(Official) New experimental patch notes! (Massive changes!)

EXC IS CURRENTLY DOWN

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HERO UPDATES

TANKS

Orisa

Fusion Driver

  • Weapon spread removed

Protective Barrier

  • Maximum duration reduced from 20 to 4 seconds
  • Health increased from 600 to 1200
  • Cooldown increased from 10 to 12 seconds

Halt!

  • Pull radius increased from 5 to 7 meters

D.Va

Fusion Cannons

  • Weapon spread reduced by 15%

Reinhardt

Charge

  • Can now be cancelled by pressing the ability input again

Wrecking Ball

Roll

  • Knockback increased 36%

DAMAGE

Bastion

Configuration: Recon

  • Weapon spread removed

Cassidy

Combat Roll

  • Now grants 50% damage reduction for its 0.4 second duration

Sombra

Machine Pistol

  • Damage increased from 8 to 9

Hack

  • Cast time reduced from 0.65 to 0.5 seconds
  • Hacked duration reduced from 5 to 3 seconds

EMP

  • Ultimate cost reduced by 15%

Doomfist

Seismic Slam

  • Distance increased from 15 to 20 meters

Pharah

Rocket Launcher

  • Reload now begins 0.3 seconds sooner when out of ammo

Concussive Blast

  • Now deals 30 damage on direct hit
  • Deals 50% additional knockback to direct hit targets

Junkrat

Frag Launcher

  • Projectile radius increased from 0.2 to 0.25 meters

Steel Trap

  • Projectile speed increased from 10 to 15

Torbjorn

Rivet gun primary fire

  • Recovery reduced from 0.6 to 0.55 seconds

Rivet gun secondary fire

  • Recovery reduced from 0.8 to 0.7 seconds

SUPPORT

Zen

Orb of Discord

  • Linger duration reduced from 3 to 2 seconds

Snap Kick

  • New passive added
  • Quick melee deals 50% more damage and knocks enemies away
23 Likes

WHAT?!!

a balance patch for overwatch 1 !?!?!!?

IM SHOCKED

the sombra changes look nice…

11 Likes

zen kick is back finally

13 Likes

Double shield might also be dead :eyes:

4 Likes

cassidy got slightly buffed :rofl:

4 Likes

Yeah, these are OW2 setups.

awful changes, not addressing any of the problematic heroes and buffing all the low-skill, spam heroes.

Another woeful patch for a dead game.

19 Likes

Laughing at the fact that Cass got buffed again (even if it is just for an ExC). :rofl: :sob:

8 Likes

Dva buffs yeeeeah boi.

15% spread reduction :heart:

I now have motivation to make it through this slow workday lol

3 Likes

Huh, genuinely surprised.

4 Likes

Can’t wait for the tears.
:smirk:

12 Likes

This is beautiful. I am so happy. :slight_smile:

I love this change as well. They’re nerfing CC earlier than expected which is awesome. :slight_smile:

5 Likes

I remember for years when people advocated for junk to have a bigger projectile size

Feels weird of all times they now revert it

9 Likes

Doomfist change makes no difference. Most Doomfist players use E as a close range ability not long range. They move in with punch and use seismic slam to go into a combo.

at least half of these are reverts no?

also…just saying…thats a cass buff…queue the anarchy!!!

Cassidy got a buff?

But why?

2 Likes

No fun allowed for Supports outside of zen here…

7 Likes

Does this mean the AOE of the attack got buffed, or the projectile size of the nade got buffed?

This was clearly the “break tanks so the tank queue drops for a bit” patch note suggestion.