Blizzard has modified up the Overwatch help meta as soon as once more, rebalancing Ana and Mercy.
Blizzard has been speaking about introducing a nerf to Overwatch’s Mercy, and a buff to Ana for a short while now. Game director Jeff Kaplan spoke about it just lately, and it seems to be just like the adjustments have lastly gone in impact.
That’s at the least so far as the PTR is worried, although, since adjustments this huge usually take their time on check servers earlier than they’re made accessible to the broader viewers later.
Ana’s Biotic Rifle harm was elevated to permit her to reclaim her place amongst help heroes. As for Mercy, the hero was nerfed on a number of counts. First, the patch elevated the forged time of her resurrect means, and decreased her motion velocity by 75% whereas casting it. What’s extra, resurrect might be interrupted when Mercy is knocked again, surprised, or hacked.
See all of the patch notes under:
Hero updates
-Ana
- Biotic Rifle harm elevated from 60 to 70
-Mercy
- Resurrect forged time elevated from zero seconds to 1.75 seconds
- Mercy’s motion velocity is now decreased by 75% whereas casting, and might now be interrupted when Mercy is knocked again, surprised, or hacked
- When Valkyrie is activated, resurrection not has a forged time
Bug fixes
- Fixed a number of points that prevented the announcer voice strains from taking part in accurately in Competitive, Elimination, and Capture the Flag recreation modes
- Fixed a problem inflicting Roadhog’s Chain Hook to latch on to enemy gamers for longer than supposed
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