Patch notes for today’s patch?

[Kaedi-11739]

Let me clarify my terminology, an exploit is any form of behavior that takes advantage of the game software in a way that is not intended to gain an unfair advantage. Mei is not intended to fly (or lay on her side). Again, I find this bug hilarious, but I have already seen on social media complaints that players are abusing it.

@GreyFalcon-11737

Still though, if they care about gameplay. Why make only about 6 gameplay changes a year?

Because making hero balance changes is a methodical process for the development team. There are older developer responses that detail this:

• Jeff Kaplan explains the process in hero balancing - Jeff Kaplan - 7/7/2017 - Old Official Forums
• Jeff Kaplan explains why sometimes heroes are unchanged for months at a time - Jeff Kaplan - 6/26/2017 - Old Official Forums
• Jeff Kaplan details the “perception of the meta” and how it affects hero balancing - Jeff Kaplan - 3/2/2017 - Old Official Forums
• Jeff Kaplan explains how they objectively balance heroes in Overwatch - Jeff Kaplan - 2/16/2017 - Old Official Forums
• Jeff Kaplan explains the Overwatch balancing triangle (Player Feedback - Statistics - Developer Opinions) - Jeff Kaplan - 1/24/2017 - Old Official Forums

@GreyFalcon-11737

Just bugs me that they seem to care more about bugs than gameplay.

Critical bugs like this need to be fixed to maintain the competitive integrity of the game, while making deliberate changes to the balance of the game can be decided over time.

[GreyFalcon-11737]

maintain the competitive integrity of the game

I don’t see why gameplay balance isn’t part of that.

while making deliberate changes to the balance of the game can be decided over time.

The only reason for that is because they are so infrequent with patches.

They could do much smaller balance changes, more frequently to achieve the same results faster and better.
And if they run into a problem they could roll it back faster.

[righthere-11972]

Do you think it’s a little strange that they can throw out 5.5GB changes to fix a bug

Probably because it actually isn’t nearly that large. For some reason Blizzard patches seem to take an inordinate amount of time and rarely are the size they initially indicate. And just Blizzard patches, oddly enough.

I just chalk it up to Blizzard unfamiliarity with consoles, and plan around it.

[Crazyshark1-2319]

why is it the size of some games?!

What games are you playing that are only 5 Gigs?

Even A Hat in Time, not a very complex game, is 14 Gigs on Xbox.

[ChibiFox-11511]

Ehh true… i remember when games used to be hecking small tho.
A few still are.