Overwatch 2’s new heroes can be unlocked via the free track of Battle Pass

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The new heroes in Overwatch 2 will be available "on the free track" of the Battle Pass, a developer has confirmed. 

Following confusion surrounding the Overwatch 2 Battle Pass yesterday, Jon Spector - the Commercial Leader for Overwatch and VP at Blizzard - took to Twitter (opens in new tab) to clear a few things up. "Addressing some incomplete info posted early about our Overwatch 2 Battle Pass," the tweet begins, "we'll be sharing all details ahead of launch, but want to confirm that new Overwatch 2 heroes will be available on the free track of the Battle Pass."

Addressing some incomplete info posted early about our Overwatch 2 Battle Pass – we'll be sharing all details ahead of launch, but want to confirm that new Overwatch 2 heroes will be available on the free track of the Battle Pass.September 8, 2022

Whether or not new Overwatch 2 characters will be locked behind a paywall was the topic of discussion yesterday after a new description for the upcoming Battle Pass was "posted early," as Spector explains above. 

The since-deleted description, which has been shared around on sites such as Reddit and Resetera (opens in new tab), read: "With the Season One Premium Battle Pass you can unlock 8- tiers of rewards including Mythic Cyber Demon Genji, Legendary Hinotori Kiriko, and more." It continues, "In addition, as a Season One Premium Battle Pass owner you will automatically receive access to Overwatch’s latest hero Kiriko!"

This understandably had a lot of Overwatch players frustrated with the fact that they may need to pay for the new characters coming to the free-to-play FPS when previously, in the original Overwatch game, new characters were just added to the game and were available for all players. Thankfully