Overwatch 2 Season 4: Release Date, Start Time, New Hero, and Battle Pass News

The Overwatch 2 Season 4 Gameplay trailer will go live at 4:55 PM BST.

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"Overwatch 2's latest support Hero is Lifeweaver, an intelligent and curious adventurer who plans to use his biolight technology to make the world a better place. Lifeweaver will shift the dynamic of every fight by providing cover, leveraging his mobility, and impacting positioning in ways we’ve never seen before."

Players can get acquainted with Lifeweaver’s ability kit in the Gameplay Trailer ahead of his debut.

It's also been confirmed that Season 4 will start on April 11.

If you're craving more info about Overwatch Season 4 and the new support hero, Lifeweaver, then stand by.

According to Overwatch Cavalry, the Overwatch 2 Season 4 Launch Trailer will be released on April 6 at 11:55 AM EST | 08:55 AM PST

Here's your first look at Overwatch 2's new support hero, Lifeweaver:

In the event you needed a refresher on that new hero coming to the game in Season 4.

Season 4 STILL doesn't have an official release date (although we're expecting it to be roughly April 11), but Blizzard has announced a few broad changes coming into effect with Season 4. You can read the full blog post on the link. But we've got the main points, just down below:

• "To start, DPS Heroes lost their speed passive, and a number of flanking Heroes got nerfed. We also added survivability to Support Heroes, buffing their Role Passive as well as making changes to specific Heroes to increase their durability– Changes like Zenyatta's kick and Brigitte's shield buff are examples of this working well, while some, like Mercy’s Guardian Angel changes, we believe we overcorrected (something you’ll see addressed in Season 4). The way we went about these changes was to preserve the play style of Support while still addressing the core issues. With what we’ve learned since launch, we feel like the Support role is in a much better place now, and will continue to improve as we add two new Heroes to their ranks in Seasons 4&6"
• "Players have provided a lot of feedback on the reworked system that launched with Overwatch 2. One of the biggest issues that players bring up is how their experience has been affected by a partial rating reset at the beginning of each Competitive season. This (along with some matchmaking issues) has caused a lot of confusion in matches. Starting with Season 4 we'll be removing this reset, and players should have a much clearer picture of their rating, season-to-season."
• "Players have also asked us to provide more information to better understand what's happening as they rank, as well as to get a clearer picture of individual match performance. We've gradually been introducing features (and have more in Season 4) addressing some of these asks. Starting with Season 4, players will now see their progress toward a new rating and their win/loss record during that period. We're also looking at giving some information about the overall team skill range and balance of a particular match., At this point, we've decided to not display ratings for individual players by default."

We could start seeing teasers for the new hero joining the game in Season 4 very soon.

Overwatch 2 Season 3 is now live, and whilst that is clearly the focus for Blizzard right now, it means that next up is Season 4.

Expect plenty more updates on the new season in the coming weeks leading up to April 2023 when we imagine Season 4 will launch.

Lead Hero Designer Alec Dawson has suggested that we might see Brigitte's long overdue rework during Season 4.

On a Twitch stream, Dawson explained that it was unlikely we would see these changes in Season 3 "because these things do take some time", due in no small part to the amount of VFX and art considerations when reworking a character.

We know that Season 4 of Overwatch 2 will add a new hero and now a couple of Blizzard devs have shared some info on what to expect.

Speaking at an event in Korea, Jon Spector, Overwatch commercial leader & VP at Blizzard, stated that the next playable character will be a “stronger support hero.”

“Hero development takes a long time,” said Spector (transcription by Inven, via Overwatch Cavalry). “You have to come up with ideas from the beginning of development to the end. It starts with figuring out a concept that players can enjoy. You have to be able to get into the worldview. Proceed in a direction that can broaden the overall hero pool. Each hero role is properly harmonized and released in order. Ramattra is a season 2 charge hero, and the next hero will be a stronger support hero.”