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NEW HEROINE: ECHO (DAMAGE)
Echo is an advanced robot created by Dr. Mina Liao with an extremely adaptable artificial intelligence. Thanks to her versatility, she can take on a wide variety of roles in combat. Since she joined the Overwatch team in the fight against Null Sector in Paris, she is finally considered a full-fledged member of Overwatch. Echo fires three projectiles at once in triangle formation with Tri-Shot. She can also fire a volley of sticky bombs that explode after a short time. With Flight, Echo charges forward and can fly freely for a short time to avoid danger or take up a strategic position. In addition, Echo can channel a Bundled Beam for a few seconds, dealing very high damage to enemies with less than half their hit points (also applies to barriers). Duplicate allows Echo to clone an enemy hero and gain access to their abilities. This can completely change a team fight from one moment to the next.
GENERAL UPDATES
– There are now new servers for players in the Middle East to improve the gaming experience. These servers will be available on April 14, 2020. – A “Patchnotes” button has been added to the main menu and options menu. This button will bring up the latest game updates in your web browser.
UPDATES FOR RANKED MATCHES
– The new free role selection for ranked matches will be available for about 4 weeks in the Arcade. In this mode, the normal ranked match rules will apply, including hero selection, but there will be no role restrictions or separate queues for each role. – Hero selection now changes every Monday and applies to both Overwatch League and ranked matches. – Card pools have been eliminated. As a result, there will be significantly fewer matches played on Lunar Colony Horizon and Paris in the near future. – More information about the changes to hero selection and the map pool can be found here on our blog.
HELDENUPDATES
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Developer comments: – Tracer now warps over and around obstacles more easily to get in the direction of her crosshairs. For example, if you aim next to a wall edge, Tracer will now warp past that edge. – Tracer cannot warp through places that she would not be able to pass through even in the normal way. – Tracer cannot warp over obstacles that she could not cross even with a normal jump. The starting altitude of the jump is Tracer’s position at the beginning of the warp. We hope these changes will make Tracer’s warp feel more reliable. | |
 | Warp– The accuracy of Tracer’s warp movement has been improved so that she now warps more reliably towards her crosshairs. |
CORRECTED ERRORS
General
– Fixed a bug that prevented viewers from switching from D.Va to the next hero in custom games. – Fixed a bug where Team FFA settings and some hero settings could not be copied and pasted into custom game settings. – Fixed a bug where on certain maps spells from the opposing team could be heard in the hero selection screen. – Fixed a bug where knockback effects did not work as intended when the target was moving down a ramp. – [PC only] Alt+Tab now cancels saving highlights instead of causing playback issues. – Fixed a bug where supporter performance was not being calculated as intended for the game’s highlight.
Maps
Blizzard World
– Fixed a bug that allowed players to stand in a non-designated location between the first and second points
Busan
– Fixed a bug that caused Sombra’s translocator to float when thrown at certain locations.
Dorado
– Fixed a bug where players could get stuck between the scooter and the wall.
Havana
– Fixed a bug where players could get stuck in some bushes.
Hollywood
– The area to capture the first objective is no longer larger than the visible boundary.
Ilios
– Fixed a bug where players could get stuck between a wall, a plant and a tree.
Heroes
Moira
– Fixed a bug where Moira’s phase jump icon would show as disabled when she was stunned.
Mei
– Fixed a bug where an already frozen enemy’s visual freeze effect would end too soon if they were also hit by Blizzard.
Tracer
– Fixed a bug where the Impulse Bomb’s “pinned” message sometimes appeared on the wrong target.
Workshop
– Fixed a bug where [Big Message] and [Small Message] did not display messages in the training area.
OVERWATCH
Overwatch is a team-based 6vs6 shooter that was released on May 24, 2016. Overwatch stays true to the true style of Blizzard’s previous titles. It was developed by Jeff Kaplan and is considered a “new concept” shooter in the FPS genre. The game was officially unveiled at BlizzCon along with 12 heroes on November 7, 2014.
The story of Overwatch is set on a highly fictionalized future version of Earth. In a time where humans and robots, which are called Omnics, live together (Chris Metzen hinted that the story deals with this very robot race). 30 years before the time when Overwatch takes place, the so-called “Omnic Crisis ” occurred. The robots, once helpers of humans, rebelled against their creators for reasons as yet unknown and triggered a worldwide chaos. Faced with the imminent destruction of human civilization, the best soldiers of all nations came together to form a program called “Overwatch”.
Their job was to protect the world from the Omnics, which they succeeded in doing. For the next 25 years, they were the protectors of the planet, united in an international coalition. Some agents stayed, some were replaced, but at some point something changed: the Overwatch disintegrated. However, 5 years later after this event, incidents with Omnics are again accumulating, a worldwide terrorist organization also seems interested in destabilizing the world order. A new crisis is looming. At this point, your career as an Overwatch agent begins.