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Overwatch UI Appreciation

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Sharing screenshots of wonderful UI improvements in Blizzard's Overwatch 2. A @wizardcm.com creation.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · Aug 4

Hello. 👋

Overwatch's UI has gone through many iterations, especially throughout Overwatch 2's life. I'm going to be highlighting the subtle (and not so subtle) changes as they appear!

I also have a backlog of recent things to appreciate, so I'll mix those in too!

Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 15d

Hero SR is now displayed in the Statistics tab of the Career Profile.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

An additional tab is added alongside the scoreboard labelled Game Mode Info, which describes the full list of masks selected across both teams and their modifiers.

The enemy's masks are hidden for the first few seconds of the game.

Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

Your personally selected mask is visible in Hero Info with a summary of the modifiers, and next to your health bar.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

Once loaded in, you can browse *all* Halloween masks and their modifiers, filtered by role.

If a mask grants a bonus for your chosen hero, it glows.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

The Haunted Masquerade event mode brings some unique UI elements worth mentioning!

On first launch, you are informed how the mode works, with a fun spooky background.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

In Stadium, numbers for healing and damage (excluding shields) now appear above players, with the initial hit displayed larger.

These can be customized or disabled via Controls → Stadium → Stadium Combat Text. This includes opacity and text size.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

The "View Career Profile" menu item now disappears from the context menu when a player's profile is marked as Private.

This is unlike other menu items which simply grey out when unavailable but matches the behaviour of View Steam Profile (which only appears for Steam accounts).

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

While rank portraits are displayed in the kill cam HUD, they are without the hero level portrait. This means the Player Card displayed during the kill cam does not entirely match the HUD.

Additionally, neither hero nor rank portraits appear in match replays.

Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

Competitive Rank & Portraits are now displayed in Hero Select & Kill Cam for those who have completed placements.

Competitive portraits appear *on top* of hero portraits, providing an enhanced, combined look.

Unranked players only display the hero portrait, and no hero level text.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

The Mythic Skin Shop now displays icons representing which cosmetics are available at each level, similar to Mythic Weapons. This is not displayed for fully unlocked Mythics.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

The grid of DPS heroes in the Hero Gallery has been adjusted again, now with 6 columns instead of 5. This change can also be seen in Hero Challenges and Hero Controls.

Portraits for all heroes were made smaller as a result.

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Season 19. Grid of Damage is 6 across, with 3 rows full and only Widowmaker in the final row.

Season 18. Grid of Damage is 5 across, with Torbjorn, Tracer, Venture, and Widowmaker in the final row.

Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

For Competitive, Hero Skill Rating Predicted Rank now appears in the Career Profile.

This was previously hidden until placement was finished.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

Bonus: In Stadium, this new panel shows how modifies affect your base statistics.

Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

The Stadium Armory has moved Items into their own menu with additional sub-menus.

Gadgets and Filtering have been added. Filtering is similar to Hero Gallery filters, with options for stats, cost, and more. Sorting is by Cost (low/high) by default. Filters do not affect other tabs.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

Bats fly out when hovering over Haunted Masquerade in the Main Menu.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

Hero Info now includes additional core information about heroes, including:

Health (in its various forms), regeneration, melee damage, and move speed - with visuals!

Advanced Hero Info is still not available in the Hero Gallery.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

The priority of items in the Main Menu has changed again.

Progression has been bumped to the secondary list, after Loot Boxes.
Social has moved below Challenges.

This is the third time Social has been moved down in 2. It used to be first. In OW1, it was third, after OWL & Highlights.

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Season 19. Large: Haunted Masquerade (event, orange), Play, Heroes, Shop, Battle Pass. Small: Loot Boxes, Progression, Challenges, Social.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

Team Text Chat Color can now be customized, under Social → Text Chat.

While the Patch Notes specify every text chat color and Comms/Pings can also be customized, this does not seem to be available in-game at the moment.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · 16d

Hero Endorsement Level now correctly appears on Player Cards in a dim grey, and the hero portrait is aligned with the black background once again. No other adjustments.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · Sep 18

The overall layout of Player Cards has been tweaked to make better space for Drive signatures, which would previously cause player titles to clip into the top 3 heroes.

However, the black background behind the hero portrait is now misaligned.

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Season 18 mid-season. Top 3 heroes have shifted down, Drive Signature is smaller, hero level has moved up, and player portrait has moved down.

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · Sep 18

The broken endorsement level indicators on Player Cards released as part of Season 18 have been hidden in the mid-season patch.

Hopefully they make a return in Season 19.

Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · Aug 29

#Overwatch2 Season 18 includes a fancy new transition to & from triangle-based screens.

This includes:
Light: Launch Loading, Pause Menu, Social, Options, Career Profile, Custom Game
Dark: Challenges, Patch Notes, Main Menu, Private Career Profile, Loot Box

Here it is slowed to 10%:

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Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · Aug 24

Further insights into #Overwatch2 Progression 2.0 UI:

The left sidebar of "highest leveled" heroes can be individually clicked to easily switch between them.

The "Change Hero" button at the bottom opens a drawer from the bottom of the screen, reusing the Hero Select grid with better headings.

Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · Aug 23

The best part? Players won't lose any progress with this update. All hero levels are carrying over, so a lot of players will be getting a whole lot of loot boxes day 1 of Season 18.

Overwatch UI Appreciation @ow2ui.wizardcm.com · Aug 23

The Season 18 Kill Cam also optionally shows player cards of the person you were eliminated by, which is very reminiscent of older first person shooters.

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