A new patch is now live for Windows PC. Learn more about the latest changes here.

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PATCHHIGHLIGHTS

New feature: Hotfixes

With this patch, the Overwatch client can now automatically apply minor updates (hotfixes) on all platforms without requiring a restart. Hotfixes require an internet connection, access to the hard drive, and enough disk space. If a hotfix cannot be applied, you may receive an error message that you can resolve using one of the following platform-specific customer support articles:

PC article

• Cannot install or update Overwatch
• Overwatch: Not enough memory (PC)
• Overwatch Error: Insufficient Write Permissions (PC)
• Overwatch error: Data download failed (PC)

New Feature: Shared Installation (PTR and Live)

The PTR and Live clients of Overwatch for PC can now share disk space when installed in the same directory. As a result, you will now need less disk space when installing and updating multiple clients. Because of this, today’s PTR client should only take up about 1.2GB of additional disk space. Players who have installed previous PTR clients of Overwatch can uninstall and reinstall them in the shared directory to take advantage of this feature.

Note: Overwatch League’s Replay Viewer also supports shared installation with PTR and live clients.

CORRECTED ERRORS

General

• Custom Game – Fixed a bug that caused saved templates with Symmetra’s “Teleporter – Duration” to be marked as invalid.
• Role Selection Beta – Season – Fixed a bug that prevented players from receiving achievements in the Role Selection Beta – Season .
• Role Selection Beta – Season – Fixed a bug where players’ SN would not update when the entire opposing team left the match.
• Fixed a bug where role selection restrictions were incorrectly applied in matches against AI.
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from selecting a role in Quick Search.
• Workshop – Fixed a bug that prevented players from loading certain templates for custom games.
• Fixed a bug where status effect notifications (stunned, put to sleep, revived, hacked, detected, etc.) would sometimes persist on the screen.

Heroes

Brigitte

• Fixed a bug that caused Brigitte to receive defensive assists from her repair kit every time a target was healed.
• Fixed a bug where no sound effect was played for the target of Brigitte’s repair kit.

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.