Overwatch - Winston wins the dive contest at the OW World Cup

[Nitsuki]

Real serious rumor of this game coming to the switch thanks to an early drop of a OW branded switch case.

Seems to go hand in hand that apparently there’s a 4chan leak that Tracer’s in smash ult.

[Fiye]

Seems to go hand in hand that apparently there’s a 4chan leak that Tracer’s in smash ult.

I honestly don't believe it but the amount of rage from people who seem to spend hours theorycrafting this shit would give me fucking LIFE.

I'd believe it more if the 4chan leak came out before the reveal of the switch case.

[Corrderio]

Seems to go hand in hand that apparently there’s a 4chan leak that Tracer’s in smash ult.

For the love of god plz no

[Elcura]

At least there'll be 1 game people can play Tracer properly.

[Serra]

[Serra]

And the attempts to nerf the shield meta out of existence begin!

HERO UPDATES

D.Va
Defense Matrix
Regeneration rate increased from 12.5% to 16% per second
Delay before regeneration begins lowered from 1 second to 0.75 seconds

Orisa
Protective Barrier
Cooldown increased from 9 to 10 seconds

Roadhog
Scrap Gun
Ammunition increased from 5 to 6.

Sigma
Kinetic Grasp
No longer blocks Chain Hook and Whip Shot
Gravitic Flux
High gravity effect duration reduced from 1.2 to 0.9 seconds
Experimental Barrier
Regeneration rate reduced from 175 to 150 per second
Now has a 1 second cooldown after recalling the barrier
Initial 0.2 second cast time removed

Winston
Barrier Projector
Duration increased from 6 to 9 seconds
Health increased from 600 to 700

Baptiste
Immortality Field
Health decreased from 250 to 200

Lucio
Crossfade
Speed boost's effect increased from 20% to 25%
Amp It Up
Speed boost's amplification increased from 50% to 60%
Wall Ride
Speed buff reduced from 40% to 30%

Mercy
Valkyrie
The extra beams created by Valkyrie now ignore enemy barriers

Moira
Biotic Grasp
Self-healing reduced from 30 to 20 health per second

Doomfist
Rocket Punch
Time to reach max charge increased from 1 to 1.4 seconds
The Best Defense…
Shield health gained per hit reduced from 35 to 30

Sombra
Translocator
Cooldown increased from 4 to 6 seconds
Cooldown now begins immediately upon deploying the beacon or if it is killed by an enemy

Symmetra
Photon Barrier
Duration reduced from 15 to 12 seconds
Health reduced from 5000 to 4000
Sentry Turret
Damage per second reduced from 50 to 40
Photon Projector
Players impacted by the primary fire beam should now hear a louder impact sound

Tracer
Pulse Pistols
Damage falloff now starts at 13 meters, up from 10 meters

BUG FIXES

General

Fixed a player profile issue preventing hero win percentages from being displayed for competitive arcade mode seasons

Heroes

Brigitte
Fixed a bug with Brigitte's Rally checking line of sight from her feet instead of from her head
Fixed a bug with Inspire's position being affected by the player’s aim pitch

Doomfist
Fixed a bug that allowed Doomfist to use Meteor Strike before taking impact damage from Sigma’s Gravitic Flux

Sigma
Fixed a bug that allowed Sigma's Gravitic Flux to ignore line of sight through some ceilings

Sombra
Fixed a bug with EMP's position being affected by player’s aim pitch

Winston
Fixed a bug that caused Winston’s Barrier Projector to not consistently play its destroyed visual effects

https://blizztrack.com/patch_notes/o...?language=enUS

[silverdragontyr]

Most of these don't seem to bad. Think they're trying to balance for 2/2/2. Though can't help notice the worst heroes still don't get much love. Those Sigma nerfs though. That's going to hit hard. Especially the recall delay.

[Serra]

New Mercy story:
https://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms...3261672394.pdf

And cosmetic event:


Need that doctor skin..

[Serra]

Gonna need to remember to log on for that Mercy skin during the third week..

[Serra]

[Serra]

"We're not doing hero bans."

"Introducing Hero Pools, a 'cultivated list of heroes you can play.'"

PTR is also essentially becoming more accessible.

[Serra]

[Serra]

No new content, but..

[Serra]

Figured Echo wouldn't be showing up till Overwatch 2, but:

[Serra]

Echo is an offensive character, shoots energy from her hands, has a focus beam, sticky bombs, and her ult lets her become someone from the enemy team for a short time.
https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/19/21...s-ult-blizzard

[silverdragontyr]

Official forums are losing their minds. For over a year Echo has been hinted at,with everyone assuming she'll be the next support this game needs. She'll save the game. Change everything.

Now that she is revealed DPS people are PISSED. I don't think blizzard can do anything to not get shit on anymore. Admittedly this is just more a terrible fan base but they see the forums. They could have just said "Echos not support".

[Salodin]

I thought this whole time she was support. Even reading that description I'm thinking "oh offensive support that's cool"

Blizzard cant do anything right. Cause this game needs another useless dps, right?

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[Karbuncle]

Didn’t we just get a support hero? The dude with the immortal field. They almost always if not always rotate the class of the hero with every release... echo was never going to be a support if she released just after what’s his name... oh and the tank fellow, Sigma... frankly we were “due” for a dps regardless if it’s what the game needed... Wasn't the last DPS Hero Ashe way back in 2018?

I’m not clearing Blizzard here for this kind of release cycle but the pattern is there. Expecting another support was the players fault. Also, idk why people always think support heroes will save the game :/. Then again I haven’t played since ... well after doomfist but before Female McCree

[synistar]

It's an even spread. Seesh. I hate how REEEEEE the internet is.

[Tomiko]

It's an even spread. Seesh. I hate how REEEEEE the internet is.

It's only an even spread when you look at the new heroes. If you look at the overall numbers, it's far from even:

8 Tanks
17 DPS
7 Support

Then consider how many of those tanks and support aren't even worth playing most of the time because of the nerfs they've received and the buffs as a whole have gained.

I loved playing as Brigitte when she was released because I could actually defend myself against DPS spawn camping me. I agree she needed to be changed, but they went too far at one point and essentially killed her when they made the huge change to her shield health. Back when that happened she only had the 1 health pack, so at least she's doing better now.

Orisa used to be one of my mains. I played her recently with the new changes and she's straight up trash now. The problems that we saw with GOATS in OWL rarely came up in gold/plat (can't speak for other tiers), so it feels like they're only doing balancing based on the top % of players (OWL and GM).

Meanwhile Doomfist has been roaming free causing terror despite even pros saying how busted he is. There's Junkrat who gets to spam his grenades without worry of splash damage (why is he immune and not Pharah who typically has to play in the open?). There's constant hate for Mei, but she still seems good. Reaper was healing himself for 50% damage at one point, now it's "only" 30%. Hanzo was overpowered, but at least he's in a more reasonable spot now.

Then you have people complaining about DPS queue times. Adding another DPS doesn't help that. In the short time there will be a huge amount wanting to play Echo due to "new character," but also consider one-trick players (likely a low effect, but it still adds to it, especially it Echo ends up being very good/fun).

tl;dr - Balancing has made Tanks and Support less fun to play and DPS more fun. We don't "need" more DPS until current Tanks/Support are balanced across the class to not feel like you're throwing by picking certain characters.

EDIT: Just remembered that Support also lost a character who became DPS (Symmetra). The game has changed a lot since release when we had Tank/DPS/Defense/Support. Crazy to think we only had 3 actual healers at release.