GENERAL UPDATES

General

Echo

• The volume and audible distance of enemy echoes in glide have been reduced.
• Improved the sound effects of glide and tri-shot enemy echoes to better estimate which direction they are coming from.

After Echo was released, we made some volume changes because Echo was too quiet in combat. These changes increased the volume of enemy Echos, as well as the distance from which their passive ability Glide could be heard. After further feedback, we find that these initial changes to Echo’s volume were too drastic. With this patch, we are slightly reducing the volume of enemy echoes in relation to their passive ability Glide. We’re also reducing the distance from which it can be heard so that it matches the audible footsteps of other Overwatch heroes. Additionally, we’ve made adjustments so that players can better appreciate from which direction the sounds of glide and tri-shot enemy echoes originate.

CORRECTED ERRORS

General

• Fixed a bug that indicated a player’s presence in the arcade while playing an open competitive match.
• Fixed a bug where the UI would display incorrect values for the highest SR of the career at the end of the match and at the end of the – Season
• Fixed a bug in custom games that caused front spawn rooms to be active for players on deathmatch maps such as Temple of Anubis, Hanamura, and Volskaya.

Heroes

Brigitte

• Fixed a bug where Heroes with their own armor would continuously decay if they received multiple charges of Repair Set.

Wrecking Ball

• Fixed a bug where Wrecking Ball could hit enemies with one-balls much more often than intended.

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.