The Anran Hero Trial has begun!
And with it, two new modifier indicators appear above players.
1. A progress bar towards Ignition
2. An Ignition status indicator icon
No similar HUD element appears for the person with the effect.
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A TON of #Overwatch2 UI news today. Excited to analyse in detail!
In the meantime, the UI in the live game has reverted to Overwatch instead of Talon - BUT the logo has officially removed the "2"!
Talon has taken control!
Various areas of the UI have been adapted to Talon's branding:
the main menu, the pause menu, and the Finding Game screen.
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Bonus: Post-match hero progression now displays earned rewards alongside your hero level, when applicable.
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Bonus: Post-match statistics can show other categories, especially in Arcade modes. If a category does not have a custom icon defined, it falls back to the Overwatch icon.
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Season 20 now prioritises Favourites in the Select Skin menu during Hero Select and shows the star indicator, making it easier to find your favourite skins.
The currently equipped skin appears at the very top, even if not marked favourite.
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Season 20 reintroduces the "environmental kill" indicator that has been missing since Overwatch 1.
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Overwatch 2 Season 20 post-match Summary: DPS, Hero 1
Overwatch 2 Season 20: Support
Overwatch 2 Season 20: Tank
Overwatch 1 post-match Summary
Season 20 updates the post-match Summary screen with Player Cards, progression & additional (generic) stats for each character played, similar to the Game Reports screen.
Combined stats are still available via the Scoreboard.
This reintroduces concepts previously seen in Overwatch 1.
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Additionally, a Story button has appeared in the Finding Game screen, alongside existing modes.
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Wuyang's ultimate ability, Tidal Blast, now displays a countdown on the target player. This makes it easier to time positioning.
It uses similar text to Tracer's ultimate.
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All legacy progression has been moved to a new Legacy screen on the Career Profile, including Overwatch 1 Hero Level. This contains all the #Overwatch2 Progression 1.0 menus: Showcase, Heroes, Roles, and Game Modes. Levels displayed, even for heroes, are not updated based on Progression 2.0 stats.
The S19 mid-season patch introduces a new Story screen, available from the main menu.
It contains 1 cinematic, 3 motion comics, 2 hero trailers, and 1 lore drop, plus 2 empty slots.
The video player itself is the same barebones one used in other areas, with just a pause/play button.
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An additional tab is added alongside the scoreboard labelled Game Mode Info, which describes the full list of masks selected across both teams and their modifiers.
The enemy's masks are hidden for the first few seconds of the game.
Your personally selected mask is visible in Hero Info with a summary of the modifiers, and next to your health bar.
Once loaded in, you can browse *all* Halloween masks and their modifiers, filtered by role.
If a mask grants a bonus for your chosen hero, it glows.
The Haunted Masquerade event mode brings some unique UI elements worth mentioning!
On first launch, you are informed how the mode works, with a fun spooky background.
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In Stadium, numbers for healing and damage (excluding shields) now appear above players, with the initial hit displayed larger.
These can be customized or disabled via Controls → Stadium → Stadium Combat Text. This includes opacity and text size.
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The context menu for an enemy player with a private career profile. The menu item for View Career Profile is missing.
The context menu for an enemy player with a visible career profile. The menu item for View Career Profile is after Avoid as Teammate and before Mute Voice.
The "View Career Profile" menu item now disappears from the context menu when a player's profile is marked as Private.
This is unlike other menu items which simply grey out when unavailable but matches the behaviour of View Steam Profile (which only appears for Steam accounts).
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While rank portraits are displayed in the kill cam HUD, they are without the hero level portrait. This means the Player Card displayed during the kill cam does not entirely match the HUD.
Additionally, neither hero nor rank portraits appear in match replays.
Competitive Rank & Portraits are now displayed in Hero Select & Kill Cam for those who have completed placements.
Competitive portraits appear *on top* of hero portraits, providing an enhanced, combined look.
Unranked players only display the hero portrait, and no hero level text.
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The Mythic Skin Shop now displays icons representing which cosmetics are available at each level, similar to Mythic Weapons. This is not displayed for fully unlocked Mythics.
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Season 19. Grid of Damage is 6 across, with 3 rows full and only Widowmaker in the final row.
Season 18. Grid of Damage is 5 across, with Torbjorn, Tracer, Venture, and Widowmaker in the final row.
The grid of DPS heroes in the Hero Gallery has been adjusted again, now with 6 columns instead of 5. This change can also be seen in Hero Challenges and Hero Controls.
Portraits for all heroes were made smaller as a result.
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For Competitive, Hero Skill Rating Predicted Rank now appears in the Career Profile.
This was previously hidden until placement was finished.
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Bonus: In Stadium, this new panel shows how modifies affect your base statistics.
The Stadium Armory has moved Items into their own menu with additional sub-menus.
Gadgets and Filtering have been added. Filtering is similar to Hero Gallery filters, with options for stats, cost, and more. Sorting is by Cost (low/high) by default. Filters do not affect other tabs.
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Bats fly out when hovering over Haunted Masquerade in the Main Menu.
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Hero Info now includes additional core information about heroes, including:
Health (in its various forms), regeneration, melee damage, and move speed - with visuals!
Advanced Hero Info is still not available in the Hero Gallery.
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Season 19. Large: Haunted Masquerade (event, orange), Play, Heroes, Shop, Battle Pass. Small: Loot Boxes, Progression, Challenges, Social.
Season 18.
The priority of items in the Main Menu has changed again.
Progression has been bumped to the secondary list, after Loot Boxes.
Social has moved below Challenges.
This is the third time Social has been moved down in 2. It used to be first. In OW1, it was third, after OWL & Highlights.
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Team Text Chat Color can now be customized, under Social → Text Chat.
While the Patch Notes specify every text chat color and Comms/Pings can also be customized, this does not seem to be available in-game at the moment.
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