Overwatch‘s latest diabolical duo – bandit queen Ashe and her mechanised manservant Bob – have sailed through public testing with ease, and are now live on the regular servers for the game. While there’s nonetheless two weeks till they’ll enable them into aggressive, ranked play, they’re accessible to be used in each different mode proper now. She’s a mid-range precision damage-dealer with a robust grenade assault and a shotgun that lets her rocket-jump or push enemies off ledges. He’s a summon-type final that additionally counts as an additional staff member. Together, they do crimes.
You can learn the full patch notes here, and my previous breakdown on Ashe’s abilities here, however right here’s what I reckon are the fascinating elements:
Mercy has been straight-up buffed. Her Valkyrie final expenses 15% quicker, and he or she heals 20% extra. The much-maligned medic will hopefully be capable to keep away from heckling after these tweaks. Unlikely, although. Poor Mercy.
Reaper bought the Counter-Strike therapy. The randomisation of his shotgun unfold is lowered by half, and the unfold sample tweaked. Now it needs to be a bit simpler for professional gamers to foretell the place every blast of buckshot lands. Never a ability I’ve had, although. His Reaping life-steal additionally bought a hefty 50% enhance from 20 to 30% of injury carried out. One step nearer to being the last word edgelord.
Roadhog has seen a minor overhaul. His chain-hook is a bit quicker and snappier, pulling in targets faster and refreshing its cooldown the second it’s activated. His scrap gun’s unfold can also be lowered in randomness, and extra of its pellets ought to hit close to the centre of the place you’re aiming, giving it a bit extra utility. His Whole Hog final additionally has much less recoil, and extra knockback. Beefy boy bought buffs.
Symmetra 2.zero remains to be underperforming since her overhaul, in order that they’ve made her photon projector beam cost as much as full harm 20% quicker. Quite frankly I’d similar to the choice to play the outdated model along with her wibbly-wobbly, delightfully noodly homing lasers and intimidating slow-moving death-blob pictures. Sadly, I don’t see that taking place.
Applied to all characters, soar peak has been “made consistent” throughout the hero roster. While I could also be fallacious (I’m nonetheless downloading), this seems like everybody’s leaping the identical peak, from Lucio to Orisa. Not positive if I agree with that, nevertheless it most likely saves some complications for mappers determining the place gamers can soar to. Lastly they’ve tweaked timers on assault and escort maps. You’ve 15 much less seconds within the setup part (right down to 45 seconds), however have 15 extra within the Assemble Your Team part. Time flies whenever you’re being patched.
According to Blizzard, this patch may take a bit longer than usual. Something beneath the hood has modified, requiring an virtually full re-download of the game. Adjust your schedules as wanted if you happen to’ve bought any aggressive matches tonight. Those with the PTR model already put in gained’t be patching for almost as lengthy, although – you of us have already got many of the modifications.
