Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch Lunar New Year event looks like it’s going to bring a ton of new content to the game.
A new video leaked on Chinese blogging site Weibo shows a ton of new skins and a potential new brawl mode. Skins on display in the leaked video include traditional garb for Mei and Symmetra, a gold and red skin for Mercy, with Journey to the West–styled skins for Winston, Zenyatta, Reinhardt, and Roadhog. Symmetra also appears to have a new highlight intro, with Tracer perhaps representing a new capture-the-flag style brawl mode.
And that still doesn’t include the traditional Korean dress D.Va was pictured in through a tweet sent out by Blizzard last week. Mei’s traditional outfit was also pictured last week in a different tweet announcing the Year of the Rooster event. Blizzard, however, has not confirmed that any of these will show up in the event, though their inclusion in their official tweets is a pretty good indication that they will be.
Blizzard confirmed to Polygon last week that Year of the Rooster would rival earlier events Halloween Terror and Winter Wonderland in scope, though details beyond that have been sparse. Tracer’s cameo in the leaked Overwatch video is likely a hint toward a new capture-the-flag style brawl, as she’s shown grabbing a flag from an objective point.
We don’t have too long to wait until the contents of the Year of the Rooster event are confirmed. The event launches tomorrow in Overwatch.
H/T Reddit
