Blizzard have launched a patch to the Public Test Realm (PTR) that focuses on bettering the person who punches like a steaming practice: Doomfist. Many of those modifications, like making his assaults break breakables once more, ought to make him a extra satisfying character to play, however there’s additionally a push to make the consequences of his actions extra predictable.
Overwatch’s precept designer, Geoff Goodman, explains in a blog post that the patch improves wall slamming, saying that “The wall slamming logic has also been simplified so players should find that a 45 degree impact angle is the cutoff between the target being slammed into the wall, or sliding off.” This simplification makes it a lot simpler to know the repercussions of your strikes.
Excitingly, “Rocket Punch now breaks breakables again.” Goodman explains that it was a bug that prevented breakables breaking however, in addition to fixing that, “the system we have in place now should break them much more consistently than before.”
Goodman additionally lays out some small modifications to Seismic slam, saying that “Seismic Slam being canceled when landing too close to a wall should be fixed” and “Seismic Slam will now ‘slide’ a small ways up ramps instead of instantly triggering.”
There are quite a few issues the crew is conscious of, Goodman says, and is engaged on fixing, corresponding to Seismic Slam generally not discovering enemies as legitimate targets once they’re close to a nook, or when Rocket Punch can generally go straight via an enemy, and a wierd bug that “happens if you use Rocket Punch near a corner or edge, and it causes you to ‘bounce’ off and slide quite a ways away, probably messing up your punch.”
Then there are issues the crew learn about and are nonetheless wanting into: “Rocket punch vs. Rocket Punch/Charge” and “Aerial Seismic Slam sometimes causing Grounded Seismic Slam”.
Whether these PTR modifications roll out to the official servers isn’t clear, it could be as gamers get their fingers on them they’re discovered to not fairly be proper for the overall inhabitants. We’ll know extra quickly.
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