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Overwatch 2’ Winter Wonderland went live a few days ago and brought some returning game modes, new Legendary skins for heroes as well as the Winter Fair where players can grind out tickets for rewards. The Winter Fair has its own battle pass-style tracker. Here is all you need to know about the Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2023.
Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2023: Start and end dates
Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2023 launched on 19th December and will continue till 16th January 2024. While the official event will end on 9th January, the Winter Fair will continue till 16th January.
Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2023 Game Modes
Winter Wonderland 2023 brings back four Arcade game modes:
Mei’s Snowball Offensive
Snowball Deathmatch
Yeti Hunt
Freeze Flash Elimination (previously called Freezethaw Elimination)
In Mei's Snowball Offensive, players can use snowballs to take out opponents with a single blow, you'll need to use Cryo-Freeze and Ice Walls to protect yourself in order to stay in the game. If you miss, reload your shot and find new snow to vacuum up. When you launch your Ultimate and quickly fire multiple snowballs in succession, go into a frosty frenzy. Engage in a 5v5 Elimination Ruleset as a team or show off your skills as a lone snowball expert in a free-for-all Deathmatch.
Yeti Hunt is a 5v1 PVP brawl mode where a single player will play as the Yeti (Winston) to find meat scattered around the map, then go into a primal frenzy that will leave your opponents running for cover, while a team of five Mei will try to freeze, trap, and neutralize the Yeti.
Freeze-Flash Elimination is a frosty take on “freeze-tag.” In this elimination 5v5 game mode, heroes don’t get eliminated when they lose all of their health; instead, they’ll be frozen solid. It will be up to their teammates to thaw them without getting iced themselves. The team that can completely freeze the opponent team takes the round. The team to get first to three rounds wins.
Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2023 Skins
The following Winter Wonderland 2023 skins will be available during the event:
Winter Jammies Illari - 90 Event Tickets
Formalwear Baptiste- 90 Event Tickets
Formalwear Cassidy - 90 Event Tickets
Kerrigan Widowmaker - 160 Event Tickets
Wrapping Paper Reinhardt - 160 Event Tickets
Formalwear Tracer - 3000 Credits in Winter Fair Bundle
Formalwear Sojourn - 2100 Credits in Shop
The following skins are coming in the event but not all are currently part of the shop:
Jingle Belle Mercy
Nutcracker Pharah
Festive Kiriko
Overwatch 2 Winter Fair: How to Earn Event Tickets
During the 2023 Winter Wonderland event, you can earn Event Tickets by playing Overwatch. There are two ways to unlock Event Tickets:
Play Overwatch 2 games and unlock Event Tickets on the Event Pass "free track"
Purchase the Premium Upgrade for the Winter Fair Event Pass and unlock Event Tickets on the "premium track"
Every nine games of Overwatch 2 you play, you will earn 10 free Event Tickets and 30 premium Event Tickets (if you own the Premium Event Pass). Winning games counts as double progress.
Overwatch 2 Winter Wonderland 2023 Event Challenges
During the Winter Wonderland event in 2023 players can complete event challenges to earn extra Battle Pass XP towards completing your Battle Pass this season:
Earn a set of 10 Winter Fair Tickets - 10,000 XP
Complete 3 games of Freezethaw Elimination - 2500 XP
Complete 3 games of Yeti Hunt. - 2500 XP
Complete 3 games of Mei’s Snowball Offensive or Snowball Deathmatch - 2500 XP
Complete 8 games - 2500 XP
Complete 16 games - 2500 XP
Complete 24 games - 2500 XP
Complete 32 games - 2500 XP
