Overwatch Patch Notes

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Lunar New Year 2021

 

It’s time to celebrate the Year of the Ox!

We're celebrating Lunar New Year with luminous new seasonal items, including legendary skins like Bull Demon Orisa, Dragonfire Bastion, Tiger Huntress Ashe, and more! Additionally, this event launches the fourth competitive season of Capture the Flag and introduces a new game mode: Bounty Hunter!

Learn more about Lunar New Year on PlayOverwatch.com.

New Game Mode: Bounty Hunter Brawl

 

Test your skills as an outlaw with this new addition to the Arcade rotation: Bounty Hunter! Getting the first kill of the match makes you the Target and gives you extra points for making kills, but beware: anyone who kills you becomes the next Target!

General Updates

 

Feature Update: Replay Viewer Fine-Grained Playback Controls

• We've introduced a new option that allows you to toggle between two different playback controls, the default playback controls and the "fine-grained" playback controls.
• These "fine-grained" controls will allow you to increase and decrease the replay playback speed in smaller increments than 0.25x, from 0.10x to 1.00x. You can also hold your "Move Slow" binding while increasing or decreasing speeds to change the playback speed acceleration. This can help you capture cool slow-motion shots and more!

General

• Added a "New" Ownership Filter to the Player Icon tab in the career profile
• Reorganized the layout of the escape menu while you are in a custom game
• Adjusted sound for boosted hit indicators to increase clarity

Bug Fixes

 

General

• Fixed a bug that would rarely cause enemy footstep sounds to not be heard
• Fixed a bug that caused the chat feed to not properly indicate that a real ID friend request has been accepted
• Fixed a bug that caused Sombra's low health material effect to be seen on allies during a replay playback

Maps

Kanezaka

• Fixed a bug with missing collision inside of the Pachimari arcade
• Fixed a bug with the map geometry that produced a gap between buildings
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to stand on top of specific door frames
• Fixed a bug with missing collision on the pottery wheels
• Fixed a bug with missing collision between vending machines

Route 66

• Fixed a bug with the map geometry that produced a gap in the Deadlock hideout interior

Heroes

Brigitte

• Fixed bug where her Barrier would not scale properly using Workshop settings

Baptiste

• Fixed bug where the Deaths Prevented stat would not track correctly

Reaper

• Fixed a bug with his hit volume becoming out of sync if frozen during his ultimate ability

Reinhardt

• Fixed a bug causing his lean animation to be less responsive than expected

Sombra

• Fixed a bug where the low health effect would sometimes show incorrectly in replays
• Fixed a bug that caused an invisible Sombra to reveal her location if her model was still loading into the match

Symmetra

• Fixed a bug that could cause her to be killed while traveling between teleporter locations

Wrecking Ball

• Fixed a bug that allowed him to use Piledriver while on the ground in rare circumstances

Zenyatta

• Fixed a bug with his Toybot skin that that caused an animation issue to occur when casting orbs
• Fixed a bug where sounds and effects would stop during the Meditate emote

From: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/

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General Updates

 

Bounty Hunter

• Bounty targets will lose their target status if they take too long to get a kill

Bug Fixes

 

General

• Fixed a bug within the Bounty Hunter game mode where the Target status could become unavailable if the active Target left the game

 

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Hero Updates

Orisa

This will make Fortify more reliable at preventing large bursts of incoming damage and make it more consistent as a defensive ability.

Fortify

• Prevents critical headshot damage while effect is active

Reaper

Reaper's shotguns have a high damage potential but require close range or large targets to fully utilize. We're smoothing this out by extending the range at which he can consistently deal damage while lowering the maximum damage of each shot.

Hellfire Shotguns

• Spread reduced from 8 to 6
• Damage per projectile reduced from 7 to 5.5

Winston

With this change Winston will be slightly more resilient against shotguns, beams, and weapons with a high rate of fire.

• Base Armor/Health has been redistributed from 100/400 to 150/350

 

Wrecking Ball

For how often it can occur, Wrecking Ball's knockback is too strong. We're reducing the distance it moves enemy players to bring it more in line with other low cooldown knockback abilities.

Grappling Claw

• Knockback strength reduced 25%

Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed a bug that caused player ragdoll models to fall through the terrain when skipping the kill camera
• Fixed a bug that caused the Bounty Hunter game mode to collapse too early

Maps

Junkertown

• Fixed a bug that allowed Tracer to escape map geometry in a specific location

 

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August 11, 2021

Overwatch Retail Patch Notes - August 11, 2021

General Updates

 

Feature Update: Social Options Menu: Text Chat Settings

New Options

• Group Text Chat - On / Off
• Team Text Chat - On / Off
• Match Text Chat - On / Off
• General Text Chat - On / Off

Players will now have the ability to turn off text chat individually for Group, Team, Match and General chat channels effectively muting them separately. These options can be found within Text Chat settings on the Social Options menu.

Bug Fixes

 

Maps

Junkertown

• Fixed a bug that allowed players to stand on top of a building panel near the initial attacker's spawn location

Heroes

Ana

• Fixed a bug that caused golden weapon textures to appear missing when equipping the Haroeris skin

Pharah

• Fixed a bug that caused her rocket launcher to disappear after using the Rocket Guitar emote

Tracer

• Fixed a bug that caused her pistol muzzles to not always return to their proper position after firing

Full Notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/

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Bug Fixes

 

Heroes

D.Va

• Fixed a circumstance where D.Va's Self-Destruct didn't do damage as expected

Full Notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/

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Overwatch Retail Patch Notes - September 7, 2021

General Updates

 

Feature Update: Custom Games Browser - Quality of Life Improvements

New Features

New Custom Game Browser tabs

• Popular
• Favorites
• Recent
• All Games

New Custom Game setting

• Mode Name

Previously, it was difficult for players to keep track of the ever-growing collection of player-created game modes. The Custom Game Browser’s new tabs give these modes a chance to shine. The Popular tab shows off some of the most-played modes as well as modes that have started to trend. The Favorites tab lets you build a personal collection of modes -- just select the star icon next to any mode you’d like to see in this list. The Recent tab shows modes that you have recently played. Finally, the All Games tab gives you the standard, familiar list of lobbies. We've also added the ability to search for lobbies by share code.

In order to help identify modes, we’ve added a new Mode Name setting right above the Description in Custom Game Settings. This Mode Name will be used to represent modes in the Custom Game Browser tabs. Creators are encouraged to reupload their modes with Mode Name filled out. (If it isn’t filled out, the share code itself is displayed instead.)

Since these new features are being used by the public for the first time, we may need to make adjustments to how the Popular tab chooses its modes. If you notice that the Popular tab isn’t showing the modes that you might expect, please be patient with us as we tune the feature to present the best collection of modes that we can.

We’re excited about the possibilities these new features will bring to Custom Games, and we’ll be watching and listening to your feedback to improve the Custom Game Browser experience.

Competitive: 3v3 Lockout Elimination - Season 4

Season 4 of Competitive 3v3 Lockout Elimination has begun!

Bug Fixes

 

General

• Fixed a bug that prevented console players from seeing their Top 500 prestige icons while in a match
• Fixed a bug that caused match pool icons to appear missing from match replay listings
• Fixed a bug that caused the Season 28 and Season 29 statistics to look the same in career profile
• Fixed a bug with the 2020 new year's hat player icon description that displayed 2021
• Fixed a bug that caused the "We need a healer" ping message to appear in a role queue match despite having two healers on the team
• Fixed a bug with the custom game browser that prevented Game Mode options from being selected when using a controller
• Fixed a bug with the career profile that showed competitive CTF seasons in the incorrect order on the stats tab

Maps

Busan

• Fixed a bug with the cow sign that caused the fork to not be attached properly

Lijiang Tower

• Fixed a bug on the Control Center map that allowed players to use Junkrat's Riptire to clip through map geometry and reveal an enemy team's positioning

Temple of Anubis

• Fixed a bug that allowed Junkrat to use his Riptire ultimate underneath map terrain

Heroes

Doomfist

• Fixed a bug where Rocket Punch would sometimes not play impact effects or animations when hitting a wall

Mei

• Fixed a bug with her Kneel emote that caused her eyes to not animate properly

Reaper

• Fixed a bug that caused some of an enemy Reaper's visual effects to display as friendly instead of hostile when on low damage effects settings

Soldier: 76

• Fixed a bug that caused his "Show Some Respect" voice line to not play properly if the Grillmaster skin was equipped

Symmetra

• Fixed a bug that caused the player camera to briefly appear in unplayable space when traveling through her teleporter

Custom Games

• The Description text box no longer converts newline characters to spaces

Full Notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/

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Overwatch Retail Patch Notes - October 12, 2021

Seasonal Event: Halloween Terror 2021

• Overwatch Halloween Terror returns!

• During this spine-chilling in-game event, expand your collection with spooky new cosmetics and experience our limited-time PvE brawl in the chilling tale of Junkenstein's Revenge. Face the terror of six Junkenstein’s Revenge Challenges, diabolical twists on Dr. Junkenstein’s sordid plans. Plus, overcome weekly challenges by playing Quick Play, Competitive Play, or Arcade to earn a series of unique rewards! Throughout the event, unlock new seasonal items—including legendary skins like Draugr Reinhardt, Satyr Lucio, and Vampire Hunter Brigitte—to add to our growing collection from previous years.

 

Competitive Team Deathmatch

 

Season 4 of Competitive Team Deathmatch has begun!

General Updates

 

• Tuned reverb (or acoustic spaces) to address feedback regarding clarity in certain interior locations

Hero Updates

 

Mercy

Guardian Angel

New Hero Setting Guardian Angel Target Priority

Facing Target Only" (Previously "Guardian Angel Prefers Beam Target: Off")

• Guardian Angel will only ever fly to the ally you are aiming at.

"Prefer Beam Target" (Previously "Guardian Angel Prefers Beam Target: On")

• Guardian Angel will fly to your beam target if you have one, if not it will attempt to use the ally you are aiming at.

"Prefer Facing target" (NEW)

• Guardian Angel will fly to the ally you are aiming at. If there is not one, it will attempt to use your beam target.

Behavior change

• Holding down the button for Guardian Angel while using "Toggle Guardian Angel: On", will now activate once a valid target is found.

Bug Fixes

 

General

• We’ve made additional changes to improve the detection of AFK players at the start of a match, including when attackers are forced back into their spawn rooms by an aggressive defense.
• Fixed a rare bug that could cause players to die immediately after the respawn timer expires before returning to the spawn room
• Fixed a bug that caused the waveform asset on voiceline previews to not animate properly

Maps

Busan

• Fixed a bug that allowed Symmetra turrets to shoot through one sided collision around the point on the Downtown map

Lijiang Tower

• Fixed a bug that caused some third person sound effects to sound muffled when near the point on the Night Market map

Heroes

Ana

• Fixed a bug that caused the reticle effect on her scope to appear incorrectly when the Haroeris skin is equipped

Ashe

• Fixed a bug that caused her ankles to bend awkwardly when positioned on certain uneven terrain

Bastion

• Fixed a bug with the Sand Castle skin description that references Summer Games 2021 rather than Summer Games 2020

D.Va

• Fixed a bug with the MEKA Activated highlight intro being centered incorrectly when previewed in a loot box on the Kanezaka map

Echo

• Fixed a bug that caused several Mercy skins to not display their friendly clone visual effects hair overlays when using the Valkyrie ability

Genji

• Fixed a bug with deflect sound effects not ending if the ability is canceled early if the Pacific All Star Genji skin is equipped

Mercy

• Fixed a bug that could cause Guardian Angel to be canceled if the target moves away quickly

Reinhardt

• Fixed a bug that allowed Reinhardt to perform an extra jump after falling from high area while performing Earthshatter

Sombra

• Fixed a bug that caused spectators to be unable to see an invisible Sombra while spectating her in third person

Symmetra

• Fixed a bug that caused Photon Barrier to continue to block damage after the visual effects despawn

Torbjorn

• Fixed a bug that caused both the hammer and rivet gun to appear together during the Overload emote if the Ironclad or Chief Engineer Lindholm skins are equipped

Full Notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/

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Overwatch Retail Patch Notes - October 26, 2021

Hero Updates

 

Cassidy

• Introduction of new hero name

 

Bug Fixes

 

General

• Fixed a bug that caused players to not receive full credit towards matches played when playing Junkenstein's Revenge

Heroes

Brigitte

• Fixed a bug that caused her mace chain to appear as the wrong color in highlight and emotes if the Vampire Hunter skin is equipped

D.Va

• Fixed a bug that caused the Black Cat skin to have a missing decal on the golden gun

Mercy

• Fixed a bug that caused the Valkyrie ultimate ability outro sound to not play properly in both first and third person

Soldier: 76

• Fixed a bug that caused the Grillmaster highlight intro to be unavailable

Full Notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/

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November 9, 2021

Overwatch Retail Patch Notes - November 9, 2021

CASSIDY’S NEW BLOOD CHALLENGE

Celebrate the release of NEW BLOOD, the new Overwatch comic by Ray Fawkes, with Cassidy’s New Blood Challenge! Through November 23rd, earn limited-time rewards, including the new Sandstorm epic skin, by playing games and watching Overwatch streams on Twitch.

Learn more about Cassidy’s New Blood Challenge on the Overwatch website.

 

BUG FIXES

 

GENERAL

• Fixed a bug that allowed console players to enter custom games of PC players that blocked them
• Fixed a bug that allowed allies to incorrectly target recently respawned allies in certain circumstances

HEROES

Ana

• Fixed a bug that caused her “no” voice line to display empty subtitles

Brigitte

• Fixed a bug that made her mace appear transparent on respawn under certain circumstances

Genji

• Fixed a bug that allowed him to use Swift Strike through a certain map geometry on King’s Row

Mei

• Fixed a bug that caused enemies to occasionally not freeze in Blizzard

Moira

• Fixed a bug that caused her “Boo” emote to behave oddly on some props

Reinhardt

• Fixed a bug that caused Hammer sounds instead of Axe sounds while swinging his Axe while using the Draugr skin

Symmetra

• Fixed a bug that prevented her teleporters from placing properly near the stills on Havana
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused her turrets to be instantly destroyed instead of teleported

MAPS

King's Row

• Fixed a bug that allowed certain heroes to stand in unintended areas of the payload’s path

Kanezaka

• Fixed a bug that that allowed players to grapple onto unintended spots of the map

Full Notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/

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December 16, 2021

Overwatch Retail Patch Notes - December 16, 2021

Seasonal Event: Winter Wonderland 2021

Winter Wonderland returns with some festive favorites! Unwrap new cosmetics, earn weekly rewards, and frolic in the snow with our winter brawls!

'Tis the season with Winter Loot Boxes. Unlock new seasonal items--including legendary skins like Snowman Wrecking Ball, Ice Wraith Genji, and Sleighing D.Va--along with other merry items.

Learn more about Winter Wonderland on playoverwatch.com.

 

Competitive: No Limits - Season 2

Season 2 of Competitive No Limits has begun!

 

Bug Fixes

 

General

• Fixed a bug that caused some players to get stuck in Hero Select after a point has been captured

• Fixed a bug that caused some players to lose sound in the client when switching audio devices

• Fixed a bug that inhibited some players from re-entering voice chat

Maps

• Addressed a geometry exploit on Numbani. The map is now re-enabled for play in Competitive and Quickplay.

• Addressed a geometry exploit on Watchpoint: Gibraltar. The map is now re-enabled for play in Competitive and Quickplay.

New Features

 

 

Voice Chat Change - Volume Boost

This feature is being temporarily disabled and delayed to a future patch.

• Our voice chat now runs through our audio system, resulting in higher volume
• This comes along with new default values: “Voice Chat Volume” Voice Chat Mic Volume” both set to 80
• You may need to adjust to your liking under “Sound Options”
• We are also investigating an issue causing voice chat to not work for some players

Full Notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/

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verwatch Retail Patch Notes - January 06, 2022

 

Moira

Fade

Can now jump much higher while using this ability

Reinhardt

Earthshatter

Now deals an additional 200 damage within 1.75m of the impact area

Hanzo

Storm Arrows

Arrows ricochet once upon impact

Cassidy

Combat Roll

Can now roll while in the air

Torbjörn

Rivet Gun - ALT Fire

Ammo cost decreased from 3 to 2

Wrecking Ball

Grappling Claw

Now has a maximum grapple time of 6 seconds

Bug Fixes

 

Heroes

Hanzo

• Fixed a bug that caused Storm Arrows to go through barriers

Reinhardt

• Fixed a bug that cause Earthshatter to penetrate through barriers and walls

Full notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/

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Overwatch Retail Patch Notes – January 25, 2022

A new patch is now live on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and

Nintendo Switch. Read below to learn more about the latest changes.

To share your feedback, please post in the General Discussion forum. For a list of known issues, visit the Bug Report forum. For troubleshooting assistance, visit the Technical Support forum.

 

SEASONAL EVENT: LUNAR NEW YEAR 2022

Seasonal Event: LUNAR 2022 – YEAR OF THE TIGER

We're celebrating Lunar New Year with luminous new seasonal items, including legendary skins Nezha Tracer and Seolbim Mercy! Additionally, this event launches the fifth competitive season of Capture the Flag, and the Bounty Hunter mode has returned!

Learn more about Lunar New Year on PlayOverwatch.com.

 

HERO UPDATES

 

Mercy

Resurrect

Previously, if a teammate died over a death pit their resurrect marker was hidden and fell into the pit. Now, Mercy will see their resurrect marker and can resurrect before it falls to the bottom.

• Mercy can now attempt to resurrect teammates who die over environmental death pits
• When resurrecting, the resurrect marker will now freeze in place for the duration of the resurrection
• Holding the ability button for resurrect while it's on cooldown will now attempt the resurrect once the cooldown finishes

BUG FIXES

 

GENERAL

• Fixed an issue where Season 32 open queue stats were not appearing in career profile

MAPS

• Addressed a geometry exploit on Watchpoint: Gibraltar

HEROES

Ana

• Fixed a bug that caused Ana’s Scope to activate when cancelling Nano Boost target confirmation
• Fixed a bug that caused the parrot on Ana’s Corsair skin to disappear in hero select

Symmetra

• Fixed a bug that caused Symmetra’s name plate to appear in the middle of her model
• Addressed an audio issue during Symmetra’s “Have a seat” emote

Full Notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/

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Overwatch Retail Patch Notes – January 27, 2022

BUG FIXES

Mercy

• Fixed issue where allies being resurrected mid-air were falling earlier and faster than intended

• Fixed issue where resurrect markers were not properly showing for allies that died over environmental death pits

Full Notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/

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Overwatch Retail Patch Notes – February 22, 2022

REAPER'S CODE OF VIOLENCE CHALLENGE

Discover Reaper’s origins with the new Overwatch short story, “Code of Violence” by Brandon Easton. During Reaper’s Code of Violence Challenge, earn limited-time rewards, including the new Dusk Reaper skin, by playing games and watching Overwatch streams on Twitch through March 8! Learn more about the challenge on the Overwatch website.

 

NEW SOUNDTRACK: OVERWATCH: HEROES & VILLAINS

The Overwatch: Heroes & Villains soundtrack is now available, featuring music from the origin stories, archives events, and trailers of Overwatch! Find the albums on your favorite music streaming services. For more details see the Overwatch News website or check out the QR code on the main menu. Streaming platform availability may vary by region.

 

BUG FIXES

 

 

General

• Fixed an issue where the voice chat icon would not show when speaking in a mid/low range
• Fixed an issue where the left-most voting card could not be selected

Maps

Eichenwalde

• Fixed an issue that caused the piano to be too loud when hit

Heroes

Ashe

• Fixed an issue where a high-pitched beeping sound would play during an enemy Ashe's ultimate

Echo

• Fixed a bug that allowed Echo to clone an enemy Echo in specific circumstances

Hanzo

• Fixed a bug caused by using Storm Arrow and Sonic together that wouldn't show an enemy's location if it connected before for the ricochet

Soldier 76

• Auspicious Skin - Fixed a bug that caused Soldier 76's teeth to appear missing

Full Notes; https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/

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March 15, 2022

Overwatch Retail Patch Notes - March 15, 2022

GENERAL

 

Overwatch League Grand Finals Championship Skin

The new Sombra Skin "Zhulong" celebrates the Shanghai Dragons' achievement in becoming the 2021 Overwatch League champions. The skin is purchasable for a limited time for 200 Overwatch League Tokens.

NVIDIA Reflex

The trigger flash option has been removed from the options screen. To enable the trigger flash display for your Reflex Analyzer monitor, please update to driver version 511.79 or later and update GeForce Experience to version 3.25 or later. For more information on Reflex Analyzer please visit https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/reflex-latency-analyzer-360hz-g-sync-monitors/.

COMPETITIVE: 6V6 LOCKOUT ELIMINATION

Season 5 of Competitive 6v6 Lockout Elimination has begun!

 

MAPS

Horizon Lunar Colony and Paris have been removed from Quick Play and related modes.

 

BUG FIXES

 

 

General

• Fixed a bug that caused the Contenders logo to be low resolution on Contenders skins
• Fixed a bug that caused "Ban list is full" to appear in the chat repeatedly
• Fixed a bug that caused friends to be visible on the "Recent Players" list
• Fixed a bug on PC that caused microphone sound distortion

Heroes

Echo

• Fixed a bug that caused re-meching as a duplicated D.Va to grant too much Ultimate charge

Maps

Watchpoint: Gibraltar

• Addressed a geometry exploit

Full Notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/live#patch-2022-03-15

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April 5, 2022

Overwatch Retail Patch Notes - April 5, 2022

GENERAL

 

Overwatch Remix: Vol. 1

It’s the sixth anniversary of Overwatch, and we are expanding the annual event into a three-volume series. We’re bringing back fan-favorite skins with a twist, in addition to limited skins you might have missed out on. Play Overwatch Remix: Vol. 1 April 5 – 25 to secure legendary skins, earn weekly rewards, and play all of your favorite seasonal brawls.

BUG FIXES

 

General

• Fixed an issue where a turret could be placed through spawn on Watchpoint: Gibraltar
• Fixed an issue where some audio devices were not populating in-game settings correctly

Full Notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/live

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April 19, 2022

Overwatch Retail Patch Notes - April 19, 2022

BUG FIXES

 

General

• General stability updates and fixes

Full Notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/live