PTR 1.40 patchnotes

General Discussion
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A new Overwatch patch is in development and now available for testing! To share your feedback or report any issues, please post in the PTR Feedback or PTR Bug Report forums.

Please note that the below patch notes only include changes currently available for testing on the PTR. While many of these changes may also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in a future patch, the PTR is PC-only and only reflects changes coming specifically to that platform.

NEW FEATURE: SHARED INSTALL (PTR AND LIVE)

The PTR and Live Overwatch PC clients can now share storage when installed to the same file path on disk. This should reduce the disk space required to install and update multiple clients. As a result, today’s PTR client should require only ~1.2GB of additional disk storage. Players with previous Overwatch PTR clients installed can uninstall and reinstall to a common disk location to benefit from this feature.

Note: Overwatch League Replay Viewer also supports shared installation with the PTR and Live clients.

HERO UPDATES

Bastion

Self-repair

  • Self-repair no longer consumes resource while Bastion is at full health.
  • Bastion now correctly initiates .25 sec of recovery time when canceling Self-repair with weapon fire.

Symmetra

Primary Fire

  • Beam width lowered from 0.3 meters to 0.15
  • Beam DPS per level lowered from 65/130/195 to 60/120/180

Zarya

Primary Fire

  • Beam width no longer scales with energy (from 0.1 to 0.2) and is now always 0.15.
  • Max Beam DPS lowered from 190 to 170

Sigma

Hyper Spheres

  • Explosion damaged reduced from 35 to 30

Experimental Barrier

  • Added a toggle option for deploying Sigma’s Experimental Barrier

Accretion

  • Explosion damage increased from 50 to 60

Gravitic Flux

  • Intro cast time increased from 0.4 seconds to 0.6

WORKSHOP UPDATES

New Workshop actions:

  • Create Dummy Bot
    • Creates a dummy bot, which is a full player that has no human or AI controlling it. Using other Workshop actions, dummy bots can move, aim, press buttons, and do most things that human players can do.
  • Destroy Dummy Bot
    • Destroys a dummy bot.
  • Start Throttle In Direction
    • Either sets or modifies the throttle (directional movement input) for a given player (human, AI bot, or dummy bot).
  • Stop Throttle In Direction
    • Stops the change to throttle being caused by Start Throttle In Direction.
  • Create Beam Effect
    • Creates a beam effect between two positions (either or both of which may be a player).

New parameters to existing Workshop actions:

  • Create HUD Text
    • New SpectatorVisibility option for defining when spectators can see the text.
    • New colors have been added to Text Color.
  • Create In-World Text
    • New SpectatorVisibility option for defining when spectators can see the text.
    • New colors have been added to Text Color.
  • Create Effect and Play Effect
    • New colors have been added.

New Workshop value:

  • Is Dummy Bot
    • Whether a given player is a dummy bot.

New Workshop Inspector features:

  • Copy current variables to CSV [PC-Only] :
    • Copies the currently visible variables to the system clipboard in CSV format. These can be pasted into text and spreadsheet applications.
  • Copy all variables to CSV [PC-Only] :
    • Copies all variables throughout the Inspector history for the currently selected entity to the system clipboard in CSV format. These can be pasted into text and spreadsheet applications.
  • Copy current variables as actions:
    • Copies the currently visible variables to the clipboard in Workshop text format. These can be pasted back into a Workshop action list.

BUG FIXES

General

  • Workshop - Fixed a bug that caused the “Enable Workshop Inspector” option not to reset when using Restore Defaults
  • Workshop - The “Is Firing Primary” Workshop value now correctly reports whether Sigma is using his Hyperspheres

Maps

Paris

  • Fixed a bug that allowed Moira’s Biotic Orb to pass through the attacker’s spawn door

Heroes

Ashe

  • Improved the ability for Bob to get through doorways and more consistently make it to where he was launched towards

D.Va

  • Fixed a bug that allowed D.Va’s mech to block Earthshatter briefly during the destruction animation

Orisa

  • Fixed a bug that caused players to be thrown further than intended when escaping the pulling effect of Orisa’s Halt

Sigma

  • Fixed a bug that caused the first-person animations for Kinetic Grasp, Accretion, Experimental Barrier return/retract, and primary fire not to play correctly when used immediately after being frozen
  • Fixed a bug that caused Hyperspheres to appear without any VFX or animation after letting the cast timer on Gravitic Flux expire
  • Fixed a bug that incorrectly allowed Sigma to gain shields after absorbing a healing orb from Moira with his Kinetic Grasp
  • Corrected various Sigma team color visual effects

Wrecking Ball

  • Fixed an issue preventing Wrecking Ball specific stats from showing up in the Career Profile

Zenyatta

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Zenyatta from using a Teleporter while Transcendence is active

Source: https://blizztrack.com/patch_notes/overwatch_ptr/latest

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I would like to point out that Shared Install sound like is only the technical files for the game clients, this does NOT mean your collected items, progress, etc is shared (that is account/cloud-based level data).

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So… Beam nerfs and Cigar nerfs? I said I would quit if they nerfed Cigar, but honestly, those are pretty minor.

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Zarya needed it
Sym didn’t

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Wow, I can’t believe they actually nerfed Symmetra’s primary fire lol. Were people really struggling against it that much?

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Didn’t… Didn’t they have to widen the beam to that after the rework originally went live?

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Symmetra nerfed? That’s pathetic and Sigma was basically fine.

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That Sym nerf is… really dumb lmao. Sorry for not putting that in a nicer way, but it’s just sad it was even considered by someone.

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So they nerfed sym, but they couldn’t fix her tp? Ok

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As someone who advocated for Live integrated PTR a while ago, I’m glad they did this install share. It’s a step in the right direction. Maybe someday PTR will be an Arcade mode too.

Now I have no excuse to not keep the PTR on my PC :roll_eyes:

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They’ll never let Symmetra be viable :((

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Wow a sym nerf. Blizzard really does hate that hero

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I would give anything for this to be:

Paris

  • Fixed a bug that allowed Paris to be in rotation.
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So hitting both in a burst does 55 damage now? Better add Zen orb to the list of things that denies a Sigma two-shot.

sigh of relief

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Finally, in these past couple updates it seems like they’re adding more community-requested content :D. Dummy bot is huge and so is “Create Beam Effect” :smiley:

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My Queen lives on. Mei is Bae.

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No Bastion buff ?
Just beam re-balance because of the bug fixe buff ?

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Symmetra should get a passive for her primary fire if this goes through.
If she’s at level 3, her reload is 90% faster. Boom, done.

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But sleep dart still sleeps the mech.

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This affects literally no one since at least 2 people leave every time the game rolls Paris.

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