ASHES DEADLOCK CHALLENGE.

Celebrate the release of the new Overwatch novel Deadlock Rebels by Lyndsay Ely with Ashe’s Deadlock Challenge! Through July 5, you can earn limited-time rewards like the new Deadlock skin for Ashe by playing a few rounds and watching streams of Overwatch on Twitch.

Check out the Overwatch website for more information on Ashe’s Deadlock Challenge.

GENERAL UPDATES

New Feature: Cross-Play

Cross-Play is now available, allowing players on all platforms to play Overwatch together! All console players will need to create a Battle.net account and link it to their console account. To celebrate the new feature, all players who log into Overwatch by the end of 2021 will receive a golden Lootbox. For more information on cross-play, detailed instructions on how to connect your accounts, and answers to frequently asked questions, visit the Overwatch website.

General

• With this update the lists for last teammates and avoided players are deleted.

HELDUPDATES

General

• With the introduction of Cross-Play, expect changes to the game balance to bring the different versions in line. These changes will be marked as alignments and will be applied to all matches.
• (Alignment) AI enemies in the archive no longer deal reduced damage.

ANA
	Biotic Rifle (Alignment) Stun arrows no longer have increased projectile size on consoles.

ASHE
	B.O.B. (Alignment) No longer causes reduced damage on consoles.

SYMMETRA
	Self-Shooting System (Alignment) No longer causes reduced damage on consoles.

TORBJÖRN
	Deploy gun (Alignment) No longer causes reduced damage on consoles.

CORRECTED ERRORS

General

• Fixed a bug where the game mode Against AI was not displayed in the “All Modes” context menu in Career.
• Fixed a bug where the sound effect for getting points in Team Deathmatch (4v4) was played too loudly.

Maps

Busan

• Fixed a bug where players could get stuck at a certain section of the station.

Heroes

Doomfist

• Fixed a bug where destructible objects were not being destroyed by Uppercut as intended.
• Fixed a bug where McCree would not be flung into the air by Uppercut on rare occasions when using Steppe Roll.

D.Va

• Fixed a bug where Mech Request could damage enemies through walls.

Symmetra

• Fixed a bug where her teleporter would not appear in her position when placed inside a Graviton Bomb from Zarya.

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.