It’s a wild day within the Overwatch 2 group for each hardcore gamers and informal followers who love an excellent crossover episode. The sport’s collaboration with One Punch Man launches right now and gamers can full challenges to unlock cosmetics or buy extra skins to finish their shiny new assortment.
Overwatch League followers can even get to replace their in-game wardrobes right now as new skins launch for a number of groups, particularly those that have undergone rebrands or main transitions. The Vegas Eternal and Seoul Infernal, previously the Paris Eternal and Philadelphia Fusion, respectively, have launched fully new coloration schemes for the upcoming 2023 season. Those skins may be unlocked with Overwatch League tokens.
Beyond all of the shiny skins, there’s nonetheless a midseason steadiness patch to dig into. While season three’s midseason patch isn’t as hefty as others have been—and followers will completely be vital of the dearth of main adjustments—it does convey attention-grabbing tweaks that might shake up the meta.
We’ll go into the large sport and hero adjustments, however a number of bugs regarding heroes, interactions, and maps have additionally been fastened. The full listing of adjustments may be discovered within the steadiness patch submit on the Blizzard boards.
General updates
Battle go devotees will probably be blissful to see that a number of challenges have been reworked, eliminated, or up to date for simpler development. One of probably the most contentious challenges, which asks gamers to win 5 video games in an Arcade mode, has been eliminated. In its place, gamers will now must win 5 video games in Mystery Heroes, Deathmatch, or Arcade. It presents a little bit extra wiggle room for many who haven’t any endurance for Arcade’s shenanigans.
Here is the total listing of problem updates and adjustments:
- Challenge “To The Victors: Win 15 games in Unranked or Competitive” has been eliminated.
- Added a brand new problem, “Casual Dedication: Win 15 games in any Unranked mode.”
- Added a brand new problem, “Competitive Advantage: Win 10 games in any Competitive mode.”
- Challenge “Coin Line: Win 5 games in Arcade” has been eliminated.
- Added a brand new problem, “Change of Pace: Win 5 games in Mystery Heroes, Free-for-All Deathmatch, or any Arcade mode.”
- Changed “Role Mastery” to “Win 5 games each as 2 different roles in Quick Play or Competitive Play.”
Tank hero updates
Orisa
- Terra Surge can now be interrupted by Sombra’s Hack.
Ramattra
- Using Annihilation whereas in Nemesis Form refreshes your bonus armor.
Roadhog
- Chain Hook cooldown now begins when the power ends as a substitute of initially.
- Chain Hook cooldown diminished from eight to 6 seconds.
Wrecking Ball
- Added the hero-specific choice “Relative aim sensitivity while rolling.”
- Added the hero-specific choice “Relative gyro sensitivity while rolling,” which solely applies on the Nintendo Switch.
- Added a timeout indicator for Grappling Claw positioned above the power icon.
- Minefield arming time elevated from one to 1.25 seconds.
Wrecking Ball specialists will now have the ability to change the intention sensitivity used whereas rolling round and inflicting chaos. Since there’s a timeout for Grappling Claw, builders added a visible indicator so tanks can see when that potential is about to finish.
Zarya
- The shared cooldown for Particle Barrier and Projected Barrier has been diminished from 11 to 10 seconds.
This is a “partial reversion,” based on builders, of an earlier change that nerfed a couple of of Zarya’s talents.
Damage hero updates
Ashe
- B.O.B. now prefers to shoot at enemy targets that Ashe damages together with her rifle.
Ashe’s stalwart companion will now prioritize enemies in the event that they’ve been dinged by her rifle. “We want to enable Ashe and B.O.B. to easily assist one another more,” builders mentioned.
Hanzo
- Lunge cooldown decreased from 5 to 4 seconds.
Mei
- Blizzard final solid time diminished from 0.5 to 0.4 seconds.
Pharah
- Jump Jet motion is now influenced by directional inputs
According to builders—and most Pharah mains—Jump Jet used to maneuver Pharah ahead a bit, which “made the ability feel less responsive when trying to move to the side or backwards.” Now, motion is directional.
Sojourn
- Torso hit quantity width elevated by 20 %.
Sojourn’s character mannequin was apparently a bit extra squirrely than builders anticipated, in order that they’ve added a bit extra quantity to her hitbox. This change applies to how Sojourn is hit, not how she hits different enemies.
Support hero updates
Baptiste
- Immortality Field minimal well being threshold elevated from 10 to 25 %.
Developers snuck within the patch’s largest buff on the finish of the notes, boosting Baptiste’s Immortality Field to a whopping 25 %. This implies that allies won’t solely be saved from elimination with Immortality Field, however they’ll additionally stroll out of it with 25 % of their preliminary well being as a substitute of solely 10 %.
While skilled gamers will probably not be swapping to Baptiste due to a single potential, this huge change might enhance his decide fee at decrease participant ranks.
