Have you ever wanted to change your Overwatch 2 menu background to one of your favorites that’s no longer on rotation? You can finally do just that.
Overwatch 2’s bright and colorful backgrounds with special music are always a treat when loading up the game, and everyone has their favorites.
Typically, the default menu background changes depending on if there’s an event going on, a new hero is released, or there’s a big esports tournament happening like theOverwatch World Cup.
However, once those events are done, the background changes too, and typically there’s nothing players can do about it. That’s not exactly the case, though. As it turns out, through some edits to your game, you can choose any background you want. Here’s how to do it.
How to change your Overwatch 2 menu background
As notedon Steamby user ‘ SkyBorik’, Overwatch 2 players can manage their backgrounds by adding some codes in the files on Battle Net or Steam.
For Battle Net, click the gear button next to the play button and select “Game Settings.” From there, click “Additional command line arguments” and paste in one of the codes below.
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To change a background on Steam, right-click on Overwatch in your game library and select “Properties” and add the correct code to the launch options.
The current codes are:
Unfortunately, not every prior menu screen is available, such asCyber Demon Genjior the Overwatch 1 loading screens, but there are still plenty of customization options available.
It’s not clear if there’s a way to do this for console users, but for those who play the game on PC, at least now there are even more ways to modify your gameplay experience.
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