Overwatch 2’s first double XP weekend begins tomorrow however it could not assist as a lot as you hope

Overwatch 2 acquired off to a tough begin when it launched on October 4, and so to make up for it Blizzard promised to carry “a number of” double XP weekends. Dates weren’t introduced on the time, however right now Blizzard revealed that the primary double match XP weekend begins tomorrow.

The primary double match XP weekend will start at 11 am PT/2 pm ET on October 21 and run till the identical time on October 24. The second weekend will observe every week later, starting on October 28 and operating till October 31, whereas the third will kick off on November 24 and go till November 28—all of them starting and ending on the similar, time, 11 am PT/2 pm ET.

Does three double XP weekends depend as “a number of?” I envisioned it as implying extra, perhaps 4 or 5, however the good factor about utilizing the phrase “a number of” is that it actually does not lock you all the way down to something: Dictionary.com defines it as which means “greater than two however fewer than many,” which in fact compels us to outline “many,” which means “constituting or forming a big quantity; quite a few.” In different phrases, “a number of” means “greater than two” and that is what we have right here, so I assume Blizzard has formally delivered.

Nonetheless, response to the date announcement on Reddit was not overly optimistic. A number of customers complained that it was a really low effort at recompense on Blizzard’s half; others identified that solely match XP is being doubled, whereas each day and weekly challenges (the stuff that offers you by far probably the most battle move XP) will proceed to ship the common quantity. 

“Each day and weekly [challenge] XP ranges you up actually 10x quicker than match XP,” g0atmeal wrote. “So except you grind for hours in a single sitting, this would possibly not make a lot of a distinction.”

Blizzard additionally introduced right now that Halloween Terror will return to Overwatch starting on October 25. Particulars on that weren’t introduced, however earlier Halloween Terror occasions included new cosmetics, weekly icon, spray, and pores and skin rewards, and the Junkenstein’s Revenge co-op horde mode.