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Overwatch |OT2-2-2| Role With It
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There has to be. You can't give people an SR independent of their role when they are locked into a role and unable to make a key role switch that could turn a game around
Fuck role lock. Separate SRs would have gone a long way all by itself.
Also have they mentioned anything about a hot fix? These lag/game micro-freezes are the worst of any patch.
Also have they mentioned anything about a hot fix? These lag/game micro-freezes are the worst of any patch.
How would you have separate SR without role lock.
They said they are looking into it but with today's stuff they probably are preparing for both.
Wonder if we'll get a decent balance patch to go with role lock. Several characters have issues for 2-2-2. On maps with bad sight lines, I have to imagine Mccree will be terrifying. Brig needs some help too. If I get stuck with a brig player as the second healer, I feel like she needs more healing or something else needs to be changed. Bunker is going to be terrifying as well after the Dva nerfs.
-its always awesome getting endorsement lootboxes during events
-ive opened like 10 lootboxes so far, and received one new legendary, and have like 6k credits saved up. basically i'm almost done with the grind already, which is nice.
-seems orisa is the main meta after not playing for a few weeks, which is frankly the most boring meta for me ever. i was fine playing her and enjoyed playing her once in a while on the maps that favored her (junkertown, ilios well, etc) but now shes been running on almost all maps on my rank (2800-3200). i miss monkey so much.
-ive opened like 10 lootboxes so far, and received one new legendary, and have like 6k credits saved up. basically i'm almost done with the grind already, which is nice.
-seems orisa is the main meta after not playing for a few weeks, which is frankly the most boring meta for me ever. i was fine playing her and enjoyed playing her once in a while on the maps that favored her (junkertown, ilios well, etc) but now shes been running on almost all maps on my rank (2800-3200). i miss monkey so much.
Fuck role lock? Its literally the best thing to happen to the game.
Now all we need is hero bans and overwatch is alive again.
This makes zero sense, it would be super easy to manipulate.
So which SR gets boosted/lowered if you switch roles mid-game
How do you calculate how much SR +/- based on a last-minute swap to stall
What stops diamond healer/grandmaster DPS queueing into diamond games and then playing only DPS
Role queue does not exist without role lock.
Ridiculous. They already do this overall. You simply segregate the tank play from the others, etc.
Disgusting. Creativity is done. And there will be no way to swap roles to make up for a teamate underperforming. Can't wait for the complaining here.
It should be an option like Looking for Group.
Overwatch PTR Patch Notes – July 18, 2019
A new Overwatch patch is in development and now available for testing! To share your feedback or report any issues, please post in the PTR Feedback or PTR Bug Report forums.
Please note that the below patch notes only include changes currently available for testing on the PTR. While many of these changes may also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in a future patch, the PTR is PC-only and only reflects changes coming
PATCH HIGHLIGHTS
New Feature: Role Queue
Role Queue is an update to Overwatch's matchmaking and queuing system that gives players the power to choose which role they play in their games. In Competitive Play and Quick Play, players choose their role before finding a game. The matchmaking system will create a team that is comprised of two tanks, two supports, and two damage heroes. Upon entering the match, players select desired heroes to play within their chosen roles. At the end of a match, players will return to the main menu and select their role before queuing into the next game. For more information about Role Queue, read the detailed blog post.
For the time being, we've only enabled Competitive Play for 1.39 PTR. Stay tuned for updates.
HERO UPDATES
General
Ashe
Brigitte
Inspire (Passive)
Doomfist
Melee
Hanzo
Storm Arrows
Moira
Fade
Orisa
Protective Barrier
Reinhardt
New Passive: "Steadfast"
Sombra
Hack
Symmetra
Teleporter
Tracer
Pulse Bomb
Wrecking Ball
Minefield
BUG FIXES
General
Heroes
Doomfist
A new Overwatch patch is in development and now available for testing! To share your feedback or report any issues, please post in the PTR Feedback or PTR Bug Report forums.
Please note that the below patch notes only include changes currently available for testing on the PTR. While many of these changes may also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in a future patch, the PTR is PC-only and only reflects changes coming
PATCH HIGHLIGHTS
New Feature: Role Queue
Role Queue is an update to Overwatch's matchmaking and queuing system that gives players the power to choose which role they play in their games. In Competitive Play and Quick Play, players choose their role before finding a game. The matchmaking system will create a team that is comprised of two tanks, two supports, and two damage heroes. Upon entering the match, players select desired heroes to play within their chosen roles. At the end of a match, players will return to the main menu and select their role before queuing into the next game. For more information about Role Queue, read the detailed blog post.
For the time being, we've only enabled Competitive Play for 1.39 PTR. Stay tuned for updates.
HERO UPDATES
General
- Global ultimate cost increased 12%
- Slowing Effects: Instead of stacking together, friendly and enemy slowing effects are now separate and movement speed will be reduced by whichever is slower.
Ashe
- Reload Time per round decreased from 0.3 seconds to 0.25
Brigitte
Inspire (Passive)
- Healing amount increased from 100 to 130
- Self-healing from Inspire is now halved
- Now has 3 charges
- Healing amount changed from 150 to 120
- Now heals over 2 seconds instead of instantly
- If you throw multiple packs at the same person, the current duration will be extended by 2 seconds
- Out-going velocity increased from 60 to 80
- Retracting time reduced from 0.6 seconds to 0.3
- Barrier health reduced from 500 to 200
- Stun duration reduced from 0.9 seconds to 0.75
- Ultimate cost increased 10%
Doomfist
Melee
- Quick melee no longer pauses ammo reload.
Hanzo
Storm Arrows
- Storm Arrows ammo reduced from 6 to 5
Moira
Fade
- Can now be used while stunned.
Orisa
Protective Barrier
- Cooldown increased from 8 seconds to 9
Reinhardt
New Passive: "Steadfast"
- Reduces knock back effects by 30%
Sombra
Hack
- Duration on enemy players reduced from 6 seconds to 5
- Activation time increased from 0.5 seconds to 0.65
Symmetra
Teleporter
- Now lasts an infinite duration until destroyed
- Players can destroy their Teleporter with the ability 2 input
- Cooldown now starts when Teleporter is destroyed
- Cooldown increased from 12 seconds to 15
- Maximum range increased from 25 meters to 30
- Teleporter breaks if the entrance is more than 40 meters from the exit.
- Teleport re-use time increased from 1 second to 1.5
Tracer
Pulse Bomb
- Damage increased from 300 to 350
Wrecking Ball
Minefield
- Increased projectile speed from 10 to 13, causing the mines to spread out more. This makes it easier to create a wider minefield, especially from the high in the air.
- Reduced the activation time from 0.25 seconds to 0.1
BUG FIXES
General
- Subtitles: Subtitles now display when spectating while waiting to respawn.
- Fixed a bug that could cause damage to not be dealt if a damage dealing ability was rapidly gaining/losing targets, like a Zarya trying to track a fast moving hero.
- Charging heroes (Reinhardt, Doomfist, Brigitte) should more consistently knock each other down when colliding.
- Some abilities will now appear smoother during slowed down time (end of round or custom game), notably Dragon Strike and Roadhog Hook
Heroes
Doomfist
- Improved ability for Doomfist to get through doorways while using Rocket Punch and clipping the corner.
- Rocket Punch will now consistently destroy translocator and not be stopped by it, similar to Symmetra turrets.
- Targets hit by Rocket Punch will now go directly backwards, instead of maintaining any lateral momentum they had.
- Targets that are stun immune but not knockback immune (Zarya's Particle Barrier, Zen during Transcendence ) are no longer able to affect knockback trajectory.
- Fixed a bug where if Doomfist used Meteor Strike while crouched he would move slowly for the entirely of the ultimate.
- Fixed a bug where Doomfist would move backwards slightly slower during Meteor Strike
- Fixed a bug that prevented D.Va's Defense Matrix from pointing down when D.Va was aiming downward while moving.
- Fixed some false positives with Lucio's animation land prediction when wallriding.
- Fixed a bug that caused Zarya's weapon and arm to animate oddly during her emotes when viewed in third person.
They're making her a higher-impact healer, bigger AOE heals and 3 repair packs is pre big
I'll wait to play her before I (further) overreact. Still, I don't like it.
Hopefully they'll continue to look at it, either return rally to perma-armour or lower its ult requirement. But I don't mind the shield/stun change. Brig was always disproportionately tanky for a healer and the stun was, as always, too high value for too little effort. This was balanced by being a pretty awful healer. Making her a more reliable healer should come at some cost of survivability.
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their way of balance and stop 3/3
im sure they thought this through.
Her stun wasn't that strong and she doesn't do much damage. It made sense she was somewhat tanky. She was a support that was to disrupt people.
Yeah, and she can still do that without being a liability in a healer-limited situation.
She still has the stun and the ability to move people. The shield change seems to make that a choice to use that ability vs something that you just constantly hold up. The big moments have tanking a dva bomb or shatter are still there but now you can be killed from the front.
With a shield that melts in no time and with the stunned enemy recovering much faster?
Who knows. Maybe I'm just salty because Brig is literally all I play and she's had nothing but nerfs since her release.
She still has 450 effective HP and .15 seconds is much faster???
Now Brig has to play smarter with positioning but has a lot more leeway with healing. It's a totally reasonable tradeoff. If she didn't get a healing buff, she'd be useless. If she got the healing buffs and no other compensatory nerfs, she'd be ridiculous.
Here is the queue screen, like the waiting times
I actually didn't see this until Jeff mentioned it but you can click all three or 2 of 3 so you can sort of flex
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so basically nothing change if everyone clicks all 3 or it locks you to one role when it actually finds a way for that spot?
Your stuck on the role you get but likely lead to the lowest queue time.
Also no one seems to notice the new hero post
That seem like a leak it was on the official site but they took it down, probably world cup team scrimming on internal patches
LMAO
I take it the biggest change she will get is a defensive ult rather than armor that won't save you from big combo wombo.
Time to roll up my sleeves.
Edit: lemme read that changelog lol...
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