Overwatch 2Just in time for Halloween, the next spooky, supernatural season of Overwatch will be full of fresh costume changes for Overwatch’s heroes. The game’s annual holiday event, Halloween Terror, returns this October, remixed and reinvigorated with a new spooky PvP mode.
And during season 13 of Overwatch 2 does not contain any new maps or a new hero, existing maps will change and players will get their first look at Season 14’s new hero – the tank that was teased at BlizzCon last year – if Blizzard’s latest teaser is any indication.
Here’s something Overwatch 2 what players can expect next season.
When does Overwatch 2 season 13 start?
Overwatch 2 Season 13 begins on Tuesday, October 15th. Blizzard’s new seasons usually start at 2:00 p.m. EDT/11:00 a.m. PDT in the United States, so we can expect something similar for the start of season 13. This means the update is expected to be available at these times:
- 11am PDT for the west coast of North America
- 2:00 p.m. EDT for the east coast of North America
- 7:00pm BST for Great Britain
- 8 p.m. CEST for Paris
- 3am JST on October 16 for Tokyo
What’s new in Overwatch 2 Season 13?
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Season 13, known as Spellbinder, will bring a new Battle Pass, a new crossover with My Hero Academiaand the return of the Halloween terror Overwatch 2. Blizzard is pushing new Mythic cosmetics this season, with a new Mythic Spellbinder skin for Widowmaker, a new Mythic weapon for Soldier:76, and new gilded aspects for existing Mythic Hero skins, offering new black and gold colorways.
Overwatch 2The new Battle Pass will include the standard 80 reward tiers, including the legendary Bog Witch Ana, Necrotic Witch Junker Queen, Witchbane Sojourn, Gnome Torbjorn and Monstrous Sigma skins as part of the pass’s premium track. More spooky and supernatural skins will be coming to the store in keeping with the Halloween season, including new looks for Ashe, Illari, Kiriko, Mercy, Symmetra, Tracer and Winston.
This season My Hero Academia Crossover runs from October 17th to 30th and includes the following crossover skins: Deku Tracer, Uravity Juno, All Might Reinhardt, Himiko Toga Kiriko, and Tomura Shigaraki Reaper. A Mega Bundle contains all five skins and bundle-exclusive cosmetics.
Halloween Terror 2024 runs from October 15th to November 4th and includes a new, fast-paced team deathmatch mode called Junkenstein’s Laboratory. The mode will feature a system called “Cursed Talent Cards,” which will grant Overwatch heroes new abilities. Previous co-op modes from past Halloween terror events – Junkenstein’s Revenge and Wrath of the Bride – also return with new challenges and bosses.
What’s changing in Season 13 of Overwatch 2?
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Four maps will be updated this season: Numbani, Circuit Royal, Dorado and Havana. A fair bit of work has been done on all four maps, but one consistent change is that Blizzard has changed the area around the attacking team’s spawn on each map.
Additionally, Overwatch 2The squad will soon be expanded with a new tank. While this unnamed tank, the game’s 13th, probably won’t go live until Season 14, there’s a good chance players will get a look at it in Season 13. In fact, Blizzard teased the new Scottish-sounding hero in the game’s Season 13 trailer. If the new tank is released for a limited time playtest like Mauga and Juno, we may see it in the game sometime in November.
Overwatch 2 is available for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X.