Summary
The hotly anticipated 15th season ofOverwatch 2is now live and brings a wide variety of additions and changes to the game, including a UI alteration that has fans split on whether it’s an improvement. The latest season ofOverwatch 2is certainly a big one for the game, with the recent Overwatch Spotlight event getting fans excited over the addition of hero perks, the return of loot boxes, a selection of new cosmetics, and more.
The game’s latest season is an interesting one, bringingOverwatch 2yet another step closer to the original game in many ways while simultaneously evolving the experience into something unlike anything fans will have ever seen before. While the team behind the game has made it clear thatOverwatch 2will be seeing even further new contentlater in the year that will introduce even more ambitious styles of play, with the launch of Season 15, players will be able to try out the hero perks system for the first time. While there are plenty of examples, this will allow players to upgrade their hero’s abilities over the course of a match - for instance, being able to add armor to allies as Torbjorn by whacking them with a hammer.
While there are bound to be a good few hero perks that will soon have fans in hot debate, one minor change to the game has already caught the community’s attention. The change is purely an aesthetic one and replaces theOverwatch 2mode select screenwith one that more closely resembles the one featured in the originalOverwatch, mimicking the same card art style and font used in that game. It also now features Doomfist as the hero on the face of the competitive mode card instead of Winston, with the Arcade mode card replacing the Kiriko model with some cute art of an arcade claw machine, which uses Torbjorn’s cybernetic hand as the claw. A post shared online by PoggersMemesReturns shows off this updated menu screen.
Overwatch 2 Fans Are Split On Whether This UI Update is an Improvement
The new menu also shrinks the hero mastery mode into a smaller tab that sits on the side along with the custom games, PvE missions, and training tabs. This isn’t the first UI change thatOverwatch 2has introduced to help give its menus that distinctive classicOverwatchlook, with the game previously overhauling its main menu screen and restoring the old text font. However, fans are surprisingly split over this change, with some preferring thenew UI style thatOverwatch 2introducedwith its release.
Still,Overwatch 2does seem to be picking up a noticeable resurgence in popularity in light of its recent Spotlight livestream event. Thereturn of loot boxes toOverwatch 2is an update that fans are particularly pleased with and solves one of the game’s largest underlying issues by giving fans a method of reliably earning cosmetics for free.
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WHERE TO PLAY
Overwatch 2 is an always-on and ever-evolving free-to-play, team-based action game set in an optimistic future, where every match is the ultimate 5v5 battlefield brawl. Power up your railgun and disrupt the battlefield as Sojourn, or yield your axe and command attention as Junker Queen. Battle to take control of a robot and move it toward the enemy base in the new Push Mode. Bring the fight to new destinations across the globe in iconic locations like New York, Rome, Monte Carlo and Rio. Daily challenges and frequent updates mean there is always something new to play.
