Overwatch 2 Season 13 patch notes: My Hero Academia collab, Halloween Terror, and more

The Overwatch 2 Season 13 patch notes are here, and with the latest season, players are all set to experience a fun few weeks of gameplay. From the My Hero Academia collaboration to the addition of brand-new game modes, the upcoming season has a fair bit of content for players to check out in the game.

This article provides players with a detailed brief on the Overwatch 2 Season 13 patch notes.

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Overwatch 2 Season 13 patch notes (October 2024)

OVERWATCH 2 X MY HERO ACADEMIA©

Choose heroism or villainy with the latest Overwatch 2 collaboration featuring exclusive skins inspired by My Hero Academia’s iconic characters. Battle as a hero of justice with Tracer as Deku, Reinhardt as All Might, and Juno as Uravity, or create chaos with Reaper as Tomura Shigaraki and Kiriko as Himiko Toga.

Don’t miss the Mega Bundle for the ultimate My Hero Academia collection—available for a limited time only, October 17-30.

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HALLOWEEN TERROR 2024

This Halloween, the Halloween Terror event delivers a spooky good time with both brand-new and returning game modes. Experience the eerie madness of Junkenstein’s Laboratory, a fast-paced Team Deathmatch where you can enhance your heroes with powerful cursed talent cards. Then return to the chilling co-op adventure of Junkenstein’s Revenge, battling hordes of zombie Omnics and monstrous bosses.

Finally, uncover the terrifying secrets of Adlersbrunn in Wrath of the Bride, a gripping PvE experience filled with puzzles, haunted castles, and jump scares. Face the frights and conquer the terror!

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HERO MASTERY MODE - CASSIDY & BRIGITTE

Two new heroes will test their skills in Hero Mastery. Starting on October 31st through to November 12th, you’ll have a chance to perfect your skills with Cassidy’s Peacekeeper or bash bots of the edge with Brigitte’s Shield Bash. Complete exclusive challenges through to earn new exclusive rewards and bonus Battle Pass XP as you test your skills in these new courses with Overwatch 2 Season 13 patch notes.

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GENERAL UPDATES

Interactive Scoreboard added with Overwatch 2 Season 13 patch notes

To give players easier access to social features, especially on controllers, we’ve added the ability to interact with the Scoreboard. The Interactive Scoreboard is intended to make reporting faster and easier, but also to improve your social experience through whatever channels you prefer to communicate in or avoid entirely. The following features are now accessible via Interactive Scoreboard:

• Adjusting Mic Volume of other players
• Adjusting your Mic Volume
• Reporting other players
• Joining/Leaving Team Voice Chat
• Joining/Leaving Group Voice Chat
• Muting Team Text Chat
• Muting Match Text Chat
• Muting Text Chat of other players

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Matchmaking Updates with Overwatch 2 Season 13 patch notes

• Tuning changes to reduce queue times for Wide matches in Competitive Play.
• Loss Streak avoidance tuned down to prevent cases where it could increase worst case scenario queue times.

Developer Comments: We’re not seeing any measurable impact from this tech in preventing loss streaks and we’re concerned it might be making queue times longer. So we’re scaling it back for now.

• Role Delta tuning tightened, to try to match Ranks on the roles on each team more closely.

Developer Comments: We believe that match quality improves significantly when you are matched closely with one of the members on the opposing team in the same role. We believe we can tighten this preference without significantly impacting queue times.

• Role Delta has been updated to prioritize the Tank Role above other roles.

Developer Comments: We’ve been thinking about how to improve the Tank experience from every angle, to give them more even matchups and reduce 1-sided matches for the whole team further.

• At higher Ranks the effects of MMR Decay, Winning Trend, Losing Trend, and Calibration have been reduced.

Developer Comments: At our highest ranks these modifiers could sometimes allow very high skill players playing on new accounts to get lucky and surpass their peak ranks considerably, without actually earning their new rank like other players that have played more on their accounts.

• At higher Ranks the matchmaker now takes into account the benefits of grouping when constructing matches.

Developer Comments: At the highest ranks, groups have had noteworthy advantages against teams composed of all solo players for some time now. Our aim with this addition isn’t to remove the advantage of grouping at higher ranks entirely, but we’d like the advantage of grouping at higher ranks to be less extreme.

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Public Custom Games

• Hosting Public Custom Games now requires Endorsement Level 3 as per Overwatch 2 Season 13 patch notes.

Developer Comments: A reminder that we’ve been actioning accounts that post disruptive content in the Game Browser and we’re serious about removing problematic players that don’t follow our Code of Conduct. Whenever an account is actioned for a social penalty, they’re reduced to Endorsement Level 0, so the combination of social actions and this feature will allow for one chance to change their behavior before they’re permanently banned. Anyone that is below Endorsement Level 3 can still host games with the “Friends” or “Invite Only” settings, but they will not have access to the “Everyone” setting.

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Streamer Mode

• Access to the “Hide My Name” function of Streamer Mode now requires completing the “Unrelenting Hero” Lifetime Challenge.

Developer Comments: We’ve been listening to community feedback that newer accounts should be required to earn access to the feature, but it’s important that this feature can’t be abused by various types of disruptive players that tend to play on very new accounts. As a reminder, the “Hide My Name” feature does not prevent disruptive players from being punished when they’re reported since we know their actual battle tag behind the scenes.

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Challenges Updates

• Select challenges are now visible in the Main Menu.

Developer Comments: Challenges are now in the main menu to highlight their rewards, primarily for new Event Challenges.

• Challenge Rewards can now be inspected in detail in the Challenges Menu with Overwatch 2 Season 13 patch notes.

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SHOP UPDATES

• Mythic Skin Aspects Add-on Cosmetic is now added to the Mythic Shop with Overwatch 2 Season 13 patch notes.
• Overwatch League Store tab was removed and replaced by a separate button in the bottom of the main Shop tab with the Overwatch 2 Season 13 patch notes.

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COMPETITIVE UPDATES

Top 500

The requirements to appear on the Top 500 Leaderboard have changed, according to the Overwatch 2 Season 13 patch notes:

• Win requirement per season reduced from 50 to 25.
• The Seasoned Competitor challenge (750 lifetime wins in Competitive Play) is now required to be completed to be eligible for any Top 500 Leaderboard starting in Season 12.

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