27b73f22/hero_mastery_mercy.jpg"></determine><determine><img src="https://www.gameinformer.com/websites/default/recordsdata/kinds/entity_browser_thumbnail/public/2023/09/07/f45ab7cb/hero_mastery_reinhardt.jpg"></determine><determine><img src="https://www.gameinformer.com/websites/default/recordsdata/kinds/entity_browser_thumbnail/public/2023/09/07/60166d99/hero_mastery_tracer.jpg"></determine></part>
Hero Mastery is now reside in Overwatch 2 and the one-year anniversary celebration begins later this month on September 19.
Whereas ready for the celebration to start out, learn Recreation Informer’s Overwatch 2 assessment after which try this story about how the sport is now out there on Steam. Try our hands-on impressions of Overwatch 2’s Invasion season after that.
Are you hopping into Hero Mastery? Tell us within the feedback beneath!
Supply: Recreation Informer
Publish Views:
187