GENERAL UPDATES

Feature update: Custom game browser – game experience improvements

New features

New tabs for the browser for custom games

• Popular
• Favorites
• Recently played
• All games

New setting for custom games

• Mode name

Until now, it has been difficult for players to keep track of the ever-growing number of player-created game modes. The new custom game browser tabs finally give these game modes the opportunity to be in the spotlight again. In the “Popular” tab you can see the most played game modes as well as modes that have recently gained popularity. In the “Favorites” tab you can create your personal collection of game modes – just click on the star icon next to the game mode you want to add to this list. In the “Recently Played” tab you will find the game modes you have played recently. Lastly, in the “All Games” tab you will find the list of game lobbies you already know. Additionally, we’ve added a feature that allows you to find lobbies by code to share.

To help you tell the game modes apart, we’ve added a new Mode Names setting above the description in the Custom Games settings. These mode names will be used to display the different game modes in the custom games browser tabs. We recommend creators re-upload game modes with mode names filled in. (If no mode name has been entered, the code to share will be displayed instead).

Since this is the first time we are making these new features available to the public, we may need to make adjustments to the mode selection for the Popular tab. Bear with us if you notice that the Popular tab is not displaying the game modes you expect. We will make adjustments to present you with the best possible selection of game modes.

We’re excited to see what these new custom game features will offer, and we look forward to your feedback to help us continue to improve the custom game browser.

Competitive: Final Elimination (3v3) – – Season 4

The fourth – Season of ranked matches for Final Elimination (3v3) has begun.

CORRECTED ERRORS

General

• Fixed a bug where console players could not see their prestige icons for Top 500 in the match.
• Fixed a bug where match pool icons were not displayed in replay lists.
• Fixed a bug that caused – Season 28 and – Season 29 stats to look identical in Career.
• Fixed a bug that caused the player icon for the 2020 New Year’s hat to display “2021”.
• Fixed a bug where the notification “We need a healer” was displayed in a role selection match even though the team had two healers.
• Fixed a bug where game mode options in the custom game browser could not be selected with a controller.
• Fixed a bug that caused the – Season s of competitive flag capture to be displayed in the wrong order in Career.

Maps

Busan

• Fixed a bug where the fork was not attached to the inflated cow as intended.

Lijiang Tower

• Fixed a bug on the Control Center map that allowed Junkrat’s kamikaze tires to protrude into the map geometry, revealing the position of the opposing team.

Temple of Anubis

• Fixed a bug that allowed Junkrat to use his kamikaze tire below the map’s terrain.

Heroes

Doomfist

• Fixed a bug where the Steam Hammer sometimes failed to trigger collision effects or animations when hitting walls. Mei
• Fixed a bug where Mei’s kneeling emote did not animate her eyes as intended.

Reaper

• Fixed a bug where on low damage effect settings, some visual effects of an enemy Reaper were rendered as friendly and not hostile. Soldier: 76
• Fixed a bug where the chant “Have some respect.” did not play as intended when using the Grill Master skin.

Symmetra

• Fixed a bug where the player camera would briefly display an unplayable area when stepping through the teleporter.

Custom Games

• The description text box no longer converts newline characters to spaces.

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.