Overwatch 2 begins its 13th season, two years after the game first launched. As usual for odd-numbered seasons, it’s a little bit lighter on content, but there’s a lot going on with cosmetics in season 13’s spooky, witchy theme.
While there are no new heroes or maps, we’re getting the usual suite of new content — a new mythic skin, battle pass skins, shop skins — as well as some updates to four of the game’s maps. Season 13 also gives us some long-overdue upgrades to the scoreboard, allowing people to mute and report other players directly from the scoreboard.
Spellbinder Widowmaker mythic skin
Widowmaker is the latest hero to get a seasonal mythic skin, following fellow damage heroes Ashe and Reaper the past two seasons. The skin presents Overwatch’s aloof sniper as an apprentice alchemist, and upgrades to the skin include custom effects like a fiery witch hat and lightning-infused grappling hook line.
Soldier: 76 will also get a mythic weapon skin named Deliverance later this season, but we won’t get more details or previews until closer to the midseason patch next month (though we do seemingly get a glimpse of it in the key art for season 13).
Does the fiery hat burn nearby enemies?
Gilded Aspects for mythic skins
Are you bored with your mythic skins? Do you enjoy black-and-gold aesthetics? Still looking for something to do with the Mythic Prisms you’ve earned in the premium battle pass? If you answered yes to any of those questions, Overwatch would like to introduce you to Gilded Aspects, a new feature for mythic skins that paints the heroes in a black base with shiny golden accents that look to pair nicely with gold weapons.
It’s a nice touch for anyone who doesn’t love the color options in a mythic skin, but it’s now the third thing — joining mythic skins and mythic weapon skins — that you have to buy with mythic prisms, which you can acquire only in the premium battle pass or by purchasing with cash.
Gilded Aspects trade some of the color of mythic skins for a more even design.
My Hero Academia collaboration
Overwatch 2 knows its players enjoy their anime, based on the previous One Punch Man and Cowboy Bebop collaboration cosmetics. This season, we’re going to superhero school with My Hero Academia skins in the shop for Reinhardt, Tracer, Juno, Kiriko and Reaper. There will also be event challenges that let you earn other MHA cosmetics.
Another season, another shop skin for Kiriko.
Map reworks
After finally removing the glass from Colosseo, Overwatch’s map designers have been hard at work with other map renovations, with four updates dropping this season. Escort maps Circuit Royale, Dorado and Havana are getting new ramps and access points, and hybrid map Numbani receives a similar treatment. These reworks should make it easier for all heroes to access various points of the map, meaning heroes with vertical mobility are no longer must-picks on certain maps.
This iconic Dorado high ground is now easier for the attacking team to access.
Halloween Terror returns with new Junkenstein’s Laboratory mode
If you like the classic Junkenstein’s Revenge PVE game mode or Overwatch 2’s Wrath of the Bride mode, you’ll get to play them from the start of the season until Nov. 4. This year, you’ll also get to play a new PVP game mode where heroes have talent cards that alter your abilities — something we were originally promised for Overwatch 2’s PVE but never ultimately got when the limited PVE modes eventually launched.
