Overwatch 2 players have been enjoying season three which went live yesterday. The patch that brought the season also made a lot of tweaks, and every hero has received some kind of balancing change. More details about that can be read in our previous article.
The update also added a brand-new map called Antarctic Peninsula. It contains an icebreaker ship that failed to rescue Mei-Ling Zhou, and an abandoned station, both of which are begging to be explored by players.
Streamers will be happy about the newly-added Streamer Protect option, a new feature that allows them to hide their personal information while streaming a match. The option can be found in the settings menu. Several more tweaks and improvements have been made with the highlights mentioned below.
- Improved Subtitles Options: text scalability, character portrait icons, speaker name, text color, background color, and subtitle preview in the options menu
- Added mouse cursor size setting for PC
- Added setting to select custom colors for Group and Alert colors in the UI. Preview feature added to preview custom colors in the accessibility options
- Added challenges to unlock “Silhouette” player icons for all heroes
- Added tracking for each of the roles for the Weekly “Role Mastery” challenge
- Added Ramattra unlock challenges
- Partial progress through the season three Battle Pass is now carried over to the “Wins for Ramattra” challenge
- Players can now endorse the opposing team
- All players can now be endorsed in Free-For-All game modes
- Players can view scoreboards from previous matches within the View Game Reports menu found in the History tab of the Career Profile
- Mystery heroes now limits each team to a maximum of three of each role. Example: You are Reinhardt in Mystery Heroes. Your team also includes Mercy, Ana, and Lucio. When you die, you cannot respawn as a Support hero because there are already three Support heroes on your team. You will either be respawned as a Damage or a Tank hero
- This new maximum role limit can be changed in Custom Games under Settings > Modes > All > Random Hero Role Limit Per Team,This setting only functions when the Respawn as Random Hero setting is enabled
- Overwatch Credits, which were previously labeled “Legacy Credits” and were not earnable in Overwatch 2, can now once again be earned through progressing in the Season 3 Battle Pass
- All players can earn up to 1500 credits as free rewards, and another 500 credits are available as premium rewards in the Season 3 Battle Pass
The complete patch notes of Overwatch 2 February 7 Patch is available on the official site.
