For such a small replace to the Overwatch PTR, this newest patch introduced many massive adjustments.
Overwatch developer Blizzard continues to iterate on the sport’s stability within the PTR.
Merely a day after the most recent update introduced a nerf to Ana’s Biotic Grenade and allowed Zenyatta to focus on enemies by boundaries, the identical adjustments have been reverted in one other replace.
In Ana’s case, each impression injury and therapeutic for her Biotic Grenade have been nerfed, from 60 to 30 for the previous, and 100 to 50 within the latter’s case. The nerf to her Biotic Rifle injury, nevertheless, stays unchanged.
Now, these adjustments have gone again to their reside values. Naturally, adjusting these values again so shortly after making them like that left a few people unhappy.
According to principal designer Geoff Goodman, Blizzard pulled again on a few of the nerfs to Ana after “testing, feedback, and talking about it a ton internally”.
“The damage reduction on her weapon is significant, but if this ends up not being enough we can re-visit some further tuning. We don’t want to swing her balance too wildly within a single patch,” mentioned Goodman.
Zenyatta was given the flexibility to focus on enemies by barries together with his Orb of Discord in the identical PTR patch. Today’s replace, equally stunning, eliminated this function and reverted it again to what it at present is within the reside sport. I.e. he can not goal enemies by boundaries.
It’s not all dangerous information for the zen robotic, nevertheless, as the latest patch eliminated the unfold when firing the Orb of Destruction. This animated GIF from Reddit person soulofdragon compares the unfold earlier than and after.
Finally, the opposite massive change involves Sombra. This explicit function was confirmed only yesterday, and it permits her and her teammates to see hacked healthpacks by partitions.
Hopefully this Sombra replace received’t be reverted like a few of the different ones.
