New patch buffs Baptiste in a major way

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General

  • Mei’s Icewall, Baptiste’s Immortality Field, and Sigma’s Gravitic Flux will now more heavily prefer edges over placing as far away as possible

Baptiste

Biotic Launcher

  • Recovery decreased from 0.45 to 0.36 seconds
  • Random spread removed
  • Damage falloff range now begins at 25 meters, up from 20

Torbjörn

Molten Core

  • Cost reduced 10%

So, a range boost by 5 meters, and a firing rate increase and the random spread removed (the recoil or climb on firing is still there). This boosts Baptiste’s consistency a bit and .09 decrease in recovery puts his basic damage per second just above Genji’s, but doesn’t really change much else.

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Is this confirmed or fan-made?

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Confirmed. (PC patch notes haven’t updated yet, but console ones have.)

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I feel like I have seen this before, but the rest idk

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The heck? When did they sneak these in? Man the Devs must actually like Baptiste.
Also HOORAY for Torb buffs.

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Nothing against Bap buffs, but… this is it???

LAAAMMMEEE*!!!

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Boooooooiiiiiiiiiiii
https://s3.dexerto.com/thumbnails/_thumbnailLarge/baptiste-hero-skins-overwatch.jpg

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Torbjorn change seems meager, considering all the time spent just hitting barriers, it will still take forever to gain an ultimate.

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Damn these changes are huge. He’s going to be a lot more capable as a DPS. I prefer this over DPS Moira tho

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Oh sweet, those Bap changes sounded too good to be true

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I did not know there was random spread in addition to the burst fire kicks, no wonder it felt wonky.

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the spread was pretty significant tho
he needed that change

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Oh boy. More buffs…

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All I can say is…
THANK YOU, BAPTISTE!

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Why do we need more power creeps…

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These patch notes are weird. Sure these 2 could use a small bump, but arent there more issues to fix?

Zen, D.Va, Sombra and Soldier could use buffs.

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Weak heroes don’t really contribute to Powercreep
That too to Bap’s weapon, not his healing

He needed some help, very bad stats

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Baptiste is already my main but holy moly he’s going to be insane now.

SIck

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His gun has a spread? I thought it was pin point (?) hit scan.

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So more damage powercreep? I was hoping they would buff regeneration burst or just remove his random spread.

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