Summary
- The 2024 edition of the Overwatch 2 Winter Wonderland event offers more free skin rewards than any prior iteration of the promo.
- Starting December 19, players can earn new skins for Marionette, Cassidy, and Widowmaker by completing a total of nine games in Arcade, Quick Play, or Competitive modes. That's on top of the Hanzo Casual skin that's been available since December 10.
- The latest Overwatch 2 Winter Wonderland will run until January 6, 2025.
The recently started Overwatch 2 Winter Wonderland event will soon offer players a chance to earn more reward skins than any prior iteration of this promo. While the event itself is already ongoing, Overwatch 2 players will need to wait a few more days until they're able to start working toward unlocking all of its rewards.
Winter Wonderland has been part of the hero shooter's seasonal rotation since the game's 2016 beginnings. The ninth edition of the classic Overwatch event initially kicked off on December 10.
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Following the recent launch of Overwatch 2 Season 14, Blizzard shared some new details about Winter Wonderland, including the confirmation that some of its content has yet to debut. Starting December 19, players will have a chance to earn three free hero skins, thrice as many as Winter Wonderland normally offers. One of them is the Merry Marionette Echo Legendary skin, which will be awarded for completing three games in Arcade, Quick Play, or Competitive modes. The reward for completing six games during the event period will be a new Legendary skin for Cassidy, featuring the Damage hero in a festive-looking sweater. Finally, completing nine games will award the player with a sleek white outfit for Widowmaker.
Overwatch 2 Winter Wonderland 2024 Also Features Login Rewards, Winter Brawls, and More
These three cosmetics, all of which come with Highlight Intros, are offered on top of the Hanzo Casual skin that Overwatch 2 players have been able to unlock by completing Winter Wonderland challenges since December 10. The ongoing event also introduces additional login rewards, including new snowflake and party hat icons, as well as a cute Darumari souvenir trinket.
Moreover, the Overwatch 2 Arcade mode has been expanded for the duration of the event, bringing back three of its popular winter brawls: Mei's Snowball Offensive, Mei's Yeti Hunt, and Freeze Flash Elimination. Mei's Snowball Offensive is a chaotic 5v5 experience in which every hit results in an elimination, requiring players to defend themselves with Cryo-Freeze and Ice Walls. Mei's Yet Hunt is a 5v1 PvP mode where the player controlling a Yeti will have to find meat scattered across a map to trigger a devastating primal frenzy, all the while the other five players are trying to stop them. Freeze Flash Elimination is a freeze tag game with non-permanent eliminations, where players that get frozen can thaw out and get back into the fray.
Additionally, the 2024 Winter Wonderland debuts a new Happy Holly Mercy bundle, which is available in the in-game shop starting December 17. Exclusive Twitch drops and the beginning of 6v6 gameplay experiments are also part of the ongoing Overwatch 2 event, which is planned to conclude on January 6.
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