This year Blizzard was fairly quiet about the Overwatch Halloween Terror event, in fact, the company didn’t release an official announcement until yesterday, saying the event would kick off on Tuesday, October 15. This morning, game patches deployed and the Halloween Terror website updated giving us a look at this year’s event dates, skins, and more.
This year’s event will run through November 4, 2019, and in addition to the return of the wave-based cooperative mode Junkenstein’s Revenge, this year’s event will also feature three weekly challenges allowing players to unlock exclusive sprays, icons, and spooky skins for Junkrat, Baptiste, and Sombra.
Week one will run from October 15-21 and is centered around the new skin Inferno Junkrat. Win three games in Quick Play, Competitive Play, or the Arcade and you’ll unlock the Inferno Player Icon, six games will unlock the Inferno Spray, and nine games will unlock the Inferno Junkrat Skin.
The second week of challenges will run from October 22-28 and will revolve around a new Vampire Baptiste skin. Like Junkrat, winning three, six, or nine games in Quick Play, Competitive Play, or the Arcade will progressively unlock the Player Icon, spray, and skin.
Finally, during week three, players will have the chance to unlock the previously released BlizzCon Virtual Ticket exclusive Demon Hunter Sombra Skin. The skin and corresponding Player Icon and spray will be able to be unlocked between October 29 and November 4.
In addition to the three skins available through Weekly Challenges, Blizzard has unveiled six new Halloween-themed skins: Demon Orisa, Pharaoh Ana, Scorpion Widowmaker, Warlock Ashe, Will-O’-Wisp Tracer, and Gorgon Lucio. Check out each of the new skins below!
In addition to new skins, players will also be able to unlock or obtain other through loot boxes a new emote for Zenyatta and new highlight intros for Ashe and McCree. Of course, all past Halloween Terror emotes, sprays, highlight intros and voice lines will also be available during the event. You can get all of the details on this years event and view all of the skins, emotes, and intros, including ones from years passed at PlayOverwatch.com .
