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In Overwatch, the Lunar New Year cosmetics were cosmetics that could only be unlocked during the Lunar New Year event, either by logging in, completing limited time challenges, opening Lunar Loot boxes or purchasing them with Credits . In Overwatch 2, you can purchase any of the past event skins that were not part of weekly challenges from either the Hero Gallery with Credits and Coins (750 The Overwatch 2 Year of the Snake event is well underway, so why not complete a bunch of the event challenges while donning some Lunar New Year skins? The game has had many Lunar New Year skins over the years, and 2025 brings both new ones and old favorites to the in-game shop. Read on for all of the currently available Overwatch 2 Lunar New Overwatch 2’s Lunar New Year 2023 celebrations started on Jan. 17 and will be running for 14 days, until Jan. 31. To nab yourself the newest Mei skin in Overwatch 2, The brand new Biohazard Ramattra and Hu Tou Mao Mei skins have just entered the shop! Today also marks the start of the Overwatch 2 2023 Lunar New Year even Someone asked this question once and I couldn’t find a proper, or at least, a satisfying answer to it. So I’m hoping this community can provide some insight to this. Why didn’t Mei get a legendary skin for this event, you know, the Lunar New Year, the Chinese New year, the ONLY Chinese Hero? The one person who, understandably, would be the center focus of the event. But Mercy, the Swiss Lucky Mei receives a brand new cosmetic this Lunar New Year event, in the form of the Epic Hu Tou Mao skin. That’s it for all skins and cosmetics available in Overwatch 2’s Lunar New Year It wouldn’t be fair to have a Lunar New Year list without Mei, the only character of Chinese descent in the Overwatch hero roster. This brightly-colored red and gold skin contains plenty of The Lunar New Year is an annual seasonal event. The event is based on the real life Lunar New Year festival celebrated in several Asian countries, especially China. This event has exclusive cosmetics. Each event is named after the associated animal in Chinese zodiac. 2017: January 24 to February 13 (Year of the Rooster) 2018: January 8 to March 5 (Year of the Dog) 2019: January 24 to February Mei in her greeting posture and her Snowball drone doing the Lion Dance in front of the modified Lijiang Night Market map. Lunar New Year is a Chinese New Year seasonal event in Overwatch. The event is themed around Asian cultures and spring festivals, involves capture-the-flag themed arcade modes, and comes with a New Year reskin of Lijiang Tower. The Lunar New Year event will help kick off 2025 in style. The Year of the Snake begins January 29, and the celebration in-game always falls at the same time. If we’re assuming that Overwatch 2 will maintain its nine-week long season schedule, then we can expect the Lunar New Year event to happen right in the middle of Season 14. The three Winter Wonderland Sprays Teased Mei and D.Va Skins, Maybe Genji, Symmetra And More. Blizzard just announced a new Overwatch event for the Chinese New Year, the team over at Blizzard is just spoiling their fans with skins. “The Year Of The Rooster” event starts next week, on Jan. 24, the exact start time is still unknown. Last week, the new seasonal event in Overwatch was announced on the game's official Twitter account with Lunar New Year skins for Mei and D.Va revealed.. Four more character skins were leaked in Overwatch's Year of the Rooster event is live, and along with it, 13 new Chinese New Year-themed skins and a pile of other cosmetics, including profile icons, sprays, victory poses, emotes, and The next big live event in Overwatch kicks off on Jan. 24, and it's a celebration of the Chinese New Year.. Blizzard hasn't revealed much more than that at this point. Video teasers offer brief ORIGINAL STORY 19TH JAN: Jaunty team game Overwatch, Eurogamer's Game of the Year 2016, celebrates Chinese New Year with themed goodies, including Mei and D. Va costumes shown on the game's 4.9K votes, 423 comments. 5.1M subscribers in the Overwatch community. Subreddit for all things Overwatch™, Overwatch 2™ and the Overwatch™ Universe Mei and DVa, huh? Probably Hanzo and Genji are in line for skins as well. Any other country celebrate lunar new year that I'm unaware of? Edit: Several have responded that Japan doesn't celebrate lunar new year. I've looked into it, it's true lunar new year is not a state holiday and no longer widely celebrated by people. I'm Chinese and I'm not offended in the slightest. Hell, most characters have a Chinese themed skin. "Cultural appropriation" being offensive is a western idea. I'm perfectly chill with non Chinese enjoying the culture. That said there is a difference between Chinese and Lunar new year, but even that is only slightly irksome. Mei's voice actor is Elise Zhang, speaking English and Chinese. To see her quotes in the original Overwatch, view this page. Quotes marked "datamined" might not exist in-game, and may be outdated. Do not take them as representative of the game in its current or future states. Prior to the launch of the 2021 Overwatch League season, a new skin for Mei was released based on a mixed martial arts (MMA) outfit, named "MM-Mei". The skin gave Mei cornrows , a hairstyle common to people of African descent, but also had been used by MMA Chinese fighter Zhang Weili .
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