Official Overwatch Thread

[Chill]

Can't believe no one has posted the full notes:

GENERAL UPDATES

Gameplay

• If a match goes into Overtime for more than 20 seconds, the fuse will now start to "burn down" more quickly
• Players now respawn more slowly during Overtime (increased spawn time by 2 seconds)

Competitive Play

• Competitive Play matches can now only have one of each hero per team. For more info, click here.

Miscellaneous

• Added Ana as an AI-controlled hero in Practice vs. AI, Play vs. AI, and Custom Game modes
• Timing on Zenyatta's Rapid Discord achievement is more lenient
• Targeted teammates now respond by saying "I'm with you," when players use the “Group Up” communication
• Renamed five sprays to avoid duplicate titles

HERO BALANCE UPDATES

General

• Self-healing abilities now charge ultimate abilities. As a result, some heroes’ ultimate costs have been adjusted (see below).

Bastion

• Configuration: Tank
  • Ultimate cost increased by 10%

D.Va

• Defense Matrix
  • Cooldown decreased from 10 seconds to 1 second
  • A new resource meter has been added. This meter will deplete while Defense Matrix is active and then recharge when it’s not in use.
    • Defense Matrix takes 10 seconds to reach full charge from empty
    • At a full charge, Defense Matrix will last for 4 seconds
    • Defense Matrix will now remain active as long as its assigned hotkey is held
  • Defense Matrix has been reclassified as an alternate fire and is now bound to RMB (by default)
    • An option to “Toggle Defense Matrix” has been added under Options > Controls > D.Va
• Self-Destruct
  • Ultimate cost decreased by 15%
  • Explosion delay reduced from 4 seconds to 3 seconds
  • Explosion no longer damages D.Va (the player who activates it)

Developer Notes: D.Va isn't being selected as often as our other tanks, and we feel a lot of that stems from the underperformance of her damage absorption abilities. So, we've reconfigured her Defensive Matrix, making it more flexible and giving players the ability to use it more often. We’ve also given Self-Destruct a little more oomph, because it felt slightly underwhelming when compared to many of Overwatch's other ultimate abilities.



Lúcio

• Sound Barrier
  • Ultimate cost increased by 10%

McCree

• Peacekeeper
  • Now maintains full damage at longer distances, but will deal less damage at extreme ranges

Developer Notes: While the game does feel better following the nerf to McCree’s close-range damage in a previous patch, it left him a little too weak. So, we're increasing his effective distance, making his range similar to Soldier: 76’s. This should hopefully give players another option for dealing with pesky long-range damage dealing heroes like Pharah and Hanzo.



Mercy

• Caduceus Staff
  • Damage Boost
    • Bonus damage increased from 30% to 50%
    • Effect will no longer stacks with bonus damage provided by another Mercy
• Resurrect
  • Ultimate charge cost increased by 30%
  • Movement is no longer prevented during activation
  • Guardian Angel instantly resets upon use

Developer Notes: Mercy's ultimate is one of the most powerful abilities in the game; however, players would often fly into the fray and die while using it. With this update, Resurrect will now take a bit longer to charge, but Mercy will be a lot safer when activating the ability in the middle of combat. In addition, we always intended Mercy’s Damage Boost beam to be her primary method for dealing damage, but it often felt so weak that you were better off pulling out your blaster. To help address this, we've slightly increased its potency.



Roadhog

• Whole Hog
  • Ultimate cost increased by 45%

Soldier: 76

• Heavy Pulse Rifle
  • Spread recovery will begin after a short delay (rather than instantly)
• Tactical Visor
  • Ultimate cost increased by 10%

Zenyatta

• Base shields increased by 50 (now 50 Health/150 Shield)
• Orb of Discord and Orb of Harmony
  • Projectile speed has been increased from 30 to 120
• Transcendence
  • Movement speed is now doubled upon activation
  • Healing amount increased from 200 to 300 health per second

Developer Notes: While Zenyatta has never had the healing abilities of Lúcio or Mercy, he made up for it by dealing more damage. However, his lack of mobility and low health has meant he’s struggled to find a place in many games. To increase his effectiveness, we've made several changes, the biggest of which is an increased shield pool. This will allow him to go head-to-head with more enemies. The Orb of Harmony and Discord changes are also a quality of life change, helping Zenyatta move his orbs around and apply their effects more quickly. And lastly, we’ve increased Transcendence’s healing throughput. This ultimate was designed to be the most effective against sustained, high-damage fire and least effective against short, high-damage bursts (like D.Va’s or Junkrat's ultimates). But, due to the amount of healing it provided, there were times when it was possible for even sustained fire to overcome Transcendence’s output. We’ve made the heal powerful and also allowed Zenyatta to move around more quickly while it’s active.

I can't wait to hop on the PTR. That Soldier and Mercy change is huge. Soldier won't even be a threat to my Pharah anymore. Even the roadhog change says a lot. I don't know how I feel about lucio'a ult since I have a hard time building it but I'm assuming higher ranks have no issue building it up.

We needed a hero limit. I really don't understand how someone can defend the stupid hero stack comps that was created cause of it. The only way to even stop hero stacking was to do stacking of your own, terrible gameplay. Even competitive TF2 knew better than to allow that shyt otherwise you'd have a lot of teams stacking Demoman. Keep it in quick play.

Overtime seems like it will be less of a joke now.

 

[basketball reasons]

dva and zenyatta actually feel viable now

 

[Grand Conde]

Glad to see the hero stacking change, no more retards hero trolling.

 

[basketball reasons]

 

[Uno]

Did they do the flip a coin thing for Anubis?

 

[itsyoung!!]

ana's OP as fukk

she does 80 damage no matter what (widow does 120 after a second and a half charge), doesnt have to scope, can stop players from healing AND put them to sleep

You cant get head shot with Ana (same damage as body shot, just a flat base damage on all shots) where with Widow you get a multiplier for head shots..

also gotta reload after every shot with Ana, where Widow doesnt need to reload

 

[Canon]

those changes

 

[itsyoung!!]

Damn Ana is

 

[Chill]

As a pharah main I'm enjoying this new patch

dva is mad annoying and aggressive now, never liked her so this is lame for me

i don't see soldier anymore, i see more mccree. i do wish these mccree players would actually kill tracer/genji. (please kill genji, christ)

they fixed that top 500 ranked player glitch too bad you gotta be like rank 67 to even have it though

ana's sleep wears off after taking any damage so that's pretty balanced, idk how long it lasts though

it's a good thing we don't have class stacking with this new dva.

overtime is alot harder to win. ranked feels a lot less gimmicky now.

 

[dontreadthis]

wow I thought I was eating with D.Va before, this is huge .

 

[DEAD7]

 

[itsyoung!!]

wow I thought I was eating with D.Va before, this is huge .

Dont even think she needed a fix honestly

 

[Ohms Law]

Almost threw my mouse at my monitor today. These people in competitive are braindead.

 

[Chill]

So I guess in the new patch they reduced the hitbox for projectiles.

 

[DEAD7]

Almost threw my mouse at my monitor today. These people in competitive are braindead.

From rank 55 to 44 solo queuing cause people still think its a kill contest