Anniversary event is live!Want those Genji and D.va skins for sure.
There isn't really any new game mode for this event, but they did make some updates to the arena (1v1 and 3v3). First off they added 3 new maps so you're no longer stuck on boring Antarctica all the time. In addition they have adjusted how the modes play out. 1v1 used to have both players spawn as the same randomly chosen hero. Now a random selection of 3 heroes is presented to both players (each player sees the same 3 options) and then you choose who to play from those. This makes for some interesting rounds as you have to decide how good you are with each hero and how well it plays against potentially any of the others.
3v3 is now running "lockout", which is also cool. Same general setup, two teams of 3 select whatever heroes they want and kill each other. But now the team that wins a round will have those 3 heroes locked out for the rest of the game. This forces teams to be a bit more well rounded as you can't rely on a killer Widowmaker or Roadhog player to stomp the whole game. Soon as you win a round with those characters you have to switch, and since the losing team doesn't have that same restriction it gives you at least a little information for the next round. Oh they won one with Widowmaker, now we don't have to worry about her potentially sniping us in the next round.
I don't normally play those modes because I feel like I'm not good enough for them, but I did play them today to get loot boxes. Winning the 1v1 was thrilling.
I got lucky on my Hanzo rounds, but I'll take it.
