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Discord for quicker updates and general discussion of things, as I have neglected this group due to personal lack of OW interest:
https://discord.gg/SXdqcBKjAH

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https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/beta/#patch-2022-04-28

- New Mode: Push (Tug-of-War)
- Assault maps removed
- 5v5
- Overhaul in terms of sound/visuals
- Ping system
- New daytime variants for most/all maps
- Many hero reworks.

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/#patch-2020-09-10

Hero Updates

General

Shotgun patterns no longer apply random rotation. This will affect the following heroes:
Ashe
Doomfist
D.Va
Reaper
Roadhog
Torbjörn

We’re making weapons that utilize shotgun patterns more reliable by removing the random rotation applied to each shot. Individual pellets within the shot will still have a tiny amount of variance to their firing angle for the sake of the shotgun weapon feel, but this change will provide significantly more control over aiming these weapons.

Roadhog

When combined with the changes to shotgun patterns, we’re looking to keep Roadhog’s Chain Hook combo reliable, but not overly powerful against heroes with higher health pools.
Scrap Gun

General

Projectile damage reduced from 7 to 6 (150 total per shot)

Torbjörn

This change to Torbjörn’s secondary fire is aimed at giving it a stronger role at close range. We’re hoping this change allows each shot to feel more impactful, since it has a larger burst. To keep this change in line, we’ve also reduced the damage-per-second.

Rivet Gun

Secondary Fire

Recovery increased from 0.6 to 0.8 seconds
Damage increased from 10.5 to 12.5 per projectile (125 total per shot)

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/#patch-2020-08-31

Hero Updates

Armor

Beam-type damage reduction against Armor health pools increased from 20% to 30%

In an environment with less pervasive barriers, some Damage heroes have become increasingly lethal. As such, we’re now looking to reduce damage outputs accordingly. As a cascading effect, this also introduces a need to reduce healing outputs for some Support heroes, as there’s less damage being dealt overall.


Ana

Biotic Rifle

General

Ammo reduced from 14 to 12


Ashe

The Viper

General

Max ammo reduced from 15 to 12

Secondary Fire

Aim-down sights damage reduced from 85 to 80

Baptiste

Biotic Launcher

Secondary Fire

Grenade ammo reduced from 12 to 10

Regenerative Burst

Total healing reduced from 150 to 75
Baptiste now receives twice as much healing from Regenerative Burst

Junkrat

Frag Launcher

Impact damage reduced from 50 to 40 (Total 130 to 120)

McCree

Peacekeeper

Primary Fire

Recovery increased from 0.42 to 0.50

Moira

Biotic Grasp

Healing

Lingering heal reduced from 4 seconds to 2 seconds (Total healing from 65 down to 35)
Healing per second increased from 65 to 70
Healing resource consumption rate increased from 11 to 14 (27%)

Damage

Attach angle reduced by 37%
Healing resource gain rate increased by 50%

Orisa

Halt!

Radius increased from 4 to 5
Projectile speed reduced from 30 to 25

Pharah

Rocket Launcher

Recovery increased from 0.75 to 0.85

Symmetra

Photon Projector

Secondary Fire

Max damage reduced from 140 to 120

Widowmaker

Widow's Kiss

General

Max ammo increased from 30 to 35

Secondary Fire

Scoped ammo cost increased from 3 to 5
Scoped shots now have up to 50% damage falloff from 60-85 meters

Zarya

Particle Cannon

Secondary Fire

Ammo cost increased from 20 to 25

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/live#patch-2020-08-04

Reminder of my Discord: https://discord.gg/Tbm73Fk


Lúcioball Remix

Lúcioball Remix is the wildest way to play Lúcioball yet. With two balls in play at once, plus periodic Bonus Balls worth three points each, scores will skyrocket and astounding plays will be made. Will you keep up, or will the barrage of balls break your brain?
Lúcioball Gameplay Updates

Lúcio moves faster
Lúcio has faster cooldowns
Lúcio punch and boop range increased
Lúcio punch and boop are now partially affected by your facing, to improve ball control
Lúcio can crouch in the air to drop down to the ground
Added new custom game options for Lúcioball

General Updates
Priority Requeue for Backfilled Games

If you join a game after it has started to replace a player who has previously left, you are considered to have "backfilled" into that game. After finishing a game where you backfill, you are now granted a priority requeue the next time you queue to play. You will see a small icon on the interface to denote this status. When you queue for a game with priority requeue status, the matchmaker tries to prioritize finding an appropriate game for you. This normally results in significantly lower times waiting in queue.
Custom Games Updates
Lopsided Teams

Further customize how many players can be on each team in a custom game. While games are still limited to 12 players in total, you are now able to choose any number of slots on Team 1 and Team 2. For Workshop users, this affects how many dummy bots can spawn on each team. If the total number of player slots is 12, that defines how many dummy bots can spawn on each team (e.g. a 4v8 mode would allow for 4 dummy bots on one team and 8 on the other). If the total number of player slots is less than 12, additional dummy bots may be added to either team as long as the total number of players is within 12 (e.g. a 4v0 mode would allow up to 8 additional dummy bots on either team). We're excited to see what asymmetrical game modes you all come up with!
Competitive Updates
Modification to High SR Grouping Restrictions

To match the new maximum SR of 3900 a player can achieve after finishing placements, you can no longer queue for Competitive Play in a group with more than 2 players if any player in the party is 3900 SR or higher.
Workshop Updates
New Workshop Actions

Set Ammo
Set Max Ammo
Set Weapon
Set Reload Enabled
Disable Game Mode HUD
Enable Game Mode HUD
Disable Game Mode In-World UI
Enable Game Mode In-World UI
Disable Hero HUD
Enable Hero HUD
Disable Kill Feed
Enabled Kill Feed
Disable Messages
Enable Messages
Disable Scoreboard
Enable Scoreboard
Set Ability Charge
Set Ability Resource
Set Jump Vertical Speed
Disable Nameplates
Enable Nameplates
Start Forcing Player Outlines
Stop Forcing Player Outlines
Enable Movement Collision With Environment
Disable Movement Collision With Environment
Enable Movement Collision With Players
Disable Movement Collision With Players
Start Modifying Hero Voice Lines
Stop Modifying Hero Voice Lines
Add Health Pool To Player
Remove Health Pool From Player
Remove All Health Pools From Player
Set Player Health

New Workshop Values

Ammo
Max Ammo
Weapon
Is Reloading
Event Was Environment
Current Array Index
Input Binding String
Ability Charge
Ability Resource
Mapped Array
Workshop Setting Toggle
Workshop Setting Integer
Workshop Setting Real
Last Created Health Pool

The Workshop Setting values allow you to expose tunable values of your script to their own special section in the Custom Game Settings. With these settings, you can specify the min, max, default, and types of data (Integer, Real, Toggle) you'd like to expose to users. If one or more of these values are used in your script, a new autogenerated Workshop Settings card will appear in the settings menu, allowing you to tweak these value overrides prior to launching the game mode.
Bug Fixes
Heroes

Doomfist

Fixed a bug that could cause two Doomfists to trade Rocket Punches and both get knocked back

Echo

Fixed a bug with cloned hero health bars not displaying status effects properly
Fixed a bug with movement sounds not being reduced when crouching
Fixed a bug that prevented Echo was having Flight canceled after being hacked

Mei

Fixed a bug that caused heroes with movement abilities to pass through Mei's Cryo-Freeze ability

Mercy

Fixed a bug with Guardian Angel speed after triggering the Valkyrie ultimate ability

Reinhardt

Fixed a bug that allowed two Reinhardt's to collide during Charge and not knock each other down

Sombra

Fixed a bug that allowed Sombra to reach unintended places when using her Translocator ability
Fixed a bug that would cause Sombra to get into a bad state if she lost her target just before Hack completes

Winston

Fixed a bug that allowed Winston to trigger Primal Rage for a short duration when recovering from a stun effect

Wrecking Ball

Fixed a bug that allowed Wrecking Ball to launch out of a teleporter at high speed when using Grappling Claw

Workshop

Fixed a bug causing Disable Built-In Game Mode Completion to fail in Elimination
Fixed a bug causing Set Max Health to apply the percentage change to your current health unnecessarily
Fixed a bug preventing Ashe's self-knockback from Coach Gun from triggering Dealt/Received Knockback Events
If the Last Of value is given an input value that is not an array, it now returns the value given to it instead of 0 (matching the behavior of First Of)

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/#patch-2020-07-14


Personal Discord: https://discord.gg/Tbm73Fk


Sigma's Maestro Challenge

Get ready for Sigma’s Maestro Challenge and some special, unlockable in-game content! Wins in Quick Play, Competitive Play, Arcade, or Experimental will earn you a themed player icon, a legendary emote, and a legendary skin: Maestro Sigma!

Tune in to Twitch broadcasters while they’re playing Overwatch any time through July 27th to earn a total of 6 Sigma’s Maestro Challenge sprays!

To learn more about Sigma’s Maestro Challenge, head to the Overwatch website.
New Soundtrack: Overwatch Cities & Countries

The Overwatch: Cities & Countries soundtrack is now available, featuring music from the maps of Overwatch! Find the album across several popular music streaming platforms today*. For more details see the Overwatch website or check out the QR code on the main menu.

*Streaming platform availability may vary by region.
General Updates
New Feature: Career Profile Improvements

The Career Profile page has been redesigned to provide a better, more streamlined experience when viewing player profiles. Aside from the brand new look, we’ve also added some new quality-of-life features:

Game mode play time has been added to the overview section, so you can see exactly how much time you’ve spent in modes like Competitive Play or any of the community’s creative Workshop modes
Statistics are displayed in a tabular format, separated by “Average/10 min”, “Best”, “Total”, providing a cleaner, more readable view
In-game achievements are grouped by category, and can be filtered by what you’ve earned and have yet to unlock
Player Icons are now grouped by category and can be filtered by hero and owned status

General

Capture the Flag in-game achievements have been moved to the Maps category
Added additional playback languages for Echo’s Duplicate ability video

Bug Fixes
General

Fixed a bug with the FFA arcade game mode that caused 1P and 3P spectating to not function
Fixed a bug with the FFA arcade game mode that caused the Defeat screen to display for the winning team
Fixed a bug with the FFA arcade game mode not adding Replays for players within the match
Fixed a bug that caused Echo's primary fire sound to play too loudly when using the "No Ammunition Requirement" setting
Fixed a bug in Custom Games that caused the Deathmatch announcer voice line to incorrectly state total kills remaining if the game mode was set to a custom score
Fixed a bug with incorrect team colors displaying for the winning team after a match concludes
Fixed a bug that prevented the jump landing sound effect to play if holding down the jump keybind
Fixed a bug in Tutorial that caused training bots to not display their health bars
Fixed a bug with the Role Select screen not appearing properly on multiple main menu screens for non-group leaders
Fixed a bug in Capture the Flag that caused the contesting sound effect to not change in pitch based on the flag's proximity to the capture point

Heroes

Ashe

Fixed a bug where the Viper can clip through the camera if Ashe is jumping and firing while aiming down her sights

Doomfist

Fixed a bug that allowed Doomfist to scale a wall in Junkertown when using an emote

D.Va

Fixed a bug where D.Va’s Micro Missiles were not being affected by damage boost abilities

Genji

Fixed a bug with the Deflect sound effect not matching the duration of the ability
Fixed a bug that would cause Genji to take projectile damage during a Deflect if too close to an enemy

Hanzo

Fixed a bug with Sonic Arrow not giving vision through walls when deflected by Genji

Wrecking Ball

Fixed a bug where Wrecking Ball could use Grappling Claw without transitioning into ball form
Fixed a bug with Minefield where some mines could become stuck inside terrain on Temple of Anubis