OVERWATCH-ARCHIV 2021

Experience the past. Fight for the future.

From April 6-27, discover how heroes made history in a new tour of the Overwatch Archive. Relive key moments from the past in story-driven co-op missions, test your skills with new mission modifiers, and earn rewards inspired by history along the way.

Learn more about this year’s Overwatch Archive event on the Overwatch page.

UPDATES FOR LADDER MATCHES

The fourth – Season of ranked matches for Final Elimination (6v6) has begun.

CORRECTED ERRORS

General

• Fixed a bug where certain ability effects could persist on targets after a player switched from the hero that activated them to another.
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from exiting custom games via the Escape menu under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that could cause heroes to get stuck in mid-air on some buildings.
• Fixed a bug that caused Sombra to be revealed in Bounty Hunter mode when she was invisible and the Bounty Target effect expired.
• Fixed a bug where players’ models could fall through terrain when the killcam was skipped.
• Fixed a bug where players were not always breaking through railings when pushed back by Doomfist’s Steam Hammer.
• Fixed an error in the calculation of the “Hit Rate – Best Performance” statistic.

Cards

Dorado

• Fixed a bug that allowed players to use grappling hooks to get to a location that was not intended for them.

Heroes

Echo

• Fixed a bug where the visual effects of Echo’s duplicate were not visible as intended in high-resolution screenshots.

Mei

• Fixed a bug where enemies would remain frozen for the duration of Blizzard after being knocked out of the area of effect.

Symmetra

• Fixed a bug where guns could be placed in locations not intended for them.

Winston

• Fixed a bug where Winston could be knocked back while he had Jungle Rage activated and was affected by Zarya’s Projected Barrier.

Workshop

• Fixed a bug where the [Create Dummy Bot] action did not work for slot 13 to 23 (when the Create More Bots extension was active).

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.