Patch Notes

Brigitte

• Brigitte's Repair Packs no longer remain healing if the player switches to a different hero

Added many more communication options so you can customize your interactions in Overwatch! To help you pick your favorites, go to Options, then Controls and scroll down to the Communication Wheel section. From here, you can choose from one of 26 different options for each sector of the wheel. You can change out your choices and swap around their positions within the wheel. Now, you can still tell your team “I Need Healing,” but you can also tell them you are “On My Way” so they should “Press the Attack!”

• New options are now available to customize the Communications Wheel
• Shortcuts are now customizable; pick from a set of 26 different communication options
• Additional keybindings are now available to support more voiceover lines
• We've changed how communication wheel throttling works in the game. You can use up to 3 communication wheel actions in rapid succession but there is now a delay between subsequent communications (similar to how Tracer’s blink ability works in the game)

Players are now be able to read about the latest changes to Overwatch from within the game. We wanted to players across all platforms to have convenient access to this information, and it’s now easier than ever to stay up-to-date.

• Selecting the Patch Notes button on the main menu will display the patch notes in the client, and no longer requires a separate web browser
• Patch Notes will show as “new” whenever a game update is available

• Existing Share Codes can now be re-uploaded with new Custom Game Settings (requires same original owner)
  • Developer Comment: When choosing to create a share code for your Custom Game Settings, we've added the option to re-upload the new settings to an existing share code (assuming the owner is the same). This should make it easier for content creators to update existing modes, even if the codes have already been shared. Note: One may also re-upload settings to a code that has expired (assuming the owner is the same), and the share code will become valid again.
• Skirmish can now override which Control Points are valid on Control Maps

• Allow strings to be stored as variables
• Allow no string reevaluation in Create HUD Text, Create In-World Text, and Set Objective Description
• Added Player Dealt Knockback and Player Received Knockback Events
• Conditions and actions are now displayed using C-style syntax. This new syntax is used when copying to text, and both new and old syntaxes are supported when pasting from text.
• Nulls at the end of a String or Custom String value are no longer displayed (or required when pasting from text).
• Adjusted syntax coloring for conditions and actions to make it more consistent.
• Relaxed type restrictions, allowing Boolean values (such as Compare) to be used where numbers are expected, and vice versa.
• Added support for the new communication types to related actions and values.
• Added nighttime versions of the Workshop Island and Workshop Expanse maps.

• Break
• Continue
• Set Crouch Enabled
• Set Melee Enabled
• Set Jump Enabled
• Declare Round Draw
• Set Ability Cooldown
• Cancel Primary Action

• Is Meleeing
• Is Jumping
• Event Direction
• Button
• Event Ability
• Ability Cooldown
• Ability Icon String
• Array
• If-Then-Else

• Fixed a bug that could allow voice lines from opposing teams to be heard at Hero Select screens on certain maps
• Fixed a bug where some arcade game modes were not storing or displaying stats correctly
• Custom Game Filter - Changed the custom game filter "Only Show Games with Space For Party" in 2 ways:
• The names have been changed to be more descriptive: "on" is now "room in game" and "include in queue" is now "room in lobby". "off" is still "off"
• The filter's default has been changed to "room in game" (previously "on") instead of "off"
• Fixed a bug that caused per-hero Friendly Outline settings to not apply properly in some cases

Busan

• MEKA Base: Fixed a bug that allowed Sombra to traslocate to an unintended location near the capture point
• Downtown: Fixed a bug that allowed Sombra to place her translocator in several unintended locations

Havana

• Fixed a bug that prevented Genji and Hanzo from consistently being able to wall climb in several locations near point A

King’s Row

• Fixed a bug that caused Orisa's Protective Barrier to fall through the floor when deployed at a specific spot close to Point B

Baptiste

• Fixed a bug where people could stand on immortality field
• Immortality Field can no longer be exploited by swapping heroes to reset the cooldown

Doomfist

• Fixed a visual issue with Doomfist's primary fire animation while in a Graviton Surge
• Fixed a bug where McCree's roll could cause Uppercut to not lift him to the correct height
• Fixed a bug where hitting Sombra with Rocket Punch would not put hack on cooldown if she was using it at the time
• Fixed an animation pop when doing an aerial slam at certain range
• Holding secondary ability will now also trigger the ground version of Seismic Slam when it becomes valid
• Fixed a bug where sometimes Seismic Slam would not trigger if Doomfist was on a slippery surface

D.Va

• Fixed a bug that caused D.Va to not gain full health when spawning into her mech in Total Mayhem

Echo

• Fixed a bug where some effects caused by Duplicated heroes were not always removing themselves after 3 seconds
• Fixed a bug where an Amplification Matrix wouldn't boost damage during the 3 second linger window after Duplicate ended
• Fixed a bug that caused a Graviton Surge created by clone Echo to stop displaying visual effects when Duplicate ends
• Fixed a bug causing Echo to be credited with a "Double Kill" on a single kill, when playing with a damage scalar > 100%
• Fixed a bug where kills done by cloned heroes after Duplicate had ended were not counting towards the Duplicated Kills stat
• Fixed a bug where the Hacked effect on health packs that were hacked by an Echo Duplicating a Sombra would be colored wrong after her ultimate ended
• Fixed a bug where Sticky Bombs could sometimes deal damage through shields
• Fixed a bug where after using Call Mech, a Duplicated D.Va would use incorrect voice lines

Genji

• When Genji reflects Reinhardt's firestrike, it will now swap team coloration from Reinhardt's POV
• Fixed a bug where Genji did not receive credit for kills done by a deflected Hanzo Dragonstrike

Mei

• Fixed a bug where enemy Mei’s Icewall would appear the incorrect color in FFA modes
• Fixed interactions between friendly Mei's Cryo-Freeze and various abilities

Mercy

• Fixed a bug that caused player nameplates to be invisible when Mercy's beam target is afflicted by Ana's Biotic Grenade and ally colorblind colors is enabled
• Fixed a bug where Mercy could lose ultimate charge in custom games with a damage scalar under 100%

Torbjörn

• Fixed a bug allowing turrets to be teleported into invalid locations in rare instances

Zarya

• Fixed a bug where Zarya's bubble doesn't purge the visual effects of someone hit by a Venom Mine

Zenyatta

• Fixed a bug that could cause a pink object to appear at the top of the screen for Zenyatta while wearing his Zen-nakji skin

• Fixed a bug where values were often being counted multiple times towards a script's total element count

Echo

• Fixed a bug where Echo could end Duplicate with some pre-existing Ultimate Charge