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PATCH HIGHLIGHTS

New – Season al Event: Overwatch Archive 2019 – Storm Signs.

Relive a key moment from Overwatch’s past during the Overwatch Archive event! Travel back in time to visit the Cuban city of Havana, where agents of Overwatch are hot on the heels of a member of Talon, the infamous businessman Maximilien. Together with your friends, you’ll be able to capture and interrogate Maximilien – his information could affect the future of Overwatch. You can also relive the action of past events in the Overwatch Archive: Fight your way through hordes of Talon agents to escape Rialto, and put an end to the Omnic Uprising in King’s Row. As you play, you can earn Lootboxes to unlock extras from Overwatch’s past, including legendary skins like Deadlock-McCree, Moira as a scientist, Talon-Baptiste, High-Society for Ashe, and more!

HELDUPDATES

Junkrat

• Grenade Launcher
  • Projectile speed has been increased from 20 to 25.
  • Grenades now bounce less often, but explode sooner.

Developer’s comment: with this change, we want to increase a bit the range in which Junkrat can land direct hits. The speed of his bombs has been increased, but we’ve adjusted it so that this change doesn’t affect the trajectory. This means that aiming feels the same as before. The grenades bounce less often and explode earlier, which means Junkrat can aim more deliberately with them. This reduces the number of grenades rolling all over the place when Junkrat is on the enemy team.

Reaper

• Shadow Step
  • Can now be used in the air.
  • Shadow Step completion has been reduced from 1.0 sec to 0.5 sec.
  • Reaper is now invisible for the entire duration of the reappearance after using Shadow Step.
  • Railings and other destructible objects no longer block teleportation.
  • Disabled by Zarya’s Graviton Bomb and Junkrat’s Steel Trap.

Developer comment: Shadow Step was originally intended strictly to give Reaper more mobility on the map outside of combat, as he already had a good way to gain distance with Phantom. However, this made Shadow Step very situational. With these changes, we’re making the ability a little more flexible and thus more versatile. This will allow Reaper to use Shadow Step offensively as well.

Symmetra

• Teleporter
  • Railings and other destructible objects now no longer block teleporter placement and teleportation.

CHANGES TO THE USER INTERFACE

Heroes gallery

• Added an option for random winning poses.

Communication

• Added an option that allows only a player’s current group to view his profile.

FIXED BUGS

General

• Fixed a bug where the display was shaky when players were standing on certain objects.
• Fixed a bug where the camera was slightly shifted when quickly switching to shoulder perspective.
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to shoot through unintended small gaps on Ilios, Nepal, and Temple of Anubis.
• Fixed a bug that caused the hero’s view to be level with the horizon after using Symmetra’s teleporter.

Heroes

Ana

• Fixed a bug where Ana’s Tea Time emote did not have steam rising from her cup as intended.
• Fixed a bug where audio-visual confirmation was not playing for Ana on hits from boosted heroes.

Ashe

• Fixed a bug that caused the Sphere of Discord sound effect to play when Bob was affected by Zenyatta’s Sphere of Discord.
• Fixed a bug where Bob would not always stop as intended and deal damage to large items generated by Heroes that were in the way while running. This includes Junkrat’s kamikaze tires or Orisa’s superbooster.

Baptiste

• Fixed a bug where Baptiste’s life support field was not immediately destroyed when it collided with cargo.

Bastion

• Fixed a bug where Bastion would take damage in gun mode when slammed into a wall by Doomfist’s Steam Hammer.

Doomfist

• Fixed a bug where enemies knocked back by Steam Hammer did not collide with walls.
• Fixed a bug where destructible objects were not destroyed by Seismic Strike as intended.
• Fixed a bug where Steam Hammer could push Orisa back even though her defensive protocol was active.

Mei

• Fixed a bug where Mei could not be healed by other Heroes during Cryostasis.

Mercy

• Fixed a bug that prevented audio-visual confirmation from playing when Mercy was hit by boosted Heroes.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Mercy from receiving defensive assists from her healing beam while Valkyrie was active.

Orisa

• Fixed a bug where Orisa would take damage when slammed into a wall by Doomfist’s Steam Hammer while the defensive protocol was active.

Reinhardt

• Fixed a bug where Reinhardt could not raise his shield as intended when looking up if the shield was activated while looking down.

Soldier: 76

• Fixed a bug that caused the Heroic victory pose to not repeat as intended.

Symmetra

• Fixed a bug where Symmetra could charge her ultimate ability when her selfies were attacking objects generated by other heroes (Wrecking Ball’s minefield, Torbjörn’s gun, etc.).

Torbjörn

• Fixed a bug where Torbjörn could charge his ultimate ability when his gun was attacking objects generated by other heroes (Wrecking Ball’s minefield, Symmetra’s self-shot devices, etc.).

Widowmaker

• Fixed a bug where Widowmaker’s gun would intersect with his head and shoulders when running and using the scope when the skin was equipped Biathlete.
• Fixed a bug where infrasight was not cancelled by Widowmaker’s death.

Maps

Black Forest

• Fixed a bug where flying heroes could get stuck on trees and climbing heroes could get stuck on bird nests.

Busan

• Fixed a bug that could cause flying heroes to get stuck on trees.
• Fixed a bug on the Temple map that caused Heroes who were standing on the edge of the first objective to bounce.

Castillo

• Fixed a bug that allowed Reaper to use Shadow Step to get to places not intended for it.

Dorado

• Fixed a bug that caused the spectator camera to be in an unintended position.

Lunar Colony Horizon

• Fixed a bug that could cause players to get stuck on a workbench.

King’s Row

• Fixed a bug that could cause Junkrat’s kamikaze tire to get stuck in the grates on the ground on King’s Row.

Oasis

• Fixed a bug on the University map that caused Heroes to take significant damage when touching the doors to the enemy starting area.

Numbani

• Fixed a bug that could cause D.Va to get stuck behind a table when using Request Mech.
• Fixed a bug where ivy on walls could prevent certain skills like Winston’s Tesla Cannon and Doomfist’s Meteor Strike from hitting enemies.

Rialto

• Fixed a bug where players eliminated on a certain bridge would fall through the bridge.
• Fixed a bug where players could get stuck between a hand truck, the wall, and a table.

Watchpoint: Gibraltar

• Fixed a bug where Wrecking Ball could get stuck on ventilation shafts.

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.