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New map – Paris

Paris, the elegant city of art and love, serves as the backdrop for our latest attack map.

Your journey begins at Cabaret Luna, where the velvety alto voice of the unrivaled diva Luna emanates, enchanting movie stars, revolutionaries, locals and tourists alike. After the encore, step outside to battle for victory against the impressive city backdrop. Boutiques and small stores line the streets on your way to the first point. Hop in briefly to sample a macaron or escape enemy fire. After that, fight your way through alleys and streets before facing your opponents on the banks of the Seine. Once you have defeated them, continue to the Maison Marat, where you will finally triumph.

HELDUPDATES

General

• Non-recoverable hit points, shields and armor are now consumed before recoverable hit points, shields and armor.
• Old order of priorities: non-recoverable shields, recoverable shields, non-recoverable armor, recoverable armor, non-recoverable hit points, recoverable hit points.
• New priority order: non-recoverable shields, non-recoverable armor, non-recoverable hit points, recoverable shields, recoverable armor, recoverable hit points

Developer comment: In Overwatch, an order determines the priority with which recoverable and non-recoverable hit points, shields, or armor are deducted when a hero takes damage. For example, if a hero has recoverable shield points and suffers damage, the recoverable shield points will be reduced first and only then the recoverable hit points. Previously, heroes’ recoverable shields could take damage and regenerate first, leaving their non-recoverable armor intact. With the change to the order, Heroes who have received non-restorable armor or shields now consume those resources first before losing restorable types of hit points, shields, or armor.

CHANGES TO THE GAME BROWSER AND CUSTOM GAMES

General

• Players can now make other players the owner of the lobby in custom games.

FIXED BUGS

Arcade

• Fixed a bug in Surprise Heroes mode that caused a non-specific message to appear in the UI when transitioning from a practice skirmish to a match.

Heroes

General

• Fixed a bug where the spell “Behind You” would play when Heroes were affected by an ability that deals regular damage.

Ashe

• Fixed a bug where the burning fuse of Ashe’s dynamite was not visible when reflected by Genji.
• Fixed a bug where a skull icon was displayed for Mercy or Ana when they healed Ashe while she detonated her dynamite.
• Fixed a bug that caused Ashe’s rifle lever to slip out of her hands during the “In the Attack” emote.
• Fixed a bug that caused Ashe’s rifle to glow significantly more when Ana used her nanoboost on her.
• Fixed a bug where reloading would cancel when Ashe used the “Hello” emote.

D.Va

• Fixed a bug where D.Va could not be seen by teammates through walls when her Junker or Rusty Bower skins were equipped.
• Fixed a bug where the animation of the flags on D.Va’s mech during her highlight intro, Totally Chilled, would not play as intended when her skins were equipped Junker or Rusty Bower.

Hanzo

• Fixed a bug where the flight angles of Hanzo’s storm arrows were not graphically displayed as intended.

Junkrat

• Fixed a bug where Ashes Bob did not count as a valid target for Junkrat’s “Fallen Billiards” achievement.
• Fixed a bug where Junkrat’s skin Krampus’s tail was gnawing into the ground during his highlight intro shot put.

Mei

• Fixed a bug where Mei’s hat would fold up when using Cryostasis while her festive costume was equipped.
• Fixed a bug where Bob would stop attacking Mei when she used cryostasis on his head.

Reaper

• Fixed a bug where Reaper’s shoulder would overlap with his collar during his highlight intro Hangman when his Lü Bu skin was equipped.

Reinhardt

• Fixed a bug where Reinhardt’s Earth Strike could not hit enemies if they were previously grabbed by his rush, but survived after he traveled the furthest distance possible.
• Fixed a bug that caused Reinhardt’s Rocket Hammer to play hammer sounds instead of sword sounds when his skin Guan Yu was equipped.

Soldier: 76

• Fixed a bug that caused Soldier: 76’s Tactical Sight graphic effects to persist after the ability expired when the Ultimate Duration slider was set above 100% in a custom game.

Symmetra

• Fixed a bug that allowed players to use Symmetra’s teleporter to reach locations not intended for it.
• Fixed a bug that caused Symmetra’s guns to float in the air after being attached to a moving object.

Colorblindness options

• [PS4/XB1] Fixed a bug that prevented statistics from using certain colorblindness options in ranked matches on control cards.

Heroes Gallery

• Fixed a bug where players could not preview Orisa’s Super Booster in the Hero Gallery.
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from rotating hero models in the Hero Gallery when mouse button 1 was assigned to a function in the Miscellaneous section.
• Fixed a bug where the “Unlocked” and “Unlocked” filters in the Hero Gallery were not working as intended.

Game browser and custom games

• Fixed a bug that prevented players from using the word “support” in the game browser.
• Fixed a bug where replacement players were turned into spectators when a party leader rejoined a match they had left.

Maps

• Fixed a bug where Sombra on Blizzard World could throw her translocator to locations not intended for it.
• Fixed a bug where Heroes could intersect with a railing when appearing on Château Guillard.
• Fixed a bug that allowed Sombra to throw her translocator through a certain wall on Dorado.
• Fixed a bug that caused Symmetra’s guns on Numbani to attach to the wall behind her instead of the intended target.
• Fixed a bug where Ashes Bob on Petra could break destructible tiles instantly.

Communication

• Fixed a bug that prevented an appropriate error message from being displayed when players tried to accept a friend request even though their friends list was full.

User interface

• Fixed a bug that could cause performance issues when updating the kill feed.
• Fixed a bug that caused Doomfist’s Ultimate indicator to float in the bystander interface when Meteor Strike was fully charged.
• Fixed a bug where melee attack icons were not displayed in the kill feed.
• Fixed a bug where the “Tie” notification was not displayed in colors for the colorblind.
• Fixed a bug where the melee attack icon did not appear in the kill feed when eliminating Training Bots, Torbjörn’s Gun, Orisa’s Superbooster, D.Vas Mech or Ashes Bob.

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.