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Rockpapershotgun posted the article below:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/overwatch-2s-new-season-2-additions-are-a-delight-but-dont-expect-the-meta-to-change

From the article:

Similarly, Kiriko has received a “nerf” that I really don’t think goes far enough. Kiriko’s Ultimate, Kitsune Rush, is by most accounts the most powerful Ult in the game right now, and it’s almost entirely down to the vast increase in attack speed that the ability provides to teammates. Imagine my happiness at the prospect of some Kiri nerfs, and then my dismay as I realised that, as far as I can see, all that’s changed is that the Ult no longer increases movement speed and cooldown speed as much as before. These weren’t what made Kitsune Rush powerful!

A smattering of other tweaks add some fairly inoffensive changes to the hero roster. Ana’s Sleep Dart now has a slightly (1s) faster cooldown. Bastion gets his (rubbish) Ultimate a fair bit quicker than before. Symmetra can’t fire for as long with her primary fire, but her turrets deal a bit more damage. The prize for most pointless change of all has to go to Mercy, whose secondary weapon now has 25 shots instead of 20. Woo-*****-hoo.

At least Doomfist has got a decent buff. His punch now actually deals damage, he charges up faster using his Power Block, and he gains more Overhealth with damage dealt using his abilities. All this together made him seem quite a bit stronger than he did in Season 1, so tomorrow will be a good day for Doomfist mains.

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Sojourn nerfs (taken from a Japanese website so take it with a grain of salt, translated using google translate):
https://overwatch2-news.apexlegends-leaksnews.com/sojournnerf/

The contents are as follows.

・The headshot multiplier has been reduced
. Even with a fully charged headshot, it is no longer possible to kill 200 family health (probably 180-190 damage).
・At a distance of about 40m or more, the damage will fall off at a distance.

DPS passive (same Japanese website)

In addition, it seems that the passive will also be changed as an adjustment of the whole DPS.

Before change
Eliminating enemies temporarily increases movement speed and reload speed.
■After change
Eliminating enemies temporarily increases reload speed.

EDIT 2: this website has 2 pictures from the battle pass (can see 1 Soldier skin)
https://www.4gamer.net/games/484/G048450/20221202017/

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Did they seriously just nerfed Symmetra?
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The cooldown reduction in kitsune rush certainly was a major part of what made the ult powerful…

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I would be more excited for the Doom buffs if I wasn’t aware that this patch is going to make the support problem a trillion times worse.

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I thought the other post that had mercy +5 ammo buff was a meme ahahaha

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Sym got another nerf? And somewhat of a buff?

Bleghh

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Also how many buffs did doom get then.

Power block charges faster (from article)
Power block 1s lower cd
More shields from abilities
Hitting with ult gives him a charged punch
Punch deals more dmg (from article apparently)

Also wonder what sojourn nerfs are, havent seen any1 mention anything about her.

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Nice catch.

We are buffing CC. Great. Just peachy.

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Lol

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The sym nerf.
Lol.
Nah, i give up. I dunno why i thought the balance team would even do better for OW2.

Bet the Sojorn nerf is underwhelming as well.

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Added Sojourn and DPS passive changes posted on a Japanese website.

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Well

Hopefully Ana getting a sleep buff isn’t like, the only thing for her. It’s not like a game changing buff man, but come on. Seriously? Like, really?

I’m not gonna finalize my thoughts yet since you know, tomorrow and all, but come on man. Honestly.

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WOW I didn’t expect them to go that far

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Booo. I don’t like it.

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I found the DPS spam of it more annoying than the cool down. But I think what bugged me more was the lingering effect outside of Kitsune when being chased out of it.

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the article says she cant 1 shot anymore but we’ll find out 2marrow for sure

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Beating around the problem as usual.
People will just spam primary and combo it with an alt fire bodyshot to get a kill. Not that hard.

No LUL, only OMEGA.

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Added another article that has 2 screenshots of the battlepass https://www.4gamer.net/games/484/G048450/20221202017/ which shows one new soldier skin.

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I look at it like a pendulum.

Push things too far, then they swing back with equal force.

Get ready for some of the most brute force Support buffs you’ve ever seen. Probably around early January.
(And also, any Dive hero is a potential target for nerfs)

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How out of touch does the Dev team have to be to say “We are gonna be changing Mercy for season 2 !!” and then it’s just a 5 ammo buff… like that has to be an April Fool’s joke? Right?

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We shall find out, but if she did lose her 1 shot, thats a fairly big nerf. Wonder if they did that through making it 1.5x headshot value. Otherwise the bodyshot dmg would be below 100 too, which would be a huge nerf.