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LUNAR NEW YEAR 2020

Celebrate the Year of the Rat with us!

This year we’re celebrating the Lunar New Year with new – Season al extras, including legendary skins like Face Shifter for Sombra, Mask Dancer for Moira, Samulnori for Lúcio, and Opera for Brigitte. Jump into the third ranked – Season of our Flag Capture mode, as well as the brand new Flag Capture: Blitz game mode.

You can find all the details about the new game mode here.

GENERAL UPDATES

Featureupdate: More flexible groups in role selection

Don’t want to commit to a single role? Now group members who queue up for any game mode with role selection enabled can select multiple roles to play in the next match.

The selected roles of the other group members and their level of play in ranked matches can influence the selection of roles. For example, if you have all three roles selected (Tank, Damage, Support), you are indicating a willingness to take on any of the available roles. However, if two party members have Support selected, you will not be able to play Support in the next match.

Options for custom games

In the custom game options, under Lobby, there is a new option called “Preferred Datacenter”. This option gives the creator of a game more control over where the game is hosted. The default “Best Available” setting automatically offers the creator the best available connection. It will only suggest a different datacenter if no datacenter is able to provide the best connection to all players at the same time. This is usually the case only when players from different locations around the world join a custom game.

Updates for spectator mode and replays

• Added new hotkey “Chaser Perspective – Camera Angle” which allows you to change the side from which you watch players in chaser perspective in spectator mode.
• Added a new “Normal/Simple Chaser Perspective – On/Off” hotkey that allows you to switch between the two cameras in Chaser Perspective in Spectator Mode.
• The killcam has been reworked to rotate faster in the direction of your killer, making it easier to tell if you’ve been killed by someone behind or next to you.
• Revised the camera position in the chase perspective for multiple heroes so that it covers less of the screen.
• Fixed a bug where zooming in and out in the chase perspective was jerky.
• Fixed a bug where transitioning into or out of first-person perspective caused the camera to stick through a hero’s head.
• Fixed several bugs related to camera smoothing and judder.

HELDUPDATES

Baptiste

Life support field

• Maximum duration reduced from 8 to 5 sec.
• Cooldown increased from 20 to 25 sec.

Reinforcement Matrix

• The cost of the ultimate ability has been increased by 20%.

Developer Comment: The life support field became too powerful especially when placed where it was protected from enemy attacks, such as behind corners. Reducing the maximum duration should offset this advantage. However, it remains strong enough to save team members in open terrain.

Mei

Endothermic Radiant (Primary Fire Mode).

• The slowdown effect now reduces the movement speed of enemies by 20-70% (previously 30-90%).
• The duration of the slowdown effect has been reduced from 1.5 to 1 sec.

Developer comment: Sometimes it’s way too hard to escape the slowdown effect of their primary fire mode. By reducing the duration and strength of the slowdown, you should be able to respond better. The duration to freeze a target has not been changed.

D.Va

Booster

• The cooldown has been reduced from 5 to 3 sec.

Developer Comment: The reduced Booster cooldown provides players with more mobility to switch between offensive and defensive playstyles more quickly with D.Va.

Orisa

Defensive Protocol

• Now reduces damage by 40% (previously 50%).

Developer comment: While Defensive Protocol was active, it seemed nearly impossible to fight Orisa. To give her opponents a better chance, we are reducing the damage reduction.

Hanzo

Storm Bow (Primary Fire Mode)

• The maximum projectile speed has been reduced from 125 to 110.

Developer comment: After we increased Hanzo’s projectile speed during his rework, his arrows were just too powerful at longer ranges. By decreasing the arrow speed, he becomes a little weaker as a sniper. At medium range, he still remains strong.

Doomfist

Uppercut

• Recovery time increased from 0.2 to 0.35 sec.

Developer Comment: Using Doomfist’s Uppercut followed by its primary fire mode gives players a bit too powerful of a combo. Therefore, we want to give opponents more time to react to it.

CORRECTED ERRORS

General

• Fixed a bug where turning ducking on and off through the Increased Sample Rate option did not behave as intended.
• Fixed a bug where in some games the gain and loss of game levels was significantly reduced when players with very high game levels participated.
• Workshop
• Fixed a bug where “Assemble your team” did not work on attack and hybrid maps.
• Fixed a bug that prevented AI Sombras from hacking medikits.

Cards

Temple of Anubis

• Fixed a bug where some heroes could get stuck behind one of the rocks at point B.

Oak Forest

• Fixed a bug where Wrecking Ball could get stuck temporarily when using Collision Course at a certain location.
• Fixed a bug where Doomfist could get stuck at a location.

Junkertown

• Fixed a bug that could cause some players to stand on a wall near the last checkpoint.
• Fixed a bug where Sombra’s translocator and Baptiste’s life support field could end up in a non-designated location between the stairs and the wall at point A.

Dorado

• Fixed a bug where the ivy on the walls between point A and point B blocked projectiles.

Rialto

• Fixed a bug where Winston and Sigma could get stuck between the wall, bridge and gondola near point A.

Watchpoint: Gibraltar

• Fixed a bug that caused Baptiste’s life support field to disappear when placed in a specific location in front of the attackers’ starting area.

Heroes

Baptiste

• Fixed a bug where sometimes the life support field could not be placed or was destroyed while it was being created.

Mercy

• Fixed a bug where the gold versions of Caduceus and Caduceus Pistol could disappear when Valkyrie was deployed and viewed from the chase perspective.

Tracer

• Fixed a bug where players could switch heroes when using Time Loop.

Sigma

• Fixed a bug where Sigma’s shield could sometimes not be placed.

Symmetra

• Fixed a bug where Symmetra could briefly place another teleporter without a cooldown after her teleporter was destroyed while still being placed.

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.