Winter Wonderland
- When: December 13, 2016 to January 2, 2017
- 124 new items
- 12 Skins
- 3 Emotes
- 7 Victory Poses
- 23 Voice Lines
- 51 Sprays (including 4 Sprays from achievements)
- 2 Highlight Intros
- 26 Player Icons
- New Arcade Brawl: Mei’s Snowball Offensive
- New Maps: Winter reskins of Ecopoint: Antarctica, Hanamura, and King’s Row
Winter Wonderland was the holiday event for Overwatch, bringing good cheer and vicious snowball fights to the game. The new Arcade mode in the update was Mei’s Snowball Offensive, where two teams of six Meis throw snowballs in an elimination match. The player can only hold one snowball at a time, and must scramble to various snow piles around the map to gather snow and reload.
Her Ice Wall and Cryo-Freeze abilities remain unchanged, and offer temporary relief against those with perfect aim and strength in numbers. The mode was very tense, but often frustrating when you have no ammo and don’t have enough time to gather snow because the enemy was all around you. Blizzard did give all players five free loot boxes on Christmas Day, so that was nice at least.
