When Blizzard whisked the Overwatchers and Underwatchers away to Venice for the cooperative PvE occasion mission Retribution, they stated they’d additionally make a PvP model of its map. That Escort mode map, Rialto, isn’t fairly prepared however the curious can now strive it out on Overwatch‘s public test servers. Blizard are also testing out some character balance changes, including reworking Hanzo and replacing his Scatter Arrows with a new skill, making Junkrat’s grenades much less spammy, nerfing Tracer’s Pulse Bomb, and bettering Lucio’s wallrunning.
Rialto is predicated on Retribution’s Venice, shifted into the daytime and reworked as an Escort map. It is a flowery one.
On the stability aspect, Genji, Hanzo, Junkrat, Lucio, and Tracer are getting touched.
Hanzo’s Deflect hitbox has been downsized so it nonetheless protects him however can’t whack away distant projectiles, whereas his brother has greater modifications. Hanzo’s splitting Scatter Arrow is changed with Storm Arrows, which lets him shortly blast as much as six arrows dealing lowered injury. Hanzo will get a brand new Lunge skill too, which works like a double-jump letting him sprint horizontally in mid-air. Sonic Arrow will get a faster cooldown however smaller radius and shorter length. And his arrows fly sooner too. Blizzard clarify:
“The goal of these Hanzo changes is to allow him to have new options and maintain his high damage output, while removing the frustration of fighting against the old Scatter Arrow. Hanzo is now much more mobile with his new Lunge ability, and with the combination of the bow projectile speed increase and the new Storm Arrows ability he can now deal his high damage more consistently than ever before.”
Junkrat’s Frag Launcher has a smaller projectile measurement, that means he’ll must intention higher for direct hits, and his RIP-Tire strikes barely slower too, which Blizzard say “gives his opponents slightly more time to destroy it before it detonates.”
Lucio’s wallrunning is approach cooler, letting him run round corners and likewise land again on partitions after leaping away. I all the time assist higher parkour. His Soundwave loses its ammo price too.
And, lastly, Tracer’s Pulse Bomb offers 25% much less injury, as a result of it “was too good at killing tanks, who can be easy to stick due to their size.”
See the test realm patch notes for extra data. As with all stability modifications, Blizzard could tweak or revert any of those – they received’t essentially make it into the primary shopper. How does all this sound, Overwatchwatchers?
