Overwatch players can cap off the game’s one-year Anniversary event with a Double XP weekend kicking off in a few days.
This will be the first time a Double XP event has taken place for Overwatch, and comes after a long campaign by the community to bring such a feature to the game.
Overwatch‘s Double XP weekend will reward you double XP — obviously — throughout the match. This will help you work towards Anniversary loot boxes and those awesome dancing emotes, which unfortunately are locked to the event itself: once it ends, you won’t be able to find them in loot boxes.
XP is doubled rather broadly: each specific statistic is doubled before a total doubled tally is finalised.
The bonus will apply to nearly all sources of in-game XP, including:
- Time spent in a match
- Completing a match
- Completing consecutive matches
- Winning a match
- Backfilling a match in progress
- Earning medals
Only “First Win of Day” bonus isn’t doubled, which makes sense considering that’s already a very generous 1500 XP.
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Here’s when the Double XP weekend takes place in your part of the world.
North America
- 5:00 p.m. PDT on June 8
- 6:00 p.m. MDT on June 8
- 7:00 p.m. CDT on June 8
- 8:00 p.m. EST on June 8
- 8:00 p.m. AST on June 8
- 9:00 p.m. BRT on June 8
- 9:30 p.m. NDT on June 8
- 8:00 a.m. SGT on June 9
- 10:00 a.m. AEST on June 9
- 12:00 p.m. NZST on June 9
Europe
- 01:00 BST on June 9
- 02:00 CEST on June 9
- 03:00 MSK on June 9
Asia and Australasia
- 10:00 a.m. AEST on June 9
- 08:00 a.m. CST on June 9
- 09:00 a.m. KST on June 9
- 09:00 a.m. JST on June 9
