pretty straight forward:
link Overwatch 2 - Patch Notes
says there was a patch Jan 28th.
It’s Jan 29th and there is no patch since Jan 23rd.
It’s live but the patch notes haven’t updated in certain places (like Battlenet app).
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All server side changes
the ps4 patches notes section shows the new patch notes. and i watched fitzy live when he tested to make sure. mccree no-deadeye-aimlock was live.
It is live.
wink wink dev update tomorrow saying we have hotfix balance now straight to live without patching.
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my game has not updated. And I was just playing.
Yes it did, it just didn’t patch.
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there is no launcher update. it’s all server side, meaning it does not require a download.
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As others have mentioned, there was no actual patch, only a balance update. They added a feature months ago that allows them to “hotfix” the live version of the game, but they’ve never actually used it until now.
That’s probably going to be a standard approach going forward, as I suspect will be a topic in tomorrow(?)'s developer update video.
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Dannggg they woulda pulled a sly lil trick on us there 
oh that’s odd. How will we know when the game has been changed? I don’t like that at all. Don’t make changes unless we know it’s happening…
I think they’ll be better at announcing it in the future. Since this was the first time, they might not really have their process figured out for it.
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that’s a really really REALLY bad idea. They shouldn’t make ANY changes unless we know exactly when it happens.
& I hope so. 'cause this scared me. I run a custom game regularly and need to know when to make changes.
i have a pretty good feeling they’re going to address it in the dev update which should be coming in the next day or so. as for why the patch notes haven’t updated…i’m not sure? maybe they forgot to push the pc site live?
i just checked again, and now all four platforms are showing 1/28 patch notes! the only one i looked at yesterday was ps4, by accident of google, and pc, so i can’t vouch for xbox or switch then.
Patch notes are here mate:
They just didn’t update the client and the site, a bit of an oversight but no biggie.
oh i totally forgot to mention in mine that they posted it on the forums. bless, mozts.
they were posted on the site actually. But I thought the site was wrong because it wasn’t on the launcher. If the game says I’m running an old version, I’m going to think I’m running an old version.
They need to really make this system better.
this is also an understandable concern. hopefully they have a better system in the works that they just haven’t quite polished up yet!
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Ah, yeah, that actually sounds pretty annoying to deal with for custom modes where the character stats matter. I’ve been theorizing/hoping that they’ll introduce a “data editor” feature along with this updated balance process, in which case you could assign static balance numbers for your custom game. We’ll see, though.
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that would be genius.