Overwatch Patch Notes - April 27, 2017

A new patch is now live on Windows PC. 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 our Bug Report forum.
For troubleshooting assistance, visit our Technical Support forum.

GENERAL

General

• Added a slider for aim smoothing. This can be found under the “Controls” tab in the “Options menu. Click “Advanced” under the “Controller” heading

Developer Comments: By default, aim smoothing/acceleration is set to the same value that players are used to (full smoothing, low acceleration), but as you drag the slider toward 0, you'll experience less smoothing (higher acceleration). Once the value hits 0, smoothing will be entirely disabled (instant acceleration).

• Players can now select a new Aim Technique: Linear Ramp. This can be found under the “Controls” tab in the “Options menu, along with the Dual-Zone and Exponential Ramp option. Click “Advanced” under the “Controller” heading

Developer Comments: This technique, along with disabled aim smoothing, will cause your crosshair to rotate proportionally with the angle that the stick is deflected. The effect is multiplied based on your sensitivity settings.

Competitive Play

• On Assault and Assault/Escort Maps, teams now need to capture at least 33% of the objective before the tie-breaking system is activated

Developer Comments: When the new tie-breaking system was implemented on April 11, 2017, teams only needed to capture 1% to trigger the system. This occasionally resulted in confusing situations when games would end without a lot of information about how the point was captured, due to the brief capture time. To alleviate this problem, we’re requiring that teams progress past 33% before the tie-breaking system begins tracking progress. If neither team manages to cross 33%, the match will end in a draw. If you’d like to know more, click here.

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed a crash that could occur during the end-of-round screen

Arcade

• Fixed a bug that prevented the payload from showing damage until after the escort phase in the Overwatch Uprising brawl
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to get under the payload using certain heroes’ movement abilities in the Overwatch Uprising brawl
• Fixed a bug that caused the payload’s health bar to interfere with the scoreboard, forcing players to hold down the spacebar to view the scoreboard in the Overwatch Uprising brawl
• Fixed a bug that caused Genji’s “You’ve rescued me again, Dr. Ziegler” voice line to play after being resurrected in the Overwatch Uprising brawl, regardless of which hero performed the resurrection
• Fixed an issue causing the chat window to block the ‘refresh’ button when the Overwatch Uprising leaderboards were open

Custom Games and Game Browser

• Fixed a bug that prevented the ‘Start Game Mode’ button from appearing when creating a Capture the Flag or Elimination game

Heroes

• Fixed a bug that gave Genji’s Dragonblade ability a slightly increased swing speed while at a higher latency. Dragonblade’s default swing speed has been slightly increased to compensate
• Fixed a bug that prevented Genji’s Dragonblade ability from registering hits correctly
• Fixed a bug to prevent hit effects from being inflicted on D.Va’s human form while piloting the mech

Maps

• Fixed a bug causing glass that has been shattered by an explosion to be colored black

Overwatch Patch Notes – April 17, 2017

A new patch is now live on Windows PC. 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 our Bug Report forum.
For troubleshooting assistance, visit our Technical Support forum.

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed an issue that caused the game client to crash when Overwatch was launched

Arcade

• Fixed a bug preventing the Null Sector bots from spawning during the payload escort phase of the Overwatch Uprising brawl
• The Overwatch Uprising 2017 player icon will now unlock when you log into the event
• Firing shots while standing on the payload in Overwatch Uprising will no longer cause accuracy issues for your hero
• Fixed an issue preventing players from placing turrets on moving platforms (i.e. the payload)
• The Overwatch Uprising scorecard now correctly tracks stats from Sombra’s Hack
• The Overwatch Uprising scorecard now correctly tracks Ana’s healing stats
• The Overwatch Uprising scorecard now correctly tracks D.Va’s enemy eliminations

Competitive Play

• Fixed an issue that could cause inaccurate results when breaking ties based on capture percentage on Assault and Assault/Escort maps

Heroes

• Fixed an issue that allowed players to move freely when being hit by Mei’s Blizzard or Endothermic Blaster
• Fixed a bug causing D.Va’s hair to be rigid in the Selfie highlight intro when her Palanquin skin is equipped
• Fixed a bug causing Soldier: 76’s cape to clip during the Push-Ups emote when his Strike Commander Morrison, Daredevil: 76, or Stunt Rider: 76 skin was equipped
• Fixed a bug causing the ice on Pharah’s Frostbite skin to stretch when her Flair emote was activated

Maps

• Fixed a bug causing glass that has been shattered by an explosion to be colored black

Overwatch Patch Notes – April 11, 2017

A new patch is now live on Windows PC. 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 our Bug Report forum.
For troubleshooting assistance, visit our Technical Support forum.

PATCH HIGHLIGHTS

New Seasonal Event: Overwatch Uprising

Starting today, we’re rewinding the future, giving you the chance to relive the stories behind some of your favorite Overwatch heroes. Suit up with your friends and travel seven years into the past, joining Tracer on her very first mission in a brand-new cooperative brawl; or collect more than 100 declassified Loot Box items—including skins, highlight intros, emotes, sprays, and player icons!

For more information, click here.

GENERAL

General

• Details about each hero’s unique backstory, along with information about some of their lore-inspired skins, have been added to the Hero Gallery
• The Player Report system has been redesigned, adding new reporting options and activity examples to better capture the reason for each report
• In-game voice conversations for the Overwatch Uprising event can now be displayed as subtitles. This can be enabled under the “Sound” tab in the “Options” menu

Competitive Play

• A tracking system has been added to Assault and Assault/Escort Maps that will allow us to break ties based on the progress that was made toward capturing the objective.

Developer Comments: To mitigate draws in Competitive Play, we're implementing a system that tracks each team's progress on the objective. This will work similarly to the system that's already in place for Escort and Assault/Escort maps, which grants a win to the team that pushes the payload the furthest. Now, even if neither team successfully captures the objective, a winner can be determined based on which team captured the largest portion.

Custom Games and Game Browser

• Custom Game settings can now be saved as a preset from the game’s details page. This can be accessed by right-clicking on the map image from the Create Game page, right-clicking a game name from inside the Game Browser, or via the save button on the settings page
• Players can now change weapon clip and magazine size or grant unlimited ammunition when creating a custom game

Maps

• A new route has been added to Eichenwalde that connects the attacking team's spawn area to the capture point

HERO UPDATES

Lúcio

• Sonic Amplifier
  • Damage increased by 25%
  • Projectile speed increased from 40 to 50
  • Alternate fire now considers vertical orientation when knocking targets back
• Crossfade
  • Area of effect radius has been decreased from 30 meters to 10 meters
  • Heal Song
    • Healing-per-second has been increased by 30% (also applies to Lúcio's Amp It Up ability)
    • Self-healing has been reduced by 25%
• Wall Ride
  • Movement speed increased by 20% when wall riding
  • Lúcio now receives a burst of speed when leaping off a wall

Developer Comments: Lúcio has often felt like a must-pick due to his raw healing output and the versatility of providing a speed bonus to your entire team. The goal of these changes is to keep those elements feeling strong, but making them harder to apply to everyone on your team at all times. The end result is that he should feel stronger with teams that he can stay close to but not as strong when on teams with heroes that are often spread out (such as Pharah, Widow, Genji, etc). Much of Lúcio’s character power was tied up in his large passive auras, which caused other elements of his kit to be weakened over time in an attempt to balance him. Now that his auras are more focused it will allow them to be much stronger and allow Lúcio to be more active in his role.

Orisa

• The size of Orisa’s head hitbox has been decreased by 15%

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed an issue preventing voice lines from being played on Control maps

Competitive Play

• Fixed an issue that was preventing Top 500 icons from appearing until after completing a competitive match
• Fixed a bug preventing achievements from being unlocked during off-season competitive matches
• Fixed a bug that forced Play of the Game highlights to be drawn from the last round of play

Custom Games and Game Browser

• Fixed an issue allowing empty player slots to be displayed even when disabled (e.g. in 6v1 games)
• Fixed a bug preventing the pause feature from working properly after the original host has left the match
• Fixed a bug that allowed extremely long team names
• Removed unnecessary customization options (e.g. cooldown options for abilities with no cooldown)

Heroes

• Ana no longer cocks her rifle after throwing a grenade
• The brightness on Bastion's golden gun has been toned down when the BlizzCon skin is equipped
• Fixed a bug causing Mei's pinky to bend awkwardly in some poses when her Chang'e and Luna skins were equipped

Maps

• Fixed a bug on Eichenwalde that allowed enemy player outlines to be seen through a pile of dirt at the castle gate
• Fixed an issue on Eichenwalde that allowed players to become trapped in the broken castle doors
• Fixed a bug that allowed Sombra to reach unintended locations on King's Row
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to reach unintended areas on the Capture the Flag version of Lijiang Tower
• Fixed a bug that allowed Symmetra to hide turrets in unintended locations on Oasis