Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2020 gives Mei her best and cutest skin

The Overwatch 3.02 update patch notes bring the yearly Winter Wonderland to the game. It may not have a ton of new content, but it does have more than a few fresh skins. Mei’s penguin skin is the most eye-catching of the lot because of how much it matches her character. Here are all of the skins included in the event as well as the other balance changes.

Overwatch 3.02 Update Patch Notes | Winter Wonderland 2020 start and end date

Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2020 gives Mei her best and cutest skin

The Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2020 start date is December 14 and the end date is January 5. This gives players just a few weeks to grab what cosmetics they can. The typical suite of Evolve-like Yeti Hunt and Mei’s snowball fight will cycle in the arcade as well. There’s also the new Freezethaw Elimination mode where two teams of four face off and instead of dying, dead players turn into a block of ice. Teammates can thaw their frozen allies, which should encourage teamwork.

Overwatch 3.02 Update Patch Notes | Winter Wonderland 2020 skins

There are 10 Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2020 skins (and will be coming in a slideshow quite soon). These can be purchased for 3,000 coins or earned through loot boxes. They are:

Penguin Mei (legendary)
Toybot Zennyatta (legendary)
Conductor Reinhardt (legendary)
Ice Empress Moira (legendary)
Lumberjack Torbjörn (legendary)
Elf Junkrat (Week 1 challenge) (epic)
Gingerbread Ana (Week 2 challenge) (epic)
Frosty Roadhog (Week 3 challenge) (epic)

Overwatch 3.02 Update Patch Notes | Priority Pass

Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2020 gives Mei her best and cutest skin

The new Priority Pass system is supposed to address the imbalance of queue times between roles. When playing Flex, people will earn passes by playing (and get more by winning). These can be cashed in to high-demand roles like Damage to jump in the queue. It’s a way to reward those who usually play Tank or Healer. This does not apply to a group of five or more people.

Full Overwatch 3.02 update patch notes

WINTER WONDERLAND 2020

Overwatch Winter Wonderland is back. Unwrap new cosmetics, earn weekly rewards, and freeze your foes in the new 4v4 holiday brawl, Freezethaw Elimination!

Celebrate the season with Winter Loot Boxes. Unlock festive new seasonal items—including legendary skins like Conductor Reinhardt, Ice Empress Moira, and Penguin Mei—along with wintery items from previous years. Plus, play the returning Snowball Deathmatch, Yeti Hunter, and Snowball Offensive holiday brawls!

GENERAL UPDATES

New Feature: Priority Pass

In an effort to help address the population imbalance between Tank, Support, and Damage roles, and the longer queue times that Damage players often encounter due to this imbalance, we’re introducing the new Priority Pass feature. Players can earn Priority Passes by choosing Flex when they queue, with more passes earned for wins than for losses. Use a Priority Pass to decrease queue time for a role currently experiencing higher traffic.

Priority Passes may not be used when playing a group of 5 or more. Since we try to pair large parties against other large parties, and parties this large already contain a good balance of roles, we do not anticipate that using a Priority Pass would actually reduce queue times. As such, we don’t want players to waste their passes if this wouldn’t have a noticeable effect towards the feature’s goal.

Feature Update: Replay Viewer Custom Spectator Options

We have added a new options menu to the Replay Viewer, accessible via the Media Controls. Our goal is to give our players more control over how the Replay Viewer looks and behaves in order to navigate replays more easily, as well as make awesome content! These additional settings include the ability to independently toggle UI elements, modify player outline strength, disable objective capture sounds, and adjust the spectator camera behavior. We’ve also added 0.75x and 1.75x playback speeds to give you finer control.

New Options:

Team 1 Banner
Team 1 Heroes
Team 2 Banner
Team 2 Heroes
Status Messages
Playback Indicators
Game Mode Specific HUD
Kill Feed
Player Names
Player Health Bars
Player Outline Strength
First-Person Health
First-Person Ultimate Meter
First-Person Ability and Weapon Info
First-Person Crosshair
First-Person Hero HUD
First-Person Activity Feed
Objective Capture Sounds
Time Skip Interval Length
FOV Change Per Zoom
FOV Interpolation Rate
Maximum Free Camera FOV

General

Mix of game sounds has been adjusted to give third person footsteps more prominence

WORKSHOP UPDATES

New Workshop Features

[PC-Only] Inspector Log File

When the setting Enable Workshop Inspector Log File [PC-ONLY] is enabled, any log entries written to the Inspector Log will be written out to a local file on disk. When the custom game ends (or if you disconnect), the current log file will close. A new log file will be opened each time you are in a new custom game that writes out a log line via Log To Inspector.

New Workshop Values

String Slice

BUG FIXES

General

Fixed a bug that caused the health display for heroes with a small amount of damage to appear at full health
Fixed a bug that caused the “Default to Friends” option on the competitive leaderboards to not persist between game sessions
Fixed a bug that caused the “Leave as Group” option while leaving games to not persist between game sessions
Fixed a bug with Role Queue Beta season stats displaying the same ratings for all roles
Fixed a bug that allowed some damage-over-time abilities to charge certain heroes’ ultimate abilities during the duration of their activated ultimate ability
Fixed a bug that caused pain exertion sounds to not trigger properly

Maps

Eichenwalde

Fixed a bug that caused broken Castle doors to disappear from the game client after a player respawn

Ilios

Fixed a bug that allowed players to land on an unintended map location

Temple of Anubis

Fixed a bug that caused the first capture point to have a higher capture point volume than intended

Heroes

Baptiste

Fixed a bug that resulted in his left forearm animating incorrectly during his Scout emote

D.Va

Fixed a bug that would allow D.Va to use Call Mech immediately after ejecting from her mech in rare conditions

Echo

Fixed a bug that caused her hero portrait to reflect a cloned unit during end of round flows of PvE game modes
Fixed a bug that would cause her to become stuck in the previous spawn point

Sigma

Fixed a bug with his Medal victory pose that would cause him to clip into allies during specific victory lineups

Sombra

Fixed a bug with Sombra’s hair animation not appearing correctly during her “Hacked” victory pose

Widowmaker

Fixed a bug that caused her to spawn with an abnormal amount of health

Wrecking Ball

Fixed a bug that caused the length of his grapple ability to be shorter than normal
Fixed a bug that caused the camera to appear beneath the ground if Wrecking Ball shifts into ball mode while his model is still loading