SIGMA’S MAESTRO CHALLENGE

Get ready for Sigma’s Maestro Challenge and special in-game unlockable content! By winning ranked matches, Quick Search, Arcade, or Test Lab, you can earn a themed player icon, a legendary emote, and the legendary skin Maestro for Sigma!

Watch Twitch streamers play Overwatch until July 27 to earn a total of six sprays to Sigma’s Maestro challenge!

For more information on Sigma’s Maestro Challenge, visit the Overwatch website.

NEW SOUNDTRACK – OVERWATCH: CITIES & COUNTRIES

The Overwatch: Cities & Countries soundtrack is now available, bringing you the music of the maps of Overwatch! The album is available on several popular music streaming platforms starting today*. For more details, visit the Overwatch website or use the QR code in the main menu.

• Available streaming platforms depend on region.

GENERAL UPDATES

New feature: career improvements

The career page has been redesigned to optimize the display of player profiles. Besides the brand new look, we have also added some improvements:

• The overview now shows how much time you’ve spent in each game mode. This allows you to track exactly how long you’ve been playing modes like ranked matches or the creative community workshop modes.
• Statistics are now displayed as a clear table, with columns such as “Ø per 10 min,” “Best Performance,” and “Total.”
• In-game achievements are grouped into categories and can be filtered by achievements already earned and those not yet unlocked.
• Player icons are also grouped into categories and can be filtered either by hero or by whether they have already been unlocked.

General

• Flag capture achievements have been moved to the “Maps” category.
• Added additional playback languages for Echo’s ability video to Duplicate.

CORRECTED ERRORS

General

• Fixed a bug that prevented the spectator mode from working from the first-person and chaser perspectives in the arcade game mode FFA.
• Fixed a bug where in arcade game mode FFA the screen for defeat was displayed to the winner.
• Fixed a bug that prevented replays from being created for players in the match in Arcade game mode FFA.
• Fixed a bug where the sound effect of Echo’s primary fire mode was too loud when using the Unlimited Ammo setting.
• Fixed a bug that caused the wrong number of kills remaining to be announced in custom deathmatch games when a custom victory score was set.
• Fixed a bug that caused the wrong team colors to be displayed to the winning team after the match ended.
• Fixed a bug where the sound effect for landing after a jump was not played when the jump button was held down.
• Fixed a bug where training bots’ hit point bars were not displayed in the tutorial.
• Fixed a bug where the role selection screen on various subpages of the main menu did not display as intended for all party members.
• Fixed a bug where in Flag Capture the pitch of the sound effect for contested targets did not change depending on the proximity of the flag to the target point.

Heroes

Ashe

• Fixed a bug where the Viper could stick out through the camera if Ashe jumped and fired her weapon at the same time when using the visor.

Doomfist

• Fixed a bug where Doomfist could climb a wall on Junkertown when using emotes.

D.Va

• Fixed a bug that prevented D.Va’s microrockets from benefiting from abilities that increase damage.

Genji

• Fixed a bug where the sound effect of Reflect did not match the duration of the ability.
• Fixed a bug where Genji could take damage from projectiles during Reflect if he was too close to an enemy.

Hanzo

• Fixed a bug where the sonar arrow did not allow visibility through walls when reflected by Genji.

Wrecking Ball

• Fixed a bug where Wrecking Ball could use Wrecking Ball without curling up into a ball.
• Fixed a bug related to Minefield that could cause some mines to get stuck in the terrain on Temple of Anubis.

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.